What have you enjoyed about music this year? The ability to choose what we want to do.
What has been your favourite task and why? Making our own music because its what every singer/artist does.
did you complete a class performance? How was it? Yes we did our class performance ands we did okay i guess we got achieved.
Is there anything you did not have the opportunity to do? No.
This was my advertisement ive made for Coca Cola. Every image i used was from google. I made my project on postermywall It was quite easy to use and good looking!
It is hard to make a class treaty because not everyone agrees with one anothers rules.
If you think about it they made a huge treaty called the treaty of waitangi and not everyone agreed of course, this caused conflict and worry. The maori felt like the Pakeha stole their land and the pakeha believed that it's not their land so they can take it.
Today in science we made elephant toothpaste but throughout the past couple of weeks we were creating our volcanoes with flour and water as our glue to stick the paper together around a bottle. The bottle was there to create the eruption.
Where is it? Taranaki
When did it last erupt? 1854
Damage it has done? destroyed a whole tribe
How and when was it formed? It formed 120,000 years ago from the two plates crashing underground. The plates were the pacific oceanic plate and the australian continental plate.
Interesting random facts? You can't drive up it
Myths/legends about it? apparently it once lived with mt Ruapehu
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I learnt that people from Okinawa live really long. The average life expectancy is 83 years old.
Rice is a cultural practice of Japan.Rice is so important in Japanese society that it has been called the essence of the culture. ... Historically, wet rice cultivation was a labor-intensive task that could not be accomplished easily. As a result, families pooled their labor. More importantly, they also shared their water resources and irrigation facilities.
The population of Japan is 126.5 million
The population of New Zealand is 4.8 million.
The population density of Japan is 347 people per sq km
The population density of New Zealand is 15 people per sq km
The size of Japan is approx 377,000 sq km
The size of New Zeland is approx 268,000
Japan is 41% bigger than New Zealand
This is America:
Who wrote this song? Childish Gambino
What is the song about? It's about racism in america
Your opinion of the song. I think the song has done really well and has spreaded some awareness about racism.
A dream:
Who wrote this song? Common
What is this song about? It's about racism.
Your opinion of the song. I haven't heard the song so I dont know.
Changes:
Who wrote this song? Tupac Shakir
What is the song about? It's about racism in america.
Your opinion of the song. Well it's Tupac so of course im gonna like it. The song has good melody and was really popular back when it came out and still is.
Here is the link of my presentation that I made over the past week with a bit of information about Canterbury and its history answering all of the questions that Ms Handley gave us to work on. . https://prezi.com/p/edit/a8lwtm-qx-wc/
The most interesting thing I found out was that the Maori name for our school: Te Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka means without feathers a bird cannot fly. Our school probably chose this name because they're meaning without the school the students cannot prosper.
1. This tells us that he is continously moving around suburbs in america and has found a new friend to go along with and survive with. And that he is on his own journey now and isn't with the help of Connor and Risa anymore.
2. I reckon it would be better to be unwound rather than a death penalty but of course it would be better to die of natural causes than to be unwound. It would be better to be unwound than die between the age of 13-18 because all of your body parts and organs are still usually healthy at a young age and you can give them to other people that are in need. I wouldn't agree with unwinding but in my opinion its better than dying. Other people might rather just die than to be unwound because then you stay as one once your dead and I can understand that.
3. I think that if your heart stops then your soul leaves your body and goes elswhere never to be seen again. For example if your hand got transplanted to one person and your lungs got transplanted to another person how would you still be concious? I think it's a stupid thought.
4. He starts to steal things because the parts of a brain that he had had come from a kleptomaniac which is a person that gets a rush when they steal things so basically a stealing addiction. He didn't used to like stealing but when he got the transplant then he did
5. He hides expensive jewlery like diamonds, gold etc.
6. This shows that lev is a kind and caring individual that cares and worries about the friends he makes and how he can help them through their friendship.
1. Neal shusterman let them go their own ways to have two seperate parts in the book it's hard to explain. This effects the evolution of the characters by letting them go their own pathways and adapting to their new society.
2. I think it's stayed the same in this novel because everyone has their own opinions about same sex relationships in the book and in real life.
3. if it's an important implant that they need and they don't hve enough money for a proper working one it can make the kid not function the same way. As sci fi said you can put all the peices of a broken mug backk together but it will never work the same. Sci fi says this because he's had bits of a kleptomaniacs brain in him so he conciously likes to steal things whereas before he never used to like stealing.
4. Sci fi needed to get to Joplin to find his real birth mother.
5. It made sure Roland didn't get his way because Connor didn't give him a reaction.
6. I usually don't get angry but If I was to get angry at someone I'd tell them to stop. And if I got angry at a game i'd stop playing it. I usually don't have impulses aswell (outrages)
1. It's a story called humphrey dumphrey. It's basically the same as humpty dumpty fell off the wall etc but except its about unwinding instead of humpty dumpty falling off the wall humphrey dumphrey got all of his body parts taken away from him to give to other people that need them.
2. Human nature is more important than the law because in this book the law is stupid and doesn't fit with all people and plus it's not natural to kill kids and say they're still alive but in divided states they're dead because there brain doesn't function and they're not concious in their own state of mind.
3/4. yes it takes the value of the child away because they'll grow up without their mothers and might feel abandoned or betrayed.
5. The role of a mother is to look after and raise their child that they give birth to and help him/her through their rough times. I think the title of mother should be earned because my answer above tell you why a mother is what a mother is. Your not a mother if you abandon your child.
6. Connor saved risa from the bus so Risa has always secretely liked him as a friend but doesn't trust him straight away. This tells us that Risa is catious of the people she sorrounds herself with. Whereas Connor already trusts her because he saved her life so she probably wouldn't do anything to him or turn on him. They make a good duo becuase they know they need eachother to survive and Risa also has some good survival skills because she grew up in a state home.
7. Lev has had more experience with storked children in a sad way. Levs family got storked but they passed the baby onto another house in their neighbourhood even though it was illegall. The law was 'if you got storked than you have to keep the baby'. But no one in levs community abided by that law becuase they kept passing the baby along and then the baby soon died of hunger. Connor had a slightly different expreience though. He went past a house that had a baby on the doorstep and then the mother came out and accused him of storking. He had to take the baby otherwise she would of called the cops on him and he as already a runaway unwind. But eventually he had to let go of the baby that he and Risa got slightly attatched to.
8. This shows that connor is a kind and caring individual that cares about other people and how he can help them. For example he saved Lev and risa from the middle of the road.
9. All his life he was brainwashed that being unwound was a tithe to the church but then when pastor dan told him to run he soon realised that it wasn't a good thing to be unwound.
10. Hayden was unwound because his family split up and fought over who has custody over him and they couldn't decide so they took the easy and sad option and decided to get him unwound. Roland got unwound because his stepdad abused his mother so he abused his stepdad. Mai got unwound because her parents kept having girls and wanted a boy so she got unwound alongside some of her siblings aswell. The most tragic backstory in my opinion is Haydens unwind story becuase her parents are fighting over Hayden like little kids fighting over a toy car and they decided to both unwind him. like little kids would rather none of them get the car than the other.
11. Roland has a tattoo of a shark on his forearm.
our wind racers got 10 meters at the end in the time of 7 seconds so our wind racer went at the speed of 1.4 meters per second. I was in a group of three. Zapa, Campbell and me.
1. What is the song about? His expreience and overview on racism and how he expresses those feelings.
2. Who is Sam Cooke? He was an african american singer/songwriter that was born in Clarksdale Mississippi U.S.
3. What do you think of the story? I think that it's sad.
Aim: To make your wind racer go the furthest.
Equipment: Newspaper, Cardboard, tape, bamboo stick, metal rod, string
Method: tape the newspaper or cardboard (whatever material your using) to the base trolley and the metal rod with string and tape.
Who wrote the song? Common and John legend.
\What is the songs purpose? Legend and John Legend sang this song to close out the grammy awards in 2015. I wanted something that tied the spirit of Selma with what was happening in the streets at the time we were writing," he concluded, "which was people protesting in Missouri and eventually New York about injustice and police brutality."
What did you take from the song? I learnt a new singer called common and foud out hes a good artist.
Discounts make things cheaper. They are a win win for the buyers and the providers because the providers make more sales and the buyers get a better deal. for example if these shoes were $100 but there was a 25 percent sale off that pair of shoes the shoes will be $75
1. How much brainwashing do you think has happened for teenagers to make this sort claim as they're being led to their "death"? If you've seen it and it happens around you. Also being unwound is normalised in society in the novel because they brainwash the kids aged 13-18 that being unwound isn't dying it's just living in a divided state.
2. Why do you think shutersman has chosen three characters to tell their story? So it can show different perspectives from all of the kids and cops etc. For example Connor didn't want to be unwound because he knows hes basically dying but Lev did because in his culture they call and look at it differently. They call it a tithe and believe that nothings wrong with it. Lev also was thinking on the way of getting unwound (or his tithing) that he was the chosen one and his time has come, like he was hyping himself up before a sports match or a running race.
3. Lev is a tithe. This means that he is 10% offering to their church, what are your thoughts on this? I just think it's just another way of making unwindings okay or normalised.
4. Rita is a state home kid - she was unwanted at birth, and how have the state decided she is no longer useful, do you think that the state should be able to tell if ones life is useful or not at birth? The state can't full on predict but they can have an educated guess or assumtion because the state of their upbringing and living conditions as they grow up.
5. Connors parents have chosen to unwind him due to his difficult behaviour. They have then booked a ticket to the Bahamas. In your opinion, how do parents view their children? Why do you think this? They view their children from day one and figure out how they behave, well that was the case with Connor. They judge their kids from the day they we're born to fugure if they should unwind their kid or not. They could keep the kid because he/she is smart and well behaved or could unwind the kid because he gets into fights and has bad grades or simply just badly behaved.
6. Pastor dan presents as being conflicted. What journeys might he have to encourage Lev during his journey as a tithe? Why does he encourage him to run? He encouraged him because he knew being a tithe was a hard thing to do or commit to, even though he had no choice. He told him to run because he had te opportunity and it would of been the better option to get out of being s tithe and run away.
How did music affect the civil rights movement?
In the 1950s and 1960s African Americans wanted and were fighting to have the same rights as white people. They wanted to be able to eat in the same places, use the same buses, use the same restrooms, use the same water fountains, and wanted to opportunity to vote without have taxes and reading tests.
Why was music such a powerful force? Because it got their point across in a fancy and emotional way and people can connect to music easier than speeches and some of the verses are repetetive to drill their point in.
