Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony by Stephanie Owen Reeder

Read/ Listen to the next chapter before next week’s lesson. 🙂

Chapter 2: A Grand Plan Revealed

Lennie The Legend from DanLaw on Vimeo.

Bread and Dripping

http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/bread-and-dripping/clip1/

What was life like during the Depression years?

http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/great-depression

1928
http://myplace.edu.au/teaching_activities/1928/episode_landing_9.html

1938
http://myplace.edu.au/teaching_activities/1938/episode_landing_8.html

Lennie in the Parade
http://aso.gov.au/titles/home-movies/farey-sydney-harbour-bridge/clip1/

 

Questions:

Here Hidden Head
Explicitly in the text

Read the clues

Read between the lines

Gather information from various parts of the text

Inferential

Opinion based on evidence

Evaluative based on details in the text

What is Lennie’s Dad’s name?

 

 

 

How many places will Lennie travel through to get to Sydney? What happened to Lennie’s father in the war?
What is the Great Depression?  Is the Great Depression different from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)?  Where did Lennie get the courage and motivation to take on such a tough journey?
   What started the depression?  Why didn’t Lennie’s Dad tell him what happened to him?
Does the Gwynther family name have any significance? How did he become a legend so quickly? How was he discovered? Why was the reporter so curious about Lennie’s journey?
How long did King George reign? Why didn’t Lennie want to take part in the parade? Why was it such a big deal who would be the capital of Australia?
Who was the first to officially walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge? Why did people decide to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge?
On what Aboriginal land was the bridge built? Why was the ceremony late?
Who was the Governor General at the opening ceremony? Who did Lennie travel with?
What is a quagmire? Are Lennie’s family worried about him?
Why didn’t Lennie go to Western Australia? Why did Lennie think important people wouldn’t want to wave at him when he was famous?
What is a furphy? How did Lennie achieve his plan?
What is the engineering marvel? Why does Lennie want to go to Sydney Harbour Bridge?
What is a cacophony? Did Lennie get an education?
Who was Gough Whitlam? Does Lennie realise that he was becoming slowly famous? Explain
Where are they in Australia?
What year was it?
Why did Lennie like The Endeavour float the best?
What is ploughing?
How old is Lennie?
What is a bush ranger?
Who was Lennie?

 

Exploring the Shortlisted Books in preparation for Book Week 2016

Over the next 5 weeks, during RBL/ICT lessons the Year 4 to 7 students will be exploring the non-fiction texts that have been shortlisted by the Childrens Book Council of Australia. Which one of these do you think deserves to win? Why?

We will be exploring the topics presented by these books, and thinking about how the authors have used the topic and language structures and features to good effect. What makes these worthy of making the shortlist?
Non fiction CBCATo begin, what do we already know:

Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect – Room 9

What do I think I know Confirmed  √ Misconception New Information Wonderings
 I think they will save the stick insect
They will probably try to find some more because they thought they were extinct
The text will be about the recovery of the stick insect
Might all be extinct then they find another egg and it breeds
 We think that maybe there is more of them. Where do they come from? Travel to look for them, find more
 Maybe they were endangered, being taken care of in an enclosure, got away, had to try to look for them
They started to be extinct and they found one
 Some people think they are all extinct then someone finds some
They are all extinct but some people don’t agree and then go and search and they find them. Find them on the edge of extinction, but manage to save them
We think that they are on the verge of extinction, try to find some more of the species
Someone finds a whole group of them somewhere but no one believes them
Science non-fiction book about the stick insect. They finds one, copy the DNA and then breed more

 

Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect – Room 11

What do I think I know Confirmed  √ Misconception New Information Wonderings
 We think it would be sad if this species of insect becomes extinct
 Cool that a guy discovered a new species on the island
 The phasmids were extinct and then found and bred more
 A man will discover a new bug
Everyone who tried to save the bug would have been really happy
Story about saving a stick insect. Happy to find species
Extinct but then a man found on a crevasse in a rock
Grateful that they found it, now we can learn more. Never give up
Interesting that everyone thought it was extinct. Need to learn more to keep it alive
Book about how to save insects

Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect – Room 12

What do I think I know Confirmed  √ Misconception New Information Wonderings
 Phasmid was extinct but not extinct
 A lot of research before they could breed more.
How they kept them alive
 People that saved them must have really cared about them
 How it got extinct and how they found it
Publishers are scientists
Persistence and hope
Colours which identify it – from other animals
Send someone to go find the phasmids, research lab to learn more about them
Care a lot about them, heard about extinction, searched island. Starts a breeding program
Might try and get other people involved
Book to create awareness of extinction and other animals that might have same problem
Work together as a team
May have been preyed on by predators – birds, animals –maybe snakes  √ birds
Some people wouldn’t care just to become famous

Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony – Room 13

Lennie goes to Sydney from Melbourne
What do I think I know Confirmed  √ Misconception New Information Wonderings
 He didn’t flee Melbourne
 Lennie is really brave because he was on a pony
 Probably had to go through a tough time – robber
 Crazy to travel all that way. Was the pony Ok – was it fed?
Lennie meets the Prime Minister. Who was the Prime Minister at the time? Gough Whitlam?
31 years after Federation. Lennie was optimistic. During the Great Depression. Pony – Ginger Mick
Not very well thought out blurb, it shouldn’t tell the outcome
Maybe the family was struggling
I wonder how old the pony is and what happens to it afterwards

 

We Are the Rebels: The Women and Men who made Eureka – Room 14

What do I think I know Confirmed  √ Misconception New Information Wonderings
 Maybe some people invaded their town, and there was a big fight
Maybe they were having a war and people were told not to be involved – tried to fight back and that’s why they were called the rebels
There is the gold rush, Eureka Flag – looks very old – white cross and dark blue background with stars at the end and the middle
Gold rush – people across the world went to the gold rush, so they could mine gold and get rich
 Maybe the background of the cover is the flag
Eureka Stockade – mining area – attracted lots of people, Cornish people
 Eureka – I found it!
Seen a mining film – gigantic field – Burra
Eureka – Sky Deck building – tallest building in Southern hemisphere – named after Eureka Stockade
Mining place
Eureka Stockade in Australia somewhere
Lots of money involved
Front cover – flag – burn – culture or belief
Eureka flag – stars, red, blue
Up and down story – good parts and not so good parts

 

The White Mouse: The Story of Nancy Wake – Room 15

What do I think I know Confirmed  √ Misconception New Information Wonderings
 She is in the French Resistance – WW2 (against the force – Hitler)
 Australian
 She is very secretive and brave – The White Mouse
 She’s wanted – Dead or Alive
 Most decorated Australian woman
 She is rebellious for a good cause – helping refugees
 – works for the army – Australian army
 10 medals
 – parachuted behind enemy lines – sneaky, using a tactic to get around the opposition
Had to sacrifice and cause destruction

The White Mouse: The Story of Nancy Wake – Room 16

What do I think I know Confirmed  √ Misconception New Information Wonderings
 A war, a woman’s experiences during WW11 and how she achieved the medals
 She was a spy and her code name was The White Mouse  because she could get passed the enemy’s defences
 Women have equal abilities as men, as she can do things that men can’t
 Must have had a lot of courage
 Wonder why it’s called The White Mouse
 Think she’s a spy and the other enemies call her The White Mouse
 Called The White Mouse because of how she dresses
 Nurse, Reporter, Rebel

Pyramid Blooms

Blooms #1 Blooms#2

Phasmids – Year 4/5

Phasmids q7,8,9

Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony – Year 6

Lennie the legend q 7,8,9

We are the Rebels: Women and Men of Eureka – Year 6

 

The Rebels q 7,8,9

 

The White Mouse: The Story of Nancy Wake – Year 7

Nancy Wake2

 

 

Wiederhold Question Matrix

 

SOLO BookWeek

Year 1 – Room 6 – Wombats – Labelled Diagram and Oral Descriptions

During this unit of work students have been exploring how to use Paint, a drawing program whilst also researching facts about wombats and their features. Developing students’ language skills to describe has also been a key focus of these lessons. Here is a movie of a PowerPoint contributed to by each student, which includes a labelled diagram and an oral recording.

WombatsRoom6