Wednesday - Period 3 & Friday - Period 2

'The Boxer' by Emma Payne - scramble and comprehension activities completed.

Imagery writing activity as a warm up activity for a sports poem composition.

100 Metre Athlete - vocabulary brainstorm using images.  Poetic techniques applied to selected words and combinations.  Poetry composition using these ideas.

Monday - Period 4

Friday's lesson lost to the Walkathon.

Today's activities:

• poetry compositions to be finished and submitted (15 minutes only)
• 'How to Kill A Whale' reading, annotation and comprehension questions.

Tuesday - Period 3

Using the information you gather in your research on an animal welfare issue, you will compose your own poem using Peggy Wilson's 'Puppy Mill' as a model.

Wednesday - Period 3

Research activity - visit http://www.animalsaustralia.org/issues/ and choose ONE animal welfare issue to research.  Make notes about this particular issue as background research for a poem you will write in class using 'Puppy Mills' as a model.

Tuesday - Period 5

Activities:

1. Post a response to yesterday's blog question.
2. Deconstruction sheet - 'Puppy Mill' by Peggy Wilson
3. Use three of the prompts below to complete sentences about the techniques used by Wilson in her poem:

o    [Technique] creates a sense of ...

o    The composer’s use of [technique] draws attention to ...

o    Our attention is drawn to ... because of the composer’s use of [technique].

o    The composer has used [technique] to ...

o    Using [technique] helps the composer to ...

o    We are made to … when the composer uses [technique] because …

Monday - Period 4

NEW UNIT - POETRY

Poetry revision - glossary and discussion.



Power of poetry considered through study of 'Puppy Mills' by Peggy Wilson.  Post your reaction to this poem using the 'Comments' link below.  What is the impact of this poem on you?

Friday - Period 2

Final lesson for non-fiction unit on documentaries.  To finalise this unit you will complete a summary activity to demonstrate your understanding of documentary film texts.

Wednesday - Period 3

Documentary Filmmaking - today is our last lesson to complete this task.  At the end of the lesson your group is required to put their documentary representation (finished or not) into the 'Submit' folder on the school network.