Just Looking

Good morning grade 7.

Today and for HW you are going to create a research entry on your edublog. A research entry will provide some information about a topic, links people can use to find out more and maybe a few of your opinions about why this is an important topic.

Stage 1. Group Research.

Your group will be given a topic. First, in your group, you will use a couple of computers to find at least four websites that provide interesting and useful information about your topic. You should e-mail the addresses of these websites to everyone in the group.

Stage 2. Writing an individual research blog post

Then you will write a blog entry that will guide your reader through the links you have chosen. You will provide the links as part of this blog entry so your reader can read for themselves about the topic but you must explain to the reader about the topic yourself. In your own words give an overview of the topic, subject, person or journey.

Here is one I have started but not completed as an example.

Difficult Journeys

A film that powerfully describes a difficult journey is ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ directed by Philip Noyce, adapted from a novel by Doris Pilkington Garimara. This is a true story about three mixed race girls who have been separated from their aboriginal mother in order to train them to be domistic maids by the Australian authorities.

If I was completing this one I would add, some links about the real girls that the film is about, more information about the original story and about why young girls were so cruely taken from their families. I might add a video link to a clip from the film as well.

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