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    What a Disaster! by Katie Furze

     We are learning to identify how a writer reports on a current event

Vocabulary	Definition	Word in your language?
toxic	the quality of being poisonous, especially the degree of virulence ✓	Oil is toxic. ✓
sifting	Sifting through something - searching through it.	My aunty was sifting the flour when she did the baking  ✓
debris	Parts of something. Like the parts from the shipwreck could be called debris.	The debris is from the ship and the oil.

1. Who is reporting the current event? who is writing the story.

2. Is this story true (non-fiction) , or made up (fiction)? How do you know this?Basically, you went to nonfiction for the content, the subject.

3. What current event is the author describing the number of co-first authors, but we ask that you describe.

4. Does this article include just the facts, or does it include the author's thoughts and experiences as well?this article includes the author's thoughts and experiences as well.

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FIle make a copy and add your name to the title of the doc.  Remember to put it in your reading folder or share it with Miss Stone!

A Rock and a Hard Place - V.M. Jones

                  LI: We are learning to use reciprocal reading

                        We are learning to identify the effect that culture has on identity.

Vocabulary

Word	Meaning	Use in a sentence
scowling	Scowling is getting angry	I was scowling when i fall on to the ground
jostling	Jostling is bushing other people	I was having a fight and i got bushed
jagged	Jagged is like Sharp	I play in the storming weather and saw sharp

1. What is the boy’s situation - how is he stuck between a rock and a hard place?

He didn’t know which team to support.

2. From his description of South Africa, what do you think it was like?

There were lots of thieves, it was dangerous,

3. How was his life different in South Africa compared with his life in New Zealand?

There are less thieves, it's safe and sound in New zealand.

4. Why did different people have different answers for the boys problem?

People say to support their team. Everyone wanted him to support their own team.

5. What was the solution the boy came to in the end?

He could support both teams.

6. In this story, the main character struggled with his identity, as both a kiwi and a South African.

Besides his culture, what other things do we know about the boy's identity?

He liked his cat, he wants to be like his cat, he likes his team and rugby, he likes his coach, his friends, Dad and mum.

7. Would these change if he moved country again?

They will stay the same

What a Disaster!

    What a Disaster! by Katie Furze

     We are learning to identify how a writer reports on a current event

What happened?the ship crashed into Astrolabe reef

When did it happen?on the way into the port of tauranga

Does this article include just the facts, or does it include the author's thoughts and experiences as well?this article includes the author's thoughts and experiences as well.

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Creating a story map is a way to help you understand and summarize the stories you read.  When you make a story map, you identify the basic story elements, such as the characters, setting, conflict, and important plot events.

Read your story. Create a story map using google docs under the headings on the template provided. Share your story map on your individual blog after you have edited it.

Story Map

Title: happens to everybody.

Author: david hill.

Characters: mum,dad nana,cody.

Setting: inside the hallway by the bedroom.

Conflict: cody was sleepwalking in the hallway.

Resolution: dad put cody back to sleep.

Beginning: cody was sleepwalking inside the hallway by his bed.

Middle: dad put him back to bed.

End: the mum read a bedtime story the End.

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Differences	Name & Image of 1st character	Similarities	Image & Name of 2nd character	Differences
Papa Purple hair Mail Blow eyes Lady Shoes Gun		Eyes Hair Brown Sky chidren		Brown Green Blow Femail Green eyes boat

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1. Tile: the old woman love to read

2.my favourite character is the

Old woman because she reads

3.At the beginning of the story

The old woman lived in the city

4.In the middle of the story

There was a old woman the read and haves animals

5.At the end the old woman

Enjoyed reading in bed

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Differences	Name & Image of 1st character	Similarities	Image & Name of 2nd character	Differences
She is a little girl and she got yellow hair		Same heir Girls Sad Happy Kid mum		She is a mum and she is happy and got white hair

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Differences	Name & Image of 1st character	Similarities	Image & Name of 2nd character	Differences
Girl Kid Yellow heir sad		Same heir Girls Sad Happy Kid mum		Girl Mum Waite Heir happy