11ENG - Unfamiliar non-fiction text

1. Vocabulary Work
a. scooter - a light two-wheeled open motor vehicle on which the driver sits over an enclosed engine with their legs together and their feet resting on a floorboard.
b. intricate - very complicated or detailed.
c. fete - a public function, typically held outdoors and organized to raise funds for a charity, including entertainment and the sale of goods and refreshments.
d. incomprehensible - not able to be understood; not intelligible.
e. estimated - roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
f. recruited - enlist (someone) in the armed forces.
g. invaluable - extremely useful; indispensable.
h. denied - refuse to give (something requested or desired) to (someone).

I think the piece will be about someone being recruited to join an intricate fete that holds a campaign but gets denied for being incomprehensible and not being invaluable. This is because I think it kind of links to each other.

2. The Title
a. Playing cards with my friends during every morning tea and lunch.
    Go to my cousin's house very frequently and play games on the computer.
b. Maybe the text might be about what it is like during the age of 10.
c. I think this piece will be about what it is like during the age of 10 because the title is 'at the age of 10' which infers that the story will be talking about someone or something at the age of 10.

3. The background/context of the extract
a. Things that may be a concern to a 16-year-old could be what people think about her at school or maybe she might be concerned about their education. Not knowing what occupation she wants to be in the future and then having it to be too late to pick the occupation wince she did not choose the correct subject or maybe just the struggles she had from the age of 10 to her current age.

Reading the Text

1. Read the text

2. The speaker wants us to think about the children that have forfeit their childhood to being recruited for war and

Unpacking the Text

1. Summarise each paragraph
a. Memories of things the narrator did as a child, a list of what Juliet lost when she was 10.
b. The narrator remembers getting her face painted by a senior school pupil at their local fete and Juliet gets her face painted with thick black stripes
c. Juliet remembers dancing around my bedroom listening to the latest pop tracks. whilst Juliet had war music during her fight.
d. Lists happy memories of narrator and list of bad memories of Juliet in war.
e. Not all children are blessed with a good life like Juliet
f. The narrator wants us to raise awareness that not all kids have the same priveledges and are able to live a normal life, so we should be thankful for what we currently have.
g. Summarises feelings felt in the story and says to consider donating to child soldiers international.

2. Summarise in 3 sentences.
This text is about the memories of the narrator having a good life and experiencing good things such as getting face paints, dancing in her bedroom and comparing it to Juliet's life having to fight in war against men double their size. This text wants us to sympathize with Juliet's life and be aware of what is happening in the world and to consider donating to child soldiers international.


Putting it all together
1. The language feature the author uses to set the tone of the piece is anecdote.

2. At ten years old my days were filled with trips down to our local beach, riding my scooter around the block with neighbouring kids, and building intricate tents made of sheets, and pillows.

3. The speaker's overall purpose in this piece is to let others be aware of child soldiers and to understand that not all children are as lucky as were are. The speaker also asks them if they could donate to Child Soldiers International. Their attitude towards this topic is that the speaker is strongly committed to help child soldiers and to make others truly sympathize what other children are going through. We see this attitude when the speaker uses the technique parallel structure when she says, "I remember... water fights... Juliets remembers fighting with men double their size." The effect of this is to highlight the differences of our lucky life to the life of Juliet being a child soldier and to allow others to sympathize and to ask others to help people like Juliet to have a childhood like us. The reason for this is so that we can actually feel lucky to have the childhood we had because the speaker wants us to feel lucky to experience the past childhood and the present. From this, we learn to feel lucky with the life that we currently have and it makes us think about the poor children who had been taken away from their childhood and be fortunate that in our own lives that we do not have to experience events like Juliet. Finally, the author wanted us to remember people like Juliet and others and be thankful for others that have given you a chance to live a good childhood because others like you have likely been prosperous with the life you have just like in the text how the speaker has listed all the positive events that she had been lucky to experience.

11ENG Unfamiliar Texts Poetry

First impressions

My first impression about this text is that it is about a memorable event of a child that has lost his first tooth. She talks about when she waves goodbye to the boat leaving the ocean which she infers the first tooth to leave the mouth.

Vocabulary Work
a. fossick, moored, alveolus

b.  fossick:   to search
     moored:  make fast(a boat) by attaching a rope or cable to an anchor.
     alveolus: the bony socket for the root of the tooth.

Making connections

We are normally meant to be growing older from 11 to 12 but the author is referencing from dr who and the bible of Lazarus becoming younger.

Point of Change
1. Stanza 3
2. Stanza 7
3. In the first 3 stanzas, the author talks about how looking (or fossick) for shells and how the boats start to float away (the tooth getting ready to leave the alveolus).
4. The two words that I think help contribute to the atmosphere in the first 3 stanzas are

Language features
1.
Alliteration: When we wave goodbye
Simile: You are 11 teeth old and grown, like Lazarus
Adjective: Across polished floors
Listing: starfish, pipi and paua
Metaphor: Your gums are an ocean of blood.
                  Tooth's a boat
2.
Adjective - Across polished floors - This helped create a better image

Personification - I'll show you how it can rest safely upon its starboard - This helps create the image of a tooth lying on this side resting.

Metaphor - Your gums are an ocean of blood. - This draws attention to the gums and how it creates an image of blood pouring out

3. Extended Metaphors
Until the tide goes out
To yachts moored the marina

4.
it helps the reader understand that losing a tooth compares really well with a boat because sometimes it is very calm and relaxed and sometimes it can be a very rocky ride.