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Thursday 31 October 2019

Year 10 English l Persuasive writing #1

Cats make better pets than dogs: Against

Good things about dogs:
  • They never want to leave you 
  • They like attention
  • The give you exercise by going on walks with them 
  • They are playful
  • They are always happy to see you 
  • They will protect you 
  • They will make you happy 
 Bad things about cats:

  • They bring in dead animals
  • They don't care whether your around or not
  • They leave the house a lot
  • Cats would eat you if you were smaller than them
My 3 strongest ideas: 
  1. Dogs care about you and will do whatever they can to protect you from any dangers that could come, they are always happy to see you and they love your company.
  2. Dogs also give you and themselves exercise when you go for walks with them and when you're playing with dogs, running around with them or swimming with them.
  3. This kind of combines the other 2, dogs are also good with keeping your mood up, dogs are pretty good at making people happy with their playful mood, they get hyper whenever you come home from work or school, and most of all, they are just happy to see you in general and they will hang around you a lot to give you company.

Year 10 Social Studies l Maori and European population changes graph

What does the graph show us?
How the Maori and European population changes in NZ.

Why do you think the numbers of Maori change?
Because more and more Europeans keep showing up and the Maori are getting killed.

Why do you think numbers of Europeans changed?
Because more of them come to live in NZ.

Thursday 24 October 2019

Year 10 Home Ec l Pasta practical

So last Friday, our group made pasta. None of us ate any though because none of us felt like having past at 9:30 in the morning but the 3 teachers that were given our pasta seemed to enjoy it, I think we worked pretty great as a team and the outcome of the pasta was great, it looked good and there didn't seem to be much wrong with it but if there were something we needed to work on then that would be nothing because I can't really think of anything we did wrong. Oh and unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of pasta so here's a nice image of some random pasta from google.
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Wednesday 23 October 2019

Year 10 Social Studies l Pepeha

Ko Mount Cook toku maunga (this is my mountain)
Ko Pacific Ocean toku moana (this is my ocean)
Ko Tongariro River toku awa (this is my river)
Ko Waka toku waka (this is my canoe)
Ko Canterbury toku rohe (this is my region)
Ko Joyce toku iwi (this is my greater tribe)
Ko Mcdonald-Ringdahl toku hapu (this is my local tribal group)
Ko Kaiden toku ingoa (this is my name)

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Year 10 English l My creative writing story

Start of story:
So I was just sitting in my room watching Shrek 4 until all of a sudden I hear my little brother
Stan screaming at someone, I decide to go to his room and check out who he is screaming at,
I enter his room and to my horror…. He is playing Fortnite, he’s screaming at his teammate
called “MLGminecraftsk00t3rboi” to revive him but then they start doing a dance, so I left his
room for this cringeworthy game was too much for me. 
Just gonna break the fourth wall real quick, I know this story may not be too interesting so far but
trust me, it will end with a “BOOM” (see that little foreshadow I did there).
Anyway, I went back into my room to keep watching Shrek 4 until my dreadful mother called my
name to unpack the groceries from the car, I told her “Go unpack them yourself mum” but I
decided to go help with the groceries anyway, I went outside, picked up a bag of groceries and
then started to walk back inside until I noticed that my ever so kind mother had packed me some
snickles which was my favourite type of food. 
The outside just looks like a normal pickle, nothing out of the ordinary, but when you bite into it,
it has some snickers chocolate inside of it to give it a weird pickle taste but when I took that first
bite of the Snickles bar, I was left with a sick feeling in my stomach….. To my discovery, my awful
mother had given me a normal pickle as some kind of sick joke, I was furious with my mum, I
was so angry that I decided to call her by her first name… Dorothy or as some would call her,
Dorris. 
As I was about to angrily go back to my room, my house blew up with my little brother in there
and then Dorris had gotten kidnapped by the Woltan family. The End.


That’s when I woke up from that horrible nightmare to the realization that my little brother would
never go so far to play Fortnite and my mother would never play such a cruel joke of giving me
pickles instead of snickles and I guess I’m happy the house didn’t blow up and everything. 
I proceeded with my day as I usually would, going to visit the Woltans and hanging out with my
friend Matham Woltan and I noticed that my other 2 friends Hogan Vanilla and Trevi Pardner
were there as well, we all decided to go to Prayden Chadamson’s house
(his parents were very christian), when we met up with Prayden, we found him playing WoM
(World of Mincecraft) and so we recruited Prayden to join us on our quest to find something to do. 
“We should go to Cornby high school to study and do our homework” Matham suggested. 
“Typical Matham, of course you would suggest that we should do something boring like that” I
said.
“Any other ideas?” I said.
Then some random kid about our age comes along and asks “Oi, what are yous doing”
“We can’t think of what to do” says Trevi.
“Come with me, I’ve got something I wanna show yous” says the kid.
“Wait, can you at least tell us what your name is?” I say.
“It’s Joe, nah it’s actually Wobbie Hedgeworth”.


And so Wobbie is taking us somewhere to show us something but we still don’t know where we
are going, as we approach closer to the destination, I start to notice something…. very... familiar,
this looked a lot like Praydens house but the weird thing is…. we just came from his house and
we’ve basically been walking in a straight line for only a few minutes, this makes no sense…
“Here it is” says Wobbie. “This is what I wanted to show you”.
“This is my house, but we just came from my house” says Prayden puzzled.
“That’s what I wanted to show you, nothing makes sense around here” said Wobbie.

To be continued...

I didn't get time to finish the story so I might make a part 2 at some point, we will see.

Year 10 Social Studies l Maori God / Atua Blog

Discuss the idea of Mythology/stories in religion, and the role myths and stories play in society?

They make people believe that back then there was a God that created the world.
It is providing people with an understanding of how the world was created, as well-meaning to their life.

What similarities are there between the myths and stories of Màori and the first British Missionaries?

They all believe that there is some type of god that created the whole thing back then.

Why would the difference between Màori beliefs and English beliefs cause conflict?

Both the Maori mythology and Christain religion emphasised worship and solidity of their god/s respectfully.

Credit to http://hhsmeaganm.blogspot.com/ for this info :-)

Monday 21 October 2019

Krakatoa volcano eruption of 1883

Krakatoa volcano eruption of 1883

The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was one of the most deadly volcano eruptions. It's thought that more than 36,000 people died. The eruption began during the afternoon of Sunday 26th August and it had peaked on the morning of Monday 27th when over 70% of the island was destroyed and collapsed.
Seismic activity around the Krakatoa volcano was intense, with earthquakes reaching as far as Australia. Eruptions at Krakatoa started again around June 16th with explosions and a black cloud covering the island for five days. On June 24th, some wind came along and cleared the cloud, and two ash columns were seen issuing from Krakatoa. The combination of pyroclastic flows, volcanic ash, and tsunamis associated with the Krakatoa eruptions had devastating consequences. The official death toll recorded by the Dutch authorities was 36,417. After the eruption, the island of Krakatoa had almost entirely disappeared, except the southern third.