English - Critical Literacy

1) What makes this video convincing?

- The doctor

- The acting which makes it look realistic

- How it is on a news show

- The looks and features that are including in the video

- Had actual photos of brain scans 

2) Who published this video?

- The Onion News Network

3) How are teenagers portrayed in this clip?

- Teenagers seem more lazy people than anyone else

- Teenagers are more addicted to technology than being social to their parents

4) Why has the director cast them this way?

- To show what teenagers behaviour is like and how it affects peoples lifes

5) In whose interest in the text?

- The parents interest this video just to have a laugh and because of how teenagers these days act the same way as the character.

6) Who is real in this text?

- The people that are acting but the characters that they are trying to portray is fake 

7) What social realities does this video portray?

- The were protesting in some of these clips

Social Studies - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

This week in Social Studies we have been learning about the ocean connecting to The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 

We have learnt that some of the oxygen that we breath comes from the ocean, if we didn't have oceans we probably would't survive. The great pacific garbage patch is the biggest garbage patch in the world, it is located halfway between Hawaii and California. There is more than 1.8 trillion pieces of rubbish in the garbage patch and ways about 80,000 tones, 80,000 pieces of plastic is about the same weight as 500 jumbo jets.

Here is a slideshow that I have created with some questions that I have answered.

Science - Alkaline Metal Blog

1) What is an Alkaline Metal?

- It is a metal that gets really explosive easily because it is in the first group in the periodic table on the left that is highlighted in red. Alkaline Metal is alot softer than most metals

2) Where are they on the periodic table?

- It is in the first group in the periodic table that is highlighted in red.

3) What Reaction did we do yesterday?

Observations: When the Alkaline Metal went into the warm water it blew up because Alkaline is in the first group of the periodic table and the metals that are in the first group are the ones that get explosive really easily. First when the Alkaline went into the water it started to fizz a bit, then flames started to form inside the water and then it blew up. When it blew up there was little flames that went everywhere that it looked like a firework.

Products & Reactants: Sodium Metal and Water + Sodium Oxide and Hydrogen Gas

Chemical equations: NA + H2O --------------------- Na2O + H2

4) Why do these metals react this way?

- It only has one Electron in the outer shell.

Social studies - Beetlemania / Help!

Beetlemania

Song: Help!

What was the song about?

- The song was about Lennon expressing his stress after the Beatles. Lennon said that he was fat and depressed and that he was crying for help. Lennon said that the song "Help!" was one of his favourite songs among the Beatles songs that he wrote. 

How different does it sound to music from the 1940's?

- The Beatles had a different style from any other band at the time because they worked in many different genres of music. The Beatles not only changed the way music was being made but they forever changed music.

 

Social Studies - Give peace a chance

What was the main message of the song?

John Lennon's message in the song "give peace a chance" was that war doesn't solve all problems but if you "give peace a chance" it may be a better solution to solve all of the problems in the war. The song says that the most popular subjects are all the gossip or debatable topics and opinions. The way John Lennon sees it, there is no need for that sort of thing in the world, people shouldn't try not to argue and debate.

Here is a link to the blog post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftE8vr0WNus

Home Economics - Baking/Cooking from this term.

This term we have been learning about colour, texture and favours from the dishes that we have previously made from this term. Colour, texture and flavour is important in our dishes because the colour gives peoples attention to the dish, it makes it want the person to try it. The texture and flavour in dishes attracts people after they have ate the dish because it could want them to come to back to have it again or it may not. 

Social Studies - Significance of WW1

For our third assesment in Social Studies, we had to make a map about WW1 that we have learnt before we created the map for WW1. After we did all that, we had we had to create a blog post to finish and complete this assessment, in the blog post we had to answer questions that was given about the topic and in this video. Here is my blog post that I have completed.

When do you hear this song?

- The chances are that you have heard the last post, the last post is used on remembrance day in the commonwealth of nations. In Australia and New Zealand it is also played on Anzac day, usually before the two minute silence.  

Why is this song significant/important to New Zealand?

-  It is important to New Zealand because when the last post is played we honour those that were lost in the war and those that fought for our country.

What is the history behind the last post - why was it played and when?

-  The last post is played to mourn the dead and to honour those that were lost in wars. The last post is played in New Zealand on Anzac Day or Remembrance Day before the 2 minutes of silence. 

What does this song represent?

-  The last post is represented at military funerals to indicate that the soldier has gone to their final rest and at commemorative services such as Anzac day and Remembrance Day. The last post also represents the wars and battles that the world had gone through.