Similes and metaphors

1. My bedroom was as black as a cave in the depths of the earth.
2. The classroom after school became as noisy as a gaggle of gabby geese.
3. The cat capered along the fence top like a tightrope walker on the hire wire. 
4. My anger crashed into me like waves against the shore. 

1. The cloth was as black as coal.

2. The wet ball was as wet as a Eel.

3. My little sister was as playful as a kitten.

4. The table was as smooth as silk.

5. Iv'e been busy as a bee.

6. The lamb was as white as snow.

1. As slippery as an eel. Simile
2. Arnie was a man-mountain. Metaphor
3. He was a lion in battle. Metaphor
4. She is as pretty as a picture. Simile
5. The striker was a goal machine. Metaphor
6. The torch lit up the room as if the sun had already risen early. Metaphor
7. The moon was a misty shadow. Metaphor
8. My friend has a face like thunder. Metaphor

Music

We are singing the song flash light because we all know the song very well. We have practised once but we are still working on our sound and who's doing what. The song flash light is a really powerful song so we all are trying to show you how powerful the song is when we are all singing it together.

Hunger game characters

Boomerangs

Explain the purpose of this activity
The purpose of this is to show you what the aboriginals used and how they designed there boomerangs.

Explain the story on your boomerangs, including the meaning of the colors. 
The background represents the sun.


What went well when painting your boomerang
The background colors went well because it reminds me of the sun and that's what its meant to represent.

film study- notes

What does it remind you of

first sound: Country

Second sound: Sounds sad

Third sound: Sounds scary

Forth one: The sounds make you feel nervous as if something is going to happens

Mr Taylor's music

happy vibes upbeat, sad songs

the first song sound happy because its upbeat and fast.

the second one sounds sad because it slower then the first one. 

chords 

major, upbeat and happy

minor , slow and sad

Costumes

Districts: no make up, all look the same, girls braided hair, boys have short hair, girls in dresses and skirts, boys in collared shirts.


Capital: bright colours, head pieces, make up, clean, bright clothing,
all look unique.


Hunger games: suits,jackets t-shirts,simple, all the same,running shoes,
 colours.

Paragraph

Costumes are used effectively to show the imbalance between rich and poor, the capital and district 12, in Panam. For instance, this in seen in the reaping scene where the figure of Effie Trinket is juxtaposed to those of district 12. In this scene the children of district 12 are wearing dull faded simple clothes whilst Effie wears a vibrant pink outfit with extravagant wig and over the top make-up. This makes us understand how unwealthy the people of district 12 are compared to people in the capital. The purpose of this is to show that life in all the districts is not as hard as it is in district 12. Coinciding with this is the use of setting. The district 12 everything is run down and old but it the capital it is new,clean and colourful.


How is colour used to enhance the story.

1. green,dull,dark,browns,grey,white,black
nature\natural palette
district 12

2. Capital
whites,greys,sliver,metals-building's
bright,colourful-people




Colour is used effectively to show the theme of rich vs poor. This is demonstrated in the two scenes- district 12 at the start of the film and the capitol as Katniss and Peeta arrive on the train. In District 12 a natural,dull and dark palette of greens and browns is used to create a wild atmosphere in
the capitol a metallic, industrial colour of whites, slivers and greys used to create a feeling of an advanced society. The purpose of this is to show the rich vs poor in the two societies. The Capitol has more colours and advanced buildings and technologies, where as district 12 has dull colours to show their run down buildings and over worn clothing. Combined with the use of costumes we're able to see the divide between the wealthy in the Capitol and the poor of District 12. This reminds the audience of the Roit scene later in the film when the poor citizens of district 11 rebel against the rule of the capitol.




workshop 5

Thesis- Argument !

Hypothesis- What you think will happen.

Katniss - changes- starts innocent, becomes a warrior , a symbol of rebellion

In the film 'The hunger games' directed by Gary Ross, Katniss evolves from an innocent girl from District 12 into a symbol of rebellion of the people of Panam.



Volunteers a tribute- The reaping scene- costumes-  choose a compare scene
dutch tilt- something is about to go wrong



mocking jay- Market scene with lady- gives to it sister as a sign of protection- close up- see it



3 finger salute  rues death/ the reaping. her district- high angle - wide shoot
shows lots of people

Hunger games

-may the odds forever be in your favour

-first time seeing the mocking jay pin when she gets it from the market from the old lady.

-tucking in shirt but when she got called up she has to grow up and do it her self.

-the lady has nice clothing, make up rich clothes, so she doesn't look the same as they do because they aren't rich.

-first time we see them on fire as entering

-ru dies, and her district start fighting because she has died


sound
-nature
-birds
-girl puffing
- whispering
-throwing rocks
little girl screaming

colour
-faded
-sad
-washed to much

camera angles
-close up
-shoulder up angle
-medium shot
-high angles
-birds eye view
-med close up
-dutch tilt
-over the shoulder shot

music
-singing
-low singing

costumes
- old fashion
- really poor
- not bright

reggae research

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d-h682x1FiRcVr7adc3pcrUcIvpN2BK3Jjf60ir5LyE/edit#slide=id.p

Here is mine and tanaya's work on our research we did

Next step for writing an essay

Writing reflection

What goals are you setting 

If it is an argument make sure to include what your arguing about and to add more detail on what i'm talking about. Also try to link my work at the end instead of trying to finish it with a good ending or sad ending. And to include more vocabulary in my writing.

My goal will be to focus on adding more vocab. 

Art - magazines

Does your design reflect your thumbnail sketches so far? I didn't design any because I wasn't in this group until now.

Does your design reflect the feeling of your topic?  Yes because our topic is about sports and there are a lot of photos of people from Hornby doing sports and there will be info about it too.


Do you know where your leading lines are? One of our leading lines leads to the title at the bottom with the sports photo.

Do you know what your focal point is?
Our work is not finished so we don't have a focal point at this moment.

In art this term we have been designing magazines. We all got put in groups and each group got a topic. Out topic was sports. So what sports everyone plays at school or athletics. At the bottom right conner there is a photo of a group of students that went to Nelson for south island athletics. A few came first if some events which means they are the best in the south island. Thats what our magazine is about. 

Creative writing

London is such a crowded place, there's no space at all and i'm sick of it, I want to get out of here. I jumped on the first ship to New Zealand to start over. I want my kids to have a better future some where where they can be free and be them self's. My name is Maria I'm a single mum age 27 with two kids. My oldest is my son who is eight years old. My youngest is my daughter who is five years old.

English- paragraph

Adverbs sentence

curiously,quickly,rapidly,often,importantly,technically,firstly lastly,similarly,readily,interestingly,significantly,remarkably.

Comma goes after the adverb

Often, i'm early to class.
Surprisingly, i got to school on time.


Begin with a preposition

Preposition are words that indicate movement or position.

in, Against,before,between,over,behind,within,under,below,at,
for,throughout,near,about,prior,beyond.

eg Over my head, a bird flew pass
At three o'clock, the school bell rung.

basic body paragraph

Point-State the point you want to make

Evidence-Provide evidence to support your point 2-3 sentences.

Explain-Explain what your point demonstrated 3-4 sentences

Link- Write a sentence linking to the next paragraph.


Point-Everyone knows its better to read the book than watch the movie.

Evidence-For example, the movie made of 'wonder' is very different from the book. It leaves out lost of information. In the book the main teacher is a female but in the movie they are male. Also the camp incident missed out the info about auggies's hearing aide.

Explain- This incident made more sense in the book because he was bullied for having his 'lobo ears' which made him look different. It didn't make sense to bully him in the movie without them.

Link- For these reasons, the book was clearly better than the movie However, you can enjoy the movie without reading the book.


8. -Ed start

1. Committed

2. Undaunted

3. Determined 

4. Forced

5. Gifted

6. Blighted 

7. Thrilled 

8. Delighted

9. Blessed

10. Drafted

11. Surprised 

12. Foreshadowed 

e.g Thrilled by the score, coach shouted us all Maccas.

Committed, to play basketball 

Thrilled, to be back in the team 

11. -The w-start 

who,while,whilst,when,were,what,whereas

e.g Whereas liz played netball, I played hockey

While I played basketball, Liz played netball.

When I got to school, I seen my friends

Point- Everyone at school knows the uniforms are to expensive 

Evidence- For example, our jackets are really expensive and you will be very cold without one in winter. Some kids might not have the money for a jacket because they can't afford it. So if kids can't afford it but they want to be warm the school should put the price down, because a lot of family's cannot afford it. 

Explain-  Its a waste of money because It could be used for something more important, if they were more cheaper it wouldn't be a problem. The schools jacket

Migration

Push factors and pull factors
https://videos.mysimpleshow.com/HxPYzaDrRH\

Child Soldiers-SEEL PARAGRAPH

Why are children used in war and how does this take away their human rights and freedom?


Child soldiers are children under age fighting in a war. They get taken from there homes to fight, or they leave there homes because they don't have any family or food. There are 250,000 child solders around the world in more than 85 countries. Girls and boys from age 8-18. They don't get a education because they don't have enough money for the uniform and school fees. For example they get taken away from there homes to be in war. Some kids don't want to fight most likely girls but they don't have a choice because they will ether get sexually abused or just abused. Child solders are kids with no freedom, and they don't have there own right to be a normal kid. 

Reflection on art

We have been working on a type of art that uses shapes, colours orphism. Our inspiration is Sonja Delauney. We are designing our own types of patters and shapes but getting ideas from her work.

The techniques we were using were shapes colours and lines. You can draw them in any way it just has to be really creative and colourful.

My work is different to everyones because most people went for ether easier designs or they made it really simple. At first  didn't really like my work but i seen that mine was really different so i didn't mind it at the end.

This is my work its not done. But i didn't really know what i was doing i just drew different shapes and use different colours.

What worked out was my shapes and colours because its reminds me of her work. I mean hers is way better but at least i tried

Child labor paragraph/ Top 10 worst countries of child labour

Child labor is kids getting there education taken from them, they have to work all day just so they get enough money for food,water everything they need. They only get a little amount of everything they do. They do so much work everyday but barley get payed. There are many country's still in Child Labor because they have to work just so they can survive really. Many kids want to go to school but they cannot because they ether can't pay for everything they need or because they have to work. Child labor is a really sad thing because they don't get to be normal kids because they work everyday.
Child labor is work undertaken by a child that is harmful to them in some way.

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Music

Define Mime: A theatrical technique without saying anything just moving around.


Define Musical theatre:Singing,dancing and drama all in one as a performance


Define Dance:Moving rhythmically to music and following steps to a song.


Define Comedy: Professional entertainment using jokes attended to make the audience laugh.


Define Illusion:An instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception.

Performing Arts

Who are you working with?
Tia

Which type of performing arts are you doing?
Mimes

What song/theme are you going to use and why?
We are doing a bank robbery. The reason why is cause we have done a bank robbery in class just to much around though so this one will be a bit more better.

What are you starting on first?
We are sorting out who's doing what and how we are gonna perform it to the class.

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was a African slave, she was a slave for her whole life. Her family is really big she has 4 brothers and 4 sisters, she did have a husband but he wanted to sell her to be a slave. She helped the Underground Railroad community to save her people, she has helped so much people and they all got freedom. She is an amazing female African and sp brave to save her people she has saved approximately 300 people.

We learnt about Harriet Tubman being a slave and helping this underground railroad to help her people escape.

We all had to use S:statement E:example E:explanation L:Link  for our paragraphs we were writing about Harriet Tubman.

Must do questions about- book Tomorrow when the war began

How do you think this story will be written?
It will all start when everyone has a normal life and they will be just living there normal life's.

Why do you think the story will is entitled as it is?
because its tomorrow when the war began, so they will be living there normal lifes then something bad is gonna happen.

Where do you think the story will take place?
At homes, different places

What time period do you think the story is set in?
I'm not so sure.

Factual or satirical ?

The Onion

What does this website look like ?
It looks real but there site looks good

What photos are they using?
They are photos that have been taken but It looks like they have used them from another site.

What headlines are they sharing?


Do you think its a factual website , or satirical website?
I think its a satirical website


The New York times

What does this website look like ?
It looks really real but the photos they are using looks fake

What photos are they using?
Photos that look really fake as if they took the photo to make it look like real news.

What headlines are they sharing?


Do you think its a factual website , or satirical website?
I think this website is factual because the news they are sharing sounds true.

The Civilian 

What does this website look like ?
It looks fake

What photos are they using?
photos that look real but they are writing fake news

What headlines are they sharing?


Do you think its a factual website , or satirical website?
I think this site is satirical because they have use a photo that makes it look like real news but one you read it, you can tell its fake.

The daily Mail

What does this website look like ?
There photos are the only thing that looks really no one has commented or shared there news

What photos are they using?
Photos of celebrity's and sports

What headlines are they sharing?
Celebrity's

Do you think its a factual website , or satirical website?
Satirical because no one has shared there news.


The daily Mash

What does this website look like ?
Nice layout but there news looks fake.

What photos are they using?
Photos that have been taken but use for there fake news

What headlines are they sharing?
Politics

Do you think its a factual website , or satirical website?
Satirical because what they are saying is not true.


The Herald 

What does this website look like ?
It has a nice layout and it looks real.

What photos are they using?
photos that haven't been use

What headlines are they sharing?
News about phones, and crashes

Do you think its a factual website , or satirical website?
I think this site is Factual.

The Shovel

What does this website look like ?
Its okay but the way they have put it makes the news look fake.

What photos are they using?
Photos that haven't been used.

What headlines are they sharing?
Mostly about teenagers.

Do you think its a factual website , or satirical website?
I think its satirical because of how they

Performing arts- dance

-Who is Paris Goeble
She is a famous dancer from New Zealand, that also dances in a dance crew called the royal family.

-Where did she grow up
She grew up in Manurewa, Auckland

-How/when did she study dance
She first started dancing at 10 years old, and when she was 15 she started her own dance grew called the Request crew.

Photos

The slave trade triangle

They travel from Europe to Africa then Africa to Caribbean. Then they travel the same way over and over again. They travel in ships full of slaves to trade for guns,drinks,cloth,tobacco. The slaves come from Africa. A man was once there and told them he would return, once he return most his people were dead because of the chiefs that were in Africa. Once the man had killed him he took his people to be slaves to trade for goods. He had all he wanted but the poor African people were slaves to over 300-500 years. There work for the white people and who ever is trading for them they get everything they need.

Poster of human rights

What I already know
What humans are aloud to do

What did you find interesting
learning all the human rights

What else would you like to learn
nothing

Critical literacy

What kind of language is used in the text?
Broken English


What is this text about, how do you know?
The text is about the young girls story about killing butterflies. Her grandparents grow cabbages that these butterflies eat which kill the cabbages. The young girls teacher thought butterflies are pretty but she doesn't know that the butterflies kill there plants.

What does the author want us to know?
That butterflies eat there plants when most people don't think they don't cause any h


How are characters constructed in this text?
They know about the butterflies more then the teacher in there granddaughters class.


What kid of social realities does the text portray? 
The young girl isn't being nasty, she just knows that some butterflies eat the food they grow at home.

Crash Course In Critical literacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=MGXSPf9b-xI

1.What makes this video convincing? That the young girl was on the news and everyone watches the news so it looked real.

2.Who published this video. A YouTuber called the onion. The onion is a site that take real things and turn them into fake news but its only to make people laugh and think if its real or not. 

3.How are teenagers portrayed in this clip? That most teenagers are like this so there parents may or may not believe it 

4.Why has the director cast them this way? Because most teenagers act 

5.In whose interest is this text 

6.Who is rel in this text?

7.What social realities does this video portray? 

Critical Literacy Vocabulary

Definitions in my own words

Definition of Bias: Unfairness


Definition of source: Something that can be obtained


Definition of credible: Being able to believe in something.


Definition of Authority: Giving orders to people


Definition of reliable: Able to be trusted


Definition of perspective: A particular way of looking at something.


Definition of agenda: Something to be discussed at a formal meeting.


Definition of manipulate: Good at handling work

term one art

This year in art we are learning how to shade different shapes, we watched a video of different shadings and how to use rulers for shading. We had a choice to start with a cube circle or triangle. I started doing the circle because I thought it would be easier to do. I went from dark to light to make it look more better. Then I had to do the shadow of the circle so I just made it look light because shadows aren't as dark.

my work 

How i can improve

I think i should have shaded the shadow a bit darker or use the shading for the circle to make it look like a real shadow. 

What I should work on 

I think I should have focused more on the way the circle looked instead of the shading. I think it would have looked better if i did it with more shading.