Wednesday - Period 3 & Friday - Period 1

Documentary Filmmaking Activity:  Using the photos/film taken earlier in the term, you are to compose a 'documentary' of BPC that presents it from either a positive or negative perspective.  You need to be in a group of two or three.

Monday - Period 4 & Tuesday - Period 5

Activities:
Documentaries:  comparative viewings of two episodes of 'Australian Story' - 'Men of Ore' and 'The Fault Zone'.  Worksheet recording elements of both.

Wednesday - Period 3

Documentaries:  comparative viewings of two episodes of 'Australian Story' - 'Men of Ore' and 'The Fault Zone'.

These documentaries address the Beaconsfield mining disaster.  One is a the story of the rescue team and the other is about the miner lost in the disaster.  We are looking to compare the perspectives shown.

Friday - Period 1

Photography & filming activity in preparation for documentary task.

BPC to be filmed/photographed to represent a postive and negative representation.

Tuesday - Period 5

Activities:

1.  NAPLAN feedback
2.  Australian Story:  'On a Wing and a Prayer' - deconstruction (continued)

Monday - Period 4

Activities:

Documentaries:  Australian Story - 'On a Wing and a Prayer'.  Post viewing worksheets and deconstruction of documentary filmmaking techniques (if time).


Remember:  NAPLAN testing will occur in Week 4 (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday - Periods 1 & 2).  Look over the practise tasks completed during Term 1 to revise the style and type of questions you will attempt

Friday - Period 2

Activities:

Return of NAPLAN practise writing task.  Feedback and revision of writing elements.

Remember:  NAPLAN testing will occur in Week 4 (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday - Periods 1 & 2).  Look over the practise tasks completed during Term 1 to revise the style and type of questions you will attempt.

Wednesday - Period 3

Lesson lost due to Year 9 camp.

Friday - Period 1 (30/4/10)

Activities:

1.  Viewing of Australian Story: On a Wing & a Prayer (Hazim el Masri)
2.  Deconstruction sheet - genre, identification of film techniques, description of subject matter.

This documentary can also be viewed here on the ABC website.

Wednesday - Period 3

Activities:

1.  Viewing of Screen Australia's documentary tutorial continued.
2.  Viewing of Australian Story: Hazim El Mazri (if time)

Tuesday - Period 5

Monday's lesson lost due to public holiday.

Activities:

1.  Sentence writing:  Fact vs Opinion
2.  Background information about documentary filmmaking from Screen Australia website.

Friday - Period 2

Activities:

Introduction/revision of non-fiction texts.

Wednesday - Period 3

Activities:

1. NAPLAN Writing - practise task in anticipation of testing in Week 4.
2. Task requirements and approaches to NAPLAN discussed.
3. Short Story Assessment Task returned.

Tuesday - Period 5

Activities:

Tropfest Summary Task & self reflection.

Monday - Period 4

Activities:

1.  'Be My Brother' short film - character, setting, plot and theme.
2.  Film techniques study (if time)

Friday - Period 2

Activities:

1.  Wider Reading Task - letter to a friend describing the book read this term.
2.  Viewing - 'Be My Brother'

Wednesday - Period 3

Activities:

1. Journal writing
2. Short film 'Between the Flags' - Plot and themes.

Homework:  Your wider reading for Term 1 should now be complete.  Be prepared on Friday 26/3/10 to complete an activity in class that demonstrates this reading.

Friday - Period 1

Lesson lost due to Year 9 Survey.

Assessment Task due.

Wednesday - Period 3

Viewing of short film, 'Between the Flags'.

Examination of how setting and character are important elements in this narrative.

Homework:  Assessment Task (short story writing) due on Friday, 19/3/10.  To be handed in during lesson together with your planning journal.

Tuesday - Period 5

Activities:

Using the work from last lesson, you will compose a sentence for each of the deconstruction stickers you used when studying the short film, 'Last Stop'.  These sentences will then be used to write a paragraph about the use of film techniques by the filmaker.  Sentence prompts will be provided.

Homework: Creative writing of short story for Assessment Task due Week 8