Literacy

Literacy 22/08/16

Reading:

Please log in to google classroom and complete the comprehension based on a newspaper article about "Fonterra". Once turned in please go back and ensure you have completed the task from last week on Keeping Babies Safe., some of you appear to have overlooked this.

Writing:

Look at the picture carefully, brainstorm with a buddy, then write a story you'll want to share on your blog. If you are finding ideas slow coming today scroll down and read the ideas and questions that are there to help with the focus. Please use the opening paragraphs already there, copy and paste them on to a google doc, save it then start your writing. We want to share these on our blogs.


Hulks Day Off

Thursday 18/08/2016

Literacy 18/08/2016

Reading
Read the story Beneath our feet. You will find this and questions to answer on google classroom.
You can share read with a buddy. Please turn in your questions when you have answered them.

Writing
Create a story from pobble365.com See link below. Follow the story starter to help you. There are no rules about writing today.
Be creative and use your imagination. Have fun exploring your own thought and recording them. We are all looking forward in reading your finished story.
http://pobble365.com/the-magic-ride/

Scary Mary

Read the following extract and then answer the questions.

Scary Mary

Kiwi Mary Perkins, 23, made motocross history this year ( 2006) when she became the first female in the world to join the legendary Crusty Demons FMX Team! MAry was invited to ride with the crazy motocross extremists after setting a Guinness world record for the longest jump by a female on a motorcycle - a death-defying 159 ft! Mary’s the only girl to take the hair-raising sport of FMX this far!

How did you get into FMX?

I started out rounding up sheep on our family farm, and then progressed into racing motocross. I started doing big jumps. That got me hooked on free riding, then FMX.

What’s the hardest thing about your sport?

Crashing on the metal down ramps and getting injured! Being the first female in such a tough guy’s sport has been quite hard too.

What do you love the most about it?

Setting a trend by doing what I love doing everyday! It’s a pretty sweet job.

Ever had a really serious crash?

I’ve had a few!

There have been tears and quite a few broken bones, but it’s all about getting back on and giving it another shot.

Confidence is really important in any sport, especially FMX. I have to learn the correct skills and practice heaps. That gives me the confidence in my ability  - even if I crash.

What kind of training do you do?

I have to be fit and flexible. Most of my time is spent on the bike, training. Repetition - doing stuff over and over again - and dedication are what it takes to be the best. I have to keep trying and learning new tricks.

What shows have you been riding in recently?

The NZ Motorshow and the parachute festival, and I’ve just spent two months with the Crusty Demons touring Australia.

What’s coming up?

I’m still racing motocross so I’ve got the Australian and NZ Motocross Championships, and I might be going to India with the crusty tour later in the year. I’m also doing a lot of filming for videos and TV docs.

What’s your big goal?

To be the best female FMXer in the world and to encourage more girls to go into the sport. Oh, and I want to do a back-flip.

LEARNING INTENTION

TO LEARN ABOUT THE QUALITIES AND STRENGTHS IT TAKES TO BECOME A SUCCESS IN ANY SPORT.

Please think about your own personal ability with reading and do the Curriculum Level suitable for your ability at the moment. Try to challenge yourself to go to the top you can. Remember we need full answers with good detail.

Level 3 (approx yr 6)     mainly from DA Literacy

1. How has Mary Perkins made motocross history?
2. What did Mary set a Guinness world record for?
3. How did Mary get started in FMX?
4. What are the are the two goals Mary would like to achieve?
5. What personal goal does Mary think is really important in this sport?
6. What is Mary’s main form of training?
7. Where has MAry recently spent two months touring with the Crusty Demons FMX Team?

Level 4 (approx year 7)     mainly from SS Literacy

1. What do you think “motocross extremists” are?
2. What difficulties has Mary faced in FMX racing?
3. a) What is “The Guinness book of Records”?

            b) Is it significant the Mary Perkins’ accomplishment has been published in this book? Give a reason to support your answer.

     4.   Do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? Give a reason or reasons to support your opinion.

1. Girls who participate in in FMX don’t have what it takes to do the sport well.
2. It is important for all  New Zealanders to know that we have a Kiwi woman participating at international level in an FMX team.
3. Doing FMX riding is a real job.
4. Young people who live in the country are the ones who are most likely to start taking part in BMX and FMX sports.
5. Anyone can be a top sportsperson if they have lots of money.

Level 4 / 5 (Year 8)   Mainly from IC literacy.            

Choose 3 activities from this section.

1. Do research to find out about other New Zealand Sportspeople whose achievements have been published in the “Guinness Book of Records”

Fictitious means not based on fact, made up, invented.

     2. Write your own  imaginary story about success in a sport. You may also write an interview with a fictitious sportsperson. If you did the research question above, then that information could also be useful here.

    3. Draw a cartoon strip or design a poster about a sportsperson. Base  it either on facts or own your own imagination.

     4. In a paragraph describe what you think a person would need to do to achieve national and international success in any sport.

     5. What would you like to achieve success in? How do you think you might go about achieving this goal? Describe at least three possible methods.

An autobiography is the story of a person’s life written by that person.

A dust cover is a removable paper cover for a book. It gives the book’s title, the name of the author, and often an illustration. It may give other key information about the book, such as its price and a description of what the book is about.

  6. Read an autobiography about a famous sportsperson. Write a book review about the book.Write about the successes the person has achieved; the things they had to work hardest to overcome, key sporting events they took part in, and the people who helped them make it to the top. You may like to design a dustcover for the book.

  7. If you could be any famous person in the world, either a sportsman or any other type of celebrity, who would you be? List five reasons why you would like to trade places with that person and what you would like to achieve if you were in their shoes.

  8. Name any other people who have performed stunts, and have received world-wide recognition for this. The stunts could happen on or off the sports field.

SELf EVALUATION

• How well did I do in relation to the learning intention for this comprehension activity?
• What do I need to learn to do better?
• How could I improve my result or answers?
• Who could help me to improve this?
• How can I help myself?

Remember to turn your work in.

Literacy Friday 29/07/2016

Here is what you need to complete for today's work

Finish off your digital dust jacket and complete your blurb about the story.
Write an explanation of your dust jacket. See the exemplar of what is required
Exemplar (You must explain why you designed the cover the way you did, link it to the story and ideas in the story...)


Scary Mary is a Reading Comprehension Activity for you to move on to once the Dust cover activity is completed and approved as completed by one of the Teachers. It is in Google Classroom "literacy" for Mrs Addenbrooke's Literacy group.    8DA Literacy.

Literacy

Thursday 28/07/2016

1. Silent reading for 20 minutes.
    Continue reading your chosen novel.
2. Continue working on your dust jacket. Instructions to make a digital dust jacket
3. If you have finished your dust jacket write your explanation about your dust jacket explaining why you used the pictures you did, colour and text styles. See the exemplar link. Exemplar of what you need to write.
4. Continue reading your novel.

Preparing for the Olympics

Wow, in another few days the Olympic Games in Rio will get underway. It will be an exciting time as we see how we compare to other individual athletes and teams in the World.

The following article is an update of our athletes arrival in Rio, the latest successful athletes to make the team, and the preparation underway as athletes prepare themselves for the competitions.

TASK 1
Your task is to read the campaign news and then select one of the events to write a brief report on to share.  Please remember to put the work into a google doc, name and share it with your whanau teacher, or your literacy teacher. We do not mind we just want to see our great motivated learners working independently on self chosen tasks.


http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eb053bcb7471510db5fff5aff&id=c630f6d1b3&e=63a70a880c
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=eb053bcb7471510db5fff5aff&id=669aab2aeb&e=63a70a880c

TASK 2
As the Olympics are held in Rio this year here are some facts about Brazil. Your task is to either prepare a world map and show where Brazil and Rio are, plus travel routes from NZ to get there: or produce a information flyer with key information to help a tourist travelling to Brazil.

file:///C:/Users/debadd/Downloads/Studyladder+-+Brazil-+Fact+Sheet.pdf

TASK 3
The Olympics have a long history. You can either display this as a timeline, inserting pictures, or do a small inquiry about one of the original items of the Olympics and how it has evolved to the sport we have today.

file:///C:/Users/debadd/Downloads/Studyladder+-+Olympics+-+History.pdf


TASK 4
Research questions. Please choose 4 of these seven questions to research the answer of and write a detailed full sentence to answer.

file:///C:/Users/debadd/Downloads/Olympics+-+Fun+Facts-+Research+Questions.pdf

TASK 5

BE a wordsmith, choose one of these photos, copy and paste the photo onto your answer sheet, then write as many describing words as you can to describe it.

file:///C:/Users/debadd/Downloads/Studyladder+-+Describing+words+-+Athletes.pdf

Tuesday 26/07/2016

Tuesday 26/07/2016

9.50-10.25 Kiwi Kids News- Choose and article and answer the recall and thinking questions. Up load to your blog.



11.00-12.30 Literacy.
Choose a novel from the class library corner. You will silent read for 20 minutes.
Create a dust jacket for your novel.
Use your design from yesterday to help you to create your dust jacket.
The standard for year 8 is the following
http://assessment.tki.org.nz/Assessment-tools-resources/The-NZ-Curriculum-Exemplars/English-exemplars/Visual-language/Static-images/Sweet-as-Sugar
Your picture on your dusk jacket needs to link to the book and the ideas within the text.

Use google drawing to help you.
See link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk-QA299RGc
Writing.
We are focusing on report writing. You need to think about a topic that you want to write a report about. It could be an animal, game, sport, a famous personality...for students wanting to go the extra mile think about bigger topics such as, What causes global warming? What are the issues around social networking?..

Watch these videos about report writing before you make your decision.

Welcome to term 3 2016.

Hi everyone.
I hope you have had a wonderful break and your back ready for another term of learning.
As you can see our daily planning will all be done on this blog.
We will still be using google classroom but it will be mainly used for notices and handing out assignment.
One positive part about using a blog is that your parents can track your what learning we are covering in class and help you when you access your learning at home. Also if you are sick and would like to continue your learning at home you can.
The other cool part about this is that we will be linking your own blogs to our year 8 web site. Your parents will be able to go onto this site a comment on your learning and help support you in your learning. Remember that learning here at Tarawera High school is a partnership between you, the teachers, and your parents and caregivers.

We will also be welcoming a new staff member to our team. Charyl McNicholas will be starting with us in week 2. She is filling in for Mrs Smith while she is on leave. We look forward to working with her and wish her all the best for the term.

Our year 8 website will be used to help support students in their learning.
It has a wide range of resources and student blogs will soon be uploaded to this sites.
The link is:  https://sites.google.com/a/tarawera.school.nz/year-8-team-website/

See you all next week.