The Whole of the Moon
Teacher Mike Fowler, Steve Webb
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NCEA LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 11
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1
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4 weeks
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| Achievement Standard Being Assessed
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Achievement Criteria
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| AS90060 (English 1.9): Research, organise and present information
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- Plan research by stating topic, posing key questions and identifying possible sources.
- Collect, select and record relevant information, recording sources in an accepted format.
- Record steps taken during research process.
- Organise and present the information as a final product.
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| Processes
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| Processing information
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Use a variety of resources (written, visual, oral, including electronic media) to select relevant detail, and then analyse and interpret appropriately, presenting these findings.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Transactional Writing
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Write coherent logical explanations expressing a point of view linking main and supporting ideas and structuring material.
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Introduction
After reading The Whole of the Moon by Duncan Stewart
, students explore and research how cancer sufferers and their families live with child cancer. Students present their research findings as reports.
This unit is not designed as a simple 'book study.' The aim is to empower the students with the knowledge of what this widely feared yet largely misunderstood illness is, and how people deal with it. It is also designed to encourage students and teachers into the world of the Internet, and how to use it as a valuable research tool.
Important teacher note
Due to the nature of the content, some teachers may feel it is inappropriate for their class to limit their research purely to the theme of cancer. Students may explore extensions to this theme: their fears, dealing with challenges, other accidents or illnesses, or another appropriate variation.
Conditions:
This activity requires a mixture of class and homework activity. Students should collect most information out of class but use class time to process the information and develop their reports.
Teachers are directed to the Assessment Notes contained in AS90060 (English 1.9)
and in particular to Assessment Note 4 in regard to authenticity of student work and performance, which is of particular importance when homework activity is included. As much of the information will be collected out of class, teachers should ensure that they see information from various sources such as notes from interviews or texts or photocopies used.
Students should use the headings and suggested layout for their research plans, reports and evaluations.
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Assessment
See the
assessment (RTF 25KB)
which is also linked to the exemplars:
exemplar_a (RTF 46KB)
exemplar_b (RTF 53KB)
exemplar_c (RTF 61KB)
Note:
The exemplars are on the same topic which students are researching (with links to Whole of the Moon, examine how cancer sufferers and their families live with child cancer). Teachers should use these exemplars for summative assessment comparisons only.
Completion of this task may fulfil part of the range statement for the level 1 unit standard 8812 Produce transactional written text in simple forms.
Resources
Useful websites could include those used in task 1 as well as:
