DP1 icebreaking start of year

• Engels
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Ms Nusser-Triggs 

Welcome to class 

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Goals for today 

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We will break the ice by finding out how much we have in common

We will find connections in the class 

We will write a response analysis 

Answer these questions and draw on your Hexagon 

1. What’s your dream job or something you’d love to do in the future?
   
2. If you could have any animal (real or imaginary) as a pet, what would it be?
   
3. What’s a food you could eat every day and never get bored of?
   
4. What’s a hobby or activity you love doing in your free time?
   
5. What’s one place in the world you’d love to visit and what draws you to it?
   
6. If you could swap lives with any fictional character for a day, who would it be and why?
   

Try to find a connecting side to someone on your table.&nbsp;<div>Try to find a connecting side with someone in the room.&nbsp;</div>

Try to find a connecting side with someone in the room.&nbsp;<br><div>Connect as many hexagons as you can in the room.&nbsp;</div>

Content: looking closely

1. Take a few moments to look at each image in detail. 
   
2. Pay attention to your initial thoughts and responses when you first saw each image.
3. Also think about what further details you noticed when you looked longer at each image.
   

Context: Looking closely

Read additional information which includes the names of the photographers and further information regarding each image. 

Images taken from World Press photograph winners. 

Choose any one image 

Write a structured response in which you: 

1. Capture your thoughts and feelings about your chosen image.
   
2. Consider your initial response(s) as well as the impact of the Photo Details.
   
3. What ideas/ issues did the image provoke?
   
4. What techniques used in the image (as well as the caption/ title of each photograph) seemed impactful to you and why?

Course companion 

This is not a textbook, but a course companion.

It is a very good reference resource and you may be assigned reading or exercises from it. Do not leave it in your locker, take it home. 

Kognity 

Used as a study resource. 

Used to practise skills and assign exercises.