Tag: Writing

Diorama

For Art, we had connected our topic from  ‘ a moment in time ‘ (what we were doing for writing) with a creative art idea called a diorama. A diorama is a 3d minitaure scene where its most commonly made in a box, using paper, cardboard, and ect.

For my diorama I had used a photo with Dame Whina Cooper giving her testament on her thoughts and opinions, towards a crowd of people, also putting one of her famous slogans ” Not one more acre of Maori Land ! ” In the bottom left corner, depicting a scene where it completely focuses on the intesity of Dame Whina Coopers words. The background also portraying the calmness of the silence her people gave, making sense because her march was a peaceful protest.

I really enjoyed this because it was really theraputic and it took time to figure the meaning behind each image!

A Moment In Time

LI: To find information that answers your questions and tells us an important event or time in history in your words

For Writing, we got gifted the challenge to pick a historical event whether it was local or worldwide, and research about it, by using our smart searching skills. After that we created a DLO summarising all about the interesting facts we found out from our search. Then to explain our information futher we had a fun activity to use the things we learnt and put them on a google vid, then recording ourselves say it ! I really enjoyed this activity and found it really intriguing to learn different and moer things, about the past of my culture, and the things we can achieve in life !

Procedural Text

For this task we were challenged to create a dinosaur made out of  black paper,scissors, gluestick, paper and a ruler. during this task we had to write our instructions while creating our practice dinosaur which we used Red paper so we knew which one was our practice and our model, after creating our practice dinosaur and we wrote our Instructions we were challenged to create a model dinosaur out of black paper using the instructions we wrote to create our red dinosaur. I enjoyed this task because we learnt how to create a dinosaur only using black/red paper, scissors, gluestick,  paper and a ruler without any instructions, we used our brains to create and write our instructions and our model ( dinosaur ).

Malala Yousafzai Poster

LI: To identify the main arguments Malala presents for education and peace. 

For this task we have been handed in the challenge of making a poster on one of Malala Yousafzai’s key messages in her speech, when she made when she turnt 16 years of age. She was a protester that fought for women’s justice to have the opportunity to be educated, and she also mentions is her speech the Taliban and the things in humanity that make it bad ! This included poverty, racism, social injustice, racial bias, gender bias and much more. She called upon the many leaders to change their political view, and thanking the people who were praying for her, and the ones that helped her recover from when she had got shot on the left side of her face. What I found interesting is that she didn’t let anything define her on what she is and didn’t let anyone put her down !

Volcano Poem

LI: To write a multi verse cinquain poem that describes the journey of a sleeping maunga that erupts

For more our learning linking into Inquiry we have been taught what cinquain poems are . What is a conquain poem? A cinquain poem has 5 lines and in these 5 lines each and everyone of them has a different purpose, the first line which is the top line always has to be a noun which is a name or something you can touch. Line 2 needs 2 adjectives and only 2 adjectives that describe the word in the first line which should be a noun. The middle line has to have 3 verbs that most typically end in a ‘ing’ but can also end with a ‘ly’ too, these words are supposed to describe what your noun does and what are there most common actions that they do. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun, and last but not least we have Line 5 this line is a synonym, to the first line, synonym is a word with a similar meaning to the noun! This was a cool way to adventure into our topic in a different way, with what is not normal on a regular basis !

Why Maungarei Sleeps : Pourquoi Story

It is said that long ago there lived a moody teenaged-girl that stood over the Tamaki River and they called her ‘ Fire of a Volcano ‘ ( Her real name was Maungarei ).  Many, many people found her personality to have a sort of unhinging vibe towards her when first meeting the envious-brat. Not only that she had no sportsmanship whatsoever making her the perfect daughter to have if you wanted to go bankrupt or make you lonely. She was an absolute dunce not to mention nobody wanted to know her or even exist in the same world as her ! But on this particular day there she had finally been beaten of arrogance , 18 – 46 she had never got thrashed more in her life. Rugby had been her lifeline, practically being her only joy in her unfifilling life, and now with the only thing you can enjoy being beaten at it, well let’s say it did not go well.

“ Help !” shouts of terror had been heard.

 “ I told you I want to win ! “ she demanded,

“ You shall know my wrath “ ! Maungarei exclaimed,

She soon spiraled out of control, she swung at anything that crossed her sight, turning the whole town upside down ! Her luck came to an end with the witch on the horizon.  

” OWCH ! WHAT WAS THAT FOR ? ” the witch yelped 

” OH SHUT UP STOP BEING A SOOK ! ” hissed Maungarei

” Says the person with anger issues… ” smirked the witch, Maungarei forced the poor old lady onto the ground, but a final push sent the witch into a fuming state of emotion. ” That’s it ! ” thundered the Witch ” I’ve tried to be nice and I think you might have sent you back to Papatuanuku, to think about your actions ! ” 

” Ohhh, what are you going to do about it, that’s right you can’t do ja- “

Suddenly the clouds started to accumalate in the once blue sky , the witch had now begun to chant these unknown languages very loudly. The intensity of the moment had started to solidify, ” No more second chances, time to be reminded of what you are . Go to sleep and use this time wisely to reflect” declared the witch. Her existence fading, transforming into the thing that she had been called many, many times a studious volcano but on the very brink of her transformation she cried out,“ I will have the last say !”, now she sleeps with violence in her mind. Silence…

Well that is what we thought would happen , little did we know that all that anger, envy, and all sorts of bad things began to build up being fed to the mighty explosion that destroyed half of the town… This time she wasnt speaking from her mouth yet simply exploded with fury, quite literally.Being amidst all of this destruction, pain and chaos it was at that, that everything had clicked she used to wonder why it seemed that everyone became her opposition when really she was the one that switched teams. To top that all off she hadn’t been making it any better, only worse, grief struck first hitting straight to her heart, then pain, anxiety, depression lingered. The quakes of distress ceased to exist now she forever cries in spirit.

 

In the topic of Writing we had been learning on what a pourqoui story is and what it is all about, and what it is, is that a pourqoui story is a ‘why story’ where it explains how it happemed and why, but mor in a more child-friendy, fun way ! Interestingly enough is that the word ‘pourqoui’ itself in the french dictionary means ‘why’ therefore giving the title of why story to be a pourqoui . To show our knowledge of the why story we had been assigned to create a pourqoui story, about why Mount Maungarei sleeps, using the pourqoui framework our teacher had previously taught us how to use,and also with the helpful assit of Adobe Express that helped us paint a picure on what the situaton looked like, and to do his we used short prompts to describe what we wanted !

WW1 Diary

 

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there

For literacy we have been looking and reasearching about the events that took place at ANZAC during world war 1. We researched photos  and saw what the soldiers had to eat drink, and do during WW1 it looked really awful and I feel really bad for what these soldiers had to go through and I give so much respect to them. We also looked at videos of the war and seen what life was like in the trenches. We explored the website walking with ANZACS and we read Hami Grace’s diary. Doing this helped us create our own diary’s and helped us show not tell. When our diary’s were completed we got our feedback, and then we fixed our mistakes. The we used google vids to recorded our diary. I enjoyed this task because it helped me get a better understanding of ANZACS and what they went through.

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