Tuesday - Period 3 & Thursday - Period 1

The Running Man

1. Examination of quotes from the text that develop belonging ideas.
2. The Running Man extract activity - What does Joseph's anecdote about his art teacher, Mr De Groot, tell us about identity?  (Weebly response)
3. Unit summary - create a new page on your Weebly.  Choose three (3) texts and for each one, explain what it has taught you about the concept of identity. Also choose one (1) quote from the ones we have looked at throughout the unit and explain why this quote makes the most sense to you about the nature of identity.  

Monday - Period 2 & Wednesday - Period 3

The Running Man

In pairs you will be given a chapter of the novel which you are to reread closely and make notes on the following question.

How are Tom Leyton, Joseph Davidson, The Running Man, and Mrs Mossop represented in your chapter.  Record examples (quotes) from the text that show how Michael Gerard Bauer has created the identity of these characters.

These notes will be shared with the rest of the class in a future lesson, so you need to ensure that you adequately record your information for the benefit of others.

• Narrative writing - reflection statement writing.  Completion of table that will assist you to complete your Reflection Statement for your upcoming assessment task.

Reminder - your revised copy of your assessment task narrative is to be sighted next Tuesday, 18th September.

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.