Week 6 Home Learning Task

Year 9 Reading Homework

Experts tell us that to get better at reading we need to practise reading. So part of your home learning this term is to read a  book and write about it.

Steps 2 Success:

1.    Choose a book (fiction or non-fiction, but not a magazine).

2.   Read it.

3.   Choose any 2 tasks.

4.   Complete them and hand it in by the deadline.

Tasks:

MEMORABLE MOMENTS Which parts of this book stick most clearly in your mind? Why?	TITLES: Why did the author choose the title of the book?	BEGINNINGS: How does the book open? it engages your interest ­ if it grabs you instantly, how does it do that?
CHARACTERS Is there one character that is similar to you? In what way? How was this shown?	SIMILARITIES Have you ever had a similar experience as someone in the book?	CONFLICT How would you resolve the conflict (problem) in the book?
WHAT ABOUT YOU? What would you do differently than the main character?	THE ACTION If you could jump in at any point of this story, where would it be?	LESSONS/THEMES What is the lesson you learned from this book?
THEMES/IDEAS Why did the author write this book?	WHAT ABOUT YOU? Would the story have been different if you were the main character?	LESSONS/THEMES What did the main character learn?
CHARACTERS Write a letter form one character to another.	COVERS Design a new cover for the book and explain your design.	PREDICTIONS Predict where the characters will be in the future.
PLOT Make a story quilt.	WRITE YOUR OWN! Write a sequel to the book.	SETTING Make a map of significant story locations.

Deadlines: Book 1 = Week 8

How to follow this Blog

You need to follow this blog.
This means that you only need to log in to blogger and from your dashboard you can access here and your own blog. Some of you have already done this :)


To follow a blog...
Go to your 'dashboard' - the page it takes you to when you log in to blogger.
Down near the bottom of the page it will show you the blogs you follow, or your reading list. There will be an 'add' button. Click this and type in acemisstupaea.blogspot.co.nz in the box that pops up. You need to follow the blog publicly so I know you have done this.

All About Me!!!!!

Last book read: The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Favourite website: bakingmakesthingsbetter.com
Pets: None
Hobbies: Baking, Craft, Swimming
Favourite colour: Yellow
Last movie you saw: Crazy, Stupid, Love
Favourite singer: at the moment it is Adele
Favourite subject: English :)

Some of you might want to try a post before we get into doing the homework assignments to familiarise yourself with using blogger.
So, try making a new post, you can copy and paste the info above and change it to suit you. See if you can change the text colour for you favourite colour and try adding in some links or a picture!

Remember, once you have set your blog up post a comment on the Welcome Post with a link to it. You can see a list of links to everyone else's blogs on the 9AUand 9AH Blogs page.

Introduction

Kia Ora, Kia Orana, Talofa, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Namaste


Welcome to our English class blog.  Each week I will put up a new post containing a writing topic or homework assignment for the week.  You will have one week to complete it.  New assignments will be online here each Tuesday.

By Tuesday 28 February you need to have set up a blog and sent me the link - do this by commenting on this post.  Once you have sent me the link, I will put it on this page so that you can access each others blogs.  Try following one another's blogs and write comments on each others posts that will be made in the following weeks.
You also need to put a picture on your profile.

Other programmes / websites you might want to have a look at which will help enhance your blog experience (reading, writing and editing) are:
-Windows Live Writer - you can search for this, it is a free downloadable programme which is easier to sort out the layout of your page when you are posting.
-Picasa - this is also a free downloadable programme - it makes it really easy to edit photos.
-Bloglovin' - this is an internet site where you can manage the blogs you follow - you can mark posts as read,  like posts and see how popular blogs are against all the other blogs that members of the site follow.


Miss Tupaea