Memorial Day Free Download Patriotic Picture


'One thing worries me...will people...want to forget the whole thing happened?' Lt. J.G. Richard Strandberg


Landing Zone Pick Up


Dear America is the novel you will use for your Reading and Responding outcome. You will need to complete a variety of S/N activities and write a text response essay to complete this unit. Keep in mind that you might choose Dear America as the text you focus on for your exam.


This blogspace has been set up to enhance your study of the text and develop your language and writing skills. It is a collaborative space where you can share and discuss your learning. Perhaps most importantly, this allows you to conference and comment on each others' writing to improve your prowess as we get closer and closer to exam time. You can access the VCAA website for detailed assessment and exam information to build your knowledge of what is required in text response essays.





Wednesday, December 1, 2010

2012 Reading and Responding Area of Study Starts Here!



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Viewing the film of Dear America - Letters Home From Vietnam will complement our study of the written version of the text.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

REVISION QUIZ

1. Write down the chapter titles in order. (Without looking at the book)

2. Which chapters have these photographs at their beginning?
  • Men saluting coffins draped with American flags.

  • Soldier cradling fellow wounded soldier in his arms. (Close up)

  • Bare-chested soldier with bullet around his neck.

3. In which American city is the Vietnam Memorial Wall to be found?

4. Give 3/4 reasons as to why writing and receiving letters was so important to the American soldiers.

5. Write down some of the reasons you know the men expressed in their letters for fighting in Vietnam. (Why were they there?)

6. What factors made the Viet Cong such a difficult enemy to fight?

7. The American soldiers were fighting in an 'alien landscape'. What was the fighting landscape like and what were some of the difficult conditions and things the soldiers had to deal with?

8. Write the names of three men who wrote multiple letters in the text.

9. The men who wrote the letters were the authors of the text? What was his role?

10. Look, cover then write these words - soldiers, Saigon, Hanoi, communism, guerilla (warfare), democracy (democratic), patriotic, scared, scarred, unbearable. Did you misspell any? Work to learn them.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Vietnam War - Timeline

Working in pairs use this timeline activity as a starting point to developing your background knowledge of the conflict in Vietnam. Your PowerPoint responses will be an S/N activity. When complete put them in my electronic pigeonhole and I will figure out how to present them on the blog. It will be interesting to see what the variety of the images are.

Monday, January 25, 2010

How to post to our blogs

This Jing provides you with the basics on blog posting.



To view the images in a large screen click on this link: post_to_the_blogs

Accessing and Navigating Our Blogs

This Jing explains how to easily move about our different blog sites and pages.



When I recorded this I noticed the metalanguage link on the homepage was incorrect and fixed it. If you would like to view this image in a larger size click on this link: access_and_navigate_blogs.

How to join a blogger blog

Very soon I will be sending out invites to this and our other blog spaces. You will receive them by e-mail and need to undertake some simple steps to accept them and join the blog. Here is a Jing screenshot to help it make sense if you are having difficulties.




If you wish to view this screencast as a bigger image click on this link: accept_blog_invite.