Week 4 Stuff

Monday Discussed the Interview writing assignment and how to improve it. Please see general comments posted below. Updates to http://www.saltysally.bigbig.com/. I hope to begin The Immigrant Chronicles poems this week. We will study the poems in the following order. Please read all the information in The Learning Curve: Chapter 5 Poetry: Peter Skryznecki handout and compete activities listed. This may take us some time. I don't expect you to do them all at once, but you can certainly begin. Crossing the Red Sea Acts 7-8a-d Migrant Hostel Act 10 Immigrants at Central Station Acts 2-4, Act 11 A drive in the country Act 12-13 Leaving Home No activity Post Card Act 15 Feliks Skrzynecki Act 6 a-(b) General Activities (p92)(d only) We will also be completing the What is being said and How is it being said sections of the Personal Response handout for each poem. Tuesday Catch up day. I catch up with you and you catch up on some English work. Wednesday Meet in J3 to use computers. A chance to finish up work done so far and to post and reply to posts online. This didn't work extremely well yet, but please trust me, there will be benefits for those of you who articulate your ideas on online the discussion groups and consider others' responses. Please visit http://groups.google.com/group/y12advancedenglish to contribute to conversations on the stimulus texts I have handed out in class. Please either summarise your learning journal responses to at least two of the texts or comment on specific things you think relevant to our studies in this unit. Please read others' comments and post a savvy response. Thursday Intro to The Immigrant Chronicles by Peter Skrzynecki. For Monday, read Crossing the Red Sea and Migrant Hostel and complete Acts 7-8a-d and Act 10 from The Learning Curve: Chapter 5 Poetry: Peter Skryznecki .