Reflection Section Canelo Alvarez KOs Caleb Plant to become undisputed super middleweight champion

 Text Title: Canelo Alvarez KOs Caleb Plant to become undisputed super-middleweight champion

Text Type: Article

Text Creator: Greg Beachem

Text Purpose: To inform the reader about Canelo Alvarez's incredible victory

Date: November 18th

Summary: The article begins by explaining how Canelo Alvarez overthrew Caleb Plant. With a destructive barrage of power punches in the waning minutes of a difficult fight. Canelo Alvarez added another achievement to his overflowing list of boxing accomplishments. The next part of the article then starts to elaborate on how Canelo is a top recognized fighter, this is because he has fought great fighters like Floyd Mayweather. The last part of the article explains that Canelo has now joined a group of six boxing legends to obtain 4 Championship Division Belts. Only five men had ever achieved four-belt undisputed champion status since the feat became possible with the WBO's advent: middleweights Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor, junior welterweights Terence Crawford and Taylor, and cruiserweight Oleksandr Usyk.

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Critical Literacy Questions

Who would be most likely to read this text and why? The audience most likely to read this text are people who are very interested in combat sports like boxing. This is because a world-class fighter like Canelo brings interest into the article. And everyone loves a good show.

Why has the author constructed the text this way? The author has constructed the text this way to make Canelo seem like a monster of destruction. This is done to bring more interest and hype up the Mexican World Class Fighter.

Passion Project Reflection

What is your guiding question, and how did your guiding question change over time? My group's guiding question was How can we create a successful sports tournament

Why did you choose the driving question? The reason we chose this question was that we were all interested and passionate about sports.

How did you collect your research and what did you discover? We collected our research online through google and we discovered that all successful good tournaments include players with a high skill level and referees to reinforce the rules.

Did you encounter any unintentional learning? Personally, I did not encounter any unintentional learning. (evidence?)

What obstacles did you encounter and how did you overcome them? An obstacle that occurred was trying to obtain numbers for the tournament, the reason for this being that the sport that we chose was a very underground sport in New Zealand. (evidence?)

How did your distractions during the process help or hinder you, what path did they lead you on? Distractions during the process that hindered us trying to find out whether we should change our sport to something more known lead us to end up wasting a little time.

What transferable knowledge/skills/concepts have you gained? (evidence?) Transferable knowledge that I learned was when working with a group you have to be consistent and communicate with each other.

The biggest growth for you, personally from this passion project experience? The biggest growth for me was obtaining experience working with a group.

What advice would you give for incoming students who might be completing this project next year?

The advice I would give to other people is to select group members with who you can work well, this is because you can get through things smoother and think of a more successful way to run the tournament.

What didn’t you include in your planning? 

We did not consider how we were going to present our tournament and as a result do not have any photos of our tournament. We also didn’t include many bibliographies.

What didn’t go well for the creating and implementation?

It was hard for us to get a great number of people to come to the tournament because it is not common in New Zealand but this also meant that the people who did show up to the event were all interested in the sport and tried their best. We also did not think to take pictures.

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.