Apartheid

In week 9 of term 2, my English class has been focusing on the "Apartheid", which happened in South Africa. This slideshow contains information about Apartheid.

The Context of Shakespearean Drama

In Shakespeare's time (1564-1616), at the age of 25, William Shakespeare both wrote and performed his first plays in 1590 and 1591. He displayed Early Modern English in his scripts and performances, and continued to implement Early Modern English into Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare was known for displaying "The Renaissance" into theatre to portray his beliefs. His plays were performed in multiple different areas such as theatres, playhouses, outdoor venues and to Queen Elizabeth I at the royal palace. The plays were always performed in broad daylight or normal indoor lighting, and the audience were known for being either wealthy or poor working people. For those with less money would stand in the pit and were known as "groundlings". If the play wasn't up to their standard or expectation, they'd heckle and throw rotten fruit. But for people more wealthier, they had the option to buy cushions or pay for better seating. They could either buy tiered seating or seating allocated on the stage itself. 

Not only did William Shakespeare perform to Queen Elizabeth I, but majority of his earlier plays, especially the "historical plays", were written about the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth I in great light, but never about Elizabeth specifically. Every play he wrote was known for having five acts and several scenes. He never divided his work into acts and scenes deliberately, it's like he'd done it without thinking. After displaying the Renaissance into his work to portray his personal beliefs, people came up with new ideas and started to question these beliefs. Such as questioning the logic of settling every dispute with a sword in Romeo and Juliet because of the senseless cycle of violence, or questioning if their thoughts were predetermined by God or not. It was known for being a time of change.

English 2024

 This term in English we are focusing on Star Crossed Lovers. The first topic is Romeo and Juliet. Here is my slideshow on some of the work we are doing this term relating to our topic chosen.

NPDL W9

This term (term 4) all the year 10s are working on a project. My group consists of Me, Jeana, Jordan, Eauncee, Summer and Winter. We are focusing on electricity and how we can change it for both our community and school.

We have based ours on both radiators and heat pumps and our main question for our project is "How sustainable are heat pumps for our college instead of radiators?"

What have you achieved/learned since your last post?

We all worked as a group and managed to complete our final science board and have it displayed for final presentation yesterday (Wednesday 6th of December)

How effectively have you used your time - in class?

I think both me and my group have contributed and have completed the same amount of work.

How have you contributed to your groups progress?

I have been helping out my group and filling out the weekly group planner. 

Something going well in our group?

Working collaboratively together and getting the work completed within the week we are given. We have been working more faster this week as we have to have it completed in a shorter time frame.

Something not working well?

Only thing that isn't working well is that not everybody is present all in one day. So the work they need to do individually isn't always complete. (and we are also now missing a member of our group)

This is our last week of NPDL. We have all had a good time and worked well together collaboratively. It took us about 3-4 weeks to make and finish this project and we are all happy with the outcome. It was a good experience.

NPDL W8

  This term (term 4) all the year 10s are working on a project. My group consists of Me, Jeana, Jordan, Eauncee, Summer and Winter. We are focusing on electricity and how we can change it for both our community and school.

We have based ours on both radiators and heat pumps and our main question for our project is "How sustainable are heat pumps for our college instead of radiators?"

What have you achieved/learned since your last post?

We have put all ideas on both scrap paper and our final presentation board. We are now decorating our final presentation so its ready to present by next Wednesday.

How effectively have you used your time - in class?

I think both me and my group have contributed and have completed the same amount of work.

How have you contributed to your groups progress?

I have been helping out my group and filling out the weekly group planner. Alongside with that I have been getting the presentation itself ready.

Something going well in our group?

Working collaboratively together and getting the work completed within the week we are given. We have been working more faster this week as we have to have it completed in a shorter time frame.

Something not working well?

Only thing that isn't working well is that not everybody is present all in one day. So the work they need to do individually isn't always complete. (and we are also now missing a member of our group)

NPDL W7

 This term (term 4) all the year 10s are working on a project. My group consists of Me, Jeana, Jordan, Eauncee, Summer and Winter. We are focusing on electricity and how we can change it for both our community and school.

We have based ours on both radiators and heat pumps and our main question for our project is "How sustainable are heat pumps for our college instead of radiators?"

What have you achieved/learned since your last post?

I have been able to interview both Collin and Ian with the rest of my group. Alongside with that, we have also started putting a slideshow together about radiators.

How effectively have you used your time - in class?

I think the time was used very effectively.

How have you contributed to your groups progress?

I have been putting quotes down from Brent into a document to use for our actual project.

Something going well in our group?

Working collaboratively together and getting the work completed within the week we are given.

Something not working well?

Only thing that isn't working well is that not everybody is present all in one day. So the work they need to do individually isn't always complete.

NPDL W6

 This term (term 4) all the year 10s are working on a project. My group consists of Me, Jeana, Jordan, Eauncee, Summer and Winter. We are focusing on electricity and how we can change it for both our community and school.

We have based ours on both radiators and heat pumps and our main question for our project is "How sustainable are heat pumps for our college instead of radiators?"

How effectively have you used your time this week?

I think both me and my group have achieved very much this week as we all stayed focused.

How have you contributed to your groups progress?

I have come up with multiple questions to ask Ian, Collin and Brent. With the answers they came back to the questions, I wrote them down.

Something that is working well in our group?

We are all participating and taking a even share.

Where could you help with this?

Listening to eachothers advice.

What are the next steps for our project?

Since we have already finished interviewing everyone we can start planning the project on cardboard.

All Blacks and NZ Silver Ferns (SLJ)

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (SLJ)

Five new words (SLJ)

My Pepeha (SLJ)

Kia ora tātou

(Greetings all)

Ko Tararua te maunga (mountain)

Ko Ōtaki River te awa (river/water)

Nō Ōtaki/New Zealand ahau (town/city/country)

Ko Jessica tōku ingoa (first name)

NZ Singer Lorde (SLJ)

Homophones

This is a slideshow of Homophones, I hope this helps you learn what Homophones are!

Rotorua Trip

Rotorua Trip

On Saturday the 26th of October I went to Rotorua with my Dad and his partner Nikki. The trip was meant to take 4 hours 45 minutes from Otaki to Rotorua. It actually took around 5 hours and 42 minutes because we had a few places we stopped to get food at. About 2 hours in we stopped to get a hot chocolate and coffees. Then about 3 hours an 30 minutes in we stopped at Mc Donald's for lunch.

We decided to not take anymore breaks unless we had to stop to go to the bathroom or to get more fuel. After getting fuel and going to the bathroom we took no more stops and then arrived to the Air BnB. My Dad, me and his partner Nikki put our stuff into the bedrooms we were staying in. We were waiting for some people that were staying with us, the people we waited for were Cody, Cassidy and there Mum Hades.

Cody is I think 9 or 10, Cassidy is 12. (Don't know there mum's age) Carus is Cody and Cassidy's older sister, she didn't come. My brother Kyle was going to come but he was busy having to work at New World quite late.

They finally arrived but we didn't do anything because they arrived to late to do anything that day. The next day on Sunday all of us went to a place called Rainbow Springs, I have never actually gone there before so I didn't know what to expect. Cassidy and Cody have gone before though so they told me there is a ride. I went on the ride about 15 times and then everybody else wanted to go to the bird show at 2:30 PM and to go see the Kiwi's.

We finished doing everything and since I was only there for 2 and a half days we could only do one thing. (specially because it takes ages to get home and back) Even though we did just one thing it was really fun!

Plans for weekend

Rotorua

On Saturday, the 26th of October i'm going to Rotorua starting from Saturday to Monday. I'm going to Wellington Airport with my Dad, his partner Nikki and my brother. We are picking up people that live in Auckland that are travelling in a plane to Wellington. The annoying thing is it takes 5 hours and 43 minutes to go from Wellington to Rotorua.

The people we are picking up are Cassidy, Cody, Carus and there Mum Hades. Cassidy is 12, Cody is 9 or 10 and Carus is 14 or 15. (I don't know there mums age)

I hope when I go to Rotorua we either go to the mud pools the luge or a glow worm cage.

I can wait to go tomorrow!