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.

Monday - Period 5

"There comes at time when excessive speeding
Takes over the driver at the wheel..." - Momentum

Deconstruction and short analysis of Bruce Dawe's poem, 'Momentum'.  This poem is Dawe's political view of the war in Iraq and is in contrast to the other poems we have studied (subject matter, extended metaphor).

Core ideas found in Dawe's poetry collated:

• female experiences/gender roles
• minutae of life
• relationships
• human psyche

Wednesday - Period 1 & Friday - Period 3

Activities:

Study of Bruce Dawe's poem, 'Drifters'. Annotate, deconstruct and complete summary table. After shared deconstruction you are to compose a paragraph in response to the question: Analyse how Bruce Dawe represents human experiences in his poem, 'Drifters'.

Wednesday - Period 1 & Friday - Period 3

By the end of term you need to have completed the following to consolidate this term's study of Bruce Dawe's poetry:

1. Complete summary tables for each poem (The Tackle Box, Up the Wall, Going).
2. Complete a paragraph for each poem using the paragraph scaffold.
3. Discuss, using the 'comments' link below, the idea that Dawe's poems demonstrate both social and emotional awareness.  

(25/06/10) Friday - Period 3 & (28/06/10) Monday - Period 2

'Up the Wall' by Bruce Dawe - Annotation and analysis.

This sympathetic poem explores the world of the lonely housewife and the pathos of her tedious and unfulfilling role as wife and mother.

Dawe's understanding of the female experience and the social conditions created by gendered roles is expertly and clearly revealed in this poem.

Monday - Period 5 & Tuesday - Period 3

Activities:

Deconstruction and analysis of Bruce Dawe's poem, 'The Tacklebox'.  Paragraph response if time.

Tuesday - Period 1

Deconstruction and analysis of Bruce Dawe's 'The Tackle Box' continued.

Lesson deferred due to discussion of Year 11 Course choices.

Tuesday - Period 3

Activities:

Using the information from your viewing of Bruce Dawe's Biography (Australian Screen) and feature articles supplied, compose a profile of Dawe that addresses his background and poetic interests and skill.

If time permits - deconstruction of 'The Tackle Box'

Monday - Period 5

Activities:

1. If you are yet to post a response to Friday's activity, please do so this lesson. (Make sure you click on the link for the post below - not this one.)
2. Deconstruction revision - choose one of the following poems and complete the deconstruction table provided in class. (If, Puppy Mills, The Clock of Life, You Want a Social Life with Friends)
3. Viewing - Bruce Dawe profile video.

The Merchant of Venice - 20 points task due today.

Friday - Period 3

Well done to everyone on their voicethreads for the casket riddles.

NEW UNIT - POETRY

Our focus activity to reintroduce poetry will be an evaluative activity using poetry typography (see links below).  The aim of this activity is to acknowledge the power of poetry to concisely and effectively explore ideas.

View each of the videos and read the poems on the handout provided.  In your book note down the subject matter and theme of each poem.  Choose the poem that you feel was most powerful in exploring a theme and also choose a video that you feel best represented the poem visually.  Post a response using the 'comments' link below explaining both of your choices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXHRUlKe_M (You Want a Social Life, With Friends' - Kenneth Koche)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-CXa7RePu4 ('No Cure' - Derek del Barrio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNxBIDZoV8 ('For Your Tomorrow' - Major John Etty-Leal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9IAqWcF_0 ('Puppy Mill' - Peggy Wilson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utcb7JTrX-M ('The Clock of Life' - Robert H. Smith)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tTeZNfwesg ('If' - Rudyard Kipling)

Wednesday - Period 1

Merchant of Venice Activities:



If you have not completed your Voicethread recordings, make sure you have posted three (3) audio posts by the end of the lesson.

Next - compose a paragraph n response to the question: Shylock – is he a villain or a victim of the society he lives in? Please see Mrs Lans for paper to write on. To be submitted for marking at the end of the lesson or by Friday's lesson if not completed in class.

Homework: any of the above tasks not completed in class MUST be done for homework by Friday, 04/06/10.

Monday - Period 2

Casket Riddles - decipher the riddles for each of the gold, silver and lead caskets.  Consider the qualities that Portia's father is revealing in each of his riddles.  Make suitable notes for each in your book.

Using this information, record your responses in the Voicethread below.

Homework - Responses totalling 20 points (from the 42 point questions) due today.

Monday - Period 5

Activities:

Close study of each scene (continued) for relevance to plot, character, theme, and language used.  Completed in groups and shared.

Wednesday - Period 1

Activities:

Close study of each scene for relevance to plot, character, theme, and language used.

Monday - Period 2

Speech presentations were finished on Friday.  Without exception each of you spoke well and effectively presented your identity ideas.  Well done to you all.

Activities:  (The Merchant of Venice)

1.  Completion and submission of identify paragraphs (15 minutes only).
2.  Close study of Shylock's monologue.

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.

Wednesday - Period 1 & Friday - Period 3

Activities:

1.  Text/reader/world questions completed.  Feedback to class.
2.  Paragraph writing - Two paragraphs in response to the following question:
In 'The Merchant of Venice', Shakespeare considers the values of mercy and friendship and the actions of prejudice and revenge.  Choose one value and one action and examine his representation of these themes.


Homework:  42 Point Question responses (totalling 20 points) due on 31/5/10.  'Article of the Week' due Monday, 10/5/10. 


SPEECH PRESENTATIONS - in class Week 4 (starting Monday).

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.