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 * WELCOME - HAERE MAI - TO 10 ENGLISH 2011 / MRS STEAD**

Kia ora tatou. My name is Anne Stead and I enjoy English with my 2011 Y10 class. My favourite areas of English are literature and creative writing. I am now enjoying catching up with my students on how to use ICT - wikis and power-points and other interesting teaching and learning tools on-line.


 * THE CLASS**

Writing Georgea, Jono, Joseph, Margaret, Miya Lexia Shakyra, Ailich, Cody, Custom, Taylor

This is a mixed-ability group of Y9 and 10 students. Y9 and Y10 students work across curriculum levels 4-5. Because we began the term with 26 Y9 students and 9 Y10 students, the 6 oldest Y9 students moved across to my Y10 group to give two evenly sized classes. They work and cooperate well. They are a settled and pleasant class to teach.

At the end of Term 1 we split the class into two focus groups for Term 2. The writing group work with me in Room 10, writing responses to literature, descriptive writing and explanation writing. The lexia group work with teacher aide Rai Shortland in the Whare seminar room, focusing on comprehension and language skills using the Lexia on-line programme. The two groups join once a week, for computer and library time. At the end of Term 2 we are swapping groups to evaluate student progress and then combining to work out with students a Term 3 programme that keeps them moving forwards.

5 English periods each week, with an extra periiod for the Lexia Group. Each period lasts 1 hour. Writing Group Monday p3 & p5 Rm 10, Weds p1 Rm 10, Thurs p1 Library, p3 Computer Room Lexia Group Monday p1& p5 Whare, Weds p1 Whare, Thurs p1 Whare, p3 Coimputer Room, Friday p1 Whare
 * THE TIMETABLE**


 * THE PROGRAMME**
 * SEMESTER ONE**
 * Term 1** creative writing (cameos), sentence and paragraph revision; ICT - Shaun the Sheep DVDs and power-points; **Assessments** - diagnostic testing, formative practice - power-points, descriptine writing;
 * Term 2** novel study - The Bone Tiki; ICT - power-points and wordles;
 * Semester 1 Assessments** - cameo writing responses to novel, wordle, Term 2 test


 * Creative (cameo) Writing** Students learn how to observe surroundings through the five senses and bring them alive in their writing. They also revise sentence and paragraph writing.


 * Shaun the Sheep DVDs** Students watch and analyse chosen episodes and present them in power-point form. Each episode is tightly structured and focused, providing clear examples of narrative components and interesting digital tech experiences.

This exciting and innovative novel by New Zealand author David Hair follows 15 year old Matt and his friends as they battle forces of evil from Napier to Cape Reinga, across parallel worlds - Aotearoa in the 1880s and modern day New Zealand novel. Well written, gripping and informative, it is a good base for Y11 NCEA novel study. The author visited us on 15 April.
 * Novel** - The Bone Tiki (2009) by David Hair


 * SEMESTER 2**


 * All About Me** In Term 3 we explore different styles of explaining and organising information. This supports the Y10 Careers Education Unit taught by Careers Adviser Ms Antunovich each Weds p1. Students organise information into charts, flow charts, timelines, and paragraphs. These activitirs incorporate ICT skills, conlcuding with a power-point presentation at the end of term. We also revisit cameo writing, using NCEA Level 1 achievement standard tasks as a preview for Y11 Engliah..


 * Short Story Study** In Term 4 we study 3 stories from //Pounamu, Pounamu// by Witi Ihimaera: //A Game of Cards, Fire on Greenstone, The Child//. These prepare students for NCEA study of Ihimaera's later collection, //A New Net Goes Fishing.// Students respond by creating static images representing the stories, another NCEA topic in senior school English. Both these texts are in the school-community library - you'll enjoy reading them if you haven't already!


 * School Year Book page** - students apply their ICT skills to their own page(s) in the year book.