19 August - 25 August

Thank you to everyone - I thought you were an appreciative audience, it is not easy to speak in front of your peers! Well done with your peer assessment google forms!

We move on to our film study this week -you have been involved in the Olympics at school and English now joins in our context as we view " Cool Runnings"

Learning Intentions: We are learning to (WALT)...

•Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently to identify, form, and express ideas using a visual text (movie)

•explore the context/ themes of the movie in relation to our lives today especially our Olympic Games athletes

Success Criteria: I can/have...

• use prior knowledge and research to understand the setting of the movie
• summarise the story using key words and facts - note taking
• identify themes in the movie and write about them
• identify main characters and describe their role on the movie
• understand how comedy is created in the film

Activities:

Tuesday S3: Olympic Games: NZ have just had a very successful Olympic Games campaign - complete the reading on google classroom and the tasks that follow.
Choose a NZ  athlete that you are interested in finding out more about and write using the SEXY template to tell your classmates about your athlete. Use this link to support your writing. NZ Athletes, Paris 2024

Thursday S2: Olympic Games: 
Background information for Cool Runnings. Google classroom document to research questions,   choose 3 points to research and share information - map work, what can you learn from this movie? notes in English book 

Friday S5:  Library session to renew, return, browse and read your novels.

EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

• We are EXPLORING finding themes in a movie and integrating those themes with our 'Olympic Games' context
• We are EXPLORING how to empathise with characters in a movie and discover how the story moves through the characters actions