Thursday, February 9, 2017

Exploring Connections To Our Places....

 Friday 3 March

Today we are going to begin to  focus our learning around the idea or theme of making a connection to your own place and our community.

We will base our reading, writing and viewing tasks around this theme.

Today we are going to read an account of a young man's experience growing up in New Zealand is an isolated situation.
'From Bullet Holes to Pink Batts' From Journal of Secondary Students' Writing 2005.

We are going to share ideas about this text in this Padlet

Padlet

Free Writing task:
Write something about your place, think why you like it, describe it, and describe how you feel  yourself  when you are there.

Class brainstorm. What are the places we enjoy in our local place.

Viewing Task

New Zealand BMX Tour Stops At Killer Concrete Bowl

The Rat Pack