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Monday, 25 February 2019

The Slave Trade Triangle













This is the Slave Trade Triangle where people trade guns, drinks, tobacco, and cloth. So how this works is they travel from Africa to the Caribbeans then back to Africa, and they just do the same thing over and over again.

Friday, 15 February 2019

Critical Questing Matrix

Lift Plus: 

-Who is allowed to speak?
The 3 boys that was sitting on the couch accept for the girl that was walking up and down in the background behind the boys.
-What does the author wants us to know?
That if you drink Lift Plus you will be able to think smarter and sharper about things you do.
-What genre does this belong to?
Media
-What is the text about? How do we know?
The text is about a guy who gets fooled by his 2 friends that asked him to play a game with one of them by seeing who can hit each others head harder then the other while his other friend sits behind him and and whacks the spoon really hard on his head and make him think that hes actually hitting his head hard but its his other friend behind him that's actually doing it.

Anti-Drinking

-Who benefits from this text?
The Boy who stopped George from drinking and driving.
-What kind of language is used in this text?
Good English.
-What is the text about? How do we know?
Its about a boy who didn't want George to drink and drive otherwise he would've gone into an accident otherwise he would have to live with George's family which he didn't want to and he didn't want to look dumb in front of Monic too.

The Hare and The Tortoise.

Why are you reading this text?
I am reading this text because the title made me want to read the story and it was interesting.

What genre does this text belong to?
Drama

What does the author want us to know?
The author want us to know that no matter how fast you are never be cocky.

WHAT IS CRITICAL LITERACY - REFLECTION TIME.

  1. What do you think Critical Literacy is? Is when you consider when and how the text was made. 
  2. What did you learn during Critical Literacy? A lot of new words and different meaning to them. 
  3. What did you find challenging during Critical Literacy? The one thing that I found challenging in Critical Literacy the most is answering the four questions that we had to ask about the ads, short stories and the music video and thinking of what to write down and sometimes you're not to sure if you're correct or incorrect.
  4. How will you use Critical Literacy? Ask how and why a text was made in the future...
  5. What are you looking forward to in English this year? Writing in books 





Performing Arts- Dance

Parris Goebel

 Parris Reene Goebel, also known professionally as Parri$, is a New Zealand- born choreographer, dancer, singer, director and actress. her dance the crew The Royal Family has won the World Hip Hop Dance Championship three times. She grew up in Manurewa, Auckland. She was interested in dance from a young age and started hip-hop lessons when she was 10 years old. When she was 15, she started the dance group ReQuest with four female friends. Initially they practiced in Goebel's aunt's garage and later at her fathers warehouse. After a year working together, they went to the Monsters Of Hip Hop Convention in the United States and Goebel was selected to dance in the finale performance of the convention. Following the convention, goebel left Auckland Girl's Grammar School to concentrate on her dancing.

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The Royal Family


Choreography

Gochoreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movement of physical bodies in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself. a choreography is one who creates choreographies by practicing the art of choreography, a process known as choreographing.

Thursday, 14 February 2019

Types Of Performances

Perfomance Arts: 
A nontraditional art form often with political or topic themes that typically features a live presentation to an audience or onlookers(as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, dance or painting.

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Butterflies

-What kind of language is used in the text? 
Short sentences, Broken English.
-What is the text about, how do you know? 
The text is about a girl who kills butterflies because the butterflies likes to eat cabbages that they plant in their garden.
-What does the author want us to know? 
That butterflies eat part of their plants from the cabbages even though they are harmless to people.
-How are characters constructed in the text?


-What kind of social realities does the text portray?

Friday, 8 February 2019

Crash Course In Critical Literacy

  1. What makes this video convincing? The actors make it look real but it's actually fake news.
  2. Who published this video? A YouTube channel called the onion who posts up fake news and try to make people think that it's real.
  3. How are teenagers portrayed in this clip? that it's dangerous to be on social media 24/7.
  4. Why has the director cast them this way? To make it a bit entertaining & believable.
  5. In whose interest is this text? The parents & the teenagers so they think that we wouldn't end up like the girl in the video.
  6. Who is real in this text? The Doctor.

Crash Course In Literacy


  1. What aspects of stories was Andrea interested in?  Hidden Messages
  2. What did the  Ad imply with the big Diamond Ring? If the husband didn't get a  Diamond Ring for the wife that meant that he didn't love her.
  3. What is subtext? Subliminal messages.
  4. With CL can each student have their own answer? Yes.
  5. What does Andrea compare CL to? Wonder Woman's Lasso Of Truth.
  6. How can CL be applied to your outside of school? Use it to decide social media, video games, movies and etc...

Critical Literacy Vocabulary

Agenda:
A list of items to be discussed at a formal meeting.

Authority:
Someone who is an authority on something knows a lot about it.

Bias:
Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.

Credible:
Able to be believed.

Manipulate:
To influence or control people or events.

Perspective:
A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something.

Reliable:
A person or thing that can be trusted to do what you want.

Source:
The person, place or thing that something comes from.

Friday, 7 December 2018

Who invented Telephones

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.

Born: 13 March 1847, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Died: 2 August 1922, Beinn Bhreagh.
Cause of Death: Complications of Diabetes.
Inventions: Telephones, Photophones, Hydrofoil, Audiometer, Metal Detectors, HD-4, Tetrahedak kite.
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Antonio Santi Giuseppe was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing the first telephone. Meucci set up a form of a voice-communication link in his Staten Island, New York, home that connected the second-floor bedroom to his laboratory.

Born: 13 April 1808, Florence, Italy.
Died: 18 October 1889, Staten Island, New York City, United States.
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Antarctica

People can live almost anywhere on earth, however, one place in which almost no one lives, is Antarctica. Antarctica is the largest wilderness on the planet. It is one of the highest, coldest, and windiest places you could imagine. Antarctica is one of the seven continents of the world. It is larger than Australia and Europe.

Antarctica has mountains and valleys like other continents. However, a thick sheet of ice covers almost all of Antarctica. Even on the warmest days, the temperature is freezing. The freezing temperatures are just one part of what makes Antarctica uninhabitable. Winds of more than 200 kilometres per hour rage down the polar slopes driving snow blizzards. Except in a few remote valleys where rain and snow have not fallen for over two million years. There is no soil to grow crops. Even below the ice cap which is 4000 metres thick in places.

On the coast, animals live by spending most of their lives in the water, which is warmer than the land. And on the land itself, only bacteria, tiny insects, and microscopic organisms are able to survive.

Penguins are flightless birds that are highly adapted for the marine environment. They are excellent swimmers and can dive to great depths (Emperor penguins can dive to over 500 metres). Their shape enables extreme agility underwater; the feet and tail act as a rudder while the flippers act as propellers. They also have a waterproof coat of short, overlapping feathers and a well-developed layer of fat insulation.



Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Who named the days of the week

The Greeks named the days week after the sun, the moon and the five known planets, which were in turn named after the Gods Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Cronus. The Greeks called they days of the week the Theon Hemerai "Days of the God".


THE SEVEN DAY WEEK

Sunday - Sun's Day
Monday - Moon's Day
Tuesday - Tiu's Day
Wednesdays - Wooden's Day
Thursday - Thor's Day
Friday - Freya's Day
Saturday - Saturns Day