The wave, week 47-4

During a couple of weeks you are going to work with reading, listening and writing. You will read "The Wave" and work with the story. Moreover, you will see a documentary and compare that to the contents of the story.

Material: 

* Ipad

* Pencil (if your teacher recommend it) 

* Notebook (if your teacher recommend it) 

You will gain (få) knowledge by:

* Reading a story

* Work with vocabulary from the story

* Answer questions to the story

* See a documentary

* Write a comparison 

Schedule: 

Week 47 - Introduction and read the story "The Wave"

Week 48 - Read and work the story (vocabulary and answer questions)

Week 49 - Read and work the story (vocabulary and answer questions)

Week 50  - Read and work with the story (vocabulary and answer questions)

Week 2 - Hand in your answers to the questions (Wednesday) + See documentary and make a comparison to the story

Week 3 - Hand in your comparison (Friday) 

The story:

http://cms.sd33.bc.ca/sites/default/files/Todd_Strasser_-_The_Wave_(pdf).pdf

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/reidthewave  

Response list:

* Correct vocabulary in the sentence (she’s/her)

* Grammar mistakes (is/are, was/were, have/has, he's/his, your/you’re, its/it’s, word order, verb tenses etc.)

* Spelling mistakes (whit = with, to/too, your/you’re, its/it’s, meat/meet

* Spoken and written language (gonna-going to, wanna-want to, you-u)

* Then make sure you have:
- a capital (stor) letter in the beginning of every sentence and capital letter on I in a sentence.
- full stop (punkt) at the end of every sentence
- Not too long sentences, use full stop and commas

* If you use abbreviations (förkortningar) (it’s, wasn’t etc., make sure you put the apostrophe in the right place (not its).
If you are unsure about how to use abbreviations, just write it is, was not etc.

* Look for variation in your text
How to begin a sentence (not too many I, he, she)
You mustn’t begin a sentence with and, because etc. (these are linking words).
* Use a variation of difficult words and expressions.
* Look for correct preposition words, i.e. angry with (not at), look at (not on).

OBS! Before you hand in your text you let at least (minst) one person read your text!

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Questions for The Wave

These questions are to be answered during and after reading the text respectively.

Writing exercise, comparison

We are going to look at following documentary. Task: What makes the characters in the story versus in the documentary act the way they do? Do you understand the actions of the characters? Motivate your answers and give examples from the story. You write at least a page on your Ipad. After finishing your text you work with the response list. You look for correct vocabulary, grammar and spelling but also variation in your text.