11 November - 17 November

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

We are FOCUSING on descriptive 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.

                                                                    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 examine how the themes, messages and opinions  of a text can be experienced by different readers in different ways.

Knows Covered:

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.

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.

• You will first watch this   about literary devices.
• Then imagine that your job is to create a slogan which advertises travelling around the world and your boss has given you the task of writing a world travel advertising slogan for each verbal device. Seeing the examples of verbal devices from slides 4 to 39 of the "Verbal Devices Slideshow 2" write an advertising slogan for travelling around the world for each verbal device.
• Afterwards, out of all the advertising slogans of verbal devices for travelling around the world 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

• Watch the following   about improving descriptive writing.
• Then look at the image on slide 6 of the "Descriptive Writing - Writing to Describe Slideshow."
• In your English books, make a list of five adjectives based on this picture.
• In your English books, make a list of five nouns based on this picture.
• In your English books, make a list of five verbs to accompany your nouns. What could the animals be ‘doing’?
• In your English books, make a list of five adverbs to describe your verbs.
• In your English books, use your ideas so far to create two similes.
• In your English books, use your ideas so far to create two metaphors.
• In your English books, use your ideas so far to create two alliterative sentences.
• In your English books, use your ideas so far to create two personification sentences.
• Afterwards, write a description of a jungle scene. It doesn't have to describe the image on slide 6 of the "Descriptive Writing - Writing to Describe Slideshow" but you can use it to help you.
• Draw pictures of what you have written from this lesson. Make sure you colour and label all of your drawings and do it to AT LEAST A YEAR NINE STANDARD.

• 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.