Day: October 31, 2023

Cultural Superheroes

LI: To describe your superhero

Our challenge was to design a DLO of the story they are in using key vocabulary from all our T- shaped units to describe them and their attributes. We built on this challenge by creating a slide that explained who our superhero was, their backstory, what their strengths and weaknesses were and who their nemesis was. My superhero is Niu Iki, my chareters backstory is  It is 2023 on the Niuean island, he was gifted to the village by the gods and was sworn to protect the village from the fearless mold monster (Ioane). He always got defeated but swore to come back better and stronger next time.

I found this activity exciting because I created my own charecter.

 

Personification – Stairs

LI: to understand the 5 senses can be used to strengthen a description.

Our challenge was to co construct a text using the olfactory (Smell), auditory (Sound), gustatorial (Taste), visual (See) and kinethetic (Movement) senses to describe the story behind the Stairs in this image. This time we were able to speak and sat facing our partners. I think that this time was a lot easier because we got to communicate with eachother

Once we had completed this part of the challenge we joined together with another group to share our writing and make sure what we had written made sense and had met the language feature challenge.

I found this activity enjoable because this time we could write the same ideas.

These Shoes Have a Story to Tell

LI: To use the 5 senses and personification to help us paint a picture with words 

LI: To understand that personification is to give an inanimate object human qualities

Our challenge was to co construct a text using personification and the senses to describe the story behind the shoes in this image. We sat back to back and weren’t able to talk. I thought that was the hardest part. Half way through Mrs Anderson challenged us to include a rhetorical question and a simile or metaphor which made our writing even better.

Once we had completed this part of the challenge we joined together with another group to share our writing and make sure what we had written made sense. 

After that part of the challenge was finished we used the punctuation points game to tally how points we got. We marked eachother’s punctuation against the points table. We then had a chance to check our own work against the points table. That was fun because every point our partners missed menat we could take a point off theirs.

I found this activity exciting because my partner kept on changing the course of the story.