What did we do in English this year?
For our final blogging lesson I have a list of some of the many things we covered this year in English. Have a look at the list and pick out one or two things you remember and write about your memories. You will have a chance to keep blogging next year. If you want to keep you blog going please let your readers know to keep coming back. Of course you may want to blog from home in the holidays and there is nothing to stop you. BUT if you are going to give up your blog it may be good to let your readers know that you will not be updating any more. Of course you can always start another blog if you change your mind. Here is the list of some of the learnings we had in (and out of) class this year:
- What do we know about the 1960’s
- Reading Bye Beautiful
- Snippet poems
- Wide reading throughout the year
- The roles of women now and before the 1970’s
- Attitudes to women
- Learning about how characters are portrayed
- Making noun posters
- Creative writing
- Personal writing
- Writing essays
- Text response essay on Bye Beautiful
- Peer conferencing
- Learning to blog throughout the year
- Writing blog entries, making links, uploading photos
- Advertising
- Visual literacy – symbols
- Watch and study Pay it Forward
- AIMs test
- Punctuation conventions
- Picture story books
- Planning time in exams
- learning about (or more about) hyperlinking
- Impromptu speaking
- Oral presentations
- Questions on what reading is good for
- Start working on Independent novel
- Oxford debate
- Persuasive writing
- Adverbs
- Origins of words
- Reading a short story
- Writing a short story
- Writing haiku
- Writing a family story
- More on punctuation
- Block words
- What is parody?
- Nouns and sentences
- What do we know about grammar?
- Active and passive verbs
- Learning about Literature Circles Roles
- Read All summer in a day by Ray Bradbury
- Starting global collaboration in blogging
- Choosing Literature Circles novels
- Planning and running Literature Circles meetings
- Looking at the issue of relative poverty through articles in S-Press
- Learning about VoiceThread (?)
- More about grammar
- Do group oral preparation for Literature Circles
- Revise for exam – parts of speech, agreement between verbs and nouns/pronouns
- Revise for exam – persuasive writing
- Group oral presentations
