Answer the Questions!!!! – Hui Yu
I really need you guys to answer the questions that me and Raihana had poster. You can choose at least 5 questions from chapter 1 to 10. We need to also comment and discuss on our answers. Thanks alot. –Hui Yu
Roles for holiday assignment
IMPORTANT: Holiday Assignment will be COUNTED as part of your CA1 for Term 3 (20%)
Instructions:
a) You will be doing this in your project group. Each group will be assigned one topic to focus on.
b) Every member’s contribution will be IMPORTANT, just like your project work and MARKS will be assigned based on EVERYONE’S work and contribution.
c) Assign the following roles for each person in group:
Questioner: To come up with interesting DISCUSSION QUESTIONS for the chapters in the book, especially questions like “What does this tell us about…….” or “Why do you think…..” [Hui Yu]
Vocab Wizard: To pick out IMPORTANT or DIFFICULT WORDS in the chapter and explain what it means to the group. This SHOULD NOT BE just copied from dictionary BUT MUST be EXPLAINED in relation to the TEXT! You can be creative in your explanation and use PHOTOS or DRAWINGS or CLIP ART to explain the meanings clearly. [Nissa]
Plot Mapper: To mindmap or storyboard IMPT PARTS of the story BY USING THE elements of a NARRATIVE like: Trigger Event, Sequence of IMPORTANT EVENTS/ACTIONS ( this must be linked in terms of CAUSE and EFFECT throughout the chapters), PROBLEM/CONFLICT [Jie Cheng]
Quote Picker: To pick out IMPT QUOTES from chapters and start a discussion about the meaning and significance of the quote to the story like development of plot, character, or theme [Eric]
Character Tracker: To identify important characters in each chapter and track the development of the character though the chapters through what character says or does and what other character says about this him/her. You must explain what it tells YOU about the character like the personality. The most IMPT CHARACTERS to FOCUS ON will be :Scout, Atticus, Jem, Bill, Calpurnia, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell, and Boo Radley
[Min Wen]
Discussion Leader: To check and read through other members work and come up with interesting ideas to discuss based on what other members post or based on your own reading. Focus on THEMES in the story: COURAGE, INTEGRITY, PREJUDICE, RACISM etc [Joranna]
d) All work must be done ONLINE in the languagearts blog and every post MUST BE CLEARLY TAGGED with the name of the person who posted it. The TAGS box is just below the TEXT box where you type.
e) You are given BONUS MARKS for using online tools like Toondoo, Comic Life, online mindmapping and Voicethread etc
f) The work above MUST BE DONE BASED ON Chapters 1 – 10
g) Like your PROJECT WORK, you need to post regularly and comment /discuss regularly if you want to SCORE. You know how important the marks are to you BY NOW, so do work hard. Anyone with NO INTERNET ACCESS, you CAN use the SCHOOL LIBRARY COMPUTERS, so I won’t accept any excuses.
Resource For Reference:
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/index.html – This website provide a good reference for vocabulary by chapter and will help you understand some of the more difficult words in the text
Meaning of Photo Journalism by joranna
Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, and in some cases to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such as documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by the qualities of:
- Timeliness — the images have meaning in the context of a recently published record of events.
- Objectivity — the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict in both content and tone.
- Narrative — the images combine with other news elements to make facts relatable to the viewer or reader on a cultural level.
An example of photo journal is your asian geography.
I will post the picture when we go for the next lesson on the photo course.
How many posts and comments we have?
We have 82 posts and 40 comments now. We still need to post more things and edit our work regularly to improve on it. Edit and edit till it is good. Do not edit the work just once. Read your post again and again to check for spelling mistake, grammer and if what you post is relavant to the topic or not. Please comment on my post as i do not know if i have any mistake that i need to edit. I hope all can do their part in editing and commenting on other people work. Only comment things that is relavant to the topic. Thanks!!!
Min Wen(20)
What must be DONE !
MUST-DO:
1) Reflections: Every student must post at least 3 reflections of at least 150 words ( with at least 3 paragraphs) on the following
- group work and individual contributions to project- include something on preparing for the presentations and what u learned having to teach the class
- problems encountered and attempts to solve these: what have you learned from this?
- research skills,history skills like analysing sources, inferring, mindmapping, organising, questioning sources etc, multiliteracies skills ( english) such as planning movie, shooting, scripting, storyboarding
2) Organising Research done so far in mindmaps, slideshows, toondoo etc, making sure the references for all the sources and research are included ( see example in project wiki on how this is to be written), Especially Important is UPDATED MINDMAPS based on PRESENTATION in class and the SOURCES/QUESTIONS to be posted. EVEN if you have NOT presented, the info MUST also be ON THE BLOG!
3) All drafts and final scripts and storyboards
4) Discussion on photos taken – how to use these in photo journal, words and captions to be included
5) Comments/Feedback and question/answers from members
These are just the BASIC requirement – of course if u have MORE, you will SCORE higher marks and the more CREATIVE you are, the higher the marks will be. NOTE QUALITY IS IMPORTANT, so don’t just focus on quantity
HIGHEST SCORING Group so FAR: RSulis Grp: Reasons for British Defeat and Hui Yu’s Group On propaganda
Others better do the work suggested over the weekend and USE the forms I have uploaded as examples of how to reflect ( not just one para) but must analyse reasons for problems encountered , suggest solutions and don’t just say some people were irresponsible , must explain what responsibility mean and give examples
One paragraph to focus on ONE THING !!!!!PEEL
Pictures took during the siloso trip . Assignment. Photojournalist.
Please choose a picture and write about 100 words about the picture you’ve chosen.
People working on this: Feng Yi, Minwen, Joranna.
You can talk about how the photo is taken. What angle is choosen? What does the picture says? Examples are inside the book Asian GEO.
to be updated more.. (RESIZE PHOTOS OR POST THUMBNAIL)
