Year 10 Writing Portfolio

Creative Writing

What happened to all the dragons? Did they all go extinct or went into hiding?

A human being with long blonde curly hair who was wearing a white dress and a flower crown wandered around in the forest. Until she made it to a meadow filled with colourful flowers. The tree bunches moved as if they were waving. Until something tackled her to the grass still ground and growled, she was frozen like ice scared for her life that the beast would bite.

But then something tackled the beast and saved her, the girl sat up and looked around to no longer see the beast but a dragon.

A real-life dragon standing right there!

 

It was standing there before her eyes, she had never seen anything as beautiful as the thing was alive, they were myth and legend but the girl never thought they were real.

The dragon and the girl stood there staring at each other until the dragon flew toward the female human and tackled her then started licking her and all the girl did was giggle as if she was an angel. Then the dragon stopped and flew beside her when the girl noticed that there wasn’t only one dragon there was about 15 in front of her staring like she was a target until they all tackled her to the ground and they all licked her and she giggled. 

Until there was a roar and they all flew off of her and bowed to a large golden old dragon as if he was a king. The golden dragon walked up to the girl and sniffed her then started licking her and she started giggling and the old bearded dragon roared and a dragon grabbed her and put her on the king's back. The Dragon lifted his wing and started flying into the air and the other dragons followed. They flew over a river that turned into an ocean until they settled on an island where more dragons were flying around, playing fighting with another, sleeping near the water to only be woken up by the golden king's loud roar.

The dragon all stopped and watched as the golden old dragon landed.

The same red dragon grabbed the girl and put her back on land. A baby sky blue dragon walked up to the girl and sniffed her and then licked her a few times for the girl to start giggling. Then all 15 of the baby dragons tackled her and started licking her and she started giggling a little louder and all the dragons fell in love with her, liking the fact she wasn’t scared or going to hurt them.

Close Viewing essay

SEXXY 1 - Statement In the going for a run Scene in The Power Of One, we see Mise en scene which means there is a purpose about how the shot workaround PK and Gideon Example/evidence In the running scene we see PK and Gideon running to the fountain in the background we can see a lady looking concerned, worried as Gideon drinks from the non-white fountain, and then PK said a myth we don’t even believe in. Gideon says how he wants to believe his people. A bit later Gideon walks away and another lady is with her two kids and walks up the stairs and pulls her kids into her as she sees Gideon and says whites gotta stay back when blacks walk by. Explanation of Director’s Purpose The Director’s purpose was to show us, the audience how the white treated non-white people back in the past when they would be scared or angry. In one scene a non-white man jumps onto a truck but a white man kicks the person off. The director put that in the scene that if you were non-white would be treated differently to white and so history doesn’t repeat itself. Explanation of Effect - link back to question This helps us understand that this technique helps us think about how bad Racistment was back in the day and it makes us feel bad and sympathy for Gideon and other non-white. Mise en Scene is a scenery, props, etc that is set up in the way so you understand what happens around the actor in a way so we can understand what happening around them to help us understand the scene more. SEXXY 2 Dialogue has a big purpose in movies and books because it’s a conversation with 2 people or more and is an important aspect in this scene. This helps us understand how white talk to non-white. PK and Gideon are having a conversation as they were running. One thing Gidon said, “You know you hope for a good tomorrow in South Africa but if we don’t learn to do for ourselves as equal, that hope will disappear, disappear!” He says this because he believes that PK can help teach his people how to talk, write and read English. The director did this because he wanted to show us that Gidon believes that they shouldn’t be treated differently because of their race. This helps us as the audience understand that they shouldn’t be treated differently cause in the end we are all human.

SEXXY 3

Symbolism is a big key in movies because it helps us get the meaning behind the movie for The Power Of One it was water, hope, and freedom.

The Power Of One was water, hope, and freedom. Symbolism is used when PK was using the non-white fountain because the white fountain was not working and he had a drink then we see water pouring onto his hands and turns into the next scene.

The director did this to show us that anyone who has hope can do anything, everyone has diverse freedom and water 

This helps the audience understand that everyone has diverse freedom, we should have hope and water

Written Text Essay

A Game of Card - Describe at least one memorable idea in the text. Explain why this idea was memorable to you.

In the short written text “A Game Of Cards” by Witi Ihimaera, the narrator reflect on his Nani Miro’s life, how the narrator comes home when she was dying and was busy last time and couldn’t come over to see her “ There no such thing of being too busy to see your kuia, next time make time.” A memorable moment in the text was that Nani Miro was dying so all her family and friends came over and they spent her last few breaths being happy, playing cards. To me, it shows that we should be surrounded by family and friends we love and care about, and we should spend as much time with our family and friends, and we should be grateful for the people in our lifes. It also made me think back to when I played card games with my sibling and we would be competitive about it and get mad at each other but we were enjoying ourselves.

One reason why we should be surrounded by family and friends we love and care about. This was memorable to me because it shows me that we spend our last breath with the people we love. We see this in the text when Nani Miro is playing cards with her rival but best friend, Mr Heta. For example, when Nani Miro and Mrs Heta were bickering back and forward, the author wrote “ Nani and Mrs Heta started squabbling as they always did, pointing at each other and saying ‘You the cheat, not me’ and Nani Miro said ‘I saw you, Maka Tiko Bum, I saw you sneaking that card from under the blanket.’ She begins to laugh. Her eyes streamed with tears. While she was laughing, she died. Everybody was silent. Then Mrs Heta took the cards from Nani’s hand and kissed her. ‘You the cheat,’ she whispered ‘Yes Miro, you the cheat yourself-’ ”  The purpose of this is to show us that in the Maori culture when it comes to death they come together and spend time together. This makes the reader thrilled that Nani Miro is surrounded by the people who care about her and love her, playing a game of cards with Mrs Heta and getting competitive with each other, and the most important thing, having fun. In reality, we think of death as a quiet, sad time but in the Maori culture when someone dies it’s time for family and friends to come together and to enjoy life.

Another reason is that we should spend as much time with our family and friends because life is short. I found this memorable to me because it made me think about what I would want before I die, which is spending time with my family and friends. We see this in the text when everyone found out Nani Miro was dying and all her family and friends rushed over to see her and a bit later Nani Miro asked Mrs Heta for a game of cards. For example, the author wrote “ Then she looked up, saw Mrs Heta and whispered to her ‘Maka...Maka Tiko Bum...I want a game of cards’ A pack of cards was found Everyone sprang into action. The old ladies sat on the bed, began to gossip, as usual, puffing their clouds of smokes. Nani Tama suggested a game of poker in the living room, so all the men trooped in there to do some serious gambling. Wherever there was a table - in the kitchen, on the verandah, anywhere, games of cards started up. The kids played snap in the other bedrooms and, as the night progressed, so did the games, the laughter, the Aroha” The purpose of this was to show us instead of being sad, and quiet the families and friends spend time playing cards and being happy. This makes the reader understand that in the Maori culture, they act way differently from some cultures. This makes the reader glad that Nani Miro spends her last breath having fun and playing cards with Mrs Heta before she dies.  In reality, lots of people don’t spend the last breath of their loved one being happy and enjoying life, we spend it being sad and quiet, and sometimes people will say their last words and goodbyes.

One other reason is we should be grateful for the people in our life because sooner or later they will end up leaving us. I found this memorable to me because people leave but we should be happy and grateful that they were in our life. We see this in the text when the author writes “ We buried Nani Miro on the hill with the rest of her family. During her tangi, Mrs Heta played patience with Nani, spreading the cards across the casket. Later that year, Mrs Heta, she died too. She was buried right next to Nani so they could keep on playing cards. I bet they’re still squabbling up there. ‘Eee! You cheat, Miro!’ ‘You the cheat, Maka tiko bum. You the cheat.’ ” The purpose of this was to show us that Nani Miro was grateful that Mrs Heta was in her life because she asked for a game of cards when she was slowly dying. This makes the reader feel happy and understand that Mrs Heta wasn’t just Nani Miro’s rival when they were playing cards but she also was her best friend. In reality, we’re not really more grateful for the people in our lifes than we really should be, and it can be hard to find true close best friends.

In the text “A Game of Card,” a memorable idea was that Nani Miro was dying so all her family and friends came over and they spent her last few breaths being happy, playing cards. This idea was memorable to me. It showed me that we should us that we should be surrounded by family and friends, spend as much time with them as possible and we should be grateful that they are in our life. Of all reasons, the most important is that we should set time for our family and friends. If we don’t they’ll end up leaving you to go on their own path in life. For example, the narrator in “A Game of Cards” They were too busy to come home and spend time with Nani Miro until she was on her deathbed. This story shows us that we should make time for our family. 

Reflection and Critical Literary section

Text Title: The Open Window
Text Type: Short Story
Text Creator: Saki
Text Purpose: For people to read short stories and enjoy it.
Date: 23/11/21

In the short story "The Open Window" written by Saki. A man, Framtom Nuttel was the Sappleton house so he could present one of the letters of introduction to Mrs Sappleton, but he was waiting for her, the niece of Mrs Sappleton was asking him a few questions like 'Do you know many people round here?' and then told him about how there was a tragedy and how her aunt, Mrs Sappleton husband, and her two young brothers went off for their day's shooting three years ago but they never came back. Their body were never recovered and her aunt always leave the window open like they used to do with their little brown spaniel. At the end of the short story, the husband, and the aunt's two brothers came through the window with their brown little spaniel. The husband asked who bolted out as they came up. Mrs Sappleton replied with 'A most extraordinary man, a Mr Nuttel' 'could only talk about his illness, and dashed off without a word of goodbye or apology when you arrived. One would think he has seen a ghost' which the niece said 'I expect it was the spaniel' 'He told me he had a horror of dogs. He eas once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of Gangs by a pack of Pariah dogs, and had spent the night in a newly dug grave with the creature snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. Enough to make them lose their nerves.' 

Passion Project

I took some risks like presenting in front of my wga class which was beyond my comfort zone, I avoided distractions, I searched and found resources for myself and I tried useful ways to help me get my project done.

My driving question was how can teenagers best draw to improve their wellbeing. I search online something and draw it in my style. If I was to do this I would take more photo and write down what I did at the start of the period when it's passion project. I found online that when when you draw, sketch you decrease the feeling of anger, anxiety, and depression. When I was drawing I felt calm and not so angry. I pick sketching because I like drawing and wanted to improve my drawing skill which I did, last year I didn't know much about shading.

MUSIC

Last term I enjoy playing the piano. I learn how to play with my left and right on the piano. I didn't perform but I did record it with the help of Miss Beer and learned the piano 'say something.' I am not taking Music next year.

"The Red Sari"

Sahib is a polite title or form of address for a man.
Samhara kali also go by Vama Kali is the embodiment of the power of destruction. The chief goddess of Tantric texts. Samhara Kali is the most dangerous and powerful form of Kali. She is also the kali of death, destruction and is worshiped by tantric.

"Waiata Ringa Ringa" is used in the story to show the reader that the author is not from new Delhi.
The parent in New Delhi would cut the finger of their kids so people would pity them and give them money.
Apirana Taylor, the Author of "The Red Suri" 

Reflection

 Text title: Butterflies
Text type: Short study
Text creator: Patricia Grace
Text purpose: To read about a short story
Date:28/9/21

Summary
In the story, the grandmother plaited her grandaughter's hair for school the granddaughter grab her bag and an apple. Her grandfather was waiting at the door to walk her to school but stop to talk to the neighbor about how his granddaughter goes to school and she lives with him and his wife, then the neighbor says how terrific she looks with two plaits in her hair. The grandfather says how she is clever and writes in her book every day. After school, the girl come home and her grandmother was picking beans as the grandfather was hoeing around the cabbages. The grandmother asked if she brought her book home, then ask her to read it. The granddaughter talk about how she killed butterflies and then was asked about what the teacher thought. the granddaughter said" the teacher said butterflies are beautiful creatures. They hatch out and fly in the sun. The butterflies visit pretty flower she said and they lay their eggs and then they die. You don't kill butterflies, that what she said" The grandfather said" because you see, your teacher she buys all her cabbages from the supermarket and that why"

Critical Literary Question: what do the words suggest?
In the short study 'butterflies' the words suggest that the daughter move in with her grandparents and she write in her notebook every day and that she wrote about how she killed a butterfly but her teacher told he that you can't kill butterflies they die after the grandfather say the teacher buys her cabbages from the supermarket and it ends with him saying and that way.

1900s pakeha attitude toward Maori

In the 1900s fashion was like wearing a long dress and suits.

Pearl Button was the main character. Pearl has a blonde curl, blue eyes, and wearing lots of clothes with white bright teeth. Two Maori women and two Maori men and police were also characters

Pearl is swinging on the gate and sang a little small song. Two Maori women are walking on the road barefoot with a big flax basket of ferns. Then pearl stop swinging and the two Maori women stop when they see her and start talking and waving their hands around and pearl laugh. The two Maori women walk over and ask her questions about her then they told her she coming with them to beautiful things to show her. She follows them but after a while, they ask her if she tried and nodded her head no and they continue walking for a bit before they asked if she was sure she was not tired again she shake her head no but she starts crying and her lips start trembling and one of the women gave her a flax blanket and wraps her up, and carry her. They took her to a one-room house with other Maori women and men.

Shadow dance-Joanna Orwin

Text Title: Shadow dance
Text Type: Short story
Text creator: Joanna Orwin
Text purpose: To read about how there are consequences when you take something that doesn't belong to you.
Critical Literary question: In whose interest is this text?
Date:21/9/21

In the short story "Shadow Dance" by Joanna Orwin was about a boy named Scott who spotted movement on the hill near his house and went to take a look he found some flax matting and took a carving. A few days after the pregnant ewes had their baby lamb a week too soon and not one alive. He returns the curving shortly after and his shadow didn't follow him it stay on the hills with the other shadows dancing as the boy went home. 

Critical literary question answer: People who like reading short stories would be interested in this story.

Yellow Brick Road

Witi Ihimaera was born in Gisborne in New Zealand.

Five publish world have been issue into film-like Kawa.

Yellow Brick Road means to me like the "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" in the wizard of oz.

I think the story is about a journey.

The narrative believes they were moving to wellington so his parent could get jobs and get more money.

In Waituhi is very poor while wellington is where the money is.

The dad tells uncle sam that they want to start a new life and to let the kids have a better life.

The narrative was very happy at the start but near the end, he starts to feel scared.

Emerald city, yellow brick road, flying monkey, tinman, scarecrow, cowardly lion is from the famous book and movie The Wizard of Oz the writer made this comparison because when he got closer he realized it not what it seems but what he realized that he has his family.

Music Piano Reflection

 What have you learned on the keyboard? Say Something

What did you find challenging about learning the keyboard? Doing the left hand at the same time as the right hand.

What have you enjoyed about this instrument? I had enjoy the piano/keyboard because I like how you can add the left hand in.

What instruments would you like to learn next and why? The guitar because I think it would be nice to learn more of it.

What we can learn from climate change report

 Text title: The detail: What we can learn from the climate change report
Text type: Article.
Text creator: Emile Donovan
Text purpose: To tell people about the climate change report.
Critical Literary question: What does the author of this text want us to know?
Date:13/8/2021

Emile Donovan sat with Gibson and discussed the good and bad headlines from the IPCC'S Sixth Assessment Report. Gibson talked about that the intergovernmental panel on climate change was formed in 1988 and released its first report in 1990 and that nothing had changed since 30 years ago. It's now inarguable, incontrovertible that has changed are being caused by us is now clear as well. The thing to take from this is some impacts are now baked in. The seas are going to keep rising in the years because of the temperature changes that we have already produced. Later on, Gibson suggested that this could be a deliberate act on part of the IPCC to encourage people to understand the ideas in the report and force their own government to act.

The Author Emile Donovan who wrote the Article 'What we can learn from the climate change report' wanted to let us know that climate change will affect our future because the article says how climate change will make the sea rise. I believe the reason, Emile Donovan wrote this was to inform us about how the temperature will change for the next years.

Reflection Time

Text Title: How to not take it Personally?
Text Type: Video
Text Creator: TEDxMechelen 2019
Text Purpose: Frederik tells us why we take it personally and how not to take it personally.
Critical Literary Question: Who would be most likely to watch this and why?
Critical Literary Answer: People who want to learn how to not take it personally and the reason why we do it.

At the start, you hear a whistle and then he says good evening, how are you? Are you good? He then goes into Why do we take things personally? Our ego telling us it the other person's fault. when someone laughs at you, you don't think they must have noticed my new shoe and want them too. No, we think they are laughing at me, they are gossiping about me. Ask yourself if it to do with me or it not about you.

The Reflection.....

Text Title: Romeo and Juliet Act One Scene Five
Text Type: No fear translation Sparknote
Text Creator: William Shakespeare
Text Purpose: So people who want to understand the original text to the modern text.
Critical Literary Question: why are you reading this text.
Critical Literary Answer: My class is reading this because our teacher wanted to do a Shakespeare play he gave us many options to chose from.
Date: 21/6/21

In scene 5, Capulet party and jokes and encourages them to dance, Across the hall Romeo sees Juliet and askes a serving-man who she is but the man does not know. Then Tybalt hears Romeo's voice and asks for his sword but Capulet overhears and asks him what the matter and Tybalt tell Capulet that Romeo is here. Capulet tells him to leave the boy alone and Tybalt protects but Caplet tells him to keep the peace and Tybalt agrees. Meanwhile, with Romeo, he approaches Juliet and then touched her hand and Romeo kisses her thinking his sins would only disappear with a kiss then now it was on her lips and they need to kiss again after that the nurse come and tell Juilet her Mother wants to speak with her then Romeo askes who Juliet mother is and find out that Juliet is the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet, his parent's enemies. Romeo's friend, Benvolio shows off and takes him away from the feast. Juliet comments to herself if Romeo is married and feels like she will die. She asked Nurse who Romeo is and the Nurse goes to find out and tells Juliet it is Romeo and he is from the Montague house. Juliet talk to herself about loving a montage and follows her nurse from the halls.

Film study......

 FILM STUDY QUESTION.

In English with Miss Johnson, we re-imagine the merchant of Venice.
My Group did a short film where a kid has his friend over and asked his mother for something but she gives something else.
We used Full shot, Long shot, Tilt shot, Pan shot, Close up, Mid shot, and added birds-eye-view shot, Zoned in shot we used those shot so we could see our feet at the beginning of the video and we zoned in on the 2 kids. The challenge we had was getting all the filming correctly.
 I learned what re-imagining means and how to make one for the challenges we had to redo it and re-film it a couple of times.
If I was to do this differently next time I would want to film it instead of acting but it was fun making it.

Simon Sinek on millennial's in the workshop

 Text Title: Simon Sinek on Millennial's
Text Type: Video clip
Text creator: David Crossman
Text Purpose: To help understand Millennials and improve well-being through reducing screen time.
Critical Literary question: What is the text about? How do we know?
Critical Literary Answer: The text is about Millennials are always on their phone, and people on their phone before and after as well as having their phone on the table face up or down. I know this by how he explains how it affects our self-esteem and wellbeing.
Date:10/6/21

The video

In Wga we watch this video Simon Sinek talks about how Millennials are most likely to be almost always on their phone like when they want to watch a movie they can find it and watch. As well as people are always on their phones like adults are addicted to alcohol. Also, bad parenting telling them their special, they can have everything they want. At school, the parent will make sure that they get what they want but some teacher are scare of their parents so they do thing the kids want but as soon as they are out of the house trying to find a job but can't because they always had their parents doing things.

Reflection and Critical Literary time

Text title: Romeo and Juliet
Text type: No fear translation SparkNotes
Text Creator: William Shakespeare
Text purpose: So people can act the play in the original text or modern text
Critical literary question: what genre does this text belong to?
Critical literary answer: Tragedy.
Date:4/6/21

In class, we have been writing a Romeo and Juliet act 1 scene 1 page 8 to the end of scene 2. What happens in scene 1 page 1 to page 12 Montage, lady Montage, and Benvolio are talking about Romeo then Romeo comes and his parents leave, and Benvolio asks what wrong with Romeo and finds out that Romeo is in love with someone and they don't like him back. In scene 2 Capulet, Paris, and Peter are talking about Juliet should marry Paris in 2 years, and Capulets askes Peter to find the people on the list to welcome them to his house but Peter can't read so he comes upon Benvolio and Romeo and asks Romeo to read the list if he can read and say if they are not in Montage house they are welcome to the house. Benvolio convinces Romeo to go.

Happy broadcast

 Hello Everybody I hope you're having a good day. In class, we are doing 3 happy environment news.

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I hope you enjoy reading them.

Romeo and Juliet Part One

Text Title: Romeo and Juliet.
Text Type: No fear translation SparkNotes.
Text Creator: William Shakespeare.
Text Purpose: So people can read the play, Romeo and Juliet, the original text, and the modern text.
Critical Literary question: In whose interest in this text.
Critical Literary question answer: People who like Shakespeare play and who are going to do the play.
Date:28/5/21.

In scene 1 and a few pages these two boys name Sampson and Gregory from the Capulet house are talking until Adram and a servant of the Montagues house and whine them up until they chose to fight afterward Benvolio tries to calm them down, Tybalt come and pick a fight then three citizens enter the scene with clubs and spears and yell "down with the Capulet, down with the Montagues!" Enter Capulet and lady capulet asking about the noise Montagues and lady Montages and Capulet wants his sword to fight Montagues but Prince Escalus and say no more fighting or he'll torture them and askes them to leave. All but Montagues, Lady Montagues, and Benvolio leave, and Lady Montagues say "I am happy Romeo wasn't here when this happens" then askes "Where is Romeo?" Benvolio says " I saw Romeo when I was going on a walk to clear my head when I started walking up to him he notice and ran into the woods" After that Montagues say "He been seen crying many mornings, that add a drops to morning dew, making a cloudy day cloudier with his sighs. But as soon the sunrise east, my sad son comes home to escape the light"

The Earthen Pacific Ocean.

In Class, we have been studying what plastic does to our ocean and sea creatures.

Resilience

Reflection

Text Title: Fall forward

Text Type: Flim clip

Text Creator: Denzel Washington

Text purpose: To explain how to be resilience

Critical literary Question: Is the text fair

Date:24/5/21

In the film clip, he talks about how to be resilient and how he got his job, Acting. The key point in the video are Fall forward never backward, you will fail in life but keep trying never give up even if it take you 55 try until you are able to succeed because every fail experiment is one step closer to success. As well as taking risks, accept your mistake, do you have guts to success. He talks about his acting job and how he failed a lot of times but he didn't quit. His wife says "To get something you never had you have to do something you never did"  Les Brown said "Imagine your on your death bed and there are ghost standing around your death bed, those ghosts represent your unfulfilled potential talent that you never had the guts to do there angry, disappointed at you they say "We came to you because you haven't brought us to live and now we have to go to the grave together" He askes how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes.

Critical Literary

QUESTION: Is the Text fair?

Yes it is because he is saying to never give up and keep trying.