School Year

The School years coming to an end soon, so I wanna talk about my year and what my school highlights were for this year. Not much had started at the start of the year so I'll leave that out, I'll move to subjects. I have to admit my favorite subjects this year were Science, PE and Health. I personally before this year didn't really like PE, but when I took it this year because I wanted to get fitter I actually began to enjoy the class, I had a few good friends in there which made the class even much more fun, and I had a great and understanding teacher, which I felt made the class a lot better. I enjoyed Science, because I pretty much always enjoyed doing science each year cause science is just my thing. My favorite subjects on science were Bio and Chem, I enjoy Bio because I get to learn about the human body and I'm future years I'll get to do more Dissection's which I enjoy doing. I like Chemistry but didn't know much about it or even understand it till I began doing it this year, thankfully I know understand Chemistry a lot more better than before which makes the subject much more enjoyable, my favorite part of chemistry is playing with all of the chemicals and seeing the reactions they make.

And Health, I picked health this year because it was a class I looked forward to like the other two classes. I enjoy health cause I get learn about new interesting things and the teacher was great so it was much more easier to understand the class and enjoy it. In my opinion what makes a subject you don't like better is the teacher, I didn't use to like Math till I got my math teacher for this year, he made me like math a lot this year, each week I would wait for math because he was funny and just made math seem a lot more easier to understand which was very helpful as I'm not that typically good at math.

So over my year most of my highlights were based in these subjects, I also had a few good funny moments in English, which made a few of my highlights for this year. I find English kind of hard so having the English teacher I do now that's willingly to sit down with me and help me with my work made me really happy as I thought I'd right out fail English all together this year.

But I've had an overall good year this year and I cant wait to see what happens next year.

Passion Projects

It's been 2 terms now since we've done Passion Project and its finally come to an end a few days ago, I had a lot of fun doing passion projects cause I got to do it with people I knew, which in my opinion made the whole thing a lot better.

My favorite part of Passion projects was the ending part.
After all our research we got to play around with fake blood and learn about splatter patterns.
If there's a drop of blood and its a full circle and its big then its just blood that's dripped down from a wound. If there's a circle that has pointy excess bits coming off it then its from the banging of a hammer and if there's small droplets of blood that's near that hammer input then its from the blood from the hammer flying off the hammer. I have to say that learning about splatter patterns was my favorite part of my passion projects as I had a lot of fun.

We also got to create a crime scene for a teacher and create her death.

If I get to do passion projects again I honestly can't wait to try something new as doing this was a highlight of my day.

Holiday

Term 4 has just started so I wanna talk about what I did in the holidays. In the holidays I basically did the same thing everyday get on FFXIV, thought everyday I got on I experienced something new. During the period of the Holiday I got to know more people and did lots of raids and trials, my favorite raid is a alliance raid called the puppet bunker which is a neir raid.

Along the way I also meet a friend of mines Static. A static in ffxiv is a what you'd call a guild in other games. My static isn't exactly big but their filled with really great people that I get along well with. (My char is the short girl with blonde hair and the pink outfit)

Throughout the period of the holidays I also went out for dinner twice with my family to burger which I enjoyed as the burgers are really good there. My favorite burger is the BBQ Rodeo. and I like mixing Fanta and Coke together when I fill up my cup.

From there on I hadn't done much but play ffxiv talk with my friends do daily roulettes for Gill (money currency in FFXIV) and exp to lvl up my chars before endwalker the next expansion comes out in late November where the lvl cap will be extended to lvl 90 and I'll be able to lvl up my gunbreaker a tank class.

Passion Projects

For Wananga we are doing passion projects for term 3 and half of term 4.
For passion projects I am doing Forensic Science. I picked this cause I enjoy science and want to

take Forensics as my future job.

In Forensics we are first doing a bit of research, the things we are researching are somethings that Forensics' would do. The research we find out we put on a doc and gather more information about the technique

I picked, Fingerprints, Scene of crime officers and Toxicology.
I picked Fingerprints as my first topic because it's what got me into Forensics in the first place and I really like the challenge behind trying to find out who's fingerprint belongs to who. I picked scene of crime for my second because they go to crime scenes and investigate take back what they find and put it through things to either find out what happened, who the victim was and who was the murder. This I really like as they also involve themselves with DNA. And lastly Toxicology I just picked this as a random but I think it's a good thing I picked it as Toxicology goes over the protentional poisons or drugs found within a victim.

The part that I'm really excited about is when we reach the end of passion projects our teacher for the subject will create a crime scene that we will have to solve.

Pathos, Logos, Ethos II English

Pathos is a form of persuasive writing that is used to evoke the feelings of the audience. In other words Pathos is used throughout stories to make the audience feel something and give the text more meaning to the viewer, this can either be sad or happy. An example of Pathos - "She has THE POWER to change the world. You have THE POWER to help her do it." - Add

Logos is used to persuade someone by using facts. In other words Logos is where you give an example of something and you reason with the audience as to why that statement is true or false with evidence to back it up. An example of this "Harry Potter - "You've made a mistake I can't be a wizard. I mean I'm just Harry, just Harry." "Hagrid - " Well, just Harry, did you ever make anything happen? Anything you couldn't explain, when you were angry or scared?" - Harry potter

Ethos is used in a text to convince the audience. Another way to put it is that Ethos is used to convince people by having someone of authority or a text tell you about something that shows truth and has credibility to what it's telling you. The person of authority could be a CEO or a Celebrity. An example of this " I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience. When I was 37, I helped start a small company. My Partners and I had been working for a company that was in the business of helping other businesses. So some of us had this idea that if we really believed our advice was helping companies, we should invest in companies. We should bet on ourselves and on our advice. So we started a new business called Bain Capital... That business we started with 10 people had now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that Frist Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised" - Mitt Romney''s Acceptance speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention.

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What are we doing? - Learning how to write good Persuasive Formal Writing.

Why are we doing it? - We are learning how to write like this so we can one day right persuasive things that could change someone's mind about something.

What questions do I have? - Not much really.

HOLIDAYSSS - Blog Post

What did I do in the holidays?

I Slept... thats mostly it I slept the holidays away cause I had nothing better to do.

But

But

I did do something on the last week of the holidays, on the last week of the holidays I got a few new things to add to my room. I got a new mouse cause my other was dying and I needed a new one, this new one was a gaming mouse one with programable buttons which I feel makes my gaming much easier. A day later I got a nice desk for free, though the downside was that I had to clean the desk top to bottom, which I had no problem doing. the only real problem was getting it in through the door and to my room.

I think a day or 2 later I got a chair a office chair. I had borrowed mums chair from her cause the current chair I was using was giving me sore shoulders, so I used her chair in place of the other one till I got a new one, I got my new chair (Not really) from the eco shop. it was a office chair that was a nice blue colour, and like the desk I had to clean the chair down from top to bottom with soppy hot water the same as what I used for the desk to clean it.

In total I think it was worth it, I have a desk a chair and a new mouse that I really like. So I think the last week of the holidays went really well compared to the first week of the holidays where I did something stupid which led to me forgetting my passwords to one of my games and losing my account.... no worries though I can get it back soon near Christmas or before Christmas hopefully.

In the mean time I'll be playing the trial version of the game till further notice....

Post about anything

 Now like before there just isn't anything interesting to talk about, that goes on at school cause all were doing is assessments, I mean there is one thing we have been doing that isn't an assessment, which is called Mates and Dates, but we only have it twice or once a week and we've so far only done two sessions so not much to really talk about.

So instead I'll be talking about FFXIV a game I really love and adore

I began playing Final Fantasy XIV last year, and to say I love it, the community nice and there are lots of people to talk to. My favourite expansion is Shadow brings as it has a character named G'raha Tia in it, G'raha is a Cat boy (Yes they have cat people, as well as bunny people, and demon people called Au ra, Bunny people are called Veria's while Cat people are called Miqo'te)

I play as a female Miqo'te to represent my gender, a female.
When playing FFXIV you can play as and job on one class, so alts rarely are a needed thing as you can play any job on one character.
On my character I main healers, the healer I play is called the White Mage which is mainly a healing type. Each healer has their own role, one of the other healers can heal but can also buff. The one healer I am really excited about is the sage, which will come out in patch 6.0 when EndWalker comes out, The sage is a healer who mainly does healing and barriers to protect their teammates from dying.

I honestly really enjoy playing as a healer cause I rather save people than cause people problems by always dying, plus when you're a healer you get to stay away from the boss most of the time, which is nice.

My Character.

Wananga II Post about anything

Recently as the weeks go on, less and less interesting things are happening, because of assessments for year 11, the only thing that really seems to make my days at school fun is seeing my friends, and Friday period 4, 5 and lunch where I have coaching.

But apart from that, not much is happening.

So instead I'll be talking about what I've been doing at home, instead of talking about Assessments.

Recently at home, I've been playing sims 4, which I fully enjoy. Whenever I start up a sim game I also go Pinterest shopping for clothes and mods. When I go shopping for things, I try to look in the anime section for hairs as some people make really good hairs, most of the hairs in my sims are from, Genshin Impact, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy XV. Cause I love Final Fantasy.

Speaking of Final Fantasy, I've been waiting a while for the new Endwalker Expansion to come out for FFXIV. My first time playing Final Fantasy was during a trial of the game. I really enjoyed the trial so decided to get all of the current expansions since they were on a discount. I enjoy the storyline and the effects. though I seemed to be having trouble completing a quest. <- That was in 2020 in Nov. Now it's 2021, and I wish to continue playing again. Start a new character and relive the game again.

And can't wait for the new expansion with the two new classes.

Blog Post... About Anything II Wananga

Since not much has been happening in Wananga lately except for assessments I'm going to be talking about what I've been doing out of school at home for the last past few days.

My Favourite things to do when out of school is to play Pokemon most importantly Pokemon Sword, I had recently got the expansion pass after deciding between the pass or getting Little Nightmares 2. I'm glad I got the pass cause I recently got Dialga and Palkia which I fully enjoyed EV training them and levelling them up to the max level. The other pokemon on my team is the male Indeed, Galvantula and the rapid strike version of Urshifu.

After hard grinding and gathering EXP candies, I got all of them to level 100 eventually.

I named my Indeedee Dachi and my Galvantula Sparkles. (I Love them very much)

In all honesty, I can't wait for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond as myself has played Pokemon Platinum and fully enjoyed the game and can't wait for the remakes. The only thing I wished they changed was the look of it, and not made it chibi and made it into sort of Pokemon Gen 8's look. But we all can't get what we want.

Blog Post II What I've been doing the last past 2 weeks II

For the last past 2 weeks in Wananga, we've been working on Assessment. This assessment is based on our Well-being. There are two docs that both equal one Assessment. Thankfully their not that complicated if you know what it's talking about. Most of the stuff on the assessment is about our well-being and factors that could change our well-being or affect it. For E.g sleep, If I don't get enough sleep I'm all groggy and tired in the morning till lunchtime comes around.

Apart from Wananga

I've been doing other things in school such as doing coach training before the 28th for PE, which in turn is another Assessment.
And in Health I'm almost onto another Assessment about the changes in one's Well-Being we'll be watching a movie for this assessment and writing down what changes the Main Character went through.

In English, we've also recently started another Assessment... While doing that Assessment I'm also trying to finish another English one.

So in turn most of my school life currently is just Assessment.

End Of Term Wananga post II Culture Kete

Over the last past few weeks, we've been doing a wananga topic on our culture, or if we don't know anything about our culture just basically anything that represents us and tell a story about us.
Over the week we had the time to do this I'd managed to come up with this, All in all, I'm really proud of it and couldn't have asked for anything better. 

My Poster

Blue, Yellow, Red (Colors at the back of the triangle) - These colors represent the pansexual flag which also represents my sexuality.

Family - The boy on the left represents my brother who is a year 7 this year and the girl on the right you'll just have to imagine as a boy, that represents my little brother who is still in primary school, and the girl on the left is me, and the woman on the right is my mother. The question marks that are on the male represent the fact that a father is not present in my life, so my mother takes up the role of mother and father.

The Quote - This quote represents the fact that my older brother is half American and kiwi while the rest of my family is kiwi and half British. <- This is where the part of we stand together as one even through all our differences
The part where it says Hardships we face, This represents the fact a second parent was never present in our lives, and we've always had to rely on our Mother and Grandparents. And because of this, there have been lots of struggles that we've been through, especially since my mother is still looking for a job and has to do polytech again.

The moon and the arrow pointing to the heart with the word baby - This represents the fact that I was born during the middle of the night.

South Islands and Plane - I used to live in Nelson before moving to Christchurch. The star at the top is placed on Nelon on the South Islands and the arrow that is pointing down to the next star is placed on Christchurch. Next to that, I stuck a plane which is another way of saying that I flew to Christchurch instead of drove.

The icons above the people (Pencil = Drawing, Pie = Food, Zz = Sleep, Console = Gaming)
These icons represent the things I like, and the things I like to do. I like drawing as it brings me a sense of relief and pride. Relief to the fact that it calms me down, and pride to the fact that looking at my artwork now I've seen just how much I've improved in my drawing. I also love food, there isn't a time in my life where food isn't involved in my life. One of my favorite things to eat has to be Lasanga and those Pies from the shops. I also spend most of my time if I have nothing better to do sleeping. I find that sleeping even If I know I shouldn't sleep all the time is calming, and makes me feel better. (It also helps pass the time) And lastly the console, I love gaming and most of my friends already know that. One of my favourite game companys are Square Enix, who have made games that I love playing such as FFXVI, FFXV and the KINGDOM HEARTS Franchise, and my otheer favourite company is Game Freak who make pokemon. I had gotten the PS4 for the Kingdom Heart games and the FF games, and now have all the currently released Kingdom heart games that came out in the start of 2020. I also recently got the Nintendo Switch for my birthday. My first game on it was Pokemon Lets go pikachu and my second which I recently got on Easter Saturday was Pokemon Sword. These games have given me a lot of inspiration as well as a fandom with many fanstaic people in them to talk to.

English II Over the shoulder shot (OTS)

WALT - "Analyse how film aspects show meaning"

This marks my last DLO for the Film/Visual Language topic. I fairly enjoyed doing this one, I was kinda confused but I got the hang of what the OTS Shot meant later on when making this. I hope that In the future I'll be able to understand how the OTS Shot works more in the future.

English II Dutch Tilt

WALT -  "Analyse how film aspects show meaning"

This marks the third DLO I've done for the topic of Film/Visual Language, Honestly, I kinda enjoyed doing the dutch tilt because it's such an interesting shot to me. The fact that once you keep seeing this shot in movies, you'll always know if somethings going to happen and what's likely to happen.

English II Product Design

WALT - "Analyse how film aspects show meaning"

This marks the second DLO I've done for our topic on Film/Visual Language study this time for the second one I picked product design. doing this one made me realize how similar they are to just props.

Reflection II Wananga

About my book - The book I've read over the last past weeks is book 4 of the Alex Rider Graphic Novel series whilst waiting for Book 6 as I've read book 5.

Book 4 - Book 4 starts us off with Alex going on a vacation with one of his friends and their family. During their stay at the island where their vacation is at. The hotel sets on fire injuring Alex's friend's dad. Before the hotel set up in flames, Alex had seen an old enemy that he'd seen in book 1. this led him to investigate which lead him to find a number ringing it and hearing the name of a famous person and the voice of that person.

Alex then sets out to try and exposes the famous singer for trying to kill his friend's father.
Throughout the story, we find out that the friend's father was a journalist who was doing a topic on a famous person whose name is Cray.

Cray throughout the world is known as famous singers and the creator of a new console which has higher graphics than any other current console in their world. 
After being picked to try out the console after Alex steals a ticket to sneak into a show that Cray was hosting, Alex sneaks into this big building where we get to see a conversation between a man and Cray. Cray was using the man for information in turn the man would get 2 million dollars for the information he gave Gray. During that part of the book, Cray tells the man his money is in a big class case which on a stall is a case that has his money. When the man opens the case he finds out that it's empty after he opens the case a window-like door closes his exit from exiting from the class case a second later 2 million quarters begin to pour down on the man likely killing him. As Cray kills anyone who gets in his way or has valuable information that he can not let people walk away knowing about.

This the part that I've just passed and I'm currently still continuing the book. So far I'm really enjoying the series and cant wait to read book 6. 

DLO II English II Point-Of-View

WALT - "Analyse how film aspects show meaning" 

In English, we recently finished doing creative wiring. And have now moved onto Film/Visual Language Study. For the start of this topic, we had to make a DLO on one of the film aspects we were given, for this I picked Point - Of - View.

Athletics Day II Friday Reflection Post

Last Thursday we had Athletic days. At our school and probably most of all the other schools too. our athletics is split into two groups Competitive and Social I was in Competitive, this was also my first time being in competitive as I've always done Social. The difference between the two is that Competitive starts athletic at the start of period 1 and goes all the way to the end of school while Social has two periods of class before coming out and doing athletics.

The Athletic options I picked for this year were

100m
200m
Shot-put
High-Jump
Long-Jump

Before athletics day if you picked PE as a subject for year 11 you'd do a pre athletic practice. Meaning we'd go out and practice certain events we were taking part in on athletics day. Just to get that bit better at the event. Which I found helped a lot on the actual day of the event.

I fairly enjoyed this year's Athletics. And shockingly enough doing competitive actually gave me the chance to talk to people I normally wouldn't talk to in my year group which was really nice.
The thing I wish I could've changed but I know I cant was the weather. I would have loved for Athletics day to be like last year where the weather was nice and sunny. But in the end, Athletics was still really good.

Wananga II Reflection Post (Aka Reflection Day)

( About my week )
Wananga this week was okay. I don't remember much from Monday and Tuesday nor Wednesday but I remember Thursday and today. Yesterday we had 3 people come in and talk to our whole house (Tiekie) and give us a rundown of things. The first person who came in was one of our librarians, she talked about how the system for getting books outworked and that if needed we could come to them to possibly get new books out for the school. The next person that came in was a teacher of our school who worked for the juniour student council. She talked about some of the opportunities that we could partake in within the school.
And the last person was a lady who worked with many other kids on cyber safety and how to use their blog and gain viewers for their blog.

( About my book )
But apart from that we also did some silent reading. For the last past 2 weeks, I've been reading the graphic novel Alex Rider. Which is about a boy who was on a mission to find out more about his father, while trying to find out information about his father he encounters Scorpia a group his father was in, there he learned that his father was an assassin and that his father was shot from the enemy group of Scorpia, which Alex had soon got involved in after being assigned to kill one of their people and being tricked with bulletproof glass. Only realizing there was glass thereafter he'd fired the gun to take the target down. After he got caught he got stuck into another problem which involved a vaccine that could kill people with the press of a button.

this is what I've managed to get up to so far within the book, but I'm really enjoying the book and its plot, and after I finish the book I'm currently reading on it, I might also read the next one after that. (I left out a few things within the book so some spoilers are left out in case people wish to read Alex Rider)

Book - Scorpia: The Graphic Novel
Novel by Anthony Horowitz and Antony Johnston

WTE (Write that essay) II English

The simple sentence
Stan Lee was born on the 28th of December 1922.

The very short sentence
Life equals death.

The power sentence
knowing the reality of the world will lead you to a successful life.

Red, White and Blue
Life is full of many wonderful things Animals, plants and humans.

The adverb start
Shockingly enough the man managed to eat 20 whole hot dogs.

Begin with a preposition
Before the war everyone was at peace with each other.

The -ING start
Looking out over the rail Ashley could see a sea full of amazing creatures.

The -ED start
Thrilled she took a dive from the cliff and into the water.

The Semi-Colon
He gave a perfect performance; he left far too soon.

The EM-Dash
Maplestory -A Free to play 2D game- was released on the 29th of April 20.

The W-start sentence
While his friend made a distraction, he made a run for the safe.

Explore the subject
Hornby high school, which was opened in February 1975, is now a remarkably popular school.