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Are We There Yet? By Alison Lester Year 4 By: Giuliana Tambasco 20152559…
Are We There Yet? By Alison Lester Year 4 By: Giuliana Tambasco 20152559
English
Literacy
Students will create a persuasive text using “I think you should go here because…” as a prompt to promote a part of Australia and a particular landscape for a travel magazine.
(ACELY1694)
Students will complete a a few short answer questions seeing if they were able to make connection from the story to their own experiences, see what they have been able to add to their vocabulary.
(ACELY1692)
Students will choose a landscape in Australia, research facts about the location and then plan characters, events before writing a short story using the information they have found and creativity.
(ACELY1694)
Literature
Discuss where students have been on holiday, either within Australia or overseas. Allow students to plan and write about where they have been on holiday.
(ACELT1607)
Students in groups will plan and create a small skit. They will plan characters, a setting at an Australian landscape and events. Once finished and rehearsed, students will film their skits and after will showcase it to the class.
(ACELT1794)
Direct students to record key events from the text and to note any connections they make. Similarities and differences can also be noted about their connections from their own experiences.
(ACELT1607)
The activity Interviews involves students role-playing a question and answer situation. One student takes on the role of a character while the other student asks them questions. Participating in Interviews allows readers to make inferences about a character’s actions, behaviours and how they felt about different places around Australia.
(ACELT1794)
In the book the main character Grace uses her imagination to see different attractions as something else, as class students will discuss the illustrations, characterisation of grace and how it was engaging.
(ACELT1605)
Language
Create word wall using words from book - use words as revision words for the week. (
ACELA1780)
use the Interactive Whiteboard to display book so that as a class they can take turns reading the book and together circle the quotation marks when there is dialogue/speech.
(ACELA1492)
Humanities
Interpret information and/or data collected (e.g. sequence events in chronological order, identify patterns and trends, make connections between old and new information)-
Analysing
Create a timeline of all the places that Grace and her family travel too
Geography
Look at the climates of the landscapes that the family in the book visit and compare to other landscapes in Africa and Europe then create a poster.
(ACHASSK087)
Mathematics
Measurement and Geometry
Enlarge map of Australia, create a legend a to
(ACMMG090)
Write directions to get from one location to another
(ACMMG090)
Statistics and Probability
Look at the chance and probability of different events occurring within the story, i.e what is the chance billy will say "Are we there yet?
(ACMSP092)
Arts
Visual Arts
Development of artistic processes and techniques to explore visual conventions o create artwork (ACAVAM111)
Create landscapes from the book using different textures. Then write explanation as to why they used what materials
Drama
Rehearsal processes (to improve transitions between scenes) to enhance audience engagement (ACADRM033)
In small groups create a small skit with a script at one of the landscapes from the book
Science
Science understanding
Student's will research the Daintree Forest that the family visits in the book and then write a report on how living things in that climate need certain things to survive
(ACSSU073)
Students will look at different landforms and how they came to be and write a short speech on them
(ACSSU075)