Stage Four - Email Task - Neighbour Day March 25


Teacher Instructions
1. Access the DET Portal by clicking on the link below:
https://portal.det.nsw.edu.au
2. Open your email account
3. Click on
'New' in the top left hand side
4. Click on the
'To' button, which opens the GAL - Global Address List.
5. Click in the
Alias field
6. Type a 'tilde' (
~) which is done by holding down the 'Shift" and Pressing the key above the 'Tab' key.
7. Then enter your school code next to the tilde.
8. Click on '
Find'
9. Select your class or tick the box next it (Apple) form the list that appears below.
10. Click
'To' from underneath this window
11. Click
'Close'
12. Highlight all the text in the Email Task section below.
13. Copy and Paste this text into your email text window
14. Press
'Send' - the lesson will then go to all students in your class.


This means up to 30 emails will be returned to you.  If you do not wish to reply to each individual email once the students have returned the emails, then repeat the steps 4-11 to send one email the whole class thanking them for their efforts.

Subject Title of email: Neighbour Day, March 25th


Email Task
Your email task today is related to Neighbour Day (March 25) which began in Melbourne in 2003 following community concern after an elderly woman was found dead in her home two years after her death.

The task requires you to complete questions related to a photograph from an English website that contains news for the community of Bishop Thorpe.  The photograph shows what a local community member thinks is the act of a good neighbour.


READ THE WHOLE EMAIL FIRST

Read each Activity or Question below which refers to the website.  Click on the Hyperlink.
http://www.bishopthorpe.net/mt/ascot/archives/2005/good_neighbours.html
and read the post and consider the photograph.


Questions:
1. Write six questions you could ask about the photograph ? Answer
2. Do you think the two people would have known each other? Provide a reason for your answer. Answer
3. What do the photograph and written text show about being a good neighbour? Answer
4. What are some of the things that you believe good neighbours could do or should do? Answer
5. How is your neighbourhood similar or different to the one shown in the photograph? Answer
6. As a celebration of Neighbour Day, what ideas would you suggest for making or strengthening links between your class and your community? Answer
7. An American poet, Robert Frost, wrote a poem called ‘Mending Wall’.  In the poem he says ‘Good fences make good neighbours’.  What do you think this might mean? Answer


Final Steps to email your teacher:
8. Navigate back to your email.
9. Click on
'Reply' button at the top of your email.
10. Click to the right of '
Answer' and type your response.
11. Click
'Send' when you have completed your answers.


Well done! You have emailed your answers to your teacher.