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Letter Writing

In Writing we have been learning to: Write a formal letter.

We have followed the writing process and have planned and drafted a formal letter.

Here is a link to our online Modelling book.

This shows the process that we have followed.

Here is the letter that I have written ( Link the draft of your letter here)

Here is my reflection on the letter writing that we have done.

(Link the reflection doc here)

One thing that I found challenging about writing formal letters was writing the letter

My next step is: look for more opportunities to put my letter writing knowledge into practice in the future.

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Evaluate text

I can apply a set of criteria to evaluate how successfully the author has achieved their purpose in a range of different text types.

• Select 6 different texts from slides 7 and 8 of the modelling book.
• Make sure that you read a variety from the 3 main text types ( Persuasive, Informative and Entertaining)
• Evaluate each text, filling out the table below to show your thinking.
• See the modelling book for info on these criteria.

Text and Author’s purpose.	Criteria 1 Readability	Criteria 2 Accuracy	Criteria 3 Relevance	Criteria 4 Quality of information/ Language	Overall how well has the author achieved their purpose.
Example The three little pigs. The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader.	The story was easy to read and simple to understand. The pictures were bright and colourful and added value to the story. They backed up what was written in the story. The words were simple and easy. The rhyming parts helpe the story to flow	As this was narrative text it is accuracy of information is not important. The story was the same as Three Little Pig stories I have read before however.	The content of the story was relevant to purpose.	There was plenty of detail in the story to help me get a good image in my mind of what was going on. Clever use was made of repetition and rhyme.	Overall…..I think the author met their purpose of entertaining the reader very well. I would recommend that others read this story.
Watch more television The purpose is to persuade	The story is easy to read because the texts size is good and it doesnt have different color	The pictures  fit the purpose of the texts the author favour that we should watch more tv	The texts is appropriate to the texts and the texts supports the purpose the author  is trying to  achieve	The language  supports what the author is trying to achieve and there is lots  detail	Overall….. I think that the author met the purpose he was trying to achieve language
Libraries 'have had their day', the purpose is to to persuade	The story is easy to read because it is just in black and the writing is good size	The pictures don't fit the purpose because they are talking about a library	The texts is appropriate for the texts and supports the purpose the author is trying to achieve	The language supports the purpose what the author is trying to say	Overall….. I think that the author met the purpose talking about the library to achieve accuracy
Time for a camper vanishing act. Please. The purpose is to persuade	The story is easy to read because the size is good and the writing is black	The pictures fit the purpose because they talk about a van and there is a van in the texts	The story is relevant to the purpose	There is plenty of detail to understand what's is happening	Overall….. The author has met the purpose of persuade to achieve readability
L4 May 2015 The Promise Pg 22-27 entertain	The story is easy to read the sie is good and the font colour is good that it is black	The picture look like what i think of when i read it so i think it fits the purpose	The text is appropriate and the author has achieved what he wants to achieve	There is a lot of detail in the texts to understand and supports the author's purpose	Overall….. I think that the author has achieved to entertain me and he has achieved  relevance
L4 May 2016 MeMe and Me Pg 10-15 entertain	This texts is easy to read with good size texts	The picture fit the purpose of the texts	The story is appropriate and the author has achieved the purpose	There is lots of detail so i can understand	Overall….. I think the author met purpose to entertain to achieve accuracy
Underground Explorers L4 May 2015 Pg 2-13 inform	The texts size is great so i can read the texts	All the pictures in the texts make it fit the purpose	The author has achieved his purpose and the story is appropriate	There is lots of detail to now what the book is about	Overall….. The author has met his purpose has achieved  Language

Identify classes of two- and three-dimensional shapes by their geometric properties Assessment task:

Identify classes of two- and three-dimensional shapes by their geometric properties

Assessment task:

maths

Current Events Term 2, 2017

  Current Events Term 2, 2017

WALT: I can successfully research a current event.

Here is a link to our online modelling book for this unit of learning.

The National Standard that I have been aiming for during this unit of learning is:

• Year7/8: I can use appropriate skills and technologies to find and use a range of texts for specific purposes.

Each week we have read a short text about a current event/ topic. We then formed questions based on what we had read.  After this we researched the answers to our questions and finally we gave our opinions on what we had found out.

Here is some evidence of my learning.

1. 2.

My Next Step is to continue to  apply the reading and  research skills that I have learned in a variety of other areas.

drama

 In ARTS this term we have been learning to:

Select and use techniques and relevant technologies to develop drama practice.

Here is a link to our online modelling book.

• During this unit of learning we:
• Described the characteristics of silent performances.
• Identified different techniques used in silent performances.
• Used these techniques in a variety of different practice situations.
• Worked in a small group to put together our own silent performance.

The most challenging part of this unit of learning was being quiet because i talk all the time

The two things that I enjoyed the most were:

1. doing the video

The story that my group told silently was there was 2 police and they took a guy to jail

Overall I think my group worked ( well, together because we enjoyed it

S.L.C

Careers Education C.V. Writing

In CAREERS EDUCATION we have been learning to write a skills based Curriculum Vitae.

A skills based C.V. focuses more on the skills that we have,  rather than our work history.

Here is a link to our online Modelling Book that shows the process we have followed.

Three things that I have learned about writing a Curriculum Vitae are:

1. You have to have the right spelling

2. That you had to have your personal requirements

3. I learnt how to write a C.V.

here is a link of my skills based Curriculum Vitae. C.V.

visual language assessment blog

WALT: Find fractions, decimals, and percentages of amounts expressed as whole numbers, simple fractions, and decimals.

WALT: Find fractions, decimals, and percentages of amounts expressed as whole numbers, simple fractions, and decimals.

Surfs up

ixl number 1 ,  ixl number 2 ,  ixl number 3

I learnt how to use percentages.

The challenging part was trying how to get the right answer for percentage

Review of Term 1 Books

Diary of wimpy kid 

This story is about a kid what has a older brother called Rodrick that is mean to him and a younger brother  called Manny that tells his mother things what did not happen to the to Greg the middle child. The main  charter is Greg and his friend Rowley. they go to school and some kid dropped some cheese and no one cleaned it up then someone pick the cheese up then he put it down and that is how the cheese touch started. then people would touch each other on the arm and say cheese touch and that means they have the cheese touch.

Term 1 Novel Study

This term I have been reading and studying the novel Abandon Ship

I found this novel OK  because i didn't pick abandon ship so it was a bit boring.

During the novel I had to complete two major assessment tasks. The first is an Explain Map which shows the consequences of a major event in the book. The second was a Describe++ Map (Inference map) which shows I how I have connected prior knowledge and other experiences to what I have been reading to make an inference.

• Link to Explain Map
• Link to Inference Map

National Standard this covers

• Year 7/8  Standard
• using several pieces of information to make inferences
  using their prior knowledge, along with information in the text, to interpret abstract ideas, complex plots, and sophisticated themes
• I can use a range of strategies, such as inferring, to work out more complex words.

Assessment task: Use simple fractions and percentages to describe probabilities

Question 1:

Show your working and answer here: I got ⅓ because you put ⅔ the half it and get ⅓

Question 2:

Show your working and answers here:

2a: Ms mataira has to spend $4 by buying four bubblegum

2b: Ms mataira has to spend $6 by buying six bubblegum

2c: Mr smith has to spend $9 by buying nine bubblegum

Question 3:

Show your working and answer here: There was six tiles if he got it right the first time he would have only had to do it once.

What is you next step? 1/6

Finally, add the screenshots from the 3 IXL activities you did here:

Activity One	Number 1
Activity Two	Number 2
Activity Three	Number 3

Games with minimal or no equipment.

In PE we have been participating in a variety of games that require little or no equipment.

Below is the Matrix which shows our progression in this unit of learning.

The table below shows my understanding of games with minimal or no equipment.

(Fill this table in, in as much detail as possible. )

Examples of Games that need minimal or no equipment.	What equipment would we usually need to play these games.	Why do we play games with minimal or no equipment?
invisible tag.	players, 4 cones and bibs.	don't no why.

My Strengths.  

Some things that I have done well during this unit of learning are i tried my best because i tried my best

My Next Steps.

Some things I could improve on when playing games with minimal or no equipment are to challenging myself  Because i didn't challenge myself.

writing leadership article

In writing I have been learning to: write a article.

• use all basic punctuation independently
• attempt more complex punctuation (eg semicolons, colons, parentheses)

I have been especially focusing on using parentheses and commas. I have highlighted these in green where I have used them as well as other punctuation that I changed because it was used incorrectly. Here is a piece of my writing that shows this.


one of the leadership traits are trustworthy that means you are able too to every pals duty on Wednesday. a leader that has shown trustworthy is bill gates by having a lot of people trust him.
and i have to be trusted by coming to each pals duty with my partner

WALT: Find factors of numbers to 100 and common multiples of numbers to 10

Assessment Task:

1. Find all the factors of 16

8	x	2	=	16
4	x	4	=	16
1	x	16	=	16
The factors of 16 are: 8,4 and 1

2. Find all the factors of 20

5	x	4	=	20
1	x	20	=	20
10	x	2	=	20
The factors of 20 are: 5,1 and 10

    

3. Fill in the missing factors below:

8	1	2	4	8
16	1	2	4	8	16
32	1	2	4	8	16	32
48	1	2	3	4	16	48	12
54	1	2	3	6	9	54	27

Here are the 3 screenshots to my IXL activities:

Number:1 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a5gPATuFs1qXUAcMsUGfa0xkI8FOmR2wc8BtQ5VsOSg

Number:2https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a4_JjdAtrbLXWvRDxxpxQR8LqZoh6Ku1TJmB4qL_1OE

Number:3https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_YnFwC-nfvPTzIi7sGNdWneVtwNyIq7ped4GEuzLqaU

My next step is: is to complete my tasks quicker.