16 September - 22 September

                                                                            

                                                                            

                                                                            

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 to demonstrate that, as a text creator, I can create texts to advocate for myself, for others, and to try to change my world.

We are FOCUSING on explanation writing by choosing language that is appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.

                                                                                   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 deliberately design texts for different audiences to share my ideas with different audiences, knowing that how I communicate my ideas can play a part in shaping society.
• I can categorise my ideas into paragraphs with clear ideas and following a writing frame eg. TEXAS, PEDAL etc.

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.

KNOW: Language works at both denotative and connotative levels. There is a gap between the language we choose to convey an idea and how the idea is understood. Our language choices and how we interpret language can reveal our values and beliefs.

                                                                                   Tuesday

• You will first watch this   about the Cambodian myth of storms.
• Then you will read this article about how natural disasters makes people more religious.
• Afterwards, you will choose a country and research about what they used to believe about how natural disasters happened. Then write about what they believed into your English books.
• After that, on slide 7 of the "Beliefs Of Natural Disasters Slideshow" you will see a table. Draw the table into your English books. Then write about the similarities and differences between what that country believed about how natural disasters happened and how it is like in real life.
• Finally, you will draw, label and colour in a picture of what you have written about into your English books to AT LEAST A YEAR EIGHT STANDARD.

                                                                                       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 how to plan for your writing.
• Then on slide 4 of the "Human Disasters Planning Slideshow" you will see a list of disasters created by humans. Choose one disaster and create a brainstorm in your English books about about that disaster which you have chosen.
• Afterwards, you need to write an explanatory essay about what you think is the worst type of human disaster. But first, on the next slide you will see a template of where to put researched information for your essay. Draw the template in your English books and write the researched information within it.
• After that, write an explanatory essay about what you think is the worst human disaster. You can use the structure on the previous slide to help you write your explanatory essay.
• Finally, draw, label and colour in a picture of your chosen human disaster in your English books to AT LEAST A YEAR EIGHT STANDARD.