Doppelganger Questions

Harlem, CJ and I read a book called Doppelganger. This book is about a boy who goes on a cruise ship and sees a doppelganger of himself. If you want to know what the word doppelganger means you can watch this video of me answering questions that my group made using the information from this book.

World E-Book Day

Today is world e-book day and to celebrate I read an e-book called okay for now. This book is about a boy named Doug Swieteck who is a baseballer who got a baseball cap from Joe Pepitone that was signed on the inside of his cap so nobody could even see that it was truly Joe's hat in the first place. If you want to see what other turn of events happen in this book you can find this book in the tamaki college overdrive library which is home to many books and you are sure to find what you are looking for.

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Fantasy conventions: The princess bride

This week we have been doing a film study on the movie Princess Bride and we learnt a lot of things about how movies are made and the different aspects of movies but I decided to make a DLO on fantasy conventions which is a rule that most fantasy movies follow and it is what makes a fantasy movie, a fantasy movie.

Tamaki Overdrive

This is a book about a cat and he is watching the thunder clan and the river clan fight for land. After a long fought battle the river clan was victorious and the thunder clan retreated. As the river clan went to celebrate there win a grey cat lay there in the field staring at the night sky. A tortoise shell cat emerges and the grey cat asks if there warriors are okay which they were luckily. This is a book I found in the Tamaki overdrive which is Tamaki colleges own online library. We were exploring the new books that tamaki overdrive have and the thing I enjoy about this is that we can read any book that we want without the hassle of visiting the library.

Kate Sheppard

This is a DLO Calvin, Oh Hsen, Eric, Cj and I made about Kate Sheppard who was a New Zealander and was also the leader of the suffragette movement which is when the women protested against the men because they wanted there own say in the election.

Suffragette Movement

This is a DLO Eric, Cj, Calvin, Oh Hsen and I made. It is a short 25 word summary definition of the suffragette movement which is when the women couldn't vote but they wanted there own say so they protested and now women are allowed to vote. We talked a lot when making this DLO to figure out how we could define the suffragette movement in 25 words.

Why myths and legends are important.

A Myth is a legend carried across the ages and they can be altered and told differently, myths are important to keep cultural spirit alive.

This is a 25 word summary that Te Wai and I made to explain why moari myths and legends are important to keep and we did that be working together having learning conversations and we received our information using youtube videos with subtitles and read the information.

Saturnalia - Italy Winter Solstice

This is a DLO Fraidoon and I made about Saturnalia which is a winter solstice celebration in Italy. Countries have these celebrations because it is the marking of a new beginning in there country where they can grow new crops and harvest the grown crops.

Legend of the seven sisters

 This week we have been doing work for Matariki because it is the time of the Matariki celebration. Fraidoon and I made this DLO which has some information about The Legend of the Seven Sisters story which is a maori story about how the seven stars of Matariki came to be.

Winter Solstice animation

 This is an animation Fraidoon and I made about the Winter solstice and how the seasons work. We made this DLO for the Matariki celebration about the seven stars or nine because now they believe that there are 9 sisters. Matariki is around the time of the winter solstice so it is kind of New Zealands winter solstice celebration.

Respecting cultural traditions - Summary

This week is Samoan language week, so for reading we've been learning Samoan traditions. So to help us learn more about the Samoan culture we watched a video that included Mata'afa Elia Autagavia (who gave a speech on Samoan .) Our task was to find the main idea in the video. In the video Mata'afa was talking about how students from schools performed their dances. He said that the students were doing a lot of the actions wrong. This DLO is a summary about the video. We decided to use a summary because it is more easier for us to find the main idea and we've previously used it before. The main idea is: We have to preserve the Samoan culture so people don't lose connections with their roots. It is like a flax because you pull the older leaves out to keep the plant alive. To make this DLO I worked with Daniel and Jeremiah

Current Events

This task is about the ivory trade ban in china I think it's really good because poachers will stop poaching elephants and there factories will have to go out of business. Ivory is the elephants tusks.

Ake word chunk Word Cloud.

  This is a word cloud I made of all the words I know and found out that have the word chunk 'ake' in them. I did this task to learn new words and sentence structure because I also had to construct a simple compound and complex sentence with words from this word chunk.

When I grow up [Fast Facts]

Today for reading we read a book called Growing Up. This book is about a boy who gets in  a little trouble and thinks about what he wants to be on the way. We did an activity called fast facts this activity is where you write down as many things about the story in 2 minutes. You can read this drawing I made for a long but basic summary of the book.

Doppelganger predictions

Here are my predictions for what is going to happen in doppelganger I am doing a novel study on this book

Bias definition

In Ms k reading group we learnt about bias. Bias is when you show one side of the story. You only show one idea of an argument. with musicians they judged people from there gender there used to be only male performers but now they do blind auditions so they don't know

Un - Word wall

To day I did a word wall on un I used the dictionary to get my results and some I just remembered

Fantastic facts, Video games

Today I made a DLO on video games I made another animation

Reading word cline

Today I made a word cline on scared

Auckland coat of arms

I made a DLO on the auckland coat of arms an d the naval newzealand flag