Friday - Period 4

Wider Reading Borrowing:  'Hatchet' by Gary Paulsen.  This is a novel you will read outside of class in Term 3.  At various intervals in the term you will complete small activities to indicate your reading progress.  This book is to be completed by the end of Term 3.

Newspaper captions:  record your caption compositions from Wednesday's lesson on the Voicethread below.

Monday - Period 3 & Wednesday - Period 2

Tabloid & Broadsheet Newspapers:

• comparison of size, subject matter, news focus, language and vocabulary
• conclusions drawn

Newspaper photographs:

• captions - language and composition (think of a suitable caption for the image to the right)

Thursday - Period 2

Newspapers:

• Brainstorming of sections of newspapers (see word cloud below)
• Subject Specific Terminology - masthead, headline, news report, feature article, lead paragraph, caption, tabloid, broadsheet

Homework:  Bring a newspaper of your choice to Monday's lesson (26/07/10).

Tuesday - Period 4

Voicethread activity in last lesson of Term 2 was postponed due the school network being unavailable.

In today's lesson you will visit the post below (dated 01/07/10) and record your Whale Rider movie trailer voice over.

Thursday - Period 2

Today you will record your Whale Rider movie trailer voice-over.  Remember that your voice over should give an outline (synopsis) of the plot without revealing the ending and encourage/persuade us to see the film.  Remember to try and use the techniques we identified in the original voice-over (repetition, alliteration, ellipsis, author/actor information, strong emotive words).

Use the link below to access the Voicethread that we will use for your audio recordings.

Click on the 'register button' and follow the prompts to allow you access to record.