T3+Peer+Biography


 * **Peer 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 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Reeve Hodges was born on the 3rd of August, 1997 in Tauranga. He was born with one sibling names Renee who was born four years before Reeve. Reeve’s parents are Ruben Ginns and Stephanie Hodges. When Reeve was around the graduating kindey gratin age, he had to go to the hospital to see if he had tonsilitis.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">The tests came back positive so he had a choice to get his tonsils out, or wait for them to heal. His parents decided for him to get his tonsils out so they went back to the hospital and reeve got put to sleep. When he woke up he was given a free fizzy drink which burned his throat. He also got all the ice cream and ice blocks he wanted YUM YUM :D.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">When Reeve graduated from kindey he went to green park primary school. In the first few days at his new school he drew on the walls and nearly got in heaps of trouble. Reeves color bone got cracked when he was 10/11 and broke the other collarbone in a game of rugby when he did a hit up, and it was the other bone.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">When Reeve turned 13 he started to notice “changes” on his way to adulthood. ||