T3+Fairy+tale+biography


 * **Fairy Tale Biography**

__**Task:**__ Write a biography based on a fairy tale character, use your imagination and add your slant to the life events of the character. (This is not a recount of the fairy tale story, rather a possible timeline of the characters life)

__**Learning Intentions:**__
 * Students will gain an understanding about the structure of a biography
 * Students will learn how deeper & surface language features shape their writing

__**Integration with other curriculum areas:**__ __Guided Reading__ - Unpacking of short biographies. __Inquiry__ - TVNZ Web Challenge 2010

__**Success Criteria:**__ My writing is clear about whom I am writing about. My introduction makes the reader want to read on. I have written in the third person consistently. I have sequenced a series of events in chronological order. I have written information using paragraphs. <span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I have used a tense that is appropriate to the time. <span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I have used time and contrast connectives to link different events. <span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I have used succinct and descriptive nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs <span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I have used a variety of sentence beginnings, lengths and structures for effect. ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Writing Biography.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lamesh Johnny Katara was born on the second of August 1989 in a small village called Mayson village, a bright cheerful place. Everyone was usually seen smiling. The woods were banned for all children, due to the tragic death of a child that had once strayed to far into the forest, and met with a hungry wolf! Lamesh was an only child so was brought up quite lonely. <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lamesh was kind of the reject of all the children of the village, nobody really wanted to be his friend, because he wasn’t like them. His peers would exclude him from all their activities. They gave him the nic-name “Lamey” because he was a bit of a “nerd” always seen reading his favorite book: //The challenge of life.// Lamesh was greatly inspired by this book to make it far in life, his dream was to be a Lawyer or public speaker for animal rights. Since his peers shunned him, he felt his only friend was his father, Master Wolf. Master Wolf was very generous and kind and was one of the best teachers in the village. Master Wolf supported Lam with his dream of becoming a lawyer, he taught him many things, and by the age of 8, he had the IQ of a year eight.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lamesh grew up a bright, happy child, and was easy to be around and talk to. He was very confident in everything he did and began giving short speeches at public meetings to discuss how the village was run when he was 10-12, around 1990. Lamesh signed up to law school in 1996 and was top of his class.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lamesh finally got his dream job, in the year 2001, at the age of 18, and his first case was a great success. He was climbing up the ladder of success at some pace, earning heaps of extra cash so he could buy things like Tv’s, Computers, Cars, Boats and eventually his first house. Lamesh’s life was going perfect, he had the dream home, the dream job, and was about to meet the dream girl, Reneta.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reneta was a attractive young fox who was, at the time, defending one of her client s convicted of murder. Even though Lamesh was on the offending side he didn’t present a very good case like usual, as he couldn’t keep his eyes off Reneta. After the hearing Lamesh had a good conversation with Reneta, and ended up going to dinner with her.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The evening went very well. One month later Reneta was meeting Lamesh’s parents. They both approved of Lamesh’s new friend. Two months latter Lamesh was down on one knee proposing to Reneta. She gladly accepted and they started out their happy lives. Everything was going great, they had more then enough money to survive and had a house which the neighbors would idolize.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lamesh had a great life, but, he had a big problem with alcohol. Whenever he went out he would promise his wife that he would drink, but he repetitively lied. Coming back home at outrageous times, much to his wife's concern. Whenever he drunk alcohol he would become very easily aggravated. One night he was so drunk he completely smashed his flash Ferrari into a primary school.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Soon after Lamesh heard the tragic news of his father’s death, Lamesh’s life went spiraling out of control. He stopped turning up to cases and when he did he was unfocused and presented a corrupt case and often lied. He finally got fired for turning up drunk to a case, and accused of being under the influence of drugs.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; padding: 0px;">By 2009 Lamesh was broke and wifeless. He had turned into the complete opposite of his dream, but he never stopped to think about it. He was out getting drunk every night and trying different and harmful things. He felt like no one cared so he didn't go to get help. He was depressed and angry and thought there was no way he could turn is life back around again.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; padding: 0px;">One night when he was at his trashed house someone knocked on his door. It was the police or "the pigs" of the local village to collect his belongings. Lamesh had no idea what they were talking about. The cops explained that his house had been declared impounded. He tried to make out that he didn't care and stormed out, and smashed all the windows he could. The cops ran over to him and it stopped him in his tracks when they announced that his mother had had a heart attack.

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif;">On the eighth of April 2010, Lamesh was found dead in his small cramped apartment. The words engraved on his headstone said <span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif;">"Never underestimate the power of dreams, Lamesh reached his dream, but let it slip between his fingertips... He will always be remembered for his work as a lawyer..." ||

4P for structure, punctuation and spelling. Well done Anthony! You have successfully written to the structure of biographical writing. Your various sentence beginnings are interesting and keep the reader hooked in. Your spelling is consistently correct and you have used descriptive adverbs & adjectives. Thank you, Miss Workman. <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> **(Proficient)** || <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> **Level 3** <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> **(Proficient)** || <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> **Level 4** <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> **(Proficient)** ||
 * || <span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> **Level 2**
 * || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">May make a simple attempt to conclude || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Includes a simple conclusion || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Includes a simple appropriate conclusion ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Structure || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Largely sequences events in time order

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Links events by using simple connectives that indicate the passage of time e.g “first” “then” “next” || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Sequences in events in time order

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">May link events by using connectives (words and/or phrases), e.g., “later that evening”, “because” etc.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Attempt paragraphing. || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Manages sequencing (events in time order) well.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Links events in ways that indicate cause and effect and /or passage of time, e.g., “such as”, “as a result”, “beforehand”, etc.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Uses paragraphing linking main ideas and supporting details. ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Punctuation || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Uses most simple sentence indication ie, caps, full stops, question marks.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Errors may interfere with comprehension.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Attempts some other basis punctuation e.g, caps for proper nouns, commas in lists, speech marks, apostrophes for contraction || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Uses simple correct sentence indication ie, caps, full stops, question marks.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Errors may interfere with comprehension.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Uses some other basic punctuation correctly e.g caps for proper nouns, commas in lists, speech marks, apostrophes for contraction || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Uses consistent correct sentence indication ie, caps, full stops, question marks, exclamation.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Errors do not interfere with comprehension.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Mostly uses accurate complex punctuation e.g commas, colons, hyphen, ellipses, apostrophe of possession, and the punctuation for dialogue. ||
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Spelling || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Spells most high frequency words (list 1-4) correctly.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Understands frequently used spelling patterns (e.g changing t to ies, double consonant when adding ing).

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Approximate spellings show knowledge of consonant sounds, blends, and vowel sounds. || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Spells most high frequency words (list 1-6) correctly.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Understands most spelling patterns including some complex patterns (e.g plurals, using ch, sh, x, o).

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Has some success with multi-syllabic (hygienic), irregular (yacht), or technical words. || <span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Few errors within high frequency words (list 1-7).

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Understands most spelling patterns including some complex patterns (e.g soft ‘g’ or ‘c’, keep the ‘e’ manageable.).

<span style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Uses complex multi-syllabic irregular or technical words. ||