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   

Photography

 Over the past 2 terms we have been doing photography, we have been taking photos, creating photo montages drawing thumb nails. we have been getting inspiration from other artiest that have created lots of creative pieces of art. we have been using small solders to create a situation and take a photo of it. 

We have learnt about hannah hoch and slinkachu theses are both artiest that have created a range of amazing pieces of art. 

We had to take a photo and using a Technic of a artist and modify the original photo .

here is mine 

Music Performance

 In music I have enjoyed learning the piano and learning how to play songs. I can only play one so far though.

What was challenging for me during this subject was learning how to play the ukulele, guitar and performing in front of the class  The biggest challenge I faced was singing in front of my class. that was what my group and i decided to do since we both like singing.

I performed with Tehya and the song we sung was (when I look at you by Miley Cyrus). I'm not sure why we decided to sing this but we practised a few times till we were comfortable and could sing in front of each other without feel nervous. So then we would be comfortable singing with each other   

Performing in front of my class made me super nervous, we had the opportunity to not perform but I thought it'd be best to give it a go because i knew if i didn't i'd  be disappointed in myself.

I was actually really disappointed in my performance because my voice was shaky and I know I can do a lot better so I'm not happy with the performance however I am happy I got up and tried.     

Neuroscience & Teenage brain development

 In health we have been working on a discovery project. We had a choice to either work in pairs or by ourselves. I chose to work with a friend Hope, second thing we did wast find a topic we were interested in. The topic we chose was Neuroscience Teenage brain development. 

Once we picked our topic we had to make up 5 questions we wanted to find out and research about them. After that we thought about a way to present our work, We decided to make a news paper with our work on it. we decided to make this because we both thought it'd be something different and new to try.

 Starting it was challenging because we were unsure on how we wanted it to look so we searched up news papers to get a idea of what to do. Once we got through the struggle we managed to successfully make it. 

Here is our news paper 

 

     

Water pollution - Essay

 Water pollution has been a problem for years. We must realise that if we don’t do something about it, it could seriously affect our world even more than it has already. Unfortunately it is and has only been getting worse. 

This serious issue has been caused by rubbish such as plastic bags, plastic bottles, glad wrap, packets and more( being thrown out and ending up in the water, which has and still is harming sea animals) bacteria which sometimes is left in rubbish and ends up contaminating the water  and other toxic things in the ocean, rivers, streams etc. Leaving the water undrinkable, unswimmable and toxic to the environment and humans. 

It is endangering and bringing extinction to sea mammals. Thousands of sea mammals such as sea turtles, seals, seabirds and others die each year from either ingesting or being tangled in plastic, potentially endangering a range of sea life. Water pollution is also causing a massive change in climate, causing global warming which is soon to be the reason for our own defeat/extinction.

To fix this problem people need to be more sustainable. People could do this by buying reusable resources or make stuff out of things that you won’t use again or could possibly be harmful for the environment, the world's population and the world in general. Another way of people being sustainable would be for us to put our rubbish in the bin.   

In Conclusion we can see that this all rounds up to how important sustainability is and how it links to everyday life. We must make a change before it’s too late.  Even small changes such as being more aware of how we are using our resources can help address climate change.

Water pollution facts, types, causes and affects

Pigs heart

Today in Science, Our class dissected a pigs heart.  The equipment we used was Scissors, Scalpel and Tweezers, My group only really used the Scalpel. We looked at the different parts of the heart and where they were. The parts we looked at was the Ventricle, Atrium, Valves, Left & Right side of heart, Arteries and Veins. First thing we had to do was cut open the hart on the left side and analyse it. You could feel how the valve was thicker on the left side then it was on the right, this is because the left side is the side pumping the oxygen around the body that is why  it feels like our heart is on the left or then the right. After we looked at the left side we opened the right. We opened the heart using a scalpel we had to be very careful because it was very sharp.   

We have been learning about the parts of the heart and how they function in the body and in general. 

We dissected a heart to see where the parts are in the heart, which part is which and, study how they work and help our body. 

The parts saw was the left + right side of the heart, Aorta, Heart strings, Valves, Atrium and Ventricles. 

I enjoyed dissecting a pigs heart because it was interesting to see what the parts actually look like and where the parts were.