Culture and Identity

For the last week we have been looking at culture. Culture to me is who you are, how you act in your day to day life, what you like and who your family is. One of the activities was to create a flyer about a culture tradition someone in the class celebrates, my flyer is about White Sunday from Samoa.

Language Fitness

For this activity we had to answer a few questions about words.

Collective Nouns
A Dule of Doves
A Fleet of Ships

Verbs
The children knows they had to have their homework on their teachers desk first thing in the morning, but there was always those who forget.

Prefixes
A semicircle is half a circle.

Suffixes
A suffixes ending with ful.
Helpful

Synonyms
Voyage - Travel
Decide - Resolve

Antonyms
Tame - Wild
Eventful - Quite

Homonyms
Two meanings for the word shoulder.
1 a part of the body.
2 something that looks like a shoulder

Homophones
Tied, tied a rope, tied in a game.

Abbreviations
Mon - Monday
Dec - December

Contractions
I will - I'll
He is - He's

Singular/Plural
Lady - Ladies
Class - Classes
Paper - papers

Adjectives
Adjectives for storm, windy and wet.

Adverb
He listened quiteatly to what was being said because he was sure he would need to go home early.

Pronouns
Mary looked quickly over at Peter to see if to see if he had heard the car.
She looked quickly over at Peter to see if to see if he had heard the car.

Tense
I watch television and practise clarinet every evening during the holidays.
I watched television and practised clarinet every evening during the holidays.

Conjunctions
She was very good at Indonesian, because she spoke it at home.

Prepositions
 They stood at the doorway, blocking the light.

Comp

Germans Abandon Cars?

Activity 1

In 2017 this post started circulating online.

For this activity we had to see if it passes the C.R.A.P. (Current, Reliability, Authority and Purpose) test. Here are links to two websites I looked at, Times Of India and The Star Online.  The captions competently fake, but the photo is real but is not from Germany but from China 2010 traffic jam. The traffic jam lasted two weeks, imagine being stuck in that! It was caused by trucks and foggy weather, so no Germans protesting fuel prices. 

Activity 2

What kind of langue is used in the text? 

Which positions, prospective, voices and interests at play in this text?

Factual or Satirical?

The Onion
What does the website look like?
At first glance it kind of looks real but after look at it closely it easy to see that it is satirical.

What photos is it using?
The main photo with the drones is clearly Photoshoped  and unrealistic.

What headlines are they sharing?


Is it Factual or Satirical?
The Onion is Satirical.

The New York Times
What does the website look like?

What photos is it using?

What headlines are they sharing?

Is it Factual or Satirical?

The Civilian
What does the website look like?


What photos is it using?

What headlines are they sharing?

Is it Factual or Satirical?

The Civilian is Satirical

The Daily Mail

What does the website look like?

What photos is it using?

What headlines are they sharing?

Is it Factual or Satirical?

The Daily Mash

What does the website look like?


What photos is it using?


What headlines are they sharing?


Is it Factual or Satirical?

The Daily Mash is Satirical

The Herald

What does the website look like?

What photos is it using?

What headlines are they sharing?

Is it Factual or Satirical?

The Herald is Factual.

The Shovel

What does the website look like?

What photos is it using?

What headlines are they sharing?

Is it Factual or Satirical?

What does the website look like?

What photos is it using?

What headlines are they sharing?

Is it Factual or Satirical?

Critical Literacy Vocabulary

Crash Cause In Critical Literacy

For this activity we had to watch a video and answer questions about it.

What aspects of stories was she (Andrea)  interested in?

Don't take things at face value, look for the hidden messages.

What did the ad imply with the big diamond ring?

If you buy it, it shows them you care and if you don't buy it you don't.

What is subtext?

The hidden message, things hidden beneath the surface.

With CL, can each student have their own answer?

Yes of cause, everyone is different and has a different background.

What does Andrea compare CL to?

Wonder Woman's lasso of truth.

How can CL be applied to your life outside of school?

You can use it to brake down the media around you.

What am I learning?

I am learning how to brake down media

How does this work show my learning?

What am it wondering?