Log (bijhouden) all of the options below in your notebook. Use clear headings and colours for each of the options. You can only earn the 💎 points if you log your work in a structured manner.

Option 0: Place XP in the vault

Go here: https://www.lets-grow.today/home/exchange/ and place all your XP in the Vault.

Option 1: LG Settings

Log in with your username (your student number) and this password: Gsgleovroman!#

The # is a random number you can find in your school email.

So, the password ‘Gsgleovroman!#‘ will not work if you do not change the # into your personal number.

When you are done:

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Click on the settings button to change your password.

Scroll down and click

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Enter a new password. It’s best to change it to your magister password.

Click

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 at the bottom of the page after you’ve entered a new password.

Some of you will also have to click: ‘confirm use of weak password’ before you scroll down.

Option 2: LG Profile Picture

💎5 if you have also done option 3,4,5 and 6.

Set a Let’s Grow! profile picture*. Do this by creating an account at https://en.gravatar.com/ You have to create your account with your school mail. If you already have a gravatar account you can add your school mail to your existing account.

*Make sure your gravatar image complies with the g-rating. See the ratings below. Your profile picture could be a picture of you, but it does not have to be a picture of you. However, you are not allowed to have profile pictures of other pupils or things that are not suitable at school.

Ratings

  • g: suitable for display on all websites with any audience type.
  • pg: may contain rude gestures, provocatively dressed individuals, the lesser swear words, or mild violence.
  • r: may contain such things as harsh profanity, intense violence, nudity, or hard drug use.
  • x: may contain hardcore sexual imagery or extremely disturbing violence.



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Option 3: Writing Prompt

💎10 if you have also done option 2,4,5 and 6.

You will need your notebook for this assignment.

  • Write the name of this option in your notebook.
  • Choose 1-3 Writing Prompts and write anywhere between 300-1000 words, total*.

    Each writing prompt needs to be answered in at least 100 words.
  • Write down the prompt as a heading above each of your prompts.

*for example: 1 prompt of 100 words, 1 prompt of 600 words and 1 prompt of a 100 words (800 words total = within the 300-1000 words limit)

Year 2 pupils:
Click the link below to find the writing prompts.

https://busyteacher.org/creative_writing_prompts_part_ten.html

Year 3 pupils:
Click the link below to find the writing prompts.

https://busyteacher.org/creative_writing_prompts_part_two.html

We will use the texts you write later on this year.

Your teacher may want to look at them while you’re writing them or in upcoming weeks.

Option 4: Your English Level

💎10 if you have also done option 2,3,5 and 6.

  • Write the name of this option in your notebook.
  • Answer at least five of these questions.
  • Write down the question before you write the answer.
  1. Explain how your English classes went last year.
  2. Explain what you liked.
  3. Explain what you disliked.
  4. Explain the things you are good at.
  5. Explain the things you would like to learn.
  6. Explain what you would like to be helped with.
  7. Explain how you would like to be challenged.
  8. Explain what you expect from your English classes this year.
  9. Explain what you expect from a good English teacher.
  10. Explain what good pupil-behaviour for learning English is.

Option 5: start reading your first blackbird / other book.

💎10 if you have also done option 2,3,4 and 6.

Each year you have to read several books for English. Always bring your book to choose in case the internet does not work. You can also read your book after you finish early on a test or if you are done with exercises/don’t feel like actively answering questions.

  • Write the name of this option in your notebook.
  • Write down the name of your book (this year’s blackbirds/book from the list at letsgrow.today/books)
  • Describe the cover and explain what you’ve learned about the book from the text on the back cover of the book.
  • Read the first five (or more) pages.

Option 6: Do a Role Play

💎15 if you have also done option 2,3,4 and 5.

  • Write the name of this option in your notebook.
  • Write down which role plays you’ve done, with whom and how it went. 

A: You and a family member are walking your dog. You’ve forgotten poo bags and your dog pooped on the pavement. A police officer sees you and tells you to clean it up. Talk about how and who’s going to clean it up. If you are a group of three, one of you can play the police officer.

B: Convince your classmate, who plays someone who is afraid of heights, to jump from the 3rd story of a building that’s about to collapse. If you are a group of three, one of you can play a rescue worker.

Option 7: Do the LG tutorial

You can earn đŸ”¶ for doing the LG tutorial. How many depends on how well you do. The tutorial is not available yet.

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