Thursday - Period 2 & Friday - Period 4

Self-Assessment:

1. Poetry Unit Reflection Sheet
2. Semester 2 Self-Assessment of Report Criteria - insert the image of the criteria on a new page on your Weebly called 'Self Assessment'.  Underneath record the grade you feel you have earned this semester together with an explanation of why this grade applies.

12 Angry Men:  We will begin to look at the tension and pace of the plot.  You will be allocated a number of pages to read and then supply a brief summary of what occurs in those pages.  This information will be compiled in a class summary and will be used to create a tension graph in future lessons.

Tuesday - Period 3

Assessment Task

In class discussion essay on two poems studied in the poetry unit.

Wednesday - Period 4

Assessment task (in class).  Essay response to the question:

'The study of drama helps us to understand human behaviour.'  How is this true for the play you have studied in class?

Monday - Period 3

Using the paragraphs you wrote in Week 2, you will begin to organise your draft essay by writing an introduction and a conclusion.  This will give you an entire draft essay that should guide you in your task on Wednesday.  Remember:  you are not able to bring any notes into the Assessment Task.  


Introductions should:

• introduce the play and its composer and explain what the purpose of the play is
• expand on the first point above by listing the behaviours you will address in your essay
• acknlowledge that the messages about these behaviours are revealed through the character and language that the playwright uses

Conclusions should:

• have a summary of all the points you addressed in the body paragraphs
• have a comment on what we have learned from these behaviours
• not reveal any new information/details

Week 2 Lessons

This week we will turn our attention to the upcoming Assessment Task in Week 3.  You will be writing an essay in class in response the the question:

'The study of drama helps us to understand human behaviour.'  How is this true for the play you have studied in class?


So this week will allow you the opportunity to:

1. Choose the behaviours you will address in your essay
2. Locate examples in the text where these behaviours are demonstrated
3. Compose a paragraph for each behaviour that includes the examples and techniques used to 'help us to understand' that behaviour.

Aim to write 3 paragraphs in total.

Weeks 1-4 Term 2

Since returning in Term 2 our lesson schedule has been as follows:

27/04/11:  'An ANZAC's Dream' annotation and deconstruction
29/04/11:  'An ANZAC's Dream' continued
03/05/11:  Speech writing for assessment task
04/05/11:  Speech writing for assessment task
05/05/11:  Speech writing for assessment task
09/05/11:  Assessment Task due.  'Then and Now' reading and annotation
11/05/11:  'Then and Now' tasks
13/05/11:  'Then and Now' tasks continued
17/05/11:  Mrs Lans not in class - School Certificate poetry activities
18/05/11:  Mrs Lans not in class - School Certificate writing activities
19/05/11:  Assessment Task speech presentations.

Tuesday - Period 2

Assessment Task - Identity (in class) 


Section 1 - 10 Multiple Choice questions
Section 2 - 5 Short Answer questions
Section 3 - Feature Article composition

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.

Friday - Period 3

Assessment Task - Identity speech presentations

Homework:  Using the 'comments' link below this post, you are to post a comment stating which speeches presented today you found most effective. You need to explain why this speech was effective and you can address both the content of the speech and the presentation (delivery). This is not a vote for friends, but rather information to demonstrate your understanding of the topic and speech presentation.

Tuesday - Period 3

Assessment Task - Identity speech presentations

Homework:  Using the 'comments' link below this post, you are to post a comment stating which speeches presented today you found most effective. You need to explain why this speech was effective and you can address both the content of the speech and the presentation (delivery). This is not a vote for friends, but rather information to demonstrate your understanding of the topic and speech presentation.

Monday - Period 5

Assessment Task - Identity speech presentations

Homework:  Using the 'comments' link below this post, you are to post a comment stating which speeches presented today you found most effective. You need to explain why this speech was effective and you can address both the content of the speech and the presentation (delivery). This is not a vote for friends, but rather information to demonstrate your understanding of the topic and speech presentation.

Friday - Period 3

Assessment task transcript sumbitted.

Activities:
1.  Backchannelling and Wallwisher responses examined.
2.  Conflict - types of conflict and their meaning identified.
3.  Text/Reader/Word - questions modelled/devised on the theme of revenge.

Don't forget to take a look at your entries in the 'What Matters?' writing competition which have been compiled into an online booklet.  You can check it out on the top right of this page.


Homework:  Over the next week make sure you rehearse your speech to ensure you meet the time limit/requirement of the assessment task.  Your '42 Point Questions' is due later in the unit and still requires your attention.

Friday - Period 3

Activities:

1.  Five act play structure examined.  MOV mapped to Freytag's dramatic structure.
2.  Backchannelling:  initial discussions around Shylock

Homework:  Assessment Task # 2 (Identity Speech) transcript is due on 30/4/10.  Make sure you have started work on this, giving yourself enough time to rehearse your speech and modify it if timing is a factor.  Remember you need to focus on 'challenges' to identity and how they can be seen in 'Mona Lisa Smile' and a text of your choosing.  See the mind map on the post below dated 24/3/10 for guidance.
You must identify and comment on the effectiveness of the techniques the filmmaker has used to give you these messages.  These can be found in your classnotes.  Two-thirds of your speech should address the film and one third the related text.

Monday - Period 5

Activities:

1.  Identity Assessment Task for students who were absent on Friday.
2.  Writing:  paragraph writing using exemplar as a model for paragraphs on 'Mona Lisa Smile' and a related text.  The brainstorming done in Wednesday's lesson can be found in the blog post below.

Holiday homework: 
1.  'What Matters?' final copy to be completed.  Due on first lesson of Term 2 or emailed earlier if possible.  lansenglish@yahoo.com.au
2.  'The Merchant of Venice' abridged text to be read before the beginning of Term 2.  Post-reading quiz will take place in the first lesson.  For assistance in understanding the text, you can refer to the 'No Fear Shakespeare' online translation of the text.

• You can also download a free audio version from iTunes.  Use the 'Power Search' option and search for the title of the play.
• The BBC has some useful videos and information on the play which can be found here.

Friday - Period 3

Identity Assessment Task - in class activity.

Wednesday - Period 1

Activities:

1. Assessment Task No 2 issued. Speech Task on Identity due in Term 2.
2. Paragraph writing using 'MATES' scaffold explained/revised.  Exemplar issued for student reference.
3. Challenges to Identity brainstorm.  See mind map below.

Homework:  Last reminder to annotate the assessment task stimulus texts (interview, feature article and poem) in anticipation of the task on Friday 26/3/10.  Also revise the structure of a feature article.  You also need to have completed your reading of 'The Wave' by Tuesday, 30/3/10.

Monday - Period 2

Activities:

Identity sample reading task - 'Cobb Cartoon'
Poetry deconstruction/analysis - 'Identity' by anonymous

When studying poetry explore the following elements as part of your deconstruction and analysis:

Homework: 

1. Annotate the stimulus texts provided with your Assessment Task notification in anticipation of your assessment task on Friday, 26/3/10.
2. Following the return of your draft 'What Matters?' opinion piece, edit, proofread and publish your final copy.  A digital version can be emailed to lansenglish@yahoo.com.au or must submitted on the first day of Term 2.
3. Bring your copy of 'The Wave' to class on Tuesday, 30/3/10.

Friday - Period 3

Lesson lost to History/Geography excursion.

Note:  In-class assessment task on Identity (multiple choice, short answers & feature article) will take place on Wednesday 24/3/10.  Students absent due to Music excursion will complete in the next lesson.

Homework:  Ensure that you have read and deconstructed the texts for the assessment task.  You need to annotate your copy of the texts with stylistic and language features in preparation for the task.  Remember you are looking for the:

• Identity messages (ideas, concepts) the text contains which you will express as a motherhood statement.
• Language techniques employed to bring us this identity message.
• Effectiveness of the language techniques and the text as a whole in representing identity ideas.

Monday - Period 5 & Tuesday - Period 3

Activities:

1.  'Victims of our own prejudice' - conceptualising of ideas presented in this text.
2.  Assessment Task # 1 issued.
2.  'Mona Lisa Smile' viewing. 
We lose Friday's lesson due to the History/Geography excursions.  Before your return on Monday 22/2/10, begin to formulate motherhood statements about identity that occur to you as a result of your viewing of the film.  The trailer can be viewed below to assist you.



Homework: 

• Article of the Week, 'Violence risks foreign student market'.
• 'What Matters?' writing competition:  formulate a topic, viewpoin t and approach for this writing task.  Your draft version is due to Mrs Lans by Monday, Week 7.