Reflection Section

 Text Title: Butterflies

Text Type: Short Story

Text Creator: Patricia Grace

Text Purpose: To convey a message and entertain.

Date: 19/02/21

In the short story named 'Butterflies' by Patricia Grace, a clever girl with plaited hair who lives with her grandparents heads to school. At school, she writes a short story about how she killed all the butterflies, as they are believed to be pest to the cabbage. The teacher believes the butterflies should not be killed as they are beautiful insects. the grandparents then say she must buy her cabbage from the store.

Butterflies talks about the 2 different perspectives between the Grandparent and grand daughter to the teacher at school. The short story conveys a message that different upbringings can cause people to see life differently.

What Genre does this belong too?

The story Butterflies belongs to the genre of short stories, it belongs in short stories as they are used mostly to convey messages to the audience. 

WTE Sentences

Begin with a Preposition

Try starting your sentence with a Preposition. Prepositions are little words indicating movement to position.

in 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran off aground off the coast of Alaska.

After the war had ended, a sense of fear surrounded the city.

The -ING Start

Try starting a sentence with with the -ING form of a verb. The rule: when you have finished your -ING phrase, place a comma, then write the rest of the sentence.

Wanting to see peace restored, the UN sent troops to Africa.

Fighting to see the finish, the troops raged on surpassing their limits.

The -ED Start

Try starting a sentence with the -ed form of the verb. It makes for a punchy opening to the sentence.

Undefeated in battle, Alexander the great remains one of history's greatest military leaders.

Astonished by the fragrance, David froze.

The Semi Colon

When you have two independent clauses (two mini-sentences) joined by a conjunction (e.g and, but) you can remove the conjunction and replace it with a semi colon.   

Her entry was dramatic start to the play; her exit came too far soon.

She began to love life; it wouldn't stay like that.

The EM-Dash

The em-dash in English is the long dash. Use the long dash to drop a phrase in a sentence that is at complete odds with the flow of the sentence—way out there—but which adds colour and interest.

Playing polo—nice for some—is a favourite pastime In Upper Bulgaria.

Basketball - an aerobic activity - is one of USA's most popular sports.

The W Start

Try beginning a sentence with a W-word. Here are some: who, while, when, where, what, whereas. The W-start makes writing sound thoughtful and knowledgeable.

When the baking was completed, the ovens were cleaned thoroughly.

When the rain fell, puddles enveloped the vicinity.

Explore the Subject

Accomplished writers use this sentence style. The rule: begin your sentence with the subject then place a comma. Say something interesting about the subject. Place another comma. Then, finish your sentence.

Henry Smith, who was well known for his position against bribery, decided to stand for mayor.

Muhammad Ali, one of the best boxers in all time, stood for his civil rights.

Critical Literacy

 The Film 'Treaty Of Waitangi What Really Happened' Directed by Peter Burger, is about the signing of one of our founding documents. It is a dramatisation of the days leading up to and including the signing. We know this through the chiefs arguing, discussing and eventually signing the Treaty, based on history. We also know threw the films title and voice-over.

Wanaga Reflection

 Text Title:What Really Happened The Treaty Of Waitangi

Text Type: Mockumentary

Text Creator: Peter Burger

Text Purpose: To inform the audience about what actually happened at the Treaty of Waitangi.

Date 12/02/21

The Mockumentary named "The Treaty of Waitangi What Really Happened." Is about how the British crown wrote out a treaty and deliver it to the native people of New Zealand/ the Maori. The Mockumentary shows a couple different view points from different characters such as Hone Heke, William Hobson, Kawiti and Tamati Waka Nene. Key points in the story are the Crown creating the treaty that is to be used to allow settlers in Maori land, the arguments between each race due to the Maori worried about they're rights , the Maori chiefs finally signing the treaty, and the crown getting the land they want with a trade-off of the Maori getting tobacco, blankets and expanding they're trade. 

Music Reflection

 What have you enjoyed about music this year? I have enjoyed the pressure that was given when it came for time to perform, I feel the pressure has gave me more confidence to do more things i'm uncomfortable with.

What has been your favourite task and why? My favourite task has been creating a song with meaning, it was fun and I also got to release some held in feelings.

Did you complete a class performance? How was it?

I completed multiple performances and it was very fun, although it was a little frightening it gave me some decent memories to look back at

Is there anything you did not have the opportunity to do/learn?

I had a lot of opportunities and I was aloud to do a lot.

What would your goals be for music term 1 & 2 next yer?

My goal is to get better vocally and be able to perform to a decent amount of people.

WTE Sentences

LO: We are learning to express our views on a topical issue using ‘Write That Essay’ sentences.

Abortion Pro Choice

The Adverb Sentence

Astonishingly, choosing a Pro choice stance means that you are in favour of birth control, sex education, and more social services that can help reduce the number of abortions. 

The Power Sentence

However abortion should only be done at early stages.

The Very Short Sentence

Abortion must be allowed early.

Abortion Pro-life

Red White and Blue Sentence

Incest, rape, and other cases of danger allow an abortion to be allowed and proceeded.

Arduino D.L.O

What are we doing for D.T.E?  For D.T.E my group has been working on creating an Arduino vending machine, why did we choose this? We chose this because it seemed like a really cool idea.

   

Evidence of our working? This evidence shows our logbook and photos of evidence that are included on our doc.

Project Title: Arduino Vending Machine

Materials List:

Brief/ Research: We are going to be making a mini tabletop vending machine that will be powered by an Arduino code. We are making this because we saw a video on how to make it and we thought it looked cool.

Development Log:   20/08 We have been researching different ideas for our arduino project.  21/08 We still kept researching. 27/08 We have decided to choose between a robotic arm and vending machine 28/08 Our group chose to work on the vending machine 3/09 We researched the video and projects involving arduino, Trys arduinoing to the 4/09 Got onto the site and added all the files and screenshots onto the Doc 10/09 Found the files and added them to the doc 11/09/20 Making and finding out measurements to for the scaling of the wood 17 /09/20 Finding out how to implement the files onto the laserworks app 18/09/20 Looking for Mr Roscoe so we can learn about the wood cutting 24/09/20 This period we have been working on putting the files on the laserworks app.  25/09/20 Final Period of Term 3 finishing work on the log book. 15/10/20 16/10/20 22/10/20 We tried to get the laser cutter to cut our files but it didn’t work properly 23/10/20 We removed the watermark from the picture of our files so we could cut the wood with the laser cutter. 29/10/20 We got the outline to cut with the laser cutter but the lines were not straight enough so we spent the lesson trying to straighten the lines but were unable to get them straight enough to cut with the laser cutter  30/10/20 Update logbook and make a blog post

Personal Reflection

I think our group could have did better when it came to sharing the work around and actually focusing. Other then that I feel our crew worked pretty solid we got most things done and if we had more time we could finish the project