English and Geography focused Tasks
a_is_for_australia.pdf | |
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Personal Connections
Firing:
Do you recognise any of these places?
Prepare:
WALT: Understand and Engage with the text, 'A is for Australia'
WILF: Share your personal experiences that relate to the text both verbally and in written form.
Social: Listen Actively
WILF: Share your personal experiences that relate to the text both verbally and in written form.
Social: Listen Actively
Engaging:
Read the text, looking for locations that you have visited, heard about or been somewhere similar.
Stretch:
Strengthen:
Share your experience in written form. How can you use descriptive and emotive language to enhance your writing?
Techniques
Firing:
What is the target audience of these texts? How do you know?
Prepare:
WALT: Understand how the choices and techniques of the author, effects the audience and purpose of the text.
WILT: You compare and contrast two text types and identify the techniques the author has chosen.
Social: We celebrate successes and differences.
WILT: You compare and contrast two text types and identify the techniques the author has chosen.
Social: We celebrate successes and differences.
Engaging:
- Text structure
- illustrations
- headings
- bolded print
- layout
- text to picture relationship
- informal or informal
- informative, persuasive or entertaining
- illustrations
- headings
- bolded print
- layout
- text to picture relationship
- informal or informal
- informative, persuasive or entertaining
Stretch:
Compare and contrast (how are they similar, how are they different?) the following two texts:
a_is_for_australia_compare_contrast.docx | |
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Strengthen:
Share your findings
Language and Structure
Firing:
Describe, using your senses, what it would be like in Fremantle.
Prepare:
WALT: Understand how texts, of the same topic, can change their language according to purpose and context.
WILF: You select specific language to create a detailed entertaining and imaginative text.
Social: We have a go
WILF: You select specific language to create a detailed entertaining and imaginative text.
Social: We have a go
Engaging:
What language has the author used in this text extract?
Rottnest Basin by Kevin Dunn
Framed in this picture of reef-table and rock-pool how mermaid-like my daughter looks curled in the sun on the warm shell-sand above the swimmers'-feet-smoothed brownish-gold rocks, the sand strewn with, if you look closely, pink spiral shells a little bigger than the largest sand grains, with pearl-lined haliotis, battlemented ear-shells the size of fingernails, red chitons, sea-fans tiny stippled trumpets, a golden beach, the green water at her feet, and the reefs standing gold-brown in the blue sea beyond all with a bright border, primary colours sparkling of sunlit wavelets in the morning breeze Underwater, at the cascading edge of the weed-garlanded reef's bubble canopy pale fish hang like glass mobiles for the diver in the green avenues. Landward, up the slope in the rafters of the shelter-shed martins build nests with a backdrop of palm-trees and all the blues and greens of reef and sea, the sweep of the long and wonderful beaches, the high green and white of the sheltering headland, with a salt and gum-leaf scent on the breeze The avenues of wonder, always to be found here like the coronets of blue periwinkle-cities in the splash-zone, like the bedizened, armoured chitons in the rocks above the gardened reef-flats. |
Stretch:
Create your own text, focused on descriptive and emotive language about Rottnest Island.
Strengthen:
Is your text informative, entertaining or persuasive? How?
How are your sentences different to 'A is for Australia'?
How are your sentences different to 'A is for Australia'?
Mapping
What do you recognise on this map?
What do you think is natural, been there since the Dreamtime?
What do you think is man-made, built by people?
What do you think is man-made, built by people?
australian_landmarks_task.docx | |
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Task Part 1:
Using resources, list the following labels on an Australian Map:
- All the states and territories
- All the capital cities
- All the states and territories
- All the capital cities
Task Part 2:
- Label on your map two 'Natural Landmarks' and 'Man Made Landmarks'.
- Choose at least one natural and man made landmark to research and create a short fact file that includes;
* English and Aboriginal Name (if possible)
* Natural or Man-made
* Why it’s a significant or sacred landmark
* Where it is, e.g. the north of Western Australia, the south-east of South Australia.
- Choose at least one natural and man made landmark to research and create a short fact file that includes;
* English and Aboriginal Name (if possible)
* Natural or Man-made
* Why it’s a significant or sacred landmark
* Where it is, e.g. the north of Western Australia, the south-east of South Australia.
Natural:
Man-made
Task Part 3:
- Choose one man made landmark and one natural landmark and describe the similarities and differences of the characteristics of these places in a Venn diagram.
This can include people, climate, production, landforms, built elements of the environment, soils, vegetation, communities, water resources, cultures, mineral resources andlandscape. Some characteristics are tangible, for example, rivers and buildings.
- Choose one man made landmark and one natural landmark and describe the similarities and differences of the characteristics of these places in a Venn diagram.
This can include people, climate, production, landforms, built elements of the environment, soils, vegetation, communities, water resources, cultures, mineral resources andlandscape. Some characteristics are tangible, for example, rivers and buildings.
Task Part 4:
- Explain why the local people would want these locations protected.
- Explain what makes these locations unique.
- Explain why the local people would want these locations protected.
- Explain what makes these locations unique.