A Miner's Tale

A Miner's Tale - The Performance on PhotoPeach




Today was the dress rehearsal for our performance on Thursday!

Dress Rehearsal on PhotoPeach

Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January 2011

On the 27th January we all worked together to learn about Holocaust Memorial Day. The theme this year was 'Untold Stories' Share your thoughts on the day in the comments section below.

I learnt that the Nazis came to power with Germany in 1933. I learnt that U2 wrote a song all about the holocaust and it was really sad and told a story. And I learnt that if it wasn't for the people who fought for us that I wouldn't be here today. We did some role playas if we were back to when it happened. We created our last family photo and had to use our face and body language to show how we felt!! Georgia F.

Liza Hempstock - was she a witch?

Was she a witch or not? What were her crimes? She was buried in unconsecrated ground in Potter's field, what does she now want? Have you read Chapter 4?

Hi! Its Charlotte and Courtney we think that Liza Hempstock is really a witch. Her crimes were making the milk go sour and the horses go lame. We did some drama on the book where we did freeze frames and when we got tapped we needed to say what we were thinking at the time. We said "She killed my husband , now its time to get revenge." She is in Unconsecrated ground in Potters field which means she has no gravestone and she really wants one.

It's  Raj and I definitely think liza is not a witch, because when they took her to the pond she drown, but if she was a witch liza would not have felt any thing.All of the village was waiting out side her house ready to take her to the pond would you like to go you the pond? 

  

Our writing today was a challenge - we could only use 100 words and some people could only use 100 words and not use the letter 'O'...we had to work really hard! Below are a couple of examples of our work.

Open publication - Free publishing - More story

BP Oil Spill

Our first few lessons were spent in role as either BP Executives, local fishermen, reporters...looking at the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
We did a press conference in role and then wrote our own press releases.
We gave our feedback on linoit to say what we thought.

We did the oil spill at beginning of year.

i did enjoy it because i like to argue and the press relese was a great time for me to do it because i didnt get told off for it because it was my job. Also because i like to know whats going on in the world and that wasa big insidence that went off and i think it still going on.  Emily

Here is a very short clip of our press conference