Summer Learning Learning Day 1 Week 4

WEEK 4: All the World’s a Stage

Kia ora and welcome to the final week of the Summer Learning Journey! This week we are going to be learning about people who changed the world through the arts and entertainment industries. The people included in this programme are only a small number of the exceptional, influential and inspirational authors, musicians, artists and entertainers in the world.

Get ready to learn about some very creative people!

DAY 1: Bookworms
DAY 2: Musos
DAY 3: Screen Legends
DAY 4: Arty Designers
DAY 5: Dancing Queens

DAY 1: Bookworms

Activity 1: Rags to Riches [4 points]

J. K. Rowling is one of the most well known authors in the world. She wrote the Harry Potter series of
books. Over 500 million copies of her books have been sold, making J. K. Rowling the world’s first
billionaire author.

While she was writing the first Harry Potter book, she was a single mum with very little money. She used to write while her daughter Jessica was asleep. She used her initials ‘J.K.’ instead of her name (Joanne) because her publisher thought that boys might not want to read a book written by a woman.

J. K. Rowling has done many interviews which have revealed things about her as a writer and as a
person. One of these interviews was conducted by a very famous television personality, Oprah Winfrey
(you can find more about her on Day 3, Activity 1!).

In order to encourage people to read her books, J. K. Rowling made sure that the book covers were really creative and interesting.

For this activity, it is your turn to design a book cover for your favourite book. You will need to think about what needs to be on the cover (the title, author, illustrator, pictures, colour, etc). Please create all of the images yourself (draw or photograph). Share the book cover on your blog.
 

Activity 2: Romeo and Juliet [4 points]

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an author, poet and playwright. He is best known for the plays that he wrote while living in England in the 16th Century. Although they were written a long time ago, they are still popular because they talk about things that are familiar to us - love, revenge, confusion, betrayal, jealousy, hurt, etc. You might have heard of some of his plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear. Many of them have also been made into movies.

Shakespeare wrote his plays in English, however, it was not the same version of English that we have now. In fact, many of the words that we use today, in 2019, weren’t used back in 1600 (and vice versa). To experience the difference between modern-day English and Shakespearean English, please read the following example:

#1: Modern English version - This morning I got up early when my daughter Laila woke up. We had a delicious breakfast of steaming hot porridge before heading out the door to start the day. It was cold, sunny and clear outside.

#2 - Shakespearean English version - This m'rning I did get up early at which hour mine own daught'r Laila did wake up. We hadst a delicious breakfast of steaming hot p'rridge bef're heading out the doth'r to starteth the day. T’wast bitter cold, sunny and cleareth outside.

For this activity, read the following Shakespearean sentences and then rewrite them in Modern English. Post both the original Shakespearean sentence and your Modern English version on your blog.

Sentence #1: Mine own mume’s favouriteth meall is chicken with riceth and broccoli.
Sentence #1 Remake: My mummy's favourite meal is Chicken with Rice and Broccoli
Sentence #2: During the summer holidaie I always wend swimming at the locall pool and hast a hokeie pokeie iceth cream coneth on the waie hometh.
Sentence #2 Remake: During the summer holiday's, I always went swimming at the local pool and had a Hokie Pokie Ice Cream cone on the way home. 

Activity 3: The Diary of Anne Frank [6 points]

Anne Frank was a very brave girl. She was born and raised in a Jewish family in Germany in the 1930s. When World War II started, Anne and her family were forced to hide because the German politicians (Nazis) did not like Jewish people. She and her family hid out in a secret room in their house for two full years. During this time, Anne wrote in a diary. When the war ended, Anne’s dad found the diary and made it into a book. He called it The Diary of Anne Frank or The Diary of a Young Girl.

I know lots of people who keep a diary. Often they will record what they did during the day or
recount stories about special events that have taken place.

For this activity, we would like you to imagine that you have a diary. In your diary please write a story about your most extraordinary day. What happened? You can tell us about an actual event or you can make one up. It’s totally up to you! Please be as creative as you can. Post a diary entry about your extraordinary day on your blog. Be sure to start your post with the words “Dear Diary”.

Dear Diary.

My Mums almost finished with dinner so i'll have to make this quick. Today was an extraordinary day at school! So the day started off as any ordinary day. Teacher taking the roll, kids mucking around, but all of a sudden, our principle called out through the intercom ans said "All classes to the hall". We had no idea what was happening, not even the teachers. When we all arrived at the hall, The first thing I saw, was Blue, Red and White. I then realized it was Spiderman!. My jaw dropped. After few screaming, we all took a seat. Spiderman did a few tricks and showed us how he shot his web. After the lesson, Spiderman asked a few question. Well, I have to go now, My Mums calling me for Dinner! Bye for now!