Now, write a paragraph summarising the text you read.
Questions to think about as you prepare your summary are:
Red Group: What is the author’s opinion?
Orange Group: What is the author’s opinion? What are their reasons? (for or against)
Green Group: What is the author’s point of view? What are their reasons? (for or against) Has the author followed the basic structure of the persuasive text?
Blue Group: What is the author’s point of view? What are their reasons? (for or against) Has the author followed the structure of the persuasive text? What key features of a persuasive text did you notice? (Don’t forget to include examples from the text)
Purple Group: What is the author’s point of view? What are their reasons? (for or against) Has the author followed the structure of the persuasive text? What key features of a persuasive text did you notice? What do you think about the word choice? (Don’t forget to include examples from the text)
Finally, share what you’ve written on OneNote and do 20 minutes of independent reading.
We just had two weeks of school holidays. I know lots of people like to go away, visit friends, go to the movies or have play dates. This school holidays were a little different. So today we are going to recount about our holidays…with a twist!
Imagine you could have travelled anywhere during the school holidays! You are going to write a fictional recount telling your teacher about the best school holidays you ever had…but you have to make it up! Time to get creative!
First…answer these questions to help you plan. Remember this is a fictional recount, so you can do or go anywhere you like!
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
Next…start to write your recount. Below is an example.
Then…check your writing for the following things::
Use upper and lower case letters correctly
Neat handwriting
Punctuation – full stops, exclamation and question marks talking marks if people are speaking.
Spelling – check common words and think carefully about unknown words
Paragraphs to break up your writing
Now…if you can publish your story and post it on the Class Notebook.
First, we are going to look at what Morse Code is.
For a long time, the main way to send a message over long distances was for someone to carry it from one place to another. Then in 1837, Samuel Morse developed the telegraph, this wire allowed someone to send a burst of electricity over long distances quickly.
Problem was each burst of electricity simply made the one same sound.
Samuel Morse then realised if you controlled the bursts of electricity you could communicate. So using short bursts (dots) and long bursts (dashes) you could spell out the words for your message. While this might seem to take a long time this meant written messages that had taken days or even weeks to deliver were now sent in minutes!
Morse code can also be sent in other ways. While it can be sent as a sound, it can also be sent using a flashing light. Some mine rescuers have pulled on a rope to send a Morse code: quick pull for dots and long pulls for dashes.
In many ways, Morse code is the first digital code.
This is what Morse’s code looks like:
Morse also added:
Beginning of message (__ . __. __)
Error (. . . . . . . . . .)
End of the message (. __ . __ .)
Full stop (. __ . __ . __)
Comma (__ __ . . __ __)
Question (. . __ __ . .)
Next, decipher the message below. A smiley face is a dot while a heart is a dash and the / means a new letter.
Then, come up with your own message to send to your teacher. Be creative, for example, you could use different coloured Lego blocks (see example below), beads or simply draw dots and dashes.
Finally, after you’ve uploaded your writing task for today do 20 minutes of touch typing