Passion Project Share and Present

 Introduction

What did you do for your project? The project I chose to do was to create a good sports tournament.

Why did you do it? I chose this project because I was curious about how tournaments like the Nba and Nfl are so successful.

Who did you do with? The people who accompanied me were Greg, Meela, and Dylan.

Part 1 

How did the brainstorming of ideas go? Brainstorming the ideas was quite simple as we are all into sports.

What was your driving question? My group and I driving question was what creates a good sports tournament.

How did your planning correspond to the finished project? Our planning corresponded with the finished project as we were able to create a successful tournament that everyone enjoyed. 

Part 2

How did the planning help you? The planning helped develop our group’s tournament as we had to knowledge about what creates a good tournament.

What didn’t you include in your planning? I believe our planning could have had more bibliography on the sites we used for research.

What will you do differently in your planning next time? For the next time, I will include more bibliography for the research, this will also help as we can look back at the information in case we forget or need something.

Part 3 

What went well with the creating and implementation? Something that went well with creating and implementing was that we were all knowledgeable about the sport

What didn’t go well for the creating and implementation? Something that did not go well was trying to get extra numbers for the tournament, this was because the sport we chose was sort of unknown to New Zealand culture.

What did you learn about yourself during this phase?  I learned that I can sometimes push through adversity.

What did you learn about working with others during this phase? (Please be respectful here!) I learned that being inclusive with the whole group is a necessity when working with people

How did you show the HHS school values during the whole process? Please be specific. The value commitment was shown by trying to finish and get more numbers when the tournament was a little low. The value achievement was displayed when we finished creating our project, this was shown by us celebrating because the workload and stress would be lessened. Respect was shown when we were all collaborating and talking about creating a sports tournament. Finally Resilience, we all displayed this when we came across the problem of when we should do the tournament, we all pushed through and found out that most students would be better off doing it at morning tea and lunch.

Conclusion

What did you learn about yourself? I did not really learn anything about myself.

What did you learn about your passion? I learned that sports are a necessity in my lifestyle.

What did you learn about creating projects? I learned that creating projects can get very frustrating when

What would you do differently next time? Something I would do differently is to choose a sport more popular so we can get a lot more numbers. This will everything run smoother.

Reflection Section Tyson Fury v Deontay Wilder III recap - Brit scores 11th round KO to retain WBC crown

 Text title: Tyson Fury v Deontay Wilder III recap - Brit scores 11th round KO to retain WBC crown 

Text type: Article  

Text creator: Sam Wilson

Text purpose: To recap us about Tyson fury and Deontay Wilders's 3rd bout. 

Date: 19th October 2021

Summary: The article begins with reviewing the match statistics of The Gypsy King and The Bronze Bomber and elaborates on votes to prove Fury's victory. The next part then scrolls down to the tweets about how Fury landed a near-perfect punch to seal the victory, this part also talks about the post and pre talks off the 3rd bout. Lastly, the article talks about each individual round and the count on who was winning through points the whole time.

What genre does this text belong to? The genre of text this belongs to is a recap and informative, this is because the article explains how Fury won in the past event.

Reflection Section Anthony Joshua Suffers Second Defeat

Text Title: Oleksandr Usyk stuns Anthony Joshua in a heavyweight boxing title fight.

Text Type: Article

Text Creator: Steve Douglas

Text Purpose: To supply information about Oleksandr Usyk's victory over Anthony Joshua.

Date: 28/09/21

Summary

The article begins by explaining how Anthony Joshua got stunned on the ropes and how this is Anthony Joshua's second world heavyweight loss. The text says Slumped helplessly on the ropes, Anthony Joshua greeted the final bell – and what he knew was the end of his second reign as world heavyweight champion – with a wry smile. Oleksandr Usyk knew it, too, dropping to his knees and looking to the sky. In the middle of the article, they also begin to explain how this may not be Anthony Joshua's downfall as he has a chance at redemption. The article finally closes off with a tweet from Anthony Joshua stating “Keep positive even if the world's crumbling in front of you!” Joshua said in a tweet. “London I love you & thank you each and every time.” 

Critical Literacy Question

What is the text about? How do we know? The text is about Anthony Joshua's suffering defeat and also Oleksandr Usyk's massive victory. We know this because in the article both fighters have spoken their mind about the outcome.

 

Reflection Section Penguin Massacre

Text Title: Endangered Penguins Killed by Swarm of bees in a rare attack in Cape Town.

Text Type: Article

Text Creator: Stuff Article

Text Purpose:  To inform us about the penguin massacre in Cape Town

Date: Tuesday 21st September

Summary: The article begins with a brief explanation about where 63 penguins were brutally massacred by a swarm of bees, one of the penguins even stung more than 27 times. The middle of the article talks about the only reason this occurs was that the hive was agitated and then found the penguins to attack. The final summary explains due to this rare occurrence the penguins in Namibia, South Africa are now considered endangered because of the population decrease. The penguins are now on International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list.

Why is the text written the way it is? The text is written the way it is in the article because its main goal is to inform us about the rare occurrence in South Africa. 

In whose interest is the text? The interest is set to the wider world like students, children, parents, and grandparents. This is because its purpose is to spread the information to prevent cases like these ever again.

Reflection Section Team USA Takes Out Australia To Advance For Gold

Text Title: Tokyo Olympics: Star-studded USA team rout Australia to play for more basketball gold.

Text Type: Article.

Text Creator: Brian Mahoney.

Text Purpose: To inform us about how the USA Beat the Undefeated Australia Boomers.

Date: Aug 05, 2021.

Summary: The well-known
Team USA Basketball team is a very popular team in the Olympics, this is due to having a legendary streak and famous players in the past, players like Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan have played for the team. But an upcoming team from Oceania with Nba stars like Patty Mills who recently signed with the Brooklyn Nets and Joe Ingles from the pacers. This team stopped the USA Dream Team in the exhibition matches which led to rumors of the USA Team losing their skill. Team USA started off in a slump missing their first 10 3-Pointers, whilst the Australia Boomers were making a lot of shots. Down near halftime, the USA Team started to pick up the momentum and in the next two quarters, they showed why there the best.

Who is real in the text? Real people in the text are the examples of Kobe Bryant, Patty Mills, and Joe Ingles.

What has been left out of the text? The reasoning of why the Australian Boomers lost has been left out of the text as we do not know what lead the team into losing momentum.

Ethos, Pathos & Logos

What are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are techniques of persuasion that form the rhetorical triangle. A compelling argument, sales pitch, speech, or commercial uses elements of these 3 strategies.

Ethos

Ethos is used as a means of convincing the audience or by using reliability, honesty, and credibility. The Greek philosopher Aristotle outlined Ethos as one of the main 3 keys to persuasion.

What is Ethos?  Ethos is the persuasive technique that appeals to an audience by highlighting credibility. Ethos advertisement techniques invoke the superior “character” of a speaker. 

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This ad uses Ethos by displaying the superstar Athlete Kyrie Irving and his new shoe, Ethos is used as there is a superior character and it highlights Kyrie's skill and credibility in the shoe.

Pathos

Pathos's main goal is to convince the audience emotionally, this can mean making you happy and joyful or sad and depressed. This is because it wants to elicit pity or energy as it appeals to compassion and feeling.

What is Pathos?

Pathos is a persuasive technique that is used to convince the audience through emotion. Pathos advertisement techniques invoke the sense of memory, nostalgia, and or shared experience. 

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This ad demonstrates Pathos by using sympathy,  we feel sympathetic towards the children as we have things that the children do not have which in this case is food. We also feel sorry for them because they are in bad shape.

Logos

Logos main goal is to get you to use common sense and think, this is to make you see the logicality in the decision you are making and how it benefits you.

What is logos? 

Logos is a persuasive technique that aims to convince an audience by using logic and reason. Also called “the logical appeal,” logos examples in advertisements are usually data graphs and statistics. 

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This ad demonstrates the use of logos by letting us see the battery drain through the hours, this is logos as it gives us a physical demonstration of the battery life and how long it lasts. 

Questions

1. What are we doing? We are learning about the key persuasive techniques Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.

2. Why are we doing it? We are doing this to develop and understand the key techniques, this is because learning this will enhance our ability to write persuasive formal pieces.

Reflection Section Romeo and Juliet

Text Title: Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 5

Text Type: Educational Video

Text Creator: William Shakespeare

Text Purpose: To summarise about Romeo and Juliet.

 CL Question: Why are we reading this text?

Date 21/06/21

Summary

In Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 5 the summary begins with a quick recap on Act 1, Scene 4.

Act 1, Scene 5 begins with the massive feast happening in the Capulet Estate. Romeo adeventures the banquet and is spotted by Tybalt, Tybalt then talks to his cousin about fighting Romeo then and there, however Capulet decides to le things slide as Romeo is doing no harm and has been heard to be mannerful. Romeo then spots Juliet and approaches her, they begin to talk and within minutes they begin got kiss. After the kissing and massive banquet Romeo and Juliet finally learn of eachothers bloodline learning that they’re sworn enemies. 

Why are we reading this text?

We are reading this text because to learn about why Romeo and Juliet is classified as a tragedy, this is because other love stories are not classified on tragedies.