Meaningful Moments: Verb Generation in Teams

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creativity
• collaboration
• communication
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 9 English:

• Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone (AC9E9LA08)

Year 10 English:

• Use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing academic texts (AC9E10LA08)

Relevant parts of Year 9 English achievement standards: Students analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual references, and multimodal features.

Relevant parts of Year 10 English achievement standards: Students analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual connections, and multimodal features, and their contribution to the aesthetic qualities of texts.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:  EN2-1A

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy

• List of ‘boring’ verbs (e.g. 16 Boring Verbs And What To Use Instead)
• Whiteboard and pens.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - explain the task, read out the boring verbs and oversee the team responses.

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