9T English

Here is a  reflection on everything I have learned this year in English.

About me: This was the first thing we did in English this year. We had to write about ourselves talking about our siblings, hobbies and more. We also had to talk about who we admire and of course I wrote about my mum/mom. 

Speeches: This year we had to write a speech. This speech had to be 2 minutes but a lot of us had ones that went over and under the time limit which was fine. We had three topics to chose from school/community problem, someone we admire and determination creates success and I went with a school problem.

Reading responses: It is now term 2 and we have moved on to reading responses we did a novel study and the book we did it about was see ya Simon. Simon a boy who is unable to do things normal human beings can do. That is a little brief of who Simon is. We also did a comic response, we picked one comic and wrote about it, like the main characters and things like that. Our final response was a short story which I don't remember much about.

Film study: In term 3 we had to learn about films and the different ways directors film there shots in movies. We also had to learn why they use that specific shot and how the director wanted the audience to see them as. After learning about all these shots we watched a movie and had to answer these questions about the movie like: what shots did they use, what the director wanted us to see and how the shot works.

Creative writing: Term 4 brought the last task of 9T English, creative writing. This term we have been learning about what verbs, adjectives and all those things are. We wrote creative sentences using verbs and adjectives etc, and whaea Annette had to look and make sure we had all the right things in our writings/sentences. 

Easttle Writing test: At the start of the year we had an easttle writing test, this test was about something but I don't remember lol, but the end of year easttle test was about an environmental problem on the earth. We did that test just last week on Wednesday and had another period to do it on Friday.

Extra: Throughout the year we did different small warm ups such as word brick. For word brick we had to pick one word from a bunch of words and write the definition and a sentence using that specific word. Another little activity we did was SSR ( Silent sustained reading. ) This is were we read short little story's and answer the questions. We finally finished those SSR's today.

That is everything I have learnt and done in 9T English 2021.

Jungle scene writing

Yesterday we had to write a descriptive piece of writing to do with a jungle scene or a photo of the jungle. We wrote two paragraphs and they had to involve at least 1 of each thing: a personification, a noun, alliteration,  a simile, metaphor, powerful adjectives and verbs/adverbs. Today I will  be sharing my story about a jungle scene, it is about a creature/me telling a story about a fog covering my forest... Here it is.

A thick ominous fog had surrounded the forest, spreading like wildfire the animals of the forest had scattered and hide in fear hoping something or someone would figure out what was going on. I’d hear stories about this kind of thing “once every 12 years a fog would surround a forest taking its animals and all living things within the forest” well at least that's what I heard. Others would say it's just a freezing cold storm coming or a day were the sun would shine brighter than it ever has, I didn't believe anything creatures would say since they had a habitat of lying…. A frog as green as the grass jumped towards the fog trying to get out but couldn't, he tried again and again and again but couldn't get out, it was like an invisible barrier stopping creatures from getting out.

A few minutes had past and the fog wouldn't leave it was here to stay. Someone had reached out to me offering a helping hand. This animal, this creature I had never seen opened his hands out to me and helped find out what was going on. We went around asking people how this had got here, they had no idea. If they didn't know what was going on how would we. My supposedly called friend had told me this had happened to his forest but I had so many questions like: how did he escape, where did the fog come from, all these rushing through my mind but i couldn't ask a single one, its like my mind was clouded and full of mysterious, did it have to do with the fog i guess I wouldn't know.“Its black magic”...

6 film shots

 In English we have been learning about film techniques and why they would use that type of shot in the film/movie. We learnt about many types such as: panoramic shot, two person shot, high angle, low angle and lots lots more. Today I have created a poster about 6 film shots and why directors would use this type of shot. Here's my poster about what I have learnt about these six film techniques.

My holiday

Today I am blogging about what I did in the holidays and how they went. It was kinda boring and fun at the same time. W had to make a collage of photos about what we did in the holidays and we had to write a story with 350+ words. Here is my work.

My holiday was interesting, some parts were fun, some parts were boring but I really enjoyed sleeping in and staying up late at night because I never ever get to do that on a school night. On the first Saturday of my holiday I had volleyball practice at 12:00-3:00. I got ready and packed everything I needed but it wasn't much just my shoes and phone. My sister came along to watch  (But between us I really didn't want her to come) for obvious reasons such as embarrassment, annoyance and much more. The drive took 15 minutes however it felt so long. When I arrived 5 people had already arrived but two more people had yet to be seen. We started practicing our bumping and did a game called pepper. It's basically bumping then setting and then spiking and you keep repeating that process until the ball hits the ground. At last the remaining two people arrived and we started doing real training. We practice spiking, serving, setting, blocking and bumping all within the 3 hour time limit we had. When we had 20 minutes left of practice left we decided to have a game. It was 4 on 4 but it was a game of fun and a game to practice what we had learned today. Once the training had ended my legs were aching and I could barely walk, I sat down for a bit and waited for my brother to pick me up and as usual he was late. “  I’m not surprised there “ I said with a sarcastic tone. 10 minutes later he finally picked me up and we heard home. It was my aunt's last day in New Zealand before she went home so we had a family dinner for her. The next day she departed from my house and she went to Auckland to abored her flight so she could go home. I then went back to sleep and it was miraculous because I had a great dream. On the second to last day of my holiday we headed out to Whangarei to find a ball dress for my sister, unfortunately we didn't find anything but we went to McDonalds for dinner and it was great. So my holiday was interesting and full of surprising things.

Balaclava story

We read this story about balaclavas and how a boy stole a balaclava and he felt guilty for stealing it. His mum ended up buying him a balaclava but he didn't know how to tell the boy that he stole his balaclava. So he didn't and the boy thought he had put the balaclava in his jacket but he didn't he put it in Norbets jacket. So we had to find key words in the story and make a word art. So here is mine

See ya Simon scene

 For the past weeks we have been working on a scene from the book see ya Simon and we had to animate it using scratch jr, I did a scene from the cross country event. Here is a scene I recreated in the book see ya Simon. 

The scene is about when Alex Wilson lets go of Simon and he falls down the hill.

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Wordart speech

 Today in English I did a word art about my speech that I will be doing next week. I had to find key words or words I used frequently and put them on word art, I will put a photo at the bottom to show what a word art looks like. The words I put in my word art were bullying, Cyber bullying, Issues and consequences. The app I used was wordart.com so go and check them out. 

About me

Hi my name is Mahuta and I am a student at Bay of Island college, I am a year nine student and 12 years old (turning 13). I like math's and English because there so fun and I also like ESM which is like a environmental thing that we do at school. We walk around school and plant plants so our school can look better and have more food. I have 6 siblings 3 are girls and 3 are boys. I have one cat and he’s a HOHA!!! I am kind of good at math's and I am good at sports. I like sports but not competitively because I play it for fun. I also like sleeping and I’m really good at it. My goals is just to get smarter and to have more fun at school. I’d also like to participate in school events or trips. I’m looking forward to food technology and getting to know more people. I am going to try do more swimming competitions and I want to play volleyball because it’s just such a fun game. My mum is definitely my biggest influencer she helps me with a lot of things and lets me do my own thing   (as long as she's not angry with me.) And that’s me.