Activity #1
How does each version of the trailer make you feel?
What elements of the video contribute to that feeling?
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Excerpt from Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera. An excerpt is a piece from a whole book or a story.
Once you've read the text at least twice, we will then as a class with Mrs Dhaliwal highlight the words, sentences and other language choices that create mood and atmosphere in this text.
Activity #3
Excerpt from Potiki by Patricia Grace. An excerpt is a piece from a whole book or a story.
Once you've read the text at least twice, we will then as a class with Mrs Dhaliwal highlight the words, sentences and other language choices that create mood and atmosphere in this text.
Activity #4
The Coconut tree is often referred to as 'The Tree of Life' find out why it grew from an act of love and why you kiss an eel every time you drink a coconut.
Activity #7 Link to the setting task
Listen to this video by Sir Michael Cain (He is a famous actor and he played the butler in the movie Batman.
Listen to him reading a poem called- "If" by Rudyard Kipling (A very famous poet of his time. He wrote this poem in 1910).
If by Rudyard Kipling
We will write one together as a class. Really think about creating mood and atmosphere in your poem. Choose language features carefully so your poem creates a mood and atmosphere.