Wonder ( Movie and Book difference )

 Wonder ( Movie and Book difference )

During the past few terms in ESOL, we have been reading a book called Wonder and watched a movie about it and we have been comparing and trying to find a difference between them.

The difference that I like between the movie and the book is in the book version it showed an additional chapter that at the end of the awards, there was an extra scene when Auggie and his friends took pictures together on picture day. And of course, the main difference between the movie and the book that I found is that movie shows what's happening, unlike the book.

Why I think I really liked the first difference between the book and the story is that it made the story, slightly more memorable than the movie and I think it was a good extra scene added to the story.

Gladiator Advert

 Gladiator Advert

During Hurumanu 2 Social Studies, we have been making advert posters of Gladiator and were told to make it up and include some roman numerals. What I enjoyed doing in this task was finding really new and interesting images from Gladiator, one of the things that were challenging to me was when I had to make up my advertising because I'm not really good a making up things, What I may do differently next time is that I may do this in a different app other than google drawing.

Here is the Poster I created:

Humanities Essay Planning

Text: Abomination

Author: Robert Swindell

Brainstorm

Article 1: All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

- means no one is born different from others - can't be born into slavery and kept in a cage.

- you have access to basic human rights - food, water, shelter

Relation to the story: Martha

 - Born into a religious cult, has basic rights but no personal freedom.

- Treated like a slave by her parents.

Jim:

- Born & kept in a cage, not allowed outside.

- Has basic human rights.

- Lost rights to education, love, freedom, and socialization.

- No clothes

Evidence: Martha

- no friends because she is righteous, different from others

Evidence (Quote of the Story): I know I seem weird to them, but it's not me, inside I'm just like them. Pg. 18

- not allowed on the radio

Evidence (Quote of the Story): The Righteous believes that the devil reaches young people through pop music. Pg. 11

Why did the author include this?:

- Main Story Idea

- Made us feel Sorry 

- Sympathy for Martha

Should Martha be forgiven?:

- Yes because even if she kept the secret about Jim held in the cage, she was also suffering as well.

Jimmy (Evidence):

- Kid in a basement, Martha to Scott.

Evidence (Quote in the story): A boy, Scott. He lives in the cellar in a cage. Pg. 146

- Jim doesn't get to see his mom.

Evidence (Quote in the story): And She let her kid live in a cage? ... She doesn't know!.. Pg 146

Why did the author include this?: 

- Good story plot

- Builds tension and suspense.

- Feel sorry, and angry at her parents.

- Shows negative influence of bullying.

Abomination: Resolved - gets socialized, gets to see his mom again, clothes, freedom, privacy, love.

Trauma - Not gonna have a normal life.

English: Discussing a way a Character is portrayed in the text (Abomination)

 English: Discussing a way a character is portrayed in the text (Abomination)

Martha Dewhurst

Age: 12 (Abomination)

Family: 1 Older Sibling and 2 parents

Challenges she faced:

When their parents caged her in her house when she found about a secret child being locked up in their house.

How she overcome them:

She remained calm despite the negatives and she placed a note outside for her friend Scott to have contacted the mother of the child (Her big sister Mary) for her and the child to escape.

Words that best describe her and why:

Commitment:

She kept going despite the difficulties and knowing all the consequences she might face.

Resilience:

She never gave up and kept going back up from the errors she made and the difficulties she encountered. 

What I did during the Holidays

What I did during the Holidays

During the holidays I spent most of my time at home. One of the things I did was watch anime, hang out with my brother, and text my friends.

One of the things that I enjoyed doing in the holidays was doing a group chat and playing with my friends online because I really enjoyed able to being able to communicate with them even if it wasn’t in person.

One of the things I had fun with by myself during the holidays was drawing because it gave me a relaxing feeling and what I did outside during the holidays was going to QE2 with my siblings and what I enjoyed most in there was going to the hydro slide and chasing my brother in the pool.

One of the things I learned during the holidays was that some were new things I never knew about my friends. I've also learned new ways to draw positions in hands and bodies and faces, and I have also learned more about my little brother and what he has done and achieved in school.

How I felt about one of the first weeks during the holidays was a bit tired and anxious and started getting cheerful and used to it during the middle of the Holidays and half of me started to feel excited about school again and my other felt a bit nervous.

Definition: What is Technology 5 min Task

 Definition: What is Technology 5 min Task

Social Studies Task: 1-2 sentences of the definition of technology

Technology is advanced compared to human life, thinking, and knowledge and gives brand new ways to do things, such as communication, and entertainment.

NZ Maori March DLO

NZ Maori March DLO

During Term 3 of Social Studies, we have been learning and researching about the NZ Maori Land and when, how, and why it happens, and what was its outcome or effect on New Zealand.

What worked well for me in this was Mapping the locations in NZ where the Moari March traveled and where it ended because I loved how we were given an option to use Google Earth for it or somewhere else, it was one of the tasks I really enjoyed as I was researching.

What was Challenging for me to do was answering the questions about Moari land March because some of the questions were related to the Treaty of Waitangi, overall it was still enjoyable.

What I may do differently next time is making a DLO somewhere other than google slides.

Here is a summary of what I have learned about the NZ Maori March:

ESOL Term 3 2021

 ESOL Term 3 2021

What was the best lesson and why?

One of my favorite lessons I have done during this term was reading all kinds of different novels in ESOL because I really like diving into something new and interesting and what I don't really know about.

What did you enjoy doing and why? 

One of the things I really enjoyed in ESOL was doing Kahoot and doing writing because I really liked how silent it gets especially during vocabulary listening.

What was one task you were proud of and why? 

One of the tasks I am proud of doing is the task where you answer questions about the book you were reading because it makes you summarise and makes you go back on what you have learned.

What is something you could do differently / better next term?

What I would do differently next term is I would work somewhere elsewhere it is not distracting because there were some times where I get distracted from others.

Anything you wish to share about this term? 

Term 3 was really short and okay and I really enjoyed working and learning something new, along with my friends during this Term.

Abomintation (Harmful Effects on Bulling)

 Abomination (Harmful Effects on Bulling)

During Hurumanu 1&2, we have been writing about the character in the book and what sorts of effects bullying gave them.

Here is my result:

New Zealand Moari Land March

 New Zealand Maori Land March 

During Hurumanu 1 and 2 in Social Studies, we have been learning about the New Zealand Maori March and we have been mapping the locations they visited as they were travelling around New Zealand. What worked well for me during the work was mapping the locations, what was a little difficult and challenging for me to do was doing a screenshot of the map due to how large the map was, and what I may do next time when I do this is I may do this in Google Maps instead of Google Earth.

Badminton Blog

Ways to Score a Point in Badminton

During Week 7 in PE, we have been playing and learning techniques from badminton. In this blog, I'm going to tell you how to make a score in badminton. 

How this works is that it can be played as a 1v1 or 2v2. 

One of the ways you can do to score a point in badminton is simple, if the shuttlecock falls into the opponent's ground then it counts as a point to you, Another way you can do to score is if your opponent's hit goes out of the line or court counts as a point.

If you hit the shuttlecock and it fails to go over the net then it counts as the opponent's point and if you hit the shuttlecock and it goes out of the court then it's the other side's net. 

There are usually three rounds in Badminton and the first team to gain 21 points is the winner and your need to win about two points if both teams are 20.

12 Badminton Techniques

12 Badminton Techniques

Hurumanu 5 Health (Key Concepts of Smoking)

Key concepts of Smoking 

Influence & Consequences of Smoking:

The possible influences of smoking are anxiety and depression or that the environment you live in, and the consequences and outcomes of smoking are fatal, it can cause heart disease and lung cancer, it can possibly cause diabetes and vision problems. 

Ways to Overcome Smoking:

One of the ways that can help you overcome this problem is to try drinking green tea every day if it is the lungs you are having a problem with and it will also make an improvement on your Physical Well-being. You should try to create some hobbies that can help you from your smoking addiction or just be in a smoke-free environment and will make an improvement on your Mental & Emotional well-being. You can also try to find some support that can help you from the mood and memory risk and will improve your Mental & Emotional well-being.

How Smoking can affect you personally:

How smoking can affect you personally is there is a risk of cancer if you keep smoking and it can potentially cause heart disease and can damage both of your lungs.

How Smoking can affect you interpersonally:

How smoking can affect you interpersonally is that it can harm others around you, it can harm a child by triggering an asthma attack which can put their lives in danger and has a high chance of ear infections, it can also affect your relationship with others as well like your relationship with your family, friends, bf/gf and can potentially tear your relationship with them apart.

How smoking can affect societally, is it can affect your schools like your teachers and classmates, and can affect your work, like your boss, and workmates, and can affect your church, sports team, cultural group and people around you because smoking has a chance of lung cancer to others around you, and can potentially cause heart disease and can lead to death.

How smoking can affect your Well-being:

How smoking can affect your Well being is that in your Physical Well being, the things that will be affected in your physical well-being is your lungs will be critically damaged, it can create a disease in your hearts and smoking can make a risk of heart attacks.

How your Social Well being can be affected by smoking is it can create health risks to people around you, including your loved ones and those who are special or close to you, it can also make problems with your relationship, like with your family, friends, teachers, gf/bf, and children and can make your relationship with them tear apart.

How your Mental/Emotional well-being can be affected by smoking is it can give you addiction and headaches, it can take a risk of memory loss including the languages you speak, your thinking abilities, your behavior, and possibly change how you think.

How smoking can affect your Spiritual Well being is that it can make a huge impact on your culture and religion, it can make you do things that aren’t allowed in your culture and religion, and can also make you forget about it due to your addiction.

How long are the Terms for when they are fully damaged or healed if quit smoking?

It can take about 1 year for a light smoker's lungs that take around 5 cigarettes a day to develop damage and 9 months for a heavy smoker’s lungs that takes around 25-30 cigarettes a day. When it comes to healing, it can take about 1 to 3 months after quitting smoking for your lungs to start improving and 1 to 9 months for your cilia to repair.

Hurumanu 1+2 - Friends Wanted

 Hurumanu 1+2 (English Resources) - Friends Wanted

Task - Researching the characteristics that make a good Friend

Human Rights Poster

 Human Rights Poster

In Social Studies, we have been learning about human rights and what they mean, we have also been learning about the types of human rights and we have been making a poster of them in Canva.

The things I have learnt about human rights is we all have the right to live freely and equally treated and protected under the law and that no one can take our human rights, what I found really fun when doing this work was when I was making my poster, it was fun when adding images and organizing the text.

Here is the poster I made about human rights in Canva:

Chemistry: Effect on Heat

Effect on Heat

Discussion:

Contraction (Imploding Can):

"Contraction" means a process of getting smaller, shorter, or tighter, for example, my hand contracted when I made a fist. How "contraction" was related to the "Imploding Can" experiment was when we placed the "Can" filled by hot on the container with cold water, the hot water, and the cold water "contracted" which causes the "Can" to implode. 

Expansion (Ball in Hoop):

"Expansion" means a something becoming larger or extending, for example, the balloon expanded when I blowed it. How this was was related to the "Ball and Hoop" experiment was when I add hot water in the metal ball, the heat causes it to "expand", if you add cold water, it will get smaller.

Conduction (Dropping pin):

"Conduction" means the heat traveling through a solid, causing it to vibrate more and more, for example, the pan starts to conduct after I heated it up. How this was related to the "Dropping Pin" experiement was when I heated up, using a bunsen burner to the metal rod along with the five pins attached to it, it causes the heat to conduct through the metal rod, which causes the metal rod to vibrate and the five pins to fall down.

Convection in liquid (Permanganate Crystal in Water):

"Convection in liquid" means when the liquid is heated up, they start to become less dense, meaning they aren't close to each other before as like one object.

Convection in gas (Teabag rockets):

"Convection in gas" means when the gas is heated up, it becomes less dense, meaning that they aren't that close to each other before as one object, then rises, when they cool down, they start to move down. How this was related to the "Teabag Rockets" was when we heated up the tea bag, it cause it to burn then rises and starts to fall as it cools.