Wednesday - Period 2 & Friday - Period 4

Script Writing (continued).

Ensure that your script has sufficiently developed your characters, is limited in the number of settings you use, employs stage directions effectively, and is satisfactorily resolved by its end.  When your draft is complete, have another student read it, obtain their feedback, proofread and edit.

When complete submit your file to the 'Submit' folder on the school network.

Wednesday - Period 3 & Thursday - Period 1

Last Friday's lesson lost to Walkathon.

Today you will compose a short story that will then be converted into a play script.  If you require inspiration for a story, visit http://www.bonnieneubauer.com/ssonline.shtml and use the online 'Story Spinner', or try http://www.distractionbeast.com/brainstormer.swf for some more obscure story ideas.

Tuesday - Period 2

Review of 'The Lonely Grave' to be completed and submitted for marking.  When complete you are to plan and begin composing a short drama script of your own.

Wednesday - Period 4 & Thursday - Period 1

Review - using a review scaffold you will today draft a review of 'The Lonely Grave'.  On Thursday's lesson you will proofread and edit this draft before typing and submitting a published copy.  Remember to look at the report criteria for writing a review to gauge your level of response.

Wednesday - Period 2 & Friday - Period 4

Dramatic Reading recordings - 'The Lonely Grave' (continued).

Once you have recorded your audio, begin to organise the sound effects within the recording.  Save the entire recording and cut and paste a copy into the 'Submit' folder for marking.

This task must be completed by the end of Friday's lesson.

Thursday - Period 1 & Friday - Period 2

Dramatic Reading of 'The Lonely Grave' - today groups will record their dramatic reading extract using Moviemaker software.  If time permits you can also begin completing the recording by insertion of sound effects.

Friday - Period 4 & Wednesday - Period 4

Activities:

1. Reading - 'The Lonely Grave'.
2. Post reading questions and discussion.

Wednesday - Period 2

Activities:

One Act Play - 'The Chameleon' continued.
1. Genre conventions identified
2. Mystery plot

Friday - Period 2

Activities:

1.  Plot revision of 'The Chameleon' following yesterday's reading.
2.  Post-reading activities

Wednesday - Period 4

Activities:

1. 'Dags' script extract (continued) - script examined for narrative elements and dramatic techniques.  Soliloquy, aside, stage directions, props.
2. Genre revised.  Conventions of science fiction and mystery genres examined in preparation for study of the one-act play 'The Chameleon'.

Wednesday - Period 2 & Friday - Period 4

Activities:

1.  Preliminary scriptwriting activity in pairs.  (To be submitted on the school network during the lesson.)
2.  Learning skills reflection
3.  Narrative elements of script activity - using extract from 'Dags'

Friday - Period 2

Activities:

1.  Wallwisher - post a short response with your impressions of the Year 9 drama performance
2.  Drama Elements
3.  Theatre Elements

Thursday - Period 1

Activities:

Visit to Drama Room to watch Year 9 Drama class perform their 'playbuilding' project.

Using the 'comments' link below, post a comment with your impressions of today's performance - What did you learn about dramatic performance?  What planning is necessary for a dramatic performance?  What skills are necessary for the actor/s?

Wednesday - Period 4

Activities:

1.  Reading strategies reflection task
2.  Drama - subject specific terminology (drama, act, tragedy, comedy, play, conflict, cast, monologue)
3.  Examination of report criteria in terms of sst and scriptwriting.
4.  Demonstration of scriptwriting conventions.

Friday - Period 4

Activities:

1.  Introduction to Drama - PowerPoint (continued)
2.  Introduction/revision of drama basics - stagecraft.

Wednesday - Period 2

Activities:

1.  Final speeches presented.
2.  Introduction to Drama - PowerPoint and accompanying cloze passage.

Thursday - Period 1

Easter Liturgy (30 minutes)

Video Study - Mel C's 'If That Were Me'  (Representation of homelessness and 'changing worlds' in a music video)

Wednesday - Period 4

Assessment Task - Speeches (continued)
Video representations of changing worlds - SYTYCD & Mel C 'If That Were Me'

Homework: Using the 'comments' link below this post, you are to post a comment stating which speeches presented today you found most effective. You need to explain why this speech was effective and you can address both the content of the speech and the presentation (delivery). This is not a vote for friends, but rather information to demonstrate your understanding of the topic and speech presentation.

Friday - Period 4

Assessment Task - Speech presentations (continued).

So You Think You Can Dance 24/03/10  - Take a look at this dance from this weeks episode.  It is a narrative about homelessness.  The female is the homeless person who is contrasted to the man in the business outfit.  Their dance in unison symbolises that they really are the same, and the end shows that the man can easily become homeless if something causes his to world change.

Homework:  Using the 'comments' link below this post, you are to post a comment stating which speeches presented today you found most effective. You need to explain why this speech was effective and you can address both the content of the speech and the presentation (delivery). This is not a vote for friends, but rather information to demonstrate your understanding of the topic and speech presentation.

Wednesday - Period 2

Activities:

1. English books to be submitted for marking.
2. Assessment Task - 'Changing Worlds' speeches (in class).  A transcript of your speech must be handed up by all students regardless of whether you present your speech in this lesson.

Homework:
Using the 'comments' link below this post, you are to post a comment stating which speeches presented today you found most effective.   You need to explain why this speech was effective and you can address both the content of the speech and the presentation (delivery).  This is not a vote for friends, but rather information to demonstrate your understanding of the topic and speech presentation.

Friday - Period 2

Lesson lost due to Year 8 Student Survey.

Assessment Task and English books due Wednesday, 24/3/10.  See note on previous post.

Thursday - Period 1

Viewing and analysis of 'Enough Rope' interview with homeless people.

• Structure and features of interviews
• Catalyst, impact, consequences and personal growth of the interviewees around their homelessness.

Homework:  Assessment Task (speech) is due on Wednesday, 24/3/10.  Transcript to be handed in by ALL students on this day regardless of whether you present your speech.

ENGLISH BOOKS ARE TO BE HABNDED IN ON WEDNESDAY, 24/3/10, FOR MARKING.

Wednesday - Period 4

Activities:

1. Annotation of language techniques in Slake's Limbo extract (continued).
2. Subject specific terminology revised and located on narrative mind map.
3. Viewing - Extract from interview with homeless people on 'Enough Rope'.

Friday - Period 4

Activities:

• Themes (continued) - homelessness and personal growth
• Analysis of language in Slake's Limbo

Homework:  Assessment Task preparation for Speech due Week 9.

Wednesday - Period 2

Activities:

1.  Revision of Slake's Limbo narrative structure sheet completed 5/3/10.
2.  Elements of changing world - catalyst, impact, consequences, personal growth/knowledge.
3.  Themes - homelessness and personal growth
4.  Speech scaffold issued.  Approaches to assessment task discussed.

Homework:  Now that we have covered the changing world elements of the novel Slake's Limbo, you should be working on your speech presentation due in Week 9.  Remember the task asks you to address characters and themes in particular when responding.  Your notes in your English book should provide all the information you need to compose this speech.

Friday - Period 2

Period 2:  Incursion - Drama Performance,
Period 3:  Slake's Limbo - Beginning, Middle, End table.  Reading of non-fiction extract - 'Mole People'.

Thursday - Period 1

Activities:

1.  Editing
2.  Slake's Limbo - study of changes continued.
3.  Writing homework due - Empathy writing (Living on the Street)
4.  Assessment Task formal notification of modifications.

Friday - Period 8

Activities:

Drama Performance during Period 2.

Wednesday - Period 4

Activities:

1.  Slake's Limbo - Study of how Slake's world has changed because of his situation.

Half of lesson lost to Fire Drill.
Homework: 
Writing Task: Description of the experience of sleeping on the streets (3 paragraphs in total). Due - Thursday, 4/3/10.

Friday - Period 4

Activities:

1.  Paragraph Writing
2.  Slake's Limbo - Study of how Slake's world has changed because of his situation.

Homework: 
1.  Read Chapters 14-15 by Wednesday, 3/3/10.  This will finish the novel and it is expected that this reading is complete.
2.  Writing Task:  Description of the experience of sleeping on the streets (3 paragraphs in total).  Due - Thursday, 4/3/10.

Wednesday - Period 2

Activities: 
1.  Journalling
2.  Visual Representation of found poem completed.

Homework: Read Chapters 12-13 of Slake's Limbo by Friday 26/2/10.

Friday - Period 2

Activities:

1.  Visual representation of found poem

Thursday - Period 1

Activities:

1.  Character analysis (continued)
2.  Found poem using Chapter 11.

Homework:  Gather images that represent the ideas you have included in your 'found poem'.  Bring these with you to class on a USB on Friday, 19/2/10.  Alternatively, you can email them to yourself so that you can retrieve them online.

Wednesday - Period 4

Activities:

1.  Compose a paragraph summary of Chapters 1-10.
2.  Character analysis - Chapter 8

Homework:  Any work not completed in class is to be finished for homework.

Wednesday - Period 2

Today's activities:

1.  Reading quiz based on Chapters 1-5.
2.  Revision of narrative elements - character, setting, plot, theme, conflict (see diagram below)
3.  Chapter 6 reading by teacher.

Homework:  Read Chapters 7 - 10 by Wednesday (17/2/10) Period 4

Friday - Period 2

The diagram started in your book on Thursday reflects you as an individual, your relationships with others and your community, and your place in the world.

In considering what the idea of 'changing worlds' is, today we will speculate (predict) how our world could change.  We need to address the things that may cause the change as well as the consequences of that change.

In making a link to Aremis Slake, you will draw a similar diagram to your own.  You will also add the cause and consequences of change that he experiences.

HOMEWORK:  Read Chapters 3 to 6 of 'Slake's Limbo' by our lesson on Wednesday, Period 2.

Thursday - Period 1

Each of your lessons will be outlined or detailed in this blog. If you are absent or do not complete your work it will assist you to complete class tasks for homework. Today's lesson includes:

1. Bookwork requirements
2. Revision of sentences/paragraphs
3. Subject specific terminology
4. Introduction to the idea of 'changing worlds'

Homework: Chapters 1 & 2 of 'Slake's Limbo' to be read before Friday's lesson (05/02/10).