Red Space Rocket

Here are some notes relating to some very common mistakes that many of you are making in your writing.

This week, I promised a block of chocolate to the writer of the best article for Red Space Red this week. By best, I mean the one that I think it most interesting and well-written.

Here are the top three.

1. My Hero: Cheryl
2. Regretted Murder
3. Fantastic Food: Cream Puffs

Find a definition for each word then write it in a sentence.

flout
accept
except
vet (the verb)
philanthropy
misanthrope
guffaw
bawdlerise
loquacious
sanguine

Today, we churned out another entertaining edition of Red, Space, Red. Actually, I didn’t write a single word of it. My capable students churned out this edition. Go and have a look.

As part of our work about international conflict and our focus on Africa, I did some research about a few countries and how they compare to Australia.

When doing some of your own research, you might like to use these resources also.

CIA World Factbook.
Jacaranda Atlas: Compare Countries

Your summary will be around five hundred words long. It will contain the following information.

• The name of the book
• The name of the author
• The names of the key characters in this story
• A summary of the story (around 400 words)

This work is due on Thursday 3rd September
This work can be hand-written or typed.

Red

People
- red necks
- hair
- eyes
– contact lenses
– vampires
– in photos
– albino
- skin
– sunburn
- blood

Bands
- Red Shore
- Pure Hatred
- Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Red Chord

Flowers
- roses
- tullips

Characters
- Santa
– Christmas
- Elmo
- clowns
– red noses
-Satan
– hell

Emotions
- romance
– red love hearts
- embarrassed
- anger
– fury

Fruit
- cherry
- blood orange
- strawberry
- raspberry
- tomato

Red Centre
- Uluru

Sunset

Transport
- fire truck
– fire hydrants
- trains
- cars
– go faster

Rubies

Ball
- cricket
- football

Red Ink
- correction
- debt

Today in Up and Running, we finished our work on this topic. If you missed class, you might want to copy it into your book.

I See Red
Red Ink
Red Faced
Blood Red
The Red Zone
Caught Red Handed
Like a Red Rag to a Bull
The Red Light
Paint the Town Red
Red Letter Day
On The Red Carpet
Sanguine

This is something for the many of you who seem massively interested in guitars and rock music. It is a documentary with The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). They talk about their music and, specifically, about playing the electric guitar.

IT MIGHT GET LOUD | Sony Pictures Classics

I can’t see any mention of an Australian release on the page, but it is sure to turn up on DVD at some stage.

You will have just this single session to complete all of these questions. You will need to work quickly.

E-Books Task

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Feel free to leave a comment here if you have something else to add. I am interested in what you think.

Yesterday, the usual writers for Red, Space, Red research and published our first Film and Music Edition. It’s something a bit different, and I am really pleased with the result.

As part of our professional learning, a group of teachers sat down this afternoon and went through the very same lesson that our students do when they write for this magazine. We only had forty minutes rather than one-hundred, but they still managed to turn out sixteen articles.

If you were one of the teachers involved, I’d be really interested in your feedback about this exercise. You could leave a comment here on this blog entry or just bowl up to me in the staffroom or corridors.

Red, Space, Red

I really liked this piece that Steph wrote in class today. I’d have had her type it, but then it would have lost one of its best qualities.

Running on Empty (900k)

This task is due next Tuesday. The date then is August 18th, 2009

Retell a section of Raymond Carver’s story So Much Water So Close to Home.
Instead of being Claire’s story, your version will be Stuart’s story.

It must be between 600 and 800 words long. Do not make it either shorter or longer.
Write this neatly on loose paper.
I will not give everyone time in class to type this. It does not need to be typed. Neat writing is just fine.

This is as assessment piece. Please make sure that it is your best writing. Carefully check all your spelling and grammar.