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.