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Friday, 6 March 2020

English - Creative Writing

The gym. Closed for the day, soon to be opened. Training gear, organized and stacked nicely from the previous class. The floor padding, clean and sweat-free after being clean just hours before. From within the everlasting silence of the closed gym, the sound of the water droplets from the tap drumming against the steel sink, the echoing tick of a clock striking second by second, the roar of the nearby cars outside driving by and the hum of chatter from the sidewalk. The eye-watering smell of bleach, the subtle hint of Dettol throughout the gym mats and walls, the sour smell of old sweat and the faint smell of leftover protein. People are about to enter the gym and begin their night of training they're all in a rush to get to the gym in time so they can have the chance to stretch and warm-up before the session starts. Some are worried, some are not as worried.

The gym has now opened and there is a light hum on chatter, people greeting each other and choosing who to train with for the session, water running as people fill their drink bottles to guzzle throughout the night, the grunts as people stretch, the sounds of people pounding and bashing the boxing bags as if they're their opponents. But the loudest thing in the gym is the retch-worthy smell of feet throughout the gym. There is a contagious amped or enthusiastic sort of feeling being passed around the members of the gym.

Training time. People bashing pads and draining all their energy trying to get the sequence correct and to avoid punches and throw counter punches whilst still getting footwork and technique correct. The floor pads drenched with sweat from the exhausted members.  The hiss of people exhaling while hitting the pads, the pants of exhaustion within breaks of sequences, people shouting as they encourage other members to push themselves further and to continue even though they're tired and exhausted, the sound of water gushing and people quickly refill their bottles to quench their thirst and to rehydrate themselves. Training is over and all that is left over is the deadly whiff of sweat.
                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                           
Write out 3 sentences where you've used at least 3 of the 5 senses

Senses

1.)  Sight:  People bashing pads and draining all their energy trying to get the sequence correct and to avoid punches and throw counter punches whilst still getting footwork and technique correct.

2.)  Sound:  From within the everlasting silence of the closed gym, the sound of the water droplets from the tap drumming against the steel sink, the echoing tick of a clock striking second by second, the roar of the nearby cars outside driving by and the hum of chatter from the sidewalk

3.)  Smell:  But the loudest thing in the gym is the retch-worthy smell of feet throughout the gym.

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I replaced detol for Dettol to correct it.

I replaced the word smelly and bad stinking feet for the retch-worthy smell of feet to make it seem more disgusting and to make the smell seem more intense as retch is to vomit.

I had also replaced the word running for gushing to make it seem like its more fast-paced and intense whereas running could be at any speed but gushing it harsh and fast



Wednesday, 19 February 2020

What Is My Art Kaupapa

This year I will be making my kaupapa around the themes of environment and surrealism.

I have chosen themes because my teacher said about my artworks and environmental stuff and I like Salvador Dali's artwork so I chose surrealism.

The media I will work with is paint and design.

The two artists I have chosen for Art 1.1 are Shane cotton and tony Fominson from list one and Salvador Dali and Jacob Yikes (Ryan) from list two.



L1 English the writing process.

I am ready to learn because I have my Chromebook and my teacher has gone through with me what I need to have completed.

My learning goal is to complete and write 14 out of 21 creative writing language features.

To engage in the connectivist learning process, I will need my teacher, peers and the internet.

My learning went okay it was just a little confusing but with the help of my peers, teacher and a few sites I got through my learning. Instead of completing 14 out of 21 I ended up writing 15.
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Language features and examples.

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Thursday, 21 November 2019

Risk or Challenge Creative Writing


THUD…. Blood, lots of blood. Pain, pain directed to the centre of my face. The pain you wouldn’t describe as sore, but worse. I was in the middle of a luscious green coated field of grass training for softball. We were focusing on catching the ball my turn was coming up.

As the person in front of me had the ball thrown to them they ducked unexpectedly then BAM...I got hit. Square in the nose. Many waves of pain struck my face at different levels. As the minutes passed the blood didn’t stop half an hour come by and it was still bleeding.

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Creative writing planning

WALT: Identify and recognize ideas for our 'Risk or challenge' creative writing tasks as well as the physical sensations associated with it.

Ideas for R or C

  • Activities on camp (two-wire, solo, swamp, nightline)
  • Doing a shoey
  • Sports
  • Project K (hiking, rock climbing, abseiling
  • being in the dark
  • abandon house
  • being in the army
  • school
  • getting chased

Physical Sensations

  • sweat (palms, back, forehead, nose, upper lip, back of knees, armpits, feet)
  • Knees weak
  • shaking
  • heavy breathing
  • looking around a lot
  • walking back and forth
  • need to go toilet
  • leg bounce
  • feeling sick
  • pins and needles
  • higher pounding/racing
  • butterflies/ queezy stomach

Thursday, 31 October 2019

40 Min Writing: Movies Are Better Than Book

Movies are better than books

Arguing for movies being better

Points
Takes less time to watch a movie instead of reading a book
More interesting
help visualise
Good if you have dyslexia and/or can't read
adds more effects (eg. comedy, horror

Are movies better than books?? In my opinion yes, there are many reasons as to why they are such as the fact that they; take less time, they're a lot more interesting and they're good for if you can't read and they also add more effects to make scenes and scenarios more effective examples of this would be in comedies and horrors.

Movies take a lot less time to watch than a book does to read whereas a book can take multiple days or weeks and a movie will take a few hours. Books such as the harry potter collection can take multiple days or weeks depending on how fast you read or how much free time you have but with the movie, it takes around 2 hours.

Words are boring to me so I prefer to watch movies and see what's happening rather than finding out myself. With movies there is a lot more detail. An example of this would be instead of saying how Billy was bouncing with excitement, in movies, it can show how exaggerated his excitement was. Or how in books they use the word slash for cutting and there are all types of slashes; slashes that's deep slash that barely skimmed someone or slashed someone in half. But they don't specify these slashes, in movies you see these differences.



   

Thursday, 24 October 2019

40 min persuasive writing

Team sports are better than individual sports
arguing both

Team sports. strategy, communication and meet new people at times.

individual sports. works on strategy and learning to be individual by thinking and doing things by yourself.
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 Are Team sports better than individual sports? I think that they are both equally as good since in Team sports you can meet new people and you learn how to communicate and make strategies.
But in Individual sports, you can learn to be more individual by thinking of strategies and other things yourself.

 Team sports such as rugby or NFL can improve your mental wellbeing by talking to others and relieving yourself of your stress instead of keeping things to yourself and having no one to tell it to, exercise helps with this too.

 In Team sports you can meet new people, by meeting new people you can make friendships which could go on for a long time in some cases the rest of your life, for instance, we can use my English teacher who got to know his wife better through touch rugby.

 You also learn how to communicate with others and find out ways to overcome challenges as a team and find ways which work and ways that don't. An example of strategies we could use the NFL and how they make certain team formations for the sort of play they would like to make.