Dear Rappers
We are from the Dubbo School of Distance Education. We are Year 8
English students, Group1. This our first book rap so here is some
information
about us.
Our teacher's name is Mrs Anne Glenday. Our names are Jess, Kirk,
Lauren,
Amy, and Harry.
Here is a bit of information about each of us:
Lauren- lives on a property near Berwarrina.
Amy - lives on a farm of forty acres, she is next to the town of Mount
Hope
which has a population of eleven people.
Kirk- lives in a house near Deniliquin
Harry- lives at the National Park - Goulburn River
Jess- lives at Marrapina Station one hundred and sixty kilometres
North-
East of Broken Hill
Our school is different to mainstream schools because we have a lot of
one on
one work and our classroom is at home with our mum or a governess
teaching
us. We receive our work via mail, e-mail, fax or internet. The only time
we
see each other and our teachers face to face is at school camps which
are held
about once a term. We also contact our teachers by phone for assistance
and
we can have up to twelve teachers at a time.
Here are some of our early impressions of the Binna Binna Man. Some
thought it was interesting, especially all the aboriginal language and
talk.
Although it was a bit.confusing we really liked the way the author had
the boy
explaining what they meant
We liked how it gives you a little look at how the aboriginal people
live and
their beliefs.
I really enjoyed reading the book because it actually sounded like the
way
aboriginal people speak.
Hi, we are group 2 of the year 8 students book rappers from Dubbo School
Of
Distance Education. Dubbo is 6 hours north west of Sydney, but we are
all isolated
and live in different parts of NSW. Our names are Todd (he lives between
Cobar and
Bourke), Sabrina (she lives in the Goulburn
River National Park which is near Mudgee), Rebecca (Narromine) and Jason
(he
lives between Wanaaring and Tibooburra).
This is our first Book Rap and we are doing it by teleconference! We
can't do it
sitting together as we only get to see each other once a school term
when we have a
year 7-10 residential which lasts a week. The best thing about doing
home school is
you have flexible school hours so if we are doing stock work on our
property I can
still help in the morning and work from 1 o'clock (p.m.) to 6:30 p.m. It
is also a lot
easier than main stream as you aren't in a class room and there for
don't get distracted as easy. We usually contact our teachers by phone
but do use
e-mail occasionally. Our first impression of the Binna Binna Man was,
great, but we
all had trouble figuring out what happened to Shandell on the beach, but
with our
teachers help we realised that it was the doing of the Binna Binna Man!!
The
pictures also helped to explain what was happening at the time and
helped to unfold
the plot of the story.
Happy Rapping
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