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Assignment 2A English - Writing Resource By Samantha Butler, Rebecca Iddon, and Lyn Battersby:

Assignment 2A English - Writing Resource By Samantha Butler, Rebecca Iddon , and Lyn Battersby

Assignment 2A :

Assignment 2A • Our assignment begins… • First we made a decision on what subject would be our primary focus.

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We chose English - Writing

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With a side order of Phys Ed and Health

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By the time we’d talked it through, Technology and Enterprise was also raised as a cross-curriculum activity.

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By focussing on Writing, Phys Ed/Health and Technology and Enterprise, we could effectively draw up lesson plans that would cover five lessons.

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After some discussion, we felt that a project that had the students corresponding with a local sports personality (or even two) via email and Skype would be the way to go.

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The students would email (using a class G mail account set up by the teacher) their sports person/people. Drafts would be written by hand and edited with the help of the teacher in the first Writing lesson then transferred to the computer in the second. These would be saved, but not sent.

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The next lesson would be their Phys Ed event whether it be a class lesson or the annual sports carnival. The children would be encouraged to take photos of the event with their mobile phones and record their thoughts/feelings.

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In the third English lesson the students would redraft their emails, adding their thoughts about their event. They would also provide a Flickr URL in order to share their photos. The uploading of photos to Flickr would naturally flow into the Technology and Enterprise lesson as the children learn how to upload their pictures into a class account .

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The children would arrange an interview time with their sports person to talk to them as a class, asking any questions relating to sports/health issues via Skype.

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All this would be finally uploaded to a classroom website they would create especially for the project. This would be available to be viewed by the students, their families faculty and the faculty. The students would be working both individually and as a class for the final presentation of the website.

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Next we documented the tasks involved and allocated who would be in control of each.

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Lyn took on the English role, which entailed Email correspondence with local sports identities. We felt this would be achieved by approaching local government and/or sporting clubs.

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Rebecca’s focus was on the Physical Education/Health component. Her task was to set up a sports day situation with mobile phone photos of the event. While focus would be on sports, we decided it was just as important to include the importance of health via diet, exercise, rest and other concerns.

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Samantha took responsibility for Technology and Enterprise, focussing on Skype and Flickr . She researched Skype for both interviews and Q&A sessions between the students and our sports person and Flickr for the uploading of class photos.

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Lyn started a Gmail account so we could keep in touch and upload various resources, information and the Power Point to share.

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Each of us would be responsible for our own teaching plan, by researching the Education Department’s Scope and Sequence and how it applied to our resource. After reviewing the Scope and Sequence, we decided our focus would be on Year 6 students .

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This is for the English – Writing Component.

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Once decided, we then chose the resources necessary. After some trial and error, we chose:

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PC for email correspondence and Skype conversations

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Mobile phones for photos

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Skype for interviewing local sports identities. We would have liked to put a Skype logo here, but didn’t want to break copyright etc. So here’s a picture of a puppy instead.

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Next came the fun bit, when we created our website. Sam had used Weebly in the past while Rebecca had constructed her site via Yola . In the end we mentally threw a coin and decided on Yola .

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And here it is…

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We also worked out our lesson plans, relying on this website: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/WriteLessonPlan.htm for guidance on how to go about this. We wrote one each for English – Writing, Phys Ed and Technology and Enterprise.

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Finally we created our Power Point which we wrote then split into the one you see and the one from which we work. We’re pleased. We hope you were, too. Thank you.