Reading Choices Menu:

This week you have 12 activities to select from. You need to complete 5 activities by Friday. Aim for at least one activity per day, and upload your videos or photos/screenshots to the Reading assignments throughout the week. Remember to make time to enjoy 20 minutes of silent reading each day too.

Many of the activities relate to The Giver, but you can substitute another book that you have read recently if you prefer.

The teacher videos will give more detailed instructions and examples for each of the activities. Monday’s video will go over activities 1-3, Tuesday’s video activities 4-7, and Wednesday’s video activities 8-12. You can do any activity on any day, and watch or rewatch either of these three teacher videos on any day also.

Activity 1: Create a Kahoot

Create a Kahoot with 5 questions from The Giver. For example, ‘What was the colour that Jonas started to see first?’ Here is a video explaining how to create a Kahoot game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPH4GEo600

Activity 2: Vocabulary Slideshow

Create a Vocabulary slideshow/video using 5 words we explored in The Giver.

For each word include:

• Word, and part of speech (e.g. adjective, noun, etc.)

• Definition

• Images or video clips that relate to that word

• A short sentence using the word

Here is an example of what yours might look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10n6SQn5WbM&feature=youtu.be

You might want to use your Haiku Deck app. Here is a guide to getting started with this app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXagwmJ4Fqs

Here is a link to an online dictionary: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

Activity 3: Memory transfer

For this task you are going to choose a memory to share and record it so it can be “transferred” to others.

• Choose a personal memory that you associate with a particular emotion

• Take a photo or create a video, photo still, or a drawing of that moment. For example you could record a video showing a moment of joy playing with a pet outside in the sunshine. You might recruit some actors, use props and editing effects to create the emotional impact you need.

• Add a short written description of the memory somewhere in your artwork/film.

Activity 4: 90 seconds Challenge

Create a 90-second video adaptation of The Giver. Rather than try and cram every detail of the story into a minute-and-a-half, explore ways to add your own creative flair to the narrative.

You could even submit it to the Newbery Film Festival. For more information about the festival: http://jameskennedy.com/90-second-newbery/

Example 90 second film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=KmqNb7QANoo&feature=emb_logo

Activity 5: Create a new book cover for The Giver:

Here are some example covers of The Giver: https://comparativecoverart.tumblr.com/post/110098546238/the-giver-lois-lowry

You might want to use some of the symbols from the book in your design, such as: an apple, river, eyes, forest, rain, snowflake, sun, mountains or hills, road, colours, or bird.

Activity 6: The Giver Travel Brochure

Use your ipad and your knowledge of persuasive language to design a travel brochure for the Community. Consider aspects of Community life that might inspire tourists to visit, or families to relocate there. For example, they might include information on the local economy, government, schools, climate, transport and job opportunities.

Activity 7: Create a video book report or book trailer

You could use an app like Shadow Puppet Edu, Animoto, or iMovie. Here is an example one that uses iMovie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d6hDWYOhpM

Activity 8: The Giver Community Newspaper

Create the front page of a newspaper for the Community, following a traditional front page layout. What sort of news might make the headlines? Consider the implications of “news” in a culture of Sameness. You may be able to use one of these website on this link to put together your newspaper: https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/05/5-web-tools-to-create-awesome-digital.html

Activity 9: Make your own Audiobook

Similar to the youtube video readings of The Giver, in this task you are going to record yourself reading. Find a page of text from The Giver, or another book that you have read recently, and take a photo of it. Add a voiceover recording of yourself reading with expression for 2 minutes. You might want to use an app like Doceri, Explain Everything or Shadow Puppet Edu.

Activity 10: What is a podcast?

Podcasts are very popular at the moment. It would be great to have students creating and sharing their own podcasts in the future. Perhaps they could go on the BPS website! But first, we need to understand what a podcast is. This link will take you to a list of websites with some different types of podcasts: https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/19-great-learning-podcasts-for-the-classroom

Select a few to look through and try out, and then answer 3 of these questions:

1. Which of the podcast sites did you like?

2. What even IS a podcast?

3. What can podcasts be about?

4. Why would you listen to a podcast?

5. How does it change the way you tell a story when you only have your voice?

6. How does it change the way you listen when you can’t see someone?

7. What types of sounds do podcasts include?

8. What are some ways that podcasts tend to be structured?

Activity 11: Song lyrics and figurative language

Look up the lyrics to a favourite song. Choose one that has examples of figurative language in it. Copy and paste the lyrics onto an app, then highlight a few lines of text that are examples of figurative language. Next decorate the page with images relating to the figurative language you found. You could instead create a small poster and copy a few lines from the song, and then hand draw the images.

Here is a figurative language reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK6jiDqQiLs

Activity 12: BTN... but different

Watch the latest episode of BTN. Write a summary of your favourite story. Write 5 questions you could ask someone else about this story.

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/

LI: We are learning to spell our selected words consistently

SC: I can write my words carefully

I can set out my work neatly in my exercise book

Activity One

Write out all 10 of your spelling words again.

Activity Two

You will need to write all your spelling words in the spelling gird attached.

You will need to write the word, number how many sounds in the word, split the word into its graphs, digraphs or trigraphs, then finally analyse the tricky part.

Here is the spelling grid: https://drive.google.com/file/d/190K3dkrGwpsuXyIuaWeoIQ52T_FB5gMN/view?usp=sharing