WEEK 4 DAY 1: BOOKWORMS

DAY 1: BOOKWORMS

Activity 1: Rags to Riches [4 points]

J. K. Rowling is one of the most well known authors in the world. She wrote the Harry Potter series of books. Over 500 million copies of her books have been sold, making J. K. Rowling the world’s first billionaire author.

While she was writing the first Harry Potter book, she was a single mum with very little money. She used to write while her daughter Jessica was asleep. She used her initials ‘J.K.’ instead of her name (Joanne) because her publisher thought that boys might not want to read a book written by a woman.

J. K. Rowling has done many interviews which have revealed things about her as a writer and as a person. One of these interviews was conducted by a very famous television personality, Oprah Winfrey (you can find more about her on Day 3, Activity 1!).

As well as books needing to be engaging and interesting for the reader, it is important that they are engaging and interesting on the cover too. We sometimes say “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” but we often choose books (if we don’t know much about them) when they have an attractive cover!

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Task Description:

For this activity, we had to design a book cover of our favorite book. We needed to think about what needs to be on the cover (the title, author, illustrator), pictures, colour, etc. Here is my plan little book cover, I am sorry that it isn't fancy and cool but I was very tired and needed to post it today other wise it would bug me. This isn't a way to cheat but if you look at the time that I posted this it was a roller coaster.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Activity 2: Romeo and Juliet [4 points]

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an author, poet and playwright. He is best known for the plays that he wrote while living in England in the 16th Century. Although they were written a long time ago, they are still popular because they talk about things that are familiar to us - love, revenge, confusion, betrayal, jealousy, hurt, etc. You might have heard of some of his plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear. Many of them have also been made into movies.

Shakespeare wrote his plays in English, however, it is not the same version of English that we have now. In fact, many of the words that we use today, in 2019, weren’t used back in 1600 (and vice versa).

Task Description:

For this activity, we had to learn more about‘Shakespearean English’ - the version of English that Shakespeare used to write his plays. We then had to write a short little recount on what we did this morning , Then use this translating tool to turn it into Shakespearean English.

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Activity 3: The Diary of Anne Frank [6 points]

Anne Frank was a very brave girl. She was born and raised in a Jewish family in Germany in the 1930s. When World War II started, Anne and her family were forced to hide because the German politicians (Nazis) did not like Jewish people. She and her family hid out in a secret room in their house for two full years. During this time, Anne wrote in a diary. When the war ended, Anne’s dad found the diary and made it into a book. He called it The Diary of Anne Frank or The Diary of a Young Girl.

I know lots of people who keep a diary. Often they will record what they did during the day or recount stories about special events that have taken place.

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My story today is all about me and my two friends. There name is Zamera and Madison , We got the opportunity to go watch movies together , eat and go Extreme. As we picked each other up we went together in a car with Zamera mum. We went to Hoyts Cinemas in Botany and watched Maleficent. Minutes and hours went passed , then the movie was finally done, It was a fantastic movie. We went down and had lunch , it was very delicious. When we were all done, we went to the arcade and spent hours there. It was tons of fun I got the most tickets and got a lot of prizes. When we finished at the arcade we grabbed ourselves some ice cream and went on a fun little expedition. I would write a lot more but I was so tired.