Year 7/8: I can use my growing wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary to understand texts.
Year 9/10: I have a large vocabulary that is connected to my own knowledge about the world.
Year 9/10: I have a large vocabulary that is connected to my own knowledge about the world.
Name of Text: Underground Explorers
Definitions
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Void: an empty space or vacuum.
Fluorescent: able to give off visible light after being exposed to a source of heat, light, or other form of energy
Vulnerable: able to be hurt or injured
Interconnected: to connect or cause to be connected one to the other or others.
Seldom: not often; rarely.
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Example/Non Example
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Is a void messy? Why or why not?
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No because it is not messy.
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Which color is the most fluorescent at night? Why?
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Bright orange because it is easily visible when light is on it
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Why are elderly people more vulnerable than children? Why?
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Because elderly's reflexes are slower
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Which is more interconnected; a vine or a dandelion? Why?
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A vine because it is coming out of itself
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Which is more seldom; the Olympics or an election in NZ? Why?
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The olympics because it does not happen As much.
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Word Associations
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The plants in the garden are die during a frost
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void
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There were lots of different paths that joined each other
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interconnected
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I made a shot from halfway while facing backwards.
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Seldom
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We are still exploring outer space.
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Vulnerable
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I can find my key ring easily in the dark.
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fluorescent
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Word Relationships
How might each pair of words be connected?
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Vulnerable/Fluorescent
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Bikers won’t be as vulnerable
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Void/interconnected
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A cave because there might be a big drop and be interconnected.
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Extended Writing
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Think of a time when you felt as though you were in a void or when you saw something that happens seldom. Write a paragraph about this.
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A car crash when i was going to the west coast 2014 for the buller gorge and it happened in the gorge so far away from the hospital.
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