Agenda

28th September
Tomorrow is day 2
Homework:
Notices:
Tongariro Alpine crossing
Reminders:
Signed:

Writing

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Deytons last day

27th September

Block 1 TEAMING


Block 2
Informer
Shared Book 20m - The Outsiders

Online Novel

Outsiders Booklet with Questions

Maths Warm up




 - IXL
Proportional Reasoning


Block 3
UOI - 3. Create your own protest against your issue.
Use Google Drawing to present your images and portraits 

- Use explore to find a wall image and import.
- Find or take portrait images and paste this onto your wall.
- Insert a text box and reflect on your chosen issue and how your portraits protest against this.

Example:

Bock 4

 - How we express ourselves

- Embed a video that relates to HWEO - you might like to use one from the provocations site

Find a clip (Youtube) that speaks to you about our UOI - HWEO

Embed it into your site 

Write a reflection as to how it reflects / explains your understanding of this UOI (Connection)

Explain how this may be used in our classroom (Quick Write etc)

Extenison:

Find an article using Kiwi Kids News that relates to our CI (Hint: use the "Search site" in the top right hand corner -

Screenshot part of the article and embed this image in a post - link the image to the URL of the article.

Write a reflection as to how this article relates to our CI

Extra for fast finishers:

Literacy - Writer's Workshop - Solitary Existence - Monday 25th September 2017

Solitary Existence

Read the piece below and then work your way through the activities in this workshop.

Six months earlier, Ben had lived in the city. Life had been busy; a constant buzz of people and traffic. In some ways, living in the city had been comforting, as if he was part of an urban family, a melting pot of people of all ages and all walks of life. However, Ben had tired of that life; it was now time for a change of direction. Standing on his porch, Ben drew breath. As the clean, cool air filled his lungs, a smile spread across his face…

Question time!

Why do you think Ben is smiling?

What can you deduce about Ben’s previous life in the city?

How is his life different now?

What does the title ‘solitary existence’ mean?

Which of Ben’s two life experiences would you prefer?

How does Ben travel across the lake?

How does he spend his days?

Where does Ben get his food from?

What does he have inside his house?

Sentence challenge!

Look at each of the simple sentences below. Can you add a subordinate clause to extend them? Remember, you’ll need to use a conjunction like ‘and’ or ‘so’ or ‘but’.

A small wave rippled across the tranquil water.

It had been raining all morning.

Ben enjoyed living here.

He had grown tired of living in the busy city.

Sick sentences!

These sentences are ‘sick’ and need help to get better. Can you help?

The house sat on a rock in the middle of a lake. Trees surrounded the lake. Ben dived into the water.

Continue the story in your writing book.

Success Criteria	Me	Talk Partner
Must…
include specific detail.
include a problem and a resolution.
Should…
include complex sentences (use a semi-colons for provide further explanation)
include dialogue
use powerful verbs, adverbs and adjectives when describing the main character and setting.
build up tension and suspense.
Could…
include similes and metaphors when describing.

What I do to improve for next time:

26th September
Tomorrow is day 6
Homework:
Explore the provocations website /

Notices: Production
Signed:

Exhibition: Identifying your Issue

For the past week and a bit,  we have been preparing you for exhibition by showing you a whole lot of different ways that people express themselves.  This was to increase your understanding of our central idea:

Our next step is to identify your issue you feel some passion towards, so your teachers can place you into groups of 3.

To do this, we are going to carry out a silent discussion. What is a silent discussion? Around the Room are nine large sheets with a large idea on each:

• Children
• Economics
• Technology
• Environment
• Animals
• Cultural
• Health
• Religion/Beliefs
• People/Families
• Education
• Science

Students were divided around each sheet and had several minutes to write down local, national or international issues under that heading (eg. poverty under 'Economics'). The sheets were then swapped, and the group wrote on a new sheet. All this was to be done in silence.

Once the sheets were full, they were put up around the walls, and in silence, students went around reading the sheets. The purpose was to find issues they wanted to inquire into for exhibition. The purpose of the silence is so students wouldn't be influenced by others because they needed to choose something they were passionate about themselves.

The final step was for each student to write down a first choice topic area and then two issues under it, then the same with a second choice.

An example:

Economics

• poverty
• Cheating in professional sport

Technology

• Artificial Intelligence
• The gap between rich and poor countries' access to technology

Block 1
informer
15m Shared book - The Outsiders

PAT MATHS

Passwords are in the filing cabinet, about 5th tray down...


Block 2
Literacy


Writing / Publishng


Block 3

Maths

IXL - 20m

Rest of block students can explore the Exhibition Website if their eportfolio is 100% up to date for the latest summative task.

Block 4
Teaming

Exhibition - Portrail JR

Exhibition - How We Express Ourselves - Can art cause change?

1. Explore JR's website - Look at the 'Best of' section where others have participated in the InsideOut Project:
http://www.insideoutproject.net/en/best-of

2. Brainstorm some issues that you think could be portrayed through JR's style of Art.
Use the Padlet below to record your ideas:

CLICK share to enlarge

3. Create your own protest against your issue.
Use Google Drawing to present your images and reflect on your chosen issue.
- Use explore to find a wall image and import.
- Find or take portrait images and paste this onto your wall.
- Insert a text box and reflect on your chosen issue and how your portraits protest against this.

Example:

Exhibition Issues

Art - Axhibition

Exhibition - How We Express Ourselves - Can art change the world?

Street Art vs Graffiti/Tagging

1. Street Art is constructive, Graffiti Tagging is destructive.

2. Street Art adorns the urban landscape, Graffiti Tagging scars it and accelerates urban decay.

3. Street Art stretches your mind, Graffiti Tagging is a slap in your face.

4. Street Art is about the audience, Graffiti Tagging is about the tagger.

5. Street Art says "Have you thought about this?", Graffiti Tagging says "I must exist because I see my name".

6. Street Art was done with a smile, Graffiti Tagging was done with a scowl.

7. Street Art was done with an outstretched hand, Graffiti Tagging was done with an outstretched finger. 

8. Street Art takes skill, Graffiti Tagging takes balls.

9. We mourn losing Street Art and celebrate losing Graffiti Tagging. 

Do you agree or disagree with these statements? Justify your opinion.

French street artist JR uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out.

Street artist JR made a wish in 2011: Join me in a worldwide photo project to show the world its true face. One year after making his TED Prize wish, he shows how giant posters of human faces, pasted in public, are connecting communities, making change, and turning the world inside out.

Brainstorm some issues that you think could be portrayed through JR's style of Art.

Exhibition

Exhibition Link 2017

Agenda

18th September
Tomorrow is day 6
Homework:
1 more stanza for "Remember Me" Poem

Notices:

Reminders:

Signed:

Remember the Time

Remember the time
We were all sitting in the dining room
and Yannick got up to get his dinner?
The noise he made, with the heels of his feet,  while wandering over to dining room bench
sounded like a sledge hammer, banging rhythmically on concrete - to the beat of the 'seconds hand' in an analogue clock.
That was dinner, in the dining room.

WWA - Summative Task

WWA

eportfolio entry

1. PINK THING

(COPY AND PASTE)
2. SUMMATIVE TASK: Choose an animal to inquire about.
-Describe it's physical appearance
-Describe and explain the animals adaptations that enable it to survive in it's environment.

2. Google drawing
Picture of animal / What is the animal / Where does it live / main adaptation with a comparison.
more detail about the animal

3. Article
-Full paragraph about it's Physical Appearance
-Full paragraph about it's adaptations
(refer to Pistol Shrimp Example)

4. REFLECTION
Answer at least 2... more than 2 if you are awesome!!

Fractions Assessment

Remember When

AGENDA

7th September
Tomorrow is day 5
Homework:
Finish Year 9 goals

Reminders:

Notices

Signed.

Animal Adaptation - WWA

Agenda

5th September, 2017
Tomorrow is day 3
Homework:
-Google Drawing
-Animal Article

Notices:

Reminders: Attitude Performance Block 2
Gold coin.

Signed..

Year 9 Leadership

Writers'Cafe

Agenda - Monday 4th September

Block 1
MATHS
15m IXL - Algebra

WALT - reading word problems to write equations and solving them
Taryns Group - Continue working questions in Booklet
The Rest - Finish Page 20 below...

If you finish
-IXL
-Grab a F.I.O book task from the Algebra books at the back of the room

RULES - Work with 1 buddy

Algebra

Block 2
TECH ARTS


Block 3
Literacy

Quickwrite: 10-20m


TASKS!
-Finish Google Drawing about ANIMAL

Once finished, come down to the mat and Annotate the second paragraph, with the teacher about ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS---

WALT - Explain how the adaptation (physical or behavioural) helps it survive
Success Criteria:
-AWWWUBIS sentences - One starting with WHEN... One starting with AS....
-Practice your skill of using comparisons..

The Pistol Shrimp - Article

Block 4

Whole class

Tuurangawaewae

Key Questions:
-What is the clip about?

-What connections can you make between the concept of 'Tuurangawaewae', and concept of community?

Ted ED

Navigating Our Global Future - Ian Goldin

Questions:

1. Globally, what have we achieved during the past 40 years?
2. Goldin says that globalization has two Achilles heels. What are they? Are there others that Goldin has missed?
3. According to Goldin, today’s mobile phones more powerful than
4. Goldin identifies four systemic risks of globalization: loss of biodiversity, climate change, pandemics, and financial crises. Which of these is of greatest concern to you, and why? Which do you think is most worrisome to the general public?
5. In 1958, the chairman of IBM thought the world market for computers would be?
6. Goldin is worried about the haves and have-nots in a globalized world. What standard of living is feasible and sustainable? Consider, for example, automobile ownership in developing nations. If car ownership increases significantly in places like China, India and Brazil, what are the potential environmental impacts? Can the concerns be addressed in a fair way, and if so, by whom?
7. What’s going to happen to employment in rich countries by 2030?
8. Goldin says that by 2030, an individual will have the capacity to?

STUDENTS CAN WORK ON THEIR BUSINESS VENTURE IDEA IF THEY EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT THEY ARE DOING....

Key Questions:
-What is the clip about?

-What connections can you make between the concept of 'Tuurangawaewae', and concept of community?