School Certificate Revision

In Week 8 we have revised each section of the School Certificate Exam paper - multiple choice, short answers, extended writing responses.  Past papers and an online multiple choice quiz can be accessed at the Board of Studies website.

To assist in revision of techniques please find below a Glossary of Terms that you might like to revise.
Stage 6 Glossary of Terms

Week 6 Lessons (Mon, Tues & Fri)

'The Running Man' - online study

• Please plan to attend the Father/Son Relationship Study tutorial with Mrs Lans during one of this week's lessons.
• Please make sure your blog posts (your own and the class blog) are up to date.
• You must ensure that you have made progress each week by attending to a suitable number of tasks and blog posts.
• Take a look at Task 5 to familiarise yourself with the essay question due at the end of this unit.
• Homework:  Please ensure you have completed your reading of the novel by Friday, 27/08/10.

Week 5 Lessons (Mon, Wed & Fri)

'The Running Man' - online study

• Please plan to attend the Genre Study tutorial with Mrs Lans during one of this week's lessons.
• Please make sure your blog posts (your own and the class blog) are up to date.
• You must ensure that you have made progress each week by attending to a suitable number of tasks and blog posts.
• Take a look at Task 5 to familiarise yourself with the essay question due at the end of this unit.
• Homework:  Please ensure you have read Chapters 10-13 by Friday, 20/08/10.

Week 4 Lessons (Mon, Tues & Fri)

'The Running Man' - online study

• Please plan to attend the Language Study tutorial with Mrs Lans during one of this week's lessons.
• Please respond to last week's class blog item with a post about your initial reading responses if you haven't already done so.
• Please respond to this week's class blog item.
• You must ensure that you have made progress each week by attending to a suitable number of tasks and blog posts.
• Homework:  Please ensure you have read Chapters 5-9 by Friday, 13/08/10.

Friday - Period 3

The Running Man - online study.  Please respond to the class blog with a post about your initial reading responses.

Homework:  Please ensure you have read Chapters 5-9 by Friday, 13/08/10.

Wednesday - Period 1

In this lesson you will be introduced to your novel study that will take place in Weeks 3-7.  You will visit the Weebly site set up for this online study and establish your own in preparation for your work in this unit.  The class weebly address is:  www.lansenglish10.weebly.com

Homework:  You need to have read Chapters 1-4 by Friday, 06/08/10.

Friday - Period 3

Novel issue:  Library borrowing of Michael Gerard Bauer's novel, 'The Running Man'.  Please commence your reading of this text as soon as possible.  Homework:  please read Chapters 1-4 (pages 1-53) by Friday, 06/08/10.


Essay Writing:  Introductions and conclusions revised.  Composition of one paragraph under timed conditions.

Tuesday - Period 3

Essay planning:  in today's lesson you are to form groups to explore one of Dawe's themes.  You need to share the ideas about that theme found in two or more poems, and how he has used language to develop these ideas.  When complete you should then draft an essay plan that reflects your approach to next Monday's in-class assessment task.  This draft essay plan should support any study and preparation you make for the task at home.

Monday - Period 5

"There comes at time when excessive speeding
Takes over the driver at the wheel..." - Momentum

Deconstruction and short analysis of Bruce Dawe's poem, 'Momentum'.  This poem is Dawe's political view of the war in Iraq and is in contrast to the other poems we have studied (subject matter, extended metaphor).

Core ideas found in Dawe's poetry collated:

• female experiences/gender roles
• minutae of life
• relationships
• human psyche

Wednesday - Period 1 & Friday - Period 3

Activities:

Study of Bruce Dawe's poem, 'Drifters'. Annotate, deconstruct and complete summary table. After shared deconstruction you are to compose a paragraph in response to the question: Analyse how Bruce Dawe represents human experiences in his poem, 'Drifters'.

Wednesday - Period 1 & Friday - Period 3

By the end of term you need to have completed the following to consolidate this term's study of Bruce Dawe's poetry:

1. Complete summary tables for each poem (The Tackle Box, Up the Wall, Going).
2. Complete a paragraph for each poem using the paragraph scaffold.
3. Discuss, using the 'comments' link below, the idea that Dawe's poems demonstrate both social and emotional awareness.  

(25/06/10) Friday - Period 3 & (28/06/10) Monday - Period 2

'Up the Wall' by Bruce Dawe - Annotation and analysis.

This sympathetic poem explores the world of the lonely housewife and the pathos of her tedious and unfulfilling role as wife and mother.

Dawe's understanding of the female experience and the social conditions created by gendered roles is expertly and clearly revealed in this poem.

Monday - Period 5 & Tuesday - Period 3

Activities:

Deconstruction and analysis of Bruce Dawe's poem, 'The Tacklebox'.  Paragraph response if time.

Tuesday - Period 1

Deconstruction and analysis of Bruce Dawe's 'The Tackle Box' continued.

Lesson deferred due to discussion of Year 11 Course choices.

Tuesday - Period 3

Activities:

Using the information from your viewing of Bruce Dawe's Biography (Australian Screen) and feature articles supplied, compose a profile of Dawe that addresses his background and poetic interests and skill.

If time permits - deconstruction of 'The Tackle Box'

Monday - Period 5

Activities:

1. If you are yet to post a response to Friday's activity, please do so this lesson. (Make sure you click on the link for the post below - not this one.)
2. Deconstruction revision - choose one of the following poems and complete the deconstruction table provided in class. (If, Puppy Mills, The Clock of Life, You Want a Social Life with Friends)
3. Viewing - Bruce Dawe profile video.

The Merchant of Venice - 20 points task due today.

Friday - Period 3

Well done to everyone on their voicethreads for the casket riddles.

NEW UNIT - POETRY

Our focus activity to reintroduce poetry will be an evaluative activity using poetry typography (see links below).  The aim of this activity is to acknowledge the power of poetry to concisely and effectively explore ideas.

View each of the videos and read the poems on the handout provided.  In your book note down the subject matter and theme of each poem.  Choose the poem that you feel was most powerful in exploring a theme and also choose a video that you feel best represented the poem visually.  Post a response using the 'comments' link below explaining both of your choices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXHRUlKe_M (You Want a Social Life, With Friends' - Kenneth Koche)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-CXa7RePu4 ('No Cure' - Derek del Barrio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNxBIDZoV8 ('For Your Tomorrow' - Major John Etty-Leal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9IAqWcF_0 ('Puppy Mill' - Peggy Wilson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utcb7JTrX-M ('The Clock of Life' - Robert H. Smith)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tTeZNfwesg ('If' - Rudyard Kipling)

Wednesday - Period 1

Merchant of Venice Activities:



If you have not completed your Voicethread recordings, make sure you have posted three (3) audio posts by the end of the lesson.

Next - compose a paragraph n response to the question: Shylock – is he a villain or a victim of the society he lives in? Please see Mrs Lans for paper to write on. To be submitted for marking at the end of the lesson or by Friday's lesson if not completed in class.

Homework: any of the above tasks not completed in class MUST be done for homework by Friday, 04/06/10.

Monday - Period 2

Casket Riddles - decipher the riddles for each of the gold, silver and lead caskets.  Consider the qualities that Portia's father is revealing in each of his riddles.  Make suitable notes for each in your book.

Using this information, record your responses in the Voicethread below.

Homework - Responses totalling 20 points (from the 42 point questions) due today.

Monday - Period 5

Activities:

Close study of each scene (continued) for relevance to plot, character, theme, and language used.  Completed in groups and shared.