2009-07-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

History narrative

Episode in History : Sri Lankan Conflict

Draft 1 - Content for historical narrative

Insturctions :
1. Read your social Studies textbook and access the following hyperlinks for the content for draf 1

http://infolanka.com/org/srilanka/issues/kumari.html

http://slideshare.net/missfoo/consequences-of-conflict-in-sri-lanka

2. Organise your researched information into the following 4 elements of narrative :

Introduction
- History of Sri Lanka

Complication

Underlying causes of the conflict between the Sinhalese and Tamils:
- Ceylon Citizenship Act 1948

- Resettlement Policy 1950

- Official Language Act 1956

- New university admission criteria 1972

Climax

Formation of the Tamil United Liberation Front in 1976

Resolution

- Sumamary of the consequences of the conflict

- Possible solutions

3. Write a narrive using a 3rd person persona. Your hero/heroine should be a Tamil or Sinhalese, so that you can adopt either the Tamil or Sinhalese perspective. Narrate how your hero/heroine live through the 1940 to 1983 with the july riots sparking off a long armed conflict between the government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or Tamil Tigers who wanted an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka

4. Post draft1 on your personal EL blog.

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Draft 2 - Writing Technique For Introduction

Resource: Mark grabbing technique, start powerfully prepared by Charles Barton

Choose an introductory technique from the list below :

1. Suspense start

2. Person Start

3. Emotional start

4. Descriptive start

5. Flashback Start

6. Regretful start

7. Dialogue start

8. Exciting Moment start

Write an introduction for your historical narrative using one of the introductory techniques. Infuse this introduction into your draft 1.

Post draft 2 on your personal EL blog ~

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Draft 3 - Infusing Feelings and Emotions

Resource :

- Phrase Book on vocabulary to describe feelings and the general mood of the situation.

- Write a paragraph on how your character was feeling. Describe the general mood at that time.

- Infuse this paragraph into your draft 2

- Post Draft 3 on your personal EL blog.

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Draft 4 - Writing Techniques for Conclusion

Resource : Strategies for conclusion prepared by Mrs A. Lee

Choose a concluding technique from the list below :

1. Quotation

2. Speech

3. Hanging conclusion

4. Assertion/ Reiteration

5. Circular ending ( Repeats the introduction )
6. Reflection on values and lesson learnt

Write a conclusion for your historical narrative using one of the concluding techniques. Infuse this conclusion into your draf 3

Post draft 4 on your personal EL blog.

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Process-writing on Historical Narratives

Episode in History: Sri Lankan Conflict

Draft 5 – Editing for Mechanics

Access the following website and go through the following grammar features.

Edit for the following grammatical errors:
Shift in Tense
http://www.towson.edu/ows/shifts.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/tenseconsistency.htm

Subject-verb Agreement
http://www.towson.edu/ows/sub-verb.htm

Incomplete sentence due to beginning a sentence with a coordinating conjunction e.g. And/But/So
http://www.towson.edu/ows/sentelmt.htm
http://www.towson.edu/ows/sentences.htm#CONNECTORS
http://www.towson.edu/ows/parallelism.htm

Runs-on
http://www.towson.edu/ows/sentelmt.htm#comma%20splices

Fragments
http://www.towson.edu/ows/sentelmt.htm#fragments

Misplaced modifiers
http://www.towson.edu/ows/dangmod.htm

To apply what you have learnt, try the exercises in this link:http://www.towson.edu/ows/indexexercises.htm#Sentence%20Structure%20Exercises

Amend and post Draft 5 on your personal EL blog.

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Draft 6 - Peer-Editing

Instructions:

Find a buddy and work in pairs.

Role of a buddy :
Step 1: Peer-editting on content and mechanics :
Help your friend edit on the following :

- Accuracy

- Mechanics

- Spelling errors

- Redundancy & reptitions

Step2 : Providing positive and constructive feedback

Use the following questions to help you provide the feedback :

- What are the stregths of your friend's work?

- What are the areas that he/she can improve on?
- How effective is the choice of technique for the introduction and conclusion?

Step3: Posting comment on blog entry 5

Type your feedback and post as comment on your friend's draft 5

Final Submission :
Incorporate your buddy's feedback into draft 5

Print and submit as Final Draft. This piece shall be graded as Formative Assessment.

Attach the marking Scheme for grading Free Writing for Upper Secondary.

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2009-03-29T19:01:00.000-07:00

In this project, you will choose an occupation which you are interested in and complete a research on it. You may wish to look into the requirements, responsibilities and future career prospects of the job.

Your assignment will consit of the following :-
a) blogging
b) a typed report and
c) a powerpoint presentation

BLOGGING

You will have to create your personal blog on the following website : -
http://blogger.com/
In your blog, you could include the following : -
- Some personal details such as your hobbies, likes and dislikes and daily home and school-life
- Information about the career of your choice and
- A discussion on your career choice
Your english language teacher will be assessing your blog on a regular basis to ensure adherence to the task

TYPED REPORT

You are to have the following sections in your typed report.
1. Introduction ( Introduce your future career and state briefly, the reasons for choosing this particular occupation)
2. Job Scope ( Qhat the job responsibilities are)
3. Pre-requistes for the Job ( what qualities and skills you need to qualift for the job )
4. Future career Prospects ( including your planned career path )
5. Conclusion ( What you are r have been doing to achieve your goal
6. A typed report of between 350 and 600words (times new roman font size 12, double spacing)

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

In your presentation, you should include the following : -
- Present your findings through a 30minute Powerpoint presentation (7slides maximum)
- Provide proper headlings for your slides
- Use pictures to illustate your points
- Marks will be penalised if your slides consist of chunks of text from your report.
- You are expected to summarise the notes.

2009-02-08T03:25:00.001-08:00

OKAY ! Anything, feel free to find me.
THANK YOUUUU ~

2009-01-16T23:55:00.001-08:00

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