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.

Hunger Games II Film Study

Gathering Details from the movie: Hunger Games
What's District 12 like
The district is run down and messy
There are coal miners
Kids play with sticks pushing them into the mud as a way of playing
There’s a fence surrounding District 12 pointing that it’s an electric fence
The houses are old and run down
There are windows, but their broken and some of them have wood covering them
There isn’t a lot of food (You can see man-eating small pieces of chicken off a bone)
It’s dirty and not clean
The clothes are old and old fashioned
Poverty
In District 12 the colours are dull consisting of either Grey, washed white clothes but blue and green grass.
The technology is old and something that would've been used in the olden days when technology wasn’t as advanced
Whats sounds do you hear in District 12’s scene
There’s a humming sound of a women in the background of the movie when it focus around Katniss running around her District to get out into the forest (Also plays within the forest when Katniss grabs her bow)
What's the Capitol like
The capitol is fancy and huge
It’s modern and neat
Has lots of clean water and tall building with nice clear windows showing
The clothes a clean and fresh with nice vivid colours
The people wear colourful makeup
Everyone is happy and the kids are happy and have things besides sticks to play with
Everyone’s excited to see the Selected 2 for the hunger games, giving off smiles and waves
Not a lot of nice colours in the capitol but grey and metal, the only colour the capitol have are on their people.
Their technology is futuristic and high advanced


What did it sound like in the capitol
The capitols background music sounded Egyptian
You could also hear people screaming in joy whereas in District 12 you could hear no people but see them.
What's the reaping like
When the reaping starts and people are walking in, everyone is silent
People are nervous and scared (That they are going to be picked)
Always facing the front
An extreme close up is seen on Effie when she is talking over the mic
People are standing in straight lines
The camera movement is fast
There is a tracking camera movement when following Katniss while she is looking for her younger sister
There is a close up on Katniss when she is lip talking with gale
A close up on Effie when talking about a video from the capitol
Mentions a district 13
Diegetic is when you can hear no music but silence and the sounds of things you wouldn’t be able to hear over music unless silence was around. Things like paper rustling and the sound of people's footsteps
Non-Diegetic is when there is music playing over the sounds of things you’d likely hear in Diegetic.
What does it sound like
The reaping starts off with no sound but silence and visual of people moving around and getting their blood taken
The only time sound/Music can be heard during the reaping is during the video from the capitol after that it’s pure silence again but the voices of Effie and the footstep movements of district 12.


10WD-Themes-Rich v Poor


What are the differences between D12 & the Capitol Clothes
D12 clothes are dull and wash out colours with the vibe of old-time clothes from within the first 20th century
While the Capitols clothes
Are Colourful and fancy with many accessories and makeup used.


Why is the Bow the weapon Katniss uses
Because it’s that one weapon that Katniss is confident about using.
What are the differences between D12 & the capitols Technology
D12’s technology is old fashioned and something that would likely have been used in ancient Roman 
What can people in D12 do to get Extra food
Put their names in extra times
Win the hunger games to get Food and Money

Money Matter II Math

Over the past weeks in math, we've been learning about money in maths and how it works.
One of the things we learned was about discounting in money.
I at first didn't understand this but later on found that it was really simply an example of this is A Bicycle costs $2.500. If the shopkeeper gives a 15% discount, how much is the discount. Calculate the new price.

To do this we need to go

15 x 2500
this will equal 37500 (Just minus the two 00's to get 375)
Next you'll want to find the final answer to the question to do this you'll do
2500 - 375 which will give you your final answer of $2.125

Making your new price $2.125

Why do we need to learn this?We need to learn something like this becuase it's something useful that could help us with out discounting in the furture if needed. this will also help if your buying a car that 30% off. you'll know how much money you'll need and won't go over the trouble of getting more money than you probably need

Where would we use this?Like before discounting can be used on many things. like if a PS4 is 10% off you could use discounting to find out it's final price to find out how much money you would need.

It's as simple as that and it's really helpful too so your not going to much over the acutal amount of money you need. and your missing the sale becuase your stacking up on money cause you didn't know how much money you really needed becuase of the discount.

Visual Dictionary II English II Film Study

(Slide 2)
Extreme Close-Up - A Extreme Close up which could be on a certain part of the body, for example in the slide show the Extreme Close-Up is on the eyes.

Close-Up Shot - A close-up shot are somewhat commonly used for the face like emotions, showing really only a small portion of the body but mostly the face or just the face.

Mid-Close Up - A Mid-Close up is sort of like a close-up and a Mid-Shot combined together.

Mid-Shot - A Mid shot, shows a character from the waist up.


(Slide 3)
Long-Shot - A long shot is a closer up of an extreme long shot with either the character or object evident in the shot.

Extreme Long-Shot - A extreme long shot of a landscape from far away.

Low Angle - A angle that looks up at a character from below them.

High Angle - The same as a low angle but from above said character.


(Slide 4)
Eye-Level - Eyes are leveled with the camera while also showing the face or a bit of it.

Tilt - Tilting to make the picture or scene look like it's on an angle/Lean.

Tracking - Following an object or person in action. (Basically and object or character moving)


(Slide 5)
Over Shoulder - Over the shoulder is where the camera angle is behind a character but just above to see what's ahead of said character.

Bird Eye-View - Basically what a bird would see from above while looking down.

Point-Of-View - Point of view meaning seeing through someone else's eyes.


(Slide 6)
Pan - Also known as a panorama, this is where the camera is moving to keep certain objects or characters in line with the camera either horizontally, vertically, or straight.

Reflection II PE

For the last couple of weeks in PE, we've been working on Teamwork in sport.
And what it is to us.
I feel I did okay but could do a bit better.
I did indeed play and participate but I feel there wasn't enough communication between our teams, and I feel there could of been a bit more.

PE was good though. This week we're doing volleyball so I'm excited about that and can't wait to try it out.

ACT 2 Scene 6,7,8,9

Act Two Scene Six

1. How does Launcelot manage to tell Jessica that Lorenzo will be there that evening?
2. What does Jessica throw down to Lorenzo?
3. Why is Antonio looking for Gratiano?
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1. Lorenzo got a note from Launcelot which gave him the time and place to be.

2. Jessica throws down a casket/box

3.  Antonio was looking for Gratiano to tell him that there was no masquerade & due to the wind blowing right Bassanio is going aboard on the ship to set sail.
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Act Two Scene Seven

1. Which Casket does the Prince of Morocco think is worthy to contain Portia's portrait. Use evidence of the text to justify your answer.
2. How is Portia feeling in A2S7 -at the beginning, -while the prince is making his choice, at the end
3. What was Portia's father trying to achieve by the use of the caskets? Does this seem to be working?
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1. Prince Morocco thinks the gold one is worthy to have Portia's portrait. "He who chooses me will get what many men want.” That’s Portia! The whole world wants her. They come from the four corners of the earth to kiss this shrine and see this living, breathing saint. Princes travel across deserts and the vast wilderness of Arabia to come see the beautiful Portia. The wide ocean doesn’t prevent them from coming to see her—they travel across it as if it were a little stream." Morocco thinks Portia's photo would be in the Gold casket because Morocco thinks it would be a sin for her photo to be in a poor man's box full of lead, as to where he is wrong as it is in the lead.
2. Portia is feeling rather annoyed at the start as she doesn't want to marry the prince also because she has no choice but to marry him if he gets it right, and she's feeling relieved at the end that he got it wrong because she doesn't have to marry him, and he loses everything because of a single mistake

3. To see who is worthy of Portia, and is not really working as Portia doesn't like any of the men and his kind of annoyed
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Act Two Scene Eight

1. What double disaster had struck Shylock?
2. Where did Shylock think Lorenzo and Jessica might be
3. How did Bassanio and Antonio part?
4. What is the first suggestion of trouble for Antonio? Find a quote that tells you this.
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1. First Disaster is that his daughter ran away with a Christian, the second disaster is that she ran away with his ducats and jewels

2. Shylock thought that Lorenzo and his daughter was on Bassanios ship as he got a judge to search his ship but were too late as the ship had already set sailed. as then when they got there the duke learned that Lorenzo and his lover Jessica were together in gondola

3. They parted on a boat???

4. That a ship in Venetian has sunk while Salario hopes and prays that it's not one of Antonios ships
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Act Two Scene Nine

1. What is the purpose of the rhymes in the caskets
2. Why does the prince of Arragon discard the golden caskets? What does his interpretation of the inscription tell us about this character?
3. What is Portia's reaction to Bassanio's arrival?
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1. To make fun of the suitors

2. because he doesn't want to be like the people who only look at people on the outside and not the inside so he discarded it so he wouldn't be involved in the crude population. This tells us that he looks for personality and not just their beauty

3.  She doesn't want to know because she thinks that its one of Nerissa relatives.

Spring rolls (Food)

Last week for our practical we made Spring rolls with rice crackers???
First, we had to gather our ingredients and then a bowl and fill it up with water, then we set the Rice cracker in the bowl and waited for 1 minute for it to soak before taking it out and making our roll.

When you tried folding the roll with the food it felt kinda weird...
and once it dried up it felt like skin
But the oddest thing was trying it when you bite down on it, it feels like your eating a thin piece of fish skin.

The texture though looked good, like a little see/through present
The smell, I couldn't really smell it at the time... sadly.
Though the making of the food was super easy to make, which made life a lot easier.

Case Study: Rotorua Lake (Social studies)

Comprehension box (English)

The adventure of the tin soldier

1. How did the amount of tin that the toymaker had left affect the tin soldier? He was constructed with only one leg.
2. Which sentence includes both similarities and differences between the tin soldier and the paper dancer? The soldier decided that the dancer who also stood on one leg and, unlike him, lived in a castle, was destined to be his wife
3. Immediately after the soldier went under the bridge, he Was Pursued by the rat.
4. You can conclude the boy like the soldier in the beginning because he Looked diligently for him
5. What would the water rat most probably have done with the tin soldier Attacked him
6. It can be 9inferred that because the cook is jolly and rotund she Enjoys her own cooking
7. the pronoun it in paragraph 3 refers to the Boat
8. It is a fact, not an opinion, that fire can Melt come metals
9. The boy most probably threw the tin soldier into the fire because The toy was faded
10. How could the soldier's attitude during his adventures best be summarised Strong and steady
11. The main idea of the fairytale is that: Love endures forever
12. The fairytale is often called the constant tin soldier or the steadfast tin soldier. The words constant and steadfast are: Pronouns
13. What is the writer's purpose for using the old-fashioned word beloved in both paragraph 6 and 7? To relate the depth of the toys' feelings for each other
14. The writer who retold this Hans Christian Andersen fairytale wanted to: Relate a lesser-known fairytale with a sad ending.

Learner Matrix (English)

(A green box with a yellow outer ring means I can do it but I'm still unsure)

Goals
-Ask for more feedback (I find it hard to sometimes ask for help or watch stuff that I made and has feedback directed towards me as I find it nerve-racking to know about to feedback)

-Do the work I don't really finish after school ( I do, do this but sometimes I'm up till 10 or 11:00 at night finishing work for the next day, but other times I'll just finish them at home, meaning work comes before games. I feel that this would help me bring down the time of how long I'm staying up during school nights if I get my work done somewhere during morning tea, lunch or after school)

-I find it easy to tell people on how I like to work, Most times if its in a big area with lots of people, I find it easier when I have the noise blocked out with some nice calming music, or if the volume isn't loud, and sometimes I find it better just to work alone as I don't get distracted by that person sitting next to me.

Sustainability (Text Styles)

Method to make a sandwich (Science)

I did this blog post and task with

PAGIE

Culture (Social Studies)

English

In English we were given a task, which was called language task, we were given a couple of words (the words next to the numbers) which then had questions which we had to answer.
So far here is what I've done.

1) Nouns

Write the missing collective nouns

A __Flock__ of Doves

A __Group__ of Ships

2) Verbs

Add suitable verbs to this passage

The Children __Knew__ They had to have their homework

On the teacher's desk first thing in the morning,

But there were always those who __Didn’t__

3) Prefixes

Add a suitable Prefix

A __Full__ Circle is a half circle

4) Suffixes

Write a word using the suffix Ful

__GraceFul__

5) Synonyms

Write a Synonyms for the following words

Voyage/Travel

Decide/Choice

6) Antonyms

Write an Antonyms for the following words

Tame__Wild__

Eventful__Unevntful__

7) Homonyms

Write two meanings for the word ‘Shoulder’

(A)__Arm__

(B)__Responsibilty(Shoulder the Blame)__

8) Homophones

Write the Homophones for the word below

(Not Done)