Category: Reading

2.3 Unfamiliar Texts Practise Paper

Completing practise papers is a core element of preparation for final exams. Write them in one session, under timed conditions (90 minutes) and by hand. If you scan or photograph your paper and upload it to your blog I will be notified and give feedback.

2.1 Novel Study – Practise Paper

Completing practise papers is a core element of preparation for final exams. Write them in one session, under timed conditions (90 minutes) and by hand. If you scan or photograph your paper and upload it to your blog I will be notified and give feedback.

The Book Thief – Schema B: Setting

As part of our systematic study of The Book Thief, we are exploring the different components of it as a literary text with a view to developing our own working definition for the genre “Magical

Surrealism

A quick investigation into Surrealism in visual art.

The Book Thief – Schema C: Language

Now that you are developing your own bank of quotations framed by the schema we have devised as a class, it is also time to start to explore how these quotations will be able to

The Book Thief – Schema A: Character

As we develop our hypothesis about what literary and linguistic features define the Magical Realism genre, we’re investigating a number of simultaneous lines of inquiry in our core text ‘The Book Thief’

NCEA 2.9 – Wide Reading Project

A longitudinal investigation of the Magical Realism genre via a self-selected study of written texts and films.

Annotate

Today we explored what the annotation we’ve been discussing looks like in practice. I shared a couple of annotated pages, and my colour coding system. Here are the all the notes from these pages: Colour