Social Studies II Forensic Science

In Social studies, we've been focusing on Careers.
For this, we had to do a quiz on Career NZ but the Quiz didn't work so we just used their site to find some jobs, for me I did Forensic Science, I got myself into Forensic science at year 8 when our science teacher introduced it to us, the thing I like about Forensic science is the problem solving and the just the science part in general, I really love Science and Problem solving because it gets me thinking.

Soo after we picked a job we had to make a poster for the selected job and answer a few questions and then make it into a poster (Question are on the poster)

Unwind II English II Consciousness

Part Seven-Consciousness


How is it that Connor was not unwound P318
Connor didn't get unwound because when the Chop Shop had exploded they had found an ID with the picture charred off. It had belonged to a nineteen-year-old guard by the name of Elvis Mullard. But with all the confusion after the blast, no one could tell who was who, and the soon agreed that letting the ID go to waste would be a shame.

Whose arm does he now have? P319
Connor has Rolands Arm because of the Tiger Shark that lays on the arm.

On P321 Risa tell Connor how she won't be unwound. Do you think her decision to not accept the spine of an Unwind was purely ethical or was she also playing the system in order to stay alive?
She was playing the system in order for survival because if she had taken the spine of the unwind and had healed later on then she would be immediately unwound. The reason why she denied the spine, to begin with, was that in the System you couldn't unwind a disabled Unwind. So Risa used that to the best of her advantage to get past the system so she could survive and live out her life. (Then again I wouldn't blame her for playing the system)

Since the explosions at Happy Jack, what have people been doing? What hs Cy-Fi's role been in this P325
Cy-Fi had made a stand against unwinding thanks to the influence that Lev had on Cy-Fi with the time they were together. The stand that Cy-Fi did also got a lot of people talking about it which resulted in people joining him on stopping unwinding.

Lev's parents disown him. Who is trying to become his guardian P328
His brother Marcus.

Why has Pastor Dan resigned? P329
Pastor Dan didn't want to belive in a god that condones human tithing

P331-332 explain what has happened to Harlan Dunfee. What do you think about the Admiral and his wife's plan? Was it what you expected?
Harlan Dunfee had been unwound as discovered in the previous chapters, and because he was unwound, it meant that his parts had gone to other children. On P330 it's announced that it is Harlan Dunfee's 26th birthday and that Harlan's Parents the Admiral and his wife had gathered all the children that held a part of their son together for his Party. They both had intended to put their son back together, with no surgeries needed but just the children that held the parts.

I found this part of the story very heartwarming, knowing that even though they didn't have their son back as a full whole they still had all the parts of him together in one space. And the fact that no surgeries were needed for the children that had the parts to be taken away just made it all the better.

Who takes over the graveyard? P331
Connor or his now legal name E. Robert Mullard had taken over the graveyard after the Admiral had left.

Street Art II Art

Term 3 has started which means a new semester, semester 2, which also means new options. Last semester I had Japanese, DTE and ICT, this semester I have Japanese (again as it's an option you have to have for a full year), ICT and Art. This semester for art were starting off with street arts. We first had to find a picture that we like and made a blog post about it and what we liked about it.

Reuben Woods What I like about this Street Art is the fact that it brings out the olden style feel from back then from when buildings like houses and shops were one thing with the shops below and the apartments on top and as well as what the cars looked back then. The picture its self gives me an England or France vibe from back then.

What I also like about this picture is the ways they use the various browns and blacks to make the Art pop-out, it's also better than using the typical black and white for an older style look. and the browns also give off the right vibe for the art. because I feel that adding bright colours or dark dull colours that weren't brown would just ruin everything and the theme that was set.

Unwind II English II Unwound

Part Six-Unwound


Connor and Risa are sent to Happy Jack Harvest Camp. Describe what it is like, and explain why it is like this. P265-266
The Harvest camp seems to go along with its name in colours Happy Jack because it's so colourful. They probably made the camp look so happy and safe to fit the name and to distract the kids for a good amount of time so they can get down all their results before the child's unwinding.
Because I feel that colours also bring a part in how you feel like dark colours may give off a bad feeling and happy bright colours may give off a happy and safe feeling.

What is the exact percentage of the Unwind that you have to keep alive? Why is it not 100% as Risa believes? P269
The exact percentage is 99.44 percentage because this also takes into account like the appendix.

What do the unwinds call the place where the unwinding occurs? P271
They call it the chop shop, because it's where you get cut up into tiny piece bit by bit.

Lev too is at Happy Jack but as a tithe. Why is this?
Because he has been registered to the system as a Tithe, because the day Connor rescued him was also the day he was on his way to the Harvest camp. Meaning he was already named a tithe in the system before he went AWOL.

On P278 Connor and Roland finally have the fight that's been brewing between them. What does each character realise during this?
Both had realised, Roland himself included that he was to afraid to really kill someone, even if his words were threatening. Roland had released this as he had almost killed Connor.

P284 - What group has Lev joined, who recruited him, and when will they follow out their plan?
He had been recruited by Mai and Blaine into a clapper group when they were recruited for the Alaskan pipeline. Blaine says that they'll carry out their plan on the day after the coming day.

Roland is called for unwinding on P286. Why is this?
He was called in first to get unwound before Connor because of his blood type which was in high demand.

Chapter 61 is arguably the most confronting chapter in the book. Here we have Roland's first-person narrative of being unwound. Do you think this chapter is necessary? Why do you think Shusterman chose to have Roland's experience detailed? Do his memories alter how you view him?
I think this chapter was necessary. Because it gives us an insight on how the unwinding process goes and what every kid that gets unwound experiences and what their likely thinking and going through at the time.
It only changes my opinion on him a bit after finding out about why he was unwound to begin with, but I also still dislike him as he thinks that he's above everyone and everyone else should be below him as well as the fact that he was stupid enough to give himself away by saying that he knew where lots of unwounds were, where he himself was also one because he would've of been registered as one. Meaning he had just given himself a one-way ticket to the harvest camp anyway just because if you bring in a lot of AWOLS you'd get a lot of money for it.

Why does Lev decide not to clap? P310Because Lev knows that if he claps he's gonna die, so he restrains himself because he himself still wants to live.

Unwind II English II Graveyard

Part Five-Graveyard


Which job in the graveyard does Risa get assigned to? How does this come about? P201
Risa was first given the job as a Dishwasher as she at the time could care less about a job and still kinda doesn't, but after she got her "Job" as Dishwasher a boy caked in blood thanks to Connor comes over and Risa goes over to him and gives him "Medical instructions to stop his bleeding nose which instantly transports her from Dishwasher Duty to Medical Duty.

Why doesn't Connor volunteer for "work" P205
Connor feels that the Admiral's using the kids/them as slaves to do his dirty work because slavery is seen as the lesser evil now because of Unwinding.
Also to the fact that in P207 Connor thinks that the Admiral is sizing them up to find something on a child which would fit him, and when work calls up he thinks that instead of them actually going to work there just being sent off to get unwound, because of the fact that lots of kids disappear on work calls.

How does Roland unsettle Connor P206-207
Roland unsettles Connor in a way because he tells Connor certain things different about the Admiral that may get people thinking and to the fact that he has perfect teeth which Connor notices that, that shouldn't be the case for a war veteran which just sinks deeper into his bad gut feelings and the fact that Roland was the one that told him this.
This also adds to the fact that Connor hates Roland's guts and has no point in trusting Roland, and sometimes when people that you don't like or trust say certain things it gets you thinking if it's true or not.

P208-209 detail Lev's arrival, and Connors reaction. Make sure you fill in your character profiles for both characters.
Lev's arrival happens on the fourth week that Connor and Risa are at the Graveyard, his arrival is due to a new load of kids coming in. When Connor sees Lev in that line of kids, he can't help but feel angry due to the fact that this was the kid that swore he would never forgive him for "Kidnapping" him, but at the same, the thought of Lev being unwound would have been too much for Connor to bear, at the time going up to Lev his Thrilled and furious but manages to keep his calm as he goes over to Lev to see him again, the two get in a few words before Connor punches Lev in the eye saying "That's for what you did to us" and then instantly pulls him into a hug saying how he's glad that Lev's alive.

P214-215 Connor learns the truth about the Admiral here. How does the Admiral gain Connor's trust?
Admiral gains Connors trust by pulling out his so-called Unwinded teeth in front of Connor which were actually dentures and just look like an unwinds because they used that bots dental records to make the dentures, this also gives Connor relief to the fact that Roland wasn't right about the whole Teeth problem with the Admiral, he also gains Connor trust by telling him that the boy that he supposedly got his teeth from was actually his son, going back to the fact a few lines above when I saw that the dentist used a dental record to make the teeth which are why they look so similar to the boy's teeth in the photo and why they're so nice and perfect.
He also learns that the money that the Admiral gains, is to get the kids transported to the graveyard, to also feed the kids who remain, and also to pay off the warehouses and for bribery for people to look the other way so no one will tell the Juvey-Cops about the children, and lastly a bit of money is given to the kids who turn eighteen so they can get a start on their free life in a cruel filled world that they live in.

What, according to the Admiral, is it that Connor is becoming famous for in the graveyard P212
Connor is supposedly famous at the Graveyard for getting into fights and at the same time resolving and fixing the problem even if he losses the fight.

What happens to the goldens? P217
Connor opens a crate to find five dead children in the crate. Supposedly five Seventeen-year-olds which all of the goldens were.

How does Roland begin to assert his power in the Graveyard? (You'll need to look throughout the section)
Roland asserts his power by manipulating kids into thinking he's more powerful than everyone else. by trying to gain power Roland puts things into the kid's drinks so it looks like the Admiral is trying to poison the kids. He also messed with the air conditioning so he can blame the Admiral on the poor conditioning that he's putting them through.

P222-226 gives us an insight into how the Unwinding Bill was passed into law. Summarise what happened, then explain whether or not you think it is plausible.
The Heartland War as said was said to have two sides when really there were three. The life army, the choice army and the remains of the American military. and also when it came to the bill of life, the bill that became a law that stated that if you had a child you could not kill it off (Unwind it) until it was a certain age (13) but the truth was that was only viewed as a joke at first. The same year though a Nobel Prize went to a scientist who perfected neurografting - the technique that allows every part of a donor to be used in transplant. and with the war getting worse, the remains of the American army brokered peace by bringing both sides to the table. which was then when the American army proposed the idea of unwinding.
I think it may be plausible because as stated the American army gave out the idea, the other side wouldn't even bother of thinking of such a thing when they were neck to neck with each other on their own belief and the only way they thought of likely stopping the war and getting their way was by fighting.

The Admiral was there when the Bill of Life was signed - do you think this detracts from the believability of the commonplace nature of Unwinding? In your opinion, do you think the book should have a few more generations between those who signed the Bill, and the present state in the novel?
Honestly no, because things change in the future meaning another war could have happened by rebelling newly eighteen-year-olds and up who likely had known someone that got unwound and was rather upset or was an AWOL themself just so they could stop the Bill of life and stop children from getting unwound or killed at such a young age.
So no I don't think there should be a gap between when the Bill was signed and when the story starts, because the story gives us a good impact on the life of an AWOL and what they go through just to survive till the age of eighteen. And we also get a view on how the war went by someone who was in the war themselves.

What job does Lev volunteer to do P236
Lev volunteers to work at an oil pipeline.

Which part of Harlan Dunfree does Emby have? P240
Emby has Dunfree's lungs when it was said that he had Asthma and the Admiral's sun Dunfree also had Asthma as well.

Chapter 39 is from Roland's point of view. Why do you think Shusterman changes the narrative here? What do we learn in this short chapter?
This is so we can get to know the things that Roland is doing and also to see how he views the Graveyard in his point of view and how he interacts with items and people around the place or just in general what he does around the Graveyard.
With this short chapter, we learned that Roland had been vandalising things to get people to change their view on the Admiral and as well as stealing from the infirmary.

By the end of this section, things at he Graveyard have deteriorated, with the unwinds turning on the Admiral, and tearing the place apart. Which character is beaten to death on P250?
Cleaver is the person who gets beaten to death.

What does the Admiral refuse on P255 What is the doctor's reaction to this?
He refuses to have the heart of an unwinded child.
The doctor's reaction to this gives off that they're a bit sceptical by trying to change the Admiral and the kid's minds by saying that if he doesn't get a new heart then his chance of surviving is drastically low.

Why does Roland have the Juvey-Cops called? P259 Why doesn't his plan happen? P260-1
He called the Juvery-Cops so he could get money for turning in a bunch of AWOLS at the Graveyard. This doesn't go according to plan because the Cops had already known about the Graveyard but hadn't bothered to go and get the kids because the only thing they cared about was that the kids were off the streets and out of sight. So basically the Admiral was doing them a favour by getting the runaway kids out of their hair.

Teamwork? II PE

What makes a team successful?


1. Communication
2. Effort
2. Cooperation
3. Encorument (From and to teammates)
4. Respect
5. Motivation
6. Leadership
7. Inclusion
8. Organisation

Matariki II Social Studies II

Week 12, 1 more day till the end of the week and 1 more day till the end of the term, for the last past week we've been doing a presentation on Matariki and what Public Holiday we would replace it with.
This took us 2 weeks to complete, the first week was research week and the last week this week was the week that we started and finished our presentations, for our presentations we made posters.

I feel relatively happy with my poster, and I'm glad I feel that way as I'm pretty impressed in the final outcome.

What went well and why?
I feel this went well because, everything just went so smoothly, the research was easy and the final project was fun, I fully enjoyed making a poster and fully enjoyed this research topic even though it's a topic I've done plenty of times before.

What didn't go so well and why?
I honestly don't think anything went wrong because I had all the research in control and the poster making as well.

If you were to do this again what would you do differently and why?
If I even did this again, I for sure would make sure the poster was smaller, and instead of white for the main background, I'd pick black because I feel that black goes really well with blues and it'd bring out the night sky vibe/look.

DTE Reflection II DTE

The end of the week is coming meaning the end of a term, which means goodbye term two and welcome term three.
I've had DTE for two terms now One and Two, I had fun in DTE, doing work with the boys that I knew from primary.

For the couple of week of DTE term one, we learned coding and Morse code and how they worked, learning code we went to a site called code.org where we played around with all the games on it trying out all the codes and making small mini-games. After that, we made ourselves sites, which was a fun experience and would help in the future if I ever needed to make one, then we made info graphs about sitting positions and the effects it gives us good and bad and how they affect us.

And then later on with everything we've learned we were sent to make ourselves a game, we had two choices, using Gamefroot a site where you can make small games. and the second choice is doing a year 11 assignment, I choose the NCEA level 1 assignment. The Assignment was to use Scarcth a site where drawing and animation are involved. For the assignment, we were given specific instructions that we had to follow if each one wasn't followed correctly credits wouldn't be given

Sadly I never got to finish it because of Lockdown.

Site
https://sites.google.com/hornby.school.nz/rubys-core-site/dte
Info Graph
https://sites.google.com/hornby.school.nz/rubys-core-site/dte/term-1-game-dev
(Info Graph lies at the very bottom)

Then later Term two came around, the term that's about to come to an end, Term Two was all about teamwork, during lockdown we did class calls. During those calls, we were put into groups for this term's work. I had joined a group of 3 boys that I knew from Primary and High school (Now), Also I never joined any girls cause there's pretty much only 3 girls there... but their rarely there so I just joined the group with the boys that I knew. I'm happy with my choice though because I had a fun experience with them, even if some days they were a bit chaotic, I guess it made my day in the end anyway.

Term two's work was a challenge where we had to make an app that could help others, the app could be anything. and it didn't even have to be finished. Because we weren't being marked on the app we were being marked on teamwork.
I feel that we did fairly well in teamwork, there were some days where a certain person wasn't doing anything, but the teamwork was overall really good, we did a research slide and that turned out to be really successful, so at the least to say I'm proud of my group.


I were confused about a few things mostly term one because I had everything under control when it hit term two, what confused me about Term one, was the making of the game part of term one, I didn't pick scratch first because I was a bit nervous about doing it. So I picked Gamefroot, but it confused me to no ends because the codes and coding were all over the place so you could never tell what you were actually coding.

But apart from that

I fairly enjoyed DTE, mostly term two though as I got to work with people that I knew.
What could change?
I honestly don't know what could change I'm not much of a person who really asks for changes, but if I could pick a change I'd suggest more group works where everyone can interact as I find it really easy to progress through things when I'm working with others I know.

(Research I was talking about that involved Term Two)