Lesson+3+Roald+Dahl


 * Lesson 3: Roald Dahl**


 * Topic: Poetry/Biography**


 * Website:** //‘The Three Little Pigs’// poem by Roald Dahl []


 * Reading Response Task:** Go to the home page of the official Roald Dahl site [] and click on ‘Roald Dahl’ and then ‘Roald Dahl Biography’. Go through the different sections (i.e. Childhood, School, War and Adventure etc.) and read about his life. Use this information to create a timeline for his life. Remember to include the year and what interesting or important event happened to Roald Dahl. You can present it in any form you like, e.g. Publisher, PowerPoint, Word etc.


 * Discussion Question:** “//What do you think was his greatest achievement? Why?”//

**Optional extension activity**: Go back to the ‘Roald Dahl’ section and complete the ‘Meet Roald Dahl’ task.


 * Student Reflections:** //Please consider the websites, reading response task and the discussion question in your responses//
 * **Student Name** || **What did you like most about the lessons this week?** || **What did you like least about the lessons this week?** || **Other comments** ||
 * Ebony || Doing the timeline and having the mentors over. || Redoing my PowerPoint three times. || I made him a zombie! ||
 * Kayden || The mentors and finding out new information. || That I didn't put his death in and had to redo that part. || I hate zombies ||
 * David || Finding out about Roald Dahl and learning new stuff about him that I didn't know. || Mucking up a couple of times and having to redo it. || I felt good once I finished it. ||
 * Megan || Feeling good about myself in the end. Believing I could do it! || Not feeling confident about myself. || I hope we can learn about him again. ||
 * Jack || Getting help and learning some different stuff || Not getting my PowerPoint done and having to fix it up again. || No ||
 * Josh || Learning to use PowerPoint better || The presentation of my PowerPoint. It's not how I would have liked it. || No. ||
 * Georgia || Finding out information about Roald Dahl || Fixing all my PowerPoint up. || No. ||
 * Gemma || Learning about Roald Dahl || When my computer shut down. || No. ||
 * Cori-Ann || I liked that we had to do something new. I had only done one Time Line before. || I didn't get to send my work before Thursday. || It was something new. ||
 * Jay || I liked the task that we had and the mentors were good. They tried to help us. || That all my information diappeared and I had to do it again. || And now my internet is not working. ||
 * Mitch || Getting my work done and sent to Mrs. Cresdee on time. || It wouldn't turn on this morning. || No. ||
 * Rani || That I haven't actually done a timeline before. That's why I didn't get it much. || I saved it twice and it didn't save. So I had to do it again. || I was happy because I had butterflies in my tummy, but I did well and the butterflies flew away. ||
 * Cody || That we got to work with the mentors again and to study Roald Dahl to see how his life formed and him in the war. || I didn't have enough information. || No. ||
 * Rebecca || Looking at his website a bit more and doing the timeline. || Forgetting about the mentor day. || No. ||
 * Olivia || Learning a little bit more about him and his life. || I didn't get very much done because I was away. || No. ||
 * Matthew || Learning about Roald Dahl because I hardly knew anything about him and now I know more. The website was fun. || When I couldn't get the document open. || No. ||
 * Adam || The Queechy people were more knowledgeable this time than last time || We didn't exactly have enough time. || Would have liked some more time. ||
 * Brad || Mr. A gave us more time || Problems sending the attachment || No. ||
 * Greg || Knowing facts about Roald Dahl and getting to know him better and the fun activity we got to do. || Not having enough time. || No. ||
 * Reece || Researching and Mr. A giving us more time. || Not enough time and the Queechy mentors didn't do much. || No. ||
 * Thomas || How we got to use the website. || Computer problem || I liked working on the timeline and finding out more information about RD ||
 * Nick || Talking about how we could do more on it. || Computer taking too long || Doing the timeline was good because it was tellin gus about RD, going to war. ||
 * Eric || The part where he was talkoing about himself. || Fact that my computer wouldn't log-on on Tuesday || Making a timeline was kind of good because we got to learn about RD and stuff. ||
 * Tyler || Roald Dahl website especially the poem (Three LIttle Pigs) || Not getting my job done. || I thought it was alright because I like writing and like RD. ||