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Places Activities
Use the links at the bottom of the page to complete the following activities. Don't forget to fill out your answnswers on the
Evaluation Sheet.
Part One:
1. Read ‘Ten Honest Things about Ty’. It is on page 27 of the Westside Jr. book Deep Suburbia.
Click here to go to Deep Suburbia
2. Answer the following questions: Do you think this would be a difficult text for Ty to write?
Why? Would you find this a difficult text to write?
3. Write down a list of ten honest things about yourself. Call it 'Ten Honest Things About (insert your name here)'
4. This poem is a form of an autobiography. Use your own knowledge and the internet to answer the following questions: What does the term autobiography mean? How is it different from a biography?
What other formats/ text types can autobiographies be written in? What other autobiographies have you read?
Teacher provides students with a definition of biography and autobiography which they write in their books.
Part Two:
Watch the video clip 'Alleyway Honour.'
1. These four writers are reading stories about their lives in Western Sydney.Write down five things they learn about the writers experiences of growing up in Western Sydney.
Click here to go to Alleyway Honour
Part Three:
1. 'Dad, this is Australia,' by Tamar Chnorhokian is an example of a biography in the form of a feature article. It is on page 54 of the Westside Jr. Antholongy, Violence.
Click here to go to Violence
Read the srticle and answer the following questions: Why is this more of a biography than autobiography? What elements does it have of both?
What happens when Tamar gets angry? What are some of Tamar’s memories of Villawood? What are the things about Australia that Tamara’s father doesn’t understand?
Extension: Write your own feature article about something that happened in your community.
Click here to the feature article scaffold
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