Fast Facts Collection

Today for reading, my reading group was working on a DLO about the Wright Brothers. We were using a new "System". We have 3 more texts to learn about. We have to finish all of these texts by next week.

Fast Facts:

This week, my reading group finished reading a book called Beans, All of us (Individually) worked on a fast fact DLO to test our revision of the book we  had read. This is my Fast Facts DLO (For another time).

Main Idea for Beans:

This week,my reading group has read  the text, Beans. The story is about the MC (Main Character) travelling to various location in his weekend (Just one day). The title, Beans is referencing him being full of beans/energy.  worked on a DLO explaining my thinking.

Read Theory

For 20 Minutes each day, we do Read 20. We use Read theory as a helper for us in reading and answering questions from the passage. The passage is easy or hard depending on what stage you are (Eg: I'm on 4.5 GPA so that will mean I will be having harder passages than someone on 2.9). Obviously this an North American website since we don't use GPA (or easier Grade per Average) but this a more reliable tool ti use as it helping us think about the question that is from the text. It  helps in test as this makes us look back at the text to see if we think that's the answer.

Comaprison

Today, Sebastian and I created a DLO on a book we learned about the Olympic Athletes. This was a fun activity involving our first female Olympic but also the young NZ athlete.  We compared Modern and past Olympic athletes then and now

Hoverbike Advert:

For 3 days, LS2 were working in pairs to create an advert on a futuristic hover bike. Harlem and I made a amazing ad about hover bikes, we used persuasive language to hook in a potential buyer with this ad. This advertisement needed to be a very persuasive, you added features that needed to hook in the viewer/reader. This was a fun activity with my partner.

Donald Trump Criticizes Muslim Family:

Today for Current Events, I read an article about Trump criticizing a Muslim family  of a Slain US Muslim soldier. This issue could destroy Trump link with foreigners (Which already was). Trump says that they sacrificed their own child. 

Link to Article: NY Times 

Book Character Parade

Today, PBS had a very important day( for the juniors). Book week has taken full force in the junior block where many people have read many books and learning about new characters. This is also meant that the seniors could join in. Overall, this was a great occasion.

5 reasons you should watch Forgotten Silver

Today, I  finished a DLO on why you should watch Forgotten Silver. This work is a follow up after we watched the documentary. This a great documentary and I recommend you watch the documentary.

Peter Jackson DLO

On Monday, LS2 finished watching Forgotten Silver. This is a Documentary about a New Zealand Film Pioneer, Collin McKenzie. I recommend you watch this documentary.  So I created a DLO on one of the directors(it has 2 directors). That director is Peter Jackson.

Hot Money Novel Study

Today, I finished working on a two week novel study. This book is called Hot Money by Bill Nagelerke. The plot in this story is about Miles and his friend, August. They find money stashed into a bag. I feel that this book is different than others.

Current Events:Euro-Revision 2016

Today, I started doing my reading Can do with doing Current Events. My DLO was based around the backlash of Euro-Vision 2016. If you don't know, Ukraine's Jamala( Susana Jamalaanidova) song about the fall of Soviet Union and the dictator, Joseph Stalin. The article was also about the petition that demanded the host of Eurovision (Swedish Broadcasting Union).

If you want to read this article by RT:Article by RT

Ballad Poem DLO:

Today, we did a Ballad poem. If you're not familiar with the word, then here's the meaning. A Ballad poem is a story told by a poem. The ballad poem is put into a video with 5 ballad poems as well. We completed tasks under the 6 thinking hats.

Bias

On Monday, my group for reading were learning about bias. Bias means a  person's point of view or choosing 1 person's point of view over the other. Mrs K showed us two examples showing bias. In one example the point of view was about the choosing of male musicians (involved in symphonies) over female musicians. In the other example, the writer was persuading the reader (or audience) to stop using cell-phones (while driving) by only using one point of view.  These two examples show a different type of bias but are linked because of the one point of view that is shown through out these two examples. 

ANZAC Poems

During the holidays, ANZAC day will happen. Now since it been 101( And 97 years since the end) years, our teachers came up with the idea to remind us the authors purpose to writing  4 famous poems. I think personally that this task was fun due to the fact that you had to add your evidence for your thinking ( of the main idea).