Create your own Mix-tape!

Creating mixtapes is a big thing in the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower.  Today I want you to create your own mixtape. During the lesson, I will show you how you create a mixtape in www.kaseta.co
To show you an example I created a mixtape for my daughter. Click on the picture below to listen to the mixtape.

1. Read the instructions in picture number 2.
2. Who would you like to give your mixtape? (Remember that you are going to show your friends and talk about your mixtape so don't make it too personal if you aren't comfortable with it.)
3. Create your mixtape!
Go to Chrome Webstore and add the Kaseta extension (tillägg till Chrome).
(You have to finish your mixtape as homework and hand in the link to me in Google classroom. Dead-line: Friday the 9th of November)

https://kaseta.co/play/a1MJhGD

Writing

After reading part 3 -4

Work in pairs and create a mind-map where you answer the questions below and work with the structure of your blog post. I will help you in class. When you have finished your mind-map - show me! You will then write your text in ChromEX.

Imagine that you are Charlie, the girl or Dave and that you are 25 years old now. You think back about what happened. Write a blog post where you would like to draw attention to your blog.
- Use a headline that makes people want to read. 
- Describe: what happened, where were you, who were there, how did you feel then and how do you feel now? 
- Give advice: What would you like to tell young people to help them out of situations like the one you were in? 
What could you have done differently? 
What do you think society can do to help young people? 

Write in Google docs, size 12 and minimum 150-200 words. I don't want you to use the internet to look up words and grammar. Use your brain! 

Here you can find tips on how to write a viral blog post: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/secrets-to-writing-viral-blog-posts.html

When you think your text is finished, go through this check-list and take a look at your text again: 

* Capital I ? 
* are the verb forms correct? Past tense? 
* is/are or was/were?
* has/have? 
* paragraphs?
* Does the reader get to know the answers to the questions you find in the instruction? 
* Does the headline draw your attention? Do you think you would have read your own text if you saw it published?

The Perks - after reading ch 3-4

Discussion: 

Charlie's parents went away from home and his brother decided to "use the opportunity to throw a big party with beer and everything". 

1. What happened at the party?
2. What did Charlie see?
3. What would you have done if you were Charlie? 
4. Is the girl raped or not? 
5. We will watch the videos below together in class. After watching the films I want you to, individually, write two sentences in menti.com that came to your mind when watching.  

Dear Dad (English) - Short film from Jakob Strom on Vimeo.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Eng 8C

The book we will work with for the next few weeks is called: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and the author is Stephen Chbosky.


 
When you have watched the trailer above - discuss with your neighbour what you think the book will be about.

Have you ever heard the word "Wallflower"? What do you think the word means?

Take a look at the statements below. Talk to your neighbour about them and take notes if you agree or disagree with the statement. You need to be able to tell the rest of the class about your opinions.

1. Feeling like you are alone in the world with nowhere to turn to for support is a normal
part of being a teenager.

2. Learning how to make friends is more difficult in secondary school than it is in primary school.

3. The dangers of drug use by teenagers are exaggerated.

4. Your first serious kiss should be by someone you truly love.

5. If adults really knew what happened among teenagers on Snapchat and the

internet they would be shocked.

5. Experiencing new things helps teenagers develop emotionally and intellectually in ways

that reading a book can never match.

6. Getting involved sexually as a teenager can only make your life more confusing and difficult.

7. Brothers and sisters are closer to one another than parents and their children.

(Questions are inspired by https://selfdiscoveryinart.weebly.com/daily-lesson-plans.html)

Let's read the first part together in class: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

/ Sara

How to give feedback - The Perks of being...

You have now finished both reading and writing about the book The Perks of being a wallflower. Today you are going to read a text that one of your friends has written and you are going to give feedback to help your friend improve his or her text.

1. In Google Classroom you will find out whose text you will read and work with. Then click on the attached link, which will lead you to a folder in Google drive. Find the name of your friend's text, open it and make your own copy.
2. Re-name the text like this:
Feedback from XXX to XXX
3. Read the text.
4. Give your friend comments in Google Docs. Select the word or phrase that you would like to comment. An icon with a plus sign will appear. Click on the icon to add your comment.

The checklist below will help you:

Checklist 

1. Do all sentences, people and places begin with a capital letter?
2. Do all sentences end with correct punctuation? (. , ? !)  Help: Punctuation
3. Has the author written I with a capital I?
4. Are there varied sentence lengths?
5. Has the author remembered paragraph division?  Help: Paragraphs
5. Are there colourful and describing words?
6. Has the author followed the instructions Sara gave on how to write the text?
7. Is the text interesting and worth reading - if not - what can be improved?
7. Are the verb forms correctly written? Help: Verb
8. Did you check the text for spelling mistakes? Don't use Google Translate.
Help:
Dictionaries:
 ord.se
Merriam-Webster.com

9. The last step is to go to Grammarly
- Sign in to Grammarly with your Google account.
- Click on NEW. Type the title of the text you are working with: Feedback to XX from XX
- Go to the text you are working with and copy it. Then go back to Grammarly and paste it.
- Grammarly will now help you check your text for spelling and grammar mistakes.
OBS! When you have pasted the text into Grammarly - show me before you move on. 

-Click on the underlined words to find out what is wrong. Check the grammar and spelling mistakes and go back and forth to the text you are working with. Continue giving your friend comments.
9. When you are finished:
Write a comment to your friend where you tell him or her two things that you really liked about the text and one thing that your friend needs to think about the next time he or she is writing a text.
Post this comment at the very top of the text, next to the friend's name so I easily can find it.
10. Tell your friend and me that you are finished.
11. When you get your text back:
 - Go through your text and fix it. Make sure you understand what is wrong and learn from your mistakes.
- Tell me when you are done.

Sara

After reading the whole book - create your own mixtape

Creating mixtapes is a big thing in the book The Perks of being a Wallflower.  Today I want you to create your own mixtape. During the lesson, I will show you how you create a mixtape in www.kaseta.co
To show you an example I created a mixtape for my daughter. Click on the picture below to listen to the mixtape.

1. Read the instructions in picture number 2.
2. Who would you like to give your mixtape? (Remember that you are going to show your friends and talk about your mixtape so don't make it too personal if you aren't comfortable with it.)
3. Create your mixtape!
Go to Chrome Webstore and add the Kaseta extension (tillägg till Chrome).
(You have to finish your mixtape as homework and hand in the link to me in Google classroom. Dead-line: Friday the 9th of November)

https://kaseta.co/play/a1MJhGD?autoplay=1&track=F69PBQ4ZyNw

The activity is inspired by: Englishcaddy.org.

After reading the whole book The Perks of... - writing

After reading the whole book

You have now finished reading the book The Perks of being a Wallflower

and your task is to write an additional chapter. You are going to write Charlie’s

last letter.

Think about:

1. How does Charlie start and end every letter?
2. Are the letters formal or informal?
3. Does he use a language that is hard for youths to understand? Are there any

special words that he comes back to?

     4. Think about Charlie’s “voice” when he is writing - why does he write these

          letters? What does he want to tell the reader? What is important to him?

When you write your letter follow this instruction:

1. Choose a specific place and a specific time. Describe the scene and jump straight

into the scene. Example:

I woke up and jumped out of my cosy bed. I investigated the fridge to see if there

were any leftovers from yesterday’s party. I found a half eaten pizza and grabbed it

as I headed towards the shower.

  2. In the first part of the letter, you focus on looking back at something that has
happened to you. Describe something that Charlie sees, hears or feels in the scene
you have chosen. What you are writing needs to describe the feelings of the letter you are writing.

3. In the second part, you focus on what is happening to you now. Focus on something
positive and something that makes Charlie happy and hopeful about his future.

4. Make your character (Charlie) do something in the scene - you can make something up
if you want to. Remember to use a tone in your letter that wakes up the feelings of the reader.
Love, hate, anger, sadness? You choose.

5. Finally, write something about Charlie’s future. Remember to stick to the feeling

you wrote about before.

6. Finish your letter and check if you have followed the instructions above.

7. Grammar:

Are you writing your text in the correct tense?

Check your verb forms.

Have you written I with a capital I?

Is/are, has/have, was/were?

Spelling: Go through your text and check your spelling.

8. Share your text with a friend. I will tell you who your partner will be.

9. Read the text you just got.

• Go through steps 1-5 above. Has the author followed the instructions?
• Comment and give suggestions.
• Do you understand what feeling the author is trying to describe? If not, give
• examples to improve the text
• Check the text: grammar and spelling.

9. Send the text back to your partner and hand it into me again.

Good Luck!

/ Sara

The Perks week 41 Reading part 4-9

I will be at a conference in Gothenburg this week.

 8CD1 (academy)

Week 41
Tuesday: 
Finish writing the text you started writing last time.
Read part 4, 5 and 6.
Take short notes ( 4-5 sentences) after each chapter so you remember what happened.

If you listen - one part is about 20 minutes. Bring your own headphones, because you need to stay in the classroom so the substitute teacher knows where you are.

Thursday: 

 Read part 7, 8 and 9.
Bring your own headphones.

Homework: 

When the lesson starts on Tuesday week 42 make sure you have finished reading part 4-9. We will start the lesson by discussing those chapters.

The Perks of being.. writing (after part 3)

After reading part 3 

Imagine that you are Charlie, the girl or Dave and that you are 25 years old now. You think back about what happened. Write a blog post where you would like to draw attention to your blog.
- Use a headline that makes people want to read. 
- Describe: what happened, where were you, who were there, how did you feel then and how do you feel now? 
- Give advice: What would you like to tell young people to help them out of situations like the one you were in? 
What could you have done differently? 
What do you think society can do to help young people? 

Write in Google docs, size 12 and minimum 150-200 words. I don't want you to use the internet to look up words and grammar. Use your brain! 

Here you can find tips on how to write a viral blog post: https://www.shoutmeloud.com/secrets-to-writing-viral-blog-posts.html

When you think your text is finished, go through this check-list and take a look at your text again: 

* Capital I ? 
* are the verb forms correct? Past tense? 
* is/are or was/were?
* has/have? 
* paragraphs?
* Does the reader get to know the answers to the questions you find in the instruction? 
* Does the headline draw your attention? Do you think you would have read your own text if you saw it published?



Good Luck!

The Perks of being a Wallflower - after reading part 3

Discussion: 

Charlie's parents went away from home and his brother decided to "use the opportunity to throw a big party with beer and everything". 

1. What happened at the party?
2. What did Charlie see?
3. What would you have done if you were Charlie? 
4. Charlie and Sam agreed that Dave raped his girlfriend at the party. She said no many times, but when is a ”no” really a NO?

We will watch the videos below together in class. After watching the films I want you to, individually, write two sentences in menti.com that came to your mind when watching.  

Dear Dad (English) - Short film from Jakob Strom on Vimeo.


Homework for next time: 

Make sure you have read chapter 4 and 5 before we start the lesson.

Challenge: Go to Flipgrid and upload a short video where you tell the Flipgrip community your thoughts about the film Dear Dad.  Remember that Flipgrid is public and that anyone that is a Flipgrid member is able to watch and comment.

/ Sara 

The Perks of being a Wallfllower - after reading part 1

We have now read the first part of the book: The Perks of being a Wallflower.

After reading chapter 1

Pgs. 1-40

Work in pairs. Hand in your answers in Google Classroom. Write your names at the top of the page. It is enough for one student to hand in the answers but I want both of you to write.
Share a document.

Mandatory questions:

1, 2, 6, 8, 11, 13

Choose 3 extra questions to answer.

1. Who is the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
2. Who do you think Charlie is writing to?  Are there certain age groups/people who listen better than others?
3. What is the setting of the novel?
4. What is Charlie’s brother’s name?
5. What is Charlie’s sister’s name?
6. Who is Charlie’s “favourite person in the whole world?” Tell me what you know about this person so far.
7. How did Charlie react to Michael’s suicide?
8. Describe Charlie’s family.  What is his relationship with the various people in his family?
9. Who is Susan?  Describe her.
10. Describe the incident with Sean.
11. Describe the relationship between Charlie’s sister and her boyfriend.  Is this a healthy relationship?
12. What happens to Charlie’s sister on the couch?

Homework for Tuesday:

Go to Seesaw and talk about the questions below:

In the book, there is an incident where Charlie's sister gets slapped in the face by her boyfriend. What do you think about this situation?

What would you have done if you were Charlie and saw this happen to your sister?

What do you think about the sister's reaction?

What do you think Charlie should do? Tell his parents, tell the boyfriend, keep quiet or what do you think? Motivate your opinions and try to use the linking words we talked about.

/ Sara

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Part 1

The book we will work with for the next few weeks is called: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and the author is Stephen Chbosky.



When you have watched the trailer above - discuss with your neighbour what you think the book will be about.

Have you ever heard the word "Wallflower"? What do you think the word means?

Take a look at the statements below. Talk to your neighbour about them and take notes if you agree or disagree with the statement. You need to be able to tell the rest of the class about your opinions.

1. Feeling like you are alone in the world with nowhere to turn to for support is a normal part of being a teenager.
2. Learning how to make friends is more difficult in secondary school than it is in primary school.
3. Adults forget what the intensity of a crush is like for a teenager.
4. The dangers of drug use by teenagers are exaggerated.
5. Your first serious kiss should be by someone you truly love.
6. If adults really knew what happened at teenage parties, they would be shocked.
7. Experiencing new things helps teenagers develop emotionally and intellectually in ways that reading a book can never match.
8. Getting involved sexually as a teenager can only make your life more confusing and difficult.
9. Brothers and sisters are closer to one another than parents and their children.

(Questions are inspired by https://selfdiscoveryinart.weebly.com/daily-lesson-plans.html)

Let's read the first part together in class: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Perks/01/default.html

/ Sara