Class+Catch+Up

=Welcome to the CLASS CATCH UP page!= something completed on the whiteboard - then this is the page to come to!!** (If there is something you've missed or you would like to hear again and it's **__not__** here then, send me an email and I'll do my best to put it up!)
 * Basically if you have missed something important we discussed in class or you need to catch up on
 * **__READING__:** *Remember this term we are looking at the **S I R** focus for reading.
 * Substantiate** = finding evidence **from the TEXT!**
 * Inference** = drawing conclusion **from the TEXT!**
 * Retrieve** = getting basic information **from the TEXT!

I hope you have noticed the Pattern - it must be related to the TEXT!** This is where so many of us go wrong on formal tests - we often do not answer the question - FROM THE TEXT!! || __[|Persuasive Essay Writing:]__ __ // (Click the link to find out more about Persuasive Writing)// __

In persuasive writing, a writer takes a position **__FOR__** or **__AGAINST__** an issue and writes to convince the reader to believe or do something.

Persuasive writing is often used in advertisements to get the reader to buy a product. It is also used in essays and other types of writing to get the reader to accept a point of view. In order to convince the reader you need more than opinion; you need facts or examples to back your opinion. So, be sure to do the research!

Persuasive writing follows a particular format. It has an [|introduction], a [|body] where the argument is developed, and a [|conclusion]. After writing an essay, like any other piece of writing, you should read, revise, [|conference and revise], before publishing the final product. Before starting, check the [|rubric] to see how you will be evaluated, as well as, all the ingredients required to write the essay. || (A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as). Examples: As Black as coal. As soft as butter. As greedy as a dog. As busy as a bee. As cunning as a fox. As hungry as a hunter. As white as snow. As fast as Mr Aiono's white car!
 * **SIMILIES!**

I hope you get the picture! Now go and try to make some up! Be as keen as a duck to water! Or as a hungry baby to his bottle! Or as a keen student to his or her homework! Etc...! Happy simle-ing! || **Water Dictation:** As discussed today, our water that we drink actually comes from the Waikato River!! Yes its true! But remember the water is cleansed, managed and distributed by a really neat system that is controlled by the Hamilton Council! Stay tuned for more information on this in future lessons!

Dont forget - be careful what you throw into the river! Because sooner or later you will be drinking some of that water!! ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

Have a look at one of the Reports handed in. media type="custom" key="3788063" How different is yours?
 * Dead Sea Reporting**

VIRTUES of the WEEK:
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 * Tolerance:

What is tolerance? What should we be tolerant of? ||  ||   ||

This writing is categorised as Poetic Writing and is of a Personal Experience:
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 * If your writing matches the features of writing on this piece of work. Then it is likely that you are working at a Year 7/8 level. This piece of writing is categories as a Level 4 writing.** ||  ||