Is your work plagiarised? Your teachers will use a program like PlagScan or Turnitin to check your work. Unfortunately these are licensed, so you can’t check it yourself. Instead, try one of these free online checkers: https://plagiarismdetector.net/ or https://www.quetext.com/. Think you know what plagiarism is? Can you pass this quiz about plagiarism? http://en.writecheck.com/plagiarism-quiz No, you can’t copy…
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Commas
I think commas are the HARDEST punctuation to get right! Important: commas cannot be used to join two sentences. This is a common error called a ‘Comma Splice’. Go to the ‘Sentence Problems‘ page for more info. If you find a really good website that explains when and how to use commas, please let me…
Paper Cranes
Folding instructions with pictures here: https://www.wikihow.com/Fold-a-Paper-Crane Two more picture step by step instructions if the first one doesn’t work: https://origami.me/crane/ and https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/easy-origami-crane-instructions-4082282 There are instructions for other types of paper crane here: https://www.origami-resource-center.com/paper-crane.html This video goes step by step and uses textas to show what you need to do. Watch this video and pause until…
Sentence Problems
TOP TIP: The website Hemingway Editor will help you pick up a lot of sentence problems in your writing. Sentences Problems in General Kahn Academy has a good video on Sentence Problems. For Senior Students, this very smartly dressed American professor runs through common sentence problems – there is a transcript to follow along. Comma…
Kaleidocycles and Flextangles
This is a good activity to challenge your perseverence! Kaleidocycles or flextangles are a geometric toy. Choose one of the following, print and colour it in. Glue on to a piece of light card. Then follow the instructions below to assemble. You can also make your own design at Foldplay. All of these are from…
Eden Prize 2020
For more information about the Eden Prize, go here. 2020’s Topic is “How can technology make the world a better and happier place to live?” Readings Easy Readings These readings are for younger people but should give you a head start on ideas. Check out the articles on KidsNews for technology: https://www.kidsnews.com.au/technology and also: https://newsforkids.net/tag/technology/…
Writing Clarity and Readability
Checking Readability and Clarity Use this checklist to improve your sentences for clarity: Use this Readability Checker to find out the reading age of your text: http://www.readabilityformulas.com/free-readability-formula-tests.php Hemingway Editor will help you identify cluttered sentences: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
Eden Prize General Information
The Eden Prize is an essay writing competition open to South Australian public school students in Year 10. It has a $1250 top prize! The official website is here: https://www.education.sa.gov.au/edenschoolprize 2020 Topic Visit the page for 2020’s Topic is “How can technology make the world a better and happier place to live?” Important information The…
Referencing
Go to this page for information about avoiding plagiarism and paraphrasing. How to format references: How to use Word to do Referencing (Ms Roberts PowerPoint): If you don’t need In Text Citations, you can use CiteThisForMe.com to do your bibliography for you. SACE guide to Referencing: https://www.sace.sa.edu.au/documents/652891/722147/Student+Guide+to+Referencing.pdf/50c39188-4415-42e5-a7e6-fa326ec9aaff Here’s a video to using Word for referencing:…
Find a Recount
Narratively has an array of interesting stories about people. https://narratively.com/
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