Power Play!

Have you heard of a quick write?
Well, If you haven't, it's a piece of writing with as many words as you can fit in your story. Of course it has to make sense but you only have 10 minutes to write. Anyway, I'm going to tell you what power play is. At the start of any literacy session we have to do 20 minutes of silent reading, then, we move on to our quick write.

Write That Essay!

In our class we do this programme called Write That Essay. There are different chapters and in order to move up a chapter you need to complete the following in order:

• Read the module
• Do the activities to a high standard
• Get 100% on the quiz relevant to the activity

Once you have done that, check with teacher to see if you move up. The idea is to improve our knowledge for writing to prepare us for the future. Write That Essay also allows teachers to give assignments for students. Also, in our class we have been going over the 12 sentence structures and doing fun writes with WTE. At the moment, I'm on Preparation, the second chapter. I have done the module and I'm close to finishing the activities. As you can see I don't do the activities in order but that is fine. This is what it looks like:

Super Speech!

Hi, and welcome back to my blog! Over the last 3 or 4 weeks we have been working on our speeches. Whether it's persuasive or stating why you love cats. My speech topic is - why we should all exercise. I think this was a good speech topic for me to write about because I think it's vital to living a healthy life. The thing I did well was getting facts and lots of research done to backup my ideas. The thing I could do to improve my speech is make it longer; when I presented it I could've spoken clearer. Here it is: