Wednesday - Period 4 & Friday - Period 5

 Today you will compose the draft of your feature article:  "What is it to be an Australian in the 21st century?".  The ideas we brainstormed last lesson can be found in the diagram below, but feel free to add your own ideas.  You might also take some ideas from the images it contains.  Your draft will need to be typed in a Word document. Remember to use the feature article scaffold in your book to guide your writing.

Monday - Period 3

To practise for your assessment task in Week 8 we will write a feature article on identity.

First we will take a look at the scaffold contained in the assessment task and look at some feature articles.

Next we will brainstorm our feature article topic:  "What is Australian identity in the 21st century?".

Then you will spend some time researching possible ideas to include in your article.

Friday - Period 3 & Monday - Period 2

School Certificate Preparation:  In these lessons you will compose a feature article on the issue of mosquito alarms.  You will decide the purpose of your article (inform, entertain, educate, etc) and approach (informative, balanced, humorous, etc) and concentrate on a composition that observes the structure and conventions of a feature article.