End of Year Survival Units
The last couple of weeks of term means finding ways of surviving. Not only am I tired, but my students are both tired and wondering why they have to work when school is nearly finished. They've had their exams and they know that there is no other assessment to do. Westerns I've developed two new units to keep the kids engaged. My Year 10s are working through a Western study. this genre study explores how Western conventions are used in a range of texts. Ideally (ie, if I had time), this would include a novel extract, short story and comic strip, but as we are so very close to the end, I'm focusing on film. After learning about what to expect in a Western, we watched extracts from two classic Western films ( Stagecoach and High Noon ). Students used the knowledge they gained from this to assess how Rango is a Western (not too hard once they got passed the hero being a chameleon). Finally,we've just started the Coen brother's adaptation of True Grit . A couple...