Monday 30 October 2017

FINDING OUT

FINDING OUT / GOING FURTHER / FORMING QUESTIONS / ORGANISING YOUR ACTION

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TASK 1

WALT - Use Berkley's Library WEBSITE to find SECONDARY  information to do with your LINES of INQUIRY:

Success Criteria:
-Search - One Search
-Use key words
-Copy and paste information to a document and PRINT! Go see Mrs BELZ or Mrs MOSCRIP to go get your printing
-Glue this into your Exhibition Book! (Then take notes on the side of the document)
-If you find a VIDEO, Play the video... When you hear something relevant, pause and take a note..
-Remember to INCLUDE the website address where you got your information from.. It is plagarism if you copy someone else's work and don't mention them..

TASK 2:
Start organising and forming interview questions for a PRIMARY source! (REAL PERSON)
FORM - Interview...
Before you send an email to anybody, you must show Mr Aspden.
ACTION: Remember to get on with your ACTION as well........... If you need computers, ipads, ART paper, you need to organise this yourselves.... Your teacher might be able to help you.....

Essential Agreement! Ensure this is upheld....
NEXT week you want to start publishing your information and thinking how you would like to PRESENT this...... (SCIENCE BOARD PERHAPS

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Reflection:

What is going well?
What are your challenges?
What is your goal for today?

Tuesday 24 October 2017

25th October
Tomorrow is day 2
Homework:
Organise these things for Monday.
-walking shoes
-rain coat
-large water bottle
-walking clothes
Notices: Check the forecast?
Monday is Year 9 Science day
Reminders:
Mufti day tomorrow
Year 9 Concert next week on Thursday! (Week 3)
Signed:

Monday 23 October 2017

Are You Judging a Book By Its Cover? | Tell My Story, Blind Date

Agenda

24th October
Tomorrow is day 1
Homework!
Exhibition finding out / Title page
Notices:
Reminders:
Signed:

Dramatic Monologue

Narrative

Literacy - Narrative Session 



Check out this workshop on storybird for so tips on how to create an effective opening:
Your task for today is to write the opening of your short story. 
it can be beneficial to write more than one type of opening to your story.

Some different types of writing can be:
- Action
- Dialogue
- Reaction

-Begin by choosing a topic or theme for your writing.
Some examples of interesting themes are given below:
10 Short Story Ideas
25 Creative Writing Prompts

I would like you to choose one of these Harris Burdick pictures to base your writing on. Let's check them out!

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Yesterday Adele had the ___________ The away with the fairies _________. The Turn up to dance class in body, but not mind. The dance around to the beat of her own drum, instead of Candace's instruction___________. The wear her favourite costume (Elsa's Dress) and be occupied with all its glitter and frills.. The kind of ____________ which makes you blurt out comments such as: Who's child is that?...

Monday 16 October 2017

Agenda

17th October
Tomorrow is day 4
Homework:
re-craft one stanza using DRAFT of poem
Notices:
Reminders:
school production
Signed:

Sunday 15 October 2017

Exhibition

What group am I in?? Ice Breaker Activities My Name Means . . . My Name Means requires players to come up with words describing themselves. The trick is that they must do so by creating a phrase where each word begins with a letter of their first name used in order. For example, Theresa might say, “My name is Theresa and I am tiny, happy, energetic, red-haired, eager, strong, and amazing.” Spaghetti Tower one of the funnest things we did at camp last year. we had a contest to see who could build the coolest thing with marshmallows and toothpicks. This Week... Tuning In This is the stage where you define your key issue. You identify things you already know and identify the questions (Lines of Inquiry) you need to find out about. You will hypothesise and predict what you are going to find out. Here is a good place to set goals and timelines for yourself. Key Questions: What do I know about...? What am I interested in…? What questions do I have about…? Where and how could I find more information about…? Who could help me? What skills will I be using? Tuning In Checklist To ensure that you are ready to move on to the next stage of the Exhibition, go through this checklist. If everything is complete, then you are ready! Have I remembered to… Task Completed Read through the general information section and know what it is about. Read and understand the different ways I will be assessed. Y chart outlining understanding of concepts relating to the Central Idea – fill in blue pen at the beginning and add new ideas in red pen (in UoI book) Unpack the Central Idea – Can I explain what it means? Use the question creation chart and the key concepts to help create our lines of inquiry. Create lines of inquiry and questions/ideas to pursue. Organise and plan for the 1st Mentor meeting. Complete my personal reflection and look for teacher feedback. Extra Tasks? Essential Agreements Working with your group you should make a list of the essential agreements for exhibition. Think about how we should treat each other, how we should behave, what should happen if there is a conflict and what is important to remember about your actions.

Yesterday I had the blues

Today Louie had the yellows.....again.... The "As soon as you open your eyes, wide awake, yellows. Not the usual, "Morning, How are you" yellows. The non stop baby talk, praticing every word he knows under the sun yellows, (which isn't that many. The unknowingly and uncontrollable dribbling while grinning, and walking with a bounce, down the hallway to the kitchen yellows, ready to embrace the day.

Yesterday I had the Blues

Saturday 14 October 2017

Short Story Web

Short Story Unit Resources

Monday, 31 October 2016

Short Stories - Narrative

Literacy - Narrative Session 



Check out this workshop on storybird for so tips on how to create an effective opening:
Your task for today is to write the opening of your short story. 
it can be beneficial to write more than one type of opening to your story.

Some different types of writing can be:
- Action
- Dialogue
- Reaction

-Begin by choosing a topic or theme for your writing.
Some examples of interesting themes are given below:
10 Short Story Ideas
25 Creative Writing Prompts

I would like you to choose one of these Harris Burdick pictures to base your writing on. Let's check them out!

Sunday, 16 October 2016

Short Story - Setting the mood - Intro

Writer's Workshop #4 - Setting the Mood (sourced from Storybird.com)

Writing Workshop #6: Setting the mood
The Queens of the Tweens, have a writing exercise to help you set the mood.

When you’re a filmmaker, setting the mood is pretty easy; all you need is a little bit of scary music to terrify your viewers! But when you’re a writer, you must use the most precise words to convey that same feeling of impending doom.

Take a look at how Avi—a master writer and one of our favorite mentor authors—sets a mysterious, eerie mood at the beginning of his medieval fantasy novel, The Book Without Words:
“It was in the year 1406, on a cold winter’s night, when a fog, thick as wool and dank as a dead man’s hand, crept up from the River Scrogg into the ancient town of Fulworth. The fog settled like an icy shroud over the town, filling the mud-clogged streets and crooked lanes from Westgate to Bishopsgate, from Three Rats Quay upon the decaying riverbanks to Saint Osyth’s Cathedral by the city center. It heightened the stench of rotten hay and offal, of vinegary wine and rancid ale. It muffled the sound of pealing church bells calling the weary faithful to apprehensive prayers. In a neglected corner of town, at the bottom of Clutterbuck Lane, with its grimy courtyard and noxious well, against the town’s walls, stood a dilapidated two-story stone house. The first-level windows were blocked up with stone. A single second-floor window was curtained.”
Avi never tells his readers that this place has an ominous atmosphere, but we certainly feel it. Let’s dissect the different strategies he used to convey the mood in his paragraph of description.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Strategy:
Avi uses two similes to describe the fog. It is not just a simple morning fog that clouds up the streets for a few minutes in the morning! It’s a fog that is blanketing the village in a not-so-pleasant way. Reading the words “dead man’s hand” in the first sentence of the novel immediately jars the reader.
Examples:
“… a fog, thick as wool and dank as a dead man’s hand…”
“…fog settled like an icy shroud.”

ADJECTIVES

Strategy:
Carefully chosen adjectives turn run-of-the-mill, innocuous items like streets, courtyards, and wells into the picture of gloom and doom.
Examples:
mud-clogged streets
decaying riverbanks
grimy courtyard
crumbling city walls
rotten hay
rancid ale
vinegary wine
ancient town
apprehensive prayers
noxious well
dilapidated two-story stone house
neglected corner

VERBS

Strategy:
Although Avi only describes the setting in this opening paragraph (we have yet to meet any characters), verbs make the village move, which only adds to its mystery!
Examples:
“…crept up from the River Scrogg…”

“It heightened the stench of rotten hay and offal.”

“It muffled the sound…”

SENSORY DETAILS

Strategy:
Focus on what makes the setting unique by touching on the five senses.
Examples:
Sight: “The first-level windows were blocked up with stone.”

Smell & Taste: “…the stench of rotten hay and offal, of vinegary wine and rancid ale.”

Touch: “cold winter’s night”

Sound: “the sound of pealing church bells”

NAMES

Strategy:
Naming places in your story can be a lot of fun. The words “rats,” “clutter” and the sound of the word “Scrogg” have a certain connotation that gives the reader a sense of what this place might be like. 
Examples:
Three Rats Quay

Clutterbuck Lane

River Scrogg

Now examine a paragraph of setting description that you’ve used in your story and try using these strategies to help you set the mood!

Wednesday, 5 October 2016