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.

Reflection Section

Text title: Police name man killed in rafting incident near Queenstown

Text type: Article

Text Creator: Jonathan Guildford

Date: November 24, 2021

Critical literacy question: What does this author want us to know?

The author wants us to know that there is someone who died near Lake Wakatipu, his name is Stephen Andrew who is 30 years old. This text wants to tell us that don't raft on the river or just when you raft don't be in a hurry because your life was into it. Also, let us know that the incident on the Cales River and the accident about 1pm on Monday.

Summary: 

A Queenstown man has died in a rafting incident on the Caples River near Lake Wakatipu. Stephen Andrew Bowler, 30 years old, died in the accident about 1pm on Monday, a police spokeswoman said. "Bowler was with group rafting on the river inflatable pack rafts". Police were continuing to make inquiries in relation to his death on behalf of the coroner, she said. 

As a mark of respect, Ngi Tahu has put a rahui (a temporary closure) on the Caples River, including the stretch of river mouth where it meets Lake Wakatipu, until Tuesday, "Police extend their sympathies to Bowler family and friends, The coroner will release their finding in due course," the police spokeswoman said.

Reflection section

Text Title: 16 years old dead after shooting in Christchurch

Text Type: Article

Text Creator: Sam Sherwood and Jonathan Guildford

Date: Nov 06 2021

Critical Literacy Question: What does the author of this text want us to know

To know about what's happening and getting awarded of people who you hang out with and just stay inside the house when it's night.

Summary:

A teenager killed in a shooting in Christchurch overnight was an innocent bystander who had been watching fireworks with friends while attending a 15th birthday party. 

Connor Whitehead, 16, died after he was shot on Friday night while attending a party on Heaphy Place, in the suburb of Casebrook. The gunman remains on the run.

His father, James Whitehead, told staff on Saturday that his son was enjoying himself with friends ''making the most of the time with his boys'', at a girl's party.

There was a commotion outside the party, but Connor wasn't aware of what was going on, he was outside getting some air. The next thing his mates saw was people crowding around him and he was on the ground.

Connor wasn't involved in whatever was going on outside the party, he hadn't even interacted with the person responsible.

The 16-year old Burnside High school student messaged his father earlier in the day while he was at work to ask if he could go to a party and stay the night at a friend.

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Speed of light

 

300,000,000 M/S

0.006 Sec

Investigating the laws of reflection

Equiptment: 

• Mirror 
• Light box
• Power supply

Aim: To investigate how light behaves when it hits a plane (flat) mirror.

Method: 

1. Collect a ray box, power supply and single-slit ray side from your teacher, and set them up to produce a single beam of light.

2. Place a plane mirror on the diagram of the protractor as described below.

3. Vary the angle of incidence and record the angle of reflection in the result table.

Result

Angle of Incidence	Angle of Reflection
0°	0°
10°	20°
20°	30°
30°	40°
40°	50°
50°	60°
60°	70°
70°	70°
80°	80°

 

Gymnastics

 Today  my focus is  Frontflip

Before We've been doing gymnastics I was scared to turn my body down and like backflip and frontflip, because Im too fat that's why I can do backflip or frontflip. So it was first class in P.E in our gymnastics. First I was just watching my friend backflipping and front flipping on the mini-tramp. Suddenly my friend name Kush told me to try on the mini-tramp, I was so scared and nervous because I don't know when I jump what gonna happened to me like gonna break my bones or like break my back. But when I try it once I didn't expect that I'm gonna do it nothing gonna hurt my body. I frontflip not perfect but at least I try it and not scared to do it.

Aim Next Year gymnastics P.E

Next year I choose P.E because it helps my body fit and exercise, So I decide next year on gymnastics I can frontflip standing, because not I can frontflip but I can't stand back, so that's my aim next year is to frontflip standing.

My activities from today:

1. Trampoline
2. Mini tramp
3. Beem

Here is a video of me practising a frontflip

Your Body

 " From Happy Healthy Minds (The School of Life, 2020) 

Reading for Useful Ideas: Your Body

Your Body and Your Brain

Read the text, then complete the following sentences with the appropriate words. 

influence thoughts and feelings irritable work body mood brain school tell dehydrated feel why bad

Your brain is where your thoughts and feelings happen. A person’s mood changes because of what is happening in the rest of their Body. Lots of things about our bodies can influence our moods. Being too hot and thirsty on a day with northwest winds can make us Dehydrated. What is happening in your Mind depends on the state of your body. The problem is that brains don’t tell us when and they are getting in a bad mood. It doesn't say to you, “Hey I’m a brain, so I’m about irritable  my school and that  work is unfair and horrible.” 

Select the correct answer

1. If something is going wrong in your body it can make you feel

1. annoyed

2. Irritated 

3. that everything is too difficult

4. All of the above

2. A tricky point about our brains is that they don’t 

1. Like our bodies much

2. Like it when we drink too much water and eat good food

3. Tell us when and why they getting in a bad mood

4.  Play tricks on us

3. Our bodies have a habit of not telling us how much they play with

1. Our minds

2. Our food

3. Our sleep

4. Our friends

4. The next time you feel irritated with your parents or annoyed with your friend, ask yourself (list the four suggestions from the text)

1. Do I need to…

2. Did I get …

3. Should I stop....

4. Have I…

5. Our brains function well when we have

1. A minimum of 6 hours of screen time per day

2. Lollies three times per day or after every meal

3. Eight hours of sleep per night and exercise during the day

4. Few new ideas

I don’t like how I look

Read the text and write a brief answer to the question.

1. According to the text, why do we worry about how we look?  Because some people don’t like there look cause people saying that there are so ugly.

Highlight the correct answer

2. A useful way to deal with ‘worrying about appearance’ is to consider the idea

1. You are what you eat

2. Your body is not you

3. Your body is a temple

4. There more to you than meets the eye

3. What is meant by the term ‘soul’ in the text?

1. An organ in your body

2. The bottom of your shoe

3. Personality, thoughts and feelings

4. Your way of being you

4. In the past, a big distinction was made between the body and the 

1. Soul

2. Sole

3. Mind

4. Heart

5. Write an answer to the question: What is the message about the body and soul in the two paintings on p112.   A person’s soul can be nice even if they have a bit of a funny nose

Extension: 

Our media places a great emphasis on appearances and we learn that we are judged too often by our appearances. Use the table below to consider The text offers two options on how to deal with ‘worrying about appearances’ I have added a third option.

Options for ‘not worrying about your appearance’	Useful?	Not useful?	Healthy or Not?
Plastic surgery- medical change		Not useful
New Idea- Your body is not you	Useful
Physical exercise- change your body shape	Useful		Healthy
Another suggestion?	nope

Electricity

Static Electricity

A build-up of electrical charges on an object

Current Electricity

A flow of electric charge.

Electrical Charge

electrical particles that are negatively charged

Circuit

A system that provides a pathway for electrical current to flow through

Cell

Supplies energy to a circuit, by pushing current from the positive to the negative end

Voltmeter

A device used to measure voltage, or electrical potential energy difference

Ammeter

A device used to measure current in a circuit

Wire

a thin, flexible thread of metal

Resistor

An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

Bulb

In a circuit, this shows if electricity is flowing by lighting up

Switch

a device that opens or closes a circuit

Battery

A device that converts chemical energy to electrical energy

1- Fill in the table

	Static electricity	Current electricity
What is it caused by?	The imbalance between negative and positive charges in an object	An atom usually has the same number of protons  (which have a positive charge) and electrons (which have a negative charge)
Do the negative charges move?	Negative charges can move freely from one object to another	An electric circuit is caused by the movement of the charges through the conductors of the circuit.
Does it power appliances?	Electricity usage monitor that tells you exactly how many kWh a device or appliance is drawing.	If the electricity provided is desired to do work, the load/appliance can be placed at the middle of the electric circuit

2- What are some examples of static electricity:

1. If you rub your shoe on the carpet, your body collects extra electrons

2. When you touch the playground your body get static electricity.

3. Walking across the carpet and touching a metal door handle and pulling your hat off and having your hair stand on end.

4. When you jump on the trampoline get electricity static.

Write up for a Van der Graaff experiment:

How does the Van der Graaff machine work?

A Van de Graaff generator pulls electrons from the Earth, moves them along a belt and stores them on the large sphere. These electrons repel each other and try to get as far away from each other as possible, spreading out on the surface of the sphere.

What was one of the experiments they did with the machine?

Is when they hold there hands on the machine and the machine is turning on and the static is all in there body.

Describe what happened, what did you see?

I see when my friend standing there holding the machine and the static was all in there body and their hair was standing up because of the electricity coming on their body.

Why did you see this happen?

Because my friend wanna try it and There hair went up because of the electricity going in there body and the static. I saw the teacher holding the small machine ball and he touches it to the big machine and it static and there is like a static light and the sound is loud.

Explain how lightning happens linking  to the ideas of static electricity

Often lightning occurs between clouds or inside a cloud. As the storm moves over the ground, the strong negative charge in the cloud attracts positive charges in the ground. These positives charges move up into the tallest objects like trees, telephone poles and houses.

Bullying at school

Why do bullies behave badly? Because they don't like that person and they don't want them in school because of life or something like he's better than us at maths or other subjects.

What are bullies hiding when they pretend they don’t care? They say that they were not bullying him and people who watch are bystanders who just look at them and not standing for them and not taking action.


What is important to keep in mind the next time you meet a bully? Don’t be scared of them if they say mean things, call the teacher and stand by yourself and don't get scared of them and don't get hurt.

 

5 Leadership Style

Eye Dissection

 Aim: To dissect a cow's eye and look at the different parts of the eye.

Equiptment: 

1.  A Cow's eye

2.  Tray

3.  Tweezers

4.  Scissors

5.  Newspaper

6.  Gloves

Method:

1. Set up a tray with newspaper on the desk, the tray on top and the scissors and tweezers in the tray.

2. Put on a rubber glove.

3. Start to remove the excess fat and meat from around the eyeball before dissecting it.

4. Puncture a hole in the corner where the cornea and the sclera meet.

5. Cut around the cornea so that the vitreous fluid leaks out of the eye onto the tray.

6. Once the cornea has been totally removed you will be able to remove the lens from the iris.

7. Cut the eye in half so that the inside is totally exposed. Once this has been done you will be able to access the retina at the back of the eye.

8. You should now have placed the retina, lens, cornea and iris on a place of paper.

9. The dissection is now completed and all parts of the eye need to be wrapped up and trashed. The trays and utensils that were needed must be rinsed and the rubber gloves throw out.

Summary:

The cow's eye has exactly the same parts as the human eye except for its ability to see better in the dark.