Week 9 Term 2: Teacher Practice: NCEA Level 1 English Term 2 Unit: Reading 4 Update (June 24 - June 28)

My previous posts have outline the NCEA Level 1 English Term 2 unit, the readings that we have covered and the pre/post reading activities that the students have done. Please see the links below for my reflections on our journey so far with Term 2 unit 'Our Stories and Our Histories (through poetry)'. 

Alby's Blog Post Entry (19/05/24) - An overview of our Term 2 unit 'Our Stories and Our Histories (through poetry)'. 

Alby's Blog Post Entry (09/06/24) - Reading No.1 - Jacinda goes to the Pacific Forum in Tuvalu and my family colonizes her house

Alby's Blog Post Entry (16/06/24) - Reading No.2 + Reading No.3 - BLM and Covid in the time of Priminiscinda

We are now at the final stage of the reading and content learning of the unit. In this stage of the unit, the students have already read through three poems from Avia's 'The Savage Colonizer Book' and have completed the reading logs for each text. At this point, the students have collectively read through each poem, discussed the poem and completed the reading log for each poem. We have also spent time looking at the context for each poem. Now that this is done, the students can walk into the next stage confident in how to unpack the poem, identify language features and understand the context for each poem. I will briefly outline what the next phase will look like for the fourth poem. 

Fourth Text from 'The Savage Colonizer Book'

I will give the student's a fourth poem from Avia's collection. The poem that I have selected is 'Massacre' which details the Christchurch Mosque attack in 2019. The students will read through the poem and complete the reading independently. I will not teach or read the text with the class as the student's have already got the skills through the readings/study from the first three poems. The students will read through the poem on their own and complete the reading log on their. 

Fourth Text Context

Pre reading task

In understanding the context, I have created a document with links to articles and news clips that detail and outline the Christchurch Mosque attack. Each link has a set of questions (the same set of questions for each link) that the student will answer once they have read and/or viewed the video. The purpose of this document is help support or even develop the student's understanding of the context of the poem 'Massacre'. The most important part of the fourth text is that the student will read it, study it, unpack and close read it independently. 

Next Steps

• Monitor student work of 'Massacre' through the reading log
• Introduce the accompanying assessment: 91924
• The student's will use a text of their choice as the primary text for 91924 (they will choose from the four texts that we have looked at in class but I will try and direct them towards Massacre)