Senior School

Choose one of the following tasks:

1. Write a paragraph explaining what happened on the Titanic. Include the date it happened and the reason why. Research online or ask your family information about the Titanic to help you write your paragraph.

2. Imagine that you have made it off the Titanic. Write a letter complaining to the company who owned the Titanic - The White Star Line complaining about the lack of safety on the ship.

3. Extension: The captain of the Titanic made the decision to prioritise women’s and children’s lives over men’s, as there were not enough lifeboats for everyone on the Titanic.

Research the Titanic and write a paragraph or two explaining what happened, the captain's decision, why he made this decision and whether or not you agree with it.

Disaster, Titanic, North Atlantic Ocean, Cruise Liner, Iceberg

Choose one of the following tasks:

(1): Using the sentence starter above, finish the story with a satisfying ending. Be sure to make clear for the reader where the family decided to go and what they did there. Write two paragraphs.

(2): Summer is coming up! Think of at least 3 places that you would like to go to when life returns to normal, and for each of them write why you want to go, what you would do there, and what you need to bring with you. Write one paragraph for each place you choose.

(3) Extension: Have a look online and choose 3 different places in New Zealand that would be great to go to for a summer holiday, and write advertisements for each destination. Make sure to use descriptive language that excites people and makes them want to go! Write one paragraph for each place you choose.

Holiday, trip, summer, fun, beach, family, relax, explore, nature, adventure

Please Please the Bees read by Rashida Jones

Plot: Life is sweet for Benedict. Every morning he wakes up to find jars of fresh honey on his back porch. He makes honey toast for breakfast, bakes honey cake in the afternoon, and drinks honey tea before bed. But one day, the jars on Benedict’s porch are empty. The bees in his backyard have gone on strike! They are tired of doing all the work around the hive. What can Benedict do to make the bees happy and bring sweetness back to his days?

Choose one of the following tasks:

(1): Rewrite the story in your own words, using as much descriptive language and interesting vocabulary as you can.

(2): This is a story about helping out those in your community. Explain why it is important to help people in your community, like family at home or your classmates at school.

(3): Extension: imagine that you are one of the bees in the story and your job is to explain to Benedict why all the bees are going on strike. Write a letter as one of the bees to Benedict to explain your reasons for going on strike, and what he can do to make things better.

Help, community, strike, daily routine, habit, depend, reliable, responsible, sharing.

Choose one of the following tasks:

1. Answer the following questions with as much detail as possible and develop your story by sequencing your ideas ( Beginning, Middle, End).

Questions for discussion:

• Where is it from?

• Why is it so small?

• Are there more like him?

• Where does he live?

• How will you look after it?

• Will you keep it a secret or tell someone?

• What is it called?

• Is it magic? What magic can it do?

2. You and your Dragon are planning an adventure of a lifetime. Write about the places you would like to fly to? Why would you go there? What are some of the interesting things you plan on doing?

3. Extension Work:

Imagine you are the Little Dragon from the Dragon World. How did you end up on Earth? What happened to your family? How are you planning to go back home? Write a letter to your parents in Dragon World explaining your situation and giving them direction on how they can rescue you.

War, Planet, Evil, Sorcerer, Destroy, Magical, Secret, Swish, Remote, return, homeland

Choose one of the following tasks:

1. Write a flashback to describe how the girl ended up in there.

2. While walking along the beach you come across this strange looking bottle. Upon looking closely, you notice a girl in the bottle struggling to come out. What was your reaction? What did you do? When you opened the cork, what happened? Did you have a conversation with the girl in the bottle? What was her story? Where was she from? How did she end up in the bottle?

3. Extension Work:

Some people write messages and put them in the bottle and throw them out into the ocean. Some of these have been recovered many, many years later in another part of the world. Do a research on messages in bottles and write some interesting facts you come across. For example, What is the longest distance travelled by the bottle with a message? Who wrote it? How long did it take? Etc

Strange, gorgeous, miniature, wondered, beyond, crazy, imagination, breath.