Telling our stories....

A quick clip telling our story as a nation (and linking to the Americas Cup... One more win....)

100 word challenge prompt

Make sure you craft and recraft your writing well - this week anyone who completes will be linked to the 100wc website...

100 Word Challenge

The 100 Word Challenge is a worldwide weekly creative writing challenge for students under 16 years of age. Each week a prompt is given, which can be a picture or a series of individual words and the students can use up to 100 words to write a creative piece. This will be posted on our class blog and then linked to the 100 Word Challenge blog. 

A link to see what the 100 word challenge prompt is on the right of this post.

Get stuck in - Everyone who completes a 100Word Challenge will recieve 200 points.

FORCES OF NATURE PROJECT

CHECK OUT THE TAB ABOVE FOR ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT!


DUE: 20^th August 2013

This project is focused on our current Inquiry unit - Forces of Nature. At school our two classes (Pūkeko and Kākāpō) will be working on a range of topics from thunder and lightning to cloud formation and earthquakes. This project will be presented in the form of a speech. You are to conduct your own research and plan your work under your own headings. Your speech is to be between 2 min 30 sec and 3 minutes long.

This project is to be focused on either:

·      A single natural event (eg: Boxing Day Tsunami, 1931 Napier Earthquake, Haiti 2010 Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina,)

·      A specific feature of our natural world (eg: Pink and White Terraces, Minerals, Southern Lights Aurora Australis).

The project is not to be based on a topic that we have been working on in class.

You will be assessed on your ability to:

·      Research effectively, providing an interesting topic and informative content

·      Write an effective speech that is well structured (introduces key ideas early, repeats key messages, has a good flow of ideas) and has a balance of facts, comments, specific and global details, opinion and reflection.

·      Use language features / presentation aids to capture and retain the audiences attention

(language features of rhyme, metaphor, simile, hyperbole and more!)

·      Use an appropriate and engaging tone with variation of pace (including hesitations, pauses, silences), volume and emphasis as well as facial and body language.

You are being given this project before the holidays – currently you have 5 weeks to prepare your speech. It is advisable to get started on your research in the holidays – if you have any questions over the holidays you can email me and I will get back asap (chris@sacredheartpetone.school.nz). I will be checking in with each student at the end of Week 1 (Friday 2^nd August) to make sure that sufficient progress is being made.

There will be information, links and small videos going online at www.mrtheobald.blogspot.com to give you more information about what you need to do to achieve well in this project.

Again, I will encourage all students to use the time before school from 8:30-9:00 to work on their projects for the first three weeks of Term 3. You can utilize resources that we have at school – netbooks, paper for making speech cards, library etc.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR QUERIES PLEASE ASK FOR HELP NOW!!!

Topic:
Planned Date Finished	Actual Date Finished	Task	Notes
		Research
		Speech Writing
		Practice
		Practice
20th AUGUST		PRESENT

Our Inquiry focus for next week?

3WLC

Our Journal Writing focus for this week.... Week 9

We will complete a number of journal prompts based on this clip - What can you see, think, wonder?