Year 9 English

Year 9 students may be preparing a Web site for the current assessment task.  Download this detailed tutorial on creating banner graphics in Photoshop.

You might consider wordpress.com and synthasite for your Web sites.

All Year 9 students can download a digital copy of the second assessment task. This is a Viva Voce activity that also asks students to create a mindmap to guide their oral responses. There are links to online resources and mindmapping software on the previous post.

Online Resources and Lists of Australians who had a dream

• 200 Significant Australians - good list for choosing an Australian, but then not much in the way of resources.
• National Library of Australia - Gateway People
• Famous Australians
• Many High Achieving Australians in categories - from TallPoppies.org
• Notable Australian Women

Mind Mapping software

• MindNode for Mac
• Text2Mindmap - Free Web-based version (PC, Mac, anything)

After the presentation at Assembly today, what did you feel and what could you do to make a difference?

I appreciate your thoughts and good ideas in class today. Here’s a Young Person’s Guide to MS, from UK TV

Post your questions here.

Corey claimed that, despite the fact he posted a general invitiation to his party on the internet, he was not responsible for the actions of his ‘guests.’  How responsible are you for the actions of your party guests?  Consider the trouble caused by gatecrashers in Bowral last month.

 The media have played a large part in making Corey a celebrity. 

How much responsibility do they have for making this boy a hero?  Is there such a thing as bad publicity?  Think about the actions of Britney and Paris. 

Jen reacts to the bad things that happen to her by binge drinking.  Is she responsible for her actions when she is drunk?  What danger does she encounter?

What is her mother’s reaction when she doesn’t come home? Does this reflect her lack of concern or her faith in her daughter?  How much freedom should a student of your age be given?  What are the possible dangers for you in the Southern Highlands?

 Week 6

After answering the questions above, complete the following activities:

1.  One of the things that came out of our study of Corey was that he didn’t intend any of the damage that he caused.  Does his intention matter - are you responsible for the results of your actions even if that was not what you intended?

2. “ACA are responsible for making Corey a hero”  Use the four texts we looked at in class and write 3 key paragraphs that conveys your informed opinion on this statement.  Use the structure discussed in class last week.

Teen Issues - Parents

The key relationships in Jen’s life include her feelings for her mother and father.

In particular, her relationship with her father is strained. 

Why is this such a difficult relationship for her?

Read the sections about Jen’s father, his new wife and her visits. [P 24-27]

How does Jen feel about the rat and Stella?

Look at these pages and explore how the Rat feels about his daughters. [p 112-114, 119,124,197-199]

Write a conversationm between Jen’s father and Stella in which they talk about his feelings for his two daughters and his role as a father.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THE YOUNG MAN IS REALLY SAYING?

The formal outcomes to include in your response are:

use language and communicate appropriately and effectively

Stage 4 - 4 “Uses and describes” “language forms and features”, and “structures of texts” appropriate to different purposes, audiences and contexts

Stage 5 - 4″Selects and uses” “language forms and features”, and “structures of texts” according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and “describes and explains their effects on meaning”

 

 

 

 

express themselves and their relationships with others and the world

Stage 4 - 10 - “Identifies, considers and appreciates” “cultural expression in texts”

Stage 5 - 10 - “Questions, challenges and evaluates” “cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning”

• Do you know what the words in quotation marks mean?

• Can you put them in your own language and then address the question including the Stage 5 aspects?

Document Website for Newspaper Article, including video footage and blog.

THE PLOT THICKENS…

Corey was bashed!!!! (Front page news of National Newspaper reports) but…. was he really bashed???

1. Read the Newspaper article.
2. Explore the website (blog comments, cartoons, video and updates)

Write your personal comments here… try and include actual evidence from the texts to back up your opinions.

Click here for the ASSESSMENT CRITERIA…
who will win the BEST BLOG RESPONSE AWARDS???

Gee it gets hot in Melbourne in February, hey? Wanna Party?

Left panel enlarged - Center panel enlarged - Right panel enlarged

The Garden of Earthly Delight
Hieronymus Bosch

Collins St., 5p.m.
John Brack
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Canto d’amore
Giorgio De Chirico
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Early Sunday Morning
Edward HOPPER
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Portrait of David Malouf
Jeffery Smart

Introductory Discussion

• Brief discussion on CEQ•ALL (”Seek All”)
• Purpose
• Open Source Culture
• “eBay Feedback”
• Different kinds of “knowing”

Of Mice & Men - Choose your Activity

Four different activities are available for you today. You get to choose which one you will do. How you do it will be mostly up to you.

Look through each of them to see which you find most interesting. If you think up something of your own that you’d like to do more, that’s fine as long as it demonstrates one of the two points below:

1. A very solid factual recall of the main points of the novel, or
2. You can explain “How a novel works” using references to characters, symbols, plot and theme in Of Mice and Men.

Here’s the CEQ•ALL Feedback rubric for the day.  Download one for yourself and save it into your server space.

Instructions -

1. All activities assume that you have read the novel. If you haven’t, read the novel
2. All activities get you involved in analysing the novel
3. Except Activity #1, all assess how well you understand “the way a novel works.”
4. You choose one of the activities. You have the whole double to achieve Quality.

Activity 1 - Gathering Facts

Complete this worksheet packet independently. Feel free to use the book and maybe a site like this to do your best Quality work.

Activity 2 - Ranking Characters

This Word Document is meant to help you analyse the characters in Of Mice & Men. After carefully doing this, you will look more deeply into the work to come up with an interpretation of how Steinbeck conveyed his theme. In other words, “How the novel works!”

Activity 3 - Finding Connections

This activity goes a little farther than #2 in seeing how the novel works. Download this Inspiration file to get started. The idea is to

1. Choose one character from the collection (save the file with a new name and delete the images you don’t want).
2. Select an image of a symbol from the novel that relates to the character.
3. Fill in the points in the Rising Action with specific situations from the novel.
4. Focus in on how your character ends up with the story is over.
5. What message (or theme) does this character, symbol, and plot illustrate? Write this in a clear sentence (break free from the scaffolding).

Activity 4 - A Deeper Understanding

This activity goes a little farther than #3 in seeing how the novel works. Download this Inspiration file to get started. The idea is to

1. Choose one new setting from the collection - or choose your own. You will re-tell Steinbeck’s novel in a new setting which will change much of the novel while keeping its essence. (note: save the file with a new name and delete the images you don’t want).
2. Select images for as many of the main characters as you can that suit the new setting.
3. Dream-up a symbol or two that would relate to the characters, setting and Of Mice & Men.
4. Fill in the points in the Rising Action with specific situations from your version of the novel.
5. Focus in on how your character ends up with the story is over.
6. What message (or theme) does this character, symbol, and plot illustrate?
7. Write a 1-2 page synopsis that shares your version of Steinbeck’s novel.

Activity 5 - What went wrong?

If you haven’t made a Choice or invested Effort toward a Quality work, then, submit a private email explaining why this is so. Your message should be an honest reflection on the choices you made.