Write a poem for the NZATE Junior Writing comp. Due 5/9

This week for home learning you are to write a poem to enter into the NZATE Junior Writing (Poetry) Competition 2012

Write a poem of no more than 40 lines about an object in your house.
Suggestions: Choose an object and brainstorm everything you can about what it looks,
sounds, tastes, feels and smells like, where it came from, why you have it, what is the best/
worst thing about it, a memory associated with it, what you’d like to forget about it ...
....now use your brainstorm as the beginning for your poem and see where it takes you. 

Prizes:
The winner at each year level (Yr 9 and 10) wins $100 and their poem will be published
in the October issue of English in Aotearoa
The two runners-up at each level win $50 each.
I'll send your poems off to be entered into the competition - you just have to post them on your blogs.

Last week, a lot of you made silly mistakes in your writing.  Please check back and edit any incorrect grammar and spelling.  A lot of you didn't even do the home learning - get it typed up please.

Wallwisher and Your most inspiring teacher! Due 29/8

Most of you didn't update our Wallwisher which was last week's home learning.  It seriously takes 2mins max, so please do this.

This week's home learning is to nominate your most inspiring teacher for the Warehouse Stationery competition that is running.

On your blog: write about who you nominated and why.  Put forward your argument about why they should win.  This could be a couple of paragraphs, a thank you letter to them, a prezi presentation, a voki presentation, a glogster poster - it's really up to you :)

Update our Wallwisher

Apparently a website is being set up for the school library and the librarian would like to highlight good books on it.  So, this week for home learning can you please put up as many good books as you can think of on our Wallwisher.

http://wallwisher.com/wall/10IMNEnglish

Olympic Opinions Due Wk5 15/8

What sport to you think should / shouldn't be included in the Olympic Games?

Write a 2-3 paragraph essay explaining your opinion.  Use fact and evidence to back up your points.  Reference your material.

Here is a page with ideas to get you started.  You might want to look up what 'sports' were included in the past and are not now - for examples 'Windsurfing' will not be at the Olympic games after this year. You might also want to look up what has been considered for acceptance in the past.

Olympic Moments Due wk3 2/8

The greatest moment in Olympic history was.... because....

Using the start above, write a piece about the Olympic Games.  You will need to conduct some research and give your own opinion about events.


Some of you still need to get your subcard completed.  I will be checking these again on Friday.

Design a Subway Card Due 25/7

This week you need to put your static  image skills to use and design a Subway card.

Here's the link about the competition that is running: http://www.subway.tx.co.nz/tp/view/email/tep920j499873s4q66f1n9956241c10226332z

Design your card, enter it and then post up a pic of it on your blog.

Holiday Homework Due 1st Wednesday Term 3

Make a Movie!

You can do this by yourself, in pairs, a group - I don't mind.

You could make a movie about your holidays, re-make a music video, come up with your own script for a short film, make a mini documentary or a montage of photos to music (you can check out the pretty average videos that I have made for my blog on vimeo if you don't know what I mean).

It's easy to put together movies in Movie Maker, which is free to download.
Once you have made your movie upload it to You Tube or Vimeo - you can make it private so the rest of the world can't see it if you wish.

Grab the embed code for your video off the site you have uploaded it to and pop it onto your blog so I can check your awesome work.

Now, if you are having trouble with any of these things, let me know and I will try help out.  However, there are heaps of tutorials available on line.  Just use google.