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We are learning to understand and use a variety of connectives.

What is a connective? A word or words that join ideas together.

Examples of connectives are... and but or so because

also after before aswell however although even though <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">as a result of <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">consequently <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">hence <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">therefore <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">thence <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">thus <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">nevertheless <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">even so <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;"> notwithstanding <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">nontheless <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">yet

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">WALT: **persuade** the reader by **justifying** our ideas.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Persuade= Getting the reader to agree with your position. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Justifying= Backing up your ideas, or explaining them clearly.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">What does an introduction need?


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Position/Topic
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Introduce our points or arguments.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">We could include a rhetorical question or another Language feature to make the reader think and to hook them in. Get them interested.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Let's write our intro together...

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Have you ever been on a school camp? Wasn't it amazing, perhaps one of the best times of your life? Students in the senior syndicate at Outram School should go to camp every year. There are thousands of reasons explaining why we should go to camp every year. Year 4 students get to go each year. Is this fair? Many students will choose to stay at Outram School if they know they get to go on a school camp every year, and many other schools go on a camp each year.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Let's use our plan to write our 1st paragraph...

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Year 4 students get to go on camp every year. You may think this is fair, but it is not. You could argue that the Year 4 students need to go on camp every year, because every second year would miss out if they didn't. Did you know that this years Year 7 got to go on their Year 4 camp. The Year 6 students were not as lucky. They did not get to go on their Year 4 camp. Is this fair? NO. To rectify this all students in the senior syndicate at Outram School should go on camp every year.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">__Success Criteria__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">How do we know we have justified our ideas? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">You will still be interested. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">You should agree with them or understand what they're saying. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">The reader will be able to point out what the main idea is. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">The position and ideas that support your position. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">They will be able to find your back up ideas.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">What does our conclusion need?
 * //<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">May include emotive language, feelings and emotions. //
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">//May include modal verbs.//
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">May include a rhetorical question.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Sum up what we've already said.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Must include your position, you can reword it.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">WALT: use __**language features**__ to hook in the reader.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">What are language features? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">They are what we do on purpose to hook in the reader.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Language features can include...


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Onomatopoeia**- are words that sound like their meaning.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Alliteration**- repetition of the consonant sound, often used at the beginning of words.
 * __<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Assonance**- repetition of a vowel sound. __
 * __<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Rhyme**- words sound the same. __
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Repetition**. Repeat words, sentences, or phrases.
 * __<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Elipses**- ... used for effect or to help include suspense. __
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Metaphor**- is like a simile without using like or as. Describes something as being something else.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Simile**- Describes something by comparing it to something else using like or as.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Descriptive and precise language**.- is clear descriptive and exact.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">**Writing between the lines**- Leaving clues to make them figure out ideas or make assumptions.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">WALT: detail to explain or ideas and inform the reader.

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">The four forces... __ __<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Lift, thrust,drag, weight __

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Lift and thrust enable an object or animal to fly. Weight and drag work against it's ability to fly. Lift is an upwards pull that pulls the object or animal upwards. The weight is a downwards pulls that is caused by gravity. Thrust is the forces that pushes the object or animal forwards. Drag works against the objects thrust, it holds it back.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Has your buddy...
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">explained how the forces work.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">explained what the forces are.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">We are learning to hook the reader in by using <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">precise language.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Using <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">precise language is giving an exact description.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;"> A boy put saw dust inside a muffin.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">James <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">strutted out of the toilet, head held high, <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">arms flailing and with a <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">big grin from ear to ear. He was <span style="background-color: #fd36dc; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">holding a bran muffin in his <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">dirt and mud stained hands.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Key

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Precise language <span style="background-color: #fd36dc; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 32px;">Language that could be more precise