Project Based Learning

For project based learning, Sapphire, Oceana and I have chosen to help the homeless and make a positive impact on the community in New Zealand and possibly around the world too.

Our group name is Female Dogg

Here are the ideas we've come up with to help them: 

• Do a mufti day to Raise Money
• For the mufti day make posters, to spread awareness   
• Interview them and write their stories on a blogpost.
• If we need to raise more money we can maybe do a sausage sizzle and all the money goes towards the things they will need
• Maybe we can get My fathers Barbers to cut their hair
• Raffle
• Make food
• Raise money and donate to a campaign that’s already raising money for the homeless

I have only looked a few websites such as Mother Nature Network which has assisted in giving me some ideas to help the homeless.

https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/blogs/9-ways-you-can-help-the-homeless

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/09/these-formerly-homeless-people-have-shared-the-best-things-you-can-do-to-really-make-a-difference-6563674/

We could choose a few of the most effective ways of helping from the list above and go through with them to ensure we aren't wasting our time and resources. We've also encountered a big obstacle in which we can't have a mufti day at school, our solution is possibly doing a raffle.

If you walk past a homeless and you don't have anything to give them just be friendly, acknowledge them, show them a bit of compassion and say hello or good morning. Homeless people lose the feeling of being a person and people act like they're not there when they walk past. 

Seismograph Project

The seismograph Sonny and I made swings back and forth well whereas drawing the line doesn't always work too well. As you can see from the second photo.

We could improve this design by making sure the pen always touches the paper to avoid random separate lines.

Gymnastics PE Year 10

Floor - Merit
I learnt how to arabesque, cartwheel, forward roll, jump full turn, backward roll in a sequence. I could improve by doing the sequence fluent and flow smoothly

Parallel bars - Excellence
I learnt how to forward roll on the parallel bars and backwards dismount. I could improve by keeping my body straight like a pencil to make it look better and not like a frog.

Horizontal bars - Merit
I didn't learn anything.

Creative Writing - English

  

In the primitive lands when there were dinosaurs, farming resources was difficult to achieve without coming back with injuries. A risk we all take.  However I was not afraid. I needed resources such as wood, stone, flint and fibre to extend my base, working my way up to higher equipment. There are a lot of trees, plants and rocks all around me. Before leaving my base to gather resources, I packed a few things to ensure my safety and mend myself if needed. As I leave I noticed many types of dinosaurs in the distance, hoping that they would move further away from their positions. I then began to chop wood, pick at rocks and collect fibre from plants while being aware of my dangerous surroundings.

As I finish up on chopping some wood I see a large dinosaur heading towards me. I took a large shit before making my way back, I tried to walk but I realised that I was encumbered. While thinking of a way to move the dinosaur had spotted me. It was a Therizinosaurus. They had talons the size of my arms, it's beak looked as strong as titanium and it looked like a large bird, a dangerous one. I had to figure out a way to escape while still bringing back the resources.

My heart is racing, I’m in a constant state of fear. What am I going to do? I felt like I was going to piss myself. I can't push myself to move even the slightest as my knees were weak, arms spaghetti I thought I had no escape. I had to act fast as the Therizinosaurus was getting closer.

As I scanned the area for an escape route I then came up with a plan, it may not be the most stable plan but it's all I had thought of. I dropped half of the resources I had and that lifted a lot of weight off my back. I used the last of my super saiyan energy and sprinted towards the cliff I saw earlier. I planned to jump of the cliff as I was carrying my handy parachute. I could see it's razor sharp talons reaching out towards me from the corner of my eye.

I reached the edge of the cliff and leaped out for my life and pulled or my parachute. Before I knew it, the Therizinosaurus tore a hole in my parachute and left me to the fate of it. The dinosaur was no longer my problem; landing alive was. In the end I landed safely in the ocean and returned to my base ready for another journey to come. I put my controller down and say to myself “Enough PlayStation for today."

Knowing that there was more trouble to come I was ready for it because it’s only a game  the end. Ark: Survival Evolved

Solo Performing Arts

Guitar

Alternative/Indie

The guitar can be used for genre's such as heavy metal, rock, country, pop, pretty much any genre.

The first acoustic guitar was made in 1850 and is considered a European invention. The may have guitar evolved from the flute back 4000 years ago.

Performing Arts 10BR

What scene did you present? Music In Me - High School Musical

Were you happy with it? Nope

What would you change if you could do it again? Practise more as a group.

The News

THE NEWS

Select an incident from the story and develop a newspaper article about it.

Use the chart below to organise your newspaper report. Then write your article.

Who? Ponyboy, Johnny and kids.

Where? The church

Why? Because the church was on fire and kids were still inside.

What happened? The church was burning down with children in it.

When? During the day when they were coming back from a hiding.

How?  Johnny dropped his smoke and made the building lit af.

THE DAILY NEWS

HEADLINE:

On Thursday night 13:37 PM, Ponyboy (14) and Johnny (16), Two boys in a gang called Greasers, rescued children from a burning church. The cause of the fire occurred by Johnny dropping his cigarette inside the building, igniting the flame which spread throughout the building and later became ablaze. Fortunately Johnny died later that night and Ponyboy with minor injuries. Earlier, Johnny had killed a member of their rivalry gang, the Socs. The death of Johnny had a terrible impact on his friends and family, leading into his friend’s death after robbing a store, Darry was shot down and killed.