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Term 2
Term 2
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
See Schedule for the week's required Reading and Activities.
See Schedule for the week's required Reading and Activities.
Make Sure you open and Read the day's literacy slide, following lesson discussion and before beginning the day's Create task.
Links in Schedule link directly to task description and evidence slide for work submission.
This term you will be building your own website over the final four weeks of the term, presenting all you have learned around Theme, Symbols, Genre, and Character within the Novel Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Each of these final four weeks we will focus on a different section of the website. You will need to ensure you keep up to date on the Weekly Schedule Tasks to complete your website on time.
A sample site on a different Science Fiction Story: Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back is linked above. A sample page for each part of the website will be updated each week to reflect what you should be up to.
Themes in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Themes in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Improbability, Impossibility, and Absurdity
Improbability, Impossibility, and Absurdity
Knowledge and Exploration
Knowledge and Exploration
Language and Communication
Language and Communication
Meaning (and meaninglessness)
Meaning (and meaninglessness)
Power
Power
Distance Learning
Distance Learning
Insert Your Schedule in the Adjacent Slide
Insert Your Schedule in the Adjacent Slide
Poetry Work/Research
Poetry Work/Research
Make a Copy and Check in here first. Use this alongside the poetry work in your blog to supplement your poetry understanding.
Poetry Blog Assignment
Poetry Blog Assignment
Make a copy and Check here for details on what must be completed on your blog for your poetry work.
Term 1
Term 1
What a Waste: Web Hunt
What a Waste: Web Hunt
Make a Copy of the slide to the left, using this link. Read the article via the link at the beginning and answer the questions appropriately. Ensure you give it critical thought and consider how it may effect your research question/focus. ENSURE YOU MOVE YOUR COPY OF THE SLIDE IN TO YOUR LITERACY FOLDER.
What a Waste: Food Facts Reading
What a Waste: Food Facts Reading
Make a Copy of the slide to the left, using this link. Read the article via the link at the beginning and answer the questions appropriately. Ensure you give it critical thought and consider how it may effect your research question/focus. ENSURE YOU MOVE YOUR COPY OF THE SLIDE IN TO YOUR LITERACY FOLDER.
Becoming a Cyborg
Becoming a Cyborg
Safer Roads
Safer Roads
Future Literature
Future Literature
Citation
Citation
Author Last Name, Initials (Year Article was Published), Article Title, Retrieved from: Article URL
Eg.
Kasparov, G. (2016), As Robots Replace old Jobs, New Jobs should be Invented. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/12/05/is-artificial-intelligence-taking-over-our-lives/as-robots-replace-old-jobs-new-jobs-should-be-invented
Frankenstein Vocab
Frankenstein Vocab
Conjectured - Ch.13 (Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Recommencing -Ch.13(Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Countenance - Ch.13 (Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Articulate - Ch.13 (Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Endeavouring - Ch.13 (Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Occupations - Ch.13(Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Cadence - Ch.13(Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Enraptured - Ch.13(Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Ceased - Ch.13(Vol 2, Ch. 5)
Treasure Island Vocab
Treasure Island Vocab
Accoutrement- Ch.15
Adversary - Ch.15
Apparition - Ch.15
Chuck-Farthen (Chuck-Farthing) - Ch.15
Incongruous - Ch.15
Livery - Ch.15
Nondescript - Ch.15
Pious - Ch.15
Resolute - Ch.15
Bestowed - Ch.16
Dysentery - Ch.16
Palisade - Ch.16
Stockade - Ch.16
BITSP Vocab
BITSP Vocab
Anatomy - Ch.15-17
Grimaced - Ch.15-17
Inconsolable - Ch.15-17
Persisted - Ch.15-17
Misshapen - Ch.15-17
Dwindling - Ch.15-17
Commitment - Ch.15-17
Indirect - Ch.15-17
Exasperated - Ch.15-17
Revealed - Ch.15-17
Reading - Themes in Narratives
Reading - Themes in Narratives
Make a copy of the Themes and Narratives Slide, and use it to follow along with the class discussion. You should fill in answers to any questions that come up.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D9Rtp8ibGke3oF4915wx6eALsbzMyv_XRRsIqU24vAk/edit?usp=sharing
Complete the Theme exercise at the end of the slide in a new Blank Google Document in your Literacy Folder, OR in your Literacy Workbook. Post your Analysis to your blog.
Descriptive Writing - Personification
Descriptive Writing - Personification
Read through the examples of personification in the slide to the left. Complete the writing exercise independently, share/edit your personification with a partner, and then post to your blog with a short description.
Once complete, go back to your narrative writing and look for opportunity to use personification to give personality to your setting.
Descriptive Writing - Simile and Metaphor
Descriptive Writing - Simile and Metaphor
Make a copy of the Simile and Metaphor Slide and fill in the Questions in order.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YfXTRBs0QocKLcR7KQFJ0Zxe5FZVb0OT49JijWF21ek/edit?usp=sharing
Complete the writing exercise at the end of the slide in a blank google doc in your literacy folder. Once it is complete, share your slide and story with a partner, and mark it on your partner's slide.
Post your slide and story on your blog for the week.
Dialogue Writing Tips
Dialogue Writing Tips
Go back over the notes in this slide on how to improve our dialogue in writing.
Before moving on to your own narrative, complete the exercise at the end, writing an exchange between the two characters moving to another locale. Post both parts of the exercise to your blog.
Character Brainstorming
Character Brainstorming
Here is a list of our co-constructed characteristics to help describe our rich, 3-dimensional characters for our narratives. Please use it to jump start some thinking around characteristics for your character.
Feel free to use any words on the slide, though try to add adjectives of your own (use a Thesaurus to help) to some of the characteristics. Focus on building an interesting character before finding a problem to match them.
Story Brainstorming
Story Brainstorming
Using either Google Draw, MindMup, or a Brainstorming Tool of your choice, Brainstorm details for 3 of your essential Story Elements: Character, Setting, and Problem/Events
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