Restart.. Mathletics!

This week for maths we get to do mathletics that will eventually help people from other countries to get better education. Every 250,000 points in mathletics is 1 dollar that the Mathletics donate to the people in Africa. We had to complete a series of task including things that were not familiar. We eventually got this barricaded problems with the help of our teacher. We each earned a thousand points for the contribution.

The end of Critical Literacy =(

Group work- Critical text analysis

Texts(s): Sia (Big Girls Cry)

Topic:Critical literacy -

How did your group focus the analysis? (Which aspect did you select to critically examine?) Inclusion Exclusion Representation Multiple readings

Which critical literacy questions did your group select to analyse the text(s)? Who is missing in the text? People in their old age. How are adults constructed in this text? Needing help Aggressive Irresponsible  Not showing empathy Needs bonding In whose interest is the text? It is meant for couples on how to solve or avoid their future problems. Why is the text written this way? Many kids will feel depressed when their parents start tearing apart.

Why did your group select those questions? It is related to the picture of young adults today. To show the text’s main intentions.

What did your group conclude from the critical analysis? (So what?) I think this video showed me the importance of responsibility in life.

  I am currently learning how to identify the text/video in details by using the Critical Literacy   Questions (CLQ). 

 I used four of the CLQ to show my better understandings of the music video called   (Big Girls Cry) by   Sia.

 I wondered many views of point on how to answer each questions and relate it   to the situations in life.

Critical Literacy - Putting it into practice. (17's to 18's)

Today at English we were shown a video that penetrates woman and men in 17's and how it change through time.

(Number One)
The stereotype for woman in this video was, they're mostly do the work inside and dressed nice. While, men are doing the yard work outside.  The Video was called, Somewhere that's green. The girl's voice is mostly quiet.

(Number two)
The video is called, Legally blonde the musical// so much better. The girl is shown that she is being used and in the video the girl is getting courage by seeing her name on a list that will change her life. eventually she decided she was better off without men in her life. Men is shown that they're only having gf to show off to his friends and to cuddle. The girl's voice is loud and clear, shouting her ambitions.

Questions:
1. How are adults constructed in this text?
- In the first text, the woman is mostly abolitionists
- In the second text, the woman is portrayed second.
2. What kind of social reality does this text portray?
- In the first text, the life was hard and they try to have a dream. They have different jobs.
- In the second text, woman can change they life through education. They can have the same jobs.
3. How does this text construct a version of reality?
- Both of the text, it uses what was mostly in that time period.
4. What different interpretations of the text are possible?
- You can have many point of view, in the first text, is showing that she has a good family. In the second text, the text is shown that they're more to life than having a good family and a house.

Conclude - What conclusions have we drawn about this text by answering these questions?
 - In the past, there are many stereotypes about men and women and after 30 years some stereotypes remains the same and others change.
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1. Synopsis: For this video, at the start they were calling each other mates. There are 4 guys who is going for a drink and 1 guy was supposed to be not drinking alcohol however, he began to drink secretly. In the end he was drank and when he was driving he crashed into the three. The other guys were not longer calling him mate.

2. Synopsis: For this video, at the start he was thinking whether what was his best options in the scenario. Whether he's going to tell his mate not to drive but it will be stupid in front of Monic and his other option was being a legend by saving his mate from crashing.

Question:
1. Is this text fair?
- No, because they have only targeted a specific kind of nationality, gender, and pronunciation.
2. How are teenagers or young adults constructed in this text?
- It constructs teenagers that they're irresponsible around drinking.
3. How does the text present age, gender, or cultural groups.
- Young adults was represented very loud and destructive.
- The young girls are represented to be the males sexual things.
4. Why is the text written this way?
- 2nd video To make the audience to make educated solutions.

Ms, McRae teachings

This week, we got to have a chance to be taught by a student teacher, it was hard to understand the instructions at first, however with the help of Ms McRae I understood what to do and what was the solution for the problem. 

The first topic that we did was get the shortest amount of rectangles in a painted pixels. I learnt the most efficient way to get the least amount of squares to take out the most pixel boxes.

Group Performance - Mystery Genre -

The topic that we're doing this term is a picking a random genre from a hat. This game is called Mystery Genre Performance. One by one, the groups pick and lastly we got to pick. Our group leader (Greg) picked the card, we got a disco genre, it is a new challenge to us.

Disco genre - Dance music and a subculture type.

We needed to research a disco music. The song that we are going to is 'Another one bites the dust". There is also a new person in our band, he will be playing base. Our leader will be doing the drums and our most skilled guitarists will be doing guitar, our tallest person will be doing the higher note keys and i will be doing the lower note keys.. Our goal for this is to practice it together and do our own parts.

Harriett Tubman & The underground Railway

Week 4 goals

Week 4 goals

1. My goal this week’s goal is to do my very best at completing and doing well in the pretest. Not being nervous. - To achieve this goal I would try to be more calm and think happy thoughts.
2. Having to ask feedback on my work. - To achieve this goal i would ask help from my friends.

Slave songs

Today at Social Study we are learning to learn how to detect hidden meanings inside a slaves songs.
This songs is connected to your spiritual Hauora. Most of the songs was to help the slaves work well and it's a sign of making their heart calm.
An example:
I'll be so glad when the sun goes down.
Roll Jordan Roll
The things that I identified.
- They're saying that they're tired.
- They can stop when there are no light.
- They can lay down when the sun goes down.

Finding the N-Case

How do you see the pattern growing? In our current math expedition, we are learning how to think about using an N-case except doing it manually. We spent minutes after figuring-out the N-case. It was hard but it was worth it. Our final outcome was N(N+1).
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My kind of music

Today is the first period of music! Even we would mostly sit in this week of music, i am looking forward to the rest of time in music.

My favourite singers/Band

- Imagine Dragons - Most of my favourite songs are from this band

- Ed Sheeran - Ed Sheeran is a singer and a pianist, I would like to be like him someday.

The instrument that I play is the piano, I have been practicing piano for 2 years.

This year, I would like to build up my confidence and skills on performing.

Definition of a music genre:

A category that identifies different kinds of music.

The Slave triangle

This is my diagram example of the 'Slave Triangle'.

This diagram shows how many travels and how far they travelled to get/buy slaves. 

They exchanges many materials for having slaves. In the late 1400's Portuguese sailed to Africa in search for gold. During the searching of gold, they captured many indigenous people in the process. After that they went to other countries to trade materials for the indigenous people.

Critical Literacy - Get Questioning _

Task 2

Individually: Using the Critical Literacy Questions on the previous slide, find 4 questions you could ask to find out about:

• Inclusion in a text
• Exclusion in a text
• Representation in a text

Inclusion in a text:

Q20 - What knowledge does the reader/viewer need to bring this text in order to understand it?

Q21 - What positions, voices and interests are at play in the text?

Q24 - Whose view are excluded or privilege in the text?

Q27 - What view of the world is the text representing?

Exclusion in a text:

Q14 - Who is missing from the text?

Q15 - What has been left out in the text?

Q17 - In whose interest is the text?

Q18 - Is the text fair?

Presentation in a text:

Q7 - what do the images suggest?

Q8 - What do the words suggest?

Q12 - Why has the composer of the text represented the characters in a particular way?

Q27 What view of the world is the text representing?

In the video of 'Dance Monkey' showed the elderly can be more energetic and cool. They did this to break the stereotype of elderly.

Introducing... ME!

This poster is all about me. This is our first task to show and tell about ourselves to our teacher and our friends.

First English Topic =) (Critical Literacy)

Critical Literacy - What is it?
Critical literacy is when you think critically about a piece of writing or relating to reading. Questioning every bit of event in the story. Throughout the year we will be studying this skill.

Vocabulary Refresher
Bias - Favoritism over multiple options.
Source - A place where we get the information from.
Credible - Having facts to be believed what's your saying.
Authority - Knowing your power.
Reliable - Having a trust on something/someone.
Perspective - A way of seeing/saying something.
Agenda - Having something to do. What is the purpose.
Manipulate - Handling or controlling something/someone.

Text - A piece of writing that contains info.
Construction - An action of building something.
Representation - Having a work to present.
Stereotype - An inaccurate judge of something or someone.
Inclusion - Including something or someone. Being included in a group.
Exclusion - An action of not including someone or something.
Masculine/ Feminine - Having a quality or appearance that is likely to Masculine or Feminine.

What am I learning?
I am learning to narrow my focus by extending my vocabulary on Critical Literacy. By extending my vocabulary I learned what is the meaning of the words and putting the meaning beside them is my way of showing that I know them. I am wondering about how many words should I study to be able to met the expectations of the teacher.

Example of the words in a sentence.
An example of a text is a newspaper.
There is a construction site down the block.
I have a presentation to make.
Judging asian people by their looks is a stereotype.
The inclusion of many countries on using human rights is fair.
Many exclusion happens because the imbalance of power.
You don't need to judge if someone is being masculine or feminine.

The 30 Human rights!

This social study topic taught me that some people might use their human rights to do something bad and good. I am learning the different types of human rights. The most interesting human rights to me was the right to equality. This work lists all the human rights and links to our topic because it explains how people from lower classes can be the same as everyone else's. 

A recent news item that interest me

The infamous coronavirus!

The world trembles with the entrance of coronavirus. This coronavirus is becoming an epidemic in China. The virus mainly causes respiratory illnesses similar to the common cold. It was first identified in the mid-1960's. Many Chinese like to eat exotics foods, including bats, snakes and other animals. Many people think that the disease originated from eating infected bats. The disease then became transmittable between humans.  A major number of scientists are trying to figure where this disease truly came from, through the knowledge of science. People all over the world wait for the research to be done.

This news spread alarmingly fast and eventually reached me. This report made me anxious and the community that surrounds me was impacted in the same way. It hooked me by its catastrophic after effects. Some people have already been in the hospital because of its symptoms.

Different kinds of news creates differents kinds of moods: worry, nervousness, fear etc. However, this particular news made me worried. This made me research its whereabouts and its symptoms, taking every bit of information so I would not be affected by it. Without any hesitation, I told my family about how to remain healthy and avoid this disease.

With the current situation, you can avoid this by washing your hands everyday and staying healthy.

Building up my "Self Directed Learner"

Assessing Against the Self Directed Learner Matrix

Make a copy of this slide.  Highlight in green what you feel you already do well. Highlight in yellow the areas you need to work on. Screenshot your slide and post your completed matrix to your blog. Write three goals based on the area/s you are working to improve. 

As a Self Directed Learner I
Have a positive attitude to all parts of learning including setbacks.	Know what skills I need to develop so I can learn.	Can tell others the ways how I like to learn and what suits me best.
Know what work I need to complete and set goals based on this.	Manage my learning time so I complete all tasks.	Catch up on work I miss or fall behind on in my own time.
Ask for feedback when I am unsure.	I reflect on my learning by asking: How do I know what I’ve learned? Can I explain what I’ve learnt to someone else? Can I apply what I’ve learned when creating my work.

Today at English we were manage to know our weaknesses and strengths. Our teacher decided to make us a goal to make 1 of our weaknesses become our strength. 

I thought to myself of how I would make it one of my strenght. The weakness I'm going to work for is (Can tell others the ways of how I like to learn and what suits me best).

Three things to solve this problem:

- Be more courageous on telling people what I want to learn.

- Finding the best way of learning.

- Finding my passion of how I learn.