Current Events: Summarising The Main Ideas

This week for Current Events, our challenge was to search the internet, and find an article that we found interesting. With this information we then found keywords, 20 important words, 6 of those words that are most important, and then make a 5 sentence summary about the text. Once we had written our summaries the final challenge was to turn those 5 sentences into 5 10 syllables sentences. I worked with Jack, Joseph, and Karlos for this activity. This was an interesting challenge, and I enjoyed learning about this new found organism. If you would like to read the article I have linked it below.

Link To Article Here:

The ‘Blob’

Keywords from the title	Keywords from  sub- headings	New words I need to look up
Blob, Organism and Solve.	There are no sub-headings.	We didn’t find any words we didn’t know.

Write down 20 important words from the text	Blob, Organism, Solve, Yellowish, Scientists, Paris, Zoological, Park, Animal, Fungus, Memory, Maze, Form, Searched, Regenerate, Slime, Merge, Behaviour, Consumes and Researchers.
Chose the 6 most important words.	Blob, Researchers, Memory, Regenerate, Animal and Fungus.
Use your words to write a 5 sentence summary.	Researchers in Paris have discovered a blob. They aren’t sure if it’s an animal or a fungus. They don’t even know if it’s in between. It has a memory and can regenerate from being cut in half in two minutes. The Blob has such an interesting behaviour.

Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 5 sentences. Once you have done this turn each of your sentences into sentences with exactly 10 syllables.

People in Paris discovered a blob. - 10 syllables

Is the blob an animal or fungus. - 10 syllables

They don’t even know if it’s in between. - 10 syllables

With memory it can regenerate. - 10 syllables

The Blob has got such a weird behaviour. - 10 syllables

Maori Contingent Research

This week in reading the task was to first get into our selected group as well as read and summarise the text given, the text was about how the Maori Contingent fought in the war although they were treated the same way as other soldiers. After that my group only needed to fill out the rest of the slide as well as pair up and ask set questions to each other that were related to the text, I paired up with Freeman. After we'd asked the questions we needed to write feedback related to how our partner did whilst being quizzed. Other tasks were to say whether or not we thought that we should remember the Maori Contingent's soldiers and researching a Maori Contingent war hero.