PROGRAM AND PLANNING: SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
FOR RAP POINT 1

Home

Home by Narelle Oliver Cover illustration by Narelle Oliver Cover reproduced with kind permission of Scholastic Australia Pty. Ltd Do not reproduce Review

Activity 1: Responding to text

Introduce Home, showing only the front cover and end papers. Read the text to students without showing the inside illustrations.

1. Ask students to briefly jot down or sketch their impressions of the story in 3 parts – orientation, complication & resolution
   
   
2. Discuss the impressions that students have of the different environments in the story – natural environment and then the busy urban landscape. (TS2.1)

Reading the illustrations

1. Reread the story showing the illustrations. Do they enhance or give new meaning to the written text?

What is the position of the reader now that the illustrations accompany the text? Do the illustrations tell the story on their own?

1. Do the illustrations provide a bird’s eye view of the events, or do they allow the reader to experience the events from a distance, from the author’s perspective? (RS2.7)

Activity 2: Discuss the text structure and the grammatical features that enrich the story.

1. Use Rap Sheet 1 to interpret the author’s literary devices.
2. How does the author create a variety of worlds using adjectives and action verbs? Use Rap Sheet 2 to build your own action work bank. Can you include sketches to demonstrate the actions? (RS2.8)
3. Discuss: How does the author describe the environment from the perspective of the falcon?
4. Using a Y chart (Rap Sheet 3) describe the built environment using the author’s descriptions and your own. (RS2.7)
   

Activity 3: Information Skills

Go to the Frodocam live webcam where you can view videos of Peregrine falcons nesting. Connect to the webcam for instant updates of the nesting ledge in Brisbane. Have you had any opportunity to see a webcam in use at your school? (RS2.6).

Watch some of the videos from Frodocam. Develop a word list to describe some of the bird's movements and behaviours.

How has the author’s knowledge of the peregrine falcon been reflected in the text? At the end of Home, read Peregrine falcon … city-slicker, speedster, hunter, teacher. Compare this information with that from the Australian Museum online. Use your research to complete Rap Sheet 4. Using information from the Frodocam, contrast the habits of the falcons with those of an Australian native parrot. Can you put the information into another format such as a mind map or table? (WS2.9)

Posting response to Rap point 1

1. Prepare the response to Rap point 1 with the class
2. student/s (rap representative) type the response, edit and save.
3. teacher facilitates the students/s use of the word and email programs.
4. rap rep/s send the response to Rap point 1 once the teacher has approved the final text.