11 March - 17 March

FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

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

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 PLANNING a creative text to demonstrate that, as a text creator, I can use stories to advocate for myself, for others, and to try to change my world.

                                                                                      Success Criteria:

• • I can examine how the themes, messages and opinions  of a text can be experienced by different readers in different ways.
  
  
• I can write map directions.
• • I can produce a text for a purpose, and for a specific audience.
  
  

                                                                               Achievement Objectives:

KNOW: Codes, conventions, and features of different types of texts are often subtle and able to be flexibly applied. Recognising them and the effects they have in different types of texts supports the analysis and crafting of texts.

KNOW: Texts can have multiple layers of ideas. Exploring them helps to expose deeper meanings and contradictions within the text.

KNOW: As a text creator, I can use stories to advocate for myself, for others, and to try to change my world.

Week 7 Learning Activities

                                                                                          Wednesday

• You will first watch the following about asking for and giving directions.
  
• Then look at the map on slide 6 of the "Directions Slideshow." Then using the images of directions on slide 4 fill in the blanks on slide 7 of which directions to use and go for each place.
• Write the directions of how to get to different locations like in slide 7 of the "Directions Slideshow" but use different fictional names for the places.
  
• Finally, search one fictional map and write a description of what each of those places look like as well as what lives there. Then write a story of how characters go on a journey through those places to reach a certain destination for a certain purpose. The story should have a map which the characters use and write what directions the characters to take to go to places.

                                                                                     Thursday

• 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.

                                                                                                Friday

• You will first watch this   about visualising.
• Then you will listen to the instructions posted on slide 5 of the "Imaging Slideshow" that tells you how to draw an animal. Remember to visualise what I am saying and then draw it as accurately as possible.
  
• Afterwards, write your own descriptive piece about the physical appearance of an imaginary animal in your English books. After you have done that, pair up with another student and read it to them so that they can try and draw it.
  
• If you have finished task 1, now write about everything else about the imaginary animal in your English books. That is, describe what sort of place it lives in, what it eats, the personality, habits, life expectancy, and so on.
  
• Continue writing your creative story but before you do that, draw a table like in slide 9 in your English books about the imaginary animal and your creative story. Write the similarities and differences in the table. Can you also include it in your story too?