SPIRITUAL WELLBEING..

31.07.18

1. What did you think spiritual wellbeing was before you started this unit?

• To be honest with this answer I did not know what spiritual was but here is what I think spiritual is when you experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through a person.

2.  What is the spiritual wellbeing about?

• spiritual wellbeing is about things that happen in your life and understanding everyone with their feelings and how they react.

3.  Why does everyone have differing spiritual wellbeing?

• cause everyone has their own way of experiencing different things in their life and everyone have their own way of treating people.

4. What area of spiritual wellbeing that you need to improve on and why?

• Talking to other people, cause I am a person that does not talk much and not only that but I just don't get along with them and sometimes  I am just scared to talk to them.

5.  What are my dreams?

my dreams are to finish my school go to university, graduate and find a job to help my family and travel all around the world and experience many things in life.

6.  What is a goal you have about education/life?

• well just like what I said in question 5 I like to pass my NCEA level and graduate and do many things that I have not done and also travel the world.

CHAPTER THREE...

30.07.18

1. Why does Robyn think they are the only people ever to have gone into Hell?

• he thinks that it was only them and the Hermit are the only people ever to see it.

2. Why do you think the valley is called Hell?

• cause even though it looked nice and safe in there but maybe there is something that's hiding out there waiting to frighten people.

3. Why must the teenagers seem like visitors from hell to the wild things living in the clearing? How is this ironic?

• the place was peaceful but when they arrived there they made a lot of noise.

4. What picture of Kevin do we get in this chapter?

• He has a bad habit cause he did not leave the trees alone he breaks every branch, but he was useful cause he was good at lighting the fire.

5. What does Ellie liken Fi to? Do you think this is a fair assessment of her character? Use examples from the text to support your thinking?

• Exotic butterfly, cause Fi is behind everything others have experience in their life, and her family is all about healthy food.

6. At times Ellie switches her narration from retelling the story to commenting about her life in the present - why do you think the author has chosen to write in this style?

• cause instead of going on with his story he decided to tell something that's more fun and interesting.

CHAPTER ONE.

26.07.18

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of first-person narration?

• the advantages are that their parents are ok for them to go to a camp for a few weeks and come back safe, and the disadvantage as they don't know if they will make it home safe or not.

2. Why do you think Ellie needs to tell the story in chronological order?

• so that we can see how the story goes from place to place, or how the story takes place.

3. Pick one interesting word from the chapter, find its meaning, and explain why it is interesting.

• discrimination the reason why I pick this word cause this word makes the story look like that they are trying to bring justice for their loved one, and not only that but it makes me more interested in the story.

4. John Marsden foreshadows several events and characters in this chapter. Make three predictions based on the evidence in the text about what may occur later in the story.

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5. What kind of story do you think Ellie is going to tell? Uses evidence from the text to support your answers.

• An adventure cause they are going to a camp and they are going to experience many things and do many things which they maybe have not done and things like that.

6. What set of skills do these characters have that convince their parents that they can ‘go bush’ independently. Find examples for three characters.

CHAPTER TWO

27.07.18

1. How did the group of teenagers ascend Tailors Stitch?

• they lifted each other up and they used landrover.

2. What are the two special events happening the day after the teenagers leave for the bush?

• Commemoration Day.
• Wirrawee show.

3. How many days were they planning on staying? How much food do you think is reasonable to bring, split among 7 teenagers?

• 5 days, and a lot of food, but they bought junk food instead of healthy food.

4. Who is the Hermit and what is he supposed to have done?

• He is the old man that lived on the mountain and he killed his wife and child and they think or they called him the ex-murder.

5. Do you think the Hermit will be significant to this story? Why/Why not?

• Yes, cause maybe he showed up and save the people when they are in danger, or maybe cause he lived on the mountain.

6. Are their decent down Satan’s Steps into Hell dangerous? Discuss what are the dangers, how could they have made it safer, what would you have done?

• yes, they are dangerous cause they might not know what's down in the hill and not only that but they might not be able to come up again, or they might fall and slip on the rocks.

7. Predict what the bridge signifies?

• someone has built a bridge and someone is there on the bridge.

TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN.

24.07.18

1) How do you think this story will be written?

I think that the story is going to be written about war because it is a war between people who are trying to take away the people who are important to you, not only that but they are also trying to change them into people that you don't expect them to be

2) Why do you think the story is entitled as it is?
The reason why I think this is entitled as it is is that tomorrow points to a period of time that hasn't happened yet, while began points to something that hasn't happened yet.

3) Where do you think the story will take place?
I think that this story takes place in Australia may be in the South.

4) What time period do you think the story is set in?
On 28 September 2009. 

5) How is the cover composed? (camera angle/shot type/framing)

well the cover is composed by a point of view and a little bit of a close-up shot

6) How is lighting used? (brightness/mood/contrast)

It is a little bit dark the sun is kinda going down a little bit.

7) How is text used? (font/size/language/positioning)

it is all in big letters and it is in English and also in the middle of the book and the size maybe 24.

8) What symbolism is used? (objects/people/setting/colours)

to be honest with the color it's kinda red-orange and the people are black well usually they are white people but they are colored in black.

Learning journal.

24.07.18

Today l learn about the four dimension and their meaning and how they are important to our body and I have also learned about fale tapa fa.

My physical wellbeing is in a very good condition and in good shape. cause I have a shower every day and I am fit and I do work all the time.

The things that I do well to look after my taha tinana are having exercise all the time and also eat healthy food all the time.

The things that I could do better for my physical wellbeing is to enough sleep and eat healthy food and also do a lot of exercises

This dimension is one of the 4 dimension that I don't need to work on is nothing I guess.

Digital Visual Collage

So in these picture they show or they represent what I learnt my highlight (best part), my low point, someone who helped me and this is how my picture goes or my picture mean. The picture with the small flowers represent what I have learned, the one with the coconut is my highlight ( my best part), the picture with the wave is my low point, and the last picture it is the picture that represents the person who helps me.

W.O.R.D APP GAME

25.06.18

INTRODUCTION.

Hi, everyone, it's OFA here and this blog is about making an App game and in the past few weeks we have been working on creating an App or Game and we were put into groups of four or three so we can work together to create what we want. And in my group, we decided to create an App Game for people out in the world who suffer from depression. Depression is feeling depressed or down is common and can be a normal reaction to the stress of our everyday lives.

D.L.O (Digital Learning Object)

https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/UzeBhkzCDkELf5TCvSlMFljGk3rNrku_ujWBGFkRx7s

REFLECTION.

Using this App was a good thing for me because I have learned so many things I have learned how to do coding and l have learned so many new words phrases and how to identify and to do the tutorial steps by steps. I have not just learned AppLab, but it has gives ideas on how to do work in the future and how to be prepared for next generation. 

 I have proven this by trying to build an App Game with my group and we have given each part to look at it or research about it, and we were happy with it because we work together and put all our information together, and it made me feel so happy to see my group supporting each other and putting many efforts into our work.  

As a result of working together, we have completed our app finish everything, and we have published it, and we have seen and experienced many things but maybe we could have made much to change some of our work to a better one, but since we have only a small time left we were just happy that we have finished everything.

SOURCES.

 www.code.org/applab
This link is where we get our information to build our app, it also shows us how to do it by following every step.

Essay Writing

02.07.18
INTRODUCTION.
 During a hard time of Apartheid, there was a lot of injustices were served to the black people of South Africa. In the film The Power of One, directed by John Avildsen, the scene where Jaapie Botha hangs P.K up in a rope ready to be killed in order revenge for the Afrikaner people who died. The following techniques are used in this scene: mid-shot, long shot, and low angle. This film techniques helped convey this important idea and it also caused the scene to have a strong impact on the audience.
 BODY.
 In the scene where Jaapie Botha tries to finish his tattoo off the director uses a mid shot. For example, in this scene, they used a mid shot to show the audience a fair idea of what’s going to happen next to P.K as Jaapie Botha hang P.K up ready to be killed. The director did this to show the audience of what’s going to happen next to P.K and outline the main problem of the scene Which Jaapie Botha hang P.K up on a rope ready to be killed. This made the audience feel so afraid and it made them want to get involved in the situation, it also causes us to be afraid of P.K and feel what he’s feeling. This aspect can be compared to when the director used a mid shot in the scene where the director used a used a close-up shot or a low angle shot when war broke up in South Africa it made P.K felt more scared and nervous of what might happen afterward. In the scene where Jaapie Botha killed P.K’s chicken and yelled Heil Hitler, the director uses a low angle shot. For instance, the director uses a low angle shot after Jaapie Botha killed P.K’s chicken and yelling Heil Hitler, showing that Jaapie is more powerful and stronger than P.K. The director’s purpose of using this shot is to help express the mood. Therefore showing the audience that P.K was petrified to be there as he did not belong. This helps us understand how P.K feel and how vulnerable he is. This also shows us that Jaapie Botha can do anything because he has authority. This aspect can be contrasted to when the director shows a close up shot of Jaapie Botha spitting on P.K’s face, it made P.K felt so nervous because he was the youngest student attending the school, not only he was small but he was an English boy which made it worst for him cause the Afrikaners hated the English people. In the scene, the director uses a long shot to show how everyone froze, as to look at the headmaster who stood at the entrance of the room. This was used to show how all of the students seemed as if they are in trouble. This is demonstrated as Jaapie Botha walks up to the headmaster, while everyone stood still and frozen, while P.K is left hanging from the roof. The director used this technique to give us a full view of what was happening between the Headmaster and Jaapie Botha. It also gave us a view of how the student stood, some with heads hung low while others seemed as if they didn’t want to look at the Headmaster in the eye so instead they look around. This reminds me of when P.K got caught in a church by the Afrikaner's officer teaching English to black Africans. Except P.K was the one who stood froze instead of the Afrikaner student. P.K try to explain the situation, but that only got him in serious trouble. The consequences the Black Africans suffered was ten times worst then what the Headmaster did to Jaapie Botha.