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10L Achievement Standard 1.10 - Wide Reading Remember this is //not// a book review. It is also //not// a retelling of the plot! You need to follow the instructions in the booklet you recevied at the end of term 4 and make sure you include your opinion supported with evidence from the text. Over the holidays, you could be improving responses written and handed in during the year (read my comments) or start new ones. This will put you ahead to gain four credits at Level One. The Achievement Standard is marked from Achieved to Excellence so even if you wrote good responses this year, you may wish to improve them further. Happy reading!

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon While investigating the murder of his pet dog, 15 year old Christopher Boone finds out some shocking truths about his Mum and Dad, and learns a lot about himself in the process. Christopher has Aspergers. Do you know what Aspergers is? Do you know someone who has Aspergers? There are lots of different types of Aspergers but basically people with Aspergers see the world a bit differently to most of us - this can make life difficult for them at times but it also means they have lots of unique strengths. To find out more, watch the clip below: media type="youtube" key="kyprxFLr-Ms" height="349" width="425" align="center"

Shakespeare So who was William Shakespeare? For a person who wrote so much, we know very little about the man. In fact there is only one surviving portrait that MIGHT be Shakespeare. Here's the power point we looked at - test yourself with the two lies and a turth game at the end!



Here's more facts we do know (from Bill Byson's book Shakespeare - feel free to borrow): And why should we care? Because Shakespeare was the greatest wordsmith of all times. If he couldn't find the right word, he made one up. You can find out more about the words and phrases he invented at the [|No Sweat Shakespeare website]. And hundreds of years later, we're still reading and sudying his work - even rapping it! media type="youtube" key="nYQvyZCuCzU" height="345" width="420" align="center"

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays in a really short period of time. These plays were performed at the Globe Theatre. [|Take virtual tour of the Globe] and imagine what it would be like to see a play there. In addition to plays, Shakespeare also wrote 154 sonnets. Here's Sonnet 18 - // Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? // // Thou art more lovely and more temperate: // // Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, // // And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: // // Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, // // And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; // // And every fair from fair sometime declines, // // By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; // // But thy eternal summer shall not fade // // Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; // // Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, // // When in eternal lines to time thou growest: // // So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, // // So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. //

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PS: I admit the words can be tricky to understand so here's some common Eizabethan words translated into modern English to get you going.

10L Poetry - Apirana Taylor Here's the clip on //Parihaka// by Apirana Taylor we watched in class - rire means peace. Note the repetition of the word peace in English and Te Reo, and the alliterative link between the word Peace and Parihaka. If you want to see photos of the caves at Andersons Bay where some of the prionsers were taken, [|follow this link.] media type="youtube" key="IY-qB9sWJbc" height="349" width="425" align="center"

If you're still scratching your head about how to approach analysing poetry, [|follow this link and watch a short video]of an English teacher explaining how to read poems by using song lyrics of Bruno Mars, Katy Perry and others to show you how it's done. You might like to try her ART WORKS technique next time we study poetry.