Welcome back! Term Two English 2019

At the end of last term we took some circle time to reflect on what is working and what we would like to change and to have more help with.  Here are the key actions I noted that relate to English:

• Lots of people want to do a film study
• The pace of our learning is too fast when people have been absent
• Students would like to do some collaborative learning with 10WH and Mr Hanson
• Please don't threaten to call parents

So... our next steps.  We will finish The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian this week, and then move on to a film study.

I will put more information on the blog to help people know what they have to catch up on when they have been away.

Mr Hanson and I are meeting this week to plan a combined session of 10QI and 10WH which will run next Thursday 9 May.  We hope to make this a weekly session which will focus on English skills.

Our starter today is a paper activity helping us to remember the key characters and events in Diary of a Part Time Indian.  Then we will read more of the novel, and finally we will have a class discussion on the challenges Junior faces at home and school.