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2.9 Personal Reading: Blog All About It

2.9 Personal Reading: Blog All About It. Purpose: To develop an interest and passion for reading. . General info. 4 credits Reading credits May be completed at home as well as at school. . What you have to do: . Create a book review blog. This can be in two forms:

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2.9 Personal Reading: Blog All About It

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  1. 2.9 Personal Reading: Blog All About It Purpose: To develop an interest and passion for reading.

  2. General info • 4 credits • Reading credits • May be completed at home as well as at school.

  3. What you have to do: • Create a book review blog. • This can be in two forms: • Written reviews in which you write your review and publish it – maybe with accompanying graphics such as pictures of the booksor authors. • Video reviews in which you film yourself reviewing the book and publish the videos to the blog.

  4. Requirements: • All texts must be at Level 7 of the NZ curriculum. • Level 7 is Young Adult fiction up. • Adolescent fiction is different and not at Level 7. • Example: Paper Towns, Hunger Games, Divergent, Unwind = Young Adult fiction • The Outsiders, Millions, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas = Adolescent fiction

  5. Magazines & newspapers at Level 7 • Magazines such as: Time, The Listener, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan and Mindfood will contain ARTICLES that are at Level 7. • Surfing NZ, Performance Car, Empire, Girlfriend are not at Level 7. There articles are either mostly informational or do not contain the depth of ideas and language required for Level 7.

  6. You must get all texts approved by your teacher.

  7. Visual and oral texts are: films, documentary, TV series, animation, graphic novels, speeches, spoken word poetry, song album lyrics (Excludes films studied for school) Two of these may be The requirements Visual and/or oral texts You have to complete responses to SIX texts Two more of these must be… Extended written texts PLUS: drama scripts, film scripts, poetry, short stories, feature articles, columns, journalism, essays (Excludes written material studied for school) Written Texts Two of these must be… Extended Written Texts: Novel, Biography, Memoir (Excludes novels and books studied for school) Extended Written Texts

  8. When will you do this: • Mostly at home • Your teachers will organise class time as well in which you can read or write your reviews. • All texts must be independently selected. • Texts read at school are allowed, but not if they have been studied.

  9. Deadlines • Three texts to be read in Term Two. • One of these must be an extended written texts. • First deadline is the end of Week 4: Friday, 30th of May. (Conveniently, this is a teacher only day) • Your caregivers will be notified if you don’t meet the reading deadlines.

  10. How to choose a book • Search for books that are about things you are interested in. • Research the most recommended non-fiction texts if you prefer this style to fiction. • Ask your friends and family. • Read your classmates’ blogs and check out their recommendations.

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