Culture Types

 

Reflection Section - The Learning Pit

 

Text Title: The Learning Challenge

Text type: Image text

Text Creator: WordPress.com

Text Purpose: To inform students that failure can be learned and improved.

Date: 26, 3, 2021

Summary:

In this image, our teacher explained that using the learning pit is helpful to use. We used a different image but I couldn't find the specific one so I used this one. This image, it explains that failures can be driven towards a successful future even though it was hard. First, you fall into a deep pit. Not falling into disparity, thinking about how to overcome the certain problem. Then find opportunities to overcome the problem. Finally, succeeding it.

Critical Thinking:

Who benefits from this text?

Due to the text's important messages such as not giving up. It is beneficial for everyone. Learning from mistakes is essential for life.

What do the images suggest?

I believe, this image suggests being resilient is needed to be successful.

Tieke Identity

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYOiGEarbF8 Tieke Sound.

For Wananga, Caesar and I have been working on a D.L.O that explains what our Kahui building is named and is based on south saddleback.

We were given 5 questions to ask.

What is it?

What does it sound like?

Where is it found?

What does it eat?

What does it look like?

What does the is HHS Whakatauki? The Hornby High School is Te Huruhuru Ao O Horomaka, The sacred feathers spreading across Horomaka. This means spreading our creativity around the area.

Tieke Characteristics

Adults are black with a chestnut-colored saddle across their back, while juveniles are entirely covered in chocolate brown plumage for their first year. Saddlebacks have distinctive fleshy, orange wattles on the sides of their mouths.

Malala Yousafzai

 

For Wananga, my class was given multiple activities and had to choose 2. I chose to do an activity where we had to name and create a small D.L.O about a woman who has inspired me in any way.

International Womens Day Poem

 

For Wanaga we were given a task to create a poem or short story for a significant woman or role model who has been apart of our life. Mine is about my mother as she has done a lot for me.

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.