Thursday, 23 November 2017

Week Beginning Nov. 22nd

Day C


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Learning Activities

Today will be a peer review day. You can have time to refine your assessment work

Home Learning:

Be ready to submit to Managebac next class.



Day E



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Learning Activities:
Today you will upload your work for assessment.

Next we will prepare for a Socratic seminar:
Was colonisation mutually beneficial?

We will take notes as we watch 2 videos today!


Video 1 and 2

Home Learning:

Add to and revise your notes. We will finish them next week.





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Day G/H


Learning Activities:


15 minutes personal reading time.

Today you add more detail to your notes. You will be able to start using broad sub-headings (disease, ideas and beliefs, food and animals) and learn to define and explain Columbian Exchange, cash crop, commodities, mercantilism, commerce, profit, capitalism.


Written Information  1,   2   and 3 



Home Learning:

Finish note-taking for Friday's lesson. 
Reading Plus due Monday.





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Day J


Learning Activities:


15 minutes personal reading time.



You may spend the lesson revising.

Home Learning:

Revise your notes for Monday's quiz.

Reading Plus also due Monday.


Sunday, 12 November 2017

Week Beginning Nov. 13th

Day F

Begin with personal reading time.
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Students who did not complete the Socratic Seminar on Friday will do so today.

We will then work in teams to 'pack our ships' and plan our work for our first assessment.


Let's Explore!

Unit 2- Assessment 1










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Day G

Begin with personal reading time.

Today will be a writing day. 1/3 pieces complete today.


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Day H

Begin with personal reading time.

Today we will record feedback given in our class workbook then set goals we can use for writing our 2nd piece.





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Day J

Begin with personal reading time.

Today you will have your work peer reviewed and use this feedback to improve and complete your writing assessment.

Home Learning:
All 3 pieces are due on Wednesday 22nd to submit to managebac.


Sunday, 5 November 2017

Week Beginning November 6th

Day A- 2 lessons

Approaches to Learning:
I can reflect on my studying of Early Exploration to create and complete a quiz on my learning this week.



Learning Activities:

-Personal reading time.



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-Today you will use what you have learned about life at sea to create a quiz for your peers. You will take the quiz this afternoon.


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-Next we will spend time looking at Memoir.








Day B

Learning Activities:


-Personal reading time.

Why do people record their personal stories?









Malala Memoir Extract

1. What contrast are readers given in the opening paragraph of the extract and why is it engaging?
2. What 3 big ideas (in order) does Malala share before she concludes with "Who is Malala? I am Malala, and this is my story."
3. How is Malala's conclusion to this extract interesting?
4. Give 3 quotations of personal thoughts/feelings Malala gives in this extract and what you learn from each example.
5. Make a lists of 3-5 words that are specific to Malala's culture and define then.

6. This extract is written by Malala in 1st person. How does this add to what you have learned about her experience, as opposed to it being written in 3rd person?

Home Learning:
Finish any work from today.






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Day C

Learning Activities:



-Personal reading time.

-We will review our work from yesterday then look at  translated letter, written by Christopher Columbus in 1493.



Inquiry Question:
How could connections be viewed from different perspectives?

Reading questions
  • What can you learn about the writer from reading the story?

  • What intercultural connections are featured in the story? (Meetings between people from different cultures). What are the meetings like? Is there any conflict?

  • How would you describe the writer’s perspective about these connections?

  • What other perspectives are excluded (not present in the story)? What might they be like?





Day E

Unit 4 Living Legends

For this unit, you will be studying the many changes that have not only modernised Vietnam, but led to movement of people, such as from r...