L.I. I am learning to include words from the text in my answers.

S.C.

• I can scan over a text to find information I need

• I can include excerpts (quotes) from the text in some of my answers

Task 1: 20 minutes of silent reading

Task 2: Watch the teacher video which explains our learning focus and how to be successful in today’s task.

Instructions for today’s task:

In your literacy workbook add to your vocabulary page.

Chapter 12 vocabulary: Fretful, Fleeting, Relinquish

Read Chapter 12 of The Giver.

You can choose to either listen to the audio book video (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hDnFsQ3omY ), or read Chapter 12 independently (link to online version of The Giver text: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxjbGFzc2FsYmVydGl8Z3g6NzE3OTEzYzE0YTgxYzUyZA - scroll down to page 91).

Task 3: Write the answer to the questions below in your literacy workbook. Upload a photo of your workbook answers to the Google Classroom Reading assignment for today.

Questions:

1. What was Jonas’ dream about?

2. List examples of the times when Jonas experienced ‘seeing beyond’.

3. What is Jonas beginning to recognise?

4. What do you think are the disadvantages of living in a world without colors? What are the advantages?

5. How does color help you today?

6. Explain how in our society it would be useful to ban colours.

LI: We are learning to establish tightening tension techniques by adding this into our information reports

SC: I will can be successful if I can implement dynamic dialogue techniques into my information report

Informative Writing – Dynamic Dialogue

Activity 1:

Just like last week with our tightening tension, this week you will be putting some dynamic dialogue into your chosen information reports you have been working on for the past several weeks.

This may seem a little difficult at first with your chosen topic, but don’t forget our past activities and the different ways we can include dialogue.

Remembering our techniques of why we include dialogue:

Move the action along (e.g. in a news report or factual recount)

Bring in information or facts (e.g. from an expert or eyewitness)

Provide different points of view on the topic (e.g. people’s reactions to a contentious issue)

Alter the voice, pace or tone of the text.

To help you with your dialogue, you can conduct some research and find quotes related to your topic! (If you can’t find any, you’re more than welcome to just make some up)

Here is an example of mine continuing from last week:

… serving different purposes around the world. Bark! Bark! Bark! My dog rusty has just seen a rabbit as he quickly turns left to chase, but wait, now there is a duck to his right! Ok, now I can see how they may be a little annoying, whoops! A well-trained dog can be one of the most loving and enjoyable companions you ever have the pleasure of experiencing. A daily routine of love, care and a training routine can make this happen. Dogs even help and assist people going through tough times. “Happiness is a warm puppy,” said Charles M. Shultz, and I couldn’t agree more!

Keeping your dog well fed is another way to make them healthy and happy. “Dogs should be consuming the six basic nutrients which are protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and water,” said Professor Canine (I made that up). While providing your dog with these essential foods, you must keep your dog active at the same time. We don’t want little Rex turning into big Rex! A minimum of 30 minutes of exercise per day is necessary. If this is not possible then maybe a dog isn’t the thing for you.

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 10 all of your spelling words again.

Activity Two

Silly sentences: Write all of your spelling words into as few (meaningful but perhaps a bit silly) sentences as you can. Can you get all your words into one sentence?