Reflection section - Rebirth by Michi on Webtoon

In Wanaga we are doing another reflection section. I know I technically just posted one, but that was last weeks. Whoops. Here is this weeks    

Text title: Rebirth Story

Text type: Graphic novel 

Text creator: Michi

Text purpose: To entertain  

Date: 26th February, 2021

How are children, teenagers, young adults, and adults constructed in this text?

The children are ignored by the adults and not taken seriously, while the adults are trying to take control, even only one of them knows whats going on. And one of the children properly also knows what's going on, but i'm not sure.

Tracey Tawhiao subversion

Our current objective in art is to research and learn about subversion in the art using methods like thumbnail sketches.

One of our objectives is to take notes from the following website:

Art is meant to subvert.

My notes are confusing so I will simply them. 

Art is supposed to challenge the art constructs and make people think and question things. However, some people do not appreciate having their views challenged and so they get angry

If art does not challenge them tough, they will get bored of your art. 

Another task we had to do was to make thumbnail sketches of Tracey Tawhiao's work.

  The thumbnail next to the actual painting. 

Thumbnail versus actual artwork

Within Tracey's work, the act of subversion is shown in the process of painting over a newspaper written in English. Tracey is a Maori artist so by doing this it is almost as if she is trying to cover up the English part of New Zealand. She doesn't make much of an attempt to hide the fact that she is doing it over something is that sometimes she'll let things like words show through. When she paints she uses Maori patterns as if to say that the country should belong to the Maori more than the British. Newspaper is also not really a permanent canvas and is not designed to be painted on.

Another task we had to do was to describe an artwork that she did

In this artwork, (Called Amazon) she did a lot of fish, of varying sizes and shapes. The rounder fish look slightly like targets which might refer to the fish being targeted/hunted. She has kept the word Amazon and a picture of what I assume is the Amazon. she has used a lot of blue in the artwork which might relate to water. 

I think that is all. If not.... well... whoops

Reflection Section- Oh God, Not Again! By Sarah1281

In Wanaga today, we have to summarize a text of our choice. I chose Oh God, Not Again! By Sarah1281

Text title: Oh God, Not Again! (Story)

Text type: Fanfiction 

Text creator: Sarah1281 

Text purpose: To entertain

Date: 12th February, 2021

Who would be most likely to read this text and why?

The people who would be most likely to read Oh God, Not Again! By Sarah1281 are Harry Potter fans, who don't care about the story changeling, and ooc (out of character) characters. I know this because it is a Fanfiction, and those are the types of people who read fanfiction. 

WTE Sentences

 In English at the moment, we are looking at Write That Essay Sentences. These are the types and my examples of them

A Simple sentence - He creeped into the forest. 

A Very Short Sentence - The trees loomed ahead.

The Power Sentence - He knew it was a bad idea, but he had no choice.

Red White and Blue - The ground was covered in roots, rocks, and other things to trip him up.

The Adverb start - Carefully, he made his way through the trees. 

Begin with a preposition (prepositions are little words indicating movement or position) - Between the trees eyes gazed at him, watching his every move.

The -ing start - Wanting to get out of there as soon as possible, he hurried along, constantly checking behind him. 

The -ed start - Determined to complete his task, he pushed on, even as night fell.

The semicolon - Looking left and right he creeped along; Anxiety tickled at the back of his consciousness   

The em-dash - The trees - that creaked in the silence- seemed to close in on him more and more, the further he walked.

The W-Start - Whenever he tripped over a hidden root or rock, he could swear he could hear laughter, even though he knew he alone.

Explore the subject - The Forest, that people said to be haunted, seemed to stretch on forever

Holidays

 In Wananga class today we had to create a list of what we have done in the holidays in alphabet order. Here is mine

Apricots
BNHA
Cousins
D
Entertained young children
Four Wheel Driving
G
H
Ice cream
J
KFC
Lounge around
Make slice
Nachos
O
Pluots
Queenstown
Rain
Swimming in lake thing
Troll under the bridge
U
V
Wanaka
X
Youtube
Zzz

We then had to write what we have done in a paragraph. Again, here is mine (Unfinshed)

In the holidays the first week or so was quite and so there is not much to say apart from the weather was bad, but everyone had that. Christmas was also a quiet affair so again not much to say. We (Mum Dad and me) left for Alexandra on the 29th or 30th of December I think(Rosa would be coming later due to work, and James decided not to come). I know we left a day earlier because the weather was to be bad in Alexandra the next day and since we were camping we didn't want to set up the caravan in the rain. It was a good thing we went when we did because the next day was the beginning of a week of rain. Now you may not know this, but Alexandra usually has an average of 30o every day. And no rain. The complete opposite of what we had. We spent most of the first week in the caravan wrapped up in blankets. We stayed up on new years playing cards with my gran who was also camping with us. 

We had friends come and camp with us on the 2nd of January (Rosa came with them), and we showed them around as they had never been to alex before. It was Rosa and Gran's Birthday on the fourth of January. We opened gifts in the morning. James gave Rosa a very cute dinosaur, who was immediately named it George. we had sushi for lunch and muscles and bacon, chicken hearts and salad for dinner. My younger cousins came at some point within the next week, and stayed for a week. 

We did some four wheel driving at some point. We went up to the Old Man Range in search of snow, but were unsuccessful.  

Fire proofing / bush fires (They correlate I promise)

1. How do bushfires start and how has climate change made them more common?
Bushfires start when the plants have dried up because of a extended period of time, and some sort of spark ignites the plant matter. This could be from a natural course a lightning strike, rocks falling on each other causing a spark, or it could be because of humans, someone throwing a still lit cigarette butt out the window, someone not putting their campfire out probably. Climate change can make these more common because the heat can dry out the plants faster, meaning the bushfire 'season' will get longer and longer


2. What are 3 ways you could fire proof your house if you lived in an area likely to get bush fires?
Try build your house with bricks, if you can't do that use stucco to coat the outside. Use gypsum on the inside, and try to use a couple layers. Try to get fire resistant glass for you windows and have the frames steel if possible.   

3. When something burns it combusts, what is the difference between complete and incomplete combustion?

The difference is that when something completely combusts it means it has burned with plenty of oxygen, and has made carbon dioxide and water. (the equation is Fuel + Oxygen --> Carbon dioxide + Water). When it incompletely combusts it means it has burned with not enough oxygen, and it makes either carbon monoxide and water or just carbon and water (the equation is Fuel + Oxygen --> Carbon Monoxide + Water or Fuel + Oxygen --> Carbon + Water) 

 

Home Economics culture unit

 In Home Economics this term, we have been doing a culture unit where we researched a country we knew little to no information on, and found out their culture around food edicate. This is what me and my group did. I'm sorry if there are unfinished slides, I had absolutely no help with it as my group was constily away and never did any work (Yes I am salty, and pissed, no I do not care) Enjoy.

Evaluation. (I know this is on the slides, I'm just petty)

Strengths: We got the work done, and to a decent quality.

Weakness: People not showing up to class leaving me to do all the work, by myself.

Improvements: Come to class, or at least do the work in your own time. and not leaving it all on flipping person!