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.

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

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.

Monday - Period 2

Activities:

Themes - text/reader/world questions and answers devised for the themes of: prejudice, friendship, mercy.

Remember:

Knowledge of the text being read	Text
Personal response to the text	Reader
Knowledge of the world and other texts	World

So you will need questions for the following:  text, text/reader, reader, reader/world, world, world/text

Homework:  Remember to be working on questions totalling 20 points from the '42 points' sheet.

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.

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.

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.

Tuesday - Period 3

Writing - this lesson you will be issued with a 'MATES' scaffold and exemplar and we will examine/revise how a critical response paragraph should be composed.  This will be the model for this week's homework. 

Homework:  Compose a paragraph in response to the question, How has identity been represented in the film, Mona Lisa Smile?  You must make close reference to the text and use the 'MATES' structure.  Due Monday, 22/3/10.

Friday - Period 3

Activities:

• Scene analysis - identity representations in selected scenes. 

Once this is complete, you will now have addressed sufficient elements of 'Mona Lisa Smile' to respond about identity as it is represented in this text.  Your notes should include:  character table, stylistic and film techniques (from PowerPoint), motherhood statements, song lyrics, script extracts, scene analysis.

Homework:  Article of the Week, 'School bans on Muslim veils', due on Monday, 15/3/10.

Wednesday - Period 1

Activities:

1.  Quotes (continued)
2.  Scene deconstructions.

Homework:  Article of the Week, 'School Ban on Muslin Veils' due on Monday, 15/3/10.

Tuesday - Period 3

Activities:

PowerPoint Presentation - Deconstruction of 'Mona Lisa Smile'.

Homework:  Remember that your draft opinion piece for the 'What Matters?' writing competition is due on Monday, 8/3/10.  An electronic copy is preferred, either submitted in class or emailed.

Monday - Period 5

Activities:

"Societal expectations define the roles of women." 

The motherhood statements that you posted last week have been compiled into a shared list.  The modifications to some illustrate better expression of the concept (often a simple case of nominalisation).  We will make connections between the film and these motherhood statements by identifying evidence of each from the text.

Homework:  The 'What Matters?' draft is due next Monday, 8/3/10.  This week there will not be an 'Article of the Week' to permit you to complete your draft.

Wednesday - Period 1

Activities:

1.  Completion of film deconstruction sheet
2.  Character study - identity descriptions of each character
3.  Motherhood statement brainstorm - using the 'comments' link below, post at least TWO identity motherhood statements that are represented in 'Mona Lisa Smile'.

Homework: 
1.  Article of the Week - 'Pope Benedict XVI's Vatican policies back union rights'
2.  'What Matters?' writing competition - draft due Monday of Week 7

Monday - Period 2 & Thursday - Period 1

1.  Stereotypes - 'Tribes' matching activity. 
2.  Related Text:  'Victims of our own prejudice' (opinion) deconstruction and analysis.  ( 3 Motherhood statements to be ready for lesson on Week 4 Monday, Period 5)

Homework:  Article of the Week - 'Silent Asylum Seekers'.  Responses to be completed by Monday, 15/02/10 Period 5.

Friday - Period 3

We will continue to focus on the concept of 'identity' via the following activities:

1.  Continuation of PowerPoint

HOMEWORK:  Your response to the 'Article of the Week' is due on Monday, Period 2.  Two paragraphs addressing the importance/relevance of your chosen topics/issues to our contemporary world.

Remember to commence your wider reading of 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue.  You must have finished reading this by the end of Week 9.

Monday - Period 5

To commence your Year 10 study we will cover the following activities:

1. Weekly vocabulary activity
2. School Certificate checklist
3.  'Article of the Week' homework task
4. 'What Matters' writing competition (Term 1)

Activities 1, 3 & 4 will be regular parts of your study, each designed to focus on your reading, writing, ideas and vocabulary. Together with the SC checklist they will assist your preparation for the School Certificate Exam.