Year 6 - 12 Class
English 6 - 9
This term the focus has been on writing descriptively. We’ve also spent quite a bit of time writing comparatively and persuasively, which can be difficult concepts to grasp at times. We have completed our book study “Mahtab’s Story” with a perspective journal detailing how we would feel and react if we had to suddenly pack up our belongings and flee our homes. Students worked hard on these and included some great elements, imagination and mostly accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation (mostly…a work in progress!).
To help with descriptive writing we have been focusing on the five senses – what we see, smell, feel, hear and taste. To help with this we (and by ‘we’ I mean ‘they’!) tasted, touched, smelled, felt and listened to lemons, salt, chocolate and potato chips, and brainstormed all the descriptions we could think of. As you can see below some enjoyed the experience more than others!
To finish the term we are doing a brief film study. We are looking at the story line of the film “The Princess Bride” from 1987 (one student who shall remain nameless dared ask if this old film was in colour!), but the main focus is on sound, camera angles, and shot sizes. We have completed background work this week and will watch the movie on Friday.
SACE English
Semester Two sees the completion of SACE Stage 1 for our SACE student. Our original plan was to see a play in Port Pirie, and then analyse it, but this had to be changed. The final assignment has been looking at various forms of advertising, and analysing all the components and devices used to convince us to buy or use a particular product or service.
HASS 6 - 9
We have shifted from History to Geography for Term 2. This has meant that the class has been split into three as the curriculum for geography for these year levels is too different to be able to incorporate everyone together. The year 6/7’s have focused on place and liveability, and also looked at Australia’s relationship with China. The year 8’s have been working on landscapes and landforms, and geomorphic hazards, finishing the term with an assignment on earthquakes. Year 9 has studied biomes, food security and sustainability, focusing on the unsustainable production of palm oil for the final task. To finish the term the whole class is spending a couple of weeks on mapping, looking at area and grid references and topographical maps.
If you’ve made it to the end of this and are still reading, thanks! Hope everyone enjoys the mid year break and gets some more rain.