4 March - 10 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 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.

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.

                                                                                      Success Criteria:

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

                                                                               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 6 Learning Activities

                                                                                               Monday                                                                                          

• 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?
  

                                                                                           Wednesday

• 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.

                                                                                            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.