L.I to create a character profile
LI: To read for meaning and understanding
For Reading we were learning about Anime and Manga, using this topic to improve our comprehension skills. Manga, is known as a Japanese Comic. It has widely spread throughout the world, and is a very popular trend. Manga and Anime have become a big part of Japanese Culture. There are Manga and Anime such as One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Ball that have taken over the world.
Our task was to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about the History of Manga, describing the origin and what it is?
L.I to design you own custom shoes
LI: To use Google Draw to recreate a famous artwork
L.I to Understand the main idea of the text
Today we read a story called Fred’s decision, this story is about Fed who buys a new car and needs to looks after it. In order to do that fred bus two geese to alert him if anyone tries to trespass and try to steal his car. Fred chose geese because they used to alert roman soldiers when the enemy had come to attack them. For the create activity we created a DLO that has a labeled diagram of a goose and tells you five facts about the animal.
LI: to extend our vocabulary with the letter Q
For Reading we were learning about words starting with the Letter Q. We started off by reading a text talking about the origin of the Letter Q, and where it came from. Our task was to create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) showcasing words we know starting with the Letter Q, and words we don’t know starting with Q.
It was really fun and interesting doing because we got to learn new vocabulary, and we were able to do this activity with our friends.
LI: to form an informed opinion
A provocation is a topic which brings our strong emotion within somebody. This provocation was about olympic venues and should countries that host the olympics spend billions on these facilities just for them to not be used again. In this task we formed an informed opinion on whether we thought it was a good idea or bad idea to build these venues.
L.I: To compare the past and present rules.
For this reading activity we were tasked to compare the olympics rules from the past and the present using a venn Diagram.
There was a big difference between the past olympic rules and the present. The rules that stayed the same was no shoving, no holding, no cutting of other racers.
L.I to identify main ideas
This week for reading we read a text called Poros of Malia. This text was about a man named Poros who competed in the sprints in the ancient olympics. Poros had won this event in the olympics prior so he had to win or they would have been made fun of. After we finished the text we answered a list of questions, by answering these question we got a better understanding of the story because it helped us remember the details and the main idea f the text.
LI: To consider both perspectives
For this task we chose one of the seven places Maori in legends and looked at the evidence for the stories being real or not. After we have looked at the evidence we as a group were tasked to form an opinion about the place and if we think if the stories are real or not.
LI: To find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and the text of “The Beginning”.
For this task we compared the text “The beginning” and the video of rangi and papa’s story on a venn diagram. A Venn Diagram is used to show the similarities and differences between two or more things, the parts of the circle that overlap the other are for writing similarities and the parts that do not overlap are for writing the differences between the two things.
L.I to explain in fewer words what the text is about
A summary is a quick and short way to explain the main points of a story or text. For this activity we watched a Video about Rangi and Papa and their story. From the video we had to choose twenty important words from the story. Then we chose the six most important words and wrote a short summary that tells the reader what the story is about.
LI: To identify the main ideas in a text
For this task we watched a video about the story of how maui slowed the sun. From this video we had to pick the ideas in the video, the four main ideas in the story and the three main ideas of the story. The main idea is the point of a text, story, book, etc..
L.I to identify the main ideas
We were tasked to read a story called "New New Zealanders," it was about how a boy named Christian Kaka and his family seeked for a better life in New Zealand due to the war going on at Syria. After the story we were tasked to identify the main ideas in the text. For the Three Vital Ideas were Registered refugees can't be sent back to their country, The Refugees wanted people to know their story and many families moved to New Zealand because their country is to dangerous.
This activity was interesting because I found out what Syria is going through and that there are many problems outside of New Zealand.
L.I to show my personal journey through books
This week is book week at Panmure Bridge School, which means every class participates in a number of reading activities. One of our activities was to create a reading pathway that shows how my favourite books have changed over time. At the moment I like reading the Dem Slayer manga because it has lots of fights and it has a good story.
LI : To write HOT questions.
This week our group did reciprocal reading. The text we read was Puaki. The text was informing us about the importance and the stories behind a Ta-Moko. In the text there were four origins of four people explaining how and why they got their ta-moko. In our reciprocal reading each person of the group was assigned a role, a clarifier, A questionnaire, A predictor, a summarizer and the leader. When each page was read each person would do their role (e.g: predictor predicts next page). While doing this we were tasked at creating HOT (Higher Order Thinking) Questions part of the text.
L.I to identify the author's purpose
Authors write for a purpose (reason). These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make decisions about what stories they will run. We explored different current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why this story was made by the news and plotted a location on a google map. I found interesting that some residents in Hawke's bay are getting dirty brown water.
L.I to understand the narrative in the poem
Today for reading we learnt about the poem called The Charge of the Light Brigade which was written by Alfred Tennyson it is a ballad poem a ballad poem is a poem that tells a story. the Light Brigade is a poem it about is about a Crimean war that lasted for 11 months. At the war there were 600 men who had no choice but to join even if they were to survive or die. The Crimean war were fought by the British and Turkish forces against the Russia, the war was fought due to Russian pressure of turkey.
