Year 7/8: I can use my growing wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary to understand texts.
Name of Text: Underground Explorers
Definitions
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Void: an empty space or vacuum.
Fluorescent: able to give off visible light after being exposed to a source of heat, light, or other form of energy
Vulnerable: able to be hurt or injured
Interconnected: to connect or cause to be connected one to the other or others.
Seldom: not often; rarely.
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Is a void messy? Why or why not?
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No because it’s an empty space where there is nothing to get messy.
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Which color is the most fluorescent at night? Why?
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White because the moon is white and the moon shines on everything and makes it white.
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Why are elderly people more vulnerable than children? Why?
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Because most elderly are older are often living in rural areas.
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Which is more interconnected; a vine or a dandelion? Why?
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Dandelion because as soon as somebody sees a dandelion they will pick it up and and be connected with it straight away.
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Which is more seldom; the Olympics or an election in NZ? Why?
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Olympics because elections are much more often in New Zealand.
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Word Associations
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The plants in the garden are die during a frost
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Vulnerable
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There were lots of different paths that joined each other
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Interconnected
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I made a shot from halfway while facing backwards.
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Seldom
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We are still exploring outer space.
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Void
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I can find my key ring easily in the dark.
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Fluorescent
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Word Relationships
How might each pair of words be connected?
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Vulnerable/Fluorescent
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Sometimes being in a dark place with some light can make you vulnerable because the light hurts your eyes sometimes.
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Void/interconnected
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Being space can be interconnected like the caves there are lots of paths that are interconnected
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Extended Writing
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Think of a time when you felt as though you were in a void or when you saw something that happens seldom. Write a paragraph about this.
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| When I went outside to get a drink I felt like I was the only one there and I was going into a place with nothing in the area. | ||
