Unfamiliar Text: Booklet

Pre-reading Activities

Write sentences using the specified words.

a. Organisms inherited their genes from their parent/s.
b. I got expelled from Hogwarts for violating the rules.
c. The children persuaded their teacher to have an early break.
d. A new police detective has been transferred to your station.
e. After saying those words, the atmosphere inside the room changed.
f. Our brave soldiers need to have complete armaments to protect our nation.
g. When taking pictures, girls love pouting their lips to pose.
h. She is working as your mother's apprentice in the clinic.
i. Cavalier Oliver Wood will escort the Princess.
j.  The Roman Catholic Church in your town is still deciding the holy orders before the festival.



Friendly - showing kindly interest and goodwill
Connotation: positive, good, warmth

Persuasion - the process of persuading someone to do something
                  -set of strong beliefs or opinions
Connotation: favour, fake, pressure, consequence

My first impression on the extract is that someone will persuade someone to do something that will result in a good thing because the title says Friendly Persuasion and based on the given list of words.

One thing that surprised me about the story was a character's sudden death.

The intended audience is the students. 
evidence to support my answer
"Alan was supposed to be grounded at home, but he'd managed to persuade his parents that he was repentant enough to be allowed a night out."

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Identifying the 'point of change' 

Identify which part paragraph we see the start of the point of change. 
In Paragraph 6. The first part of the text is telling the readers about Alan and his behaviours at school, however, when the Mini entered the scenario, ideas about Alan have changed.

How does this point of change help us understand the purpose of the text?
The author is trying to tell the readers something important at the end.

Author's purpose: think about the lesson the author is trying to convey. It doesn't always have to be a lesson, sometimes it can be the author is trying to persuade the reader to change their point of view about something or to inform the reader about something. 

If we don't learn from our previous mistakes, we are going into trouble.
*Alan got rejected from his previous school and got stood down again

Using the title to help you understand the author's purpose 

Why do you think the title is appropriate? (Friendly Persuasion)
Because the point of the text is about Alan's convincing friendly persuasion that lead to his death.

How does this relate to the author's attitude towards the characters in his story?
The point of change makes the title have more sense to the readers.

Write a different title for the story and explain why you chose this title. 
The Popular Guy, The Cool Kid, Alan's Mini?

How do the title and the point of change work together to get the author's purpose across the reader? 
The title gives the reader a quick hint about what the text will be about. However, the given title makes no sense at the beginning of the text but as it flows, the point of change will draw the main idea to the title.

Identifying how the text is communicated

Identify one metaphor and describe its significance

Find two examples of euphemism and explain what the more the direct meaning is. 

"Alan and his Mini were unrecognisable"

Putting it all together

Language feature from paragraph 2-4

Information Report: Kea

One of the Smartest Birds

A New Zealand native bird, Kea is considered as one of the smartest birds in the world. It belongs to the large species of parrots that is also widely known for their intelligence.

Kea birds are covered with gradient olive green feathers. Underneath their wings are bright red and yellow colours. They weigh less than a kilo and grow a length of up to 50 cm. Despite their small mass, they have great strength. They use their feet, having 4 toes each, to grip and their hard curvy beaks to open or damage things.

They are considered as wild animals and are very destructive. With their intelligence of a 3 or 4-year-old kid, these birds tend to destroy and steal for food. Cleverly, they would try opening bags with their beaks to get something interesting out of them and then fly away.

Originally, they came from the Southern Alps in New Zealand. They are alpine parrots. They live in high mountains and build their nests underneath a tree where they can lay 2-5 eggs. They eat bugs, insects and seeds so they don't necessarily have to hunt for food.

 

Recount Text: Willowbank Trip

An Educational Trip

 

As part of our research study about Kea, our whole class in Level 1 ESOL went on an educational trip to Willowbank Wildlife Reserve on June 4.

We all left the school a couple of minutes after Period 1. When we got there, we were separated into three groups to roam the place with a teacher. Along the river, many ducks and swans were floating on the water. I also saw many new animals there.

        At 11 am, all of us met at the Kea enclosure. The keeper talked a lot about the Kea birds while feeding them using a spoon. It started raining a little bit so we went in to a small shelter nearby where she, the keeper, answered our prepared questionnaires about the Kea birds. After that, we went to the Kiwi nocturnal house and I saw two of them. We spent the rest of our time exploring the barnyard and eating some snacks in a cafe before heading back to school.

That trip was a fun way of learning and relieving stress.