T1+Literacy

My Bio Poem

media type="file" key="Britney Bio poem.mov" width="324" height="324" Great colour choices Britney. They are very effective. Nice build ins with your words, just make sure you follow the structure correctly for every line. Your first few lines don't start the way they should. Excellent timing with your voice overs. A great first effort with Keynote. Miss Crone :)

Reading Work Week 10

**__WALT - clarify, summarise and understand text.__**

**School Journal PArt Four Number one 2000**

**THE GAME Miss Crone's corrections in green **

Here is a list of descriptive words and phrases. Choose the three that your think //best// describes the Space World game players. Choose the three that you think //best// describe the arcade ifself. //Base your choices on what you’re told on page 2.//

**young polite aggressive badly-behaved modest keen to play dark noisy well-lit**

**virtually adult-free menacing cheerful lowlife scum**


 * **Words or phrases describing the players** || **Words or phrases describing the arcade** ||
 * Young || Adult- free ||
 * Badly-behaved || Virtually ||
 * Noisy || Dark ||
 * aggresive, keen to play menacing **

**Answer these:**
 * 1) Matt’s ‘feet rested on pedals, and the fingers of his left hand danced over four keys set on a lever’. Which one word in this sentence tells you that Matt was a skillful player? **//Rested//** ** danced **
 * 2)  Write down three details that show that Matt was badly affected by his experiences in playing the new machine? **//Silver dart appeared, No break, Hart pounded 10 minutes after the incident.//** ** his eyes flicked from side to side, he looked scared **
 * 3)  Why were adult fighter pilots no use against the alien fighters? **//No adult’s played in the arcade. They had lost the superfast reflexes needed //**
 * 1)  Why were adult fighter pilots no use against the alien fighters? **//No adult’s played in the arcade. They had lost the superfast reflexes needed //**

**Complete the following sentences. Delete any words that don’t apply:** <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I like arcade games.

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The best arcade game I’ve ever played.

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself:** <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">This story suggest two things that many people will **//find//** disturbing. One is that we are already under **//attack//** from alien invaders. While for years much has been made of sightings of strange craft in our **//skies//**, the idea that aliens are fighting a secret war against us is **//dangerous//**. The second disturbing thing is the **//idea//** __that children are the key to defeating__ **//these//** aliens. And what if harmless fun in arcades is real **//warfare//** against a **//new//** enemy. Does that mean other arcade games aren’t what they seem? Perhaps when you a character in an arcade game, a real person somewhere in the world! ** Well done Britney **

<span style="color: #d81c10; font: 13px/19px Arial; margin: 0px;"> **attack** **dangerous** **dies** **find** **idea** **new** **shoot** **skies** **these** **warfare**

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The writer uses some interesting verbs in this story. Match six of the words below with the meanings listed on the left.
 * 1) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">slid out of control **//Skidded//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="18" height="10"]]
 * 2) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">moved and stopped abruptly **//hurtled//** **jerked**
 * 3) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">grabbed tightly **//gripped//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="23" height="15"]]
 * 4) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">tearing **//bounded//** ** clawing **
 * 5) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"> sprang **//flecked//** ** bounded **
 * 6) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"> rushed at great speed **//shoved hurtled //**

<span style="color: #c3180e; font: 13px/19px Arial; margin: 0px;"> **shoved** **skidded** **flicked** **gripped** **jerked** **bounded** **hurtled** **clawing**

<span style="color: #008000; font: 120%/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Britney I think you have rushed through this work and not shown your full understanding of the story. Please make sure you read the questions carefully and take your time with the answers**. **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Miss Crone **

<span style="color: #0c27db; font: 17px/25px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**THERE STOOD A MAN**

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Here are ten events from the story, but they’re in the wrong order. Put them in the right order.** > <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"> **Fantastic Britney**
 * 1) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">George rubbed the bump on his head and wondered where he was
 * 2) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Night began to fall
 * 3) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">George thought about Robbie Burn’s lines about ghosts and ghoulies
 * 4) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">A Maori suddenly appeared ahead of him
 * 5) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">George followed the Maori along a faint track
 * 6) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">George smelled food
 * 7) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">The men in the camp stared at George as he swayed unsteadily
 * 8) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">George woke up about mid-day
 * 9) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Shorty told George he would lead him down the old greenstone trail
 * 10) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shorty told George there was no-one with him when he came into camp

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Complete these sentences using information from the story**
 * 1) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">George didn’t know where he was because **//he bumped his head.//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="21" height="15"]]
 * 2) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">George started thinking of ‘ghoulies and ghosties’ because **???**
 * 3) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Maori guide suggested that George keep quiet by **//hand signals//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="24" height="16"]]
 * 4) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">The first sign that there was a camp nearby was **//the smell of food [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="21" height="12"]]//**

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**When the Maori guide pointed at George’s feet and beckoned, George took this as a signal to walk. See if you can come up with a hand signal for each of the following commands. Write your description beside each command:**
 * 1) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Keep quiet **//put your index finger to your lips//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="25" height="16"]]
 * 2) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Speed up **//leave you hand uncurled and curl it up and uncurl it//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="23" height="17"]]
 * 3) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Stop **//Hand up firm//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="23" height="19"]]
 * 4) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Come here **//Move your one of your hands towards you [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="19" height="16"]]//**

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**Complete the following sentences. Delete the words which don’t apply** <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">If I had found myself lost like George I would have **//See if I had a compass and then what if you didn't? //** <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> I think the best word to describe George is **//Confused//** because **//he doesn’t know where he is.//** <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I enjoyed this story because **//I like adventure and mystery stories. fair enough //**

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**If you were alert when reading the story the idea that the Maori guide was a ghost would not have surprised you. List below 4 clues given by the writer to suggest that the Maori was a ghost**

<span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">**1.//He didn’t talk. //** <span style="color: #008000; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">**//Where is your 4th reason?//**
 * 1) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">**//He had never seen that track before.//** [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="22" height="22"]]
 * 2) <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">**//There was nobody with him when he came back to camp. [[image:http://www.whiteandblack.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tick.jpg width="25" height="18"]]//**

<span style="color: #008000; font: 130%/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">**//Much better understanding shown of this story Britney - well done.//**