DTE 2021 term 4

 Introduction

During the whole semester, we were challenged by covid and the lack of some materials to provide us some learning. The whole covid thing was a kind of came in an annoying time but kind of good, at the time were doing something about coding which we could easily do at home. With everyone going on we could easily do. We have to work to complete our project that is a drum kit, here is our link to what we have done and our ideas leading up to it and we also used scratch 

Evidence

Evidence of our Learning

Reflection

My reflection is that the whole semester came with its goods and bad, the bad is the whole of lockdown and the suddenly sick days and miss communication between members and there were so many little annoying little bugs and that we had to overcome. The Good was great, we did a lot of stuff and learned skills that I've probably have forgotten and actually may use in the future. ad

We as a group were good in some parts such as actually working on the project and making it work but where our group drops are when making our idea and communication and when we needed our group.

We didn't get to finish our project but I felt like I have learned something out of it.and

2021 writing portfolio

The secret life of Walter mitty essay

Question: Describe at least one character or individual you could relate to in the text. Explain why it is important that you were able to relate to the character or individual.

 

Introduction

 In the text “The secret life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber we have a character that seems to daydream a bit too much in his life, I heavily relate to Walter Mitty the main character, this character was like me in a way that I instantly saw and felt like we had something in common. Walter seems to do What I do a lot, He seems to daydream about things he sees around the place. He appeared to be so propelled into these daydreams that he sometimes needs to be woken up from them.

Walter Mitty’s daydreams are a crucial part of the text, it is important to relate to the main character during the text because it shows his boring his life is and how he wants it to be just like we dream of wanting to be like someone else. For example, if we did not relate in any sort of way we would not understand the text and its simple meaning. When the text says “ Mitty hastily pulled on his gloves and lurched ahead. He drove around the streets aimlessly for a time, and then he drove past the hospital on his way to the parking lot. . .. 

It’s the millionaire banker, Wellington McMillan,” said the pretty nurse. “Yes?” said Walter Mitty, removing his gloves slowly. “Who has the case?” “Dr. Renshaw and Dr. Benbow”

We see that things around him can give his mind inspiration of what he may daydream about next, see that in the real world he acts like a dog being told what to do by its owner but in his dreams, he is the main character of his own miniature world that sits in his head.

I found that daydreaming is something Walter and I do frequently, for example, I even daydreamed before I wrote this I daydreamed during most of my math class. I feel like daydreaming is where most of my ideas come from and are inspired by, I feel like daydreaming helps me, think or make my life more interesting. For example, I feel free in my head because there is no limit in what I do and sometimes my head merely makes the stories and I just go along with it. I see this in the text when Walter suddenly began dreaming, when he does dream he dreams, purely making his life more interesting because his life is a boring mess.

I heavily relate to Walter because there are some people who I don’t understand or like, it seems what he thinks of his wife as a mutual relationship because of the boring city trips he is forced to go on. I myself think the same because going on trips with my parents is quite boring or it’s something I don’t want to do but I always try to make it enjoyable but sometimes it’s just annoying to even be there. We see this in the whole text that he despises going on these trips when he’s little tips to the audience on how he feels.

In conclusion, we have a character called Walter Mitty in “The secret life of Walter Mitty” we see his boring life and city trips and how he uses his mind to bring stories to life in his head and make his life more interesting. I really related to this character because of how much he is himself and how sometimes those boring city trips are quite a time waste, I also see that there always seems like that one person we don’t mind but we always hate. To end this all I relate to Walter in many different ways, some more personal and some more in the interpersonal side of my life.

Power of One Essay

Facial expressions

Mise en scene

Dialogue

In the Power of one during the “Going for a run” scene, facial expressions are used very well

For Example, when Gideon talks about only having one toilet for two hundred people you see

PK’s facial expression looks disgusted and sorry for these people. The purpose of this was to show the emotion of PK and how much pain the natives have felt since the arrival of the Germans and The English. This makes the audience feel the same as PK, disgusted. When PK sees and hears what Gideon is talking about PK’s face seems sad and almost does not want to believe it’s true, making the audience horrified of what happened in the past. You see the same face-to-face encounter with PK and Gideon when PK began teaching English for Gideon’s people. You see PK is worried about Gideon’s lost eye, but Gideon’s smile seems to ensure that he doesn’t care, he only cares about his people’s survival.

In Power of one Mise en scene was used really well. We see this multiple times during the “Going for a run” scene for example when you see the man being kicked off the truck this shows that how unfair and cruel the world they live in. The purpose of this was to for us to understand without telling us that have struggled and stripped of their rights and made where they can barely live. All this helped me to understand that even helping a few people to do something so basic for us but difficult for others can impact the surrounding environment and people. We also see this near the end of the scene when Gideon walks away, we see a mother of two and an old lady being frightened of him.

During the “going for a run” we hear conversation escalate perfectly.

For example, when Gideon talks about the situation that millions live in you can hear the seriousness in his voice rise. The Director used the dialogue very well such as when Gideon mentions that only 2% of people can get an education and leave with job options such as mine slaves and street sweepers, the dialogue pairs nicely with Mise en scene which slips in the scene nicely.

The dialogue impacted the whole scene, telling us how they have struggled and how their land was taken from them. We also see this when Giel Peet wanted his people to have a part in the concert.

I write another one consisting of creative writing, sadly I did it on paper and never got it back.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Pre-Reading questions

 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 

Pre-Reading questions

• Is it normal for a person to have secrets?

It is very normal for every one of us to have secrets that we keep to ourselves, it could as bad as just taking candy from candy or something as bad as murder.

• Even from their spouse?

It's not great to keep secrets from your partner but if it's something so personal it may be for the best.

• What sort of secret of Walter Mitty hiding?

We do not know, it could be bad or something very mysterious

• What kind of person do you think Walter Mitty will be in the story based solely on the title?

Walter will most likely be someone who no one knows about, someone who is invisible to us, a nobody.

• Make a prediction about what will happen to Walter Mitty in the text.

In the book, It's probably going to be about an ordinary person.

Post-Reading Task

19th Century,

 kids wore uncomfortable clothing year-round, the clothing was stiff and inflexible for children to wear.

Their clothes were starched and looks odd to modern-day clothing.

Girls wore things similar to their mothers where the boys wore similar to their fathers.

Week 8 Passion Projects

 My Passion Project

Our first week of P.P.P was actually quite good in our group we produced multiple beats but could only use one so through trial and error we finally found it.

We used band lab to create and used Cooperman to find the Loops and Samples.

The Greatest film of all time!

The Greatest film of all time!

We were assigned to produce a short film based on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, This film is about 2 best friends going into parent counselling and to see if they can solve their problems and one of think that the other is cheating. This re-telling of the Merchant of Venice is how where the councillor is the Duke, Shylock-Aryan, Antonio-Levi and TJ is a character that is made to split them up.

When i mean Aryan is Shylock He is not actually him ,he's just the secret antagonist in the story because he makes Levi appear to be the antagonist.

We used high angle shots to capture them as weak or powerless, and over the shoulder to capture the talks of the conversation.

Things that really challenged me was not laughing, I can't have a straight face if it's something I feel comfortable with or I feel like I'm acting stupid which makes me laugh I also learned that biting my lip stops me from laughing and helps me stay as character.

I'll get a haircut so I don't look like a microphone in the film, I might try to get a better role and since I have done film I think next time I will be better prepared.

The Lungs

The Lungs 

-Brings oxygen into our body

-It allows us to exhale carbon dioxide from our body

The Respiratory System-

Breathing out is completely normal and instant.

Breathing through your mouth it reduce immunity.

The Cardiac Muscle  (heart)

Pumps blood,

Veins help and and travel blood through your body

The blood takes away the waste 

Pumping action creates what we know as our pulse

Veins don't have a muscular wall but have valve like structures which prevents blood flowing backwards.

The Happy broadcast:

Saving the whales

Sri Lanka's navy saved over 120 whales during the pandemic over the southwest coast. After becoming stranded people came out of their homes to help and succeeded  but only a few died while trying to swim away because how tired they were.

Villagers forgot about the virus that was spreading around to help the Whales, even though reasons are unknown why they wash up their are many theories why.

Diamond making?

Pandora, Largest jewelry maker has stopped mining for diamonds and have started lab grown diamnonds because of high demand. Natural and lab grown are pure carbon crystallised diamonds. Even better diamonds will be made with 60% renewable.

Drugs are cool?

Cannabis has been legalised for 2 years and saw a decline in opioids and has helped people mentally.

Can't be bothered to finish :)

P:E fitness

Physically fit:

To be in a state of health and well-being. Physical fitness is defined as the body's ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist disease and to react to emergency situations.

What could effect fitness is:

Getting a broken leg or bone, your diet has a huge effect on how fit you are. Flu's can stop you from performing your best because of how it blocks your lungs.

Garbage Patch

 Garbage in the ocean

Littering

Garbage in the ocean has been causing a lot of problems in the world, affecting marine life everyday and destroying reefs that may never come back. Littering is a major problem in the world. Littering damages the oceans, the plastics we use have been killing whales and destroing 85% of the oxygen in the world.

Daily use of plastic

The daily use of plastic is growing but also decreasing, the litter that people are picking up are being replaced by plastic that we drop. The plastic that we use is being dropped in the ocean which is degrading into microplastics where they are infecting every living thing that swims. Daily use of plastic is hard to stop, it’s cheaper and a lot easier to get a hold of.

Government trying to stop Plastic in the ocean

Governments have been trying to stop pollution in any way they can but they can’t force people to do it, that’s why they try to spread the message anyway they can. 

They stopped people from Overfishing and made it law and stopped massive amounts of overfishing. China has resumed whale hunting which is a bad and terrible thing to start up again during this epidemic of plastic and loss of sea life.

People getting involved! 

A rise of people have been helping with the problem, when they go out people have been using non-plastic cutlery, straw, and bags but now since COVID-19 has left for now we have been decent in our use of plastic but been a little slack.

Tonnes of PLASTIC!

The problem is us, people out there don’t care or don’t know, if they know what the problem is it’s because people afford the non-plastic, the plastic is 269,000 tonnes of plastic that has been left there which makes it plastic soup.

The US has been a major factor since they were so late to the problem and when they realised they have already destroyed the oceans, and oceans is what they need for their major fishing companies. The seafood industry has been experiencing a lot of micro-plastics with the fish and found that they were already dying because of it, and uneatable.

Conclusion to our problem.

The thing that we need to do is to band together and work at this problem, making sure that whales are not dying and producing Phytoplankton, when this happens less of “Plastic soup” will be occurring and the Pacific ocean will be cleaner and thriving in it’s own habitat.

Bob Geldof - Live Aid

 Bob Geldof and Midge Ure

Bob was born in 1952 in Ireland, he said he got bullied for not being into Rugby,After leaving school, he gained certain odd jobs but was not inspired by any of them. He then went to Canada to work as a music journalist. In 1975, Bob Geldof became the lead singer of the Boomtown rats a punk rock band. He famously stated the reason for joining a pop band. In 1978 he got his first UK hit single, He started to part away from the spotlight and went on to do humanitarian charities.  

In 1985 Bob was one of producers to the live Aid.

Ure was the famous singer who made "do they know it's christmas time" and also made Ultravox a success,

and helped with live aid concert. And got alot of live rock bands to play for free.

Cryptography

 

Making salts

 Making Salts

Method

1. Add 20 mL of sulfuric acid to a 100mL beaker, heat the acid until it reactions 70C. Turn off bunsen burner.

2.Once heated, use a spatula to add pea-sized portions of copper oxide to the beaker, stir the mixture for 30 seconds.

3. Repeat step 2 until no more will dissolve. Allow beaker to cool.

4. Fold the filter paper and place it in the funnel. Place the filter funnel into the seconds beaker.

5.make sure the beaker is cool enough to hold at the top. The contents should still be hot. You may need your teacher to complete this step.

6. Gently swirl the contents of the beaker to mix, and then pour in the filter paper in the funnel. allow to filter through.

7. Rinse the beaker you used to heat the mixture previously, and place it back on top of your tripod filled with 50-60mL of water .

8. Place the evaporating basin on top on top of the beaker and carefully pour some of the solution from the beaker into the beaker into the evaporating.

9.Gently heat the beaker until solution in the evaporating basin has reduced by half.

10. leave the evaporating basin to cool

The Beatlemania

Hey Jude

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The famous Beatles track, 'Hey Jude' was one of the few compositions to be written directly about, and for, a personal associate. Paul McCartney wrote the song to John Lennon's son, Julian, when John was about to divorce his first wife (and Julian's mother), Cynthia

The music is really different back cause the music didn't express itself as the beatles and nowadays . In the 1940's it was dull and boring but now their is meaning in the songs that we produce.

Write your own narrative story

Write your own narrative opening

A burning inferno, a raging storm of heat claimed the house as it's territory, as it's home. The man stood their tears flowing down his face knowing he couldn't save them.

She sat their waiting for it to come, waiting for something bad to happen something to jump at her, but all she got was a text. The weight of her phone surprised her even though she has had it for year. But what shocked her was the text itself saying"See you soon".

The Long grass and the mist made it feel like a horror film, it felt like the final scene. Where the Antagonist was about to go away forever, but the two girls didn't think so, they thought it might've just began.When their light went out

She picked up the cold peas from the frozen vegetable section, she felt tremble away the ice between the peas, she also felt a sudden sense of something happening. She felt someone staring, but it went away.

Then she felt a cold, leather glove on her shoulder.

Everybody was stressed or nervous, studying was boring for most people, you could say that when people say they want to become a teacher they always replied with "Wait you want to go back to school?"

Some will say yeah but most will say no, except for this one.

It's in the house, in the kitchen downstairs, in the bedroom ,in my closet or under my bed, I had dreams where it wore it's mask, it had a knife and a drawn smile written in it's blood.

Show don't tell

 "The buildings were tall"

The buildings were menacing in height with their neon lights making fit in with the rest.

"Sarah was really upset"

Sarah was lying down, emotions rolling in, getting the news of what happened and knowing she might never see them again. She didn't even notice the tears rolling down her face.

"She was so happy to see him"

She saw him and ran to him, with the expression you have on your 1st birthday.

"The lake was beautiful"

 The lake stood while the it reflected it's lights, making good seem the wrong word for it, beautiful seemed to fit.

"It was stunning"

It was something angels would be jealous, something that I could steer at for ages not caring how odd I look doing it.

Anzac the Last Post

 A.n.z.a.c 

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Where do we hear this iconic song?

We hear it on Anzac day at dawn at 4.55 pm, they use it at Anzac cove to remember the dead and soldiers who fought their that day.

Why is this song significant/important to New Zealand?

The Last Post is played at military funerals and commemorative services as a final farewell and symbolises that the duty of the dead is over and that they can rest in peace. 

What is the history behind the last post why was it played and when? They played it to get them ready for anything like our school bell, to signify it's training, lunch, breakfast and sleep time.

Last Post

What does the song represent?

It represents the battle at Anzac and the people who lost their lives and family over the war, it reminds people that they died fighting for what they though right. 

Tim Finn and The Herbs

 Tim Finn and the herbs

What is the main message of the song?

He's saying to the people to stay strong and to remember the pain and suffering that the British caused.

What line explains their passive resistance method?

I know Te Whiti will never be defeated,

And even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain.

I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka.

What does "you can't pull out the roots" refer to?

It means that they were there first and you can't really remove them from the home land.

Give evidence of their determination?

They stood their not fighting them just standing still.

Metaphor and similes

 Metaphor and similes difference.

Metaphors and similes are different where if it was a simile you would say "hey that man is LIKE a cat" when it's a metaphor "Hey that is a cat". Simile is saying what is similar where Metaphor are saying that it is  what it says it is.                           

Haiku Poetry

 

Pond shivering in the sun

steps breaking the ground

birds chirping in the wind

Lemons on the cold winter ground

People keeping warm in their homes

keeping warm WI-Pumpkin!

Leaves falling from the tree

Landing silently on the earth

breaking tension as it lands

Slam Poetry: English

Slam Poetry

The best performance was Ben stokes as he talked about the problems and even roasted Australia which was funny, The performance was like rap but this interesting and harder to listen.

He says"the vines binds us defines us" he probably says that we are connected to everybody in some way and that says what we and defines us.

He says"She's our Foster mother but we are the better-looking brother"

This was so good that he roasted them like that and it's true, we are the better looking brother.

Extension:

Slam poem

yes me is do be the yes of the be of the maybe of the no, but it depends on the yes, but now we yes but no at the same time, OK! you smell like yes and no mixed in between the maybe, but hey atleast your yes. "NO". you never said i was yes but maybe i am the no, but who know how i know about knowing how i know, yes, no & maybe smell like "PUMPKIN!" how do you know about tj is the no and hasan smells like maybe,but yk Ari the famous NO, he smells like someone who can yes and also know who is the yes of the no, yes, PUMPKIN is yes aswell but APPLE is No.

My maps

Wade in the Water....

 Wade in the Water

The song is about escaping slaves who bathed in water to get read of the scent they give so dogs are useless in finding them, they even got children to go into the water to clean themselves of the scent.

The Secret messages in this song was probably used to tell children,women and men how to get rid of their scent and they were also.

They even talked about Israelite a tribe in Africa, maybe when escaping or people who escaped saw these people who are from Israelite. They even saw children from Israelite:

Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite

Harriet Tubman was a ex-slave who saved slaves by her underground Railroad, it's not an actual underground Railroad it's more like a human train that went through secret passages to escape.

She rescued heaps of slaves and that's how she is so famous.

These events still happens but in different ways, black people are still being treated wrongly by people and the police still have corrupted cops..

Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in red
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite
Oh, God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in blue
Wade in the water
Must be the children that's coming through,
God's gonna trouble the water, yeah

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

You don't believe I've been redeemed,
Wade in the water
Just so the whole lake goes looking for me
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water.
God's gonna trouble the water.

Highlighted Part 1:

The part about Moses is that the children and parents were praying to god or their religious beliefs to give them hope.

Highlighted Part 2:

This is talking about the children of another tribe arriving and being scared, and also telling them what to do when they try escape.

Highlighted Part 3:

This is still about new children who are getting forced to wear English clothes to sell. 

Language Features

 

Physical change and chemical

 Hypothisis - Explosion - Chemical change

Equipment - Sample of ZnO (Zinc Oxide)

                      Heat source- plate 

                      Scales

                      Heat proof

Method - 1. Get sample of ` in a evaporating dish.

                 2. Weight the ZnO and container - record weight 

                 3. heat container ZnO on hot plate

                 4. Observe any changes - use phone for before and after photos (video)

                 5. Take off heat and put on heat prood mat

                 6. Let cool - observe - photos 

                 7. Re weigh

Results: the weight of the ZnO didn't change at all.

Conclusion:The color did change at all but when took off heat it changed so our Hypothisis was wrong.

Passwords are not always safe:Cyber-security

 

P:E

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