The amiable uncle ran amok in the anecdote.
Another vocabulary builder exercise for today. Rewrite this sentence replacing the bold words with other words than express the same meaning. I expect that you will need to use a dictionary. Leave your sentence as a comment here and I will respond within a day.
This activity is open to all, not just people currently enrolled in my class.
Goals
Respond to imaginative texts
Expand vocabulary
Vocabulary words
The amiable uncle ran amok in the anecdote.
15-minute writing topic
Polyglot
First activity
Finish of working on the comprehension and culture questions in response to 10 Canoes.
I’ll see how we are progressing with this work, but I would expect that most students will have finished their draft responses by the end of class on Friday afternoon.
In exactly one hundred words, describe this image.
I probably don’t have to say this, but make your writing interesting and expressive rather than mundane.
Goals
Explore issues relating to family
Expand vocabulary
Vocabulary words
The author used an archaic word to describe the arachnid on the arable land.
First activity
Continue reading Montana 1948 together.
Goals
Respond to imaginative texts
Expand vocabulary
Vocabulary words
The author used an archaic word to describe the arachnid on the arable land.
First activity
Continue working on Ten Canoes extended questions
I’ll see how we are progressing with this work, but I would expect that most students will have finished their draft responses by the end of class on Friday afternoon.
Another vocabulary builder exercise for today. Rewrite this sentence replacing the bold words with other words than express the same meaning. I expect that you will need to use a dictionary. Leave your sentence as a comment here and I will respond within a day.
This activity is open to all, not just people currently enrolled in my class.
The author used an archaic word to describe the arachnid on the arable land.
The abbot looked askance at the aristocrat who made an asinine assertion.
Rewrite this sentence replacing the bold words with other words than express the same meaning. I expect that you will need to use a dictionary. Leave your sentence as a comment here and I will respond within a day.
This activity is open to all, not just people currently enrolled in my class.
Goals
Expand vocabulary
Read contemporary imaginative texts
Vocabulary words
The author used an archaic word to describe the arachnid on the arable land.
First activity
Continue reading Runner together.
Goals
Respond to imaginative texts.
Expand vocabulary
Vocabulary words
The abbot looked askance at the aristocrat who made an asinine assertion.
15-minute writing topic
A Stranger in a Strange Land
First activity
Complete comprehension and culture questions about 10 Canoes.
Goals
Explore issues relating to family
Expand vocabulary
Write cohesive pieces
Vocabulary words
The abbot looked askance at the aristocrat who made an asinine assertion.
15-minute writing topic
Defining Family
First activity
Based on the first 22 pages of Montana 1948, identify three issues relating to family and provide relevant quotations.
Second activity
Continue reading Montana 1948 together.
NB: Three of you will be completing your Romeo and Juliet responses in class today.
Goals
Read contemporary imaginative texts
Expand vocabulary
Write cohesive stories in Standard English
Vocabulary words
The abbot looked askance at the aristocrat who made an asinine assertion.
15-minute writing topic
The True Friend
First activity
Continue reading Runner.
Once again, I will read about half of this and I’ll call on each member of the class to help out with a paragraph or two.
Goals
Analyse and respond to a text
First activity
We will be starting in the library, in the central area with the tables (not on the computers)
For the first forty minutes, you will use the news clippings about indigenous Australian. Your purpose is to see what values are contained in the articles.
Second activity
Return to our classroom, where you will continue working on the questions.
DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
In this section, write around a page comparing the culture of the people in the older section of this film with your immediate culture for one of these topics.
1. Gender roles.
2. Skills
3. Tools
4. Justice
5. Family
6. Death
VALUES IN THE TEXT
• What are three common ideas about indigenous people that you think this film is trying to change.
a. Each idea must be clearly articulated in its own paragraph with examples from your own experience, the media and film as well as examples from 10 Canoes.
i. We will be spending some time in the library to allow you to collect examples from the newspapers.
b. This response will be about an A4 page long.
Goals
Write grammatically correct sentences
Analyse a range of texts
Fix This Sentence
Sally had been thinking alot about seying to Hector “when were you planning to tell me about paris” Hector new that this conversation was coming to
First activity
All questions should be answered in neat, full sentences in your own English book.
UNDERSTANDING THE STORY
1. What was the name of the fat man who liked honey above everything else?
2. How many wives did Minygululu have?
3. What did Dayindi’s older brother tell him this story?
4. Where did the single men live in Ridjimiraril’s time?
5. Name and describe Ridjimiraril’s three wives.
6. Why did Rigjimiraril think that his wife was still alive?
7. Who killed the stranger’s brother?
8. What is the purpose of the payback ceremony?
9. What happens to people’s soul’s after they die in this culture?
10. Why did the men sleep on platforms while they were out collecting geese eggs?
Goals
Read classic imaginative texts
Vocabulary words
The amiable apothecary ambled to the apex of the mountain
First activity
Start reading the novel Montana 1948
As we didn’t do what I expected on Tuesday, we will do these planned activities on Wednesday instead.
Goals
Expand vocabulary
Read contemporary imaginative texts
Write grammatically correct sentences.
Correct This Sentence
Sally had been thinking alot about seying to Hector “when were you planning to tell me about paris” Hector new that this conversation was coming
First Activity
We will continue reading the novel Runner, and having brief discussion where they help our understanding and appreciation of this novel.
I will do much of the reading and will be asking you to read a few sentences aloud here and there.
