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Hello Awesome ones. Your homework for term 2 is:  **Home Journal -** Weekly Homework task You could write a weekly. This will be a **homework task** and will form a part of your writing assessment**.** Your journal entry should be at least **2-3 paragraphs in length.**

Choose from one of the topics below if you are having difficulty in thinking of ideas for home journals.
 * Retell an experience that you remember when you lost a tooth.
 * My favorite place.
 * All of us have been embarrassed at some stage. Write about such a time.
 * Make up a menu of your favorite foods and drinks.
 * How would friends and family describe your personality?
 * Think back as far as you can and make up a list of 10-15 events in your life.
 * Make a list of things that land you in trouble.
 * Make a list of things you don’t like other people doing.
 * Write a story about someone getting into trouble.
 * Write about your future hopes.
 * Choose three friends and write what it is you appreciate about them.
 * Write about an endangered animal that you know about.
 * Write a poem about the weather, the sky, the sea or a pet.
 * Write a review about the last show you watched on TV or the last movie you watched.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Australia is…

**My Journal Blog-** Weekly Homework task You could make your journal a weekly blog. This will be a **homework task** and will form a part of your writing assessment**.** Your journal entry should be at least **2-3 paragraphs in length.** First you will need to set up your blog, download the following instructions to get you started, have fun. Blog Instructions
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 * <span style="color: #391f08; font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Visit Mr Findlay’s "My Journal Blog" http://grantfindlay-year7literacyjournal.blogspot.com

<span style="font-family: 'Brush Script MT',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">** READING INDEPENDENTLY ** looks like… <span style="border: 1.5pt double windowtext; display: block; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: Ayuthaya,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Being prepared for reading with a book that you think you will be interested in.
 * <span style="font-family: Ayuthaya,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sitting in a comfortable spot -so you don’t feel you have to move during IR.
 * <span style="font-family: Ayuthaya,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Concentrating on the book you are reading -eyes stay on the page.
 * <span style="font-family: Ayuthaya,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Everyone is reading silently and independently.
 * <span style="font-family: Ayuthaya,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nobody is distracting others, this means no talking or touching others.
 * <span style="font-family: Ayuthaya,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nobody is fidgeting (tapping, moving their feet or legs, or making noises.
 * <span style="font-family: Ayuthaya,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The teacher is also reading independently or listening to others read.
 * <span style="font-family: Ayuthaya,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Self-assessment of how well you read independently

A JUST RIGHT BOOK IS... <span style="border: 1.5pt double windowtext; display: block; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt;">
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Is interesting to read.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can read most of the words (There shouldn’t be more than 5 words that you don’t know in the first 3 pages).
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Your reading speed is not too slow or too fast.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can understand what you are reading.
 * <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can figure out what you’re reading by using context clues.

It’s important to have a just right book so that when you are reading, you have “brain space” to understand what you are reading!