7+November+-+Thursday+-+IMYC-English+-+Curiosity+Unit

=**7 November - Thursday - 2013**= __History - Article on Colombus__ Please email your edited article to Michelle by 8 am Saturday morning.

__**Technology - Inventions/Innovations**__ Period 3 Students shared their design drawings and received feedback from 2 to 3 group members, which they noted down in their IMYC notebooks. A whole class discussion followed on the Design Procss or Design cycle. Students took notes on two versions of the process and verbally connected that to the work they have been doing.

Create a functioning prototype of your invention/innovation -OR- a model of your invention from cardboard or other modeling material to help show the class how your invention might function.
 * Assignment - Due Tuesday 12 November **

__**Language Arts - Informative Writing (Travel Writing)**__ __**LA Task**__

Students will share the travel writing samples they brought with their partner, reading aloud once. Students will then be given a copy of the chart below in order to identify elements of travel writing. They will fill in the chart below with examples from the travel writing they brought, pasting the charts into their IMYC notebooks.

Students will have time in class to write a fictional account of a visit to the place they have chosen. They will: > > the place. For example, perhaps they want to explore the Amazon jungle to find an animal that is thought to be extinct, or to be the first to climb to the peak of a particular volcano, or to solve the mystery > > of what happened to the people who lived there many centuries ago. Encourage students to be creative here; they can draw inspiration from their research, but should not feel bound to the facts as they write their account.
 * Find examples for each of these elements of Travel Writing in the example texts. || Example 1 || Example 2 ||
 * **Personal/first person narrative.** **Second person narrative is also used at times to draw the reader in.** ||  ||   ||
 * **Descriptive language/imagery.** **This is used to help the reader visualise and imagine the atmosphere of the place.** ||  ||   ||
 * **Facts and information about the place** ||  ||   ||
 * **Anecdotes, i.e. stories about personal experiences** ||  ||   ||
 * An **informal, conversational** tone. ||  ||   ||
 * The use of **exaggeration or humour** ||  ||   ||
 * **Personal opinions (usually both pros and cons)** ||  ||   ||
 * Assignment - Due Friday 8 November**
 * Give some idea of what they wanted to find out more about when they started the trip, and the ways in which this drove them on to explore the place described
 * Use the literary techniques they have learned about travel writing to engage the reader, keep them ‘hooked’ and encourage them to keep them wanting to know more
 * Include aspirations that sprang from wanting to know more about