Romeo And Juliet

This week, we have been learning about William Shakespeare, and his stories. Our main focus being Romeo and Juliet. We learnt about the story of Romeo and Juliet by watching a few videos that told the story. We then re-wrote a part of the story in our own words, and translated them with a Shakespeare translator. This was a lot of fun to then tell the rest of the class. After we finished our stories, we were given another challenge. In groups we would create a DLO that retold the story. My group created an animation. Although I was not here for creating the DLO, so thank you to Jonathan, Te Pounamu and Giovanni for creating the animation.

Provocation: Should We Ban Fireworks

Today we were given another Guy Fawkes related challenge. For this challenge we got into groups and would create a DLO that would show 3 sides to the banning fireworks provocation. We should ban them, we shouldn't ban them, and our personal opinion. For this activity I worked with Julian and Jonathan, and we had a lot of fun. It was an interesting topic, but one we enjoyed.

Reading: The Battle Of The Somme

This week, we had a small activity to complete. This activity was to be done with a partner, although there was a slight change. Rather than joining up with someone from our group, the whole class had to get together in mixed partners with one person from Mrs Anderson's reading group, and another from Ms Kirkpatrick's reading group. The activity that we did this week was about the Battle Of The Somme. A war that took place in 1916. This task was linked to Mrs Anderson's inquiry sessions, so some groups already had a basic understanding of this. For this task I worked with Jonathan, and we had a lot of fun working together. What we had to do for this task was read through two pages that told the story of the battle through different points, and answer three slides of questions. From time to time, Jonathan and I would get stuck, although we eventually found our way through.