Year 6 - 12 Class
Welcome to semester two! We have had a busy start to term 3 with all students settling in and working well.
English
This term sees us tackling Shakespeare with ‘Macbeth’. So far the students have looked at the part the witches play in the story, and some background on the Shakespearean era. The language has proved a bit of a challenge but everyone is working hard at developing their understanding.
We will continue to focus on spelling and grammar with weekly lessons dedicated to this, and the focus for writing this term will be procedural texts. The students have been asked to develop a manual for how to survive a zombie apocalypse incorporating lists, diagrams and detailed instructions. I look forward to reading them.
HASS
The focus for this term will be Business and Economics. At the moment students are learning about macro and micro economics, along with fun stuff like budgets, taxation, recession and economic growth. This has seen some interesting conversations in our current economic climate. This unit of work will become more business focused, and we will finish the work with a mock cupcake business. We will really make and eat the cupcakes, but in the current climate we may not be able to sell them, so we will simulate this instead. It will still include marketing, advertising and costing, and will also incorporate our procedural text writing from our English lessons.
SACE English
Stage One of SACE English is now complete and the focus has shifted to prepare for Stage 2. Our SACE student is also studying Macbeth along with the rest of the class, which will become part of her responding to texts section of Stage 2 SACE.