Year 10 Writing Porfulio

Today we are linking all our work and assessment for this year in English, we have to put it in our blog and edit it so that when people gonna see my blog post they can read it properly. Adding my favourite writing work in a blog post. I can see my improvement in writing skills when it's my first assessment and my last assessment.

English Assignment -Film

In the past few weeks, our English teacher wants to make a short film, We have to be in a 4 group, I was with my friend Khush, Kaedun, Bryce. We made a film using film techniques, it's based on the merchant of Venice.  Our short film is about  2 friends finding treasure and enemy following at the end of the movie, 1 of the 2 friends were betraying about the treasure, and the enemy and the other friend will be a friend because his other friend betrayed him for just the treasure. 

3. How is this a 're-telling of The Merchant of Venice? We use betrayal in the movies,1 of the Merchant of Venice story they used betrayal and karma.

4. What 2 additional film techniques did you use? What were the intended effects of these? We didn't use any additional film techniques

5. What were some challenges you encountered while doing this project? What learnings did you gain from this challenge?  I found challenges that you really have to try your best when doing filming because if you ruin the film and we have to film again and that's not good for your team. I learn by working with groups in film and how we work together as a team. 

6. What would you do differently next time if you were to do this project again? Maybe next time we will include film shots because we were too busy filming and forgot to put the list of film shots we need in the movie.

Narrative scene story -English

 

He emerges from his wildfire house and watches the flames consume it; the shock of losing his home cause him to reflect on what truly happened. The fire is all over around his house. He can’t go inside the house and get the things that he needed. If he goes back inside the house and gets the things he needs, he dies and burns himself.

He rapidly got his phone call from the fire station. He can feel his face burning and hands that never get rid of it. He said to himself that ‘’lucky there is no house besides in my house because if there, the fire will spread out into another home, it will get worst.

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While he was standing and looking at the fire burning his house. He thinks about her things inside the home that he spends a lot of money on it, like a computer, Refrigerator, Coach, Tv and more other things. He feels disappointed and shameless himself about how the fire causes. His eyes were full of tears and anger.

The fire truck arrives at the location. Fireman asks him how does the fire causes because the fire is big and it’s all over the house. The guy said ‘’I leave the oven to turn on while I was cooking a scrambled egg. I went to the bathroom then came back to the fire all over the kitchen. I have to run to the door and get out’’. It says it takes more than 20 minutes to get rid of the fire. He went back to the house. Things are burned and turn black.

He said to himself, ‘’Lucky I put my credit card and my phone in my pocket before. I  left the house. I still have money, but not enough to buy a new home and buy things for my home. So he decided to withdraw all the money in his bank account and rent a house. The guy who lost a home because of the fire was fast, runs like a cheetah who hunts gazelles for food.

Setting Activity 1 [English

Hello guys, For this blog we have to make our own story with 3 paragraph, opening descriptions that show the reader when and where the action is taking place. We can choose the list of the slide or we can make our own story

A scary creepy haunted house where lots of people accidentally throw their thing in that creepy house and they are very scared to get the thing because there is the owner of the creepy house who is very angry if someone climbs out of the fence and gets there a thing that accidentally throws. The owner of the house has very dirty teeth that have 30 days never toothbrush, His T-shirt never been change and the smell of him like died rats who never been thrown for weeks. When I played with my friend and suddenly my friend's ball accidentally went on the Scary haunted house where there was a lot of things that have never been taken out. I decided to go there with no permission from the owner of the house. When I climb on the fence and go to the backyard there was a noise coming from inside the house. I decided to get the ball faster before the owner gonna known that I was in his backyard. Suddenly I step like a trap where the owner knew that I was there in his backyard. The owner opens the door and He brings like a troop and knife, I run faster and get out of the trap and climb back to the fence, I said to my self 'Im so lucky he didn't get me'. The owner said never ever come back and climb to his backyard if there are gonna climb on the backyard next time he will put like a lot of trap where they can't run away from him.

Writing Our Own Narrative Opening [English

Hello, guys Welcome to another post on my blog today we are choosing three pictures in the slide then explaining what happened in the picture and what can we see in the picture. using Narrative writing. I hope you like it.

He escapes from his burning house and then watches the flames consume it. The Shock of losing his house cause her to reflect on what truly happened about why does the house build fire. He thinks about all the things inside his house like phone, money, pets. and he feels very sad. He thinks about how he can get help to get rid of the fire.

The relationship between these 2 guys is toxic they decided to break up than continue the toxic relationship they always have a fight and doesn't have time together because busy working and hanging out with friends. They talk to a quiet place where there is no people and just two of them.

The woman stealing in a grocery store where lots of people usually in the grocery store buying food. The woman doesn't notice that even she steals food, the CCTV can see her.  The food that she still doesn't even fit in her bag that she brings. Looking for people if people looking for her.

Show don't tell

Hi guys, We are starting a new topic, For English. We have to move on to Creative writing and do the new topic. Im gonna start the first task we need to do. We are doing Narrative writing and the first task is we have to make our own show don't tell its like narrative words.

The Task Is:

What do you think “show don’t tell” means?

How can we re-write these sentences to “show” and not “tell”?

The buildings were tall.
Sarah was really upset.
She was so happy to see him.
The lake was beautiful.

 

1. I cant see the sun because the big concrete blocks blinded my view
 2. Sarah staying silent, sitting on the bed, Her eyes full of tears and anger

3.Sarah eyes full of Jovial and she is very excited, her smile like she won a Million Dollars
4.The pound was beautiful like flowers, the bird singing up in the tree.

 

Try this on your own now, and post it to your blog.

My Own:

Mark was really shy

Tony was very sad

He was very excited to see her

The dog is very cute

Slam Poetry

Welcome to another post on my blog. Today, I completed another activity for the Creative Writing unit in English. This activity is about Slam Poetry. What we had to do was watch three or more videos of the previous New Zealand Slam Poetry champions. 

THIS IS THE TASK:

1. Which was your favourite performance? Why?

2. Write two thoughtful opinions about your favourite piece and support these opinions with specific evidence (quotes) from the text (at least 2) in your discussion.

3. Extension: Write your own slam poem

All of the videos I watch the Only videos I like is from Sam Strokes, He talks About NewZealand and the Maori tribe, He also talks about World War 1 back ages. World War 1, how New Zealand bled for their spot in the world, "between the Aegean and the Black Sea we made an ally out of an old enemy this nation bled for its place in the world willingly as the Turk baptised in fire". He also talks about the 2010 and 2011 earthquake in Christchurch. He talks about Great-grandparents who died on the beaches of Gallipoli against machine guns.

Sensory Language

Welcome to another post on my blog, Today, I complete another activity fro the Creative Writing unit for English. This fourth activity is Sensory Langauge, I had to make my own sentence using the words see, smell, taste, feel.

Sensory Langauge

It was a Hot Sunny day,  The sun so bright like a Gold and Diamond, The bird singing up the tree and it was a quiet place where you can sit and chill. The view is colourful with lots of trees, you can see the mountain. The water is very clear like air. I feel the freshness of the air. The water is very cold like a block of frozen ice. The flowers are crystal clear and smell like perfume.

Haiku Poem

 Welcome to my blog, I am going to post about what I complete from the activity for the Creative Writing unit for English, This third activity was about Haiku Poems We had to create a Canva or other to give an example of a Haiku poem and whats the definition.

Metaphors & Similes

 This is my second task so I will be given the meaning of the words and example of it like how to use that word in the sentence or short sentence. 

Languages Features

We have been doing a task that we can choose what task we are going to do first and then after we have finished that task we have to post it in our blog so that our teacher can see it. 

Workshop 3 How do ‘Lighting & Colour’ enhance the story? English

Keywords-Atmosphere/mood
How we feel watching the scene


Lighting and colour

Warm-makes feel comfortable, safe, welcoming.
Cold- feels sterile, clean,futunistic,technological.

Bright- feels more lively, energised, vibrant.
Dull- feel calm, quiet, boring, old.

Natural- sources are sun/moon, feels like real life
Artificial- Man-made sources, feel unnatural.

Pallette- The colours used in that shot e.g nature palette will have colours found in nature like browns/greens.

 The scene where August cries to his mum about looking different.

- They don't even talk to me 
- My face is ugly
- Is it always going to matter

- Auggie mum goes into his room to check on him, He tells her others make fun of him and she reassures him
- Theme - the importance of friend and family

Shots/Angle - 
- close up used to show Auggie emotions
- Over the shoulder when mum speaks to show conversation from Auggie points of view.

Lighting/Colour

-Warm dark colours
-This is a safe and comfortable space for Auggie to cry
-Dull colours - sad, lonely, sympathetic, calm quiet
- Natural light - is night-time.


Effect on the viewer

-Sympathetic. sad, sorry, lonely, depressed, miserable, downhearted, forlorn


Directors Purpose →

Emphasises the sadness of the moment and the importance of Auggies relationship with his family.


Co-Construct our SEXXXY paragraph

In the scene where Auggie cries to his mother about being bullied, colour and lighting are used to create an atmosphere of sympathy. We see this through the use of warm and dull colours in the shot.
These make the space feel safe and comfortable for Auggie to express his emotions. This makes us understand how Auggie is feeling, miserable, oppressed and depressed because he looks different from his peers. He asks his mum, 'will it always matters' which is a feeling most in the audience can relate too. This was done to show the theme, the importance of friendship and family, because Auggie learns resilience by talking issues through his mum. Combine with this is the use of close-up shots to shows the emotions and tears on Auggie face.  The viewer of a moment later in the story where Auggie is upset because his sister Via doesn't want him to go to her play. Just like this scene, Auggie runs to his room upset and a member of his family comes to rescue him.