To Be Successful You Will Need To

Year 8

25th June 2013

We are learning to: / This is because to achieve Level 6, you need to: / How?
Describe and explain the circumstances under which events happen. / Use the features of a form to suit the purpose of a text. Sometimes I adapt the features to suit the purpose. / By exploring the language use on a missing persons’ website.
Make the purpose of texts clear. I maintain the purpose throughout the text. / By creating our own examples of a missing persons’ website.

To be successful you will need to:

·  Seek and gather info

·  Generate and explore possibilities

·  Think rigorously, carefully and methodically

·  Step back and take stock

Plenary Task:

Let’s see some of the work you have produced!

Starter:

The following page comes from www.missingpeople.org.uk/

Read the article and note on the kind of information that is included in this type of writing.

Introduction & Development:

As we stated before, your plane crashed into the sea; it is not known if there were any survivors. As far as the authorities are concerned, your plane fell off the radar, and they have as yet been unable to locate the plane or anyone from it. You have disappeared.

Hearing no news, but hoping for the best, your family decide to set up an advertisement like one of the ones you have examined this morning. What would they write?

Begin creating a webpage like the one on the missing person’s website. Include all the content you listed / found in the starter.

Focus please initially on the content of the ad, and later on the decoration etc.

Extension:

Write an advertisement for one of the other members of the class.

Reflection time:

Take one minute to reflect on what we have learned today. To what extent have you met the learning objectives?

Learning Objective

Plenary:

Let’s see some of the work you have produced!