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Tuesday

Today you were given a resource sheet containing a Publicity photograph for Jantzen swimwear c1920s.
This can also be found at http://www.tepapa.govt.nz

You should have glued this in to your book (remember these are to be collected on Monday for checking) and then complete the following:
Read the resource sheet and list the KEY words (swimwear, Jantzen, publicity, campaigns, 1930s & 1940s, fashion, advertisement, suits, glamorous, 20th century, photographs, example)
Find a modern swimsuit advertisement from a magazine or website.
Glue this onto the next page of your book.
DRAW UP A TABLE like this and complete it about the two resources.
Title - Swimsuit Advertising
2 columns - head one Similarities and one Differences
You should write about 3 things that are similar in the advertisements and 3 things that are different about them.

Monday May 1st (Mayday)

This term there are several assessments that must be completed for report grades AND an exam in Week 4. The essay topics for the exam (transactional writing) will be worked on as drafts in class, then handed to you to do a good copy as part of the exam.
Our focus topic will be ADVERTISING.
The film you write about will be "Pirates of the Caribbean".
In week 5 there will be an assessment for speeches - these will be on either an aspect of Advertising, or your famous NZer from Term 1.

Today's work:
1. Use the letters A C I L O P V to see how many words you can make. (1 point for 2 letter words, 2 points for 3 letter words etc.)
2. Journal Writing: spend 20 minutes on this
"what if?" you had to choose the most important thing in life..but it could NOT be money? What would you say is the most important thing in life? Why did you choose that thing?
3. "what's up?" worksheet. Work in pairs to copy and complete the sheet.

Check the site on the last blog for answers to #1.

Remember your books will be collected next Monday (May 8th)

Word builder

On Mondays we are going to begin a word builder competition. This website gives you a fun place to check what you could have done with this week's letters.
http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/pl/page.tools/dn/home.cfm

make notes from this site for your essay

http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/write_cn/journey.htm

These notes are useful for writing your essay, copy key points into your book.

Then go to essaypunch.com and do that essay.

Week 8???

Spelling words this week are:
actively
government
creature
surgeon
entertaining
cheerful
speechless
mountain
module
anticipated
paleness
culture
treasure
catering
leisure

this week

Today you need to -

1 do the spelling activities (see Week 6 spelling posting)
2 Begin to type up your Peter Blake article (in Word)
3 Complete/work on your Powerpoint Heroes presentation

Email me your work if you want it checked
shazzandrob@surf.co.nz

Transactional writing

This is the main assessment for this term. There will be 3 pieces submitted.
1) a film review (Pirates of the Caribbean)
2) a research report (about your chosen NZ hero)
3) an article about Peter Blake

The article will be written in news reporting style with an introduction, 3 key points of one full paragraph each, and a conclusion.

Peter Blake Article/Draft 1
Introduction: Write 5 sentences that give an overview of how you see Peter Blake
Key points: choose 3 main areas/aspects of his life/death
For each of these you need to be able to write 5 sentences which expand the idea of the key point
Conclusion: summarise what you have written andfinish with a concluding statement

Spelling week 6

Spelling words this week are:
language
emphasise
shaping
tourism
government
achievement
pursuit
interview
commercial
official
Write 5 of the words into complex sentences
Choose 3 of the words to write an ANAGRAM
Choose 1 word to see how many others you can create from it
Use the last word in a paragraph

NZ Heroes page

Go to this website http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/ and choose your 'hero'.

You can choose to create EITHER a blogsite (www.blogger.com) or a powerpoint presentation about your hero.

WHICHEVER one you decide on you must SAVE YOUR WORK.

You need to find(and include a record of where you found it)

1) 3 pictures of this person
2) A collection of facts about this person
3) archival video footage where possible
4) interesting points of note
5) sound recording of their voice (look on the radio NZ website)

Other sites to search for information - NZ herald; NZ Listener; INNZ (National library website)

Above all, make sure your presentation is interesting and informative.

Pirate stuff

What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
You can also view a breakdown of results or put one of these on your own page!
Brought to you by Rum and Monkey

Wednesday again in B3

Finish yesterday's work using this week's words and learn your spelling words for Friday.
Have it signed off by the teacher and then you can go to the site the teacher puts on the white board.
Here's a place to go for English revision games - try and few and email me to tell me which are your favourites.
http://www.englishpage.com/games/games.html
You need to copy and paste this into the url space.
My email is sharonh@mmc.school.nz

Wednesday 22 February

Hi guys,
For today's work (in pairs) go to this site and work your way through the essay writing steps, print out your results and name them, then give to Mrs Harper
http://www.essaypunch.com/
At 5 to 3 print out your work and go to this site
http://www.alias.com/eng/etc/fake_or_foto/index.html