Expository+Texts+Unit

Hi all!

SCROLL DOWN BELOW TO CHECK FOR UPDATES. Further Updates for September Holiday Homework (09/09/09). New Update for September Holiday Homework.

After the introductory lesson on expository text, here are 12 texts, collected from your school mates.

Read them, and decide whether they are:

1. Information texts 2. Procedural texts 3. Expositions 4. Persuasive texts 5. Narratives 6. Mixed types

If you think they are mixed types, consider which of the parts belong to which type of texts. The parts may be broken into large sections such as sub-headers, or as small as a short paragraph.

Click on the links below to gain access to the texts:


 * Text 1 || Text 4 || Text 7 || Text 10 ||
 * Text 2 || Text 5 || Text 8 || Text 11 ||
 * Text 3 || Text 6 || Text 9 || Text 12 ||

Once you have read the text, Click on the Discussion Tab above the text, and post a message, sharing your thoughts about what kind of text you think it is.

Expository Essay Homework

As posted on LEAD, here's the links to each group's work space.

I've attached my instructions here too, just in case.
 * 5 FAI Group 1 || 5 GEN Group 1 ||
 * 5 FAI Group 2 || 5 GEN Group 2 (Split Group - Ignore this page for the time being, because your assignment is different.) ||
 * 5 FAI Group 3 || 5 GEN Group 3 ||
 * 5 FAI Group 4 || 5 GEN Group 4 ||
 * 5 FAI Group 5 || 5 GEN Group 5 ||



__Further Updates for September Holiday Homework.__

As it stands on Wed 1500HRS, there are GEN Group 4 and 5 that have not done anything on their spaces. Would the class captains and Eng Reps please call the respective groups to remind them of the deadline. We have about 2 hours on Fri per class, and it would be only be sufficient to cover the materials if everyone comes in prepared (which is, they have read up their own group's materials). Thanks!

As for the groups which have done some preparations - wonderful! GEN Group 3 has tagged the name of people who contributed to the material - good. I also liked the other groups, who have not just provided the URL, but also the materials itself. I would recommend that each contributor read up the web-site and paste the parts that answer the questions on the wikispace - that way everyone saves time homing in on relevant parts. Of course, some websites are so big and answer the questions in so many sections it is impossible to do that. Then select the best parts to share. The rest can be read by the other members.

Great work guys!


 * __Questions to answer in your write-up__**

1. Basic information – What constitutes tropical rainforests, where they are found, what is their extent (how much of the globe they occupy), what is in them.

2. Their uses – what part they play in ecology or the environment, what uses they have for Man.

3. The rate and extent of their destruction

4. What would possibly happen if they are gone

5. Why we must act now

6. What actions we can take

Reference Draft 5 FAI
 * To conserve / restore the rainforests (if they can be saved, if not, how we can stop the destruction)
 * What impact that has on our lives, and how we can/must adjust to it
 * How, as a student, we can do our part

Reference Draft 5 GEN