Matariki poster

This poster took about 3 periods to do, our class first did some research on Matariki as our teacher leading it. We all picked our chosen holidady to change for Matariki, so I chose the Day after New Year's day since it's basically has no other meaning behind it. After some research I made this poster as the result!

Tomorrow, When the war Began - Can do task #5 - (Novel Study)

These are the last few Can Do tasks of the Novel study.

VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words, write the meaning using your own words.
Manslaughter - Killing a human without in any form of thought.
Aggravated - An offence that made serious a companion/friends.
Guerillas - A small group who participates in fights between real soldiers.
Interject - Saying something to interrupt
Smug - Showing a great resemble of pride
Vicious - Delibirately violent or evil.
Emphatically - Doing something in a forceful way
Scuffle - A confusing fight in a small amount of time
Sideswipe - A passing serious comment about something or someone
Elated - Making someone in a surprised happy emotion


Can do task 2:

Tomorrow, When the war Began - Chapter 16 to Epilogue question and answers - (Novel study)

This past two weeks I manage to read the end of the book so I decided to answer and blog it all at the same time. This is the results:

Ch 17: 

1. Why does Ellie feel uncomfortable with Chris bringing cigarettes and alcohol into Hell? P.221 It made her reflect on what she has been thinking over the past few nights.
2. What happened to the soldiers involved in the lawnmower incident, according to Robyn? How does this make Ellie feel? P.224 According to Robyn, two of them died and 1 was severely injured.
3. What is meant by a “clean war”? Why are the invaders so intent on having a ‘clean war’? P224-225 Clean war - Having no casualties such us killing the people/raping and other stuff. The invaders intent was not to let the neighbouring countries (especially America) join in because of that.
4. Why do you think prisoners are sent to clean up the houses around town? They are going populate the country with their own people.

Ch 19:

5. What makes Ellie think the soldiers walking past them are professionals? P.244-245 They acted as they were professionals. For instance, they ducked down before they shot and made sure it wasn’t very dangerous before shooting.
6. What are some clues that the group is starting to think ‘more like soldiers’? Most of them are prodigy thinking ways to get out of a bad situation and calming each other down when critical situation is happening. The quick thinking made them more of a soldier like characters.

Ch 20:

7. Why is Ellie nervous about being paired with Fi? P.255-256 Were her concerns about Fi realised? Explain. She was nervous because she likes Homer too. And No, Fi responded as Ellie were very hooked to Lee.
8. What is true courage according to Ellie? Doing something very dangerous for your love ones.P. 256
9. What problems do Fi and Ellie encounter on their mission to bring the tanker to the appropriate place under the bridge? How do they deal with these problems.

The fence cut was not big enough - They cut more.

The tank was ringing - they manage to turn it off

Some enemy troops came and inspect - they climbed a tree to be not noticed.

Ch.21: 

1. How do Ellie and Fi feel as they are leaving the scene on their motorbikes? Reliefed/happy  by escaping a near death situation. Are these realistic feelings? Yes, because many people wouldn’t do the same thing. Their act of courage change their life.P.273
2. Why do you think the group decided to blow up the bridge? The bridge connects the bay and the other cities by blowing it up there are no other land transport.
3. How is this exploit different from the other exploits the group has been on e.g visiting the showgrounds and rescuing Lee? THis is different since they had a well-thought plan that can cause something in the long term. Another reason why this is different is because this is something big, it includes more courage knowing you have to kill someone.

Ch.22

4. How does Kevins decision to go with Corrie change our perspective of him from Chapter 3/7 P280-281 He is now a good friend with a sacrificial heart and a loving,brave friend.

Epilogue:

5. What is Ellie’s concern about her story? She hopes that they will survive and she not becoming like Hermit.P.283-284
6. What do you think will happen to Corrie and Kevin? In Homer’s theory, the enemy is doing a clean invasion meaning that Corrie and Kevin would mostly be safe.

P.E (10th)

Warm Up - High Knees, Butt-kicks, Side-strides, Grapevine, up the length of the gym.  

Workout

Box Jumps x10

Jump Squats x10

Power Raises x10

Burpees x10

Jumping Lunge x10

Knee-Elbow Situps x10

Standing Calf Raise x10

Leg Curls x10

Leg Lowering x10

Knee Crunches x10

I had a bad start off today. It happened when we were warming. While we were playing a game of basketball a student ran into in a high speed. WIth an uncontroable speed of the sliding sucks, he crashed into me. However, I seem to breezing through my workout doing some extra things along the way. It was good at the end.

P.E (9th)

Warm up:

5minute 3minute run - around the gym

Workout

Box Jumps x10

Jump Squats x10

Power Raises x10

Knee Crunches x10

Knee to Elbow x10

Climbers x10

Jump Rope 30x

Pushups x10

Gym Laps x2

Today we had a warm out of bench ball. We had a great teamwork, the thing that was missing was the effort putting into the game. The workout for today was tiring since we had a game for our warm up. Each workout took a little bit longer than usual.

SDL Reflection time term 2 (week 11)

Last week I was trying to achieve the goal:
Can tell others the ways about how I like to learn.
I've improved this by telling my friends to not
bother me while I was reading.

This week Im trying to achieve the goal:
Ask feedback when i'm not sure.
Three ways to ahieve this:
- Having a friend to read my work.
- When getting confused ask the teacher.
- Knowing what words I'm not sure with.

Syrian Refugee Assesment.

1. What went well and why? 

- Many things wen't well, cause having your text raedy for your presentation is quite handy. You can just copy and paste it onto your presentation since you've already created the sentences needed.

2. What didn’t go so well and why?

- I had forgotten some informations and examples that I needed to put. One's sentence is unclear if the information is not true.

3 If you were to do this again what would you do differently and why?

- I would add reasons and add examples for the topic. More descriptive/emotive language.