Wednesday - Period 5

Lesson lost due to History/Geography excursion.

Tuesday - Period 3

Monday's lesson lost due to public holiday.
Homework:  Assessment Task #2 - transcript due on Friday, 30/4/10.  Presentation of speech in Week 4.  'Article of the Week' homework will resume in Week 3.

Tuesday's Activities:

1.  Setting:  Venice & Belmont
2.  Characters:  Summary paragraph for Antonio.
3.  Characters:  Relevance to plot and quotes to be recorded on Wallwisher for both Shylock and Antonio

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.