In English, we are still continuing in our creative writing matrix. I am almost finished with the activities but still need to do some of it. The activity that I am doing right now is the slam poetry. For this task we need to watched some of the slam poetry performances about New Zealand. We need to choose one of those videos that we liked and enjoyed watching. We need to explain why do we like that performance and give some opinion about it.
There are a lot of videos but I only watched 4 of them. On those 4 videos of slam poetry there is one video that make a lot of sense to me. I don't really understand some of it so I don't think I can write my opinion about it if I don't fully understand them. But this is the favourite performance among those videos:
For our English, we are still continuing our creative writing matrix. I have done some of it and this blogpost is my 3rd task. In this task we need to write a sensory writing using our senses, we are writing this without using those words like hear, saw, smell and more, we have to use a different word for each of those sense. Our writing can be base on reality or it can be an imagination. For my writing I decided to use my imagination, my writing is a quit sad and I am not sure if I did it's good.
This is my piece of writing:
The sound of the waves ringing in my ear. Sitting on the sand, inhaling fresh air while enjoying the view of the beautiful and blue water. Letting all my tears out and hugging my knees. Closing my eyes as more tears came out. Shivering because of coldness, hugging myself tightly trying to get warm. My salty tears keep falling as I put my head down, standing myself up as a go near the water. Removing my shoes as I walked into the water, I began to scream and let my emotions out, creating an echo along with the sound of the waves. Getting tired, I started to walk back as I felt myself get better, plastering a small smile on my face. I started to walk back and leave all my problems behind.
For our social studies class, we have been talking about the Slave Trade Triangle and how the music can affect and help the slaves. We talked about the 3 different stages of the trade triangle, we learned how the process is happening. I also did some research about what the slave's life look like and how are they getting treated. In this 3 stages there are a lot of difference in each other of it. The first one is the ship from England will travel to West Africa with some goods/product in it. The second one is the slaves from West Africa will be going to America, in this part there are a lot of things happening, it shows us how the slaves suffering in many different reasons. The last and the final stage of the trade triangle is the ship with goods in it is going back to England, after all of this the cycle will just start again. If you want to see more information about my work just use the link that I put.
This is the link, if you want to see the map that I made; https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Uk-ssCfHKB3KlPHXjcG-KlcpHxGF9u2U&usp=sharing
In English we're still continuing our creative writing matrix. I finished one of the activity and this blogpost in the second task that I choose to do for our matrix. I decided to do the metaphor and simile, I know this so it didn't take me long time to finished it. We just have to write the definition of this words. I made a poster to show my learning. I also wrote some example how metaphor and simile can be used on the sentence.
In our wananga class we have been learning about our self identity. We have been doing different activities to know our passion, strengths and weakness. We watched a video of Pat Ho talking about his passion, weakness, strengths and more. He also gave the viewers some advice. Pat Ho said " Don't let anything on your way". After watching the video we did a little summarizing about it.
For esol class, we did acronyms using our name. We did this because we want to make our classroom more colorful because it's so plain. I decided to use canva for my poster. I also used different colors for my name and colorful background. The words that I use for my name are the personalities that I have. Below this poster you will see 2 paragraphs. Those paragraphs are explaining why I am sincere and helpful.
I can say that I’m sincere because even though I like making funny jokes
I know those things that need to be talked about in a serious way. In other words I might
be a joker but I know how to express my feelings sincerely when based on the situation. I
don’t just laugh when the situation is something serious. I can be sincere in everyone not
just to my family and friends.
The other one is me being helpful. I really like helping others, especially when they really need it. I am willing to help everyone as long as I can. If I can’t be able to help them then I will give them advice on how they can solve their problem. I love helping people especially when it’s my friends, family and some who are really important to me.
In English we will be doing different work, for this work it is our choice which one we want to do. We have a lot of different work but we must do all of them in any order that we want. The first task that I chose is the "Language Features". On this task we will be writing the definition, example of each word that we choose. We have to choose 3 different words, I decided to choose Alliteration, Anaphora and Onomatopoeia.
This words are some of the example or figure of speech that have a different purposes in your sentence. You will see in my presentation work the definition, some examples and the effect of this figure of speech.
We can see that the character have a stable and good life. His family is safe not until he met the owner of that skyscraper. We can also see that the other characters in the trailer say some things that make the trailer more exciting.
I believe this trailer is showing us that the character's family and himself got in danger because pf the clips that we saw on the trailer. We saw many other clips that gave us an idea about the movie.
Today we've learned a new technique how we can write our blog in a different way. This technique is called "321RIQ", the number and the letter in this word means something. The 3R is standing for three recalls, this means you need to write down in your blog the 3 things that you can recall or remember in your topic. The 2I is about two insights, this means you will put in your blog the two new things that you've learnt, this needs to be the new things that you didn't know before. The last one is the 1Q, this one is all about asking question about the topic that we have been learning. This is very important because this can give u a chance to ask and clear the confusion by asking a question.
Last week we've started our ESOL class for this year. Since we have a new teacher we started to get to know each other, we played a game where you can introduce yourself and to remember your teacher's and other classmate's name. In this game we need to say an adjective that starts on the first letter of our name and one thing that we like that also starts in the first letter of our name. After that we also wrote a introduction for our teacher to know us better.
So far in our ESOL class the one of the things that I've learned or new for me is the game. I've never play or know this game before so this is new for me. The other one is the 321RIQ that we've just learnt today. Even if I understand the 321RIQ I still wanted to learn more about this and who invented this.
I really find this technique helpful because this can make it easier for you to blog. You don't need to tell everything that you've done in your class, instead you will just writing what you have learned on that day
