Margaret-Mahy.

Knowledge: List 5 facts you learnt about Margaret Mahy

1.She wrote 120 books

2.When she visited schools she would dress up as a penguin or she would wear a funny wig.

3.That she has a pet dog named Baxter.

4.Her first book was; “HARRY IS BAD”.

5.That she loves making people laugh.

Comprehension. Retell the text in your own words. (At least 4 sentences) Why did Margaret Mahy choose to send her stories to the School Journal?

Every time Margaret comes to school, she mostly brings a copy of the first book she made, it is called “HARRY IS BAD”. It was made by hand printing it and stitched. When she was seven years old she loved to take it to show kids that you do not need a Chromebook or a laptop. To do it you just needed a pen and something to write about like for example maybe a fairy tale like The Little Mermaid.

  Application Choose five specialist words from the text and find their definition.

1. What Stitch means: a loop of thread or yarn resulting from a single pass or movement of the needle in sewing knitting or crocheting.

2.what Print means: to produce [ books, newspapers, etc,] especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper.

3.what Chromebook means: a Chromebook is a laptop off a different breed. Instead of windows 10 or Mac osMargaret-Mahy.

Knowledge: List 5 facts you learnt about Margaret Mahy

1.She wrote 120 books

2.When she visited schools she would dress up as a penguin or she would wear a funny wig.

3.That she has a pet dog named baxter.

4.Her first book was; “HARRY IS BAD”.

5.That she loves making people laugh.

Comprehension. Retell the text in your own words. (At least 4 sentences) Why did Margaret Mahy choose to send her stories to the School Journal?

Every time Margaret comes to school, she mostly brings a copy of the first book she made, it is called “HARRY IS BAD”. It was made by hand printing it and stitched. When she was seven years old she loved to take it to show kids that you do not need a chromebook or a laptop. To do it you just needed a pen and something to write about like for example maybe a fairy tale like The Little Mermaid.

  Application Choose five specialist words from the text and find their definition.

1. What Stitch means: a loop of thread or yarn resulting from a single pass or movement of the needle in sewing knitting or crocheting.

2.what Print means: to produce [ books, newspapers, etc,] especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper.

3.what Chromebook means: a chromebook is a laptop off a different breed. Instead of windows 10 or Mac os Margaret-Mahy.

Knowledge: List 5 facts you learnt about Margaret Mahy

1.She wrote 120 books

2.When she visited schools she would dress up as a penguin or she would wear a funny wig.

3.That she has a pet dog named baxter.

4.Her first book was; “HARRY IS BAD”.

5.That she loves making people laugh.

Comprehension. Retell the text in your own words. (At least 4 sentences) Why did Margaret Mahy choose to send her stories to the School Journal?

Every time Margaret comes to school, she mostly brings a copy of the first book she made, it is called “HARRY IS BAD”. It was made by hand printing it and stitched. When she was seven years old she loved to take it to show kids that you do not need a chromebook or a laptop. To do it you just needed a pen and something to write about like for example maybe a fairy tale like The Little Mermaid.

  Application Choose five specialist words from the text and find their definition.

1. What Stitch means: a loop of thread or yarn resulting from a single pass or movement of the needle in sewing knitting or crocheting.

2.what Print means: to produce [ books, newspapers, etc,] especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper.

3.what Chromebook means: a chromebook is a laptop off a different breed. Instead of windows 10 or Mac os Margaret-Mahy.

Knowledge: List 5 facts you learnt about Margaret Mahy

1.She wrote 120 books

2.When she visited schools she would dress up as a penguin or she would wear a funny wig.

3.That she has a pet dog named Baxter.

4.Her first book was; “HARRY IS BAD”.

5.That she loves making people laugh.

Comprehension. Retell the text in your own words. (At least 4 sentences) Why did Margaret Mahy choose to send her stories to the School Journal?

Every time Margaret comes to school, she mostly brings a copy of the first book she made, it is called “HARRY IS BAD”. It was made by hand printing it and stitched. When she was seven years old she loved to take it to show kids that you do not need a chromebook or a laptop. To do it you just needed a pen and something to write about like for example maybe a fairy tale like The Little Mermaid.

  Application Choose five specialist words from the text and find their definition.

1. What Stitch means: a loop of thread or yarn resulting from a single pass or movement of the needle in sewing knitting or crocheting.

2.what Print means: to produce [ books, newspapers, etc,] especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper.

3.what Chromebook means: a Chromebook is a laptop off a different breed. Instead of windows 10 or Mac osX,chromebook run Google’s Chrome os. These machines are designed to be used primarily while connected to the internet, with most applications and documents living in the cloud.  

4. What copy means: a thing made to be similar or identical to another.

5.what year means: the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun.

Analysis Create a FLOWCHART of the main events in sequence - (there should be at least 6 ideas.)

Synthesis- New Ideas Create a new front and back cover for the book. Give it a new title and write a short summary.

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Evaluate- Make judgements Rate this text out of 10 on the linked evaluation form

It was cool making the book cover and  it was a lot of fun

10/10