L3 English l Redemption

 In the “Redemption” scene, where Max questions Furiosa on why she left the Green Place, the director uses the aspect of cinematography cleverly to convey the trust-building between the two primary characters. In the scene, the camera cuts to a two-shot between Max and Furiosa who are in the War Rig talking about the Green Place, the director makes the camera begin as a close-up of Furiosa for the audience to understand her past more, this is to show that she is just thinking about her, thought after we cut to Max asking why she left. When it cuts back to Furiosa the camera pans out slowly, this is done to show that she is now allowing herself to trust other people. Although when she says this is for her redemption, it cuts to Nuxx this is done to show he is also looking for redemption, on his blind loyalty to someone/something that has led him the wrong way. When the bug crawls up onto Nuxx’s finger he looks at it for a second before eating it. This shows that he now sees life as a thing to look forward to which is why it takes him a second to eat it. This is because even though this will help sustain him, he still is ending a life and he sees that now. The way the director shows these similarities between Nuxx and Furiosa while keeping them unique in their own aspect. The effect that we as an audience have from this scene is we find how tragic the lives have been for all of the characters, because of this we become more emotionally developed to the cast as a whole. The way this scene works extremely well is because the non-diegetic string gives this swelling feeling in our hearts. So when the music stops on a dime when Furiosa says “redemption” this shows this means so much to her. The subliminal messages we get from this scene hint at the obvious changes going through the whole main cast and they realize that freedom may be coming.

Written by: Mason, Kaiden, Josh, Yarny

Year 11 DVC l Rendering Internal

AS91066

Kaiden Mcdonald-Ringdahl

https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/nqfdocs/ncea-resource/achievements/2019/as91066.pdf

Here is a photo of my bottle rendering that I have been working on:

In DVC, the last term we were designing bottles and this year we have been learning how to render a bottle. We were rendering these bottles in 3 different materials: Solid plastic, stainless steel and clear plastic.

I liked how we could design how we wanted our bottle to look but I didn't like actually merging the colours together and making shadows because I found them quite difficult to do.

Give me any thoughts and feedback about my bottles.

Year 11 English l Describing Pathos, Logos and Ethos

Pathos: 

Pathos is something that evokes sadness. 

It can be used in an argument to draw the audience in and help it connect with the argument

An example of this is when your driving with your mum past Maccas and she says that there's food at home which brings great sadness.

Logos:

Logos is the meaning of reason and judgement.

It can be used in an argument that appeals to the audience's logic or reason.

An example of this is when a speaker makes historical events relevant to their argument

Ethos:

Ethos is a characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community.

It can be used as a means of convincing an audience through the authority or credibility of the persuader.

An example of this is when something like an ad about toothpaste coming up and it mentioned that 9/10 dentists use it.

Year 11 English l Write a better sentence

Use the matrix to improve your work by showing or rewriting 6 out of the 12 options in your writing

The Very Short Sentence:

"I really am invisible!"

The Simple Sentence:

"I was as furious as a rhino"

The W-Start Sentence:

"When 3 hours had passed"

Red, White, and Blue:

"He invented something amazing, life-changing, and unbelievable"

The Adverb Start:

"Suddenly, the sound went really loud"

The -ING Start:

"Getting sick of those 2, I had trespassed them"

Year 11 English l Post Creative Writing Tasks

Spoiler alert!

The 6 tasks I have completed for my creative writing:

1. Make the character introductions memorable:

So for this, I wrote: "Hi, my name is Micheal Gavrilla, I've got ginger hair, I'm tall, I'm NZ European, I love watching movies, I'm great at maths, I was one of the smartest people in my maths class, I love chicken burgers, I like watching the news and I also work at Burger King."

2. Insert strong words:

Here are 3 examples of this:

1. "The only thing I hate is when these 2 mischievous school kids named Logan and Levi"
2. "I went back inside and pushed the shiny light blue button on the chip so I could be clearly visible again"
3. "He told me that he had invented some kind of complex device"

3. Replace weak words with stronger ones:

Here are 3 examples of this:

1. Before: "It was time to go home" After: "It was time to go to Darryl's small house on Postnet street"
2. Before: "I felt pain spread across my arm" After: ""I felt a sharp sting spread across my arm"
3. Before: "I got so excited about the chip..." After: "I got so hyped up about the chip..."

4. Deleting weak or unnecessary words:

Here are 3 examples of this:

1. Before: "Ronald Crump's polls were rising but I don't care much about politics so I just ignored it" After: "Ronald Crump's polls were rising but that's irrelevant so I just ignored it"
2. Before: "I don't have enough money to get my own house because I am a bit broke" After: "I don't have enough money to get my own house"
3. Before: "This made it so I was actually visible again" After: "This caused me to become visible again"

5. The 5 SENSES

Here are 3 examples of this:

Hear: "I started hearing a faint noise, the noise of someone speaking to me"
Smell: I get to smell the crisp, amazing burgers being made in the kitchen"
Feel: "I felt a sharp sting spreading across my arm and through my entire body"

6. Figurative Language for the Sense of Sight

Here are 3 examples of this:

Simile: "I was as furious as a rhino at this moment"
Personification: I don't think the drink machines would be feeling good about this right now"
Simile: "He seemed as confused as a cat trying to catch a laser

Year 11 English l Language Features

Language Features: Simile
What it means: Comparing 2 things, saying something is like or as something else.
Teachers example: She was as fast as a rocket
My example: He was as tough as a rock

Language features: Metaphor
What it means: comparing 2 things, saying something is something else
Teachers example: The moon was a drop of silver in the night sky
My example: The sun was a blinding yellow light in the clear blue skies

Language features: Personification
What it means: Giving objects or non-human things human characteristics
Teachers example: The wind was breathing in my ear
My example: The frisbee flew like a bird

Language features: Alliteration
What it means: The repetition of letter sounds
Teachers example: Peter picked his pears politely from the park
My example: Nathan knitted nine neckties

Language features: Hyperbole
What it means: An exaggeration
Teachers example: I've told her that a million times!
My example: You've borrowed thousands of dollars from me

Language features: Assonance
What it means: Repetition of vowel sounds
Teachers example: How now brown cow. The cart went to the market for the chance to barter
My example: I used my phone to control a drone that flew into a cone

Language features: Onomatopoeia
What it means: Words that sound like what they describe
Teachers example: Splash, crash, boom, plop etc.
My example: The firework went BOOM and it lit up the night sky

Language features: Understatement
What it means: The presentation of something as being smaller or less good or important than it really is
Teachers example: (When a hurricane is coming towards you) "I see there's a bit of a breeze out here"
My example: (When you're standing next to lava) "It's a bit warm over here"

Language features: Consonance
What it means: The use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device
Teachers example: Clair was caught drinking beer at the fair
My example: "I start the day by going to the church to pray and by the way, I saw a horse eating hay"

Language features: Pun
What it means: A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings
Teachers example: "The Railway Society reception was an informal party of people of all stations (excuse the pun) in life
My example: This game had so much wrong with it on so many levels

Language features: Anaphora
What it means: (an-AFF-or-a) is starting each sentence with the same words as the ones before.  This will be most useful in creative pieces like speeches, songs and poems.  You could build it in from the beginning, or you could go through in the second draft and change the first sentence of every paragraph.  It’ll help if the words you’re repeating are the central idea or dominant metaphor of your piece.
Teachers example: It’s so preposterously easy to use anaphora.  It’s so preposterously easy to pick some words.  It’s so preposterously easy to repeat them.  Everyone can do it.  Everyone can start a sentence the same way.  It takes no skill.  It takes….. I could go on like this all day.
My example: "It's not easy doing work. It's not easy waking up in the morning. It's not easy going to school."

Language features: Epistrophe
What it means: This will be useful for songwriting, poetry, and speechwriting. When you end each sentence with the same word, that's epistrophe.
Teachers example: When each clause has the same words at the end, that’s epistrophe.  When you finish each paragraph with the same word, that’s epistrophe.  Even when it’s a whole phrase or a whole sentence that you repeat, it’s still, providing the repetition comes at the end, epistrophe.
My example: "I did good. I actually did really good. I can't believe that I did this good."

Language features: Chiasmus
What it means: The words of the first half of a sentence are mirrored in the second.  They are deliberately turned back to front and then repeated.
Teachers example: John F Kennedy told America that “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
My example: “If we are on Earth, we are humans; if we are humans, we are on Earth"

Language features: Epizeuxis
What it means: Epizeuxis (pronounced ep-ee-ZOOX-is) is repeating a word immediately using exactly the same meaning.  Simple.  Simple.  Simple.  Be warned, though: epizeuxis is like a nuclear bomb.  It really works, but it’s overkill if you do it more than once.
Teachers example: The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.  The second rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.
My example: The instructions were simple simple, simple.

Year 10 Drama l Term 4 rewind 2019

So we have recently been watching the taming of the shrew to learn about acting and how to make good facial expressions and exaggerated movement. We have also been doing some mask making and decorating the masks, I made my mas look like a green pig sorta. What we did was we put on our masks and then just said some jibberish making it seem like it meant something, for example, "jbdivyjdbfdsfudsfhsdgfubfhsd" and yea those are the things we did this term, pretty fun, very cool!

Year 10 Drama l How I made my mask

So to the left is my mask and it is finally finished. So I'm going to be telling you the proccess of the making of the mask.

So it started with me putting some glad wrap over the base of the mask and then put paper mache over it. Then I let the paper mache dry and after that, I took off the base of the mask and then all it was was paper mache as you can see to the left of the blog. After that, all that was needed to be done was to put some tiny holes in on the sides and stick a rope through it so I can wear this absolutely FABULOUS mask

Year 10 Drama l Mask making

SO today I had finished creating my mask so here's is what my mask looks like to the left of this text:

This is the only picture of m mask I have at this point in time but it was a challenging proccess making this mask because I am terrible with paper mache but at least it's done (although it doesn't look great)

Year 10 English l My ideal world

So what my ideal world would look like is world peace, to do that everyone should get along.

No more starving or dehydrated people, to do that, give starving people food and give dehydrated people a drink.

Getting NCEA credits for dabbing in class at 10:30 in the morning, to do that, make it a law.

Nathan becoming a farmer, to do that, I have to convince (Nathan doesn't approve of the full uncensored picture).

And finally, everyone being compassionate towards one another, to do that, be nicer.

Year 10 English l Character strengths 2

This character trait was shown in Avengers: Infinity War/Avengers: Endgame (of what I have seen in the trailers) when Thanos killed half of the population of Earth including some of the avengers, but the rest of the avengers left still have hope that they can beat Thanos and in the most recently released clip for Endgame, Black Widow said “If we even have the slightest chance of beating Thanos, we have to take it”.
It shows us that it is important to have hope because no matter how bad a situation is, there’s always hope to make things better.
I think that hope is a really good feeling to have because it shows that person isn’t going to give up.

This character trait was shown in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 when Drax makes fun of people and has a really funny laugh and that’s how he is, humorous but can be helpful in serious situations.
It shows us that it is important to have humor because you may want to light up someone’s day like making them laugh and it’s nice to make people laugh.
I think that having some humor can be a great thing because you can make people feel better if they’re feeling sad by making them laugh or making them laugh in general is just….. great.

This character trait was shown in Avengers: Infinity War when all the avengers came together and used all their different abilities to take down Thanos.
It shows us that it is important to work as a team because you may need 2 or more people in some situations.
I think that working as a team is really good so you know how to cooperate with others.


This character trait was shown in Captain America: Civil War when Tony and Steve (Iron Man and Captain America) were fighting because Steve’s friend (Bucky) killed Tony’s parents and Steve is trying to protect his Bucky but after a while, they stopped fighting and talked to sort things out and went on to say sorry to Bucky and Steve because Bucky wasn’t in any control on what he was doing and Tony was forgiven.
It shows us that it is important to show forgiveness because it makes things a whole lot better for everyone if you apologise and forgive each other.
I think that showing forgiveness is a really good thing and shows that you are willing to give the other person another chance

I saw kindness in every movie I’ve seen in some way.

I think it’s important to be kind so you will be a likeable person and you will make friends.

Year 10 Science l Testing different acids on Limestone

Made by: Me, Levi, and Tamati

Different acid levels we are using:

0.1
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0

In the experiment, we will use different concentrations of hydrochloric acid to see what effect it has on pieces of limestone.

• What you think will happen - Hypothesis
• Why it is happening?
• I think the acid will make a big hole in the limestone

So with 0.1, that barely did anything to the limestone and marble, it just fizzed up a bit. With 0.5, it also didn't really do much but it fizzed up a tiny bit more than 0.1. However, 1.0 was much better than the other 2, it fizzed up quite a bit and put a little hole in the limestone and it was more effective with the marble. 1.5 did slightly better like how it put in a slightly bigger hole and fizzed up more. 2.0 was the strongest we had, it fizzed up the whole limestone and put a decent hole in it but we couldn't do any higher than 2.0 otherwise it would be a bit too dangerous to use.

Year 10 Drama l Halloween social reflection

So to start off with, not enough people got tickets for the social for it to actually happen and the people who were in drama got a free ticket because they have to go because they are a part of it.

Anyway, what was supposed to happen during the social was the people who were in drama were going to be all scary like I was supposed to be some kind of stalker hiding in a wooden box banging against the walls.
Anyway, I couldn't really go on the day anyway because I had a family dinner for my aunties birthday. There were fake cobwebs hanging on the ceiling and some kind of mini staircase to go over as you walk through this little spooky room, I'm pretty sure there was a fake skeleton as well but I'm not sure, there were also some red Halloween lights shining which looked pretty great.
It was going to be relatively dark in the room to give a bit of a spooky vibe but obviously, there was gonna be that red light so people could actually see and not trip over on any steps.
There was also a piano but it would have been scary-looking because there would have been cobwebs on it to make it look old.

The social was going to last about an hour I'm pretty sure, from like 6:30pm to 7:30pm, even if it wasn't going to be entirely dark because of the daylight savings thing doesn't mean it wasn't going to be bad or anything, there was going to be a DJ as well so the social I think was gonna be pretty decent but it was unfortunate that it didn't happen.

Year 10 English l Persuasive writing #3

Children under 14 should not have cell phones: Against

Why you would need phones:

• In case of an emergency
• For entertainment
• To communicate with others

My 3 strongest ideas:

1. I'm going to start with what would be most important, you will need a phone in case you or someone else is in trouble so you can call the police or ambulance.
2. Another important thing is to communicate with others, for example, you may need to get home and there isn't anyone to take you home so you can call or text someone to pick you up.
3. Last thing and also important in a way is to use for entertainment like playing games or watching youtube so you won't be bored.

Year 10 English l Persuasive writing #2

Sugary drinks should have higher taxes: Against

When there are sugary drink taxes vs when there aren't:

• It's good when they are cheap so you can enjoy a nice refreshing flavoured drink
• If flavoured drinks are expensive then more people will drink water

My 3 strongest ideas:

1. When it's a hot day, you would want a nice cold drink to help cool you down. Sure, water is good but it's much more refreshing to have a nice, cold and cheap coca-cola to cool down on a hot summers day.
2. If the taxes go up for flavoured drinks then if your poor, you will just be stuck with water and water gets pretty bland after a while.
3. This is kind of combining with number 2 but when you can't afford flavoured drinks, all you have is water and as I said, it gets pretty bland after a while with the 1 flavour it has which is basically flavourless but with flavoured drinks, there are hundreds of different flavours to choose from.

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.

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.

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)

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.