Year 8

Summer 2
Project

Wanderlust!
The Wonderful Wilderness
 The Project
Name:
Class:
Teacher:

Overview
Over the next seven weeks, you will be creating the ultimate portfolio of creative writing, diary entries,
newspaper articles and descriptions of some of the most beautiful places on earth. The great thing about a
portfolio project is that you are able to continually add to it and improve it over time- perfect when you’re
learning from home. By the end of the seven weeks, you’ll have an amazing collection of work.

Research
Make sure to use the research tools that are available to you. There will be a range of articles,
documentaries, YouTube clips and much more to transport you from your home to places all around the
globe. This research will be crucial in fully understanding the culture, cuisine and people of the various
continents you will be visiting.

Deadline
Your portfolio must be submitted on Google Classroom during the final week of term. If you’re working on a paper-
copy, you can either email pictures to your teacher or bring the portfolio into school when we return.
 The Itinerary
Every trip needs a carefully planned itinerary so we know where we are heading. Over the
next five weeks, we will be travelling across five continents and exploring the culture,
landscape and wonderful wilderness of these beautiful regions of the globe.

Week 1:
Our first destination means travelling to the largest continent on earth;
Asia. We will have the chance to explore the beauty and wilderness that
South East Asia has to offer.

Week 2:
Next stop...Africa. We’re heading to the world’s second largest continent
to explore the culture and wildlife that awaits. You may need to pack your
translation dictionaries as it is estimated that about 2,000 different
languages are spoken on the African continent!

Week 3:
Wrap up warm because we’re off to Antarctica next. The largest of
Antarctica's ice shelves (floating tongues of ice) is the Ross Ice Shelf, which
measures some 197,000 square miles or 3.7 percent of the total area of
Antarctica!

Week 4:
Hola Amigos! Next stop is South America, home of The Amazon river. The
Amazon is not only the second longest river in the world after the Nile, but
also carries more water than the world's other 10 biggest rivers combined!

Week 5:
We’re off to Australia! Although it may be the smallest continent on earth,
it is home to The Great Barrier Reef which has 350 species of corals and
over 1,500 species of fish.
Week 6:
The penultimate destination of our trip is Europe! Europe is the second
smallest continent in size but the third largest in population. The European
continent houses 50 countries.

Week 7:
The final destination of our trip is…up to you! You will be creating your
own continent and deciding on its name, flag, geographical layout, cuisine
and, well, pretty much anything you like!
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 Week 1- Asia

Lesson 1 and 2- The wildlife of South East Asia

1. Go to the following website: https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/best-wildlife-southeast-asia-
national-parks/. If you haven’t got access to the internet, use of the Cambodian tiger the image
below.

2. Pick one of the images and use the descriptions and links to other websites to learn more about the
animal.
3. Write an engaging description of the animal that you have selected. You may want to consider:

a. Various features of the animal

b. The colours
c. The mannerisms and characteristics of the animal
d. How it would feel to be so close to this animal

4. Make sure to redraft your work. Try using synonyms to ensure you are using engaging and
sophisticated vocabulary. Can you include similes and personification to engage the reader?
My work:
Lesson 3 and 4- Vietnam
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Welcome to Ha Long Bay!
Towering limestone pillars and tiny islets topped by forest rise from the emerald waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.
Designated a World Heritage Site in 1994, Ha Long Bay's scatter of islands, dotted with wind- and wave-
eroded grottoes, is a vision of ethereal beauty and, unsurprisingly, northern Vietnam's number one-tourism
hub.

1. To help transport you to Ha Long Bay, watch the following video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKaRZsxX9Mg.

2. Read Extract 1 (from The Beach- FICTION) and Extract 2 (Sail Through Ha Long Bay’s Dreamy
Seascape- NON-FICTION) and consider the way both describe Ha Long Bay.

Extract 1- The Beach

Think about a lagoon, hidden from the sea and passing boats by a high, curving
wall of rock. Then imagine white sands and coral gardens never damaged by
dynamite fishing or trawling nets. Freshwater falls scatter the island,
surrounded by jungle - not the forests of inland Thailand, but jungle. Canopies
three levels deep, plants untouched for a thousand years, strangely coloured
birds and monkeys in the trees. On the white sands, fishing in the coral garden,
a select community of travellers pass the months. They leave if they want to,
they return, the beach never changes.

Extract 2- Sail Through Ha Long Bay's Dreamy Seascape

Even in a country with the diversity of Vietnam, the spectacular seascape at Ha
Long Bay can stun the most powerful into humility.
This UNESCO World Heritage site is in northeastern Vietnam’s Gulf of Tonkin,
in Quang Ninh Province. The lush emerald and turquoise waters harbor over
1,600 mostly uninhabited—and thereby undisturbed—islands and islets,
according to UNESCO.
In Vietnamese, Ha Long means “descending dragon.” Dragons play a
prominent role in Vietnamese culture, and the most popular legend has it that
one such creature and her children descended from heaven to defend the Viet
people from invaders, spraying fire and emeralds or jade. She and her children
then stayed on Earth.
The jewels eventually formed towering limestone formations, and over
millennia, their protective crags and jagged edges evolved into the backdrop of
green islands, towers, and water relished by visitors. A nearby bay, Bai Tu Long,
refers to the children of the dragon.
That’s not to reduce the charm of Ha Long Bay to the fanciful. From a scientific
viewpoint, it’s remarkable as “a very evolved, very advanced, unusual looking
karst landscape,” says Robert Brinkmann, professor of geology, environment,
and sustainability at Hofstra University in New York. Most such formations are
on land, such as in Florida or Puerto Rico, and not on the water.
How to Get There
Ha Long Bay is 103 miles (165 kilometers) from Hanoi (formerly known as
Thang Long, “Ascending Dragon.”) It’s accessible by bus, taxi, motorbikes,
ferry, hydrofoil, and private tour companies. You can also take a Ha Long Bay
transfer directly from the airport. To cut the journey from up to four hours
down to about 45 minutes, consider a helicopter or seaplane. A tour company
from Hanoi is highly recommended, as most people at Ha Long Bay will be on
tourist boats anyway.
How to Visit
Most visitors take an overnight boat tour of Ha Long Bay to experience at least
one sunset and one ethereal sunrise. “You can stay closest to the water and the
limestone islets as well as do activities such as kayaking, swimming, and visiting
fabulous caves,” says Tran Trong Kien, CEO of TMG, a travel company in Asia.
To get off the beaten path, Kien recommends taking a seaplane. “At the
moment, cruising in Ha Long Bay is limited to just five routes, but flying with
seaplanes, you get to view the whole bay and admire its grandness and the
amazing formations of the islets.”
When to Visit
The best time to go is from March to May or September to November, which is
generally a good time to visit Vietnam to avoid the extreme heat. Vietnamese
summers bring monsoons, and winter can be cloudy and cool (50 to 70 degrees
Fahrenheit).

3. Using all of the information that you have read and the videos you have watched, imagine that you
have taken a trip to Ha Long Bay. Use the postcard template on the next page to write a postcard
home to your friends/family telling them all about your trip.

You may want to consider:

- The spectacular views and some interesting facts about the bay
- A description of the ocean and the islands that surround the bay
- How you travelled to Ha Long Bay and what you saw on the way
- What you recommend if they were to visit
 My work:

Dear…

[Address Line 1]

[Address Line 2]

[POSTCODE]

[CITY]

[COUNTRY

Wishing you were here…

[NAME]
 Week 2- Africa

Lesson 1 and Lesson 2

1. Watch the following video and choose the destination that you’d like to visit the most:
a. The safari of Tarangire
b. Serengeti
c. Zanzibar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7e2fi1EC8k

2. Design the front cover of a holiday brochure which persuades people to visit the destination you
have chosen. Use the examples below and some of the techniques in your brochure to try to
engage and persuade the reader to visit your chosen destination. You may also want to conduct
further research so you have exciting facts and recommendations to offer.

Example of the features to include:

Remember to:
- Use emotive language, directive language,
rhetorical questions
- Persuasive words and phrases, personal
pronouns
- Informal language, repetition, fact/opinion
- Presentational devices such as
o Headings, subheadings,
paragraphs, bullet points, bold
type, exclamation marks, audience
and purpose, photographs,
diagrams and illustrations.
 My Brochure

Lesson 3 and 4- The Okavango Delta

1. Read the following articles about The Okavango Delta in Botswana (see pictured below):
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/11/africa-expedition-conservation-okavango-delta-
cuito/

https://africawanderlust.com/destinations/best-countries-to-visit-in-africa/
 2. Using the image above and your research, write an engaging description of The Okavango Delta.
You might want to box the image up into four and use each box as a focus for each paragraph
Appealing to the senses
Writers often use descriptive language that appeals to the five senses when they describe a setting.

The five senses:

1. what a reader might see

2. what a reader might hear
3. what a reader might smell
4. what a reader might feel
5. what a reader might taste
You may also want to include:
Engaging adjectives Links between the opening
Adverbs at the beginning of description and the final
sentences to make your description
description dynamic Sensory descriptions
Similes and metaphors Extended metaphors
Personification The rule of three
 My description of The Okavango Delta

Write your description here..

Week 3- Antarctica
Lesson 1
Read the extract below and highlight any interesting facts/pieces of information that you
have discovered about Antarctica.

Antarctica
Often described as a continent of superlatives, Antarctica is the world’s
southernmost continent. It is also the world’s highest, driest, windiest, coldest, and
iciest continent. Antarctica is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km)
in size, and thick ice covers about 98 percent of the land. The continent is divided
into East Antarctica (which is largely composed of a high ice-covered plateau) and
West Antarctica (which is largely an ice sheet covering an archipelago of
mountainous islands).

Transantarctic MountainsThe Transantarctic Mountains, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Hannes Grobe

Lying almost concentrically around the South Pole, Antarctica’s name means
“opposite to the Arctic.” It would be essentially circular except for the
outflaring Antarctic Peninsula, which reaches toward the southern tip of South
America (some 600 miles [970 km] away), and for two principal embayments,
the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea. These deep embayments of the
southernmost Pacific and Atlantic oceans make the continent somewhat pear-
shaped, dividing it into two unequal-sized parts. East Antarctica lies mostly in the
east longitudes and is larger than West Antarctica, which lies wholly in the west
longitudes. East and West Antarctica are separated by the approximately 2,100-
mile- (about 3,400-km-) long Transantarctic Mountains.

The continental ice sheet contains approximately 7 million cubic miles (about 29
million cubic km) of ice, representing about 90 percent of the world’s ice and 80
percent of its fresh water. Its average thickness is about 5,900 feet (1,800
metres). Ice shelves, or ice sheets floating on the sea, cover many parts of the Ross
and Weddell seas. These shelves—the Ross Ice Shelf and the Filchner-Ronne Ice
Shelf—together with other shelves around the continental margins, fringe about 45
percent of Antarctica. Around the Antarctic coast, shelves, glaciers, and ice sheets
continually “calve,” or discharge, icebergs into the seas.

The continent is a cold dry desert where access to water determines the abundance
of life. While the terrestrial ecosystem contains more than a thousand
known species of organisms, most of these are microorganisms. Maritime Antarctica
—the islands and coasts—supports more life than inland Antarctica, and the
surrounding ocean is as rich in life as the land is barren.

About 45 species of birds live south of the Antarctic Convergence, but only three—
the emperor penguin, Antarctic petrel, and South Polar (McCormick’s) skua—breed
exclusively on the continent or on nearby islands. An absence of mammalian land
predators and the rich offshore food supply make Antarctic coasts a haven for
immense seabird rookeries.

Task :
1. Design a quiz with 6 questions, using the information above to help you. Question 1 has been
completed for you. Double click on the purple box to open a box that will allow you to type.

2. For each question, provide four possible answers (including the correct answer!!) so that the
contestants have a chance of getting it right.

3. You may want to get creative and use images in your quiz to help the contestants get a better idea
of the question.

4. This could be a quiz that you play with your friends/family at the weekend to keep you entertained-
either at home or online. Perhaps you could message your friends from class and see if they can
get all of the answers right!

My Antarctica Quiz:
Q1: How many species of bird can you find on the continent of Antarctica?

A. 25

B. 35

C. 45

D. 55

Q2:

A.

B.

C.

D.

Q3:

A.

B.

C.
 Q4:

A.

B.

C.

D.

Q5:

A.

B.

C.

D.

Q6:

A.

B.

C.

D.

Lesson 2 and 3
Read the extract below:
On November 12, 1912 an Antarctic search party discovered its objective - the tent of Captain Robert
Scott and his two companions half buried in the snow. Inside, they found the body of Captain Scott
wedged between those of his fellow explorers, the flaps of his sleeping bag thrown back, his coat open.
His companions, Lieut. Henry Bowers and Dr. Edward Wilson, lay covered in their sleeping bags as if
dozing. They had been dead for eight months. They were the last members of a five-man team returning
to their home base from the Pole.

At the Pole January 18, 1912

The team had set out on its final push to the Pole the previous January. They knew they were in a race to
be the first to reach their destination. Their competition was a Norwegian expedition lead by Roald
Amundsen. The two expeditions employed entirely different strategies. Amundsen relied on dogs to haul
his men and supplies over the frozen Antarctic wasteland. Scott's British team distrusted the use of dogs
preferring horses, once these died from the extreme conditions the sleds were man-hauled to the Pole
and back. In fact, Scott deprecated the Norwegian's reliance on dogs. Their use was somehow a ‘less
manly’ approach to the adventure and certainly not representative of the English tradition of "toughing it
out" under extreme circumstances. Man could manage Nature. A similar spirit guided the building of the
"unsinkable" Titanic and then supplied the ship with far too few lifeboats to hold its passengers if disaster
did strike. Just as the passengers of the Titanic paid a price for this arrogance, so too did Captain Scott and
his four companions.

At the Pole

In addition to Capt. Scott, Lieut. Bowers, and Dr. Wilson, two others, Capt. Titus Oates and Petty Officer
Edgar Evans made the final push to the Pole. Conditions were appalling: temperatures plummeting to minus
45 degrees F., nearly impassable terrain, blinding blizzards, or blinding sunshine. On January 16, nearing their
objective, Scott and his team make a disheartening discovery - evidence that the Norwegians have beat them
to the Pole. In fact, the Norwegians had arrived four weeks earlier on December 14, 1911. Psychologically
numbed by the finding, the team pushes on. We pick up Scott's journal on the following day:

Wednesday, January 17 - Camp 69. T. -22 degrees at start. Night -21 degrees. The Pole. Yes, but under very
different circumstances from those expected. We have had a horrible day - add to our disappointment a head
wind 4 to 5, with a temperature -22 degrees, and companions labouring on with cold feet and hands.

We started at 7.30, none of us having slept much after the shock of our discovery. We followed the Norwegian
sledge tracks for some way; as far as we make out there are only two men. In about three miles we passed
two small cairns. Then the weather overcast, and the tracks being increasingly drifted up and obviously going
too far to the West, we decided to make straight for the Pole according to our calculations. At 12.30 Evans
had such cold hands we camped for lunch - an excellent 'week-end one.' ...To-night little Bowers is laying
himself out to get sights in terrible difficult circumstances; the wind is blowing hard, T. - 21 degrees, and there
is that curious damp, cold feeling in the air which chills one to the bone in no time. We have been descending
again, I think, but there looks to be a rise ahead; otherwise there is very little that is different from the awful
monotony of past days. Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it
without the reward of priority. Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-
morrow. ...Now for the run home and a desperate struggle. I wonder if we can do it.

Thursday morning, January 18 - ...We have just arrived at this tent, 2 miles from our camp, therefore about
l 1/2 miles from the Pole. In the tent we find a record of five Norwegians having been here... We carried the
Union Jack about 3/4 of a mile north with us and left it on a piece of stick as near as we could fix it. ...Well, we
have turned our back now on the goal of our ambition and must face our 800 miles of solid dragging - and
good-bye to most of the day-dreams!

Task:
1. Imagine you are Captain Scott and you’re writing in your journal for the
last time. You realise you are not going to make it to The Pole and your
expedition is doomed.

2. What is the weather like today? What have you seen today during your
trek?

3. What might you say to your comrades and friends who you are in the tent
with? How will you try to keep spirits high? What might you do to try and
keep warm?

4. Do you have any regrets for the expedition? What do you think your
chances are of being saved? Do you wish you had used the dogs, like the
Norwegian explorers?

5. What would your final words be to the people who will find your journal?
What do you want the world to know?

My journal entry:

Friday, January 19 - Camp 70, Temperature -24 degrees.

This is it, I’m afraid. I’m not sure we can go on much longer….

For the last time,

Captain Scott

January 1912

Week 4- South
America
Lesson 1- Mexico and it’s cuisine!
Latin American cuisine is the typical foods, beverages, and cooking styles common to
many of the countries and cultures in Latin America. Latin America is a highly diverse area
of land whose nations have varying cuisines. Some items typical of Latin American cuisine
include maize-based dishes arepas, pupusas, tacos, tamales, tortillas andvarious salsas and
other condiments (guacamole, pico de gallo, mole, chimichurri, chili).

These spices are generally what give the Latin American cuisines a distinct flavour; yet,
each country of Latin America tends to use a different spice and those that share spices
tend to use them at different quantities.

Watch the following video on YouTube to understand more about Mexico and it’s exciting
cuisine. You can click on the image or the link below to go straight to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4I4HsowHD8

Task:
Read the recipe for tacos below.

Highlight all examples of:

1. Verbs
2. Adverbs
 3. Adjectives

Do you notice anything about the instructions that differ from creative writing/story-telling?

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas 5. Remove the chicken from the fridge and leave to
come up to room temperature.
2. Pick the thyme leaves and bash in a pestle and mortar with a good pinch of sea salt and
freshly ground black pepper, then rub all over the chicken with a lug of olive oil. Halve the
lemon, peel and bash the garlic bulb, then stuff inside the chicken cavity.
3. Place the bird in a snug-fitting roasting tray and pop in the hot oven for around 1 hour 30
minutes, or until cooked through. To check, insert a knife into the thickest part of the thigh –
if the juices run clear and the meat pulls away from the bone, you know it’s done.
4. Meanwhile, place the flour and a pinch of salt in a large bowl, then gradually add 2
tablespoons of olive oil and 150ml of cold water, stirring continuously until the mixture
comes together to form a rough dough.
5. Transfer to a flour-dusted surface and knead for around 5 minutes, or until smooth and
elastic, then shape into a long sausage shape, roughly 45cm in length. Slice the dough into 16
equal-sized pieces, roll into balls, then set aside for later.
6. To make the salsa, preheat a griddle pan over a high heat. Prick the chillies all over with a
small sharp knife, remove and discard the papery skin from the tomatillos, then place on the
griddle. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, or until blackened all over, turning occasionally.
7. Trim the spring onions and peel the clove of garlic. Pick the mint leaves into a food processor
and add the chillies, tomatillos, spring onions, garlic and the remaining salsa ingredients with
a couple of generous pinches of salt, then whiz until smooth.
8. Once cooked, allow the chicken to cool slightly, then strip away the flesh, shredding it as you
go (wear rubber gloves if it’s too hot).
9. On a flour-dusted surface, roll the dough balls into circles, roughly the thickness of a playing
card. Preheat a large non-stick frying pan over a high heat, then add the tortillas (you’ll need
to do this in batches) and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, or until lightly golden, turning halfway.
Wrap the tortillas in tin foil to keep warm as you go.
10. Meanwhile, shred the lettuce, quarter the cherry tomatoes, then halve and destone the
avocados. Pick the mint and coriander leaves.
11. To assemble the tacos, pop some shredded chicken onto the middle of a tortilla, top with
some lettuce, herbs, a few tomatoes and a sprinkling of mixed seeds. Scoop over the avocado
flesh, crumble a little feta on top and finish with a drizzle of salsa. Roll up and tuck in.

My recipe
Re-write the recipe above using more detailed and engaging descriptions of each
instruction. Can you make the food sound even more tasty and persuade the readers to try
the recipe for themselves?

You may want to:

- Include images or pictures for each step to engage the reader

- Improve the use of adverbs and adjectives

- Change the ingredients to something you particularly enjoy to eat

- Research other taco recipes from Mexico using the internet- are there any
ingredients that you could include?

- Remember- each instruction should be detailed and precise so that the reader is able
to follow the recipe

My Mexican Taco Recipe

Description of the recipe:

Ingredients:

Method:

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Images:
Lesson 2 and 3- The Amazon Rainforest
 1. Watch the following video to learn all about The Amazon
Rainforest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgU7gsBOhUI

The Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon Rainforest is a large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of
the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of
2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). Comprising about 40 percent of Brazil’s
total area, it is bounded by the Guiana Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the
west, the Brazilian central plateau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir,
containing several million species of insects, plants, birds, and other forms of life, many
still unrecorded by science. The luxuriant vegetation encompasses a wide variety of trees,
including many species of myrtle, laurel, palm, and acacia, as well as rosewood, Brazil nut,
and rubber tree. Excellent timber is furnished by the mahogany and the Amazonian cedar.
Major wildlife includes jaguar, manatee, tapir, red deer, capybara and many other types
of rodents, and several types of monkeys.

Task
Read the poem ‘Rainforest Phantoms’ written by Denis Martindale. It was
inspired by the painting below by Stephen Gayford. Make a list of the
techniques used by the poet and the effect.

Rainforest Phantoms

by Denis Martindale
The leopards listen to each noise
Of their surrounding sounds...
On steadfast feet they gently poise,
Resisting fearful bounds.
Perhaps it isn't time to run,
Like cowards fearing pain,
Or just like girls who love the sun,
Yet flee from falling rain...
The leopards like the spot they've seen,
It suits them to a tee...
They'll stay till others intervene,
Like phantoms on their tree...
The forest has its moody times,
Its fierce and frantic days,
Its pleasant passing sunny climes
And melting dew-dropped phase...
The sun shines through the trees above,
The clouds go gliding by...
And soon the moon will shine with love,
To grace the midnight sky...
The leopards lack for nothing now,
True friends in harmony...
Receiving what the Fates allow,
Like phantoms, fancy free...
Task:
Using your knowledge of the Amazon Rainforest and the techniques used in the poem
‘Rainforest Phantom’, write your own poem about the Amazon Rainforest

My Poem

The Amazon
by _____________
 Week 5- Australia

Lesson 1

The Great Barrier Reef

We’re heading out into the reef for a scuba-diving trip. Watch the following video and
imagine you are snorkeling through the barrier reef. Make a note of the range of colours,
coral and the wildlife that you see.

Watch out for:

- The baby shark
- The starfish
- The sea-cucumber
- The turtle
- The sea anemone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUCjiXkOzE
The Great Barrier Reef:
One of Australia’s most remarkable natural gifts, the Great Barrier Reef is blessed with the breath-taking
beauty of the world’s largest coral reef. The reef contains an abundance of marine life and comprises of
over 3000 individual reef systems and coral cays and literally hundreds of picturesque tropical islands with
some of the world’s most beautiful sun-soaked, golden beaches.

Because of its natural beauty, the Great Barrier Reef has become one of the world’s most sought after
tourist destinations. A visitor to the Great Barrier Reef can enjoy many experiences including snorkelling,
scuba diving, aircraft or helicopter tours, bare boats (self-sail), glass-bottomed boat viewing, semi-
submersibles and educational trips, cruise ship tours, whale watching and swimming with dolphins.

A Natural Wonder
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world, and pulling away from it, and
viewing it from a greater distance, you can understand why.
It is larger than the Great Wall of China and the only living thing on earth visible from space.

Task
Now that we have been on a scuba-diving trip and learned all about The Great Barrier reef,
your task is to write a diary/journal entry following our trip to the Great Barrier Reef.
You should try to include:
- What you saw during your scuba-diving trip- try to be as detailed as possible with
your descriptions
- How it felt being that close to some of the most beautiful oceanic wildlife
- Some interesting facts about the Great Barrier Reef
- What you hope to do next while you are in Australia

My Journal Article

Date:

Dear Diary,

What a day! I had the opportunity to swim in The Great Barrier Reef and it
was…
Lesson 2 and 3

Protecting The Great Barrier Reef

1. Read the following website page that explains why it is so important that we protect
The Great Barrier Reef from the effects of Climate Change:

https://www.wwf.org.au/what-we-do/oceans/great-barrier-reef#gs.4ffgnq

(You can even swim from the perspective of a turtle on the website!)

Task
Using the information on the website, write a newspaper article that persuades people to
take action to protect The Great Barrier Reef. You may want to include PIRATEMOUSE
techniques to help you persuade the reader:

P-Pairs (contrasting)
I-Imperatives
R-Rhetorical Questions
A-Anecdote
T-Triples
E-Emotive Language

M-Modal verbs (will, might, may)

O-Opinions of experts
U-Personal Pronouns (you, we, I)
S- Statistics
E- Exaggeration

Think about the action that people could take to protect the environment, in particular the
oceans e.g. recycling plastic or not using beauty products with plastic in them.

If you’re stuck, here is a link to an article that you could use to help:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/18/rebuild-it-shade-it-breed-it-three-tactics-to-buy-
time-for-the-great-barrier-reef
 Protect the Great Barrier Reef

You could lay out your newspaper like this:

Your work:
 Week 6- Europe

Lesson 1- Athens
Welcome to the ancient city of Greece!

Watch the video below that documents one of the Wonders of the
World: The Acropolis. While you are watching, make sure to make
notes of the extraordinary facts that you hear.

Listen out for:

- how many years ago was it built?
- what was it built for?
- what are the names of the two main areas of The Acropolis?
- how many tonnes of marble make up The Acropolis?
- how many individual stones are there?
- how many columns are there?
- who was it built in honour of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfGdWhhjptk

Task
Using all of the information from the video, you are going to create an engaging fact file for The Acropolis.
There is an example of a fact file below to help you decide what to include:

Example:

Try to include the facts from above:

- how many years ago was it built?
- what was it built for?
- what are the names of the two main areas of The Acropolis?
- how many tonnes of marble make up The Acropolis?
- how many individual stones are there?
- how many columns are there?
- who was it built in honour of?

Use images to help make your fact file even more engaging for the reader.
Your work:
Lesson 2 and 3- Athens
Task 1

Now that you have studied and marvelled at the impressive Acropolis, you will now have
the chance to create your own ancient temple.

You will need to answer the following questions before you begin to design it:

Q. Who or what will the temple be built in memory of?

A.

Q. Where would you like your temple to be built?

A.

Q. What materials will you be using to construct your temple?

A.

Q. What would you want people to think or feel when they look at or visit the temple?
A.

Q. Will you have different sections of the temple? If so, what will they be called and what
will they be used for?
A.

Now that you have considered the plan for your temple, you can now create your own
temple below.
Think about the placement of your temple too. The Greeks built their temples on the top of
a hill to be closer to the Gods.

You can either use your computer or paper to draw your temple. If you complete it on
paper, you can upload the image below or send it to your teacher.

Temple Name:______________________
Task 2

Write an engaging and creative description of your temple. Describe it in as much

detail as possible and try to get across the sense of wonder and excitement that the
reader would feel if they were to visit it.

Make sure to SHOW NOT TELL by using a range of creative writing techniques. You
will also need to think about varying your sentence lengths to keep the reader
engaged.

My Description:
 Week 7- Creating your own continent

Your teacher will instruct you on how to complete this final week’s activity.

You may want to consider:

- What the geographical shape of your continent will be

- What will the terrain of the continent be? Will you have lots of different terrains
across the whole continent, e.g. snowy mountains in the north and tropical beaches
in the south?
- How many countries will there be? How will they be spread out?
- What will the political system be? Will you have a government, parliament or maybe
a dictator?!
- What type of food will be the traditional cuisine?

Some activities could include:

- Design the geographical layout of your continent
- Design a flag for your continent.
- Write a national anthem/national poem/national motto for your continent

Main task:
- Write a travel brochure persuading people to come and visit your continent