L.I. I am learning to describe the importance of the Indigenous Round in AFL, and recognise the contributions of Indigenous Australians to the sport.

S.C.

• I can locate specific information needed in the Google Slide resource provided

• I can be accurate in my answers and record full-sentence responses

The AFL’s annual round recognising and celebrating indigenous players and culture began last Friday, August 21. This year it is named in honour of Sir Doug Nicholls. Sir Doug, who epitomised the spirit of reconciliation, played 54 games for Fitzroy and was a brilliant all-round athlete. The first Aboriginal person to be knighted, he also served as Governor of South Australia and was devoted to the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Today’s lesson is an opportunity to learn about and celebrate the many Indigenous footballers of the AFL.

Task 1: 20 minutes of silent reading

Task 2: Watch the teacher video for more detailed instructions.

Instructions:

Open the Google Slide presentation, which is in our Grade 6 Google Classroom. On the slides there are some questions to answer, links to videos to watch, and a range of tasks to choose between. You need to record your answers and post photos of all the activities you complete today. Below is a summary of the activities;

Question 1: What is the game of ‘marngrook’?

Question 2: What do you know about the AFL Indigenous round?

Choose THREE of the following options:

• Option 1: Learn about Michael Long - Essendon FC

• Option 2: Describe some of Sir Doug Nicholls’ lifetime achievements

• Option 3: Choose an Indigenous AFL footballer and write a short paragraph about their contribution to the sport

• Option 4: Design your own guernsey for your favourite team.

Question 3: How can you take part in the virtual ‘Long Walk’?

At the end of the slide presentation, there is an extension option also - creating a poster for ‘The Long Walk’.

LI: We are learning to establish show don’t tell techniques by into our information reports

SC: I will can be successful if I include show don’t tell techniques into my examples

Informative Writing – Show Don’t Tell

Today we will be focusing on our Seven Steps process with your information reports, and in particular, how we can Show Don’t Tell. Below are THREE very useful techniques that we can include into our information reports.

Techniques:

Walk a mile in their shoes

Show the events from the perspective of a person the reader cares about to build empathy and engage their emotions. Dialogue is often used to achieve this.

Paint a word picture

Paint a vivid picture of the scene by using all of the senses to show the reader what you can see, hear, touch, taste, smell and feel (emotions).

One is powerful

Readers relate far more deeply to a single example than to many. Show one person or example that provides compelling evidence of the impact of the topic. Readers then expand this to many in their own minds.

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 list 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.

Spelling grid sheet: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zXQVRRmdcC2QuzCMxc9R5M2hlvH6Fc9t

Continue with you planned activities to complete your project