T2+Reading

31/7/11  __Novel study__

Characterization:

1. Describe one character what they were like (looks,personality etc) at the beginning of the novel and at the end.
__**Start-**__

__**Jan’s looks and personalities:**__

Blonde short hair probably and

has brown eye’s.

Jan carries round a box with all his treasures in it

like a silver sword(a paper sword).

Jan absolutely loves animals.

Jan steals lot’s of things to food to silver.

__**End-**__

__**Jan’s looks and personalities:**__

Blonde short hair probably and brown eye’s.

loses his box in a lake still with all his treasures in it

But not the silver sword.

Still loves animals.

Sometimes steals stuff.

2. Describe the changes that have occurred and list the events that caused these changes.
1.Jan doesn't steal as much anymore because Ruth taught him to behave and not to steal.

2.Jan sacrificed the farmers dog to help his friend Edek that was about to drown in the flooding lake, because there was a big flood and he was wiped out with the current into the big lake.

A.Jan was an orphan so everyone was counting on him to steal some food from the nasiz

so they could survive.

B.The dog was a farmers that they met on thier way to Switzerland.The dog sneaked

passed the children into one of the canoes while the children were not paying attention.

so they didn’t notice till they were halfway down the ragging river.

3.Explain why these changes are significant.
1.Because otherwise Jan would carry on stealing and get in trouble with the police and go

into court and he would have a dull life about hiding and running away.

2.Because Jan loved animals and the farmers dog was the only thing Jan had and kept his

hopes up, apart from Ruth, Edek and Bronia.

4.Describe a relationship that was in the story between two of the characters.
Jan and Edek had a really hard relationship between each other but the two know that they have to rely on each other because of all the dangers like bombs, people trying to shoot them trucks to take them all back to poland.

5.Explain why they are important relationship.
Because if the children had’t found Jan they would not have ended up in Switzerland,

And most importantly he had found food and water for the children. Most importantly they needed each other to keep out of danger, and for hope and happiness.

Setting:


 * 1) ===Think about where your novel is set. If you can get a map and highlight the different places that your novel took place. If you don't have somewhere that was on a map you need to draw where your novel was set (bush/beach etc) you will then need to take a photo of this and upload it onto your wiki. √===
 * 1) ====== **You are to draw a scene from your novel and write a short paragraph explaining what the scene is about and where it is. Take a photo and upload this to your wiki** . √ ======



This scene is set in Switzerland, in action when Geneva lake flooded siverely. Ruth gave Edek a boat to take cover in while the other kids try to find some help and try to cross Geneva lake, but as the kids weren’t looking the flood got worse and swept Edek out into the fast flooding lake.

Themes:


 * 1) ===Write your own definition for the following words**.**===


 * Honour-** Recognition of high respect.


 * Heroism-** Acts of bravery.


 * Glory-** The excitement after a victory.


 * Victory-** Winning or accomplishing something.


 * Defeat -** Losing to something or someone.


 * Friendship/relationships-** How we relate to people in our lives.


 * 1) ===Then write the dictionary definition for these words.===


 * Honour-** High respect or a person or thing that brings credit.


 * Heroism-** Great bravery.


 * Glory-** High reknown or honour won by notable achievements


 * Victory-** an act of defeating an enemy or opponent in a battle, game, or other competition.


 * Defeat-** Win a victory over in a battle or other contest.


 * Friendship/relationships-**

Relationships:

The way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected.

Friendship:

The emotions or conduct of friends.

3. Display your definitions of your words. You can use wordle, magazine pictures, words, symbols, illustrations or collage. (can be done on your laptops or on paper to display around the room). √



 * 4. Explain what word you think is the most important to achieve in your life and why.**

Friendship-

I think that Friendship Is a really important word because as you get older you will need a lot of friends to look out for you, show you the right way to go and when you are stuck or when you make a wrong decision, as long as you keep out of trouble you will have a lot of friends.


 * 1) **Write down the lessons that you have learnt from reading this novel, explain why you think these lessons are important.**

I learned that there is a country called Poland and where Poland and Switzerland are in the world. I didn’t know that all those years ago there were big camps during the war for refugees and people who were ill.

I think that it’s important that I learned some European history because I come from Scotland, which is in Europe. Now that I have learned this history about Europe maybe it will be useful for college and I would like to learn more as I found it was really interesting.

19/5/2011

LI: locate action verbs and conjunctions, and identify the type of tense used in explanations.

SC: Create a list of action verbs
 * Explain why we should use action verbs in explanations.
 * Articulate the different types of tenses.
 * Explain why we use simple present tense in explanations.



Reflection: Today I learn’t that conjunctions are connecting words and that action verbs are doing words and words that mean present, past and future.

I chose green light and a orange light because I found it quite ok but then I got the hang of it.

06/05/11. I want you to keep contributing to group discussions like you began to yesterday. This will help with your literacy knowledge and confidence with literacy and oral literacy.

Thursday 5th May 2011 Reflection: Today I learn’t more about key words and technical words. We also saw in the paragraph’s RQ’s, describing words and descriptive sentence’s. 