Is it wrong to keep animals

locked up?
Purpose:
Reading
strategies in
preparation
for writing
Strategy: Predict
I wonder
What sort of words
might appear in a
text about animals
being locked up?

Caged



Emotive words





Strategy: Making Connections
What is it?
Connecting prior knowledge with new information
while reading.

As we engage with texts, we make connections to

personal experiences (Text to self)

other texts you have read, seen or heard (Text to text)

things occurring in the world (Text to world)

Text to self; Text to text; Text to world

Why is it important?
When you link experiences, or personal background knowledge or to the text,
you are better able to construct meaning.
Text to
self
Making connections





Text to
world

Text to
text
Text to
self
Making connections





Text to
world

Text to
text
Freedom - and its loss
In the following poem, the animal has
lost his freedom a long time ago.

The poem depicts the agony of
imprisonment.
The poem symbolises how, through its
being encaged, the panther is taken
apart and finally it sinks and dies.
What dies? Explain.


The Panther - Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

His weary glance, from passing by the bars,
Has grown into a dazed and vacant stare;
It seems to him there are a thousand bars;
And out beyond those bars the empty air.

The pad of his strong feet, that ceaseless sound,
Of supple tread beyond the iron bands,
Is like a dance of strength circling around,
While in the circle, stunned, a great will stands.

But there are times the pupils of his eyes
Dilate, the strong limbs stand alert, apart,
Tense with the flood of visions that arise
Only to sink and die within his heart.

Making
connections:
That reminds me of
I remember when
An experience I have had like that
I felt like that character when

If I were that character, I would
Read the
poem again
and as you
do, complete
your Y chart.

Include
words from
the poem.
Comment
If legend is to be believed, the
poet spent nine hours staring
at a panther in its cage.

The poem describes the
physicality of the animal:
- firstly, how it moves and
thinks;
- secondly, its broken down
into parts (joints, eyes ).

Why does this enable
the poem to affect us
more?

What is it?
Creating mental pictures based on what you read or hear.
























Why is it important?
By using the words to create mental images, we gain a more
thorough understanding of the text . We remember it better.



Strategy: Visualising
The movie unfolding in my mind.

Sunday Telegraph Book
Give-a-way
Visualising
Visualising
* Each circle is a key element/section.
* Discuss thoughts with a partner.
Title:

Problem:
________________
________________
________________
________________

Solution:
________________
________________
________________
________________
________________
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Visualising

Ronald Ryan newspaper article

Background narrative

Predict the type of words likely to be used
Make notes from each slide as you read were
you right?
What other words were used?
Were you surprised at some of the language
used?

Strategy: Predict
I wonder
What sort of words
might appear in a
text about the death
penalty?





Emotive words







The death of Ronald Ryan


Mike Richards
February 2, 2007

This is the 40th
anniversary of the last
judicial hanging in
Australia, the
execution in
Melbourne of Ronald
Ryan for the shooting
murder of prison
officer George
Hodson, 41, during an
escape from Pentridge
Prison in 1965.

Apart Australia's last official
neck-breaking, the anniversary
of Ryan's hanging will be
observed as a signal moment in
our history: the event
prompted state governments to
cut the crimson thread running
through Australia's history and
abolish capital punishment.

Strategy: Predict
I wonder
What sort of words
might appear in a
text about the death
penalty?





Emotive words





Comment
For those who had some
more prominent role to play
in the execution drama, the
emotional scars run even
deeper and, 40 years on,
those still with us say they
will never get over it.

A prominent TV journalist
covering the execution threw
up in a prison toilet after
witnessing the hanging, and
spoke in favour of abolition
for years afterwards.
Another journalist
witness, Brian
Morley, from 3AW,
went to the
execution with an
open mind about
the death penalty.

To this day he
cannot speak about
what he saw
without weeping.