Antarctica ☃️

Sentence Structure Writing 📑

Sentences

Andre drank too much wine.

Savagely, President Trump pointed a taser.

Mr. Brown climbed the tree.

Global warming melted the ice caps. 

Enthusiastically, Princess Fiona ran a marathon.

Thor raised the hammer.

The sports stadium filled with fans.

Suspiciously President Trump carried heavy bags.

While the All Blacks warmed up brutally President Trump carried heavy bags. 

Ignoring the rules, savagely Andre pointed a taser.

Triggered 150 years ago, President Trump raised the hammer savagely.

Performance Evaluation 🎶

Performance Evaluation 

Were you happy with your performance?

a. We had to pre-plan it and make it up in 30 minutes but yeah.

What was successful?

a. Who went when and where we would stop/start.

What would you do if you had to do it again?

a. You can never have enough practice. 

Some Music Stuff 🎄🎶

Christmas Music

What is the purpose of Christmas Music?

To get into the Christmas spirit and it's another way to celebrate.

What is your favorite Christmas song?

There is a lot but probably...

Watch Brett Domino - How To Write A Christmas Song...

Are There Any NZ Christmas Songs? What Are They?

- Jingle Bell Kiwi Style

-Aotearoa Christmas

-Air New Zealand - Summer Wonderland 

Write A Short Poem With A New Zealand Christmas Theme...

Pohutukawa trees sparkling red fumes all around.

Christmas cake hot, sitting on the window shelf cooling.

The kids preparing Santa's snack for when he arrives indoors.

Saint Nick is on his way to you, have you done your chores? 

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Music Evaluation

What Has Been Your Favourite Thing You Have Learnt This Year?

Probably learning new songs on the piano.

What Have You Found Most Challenging This Year?

Actually having the stomach to get up and perform in front of the class.

Are You Taking Music Next Year? If No, Which Passions Are You Following Next Year? If Yes, What Would You Like To Learn Next Year?

No, I'm not taking music next year, in fact, I'm going to take metal and art next year. I decided this because I love being very artistic and creative so I decided metal and art were right for me. Except I will still be playing instruments in my own time as a hobby. 

The Andromeda And Milky Way Collision 🌌

So for science, I am going to be researching more about the Andromeda and Milky Way collision that is said to happen in 4.5 billion years. Basically, they are two different galaxies that are said to collide with each other and don't worry it is said that the sun will be okay and some of our planets too. 

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Paragraphs...

The Milky Way, the galaxy our home planet 'Earth' is kept safe and sound in its orbit around the sun. Our Milky Way has been around for 13.51 billion years and in counting. This place with our solar system has over 200 billion stars and is known to have a lot more dust and gas to make way more. "It's almost like we're sailing through the galaxy sideways" - Merav Opher. The Milky Way is around about 3 million light-years away from the Andromeda galaxy, so we are safe.

Now for Andromeda, now this galaxy is aged at 10.01 billion years and has about 1 trillion stars. Andromeda is the closet large galaxy to the Milky Way and has an apparent magnitude of 3.4. It is quite scary that Andromeda and The Milky Way will collide, in fact, Andromeda is approaching the Milky Way at approximately 100 to 140 kilometers per second. A fact about Andromeda is that it has at least one supermassive black hole hidden at the core of the galaxy. 

These two galaxies are going to be meeting each other in 4.5 billion years. While Andromeda contains 1 trillion stars and the Milky Way contains 300 billion but the chance of even two stars colliding is very slim due to the huge distances between the stars. Anyways this collision has been confirmed and honestly is bound to happen, let's just hope it doesn't cause too much effect. 

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Planning Storyboard ✏️

13/11/2019
Today we had to get put in groups, my groups cool. We are deciding to do a basketball-themed film in 30-35 seconds. What we did today was plan out our plot, create drawings and decide what camera shots we were going to use. This is will be a fun project and hope our idea comes out well.

14/11/2019
So today my group is going to hopefully start filming today, decide who is versing in our fake basketball game. Edy should have been the one who wrote this today, but he said his Chromebook is falt. Anyways we are also going to go back over our plan and maybe start filming today.
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19/11/2019
Right now my group is going to get our gear for filming since no one brought a basketball we are going to go borrow one from the school gym, we are hoping it get the rest of our shots today and hopefully start editing soon.

So our next steps is to get imovie and check our progress and hopefully get onto editing in the next day or so.


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20/11/2019
With this Wednesday today the group will hopefully get more shots and some more footage for the film. After we will put it all together tomorrow if we have English and see where we are at. We would like this to be the last day of filming so we can start creating and hopefully get more shots if needed. Also we would like to complete it a little early so we can not worry about time limit.

Basically we filmed some more shots and now we are ready to review our film and make it up tomorrow hopefully and maybe get more shots tomorrow.

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21/11/2019
Well we have already put the film together and it's 24 seconds long, so we might have to film some extra stuff to make it a full 30 seconds.

Now we are going to edit next and then we will review it from then.

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22/11/2019
So we have already finished editing and now we have to just get it from my phone and onto my drive.

Basically, what I said before we just need to get it uploaded.

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26/11/2019
Now it's time to show the film...

Critical Literacy 📃

Ad 1

Is This Text Fair?

Half and half because it is fair because some people at that age go out to party, but some like to stay at home and play games.

How Are Children, Teenagers, and Young Adults constructed in this text?

They are to be loud, upbeat and having a good time.

How does the text present age, gender or cultural groups?

Shows that anyone can act a certain way and that every young adults go out drinking every night, but it is a stereotype that they go out drinking and hanging out with their mates.

Why is the text written in this way?

To show an example of what could happen if you were a sober driver and you decided to drink at a party. 

Ad 2

Is this text fair?

Half and Half again because some people actually own up and others don't.

How Are Children, Teenagers, and Young Adults constructed in this text?

  It is that they always think about the person they like will think of them. 

How does the text present age, gender or cultural groups?

That they could be Maori and only Maori boys drink and party like that other than girls.

Why is the text written in this way?

To have a good influence on you and tell you what you should do in that stereotype. 

Stop Shark Finning 🦈

Sustainability Issues Project.💡

Examine the actions and policies of the local and regional councils or the central government in ensuring the sustainability of the local community. 

What is the sustainability issue?

a. Overuse of plastic...

What causes the issue?

a. Too much packaging and plastic cups etc.

What is being done to solve the issue?

a. No more plastic bags.

What else needs to be done to improve the issue?

a. Ban plastic and it should be illegal.

The Presentation

Muffin Makeover Domestic 🧁

So in home economics, we made muffins, but with a twist. Our teacher made some changes to our recipe to make it healthier. She decided to make them smaller and add in some bananas. The recipe came out like this...

1/2 cup Wholemeal Flour

1/2 cup White Flour

2 Tbsp Brown Sugar

2 Mashed Banana 

1/4 cup Unsweetened Low Fat Yoghurt 

2 Tbsp Canola Oil 

1 Egg

1 tsp Baking Powder

1/4 cup Chocolate Chips

Method for them is to 

1. Heat oven to 180c

2. Mix together the wet ingredients 

3. Sift and mix together the dry ingredients

4. Mix dry and wet ingredients together 

5. Spoon 100g batter into each muffin tin and bake for approximately 15 minutes or until cooked through. 

 Nutrient Information 

These muffins reduced in substituting some of the white flour for wholemeal flour, using less sugar, using less chocolate, replacing milk and one of the eggs with unsweetened low-fat yoghurt and making the muffins smaller.

Information in them are...

	Original	Makeover	Difference
	Per Serve	Per Serve	Per Serve
Energy	2221kJ	929kJ	1292kJ
Fat	21.7g	8.2g	13.5g
Saturated Fat	12.7g	1.4g	11.3g
Carbohydrate	75.8g	31.8g	44.0g
Sugar	42.6g	15.8g	26.8g
Sodium	754mg	131mg	623mg

Honestly these are way healthier and they actually taste good and are quick and easy to make. 

What Stuff Happens With Fire 🔥

Paragraph Practise...

We all are familiar with the news studio and where we see our two hosts sitting at the long oversized table. Well three days ago there was a fire that broke out on the Sky City building in Auckland, which fire fighters have been trying their best to fight. It is reported that the roof collapsed with the flames and everyone had to evacuate, leaving the news to be filmed outside, making them hosts seem real and not 3D made. Hopefully the fire looses the fight and the fire fighters take the win, like the All Blacks last rugby game. 

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Reflection About Balloon Thingy...

What Happened To Your Earth?
a. It got bigger and bigger.

Why Did  This Happen?
a. Because my group kept choosing one side of the answers.

What Could We Do To Stop That From Happening?
a. To cut down and think about what we are doing.

What Is One Thing We Could Do To Change Our Behaviour?
a. To actually care about the stuff we buy, make and use.

Essay Planning & Prep 😅

What Question Are You Going To Answer?

a. I am going to answer; Question 2 which is...

"Describe at least one way that a character or individual changed in the text. Explain how this change was important to the text as a whole."



Describe
The Other Mother
In the beginning- she's nice, happy, dressed nice, button eyes (symbols) she looks like the real mother but perfect. Wears apron, turtle neck shirt, long pants, short and round, curvy.
Feels - safe, happy, cosy, welcoming.
Lighting/Colour - warm, safe, artificial, bright, warm, oranges / reds / yellow.
At the end - scary, grumpy, vicious, malicious, vile, malevolent, skinless, metal bones, needle fingers, skeletal, rags, bug like.
Happens gradually - taller, skinnier, more sharp edges (head and elbows).
Feel - frightened, scared, unsafe, betrayed.
Lighting / Colour - dark, cold, artificial, neon green and purple - tells us that there is no way this Other Mother belongs in the real world.

Explain
Look can be deceiving - don't trust/believe what something looks like or appears to be.

What Techniques Are Used...

/ Music / Camera Angles / Lighting / Colour / Character /

a. Music - To me the music gets deeper, darker and more weirder.

b. Camera Angles - The camera angles start to show a high angle of the Other Mother making her more powerful and stronger to the viewers who feel weak and vulnerable. 

c. Lighting - The lighting with the Other Mother is very artificial and contains the colour palette is vibrant reds, oranges and yellow to make the room feel warm, safe and cosy. 

What I could write a paragraph on...

 a. Physical Characteristics 

b. Lighting / Colour

c. Costume 

d. Personality 

Hypothesis = Your Guess

Thesis = Your Argument  
 

Pick The Scenes You Will Use As Evidence...

a. I will be using the scenes where the Other Mother is in the kitchen, because when Coraline visits the other kitchen, the Other Mother changes through out the film.

Put in opening sentence; 
The Other Mother changed

Coraline

Henry Selick

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'Looks can be deceiving' is a theme shown by the Other Mother in Henry Selicks film Coraline.

Coraline, a children's horror film directed by Henry Selick, shows the theme of 'looks can be deceiving' through the changes of the character 'The Other Mother.'

Henry Selick, director of the film Coraline, shows the theme of 'looks can be deceiving' through the changes of the character 'The Other Mother.

The Other Mother, a character in a children's horror film directed by Henry Selick, shows the theme looks can deceiving in the film Coraline.
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My First Solo Performance 🤕

What instrument did you play and why?

I played the piano, because that's the instrument I have been playing for the longest. 

What song did you choose to play and why?

I chose Changes by XXXTENTACION because I look up to X.

Where you happy with your performance? Explain...

I mean I can always do better, but I think I did okay and I wish I was way more confident.

If you had to do it again what would you change?

I think the speed of how I played because I rushed a bit.

A link to your performance...

Click Here

Money T-Chart 🤑

Summarising

In Social Studies we are learning about money. Money is very important but some people can't or don't have any money. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter if you don't have money it's just you as a person that matters. 

Plot Graph - Coraline 📈

Questions
What Am I Learning?
a. I am learning to analyse the plot of the film Coraline.

How does this work show my learning?
a. It shows that I can understand the plot and what has happened in the film.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?
I am wondering if I have left the design of the plot graph too plain or if I could of used better words.

How Is Colour Used To Create Two Worlds 🎨

Atmosphere / Mood - How you feel in a situation. 

Predominant / Most Obvious.

Juxtaposed / Opposite of something.

Theme:

- Looks can be deceiving

- Courage & Bravery 

Photo/s that will be used;  

(Top on A -Real World - Study,  Bottom B - Other World Study)

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Question/s;

What types of colours are used in each world?

Real World;

Colours

Cold, Natural, Light.

Grey, White, Dull, Blue

Feels

Cold, Large, Lonely, Lonely, Boring, Dark, Cluttered, Old, Cramped.

Why Did The Director...

Shows us Coraline is unhappy here.

Shows us the real father is too busy to spend time with Coraline.

Other World;

Colour

Yellow, Vibrant, Red, Orange

Lighting

Orange, Artificial, Warm Light.

Feels

Happy, Safe, Warm, Welcoming, Clean, Perfect, 

Why Did The Director...

Coraline is happy there.

Shows us the other father wants to spend time with Coraline.

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SEXXXY PARAGRAPH 

Statement, 

Example, 

eXplain - The Atmosphere , 

eXplain - Directors Purpose, 

eXplain - How It Works With Another Technique, 

Your Link - Another point in the film or a similar film.  

 Colour is effective in helping to create the two worlds and shows the theme 'looks can be deceiving.' The real world study uses a colour palette predominantly of greys, whites and blues. This creates a cold, lonely and boring atmosphere. The director did this to show us that Coraline is unhappy int the real world and that her real father is too busy to spend time with her. The use of a cold natural light re-enforces this mood. Juxtaposed to this is the use of colour in the other world study. Vibrant reds, oranges and yellows make the room feel warm, safe and cosy. Selick used this palette to show that Coraline is happier in the other world where the other father has time for her. This shows that looks can be deceiving because Coraline mistakes the bright perfect world for a safe place when really it is a trap.