Tuesday - Period 4

With the benefit of our discussion and backchannelling around the ideas explored by Ray Bradbury in his short story, The Pedestrian, we will today look at the narrative elements and language employed in this story.

In particular, you will compose questions using the 'Questioning Circles' model to explore both the text and how this idea relates to the wider world.

Thursday - Period 1 & Monday Period 2

In these lessons you will participate in a small discussion group with Mrs Lans OR take part in a backchannelling discussion around Ray Bradbury's short story, The Pedestrian.

Transcripts of the backchannel sessions appear below:

Open publication - Free publishing - More bradbury

Open publication - Free publishing - More bradbury

Genre - Short Stories & Film

Our latest unit will be the study of short stories and film with a focus on genre.  As a revision of genre we will look at a range of movie trailers on Youtube and discuss the expectations we have of the film from the genre clues (conventions) they contain.

Tasks:

• Using Mindomo, Mindmeister, or Mind42, compose a mind map of the main genres and their features.  Embed this mind map on your Weebly.
• Select a movie trailer, embed it on your Weebly, and then list the genres it contains and the conventions used in the trailer that confirm those genres.