10 English - Film Study - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Hi There!

Today for our English class we had just finished watching a movie a type of movie that was based on true events.

It was called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas' I had never watched this movie before. But I have heard so many people talking about it, or how they watched/read it. 

At the start of the movie, I didn't find it that interesting, as I'm not actually interested in the old sort of movies. 

Halfway through I started to get interested, more often I started to see the Hitler logo (Nazi) which is bad. That's why I started to get more intrigued as time went by. 

After researching more about this type of event, the movie was trying to portray the torture and hardships the Jews went through. Through the time being of Hitler's ideas, this was called a Holocaust. 

I found this terrible, the little boy moved from his home town and had no choice but to leave his friends. As his dad from what I remember the general? had to move to a government area. Which was near the camp, which is where mainly the Jews worked and died. 

The little boy wanted to explore so he disobeyed his parent's orders and still went out of his house. He walked through the forest and just kept walking until he reached the camp without noticing. As the boy was young he didn't know anything about how terrible the real world was, he was innocent. 

He was able to meet another little boy around the same age as him, therefore they became friends. The only problem was is that there was always a fence between them which was really sad and sort of devastating. He couldn't even properly play ball with his friend.  

Later on, in the movie, it started to get more intense there was more violence and yelling. The Jews were often beaten up when they made mistakes even the kids, their punishment would always be fatal. If I were a jew I would be terrified to make one mistake. It's scary knowing that you would probably die. 

What was worse was that the kids who were Jews had to grow up in such a hard environment. They couldn't have the childhood they deserved. At first, I was always confused and concerned as to why the Jews hated so much or were thought to be bad. 

They were just blamed for winning the war, it's just so horrifying I can't even find any words to describe how bad it was in history. With all the violence and killings, and murderous acts. 

Reflection Section - Wananga

Hello Everyone!

Today is another day for my weekly reflection blog post in wananga, this time I have decided to reflect on a movie I watched on my Health subject.

Yes I know I usually reflect on the anime I have watched. But I thought why not reflect on something involving learning and school. 

Text title: What was the movie "The half of it" trying to tell us?

Text type: Movie 

Text creator: Alice Wu

Text purpose: Proclaiming the motives of the director or creator by discovering the message of which they are trying to portray. 

The movie 'The half of it' is about a girl named Ellie mainly I guess I should say, she is the main character. She earns money by doing everyone else's homework, possibly around $20 or more. But one day a boy her age asked her something that she has never done, and is probably the only thing she isn't smart with. A boy named Paul asked her to help him write a letter for the popular girl. Named Aster, the twist to it is that Ellie also likes Aster but won't admit it. Ellie writes the letters for Paul in poetic ways. Aster receives them thinking it's from Paul which as you know is actually from Ellie. Over-time Ellie's feelings become deeper for Aster. In the end, Paul ends up liking Ellie. Because he realized that he is happier and comfortable with Ellie. Ellie kisses Aster, and Ellie finally actually gets to do what she wants. So she goes to her dream college. 

Reflection Section - Wananga

Today for my wananga class we are once again doing our weekly reflection blog post. Today I will be reflecting on an anime I have watched in the past, which is called 'Demon Slayer'. I have considered this anime the best one I've watched so far. 

Text Title: The story behind 'Demon Slayer'. 

Text Type: Anime 

Text Creator: Koyoharu Gotouge

Text Purpose: Proclaiming the motives of the protagonist. 

The story of 'Demon Slayer' is about a young boy who lives in a world in the danger of demons at night. That's why there are such things called demon slayers; usually, humans fight demons. This young boy is named 'Tanjiro' his family was slaughtered by a demon. He found himself devastated seeing the state of his family, blood everywhere, even the baby. The only one left was his younger sister the second oldest. But unfortunately, his sister was turned into a demon, his only life goal is to slay the demon who did this to his family and his sister. So he became a demon slayer, he made a lot of friends along his journey. As it was a cliffhanger series, we are still waiting to see whether he does it or not. 

10 Social Studies - Music Through Time - Slavery in America

Hey there!

This is my first blog post for social studies!

In social studies, we have been basing our topics around music through time. How music has been a very big part of history. Our first topic was slavery in America, and because of how bad it was it is engraved deeply in American history. Because it was a significant event, it is still being talked about and mentioned till today. There is still even racism going on till now, mention the 'Black Lives Matter' protest. 

Through American slavery, there were many African captured from Africa and were brought to America to be sold. Starting only through the journey to America the Africans were going through a really hard time. It was hot they were bunched together in small areas. They were abused, and they died from starvation or thirst or were just killed. This is where it started, how they used music to survive, to get through their tough times they sang. Multiple events they used singing to communicate, as the people who stole them couldn't understand their language. They would take it to an advantage and sung with each other to plan escapes.

When they arrived in America they had to do so much labor in the plantations which were exhausting, so much till the point, they died. To get through everything they always sang and made songs. Each of those songs had messages or meaning, the messages were usually used to help slaves escape. When they sang it gave them hope there Is something to hold on to, that's why their songs were religious. Now in Africa singing is very very important to them. 

An important person from this event was named 'Harriet Tubman' who was a woman who was born into slavery. She was a big hero to the slaves, she saved thousands of slaves. By leading them to Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was an escape route for the slaves. This led them outside the slavery borders.

Here is a song I have chosen from which they had created:

'Follow the Drinking Gourd' 

Follow the drinkin' gourd
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is comin' just to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd

When the sun comes back, and the first quail calls
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is waiting just to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd

Follow the drinkin' gourd
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd

Well the river bank makes a mighty good road
Dead trees will show you the way
Left foot, peg foot, travelin' on
Follow the drinkin' gourd

Follow the drinkin' gourd
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd

Well the river ends, between two hills
Follow the drinkin' gourd
There's another river on the other side
Follow the drinkin' gourd

Follow the drinkin' gourd
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd

Well, where the great big river meets the little river
Follow the drinkin' gourd
The old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd

Follow the drinkin' gourd
Follow the drinkin' gourd
For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinkin' gourd

For the old man is waiting just to carry you to freedom
If you follow the drinkin' gourd

As you can see from the part that I have highlighted, according to the internet it is 

supposed to be a describe the route from northern missipi to tenesee. The song 

was used to describe the route. The route was used for escaping slaves, especially 

the young ones. This song is also connectected to the big dipper constellation. 

Because the drinking gourd meant the hollowed out gourd used by the slaves as a 

water dipper. Used there they used it as a code name for the Big Dipper star formation. As it points to Polaris, the Pole Star, and North.

Honestly when you really think about it, it musti've been really hard for the 

slaves, using songs to communicate. If they didn't use songs or had spoken a 

different language they probably wouldn't have been able to send messages around. Just imagine how unfortunate it would have been and terrifying. If the 'masters' found out about their escapes. They were so lucky to have people there who never 

gave up. Who always had hope or faith in finding a way to escape, it just happened to be a miracle. 

I am so lucky that I was born into this generation, because I am not 'white' and 

there would have been a lot of racism directed at me. I'm happy I didn't go through 

the hardships of our ancestors. I have acknowledged the tough times the slaves had went through, and how music helped them through everything. I realised music 

isn't just some nice beats you listen to. But it has so much meaning, especially throughout history. It is something so much more and so important, for me I love 

music it gets me through a lot. I know there is much more to learn about music, and I am looking forward to it. 

10 Science - Atom crafty project

Hello everyone!

This blog post will be my first science blog post for this year!

Aim: To make a model atom

Recently in our science lesson, we have been focusing on atomic science as our first topic for science. This means we have been learning about atoms, we also have been doing activities. For us to learn the periodic table as it relates to atoms, the reason for this is because...

If you haven't seen a periodic table before here is what one looks like:

I don't know if you can adequately see but in each box or square, there is a letter(s) that represents an element. There are also two numbers in each square, there is one in the top left corner and one under the letter(s). The smaller number which is usually at the top is the atomic number. Which is the number of protons and electrons. The number under the letter(s) is the atomic mass which is the size of the elements. The neutron in an element is the results you get from minusing the atomic number from the mass. 

Wondering how this relates to atoms? Well as I made the words 'protons and electrons' the reason for that. Is because an atom is made of electrons, protons, and neutrons. The structure of an atom is where the protons and neutrons are in the core. Which is called the nucleus and on the outside there are electrons whizzing around.

Now talking about our atom project - 

We needed to create our very own atom using the following supplies - 

• Paper
• Big/small beads
• String
• Blue Tack
• Tape
• Scissors

I will not tell you the instructions but I will explain what each of the supplies was used for. So I guess I am practically still telling you the instruction partly. 

We first needed to pick an element from Hydrogen to Neon, and I chose oxygen. 

For the beads, we stuck the number of beads we needed together using blue tack creating a sphere. The beads needed to be two different colors representing the protons and neutrons. The resulting sphere would be representing the nucleus.

We then needed to cut out two rings in the paper using the scissors, I did this by folding my paper in half vertically; so the long way. I used a pencil to sketch out semi-circles and cut them out. I needed about 2 rings a small one and a bigger one. The rings represented the shell of the atom, the could possibly be 2 - 3 shells on an atom. Everyone needed only two rings as we only needed to pick an element between Hydrogen and Neon. 

Between hydrogen and neon, the number of electrons didn't go past 10, this is because in the shell. The first layer can only fit 2 electrons and both the 2 and 3 shells can only fit 8 electrons. 

After that on the rings, we needed to draw on the appropriate amount of sots/circles to represent the number of electrons. 

We used a string to connect the nucleus and electron shells, and on top, we needed to create a label saying the element and the atomic number, and atomic mass.  

Here is what mine ended up looking like:

It worked nicely with me, I enjoyed doing it as I like to do crafty things. I'm glad Mr. Heath my science teacher decided to mix something creative in our work. Still making it informative and creative. This was also a great way for us to remember our work or test our knowledge about atomic science. 

Here are 2 facts about atomic science!

• Everything is made out of atoms.
• There are three parts to an atom: protons have a positive electrical charge which is found together with neutrons in the nucleus. Around the outside in the shells, that is where the electrons are found which hold negative electrical charges.  

10 English - 321 RIQ

Hi fellow viewers!

Today we are going to do another '321 RIQ' if you don't know what '321 RIQ' is I had explained it in my recent English blogpost :)

But this time we will be writing more about what we recall from our lessons about film. 

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3 Recall - 

• I remember I needed to create a table with different camera shots and images along with them, as examples.  
• I remember us revising static images and how they send messages to people visually. For example the toilet signs. Practically everyone knows the toilet signs, same with other static images. We needed to revise 12 signs from a typical Spanish train station, mainly one that was very old. So some signs were pretty old. As an example for the exit sign, an arrow would be pointing outwards from a box. From that, you could understand what the entry sign would be. 
• I also remember Mrs. Truter our English teacher mentioned that we would be starting off our English classes with film study, and next would be simply writing. 
• We also learned about how people are usually used as references for camera shots and angles. As people are usually the same size on an average, rather than a building. It would be seen from a totally different perspective, for example, a close-up shot. Here for people, you would see their head and shoulders. Imagine this shot on a building, it will be pretty difficult as houses or buildings are all different sizes.    

1 Question - 

• Maybe if we're doing film study, we could really find a way for it to be fun. For e.g, we could possibly study a movie like we did last year and critically informatively reflect on the movie?

Home Ec 10 2021

Home Economics

First Lesson

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Third Lesson 

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Reflection Section - Wananga

Today for my Wananga class, we need to summarise anything we want. Whether it be an article, a trailer, a video. We can summarise anything just so we can practice how to summarise in general. 

Text Title: The story behind 'My Hero Academy'. 

Text Type: Anime 

Text Creator: Kohei Horikoshi

Text Purpose: To inform us about the story behind the protagonist in the anime.

My Hero Academy is an anime involving supernatural powers called quirks. These quirks developed with humans over time, since years have passed. Those 'quirks' had become normal in society. Around 80% of their world have quirks, and 20% don't, ironically the protagonist was among the 20%. Overall the summary about the anime is that Deku the protagonist has an all-mighty dream to become like his idol. His idol is the one who passed on his powers to him, which was unbelievable for him. Because of his big goals and striving to achieve he became the number 1 hero. 

10 English - The benefits and advantages of blogging

Hello everyone!

I know this is a late post, but I will be talking about my first English assignment for 2021. Our new English teacher was also new to our school. She originally taught in Auckland and moved down south for family matters. Her name is Mrs. Truter and she is a wonderful teacher, I am definitely looking forward to her teaching us more. I don't know how but she has a way of teaching that gets us to really remember the things she teaches the class. Well, at least that's the case for me.

In our 200 word essay, we had to of course make sure that we had 200 words and that was our minimum. We also had to answer 3 questions which were - 

• What are the benefits of blogging?
• What the advantages of your teacher knowing your concerns?
• How does learning English benefit us through blogging?

Now here is my work, enjoy!

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10 English, 200-word essay about blogging 

Wednesday, Feb 9, 2021

Benefits of blogging

Personally, I think we do blogging to summarise our work or to show our understanding of the topic. Blogging also gives us the opportunity to practice our writing skills, so we can get better at grammar and punctuation. Blogging can also be a place where we can put down our notes to possibly help us in future projects. In my personal opinion, I enjoy blogging it gives me a sense of achievement, or it shows me how hard I’ve worked. Regarding what my previous teacher said about blogging, apparently, it has been proven that blogging increases our writing level. The new generation is pretty lucky if I say so my self, because if we compare how we do work now to how people did it back then. Our writing may have been easier for us to learn but come out with great results. A blog can also be a perfect platform for LCS. This means Learn, Create, Share, from learning in class, creating a project, and sharing it on to our blog. A blog can also give inspiration to others for their work and can keep people in touch. Also, a project called the Summer Learning Journey gives you prizes for doing blogs throughout the holidays. This benefits our grades, so they can still stay at the same level or decrease only slightly. 

The advantages of having my teacher know/read my concerns, opinions, reflections about my progress. This can help us reflect on our work, knowing our mistakes and correcting them. We can know what to do next time. We can then improve, this can also give us a chance to help other students by giving them feedback and something to reflect on them. Speaking on feedback, naturally, if we get feedback there would be two options. Ignoring it or listening to it, but it would be better to listen, so we can have a good time. Teachers can also get an idea of how we write, making it easier for them and us.

Throughout our life, we need to know English as it benefits probably everything we do, for example, we need to have good English for a career. In my opinion, blogging definitely helps us through English as we get to practice it. It provides us with an opportunity to reflect on our English, It also opens up our writing range/span to a wider audience. It can also provide a good platform with feedback that could possibly help us with our English. 

425 words in total.

10 English - Story

Hello everyone!

In one of the previous lessons for English we needed to create a story that includes the following words: 

• Fallacy
• Enigma
• Disappearance
• Suspicion

It may seem boring to you, but I do base all my stories on movies and that's where I get my inspiration from. 

Before learning those four words we needed to learn the definition of them. Because basically everyone in the class. Didn't know what two of the words were, which could possibly be obvious to you. But if you didn't know, the two words were 'fallacy and enigma'. I was actually pretty proud that I was able to learn these two words. Because it makes me feel a lot smarter saying those words, or saying that I know these words. 

Finally, enough of me talking, you can now read my story, which I hope you'll enjoy reading. 

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The Kidnapper

Jane was walking behind her mother, looking like she was depressed as usual. They were going to go shopping, after all, Jane does come from a rich family. Jane always seems to disappoint her mother, defying her orders, going against what the mother wants for her. The mother is always saying she just wants what’s best for her. But Jane knows that her mother just doesn’t want her to embarrass her and ruin her reputation. While they were strolling the streets in town, from the corner of Jane’s eye she sees an edgy person in a black hoodie. At first, she didn’t mind it she didn’t want to make any assumptions, but it still put her into suspicion. But once she looked again, she had seen something terrible, the man that she had previously seen, grabbed a child’s arm and held her tight, covering her mouth. He ran into a dark alleyway, without thinking Jane ran after the suspicious man. 

Before she could even think, she just ran, it was something that would have just been so tedious to her. While she was running she was panicking at the thought of possibly dying, but she knew she had to do something. Jane always thought that kidnappers were an enigma. She was so overwhelmed with the decision she made and her thoughts, that she lost track of the man. Once she zoned back in, she just kept running but all of a sudden, someone grabbed her roughly. His arms were so strong his bulky hands covered her mouth, restricting her from screaming. He had his other arm wrapped around her throat, Jane was trying to loosen his arm by moving as much as she could. But it hardly did anything, she was exhausted from how much she was trying to escape from the man. Suddenly everything had turned black, she just had a feeling that she was really going to die. 

2 years later…..

The police were still on the lookout investigating the case of the disappearance of Jane. Eventually, the police gave up and suspected she was dead. Overtime rumors have gone around about how the rich family child had been kidnapped. People had always wondered whether the rumors were a fallacy or were they true? This ruined their reputation regarding popularity, this made the mother go crazy. Resulting in her going to a mental hospital, meanwhile, the father was overworking himself. He didn’t seem so affected by the news as he was never close to his daughter, as she was growing up. But he did always wonder what was the reason for his stress, and why did he start to work so much harder. 

In the end, Jane never came back…..

10 English - 321 RIQ

Hi friends! 

This is my first blog for this year's English class. Mrs. Truter had taught us a different way for blogging which will be used in our English classes. This new blogging system is called '321 RIQ'.

3   Recalls - (3 things I remember about the lesson)

2   Insights - (2 new things I learned in this lesson)

1   Question - (1 question about something I didn't understand/would like to know more about)

I will now use this method regarding my previous English lessons. 

3   Recalls - 

• I recall us creating individual stories, which had to include these words - 
• Fallacy
• Enigma
• Disappearance
• Suspicion
• I recall the class needing to do a 200-word essay about the benefit and advantages of blogging. 
• I remember sharing with the teacher a sentence using the word disappearance.

2   Insights - 

• I had re-learned/remembered different nouns.
• I learned about a prefix and a suffix. 
• I also learned about '321 RIQ'. - (extra)

1   Question -

• What type of work will be doing further into english? regarding that would we be able to do something creative, that still benefits our English?

Wananga - My School Holiday Summary

Hello friends!

In this blog post, I will be summarising my holiday that may give you an idea of my personality or what I like/dislike. 

At the beginning of my 2020 holiday
, it was my birthday which I had celebrated on the 13th of December but my birthday is on the 16th. I had all my friends over and a few family members, there were games and food. The decoration was really nice and my family, definitely put a lot of their effort into it. The food was amazing, the games were entertaining, we had lots of laughs and I just generally thought it was a great party. 

But for my 'real' birthday we went on a road trip around the south island. We had gone to Marahau and also went on the Abel Tasman Coast Track. On the first day, we only went on a 30-minute walk. To the Tinline Bay and took photos with the single tree on the rock, on the way back. We ended up catching the small crabs, and I ended up slipping in the small stream, luckily it was a hot day. So the water didn't really bother me, I had lot's of fun, but the next day could've been considered hell. 

The next day we had gone on the Abel Tasman Coast Track again but this time we were planning to go to the Cleopatra Pools. The walk was so long, tiring, exhausting, on top of that the weather was not complementary to the activity. It was boiling hot, since the whole family came along we had to alternate with carrying the baby. I was the one who ended up holding her the most, alternating with her on a sling, my shoulders, and carrying her on my hip. 

We had to walk to Anchorage first and that took about 4 hours which was about 12.4 km. We ended up giving up on going to the Cleopatra Pools. Because our legs had died on us we were so tired, and our problem had come up. We had no idea how to get back, we were so exhausted we just couldn't walk back, we ended up just laying on the grass we even took a nap, we had nothing better to do. So why not swim in the ocean and that what we did, it was so hot so why not, but we couldn't stay there forever. Although there was a hut, we couldn't find any of the staff which was frustrating. If I could say so myself we were extremely lucky like so lucky, we asked one of the water taxi drivers if we could possibly fit in. Usually, you had to book a spot but the lady was kind enough o offer us a spot. Just on the last boat, that's I'm saying we were extremely lucky, and I was so happy that we didn't need to walk back. 

In my family, we frequently go on hikes and we definitely enjoy it a lot so we are usually used to the exhaustion. I think the longest hike we've been was at Mt. Somner which was about 12 hours back and forth. I think that was my favorite, the water was apparently clean enough to drink, it was so beautiful. 

After those special events, I just did what you would have usually done in the holidays. I slept, ate, and hung out with friends. I had spent $50 with friends in just a few hours. I mean what can I say I've even spent $300 on just clothes in one day. I guess you could say I save up to spend, I don't know how but that's what I do. 

That was the rest of my holidays nothing else special happened, but I definitely found my holiday enjoyable and entertaining.