Reflection section

Title: My Mahi

Text type: Text

Creator; Jeff King  

The purpose of this text: To Inform and Educate readers of this site 

Date:  26, February, 2021 

Who would be interested in this: This might catch the interest of those such as students and teachers

This week in wananga we learned about my Mahi, this site is where we can track our points about NCEA this site also gives assistance on what possible job to find. We did a career test to see what kind of career or course we could do in the future this also sets a template for a CV with set questions to make the process of creating a CV a lot easier. There are a bunch of articles under news feed and goal settings to track your goals and progress of them. 

Badly injured surfer saved on remote Auckland beach  after writing "HELP" in the sand   

This text is about alone surfer that lost his surf board in a wave he was stranded at karekare beach in Auckland. He wrote "HELP" in the sand A surf life saving woman said that he was servery injured unable to walk. 

 

Art

 For art we were asked to draw a item our teacher put in front of us, this was for her to see how comfortable we are with her seeing us draw and for her to see how well we draw. we then had to draw a few items put together we took a photo and this is called a still life, We have been learning to use tone and shading in our drawings   

Here is my still life and another drawing we were asked to do 

the drawing on the left bottom corner is my still life and the drawing that takes up most the page is a telephone of which we were asked to draw  

Slave triangle

The spirituals were used to send a message to help the slaves escape without the English knowing they also used it for motivation to keep working. They were a way for slaves to express there feeling as they we also passed down from generations . 

Wade in the water. Wade in the water was used as a message telling the slaves to wade in the water so the dogs couldn't track them.

Wade in the water  
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in red
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite
Oh, God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water is another way of saying walk on the water indicating getting off the ship into the water  because as stated earlier going through the water make it so the dogs can't track them. 

Harriet Tubman was a slave that escaped only to find that her husband had left her for another woman. Harriet help may other slaves escape, she conducted underground railroads from south american to Canada. It was her who told the slaves to wade in the water  

Reflection section

 Self-identity 

Text type : Text

Creator: Mark Mason

Text purpose: Informing us of the two minds

Date: 19th of February 2021

What is this text about Mark Mason and his research of the thinking and observing mind, He speaks of mind chatter and meditation.

English - Introduction to Creative writing

 For English, we have been set a range of tasks to complete one of which was writing a paragraph without the use of saw, taste, felt, and hear.  

 The sent of seawater lingered through the air, The water crashed onto the surface and retreated back out to sea as the sand absorbed the last of the water. As I witnessed the sunshine and shimmer on the light blue ocean the seagulls squirmed and squealed to each other fighting over the few bits of food they could find, the sand pushed against me with the guidance of a gush of wind. An elegant rush of flavor hit my mouth.

A Simile is a figure of speech that compares two things also highlights the similarity between two things using words such as like or as.  

The sky is as blue as the ocean and the clouds are like waves.   

A Metaphor creates an implicit comparison.

A Metaphor you may hear quite often maybe There are more fish in the sea. 

Language Features 

We were asked to pick 3 out of 5 words and find the definition and an example for each 

Summer

The sun burns brightly

It is quite spectacular

And very shiny

Winter

Ice clings to the tree

Footprints engraved in the snow 

Snowmen linger on each street

Autumn

It's the time of year

As all leaf scatter around

creating piles

Spring

The flowers blooming

smell of pollen in the air

colour in the area

Slam poetry

 I don't have a favorite poem. These poets didn't excite or interest me. I feel like they could be better with maybe an added beat or just something to make them more interesting something to hook listeners.

Physical or chemical change

Today in science we did a experiment on zinc oxide  

 I think there will be possibly be sparks because of the reaction of heat to chemicals. It could turn yellow. 

1. Sample of zno - zinc oxide 
2. Heat source - heat plate
3. Scales
4. Heat proof container 
5. Tongs
6. Heat proof mat 

Get sample of zno in an evaporating dish 

Weigh the zno + container - record weigh 

Heat container + zno on hot plate

Observe any changes - use phone for before and after photos or video 

Take off heat and put on heat proof mat

Let cool - observe - photos

Reweigh 

Conclusion: 

it turned slightly yellow once put on heat plate and left there for a while, after a while the colour went back to white there for the change was physical. after we put the zno in the evaporating dish we the weighed it, which weighed 37 once we took it off the heat plate we weighed it again which hadn't changed and still weighs 37