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In this blog, students publish all the activities and events that they want. They are organized in groups of 5 people, and each group control a different subject each week  .They collect the activities that are more attractive for them. Furthermore, they upload summaries, images videos... according with the topics. In addition, they can explain the extra-scholar activities that they have done, for example, a visit to Alhambra. They explain their experience and also they will upload pictures about the trip. In this way, parents will be informed about the activities and things that their children do in the school by their children’s writings and pictures. (The activities exposed in the website by the teachers, will be developed in this blog by students)

It is a blog class used to develop as a  digital newspaper and all students have a very important responsibility. Children are in complete contact with technologies and they have to be able of searching information on internet (videos, images, additional information in addition to their text books…). They have to use different skills as digital skills and they have to work in a cooperative way.  

 For doing this project, every Friday during one academic year, they will have 1 hour and a half per week approximately to do the necessary in the blog, and they will use computers available in classroom. Each group will be working a subject, so, at the end of the year, they will have worked a lot of things about their subjects in technological way.

Periodistic texts GROUP 1

As we are worked with a digital newspaper we also have to know the different part of periodistic texts, so in class we have learnt the types, functions, elements... and the teacher has given us a very interesting activity, it is:

 By group of 5we have looked for a very relevant event that we have found interesting. When we have choosen our news, we have analyzed the text with the information that the teacher has given us. We are very surprised with the news that we have found, because it is about a woman who was examined of the drive licence and she and her examinator fell down to the sea by a pier!! 

All the information of this news is completed in our report that we have handed over the teacher.

We think that this activity is very interestinf because we discover new news that we could believe!!

LITERATURE GROUP 4

LITERATURE

We have learnt a lot about literaure, and as we know there are diverse genres: : lyric, epic  or narrative and dramatic or theatrical.

In this activity, we have done a performance. By groups of 5, we have created the script, the characters and settings. Furthermore, we have made your clothes and complements. The performance has lasted 10 minutes, and we have given it by writing to the teacher.

The topic of our performance has been about Muslism and the Alhambra, we have dressed with typical clothes of that epoque and we have represented a very little scene of the life that they used have there.

We have had a very good time because we like to do performance and interpret characters, also the rest of people in class has laughed a lot with us.

Prehistory

Good morning everybody!! We have chose this topic and this is our summary:

Prehistoric Facts

 Prehistory, meaning before history, is the span of time before recorded history or the invention of writing systems. It refers to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it can refer to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing. See the fact file below for more information about prehistoric times.

• The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, but humans have only walked on the planet for 190,000 years. The earliest living organisms were microscopic bacteria, which showed up in fossils as early as 3.4 billion years ago.
• Many things had happened in that time. The Earth formed and oxygen levels rose. About 800 million years ago, oxygen levels reached about 21 percent and began to breathe life into more complex organisms. The oxygen-rich ozone layer was also established, protecting the Earth’s surface from harmful solar radiation.
• The Paleozoic era gave rise to hard-shelled organisms, vertebrates, amphibians, and reptiles.
• During the Mesozoic Era, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
• 64 million years after dinosaurs became extinct, modern humans emerged in the Cenozoic era.
• Humans have really been on the planet for a fraction of the lifetime of the Earth. Archeologists estimate that modern humans have been on the Earth for about 200,000 years. They believe this occurred in the Middle Palaeolithic period in southern Africa.
• Humans are a member of a species of bipedal primates (this means they walk upright on two legs, which allowed them to use their hands) in the family Hominidae. Everyone on Earth is a homo sapien. This is Latin for the term, “wise human”. Humans have highly developed brains, a bipedal gait, and opposable thumbs, which allow the thumb to lock something into the hand like a tool or a weapon.
• 70,000 years ago, humans migrated out of Africa and began colonizing the entire planet. People spread to Eurasia and Oceania 40,000 years ago, and reached the Americas 14,500 years ago.
• One of the oldest sites of human settlement is located at Middle Awash in Ethiopia, where humans lived 160,000 years ago.

    

Writen by Group 3

PARTS OF A NEWSPAPER

A newspaper is...
a publication, usually issued daily or weekly, containing current news, editorials, feature articles, and usually advertising.


In all  newspapers we can find diferent parts and sections as:


Headline
The words printed in large type across the top of a newspaper article to catch the reader's attention. 

Dateline 
The words at the beginning of a news article that tell when and where the story was written. 

News article In a newspaper, a story about an event that has just taken place. 

Feature article 
In a newspaper, a detailed report on a person, an issue, or an event. 

Editor 
One of the people who runs a newspaper. 

Editorial 
An article in which the people who run a newspaper give their opinion on an important issue. 

International:
The international section of a newspaper tells you about news in different continents, such as Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. 

Business: 
The business section is for things that are happening business-wise. For example, the business section might contain media and advertising, world business, the economy of the country that you live in, the stock markets, company researches, mutual funds, and stock portfolios. 

Technology: 
The technology section contains things that are going in and out of style in the technology world, things that are coming out, and things that have been out, but they're coming back in style. 

Science: 
The science section in a newspaper contains things that are happening in our medical world today. For example: a science section in a newspaper might contain what's happening in outer space, and it might contain things that are happening in and around our environment. 

Health: 
The health section in a newspaper would usually contain the things that are happning to a modern day person's health. For example: they might have come out with a new medicine that could clear the human race totally of allergies. In a health section, there might be news containing things about fitness and nutrition, new health care policies, and mental health and behavior. 

Sports: 
In a sports section, you may find out about last night's baseball, basketball, and football game. That's the second thing besides asking your buddies down at the pizza parlor. It may also tell you about a player on a team that might have gotten injured and cannot play. In a sports section, you can find out things about basketball, professional basketball, golf, soccer, tennis, professional football, and different sports that maybe you'd want to look for. 

Education: 
The thing that a student favors the most: the education section. In the education section you might be able to find out the overall average for students in a partucular school, and maybe even a couple of awards that a student won for the school that they attend, or doing something that would help their school do better. 

Weather: 
In a weather section, you can find the weather, where ever you may need to know. 

Obituaries: 
In an obitary, you cn find out about people who passed on recently, and people think that their death should be mentioned to the community. When you would go to this section in a newspaper, you can most likely find a picture about someone and a short biography. 

The cover page story: 
In this section, you'd just find the story that has the cover page has on it. It has more detail, and is usually found in the first few pages in the newspaper. 

Table of contents: 
This is the most important part of a newspaper. This part of the newspaper shows where to find all of these newspaper sections. Without it, reading the newspaper would take hours to read! 

As you can see, There are many sections to a newspaper. They all play an important part, and when they act together, they make a newspaper. 


Since no newspaper can survive just on selling its papers, newspapers also carry advertising, usually divided into "showcase" or "display" ads that can take two pages, a whole page, half a page, a quarter of a page, etc., and "classified" ads that are only a few lines each and a lot cheaper than the display ads. 

Modern newspapers also carry things to entice people who don't care for news, but are interested in entertainment, self-improvement, etc. 

To provide some stimulus to people to buy their papers, many also carry "op-ed" columns, opinion pieces written by people who are known and sometimes respected for their opinions. 

Many local newspapers also carry items like obituaries, foreclosures, bankruptcies, court proceedings, etc., out of a feeling they are "newspapers of record" and have a duty to report this information so members of the community know what is happening in the community. 

So, there is no one definition of a newspaper and no standard divisions into sections.

Group 3

Narrative, descriptive and dialogue's texts activity GROUP 3

ACTIVITY

 This is the activity more enjoyable of this topic, because we like to create new stories

Which type of text is each one? First, we have to identify the different texts that I’ve exposed you (in a individual way). Then, by group of 5 we have to create 3 different texts of narration, description and dialogue (between 10-15 lines)

We have done the first part of the activity in a individual way but we have written our common answer to write in this blog.

1.I have a beautiful dog. He is my baby, and he is sweet like a vanilla ice cream. He is really cute, and he is like a little baby, because he is very lovely. When he was a baby he was like a little cat, because his ears are like catís ears and because he doesnít likes take a bath.
He is not big, but not small. He is black and white like a cartoon cow. His eyes are blue like two pieces of sky, and they are bright like clean glasses. His name is Lobo, because he is like a real wolf, and because he wails like a wolf too.
He is a Siberian Husky, and this is the reason why he is like a wolf. He makes me Very happy, and I love him with all my heart, and I think that he loves me too, and I am going to take care of him, and love him all my life.

This first text is descriptive because it is giving information about the characteristics of something.
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This second text is a dialogue, because there are two people who are changing information about them.

3.

One upon time, a mother duck sat on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them. She just wished the eggs would break out.

Several days later, she got her wish. The eggs cracked and some cute little ducklings appeared. "Peep, peep" the little ducklings cried. "Quack, quack" their mother greeted in return.

However the largest egg had not cracked. The mother duck sat on it for several days. Finally, it cracked and a huge ugly duckling waddled out. The mother duck looked at him in surprise. He was so big and very gray. He didn't look like the others at all. He was like a turkey.

When the mother duck brought the children to the pond for their first swimming lesson., the huge grey duckling splashed and paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did. "That is not a turkey chick. He is my very own son and quite handsome" the mother said proudly.

However, the other animals didn't agree. They hissed and made fun of him day by day. Even his own sisters and brothers were very unkind. "You are very ugly" they quacked.

The little poor duckling was very unhappy. "I wish I looked like them" he thought to himself. One day, the ugly duckling run away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone through the cold and snow winter. Finally the spring flowers began to bloom. While he was swimming in the pond, he saw three large white swans swimming toward him. "Oh, dear. these beautiful birds will laugh and peck me too" he said to himself. But the swans did not attack him. Instead, they swam around him and stroked him with their bills. As the ugly duckling bent his neck to speak to them, he saw his reflection in the water. He could not believe his eyes. "I am not an ugly duckling but a beautiful swam" he exclaimed.

He was very happy. From that day on, he swam and played with his new friends and was happier than he had never been.

Finally this text is narrative because it is telling a story.

In the second part of the exercise we, as a group, have create 3 different text: one narrative, other descriptive and the last one that is a dialogue. However we have not uploaded it on the blog because we would spend a lot of time.

Made by the group 2

Narration, description and dialogue theory GROUP 3

 This is some information about the theory that we have learnt in a language class during this week:

Narration, description and dialogue

1.The way of speech

The way of speech are the different manner of expression that the message in a text can adopt. There are 3 sequences:

-Narrative sequence

-Descriptive sequence

-Dialogue sequence

2.The narration

To narrate consists on telling facts, real or imaginary, that are carried out by some characters.

Tales and novels are narrative texts.

The elements of the narration are:

-Narrator: How are telling the facts.

-Narrative plot: It’s the combination of facts, real or imaginary, that are presented as they would have happened.

-Characters: They are who carry out the actions in the story.

3.Description

It consists on representing the features of the people, objects, places or phenomenons for the receptor can create a loyal image of them.

Descriptions can be objective or subjective, in this one the emisor transmits his own perception and his opinion.

In the description are used adjectives, comparisons and metaphors (to describe) and spacial indicators (to place the elements in the space).

4. Dialogue

It consists on interchanging information between two or more interlocutors that alternate the turn of the Word.

Dialogues can be spontaneous (a conversation that is not planned) or planified (it is developed according to a previous scheme)

In narrative text appear some dialogues that are introduced by speaking verbs.

Made by group 3