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.