- Scooter
- Lightweight, two-wheeled motor vehicle, that has a resting floorboard.
- Intricate
- Very complicated and detailed.
- Fete
- An organised outdoor entertainment that is mainly held for charity.
- Incomprehensible
- Not able to understand or to follow
- Estimated
- Rough calculation or approximation
- Recruited
- To sign up, enlist
- Invaluable
- Extremely useful, irreplaceable
- Denied
- Refused, Declined, Rejected
- Campaign
- 1. a series of military operations that aims for a certain goal
- 2. working in an organised way, towards a particular goal
I predict the story is going to be about some who wants to enlist in the military since he/she was a kid
because of the words, recruited, denied, and campaign were used in this short non-fiction story.
Write down two memories you have for the time when you were ten
a. I remember singing to Avril Lavigne's songs that are probably waaaay to inappropriate for my age
b. At this age, this is probably where I discovered my big fascination with space
What ideas do you think this piece might include
This piece might include something with military
This piece might include something about how different children spend their time as a kid.
What things would you expect to be a concern of to a sixteen-years-old student?
It depends on what kind of upbringing the child was raised. But for me as an example of a sixteen-year-old student, I am mostly concern about how we treat our planet with all our waste and rubbish that can have a long term effect on humanity.
Thinking about the title and your predictions above, what do you think might be the main purpose of the speech?
The purpose of this text could be about how a ten-year-old spends his/her childhood that the sixteen-year-old is trying to tell.
First Impressions
Write down one thing we are being encouraged to do as a result of hearing this message
The speaker wants us to make us aware, realise and informed on how other ten-year-olds spend their childhood.
In this task, we want to look at each paragraph and summarise the idea
Paragraph 1; Memories of things the narrator did as a child, list of what Juliet lost at the age of 10
Paragraph 2; A memory/flashback of the narrator face painting experience at the local fete, and compared her experiences to Juliet's kind of face painting
Paragraph 3; The narrator compares his/her thought of music compared to Juliet which was used for war instead of having fun like the narrator.
Paragraph 4; List of the narrator's happy experience of play fighting, list of Juliet's experiences of war
Paragraph 5; The narrator wants us to realise that not all children are blessed with a normal life like Juliet.
Paragraph 6; The narrator wants to raise awareness that not every kid have the same privileges and chances in life to live a normal life.
Paragraph 7; The narrator summarises his/her feelings and thought about what Juliet and other children are going through, she also mentioned about donating to Child Soldiers International to give them a second chance to live like a normal 10-year-old.
Summarise
In no more than 3 sentences write what this piece is about
The piece is about a child named Juliet who is, unfortunately, has been recruited as a child soldier in countries like Congo and Afghanistan to fight in wars. The narrator of this piece talks about her experiences as a normal child and compared it to Juliet's experiences while she's at war. The narrator's main message here is to raise awareness with what child soldiers are currently experiencing and invites the readers to donate to Child Soldiers International.
The writer/narrator wanted us to teach about child soldiers because she wants to increase the awareness of people about them, and encourages to donate to these important causes.
Explain the purpose of the technique (listing)
To make an impact. To tell the audience what are the things that are affected abduction of child soldiers. Also to show how unfair what people are doing to these children.
Evidence from the text
"At ten years old Juliet was taken against her will, from her family, from her friends, her education, school and community"
Explain the effect
This makes the audience feel empathetic towards the children, because of the long list of examples.
Explain how this and/or other language features help you understand the speaker's attitude towards child soldiers. You might consider:
1. what the overall purpose of the speech is
The speaker's overall purpose in this piece to inform people that child slavery is still relevant in our current time. The author's attitude towards the topic was she determined. We see this attitude when the speaker uses the technique of personal pronoun when she says "I will also leave you with a challenge"
- 2. working in an organised way, towards a particular goal
I predict the story is going to be about some who wants to enlist in the military since he/she was a kid
because of the words, recruited, denied, and campaign were used in this short non-fiction story.
Write down two memories you have for the time when you were ten
a. I remember singing to Avril Lavigne's songs that are probably waaaay to inappropriate for my age
b. At this age, this is probably where I discovered my big fascination with space
What ideas do you think this piece might include
This piece might include something with military
This piece might include something about how different children spend their time as a kid.
What things would you expect to be a concern of to a sixteen-years-old student?
It depends on what kind of upbringing the child was raised. But for me as an example of a sixteen-year-old student, I am mostly concern about how we treat our planet with all our waste and rubbish that can have a long term effect on humanity.
Thinking about the title and your predictions above, what do you think might be the main purpose of the speech?
The purpose of this text could be about how a ten-year-old spends his/her childhood that the sixteen-year-old is trying to tell.
First Impressions
Write down one thing we are being encouraged to do as a result of hearing this message
The speaker wants us to make us aware, realise and informed on how other ten-year-olds spend their childhood.
In this task, we want to look at each paragraph and summarise the idea
Paragraph 1; Memories of things the narrator did as a child, list of what Juliet lost at the age of 10
Paragraph 2; A memory/flashback of the narrator face painting experience at the local fete, and compared her experiences to Juliet's kind of face painting
Paragraph 3; The narrator compares his/her thought of music compared to Juliet which was used for war instead of having fun like the narrator.
Paragraph 4; List of the narrator's happy experience of play fighting, list of Juliet's experiences of war
Paragraph 5; The narrator wants us to realise that not all children are blessed with a normal life like Juliet.
Paragraph 6; The narrator wants to raise awareness that not every kid have the same privileges and chances in life to live a normal life.
Paragraph 7; The narrator summarises his/her feelings and thought about what Juliet and other children are going through, she also mentioned about donating to Child Soldiers International to give them a second chance to live like a normal 10-year-old.
Summarise
In no more than 3 sentences write what this piece is about
The piece is about a child named Juliet who is, unfortunately, has been recruited as a child soldier in countries like Congo and Afghanistan to fight in wars. The narrator of this piece talks about her experiences as a normal child and compared it to Juliet's experiences while she's at war. The narrator's main message here is to raise awareness with what child soldiers are currently experiencing and invites the readers to donate to Child Soldiers International.
The writer/narrator wanted us to teach about child soldiers because she wants to increase the awareness of people about them, and encourages to donate to these important causes.
Explain the purpose of the technique (listing)
To make an impact. To tell the audience what are the things that are affected abduction of child soldiers. Also to show how unfair what people are doing to these children.
Evidence from the text
"At ten years old Juliet was taken against her will, from her family, from her friends, her education, school and community"
Explain the effect
This makes the audience feel empathetic towards the children, because of the long list of examples.
Explain how this and/or other language features help you understand the speaker's attitude towards child soldiers. You might consider:
1. what the overall purpose of the speech is
The speaker's overall purpose in this piece to inform people that child slavery is still relevant in our current time. The author's attitude towards the topic was she determined. We see this attitude when the speaker uses the technique of personal pronoun when she says "I will also leave you with a challenge"
