LI: to describe the first impressions we got of a character and compare them with other characters
We recorded our first impressions of three characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on the table. To synthesise our ideas we used our prior knowledge and the new knowledge we gained from reading the text to help us form new ideas.
I found this activity fun because we had to use our own words to describe the characters.
In the past few weeks, all the reading groups had been exploring mood and atmosphere in different texts.
We identified the sensory imagery, which allowed us to paint a clear picture of what happened in the texts using the 5 senses.
The groups also explained the lists of the vocabulary which we didn’t understand in all of the texts we had read.
We then later recorded learning conversations which allowed us to express our opinions about the texts. In this task we needed to make the conversations flow, by telling them weather or not they agree or disagree with each others opinions.
Then we did the vocab, which was about choosing words/phrases in the texts to explain why they said that, and to identify the mood/atmosphere in that certain line.
After that, we did the mood chart which was rating each event that happened on a scale to 1 to 10. These mood charts were based on Rikihana Carkeek, and Hami Grace’s Diary.
Lastly we did the 10 word challenge, which was filling in the spaces, to create a powerful and strong paragraph explaining what the image was based off with our opinion.
I found this activity challenging and fun because it was hard to describe some texts, but it helped me learn new reading skills.
During the past few weeks, all of the reading groups have been exploring how the author used the language features to create the mood and atmosphere of the different texts. The task we have completed was language features. We identified these language feature. We identified these language features from a poem called ‘The Soldier Who Never Returned.’
Mood is the emotion that you feel when you are reading each line in the text. Atmosphere is the overall feeling of the whole text.
In our time reading the text, we identified many language features. An example of this is personification, this is when the author gives an object a human like reference.
We found this activity interesting because I was able to discover the mood and atmosphere in the text by identifying the language features.