on Learning Intention
Success Criteria
Task
Watch this video and then finish your poem. If you have finished your poem, please highlight the assonance, metaphor, simile, alliteration and internal rhyme.
on ‘You greasers have a different set of values.’ p.46
Who said it and to whom?
Cherry said it to Ponyboy
What is the context?
Ponyboy asks Cherry if the main difference between the socs and the greasers is money and she explain that it is more about the different rules they live by.
Rewrite the quote in your own words.
Socs and greasers live by different rules.
What does this quote show you about the difference between the two groups?
This quotes shows each social group has unwritten rules they live by and how their differences are a shaped by the different codes they live by.
‘It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunsets.’ p.50
Who said it and to whom?
Ponyboy said it to the reader.
What is the context?
Ponyboy is reflecting on his conversation with Cherry and how she was quite different to the stereoype of a soc.
Rewrite the quote in your own words
Socs and greasers live on the same planet and experience the same sunset, which makes them more similar to greasers than Ponyboy imagined.
What does the quote show you about Ponyboy’s changing belieffe about the Socs?
This quote shows that speaking to someone that seems different often reveals similarities that stereotypes often hide.
on English basics
Sentence Diagramming
There are 8 parts of speech in English: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns and interjections. So far, we have diagrammed: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions.
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on Warm Up
How would you improve the Edward Scissorhand session timetable for next year?
Learning Objective
on Warm Up
Diagram this sentence: Ginny happily cooked in the kitchen of her new house.
Learning Objectives
Revision: Answer for Q4
‘We are going to the beach today,’ said Mum.
‘That’s great,’ said Peter.
‘It’s such a hot day,’ said Annis. ‘I am sure I will get sun burned.’
‘You must all go and get your bathers, hats and towels,’ said Mum. ‘I will get the sunscreen and the shade tent.’
‘I am going to bring my new snorkel.’ said Peter.
‘Well, I think I will just bring a good book,’ said Annis.
English Test
Sentence Diagramming
Diagram the following sentences. Skip any you have done already.
Term 2
Assessment
on Warm Up
With Parent Teacher Interviews coming up, write a short paragraph that outlines: what you have learned in English this term; how well you have used your class time, and what you need to improve.
Learning Objectives
Sentence Diagramming: Adjectives, Adverbs & Prepositional Phrases
on Warm up
If you could have one super power, what would it be and why? Write a paragraph.
Learning Objective
on Warm Up
What is the rising action of a narrative and why is it so important in the relation to the climax of a story? Write a pargaph to explain your thinking. Use the notes you took last lesson to help with this.
Learning Objective
on Warm Up
Diagram the following sentences:
Learning Objectives
Task
View The Black Hole and see if you can identify the four part narrative structure.
on Warm Up
A prepositional phrase is phrase that starts with a preposition and ends with noun. Prepositional phrases can act as adjectives or adverbs. When they act as adverbs, they modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. In this exercise, we’ll only diagram prepositional phrases that modify verbs.
Example: The rabbit hopped through the pretty garden.
Tasks