Reading Project - Checklist 3 - BookPortfolio

Finally, here is the Checklist you should use to make sure your portfolio is complete:

Our PORTFOLIO contains:
1. Individual Reading Logs including:
- my reactions and reflections as I was reading the short story/book
- self -assessment (e.g. commitment, what I would do differently, whether I am pleased with my work and the group's work, .... )
2. Information about the author and background historical information
3. Beautiful Passages and discussion
4. Illustration(s) and discussion
5.  Any other texts you've written (e.g. dramatisations)
6. Conclusions and recommendations (Group)
(Points 2-6 = your presentation, mostly)

And now I'm done with checklists :)

Reading Project - Checklist 2 - Groupwork

Click here for a second Checklist, this time about Group Work. It's actually the one you filled in in class and that will be used later in both final assessment and individual interviews.

Reading Project - Checklist 1 - Presentations

Here are just a few questions  - actually a checklist -  to help you prepare and assess your Presentation:

When we introduce the author and historical background:
1. We selected aspects that are relevant for the interpretation of the book/short story
2. After the presentation the audience will be able to establish the connections between author/background and book/short story

About the connections/illustrations:
1. We have discussed them in the group
2. Presentation is the result of that discussion, not individual points of view
3. We are happy with our work mainly because we discovered many new things.

About the Beautiful Passages:
They are either:
1. illustrated and/or
2. read expressively and/or
3. dramatised and/or
4. explained in terms of style/technique

If we have a Powerpoint:
1. We're NOT going to read the slides
2. Most slides are IMAGES that help us illustrate/explain some point
3. If we do have some text, we are quite sure it's just topics
4. Text/topics are 'readable' i.e. right font / right colour / right background

All in all:
1. We are confident because we read the book/short story and are well-prepared
2. We are confident our colleagues will be curious and will most probably read the book (or at least see the film!)

I tried to keep it simple. Add other questions if you must. That would be lovely :)

TEST PLAN

As you all know FINAL WRITTEN TEST  will take place on 24 May. For your reference here is the TEST PLAN.

Public Speaking

I should say our first Public Speaking session (11-8) was quite a success. I'm looking forward to the second leg :)
All of you will be taking notes and assessing. Click here for the checklist with the criteria.

Our Name Brand Sociey

Read this poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti - The World is a Beautiful Place and answer the questions to help  interpretation.
All in all, what do you think is meant by the phrase 'Our Name Brand Society'?
Read other poems by Ferlinghetti on http://www.poemhunter.com/lawrence-ferlinghetti/poems/
And explore the site for other poets and poems if you feel in the mood

Welcome back

Here we are back to school again. I hope you had a splendid holiday, and had plenty of time for ... reading :)

As we get started please take some time to check this term's planning because there have been some changes (11-5 and 11-8).


As promised here is the link with the speeches of the finalists of the SPEAK OUT Challenge that Cláudia (11-8) brought to us. Thank you, Claúdia. I believe these videos will be very helpful.And again, the assessment criteria.

Finally, please do not forget to read the GUIDELINES that will help you prepare your BOOK PRESENTATION and BOOK PORTFOLIO.

Keep up the good work :)