Biography Jean Batten and Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart Biography

Full Name

• Amelia Mary Earhart

School graduated at:

• Hyde Park School

Place of Birth

• America  , Atchison , Kansas

Achievements:

1. In June 1928 Jean Batten flew from Newfoundland to Burry Port,Wales, made her an celebrity.

Other information:

• Amelia Earhart was taught how to fly by another pioneer female aviator Neta Snook.

Jean Batten Biography

Full Name

• Jean Gardner Batten

Father and Mother Name

• Frederick Batten and Ellen Batten

Best Known As

• Jean Batten became best- known as New Zealanders of the 1930, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo (by herself) flights across the world.

Achievements:

1. 1935: Australia-England in 17 days 15 hours. First woman to make return flight. Plane she flew in was the De Havilland Gipsy Moth G-AARB.

Other information:

• Jean batten was born on the 15th September 1909 in Rotorua.

Reading - High Flyers

Text: High-Flyers

Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:

Who: Richard Pearse and Point school in Nelson Yr 6, 7, 8 students

What: Build a replica of a plane, act and Film

Where: Auckland, Point school in Nelson

When: Story based in the past tense

Why: Tv advertisement on favourite hero

How: Materials were donated, Students studied prize winning advertisement. It took 3 weeks to make the plane

Summarise the text in 25 words:

Some	Studends	from	Auckland	Point
School	Created	A	plane	about
Richard	Pearce	They	Made	Film
And	Edited	Seaces	Of	A
Model	Copied	By	His	Diagram

L.I To infer information from the text

This week for writing reading I learning how to infer. We read a information report text called high flyers. After that we had to summairse it on a template. I had fun doing this. I had summarise the text in 25 words. 

Inference detectives: Looking for clues

L.I To learn what inferring is.

The Robber's Mask

LI: to find the most important (main) idea in a text.

The Robber's Mask

 

LI: to find the most important (main) idea in a text.

[Ruapehu Group] Word Webs The Robber's Mask

Comet

Today for Reading our must do task was use the template just above and had to take screen shoots of what we did for Reading , What the point of the article was , Explain what we did for Reading and give a example. I learnt from Reading the book that Comets travel in from the outside edge of the solar system and that every time a comet travels around the sun some of it's icy material starts to evaporate. I was very struggling on answering the questions that were related to text and explaining what a timeline was.