26 February - 3 March

FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

We are EXPLORING by analysing multiple and sometimes competing interpretations of a text, including my own, using analytical lenses to make informed judgments about the text.

We are EXPLORING on punctuation by organising my own text by revising and editing and proofreading the text to check the grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

We are FOCUSING on verbal devices by explaining the effects of conventions in a written/visual text.

                                                                                          Success Criteria:

• I can compose a range of text using language features effectively while sustaining a writing style which is appropriate for my audience.
• I can select punctuation accurately. 
• I can examine how the themes, messages and opinions  of a text can be experienced by different readers in different ways.

Week 5 Learning Activities                                                                                             

• You will first watch this   about literary devices.
• Then imagine that your job is to create a slogan which advertises water confidence and your boss has given you the task of writing a water confidence advertising slogan for each verbal device. Seeing the examples of verbal devices from slides 3 to 27 of the "Verbal Devices Slideshow" write an advertising slogan for water confidence for each verbal device.
• Afterwards, out of all the advertising slogans of verbal devices for water confidence which you wrote choose ONE of those which you think would be best and write why you think it is the best out of them. Then create a visual design of what your slogan will look like as an advertisement.
  
• Finally, draw the picture which matches your advertising slogan that you have chosen and draw the designed advertising slogan on it as well.

                                                                                         Thursday

• You will first watch this   about how to use punctuation correctly.
• Then talk to the people around you about why we have punctuation in writing and what would happen if we didn’t have it.
  
• On slide 5 of the "Punctuation Slideshow" you will see a table for punctuation marks. Write and label the punctuation marks in your English books and write the purpose of each one as well as an example of them.
  
• On slide 7 of the "Punctuation Slideshow" you will see a work of writing with no punctuation in it. Write the excerpt into your English books and put in the correct punctuation.
  
• Afterwards, search up a piece of writing with the wrong use of punctuation. Write that piece of writing into your English books and then write the writing with the correct use of punctuation. Then write about what effect there is with the wrong use and if we should do it or not.
  
• Finally, create your own piece of writing like in slide 7 of the "Punctuation Slideshow" with the wrong use of punctuation. Then give it to the person sitting next to you and get them to write the correct punctuation in it. You can record the right answers yourself beforehand to mark them right or not.

                                                                                            Friday

• You will sit down on the green chairs when you first come into the library.
• Then you will listen as I will tell you about the expectations and rules you need to follow in the library.
• Afterwards, you will choose books to read and sit down quietly to read the books which you will issue afterwards.