Term 3 Journal Tasks

Welcome back to your last full term of school!!! Yay!!!!  A term that will see us all working very hard to prepare you for your exams.

Here are a couple of tasks I would like you to do in the first couple of weeks of this term.

1. Malala Yousufzai has been in the news again recently.  I would like you to research her.  In your research listen to or read her recent speech to the United Nations and the letter she received after it.  But first go back and find out about her before she was shot.

Put down your findings in your journal in whatever way you wish – paragraphs, dot points etc.

We will look again at the short story The Pencil and draw comparisons.

2. George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin have also been in the news lately.  Find out who they are and journal about them and what happened.  At the end of your research, listen to what Barack Obama had to say about how he and Martin were similar.

3. Journal your comparisons of the Zimmerman/Martin case with the film To Kill a Mocking Bird.   (Although set in Australia, you may be able to compare it with Jasper Jones. Often exam questions will say “at least one text you have studied”).

Note:

I have downloaded both To Kill a Mockingbird and The Kite Runner onto TV4Education so that you can watch them again at school if you want.  You have the username and password to get into it but if you have lost it, come and get it from me.  You are also welcome to borrow The Kite Runner dvd from me and the TKAMB video from the library.  Remember – although we didn’t study these films in any depth, you can still use them as viewing texts.

I highly recommend you re-read the novel The Kite Runner without having to go through comprehension questions.  I think you would enjoy it and get a lot more out of it a second time.

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