Year 7/8: I can use my growing wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary to understand texts.
Name of Text: Underground Explorers
Definitions
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Void: an empty space or vacuum.
Fluorescent: able to give off visible light after being exposed to a source of heat, light, or other form of energy
Vulnerable: able to be hurt or injured
Interconnected: to connect or cause to be connected one to the other or others.
Seldom: not often; rarely.
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Example/Non Example
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Is a void messy? Why or why not?
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No because it's empty or vacuuming up things
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Which color is the most fluorescent at night? Why?
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Green because it was most seeable
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Why are elderly people more vulnerable than children? Why?
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Because of old age they are less stable and balance is shaky and on the other hand kids are full of energy and life.
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Which is more interconnected; a vine or a dandelion? Why?
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A vine because it is connected to the ground a dandelion is easy to pull out
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Which is more seldom; the Olympics or an election in NZ? Why?
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The olympics being in NZ because we never have olympics and we have elections every year.
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Word Associations
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The plants in the garden are die during a frost
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Vulnerable
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There were lots of different paths that joined each other
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Interconnected
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I made a shot from halfway while facing backwards.
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Seldom
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We are still exploring outer space.
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Void
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I can find my key ring easily in the dark.
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Fluorescent
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Word Relationships
How might each pair of words be connected?
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Vulnerable/Fluorescent
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They are similar because the use of fluorescent is sometimes used to prevent injuries so people will see and stop at the fluorescent signs .
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Void/interconnected
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They are similar because in a blank space there is always connecting to something else.
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Extended Writing
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Think of a time when you felt as though you were in a void or when you saw something that happens seldom. Write a paragraph about this.
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When I had moved house and we were going around the house with barely anything in the rooms and it was empty.
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