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Monday, 28 May 2018

Tomorrow when the war began Examining the cover.


Tomorrow, When The War Began- Examining the Cover

Must Do Questions:

Looking at the original cover to the right, answer the following questions, remember to explain why you think that for each answer:

  • How do you think this story will be written? I think it’ll be written like a novel about when people like enter war or something
  • Why do you think the story is entitled as it is? Because people are put into war the day it starts
  • Where do you think the story will take place? In a forest/somewhere hot
  • What time period do you think the story is set in? 1890-1960
Consider the effect of the following choices-
   -How is the cover composed? (camera angle/shot type/framing) Mid shot
  • How is lighting used? (brightness/mood/contrast)
  • How is text used? (font/size/language/positioning)
  • What symbolism is used? (objects/people/setting/colours) it’s dark which make the people look the the figures they are and it’s like sunset.

Tomorrow when the war began before we read


Tomorrow, When The War Began- Before we Read

Open Key Facts Doc. We will work on this throughout this topic.
Copy- make a copy
Rename- attach your name
Organise- put it into your English folder
Work- Complete the first table.

Must Do Questions:

One advertisement for ‘Tomorrow, When The War Began’ states:
‘Hell isn’t only a place for the damned, sometimes it’s a place where the saved take refuse… Seven teenagers take a trip to Hell. And seven come back. To Hell’

  1. What do you think this statement means? The war is like hell the 7 teenagers go into the war and all of them make their way out  
  2. What could ‘Hell’ mean in this context?All the fighting/war and deaths
  3. Why do you think the story is entitled ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began’ Because these 7 teenagers go somewhere which is war and thats why it’s called tomorrow when the war began
  4. What does that make you think the book will be about?People going into war
  5. What do you think the characters will be like? Courageous,

Tuesday, 15 May 2018

store age tools intro

1). What problems did people face in the stone age?
lived in a area with dangerous animals,didn't have anything strong enough to protect themselves from animals

2). What food did they eat?
Roots,fruits,raw flesh

3). What were used to hunt food?
stones,spears

4). What was difficult about using stones?
hard to hold,heavy,hard to throw at long distance   

5).What did they do about this problem?
shape the stone

6). What kind of tools were used?
stones,spears

7). What type of tools could they make when adding wood and stones together?
spear,axe,pickaxe,arrow,knife

8). What is an axe and pickaxe used for?
axe is used for chopping trees and wood pickaxe is used for breaking hard things