Wednesday, November 23, 2016

FAREWELL

Dear Students,

We have come to the end of the semester and this is a brief note to bid you farewell. I would like to wish you the best in all your undertakings in the future. I hope you have enjoyed the reading class and the class blog. I must say that I am very happy you have learnt about blogging so quickly - I was just lucky to teach a group of 
intelligent bloggers in my class. Once you leave the class you can still have access to the class blog and all the material and links provided for you. You are very welcome to keep your student blogs active if you wish.

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Sometimes,  biography describes a person's life from birth to death. At other times, the writer concentrates on a particular period in a person's life. We will be reading biographies of famous Australians and other people. We will be practising completing a time line, making notes of key points as events, turning points and achievements.

Assessment Task - Reading a Biography of a Famous Person

TASK 1:

  • Read a Biography of a famous Australian and do the timeline
  • Read Fred Hollow's biography and do the timeline
  • Read Nelson Mandela's biography and do the timeline
TASK 2:

Turning points and Achievements (BIO)
  • Read Nelson Mandela's Biography and identify the turning points and achievements. List them in two groups in one new post in your blog. When you finish we will have an open class discussion.
  • Read a biography of your choice and identify the turning points and achievements as above.