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week: 6 28th may- 5th june Taking Action & Staging your exhibition By the end of this week you should have: Implemented the Action A Plan of the Performance Assessment showing conclusions, highlights of key questions & lines of inquiry, showing results of your action. It must be done in a creative and non-traditional way. Relate your conclusions & findings to the Central Idea. Planned how you will display other work that supports your presentation and shows the highlights of your process of inquiry, show evidence of your action. Make a list of materials you will need to buy or bring from home such as cardboard, paint, paintbrushes, tape, scissors,staplers & anything you need to set up your stand. Teachers from 6th grade or any other grade cannot lend materials or tools. If you know you are going to use paint bring newspapers, clothes to clean, aprons or old t-shirts. Work in the tidiest and cleanest possible way in the section, making sure to clean up or tidy up after finishing each day. Thanks again for your cooperation and consideration for others. Made a list of requirements for your space and handed it in to your teacher (By Tuesday 29th May 3:00pm) Uploaded completed planner to wiki Weekly group reflection INDIVIDUAL Filled in 2 attributes, 2 attitudes & 3 skills for each wk 3,4, 5 & 6 Note: Places will be assigned by Tuesday 5th at the end of the day. Meanwhile focus on planning your presentation in detail. Once you Performance Assessment Presentations Next week you will present to pre-primary & primary on Tuesday 5th June from 8:30 a.m -1:30 p.m and Bach on the 6th June, from 8:30a.m-1:30p.m. All Bach teachers are coming on Wednesday 6th June from 2-3p.m. Be ready for the BIG NIGHT on Thursday 7th June at 6p.m to present to ALL the community! Week 5: 23rd-25th Taking Action & Planning Staging your exhibition By the end of this week you should have:

Presented a written plan of how you are Taking Action and requested authorization with both CRT and Ms Patricia or Ms Diane. Taken Action!! Remember to take Photos or keep evidence somehow to show when staging the Exhibition. Completed previous weeks responsibilities Planned and divided responsibilities for week 5 in a weekly plan. Upload it to wiki. Plan your performance Assessment. How are you going to show the Action you took and what you learned in a creative way? What is the main point we wish to make? Choose the most important information to share and decide how are you going to share it. Who is our audience? How do we use media & Arts to express our inquiry in a creative and non-traditional way? You have 10 mins for your presentation and 2 mins for questions people may have.

Reflection What are we feeling now that we must create a product to share? What is important to know about the presentation format we are using? How have our feelings changed throughout the inquiry process? What was the highlight of this inquiry? Are we satisfied with our creation?

And the following week 6---Be ready to stage your Exhibition! Practice and Prepare Presentation and place!

Week 4: 14th-18th MAY Synthesising, Making Conclusions & Taking Action

By the end of this week you should have:

Completed previous weeks responsibilities Planned and divided responsibilities for week 4 in a weekly plan. Upload it to wiki.

RESEARCH PROCESS

Reflected over your research process, answering the following questions and complete what is missing:

- With the resources you have used and the information you have found out and have collected, have you sorted out the relevant and not relevant information? - - - Have you been able to answer your key questions, lines of inquiry and student questions in depth? If not, you have to decide how you will collect the missing information very quickly and collect it. - Have you written a short summary of the relevant information found in each resource? (You should not have done copy-paste, instead upload a document and write a summary or comment underneath. - Have you quoted on each page the different resources where each piece of information was found? - Have you created your bibliography page? - Is your research is finished? What else do you need to find out about your topic? How do you know? - Check each other’s work on the wiki and given feedback to each other keeping in mind its teamwork. Remember to add a date and name to every piece of information you add. -Complete interviews and surveys following criteria

SYNTHESIS

Made conclusions of all the information and ideas found in your inquiry. How can we do this?

1) For each key concept and line of inquiry:

Analyze all your findings/results through the different types of inquiry(media/interviews/surveys/observation-experience): Synthesize the information

2) Made Overall Conclusions

Look at all the concepts overall and establish your conclusions. What are the main points you wish to make? Look at the lines of inquiry overall and establish your conclusions

TAKING ACTION This is the most important part this week!.. so make enough time for it!

Read Types of Action page Revised last week´s plan of action, made adjustments by checking action guidelines,following criteria Taken Action! Requested authorization with CRT and Mrs Patricia

WEEKLY REFLECTION

How do we feel about the WIKI and the amount of information that we have collected? How have we been getting on as a group? Has everyone synthesized the information? Has the action fulfilled your expectations? Is it having the expected impact? Is there any other type of action you can do? How can you improve the action you have done so far?

Next week get ready to continue Taking Action & Plan Staging the Exhibition!

Week 3: 7th-11th MAY PREPARATION &PLANNING: Sorting out & Planning Action

By the end o|f this week you should have: Written the lines of inquiry & student questions Filled in the planner Answered the key questions & sorting out, by organizing information found through inquiry in the wiki, according to the concepts and lines of inquiry. Each key concept question should have 1) previous knowledge 2) organized inquiry under headings of Media/ Interview/Surveys/Observation-experience 3) Each piece of information uploaded should have a summary in your own words of the relevant points. 4)Every entry should have a name and short date eg. Name 7.05.12 Update plan and responsibilities & upload on to wiki Checked instruments (By teachers)& applied them to collect information through surveys and interviews

&Planning Action What type of action will you use: direct service/ indirect service/ research /advocacy Who/Which audience will we reach with our action? According to the type of action we have decided to use, what will the expected impact be? Had your 3rd Mentor meeting

REFLECTION

What have we found out and what else do we still need to find out? What can we conclude about our findings? What are we feeling about our inquiry at this phase? How have our feelings changed since the beginning of our research?

INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Download a copy of the Attitudes, Attributes and Skills chart on the wiki page. Fill it in the 2 attributes/ 2 attitudes that you have most used for your next religion class. Fill in 3 skills that you have used from the beginning until week 3

Next week get ready to Synthesise & Start Taking Action!

Week 2: 30 APRIL- 4TH MAY (1ST MAY HOLIDAY & FRIDAY ORIGINAL CLASSES)

PREPARATION &PLANNING: Finding information

By the end of this week you should have: Designed the central idea with your class Answered the key questions: Getting started Made questions about your inquiry Checked the Exhibition Outline to realize the time frame you have Structured a plan/Calendar of what you need to find out and how you will do it, using a variety of resources. (What?, Who?, Why? When?) Started to create instruments to collect information such as surveys and interviews Had your 2nd Mentor meeting: Arrange with your mentor an alternative time if your appointment is on Tuesday or Friday.

This week you must finish focusing and preparing, so that...

Next week you are ready to collect information in an organized way: Media, Interviews, Surveys, Observation/Experiences) & for Planning Action