After sharing our collective knowledge of ANZAC Day, and exploring different symbols of ANZAC through a game, students in Room 1 used the Paint program on the computers to create these images.
Monthly Archives: April 2015
ANZAC Resources Year 7s
Visual and auditory information about Gallipoli
http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/gallipoli/gallipoli2.htm
Images
http://www.iwm.org.uk/learning/resources/the-gallipoli-campaign
http://www.awmlondon.gov.au/battles/gallipoli
https://www.awm.gov.au/
Free online photo editor: https://pixlr.com/
Dictionary Meanings:
Purple prose
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Year 5 – Analysing Multimodal Texts
Year 3 and 4 – ANZAC Unit
http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2014/04/16/3986710.htm
Watch these two clips and with a partner answer the questions provided.
Share responses.
What are the most important aspects of these stories?
What can we learn about how to tell a good story from the perspective of someone who experienced WW1?
What recommendations would you make to an author about to start writing a WW1 story?
The Beach They Called Gallipoli – Year 7 Text Figurative Language Quiz
Room 6 – Special Memories – Personal Histories
Thanks to Tilda, Siena, Sam and Sucre for being organised with their special object to share today. These students were able to tell us about a special event or person that their object reminded them of. We heard some very interesting points about some special photos, and treasured stuffed toys.
Year 6 Global Project: Update
The Flat Connections ‘A Week in the Life’ Project has provided some great opportunities so far. The ‘Handshake’ phase has enabled students to introduce themselves and connect with students from Nepal, Thailand, the United States, Bulgaria and New Zealand. Skyping with the students from The American Pacific International School has been a highlight so far. Students were able to pose questions of each other and were very interested in the evident differences and similarities. Meals, school times, environmental conditions and school year were some of the topics of conversation.
Students have also enjoyed viewing the photos and videos shared on the Wiki by each of the schools.
Students have recently been introduced to their small team topics, and have begun to develop an understanding of who they will be working with and what they individually and collectively know about their topic already. Posing questions which will guide their inquiry has also been a focus.
Year 6 Research Topics – Posing Questions
Use the Question Matrix to pose questions related to the topics.
Think of how the issues affect both locally and globally. What questions would be good to use in a survey on your topic?
Year 7 – The Beach They Called Gallipoli
Last week whilst the teacher read the three informative paragraphs about the Gallipoli campaign out loud, students took notes.
What image did you (the reader) get about the Gallipoli campaign from this text?
Now read ‘The Beach They Called Gallipoli’ by Jackie French. This text covers the same content as the 3 paragraphs from the Australian War Memorial website. Compare and contrast the two texts.