Thursday - Period 2

Activities:

1.  Editing
2.  Lance Armstrong autobiography - continued

Homework:  NAPLAN practise questions (spelling, grammar & punctuation).  Due Monday, 1/3/10, Period 3.

Monday - Period 7 & Tuesday - Period 4

Monday: 
1.  Assessment Task issued and explained (in class Week 9 Term 1)
2.  'My Place' completed.

Tuesday
1.  Journalling
2.  Lance Armstrong - viewing and autobiography extract

Homework:  Begin thinking about your approach to the assessment task in Week 9.  Read the stimulus and decide on which character you will write as.  Consider what information they would include in a diary entry.

Wednesday - Period 2 & Friday - Period 4

Wednesday's lesson lost due to Ash Wednesday Liturgy.

Friday:

1.  Comprehension
2. 'My Place' extract continued

Monday - Period 3

As we lost Thursday's lesson to your Peer Support program, today's lesson will be the same as for Thursday (below).  Please make sure you watch the Lance Armstrong video before Friday's lesson.

Thursday - Period 2

Homework due:  2 paragraphs describing yourself and your family.

Today's class activities:
1.  Spelling
2.  Autobiography extract - 'My Place' by Sally Morgan.  Features of an autobiography studied and comprehension questions.

Homework:  In anticipation of our lesson on Monday Period 3 (15/2/10) please view the following video as an introduction to the life of Lance Armstrong.

Tuesday - Period 4

1.  'It's My Life' activities (continued)
2.  Writing About Myself - brainstorming.
3.  Report Criteria for Semester 1 issued and explained.

HOMEWORK: As for yesterday's post.  Compose two paragraphs - one that describes you and another that describes your family. Remember that autobiographical writing addresses interesting highlights, not unnecessary or uninteresting detail. Due Thursday Period 2 (11/02/10).

Monday - Period 5

Activities:
1.  'My Name' task
2.  'It's My Life' song lyric and questions

HOMEWORK: Compose two paragraphs - one that describes you and another that describes your family. Remember that autobiographical writing addresses interesting highlights, not unnecessary or uninteresting detail. Due Thursday Period 2 (11/02/10).

Friday - Period 4

Wednesday's lesson (Period 2) lost to student ID photos.

Our lesson today will include:

1. Sentence/Paragraph Revision
2. Introduction to autobiography/biography
3. Cloze activity.

Monday - Period 3

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. Introduction to English study
2. Quick comprehension quiz
3. Spelling
4. Bookwork Requirements