18 November - 24 November

                                                    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

We are PLANNING poetry by choosing language that is appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.

                                                                        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 identify the text’s creator and why the text has been created (purpose).

Knows Covered:

KNOW: As a text creator, I can contribute to national and global conversations through my original interpretations of texts and through the texts I create.

Week 5 Learning Activities

                                                                             Tuesday

• Firstly, you will read the poem "Ghost House" by Robert Frost on slides 3, 4 and 5 of the "Poetry Analysis Slideshow 2."
• Then you will look at this link about the analysis of “Ghost House.” Summarise the main points in your English book and write what themes are in the poem.
• Afterwards, you will need to look at the poetic features on the next slide and write examples of which poetic features there are from the poem into your English books.
• After that, you will write a poem which has the same or similar themes to “Ghost House” into your English books.
• Finally, you will draw, label and colour in a picture of what the poems are about into your English books to AT LEAST A YEAR NINE STANDARD.

• Then you will read the article about tourism travel on slides 3 to 7 of the "Tourism Travel Vocabulary Slideshow." Highlight the words for "Task 1" on the article on the slideshow.
• Afterwards, you will see a table of the words from “Task 1.” Draw the table into you books. Then write as many different words you can which have the same meaning as those words using the Thesaurus.
• After that, write your own story about tourism travel using the words from task 2.
• Finally, draw, label and colour a picture of what you have written about in your English books to AT LEAST A YEAR EIGHT STANDARD.

                                                                               Friday

• Firstly, you will read the poem "Darkness" by Lord Byron on slides 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the "Poetry Analysis Slideshow 3."
• Then you will look at this link about the analysis of “Darkness.” Summarise the main points in your English book and write what themes are in the poem.
• Afterwards, you will need to look at the poetic features on the next slide and write examples of which poetic features there are from the poem into your English books.
• After that, you will write a poem which has the same or similar themes to “Darkness” into your English books.
• Finally, you will draw, label and colour in a picture of what the poems are about into your English books to AT LEAST A YEAR NINE STANDARD.