Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Week 7-9 Term One
Monday 21st March: Period Five
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 56) Chinese Fables
What is the moral of each of the fables?
How did each of these fables apply to Li’s life?
Booklet (p. 56) Chinese Customs & Superstitions
What makes EACH of the customs/superstitions interesting?
What effect does including these give to the novel?
Explain THREE of these beliefs in more detail. Compare and contrast this or these practices to Australia in the C21?
Tuesday 22nd March: Period Two
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 57) Physical Struggle
Complete the five questions allocated. Questions need to be answered in full sentences and must refer to appropriate sections of the text.
Wednesday 23rd March: Period Four
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 57) Mental Struggle
Complete the twelve questions allocated. Questions need to be answered in full sentences and must refer to appropriate sections of the text.
Thursday 24th March: HOMEWORK
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 61) Extended Written Responses
Using the PEER acronym and related structure of writing, answer the four questions allocated. Questions need to be answered in full sentences and must refer to appropriate sections of the text.
Friday 25th March: Period Five
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 62) Creative
Choose ONE of the events listed. Write a one-two minute speech, imagining that you are Li, demonstrating what happened and how you felt about it. In your response you must make reference to how the incident affected you on your journey.
Monday 28th March: Period One
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
PRESENTATION OF SPEECHES (CREATIVE) WITH PEER REVIEW AND OVERVIEW OF ASSESSMENT TASK
Wednesday 30th March: Period Two
ASSESSMENT TASK
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 56) Chinese Fables
What is the moral of each of the fables?
How did each of these fables apply to Li’s life?
Booklet (p. 56) Chinese Customs & Superstitions
What makes EACH of the customs/superstitions interesting?
What effect does including these give to the novel?
Explain THREE of these beliefs in more detail. Compare and contrast this or these practices to Australia in the C21?
Tuesday 22nd March: Period Two
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 57) Physical Struggle
Complete the five questions allocated. Questions need to be answered in full sentences and must refer to appropriate sections of the text.
Wednesday 23rd March: Period Four
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 57) Mental Struggle
Complete the twelve questions allocated. Questions need to be answered in full sentences and must refer to appropriate sections of the text.
Thursday 24th March: HOMEWORK
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 61) Extended Written Responses
Using the PEER acronym and related structure of writing, answer the four questions allocated. Questions need to be answered in full sentences and must refer to appropriate sections of the text.
Friday 25th March: Period Five
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
Booklet (p. 62) Creative
Choose ONE of the events listed. Write a one-two minute speech, imagining that you are Li, demonstrating what happened and how you felt about it. In your response you must make reference to how the incident affected you on your journey.
Monday 28th March: Period One
Silent Reading: Mao’s Last Dancer OR Related Material Scaffold
PRESENTATION OF SPEECHES (CREATIVE) WITH PEER REVIEW AND OVERVIEW OF ASSESSMENT TASK
Wednesday 30th March: Period Two
ASSESSMENT TASK
Sample Reading Task : Booklet (Mao) PAGES 91-96
Each group has been allocated a text and a question. As a group, read through your allocated text and then work through the question together. Then, as a group post your response as a comment below. I'll post the answer for the first question.
Text One: Will I be my daddy?
a) What is the purpose of this passage?
Text Two: Jolly Swagman
b) Select TWO language techniques that the writer uses. Discuss how he uses these to communicate his ideas.
Text Three: Immigrants at Central Station
c) Choose TWO descriptions of the immigrants' experience and explain what they communicate to you about the journey.
Texts One, Two and Three
d) From the texts that have been provided choose two that, in your opinion, communicate ideas about the journey most effectively. You must refer to TWO texts in detail.
Text One: Will I be my daddy?
a) What is the purpose of this passage?
Text Two: Jolly Swagman
b) Select TWO language techniques that the writer uses. Discuss how he uses these to communicate his ideas.
Text Three: Immigrants at Central Station
c) Choose TWO descriptions of the immigrants' experience and explain what they communicate to you about the journey.
Texts One, Two and Three
d) From the texts that have been provided choose two that, in your opinion, communicate ideas about the journey most effectively. You must refer to TWO texts in detail.
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
The Arrival: Shaun Tan PART TWO
1. Make a list (5) of the possible reasons as to why the protagonist (main character) in THE ARRIVAL would leave his family and journey to a strange new land.
3. Many of the illustrations in THE ARRIVAL are bizarre and unfamiliar to the responder. Why has Shaun Tan chosen to illustrate the world of the text in such a way.
4. How does THE ARRIVAL explore the role culture plays in journey texts?
5. How does THE ARRIVAL explore the role that relationships play in journey texts?
3. Many of the illustrations in THE ARRIVAL are bizarre and unfamiliar to the responder. Why has Shaun Tan chosen to illustrate the world of the text in such a way.
4. How does THE ARRIVAL explore the role culture plays in journey texts?
5. How does THE ARRIVAL explore the role that relationships play in journey texts?
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
The Arrival: Shaun Tan
You can view the images from the booklet (p. 24-9) in colour by clicking on the link here.
The Arrival
Taken From http://www.shauntan.net/books/the-arrival.html
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.
Click on the link here and follow to the further comments on the book. Answer the questions below as a comment below. Use the text to support your responses with QUOTES.
1) What interests Shaun Tan about belonging particularly?
2) What is the 'problem' of belonging?
3) What is existentialism?
4) What was the inspiration for Shaun Tan's book?
5) What is the difference between a picture book and a graphic novel?
The Arrival
Taken From http://www.shauntan.net/books/the-arrival.html
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.
Click on the link here and follow to the further comments on the book. Answer the questions below as a comment below. Use the text to support your responses with QUOTES.
1) What interests Shaun Tan about belonging particularly?
2) What is the 'problem' of belonging?
3) What is existentialism?
4) What was the inspiration for Shaun Tan's book?
5) What is the difference between a picture book and a graphic novel?
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