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Last task for this term — due Week 1 Term 3

Thanks to Ms Staudy for her great work with all of you on “A Midsummers Nights Dream” — you all looked like you were having lots of fun, and I can see some of you will be great actors next year !!!

This weeks task is:

Imagine you are Lysander or Hermia from “A Midsummers Nights Dream”. Write a letter of no more than 150 words based on one of the following scenarios.

a) Hermia writes a letter to her father explaining why she is going to run away with Lysander.

b) Lysander writes a letter to his aunt to tell her he is bringing Hermia to her house to get married.

A new week, a new task.

Thank you to those have completed the set work and emailed me to let me know. I should by now have commented on your 1st 2 blog posts.

Please make sure that you have completed the correct task for Task 2 — that is the task we wrote in our journal about giving the speech not the creative task from “Two Weeks with the Queen.”

I am still waiting for some of you to email me your blog url’s and let me know you have finished the tasks set — if this is you please do so immediately or I will be forced to send letters home about non-completion of tasks !!!

THIS WEEKS TASK IS:

Australia is a sporting nation — we live,and breathe sport.

Choose one of the following as the basis for a piece of writing:

1) Sportsmen & women have a responsibility to their counrty and their fans to behave in appropriate manner.

Discuss the behaviour of sports people, there obligations to their fans and their country. Use examples from news and current affairs — cricketers, soccer players, footballers. How do their on and off field behaviour reflect on them, their sport, and out nation.

2) This Sporting Nation: We as Australians are sports mad.

What do you think this means, what does it say about our culture, what is the tradition of sport in this country, what if you aren’t a sports freak??? Are there any examples of Aussies being sports mad ?? Recently ??? or in the past ???

3) The day we won (or lost)  the biggest match in the world. 

What sport was it, where were you, what were you doing, did you see the match or only hear about it, if you were there — what was it like — how did it smell, sound, and feel.

Welcome back 8 Orange.

Some of you have still not sent me your url’s to say you have completed last weeks work — as this is only the start of our blogging I will assume you are unsure of how to “send’ me the information.

The task for Week 7, 15th June 2006 is:

Complete the  “creative account” of the Speech assessment task  you began in your journals. Then publish it in your blog !! and email me so I can comment !!!

Remember to be as creative as you can (reality is soooooo boring) and to include points or paragraphs about  the speech process from the time you heard that the had to write a speech to the moments before, during and after the speech. 

This work is due by next Thursday when a new task will be published !! Keep on top of the work before it gets on top of you !!

Congratulations on starting your blogs !!

Your first entry (post) is to copy the speech you made in class onto the blog then email me with your URL when you have finished.

You must complete this task by next Thursday 15th June Period 1.

The second task will appear on the 15th and you will again have one week to complete it.

Good luck !!