Friday, 8 December 2017
2017 sign off post
I will miss the children and teachers in our class but am looking forward to finding new and exciting friends. during the holidays I am planning on doing a lot of skating and mountain biking. I am also looking forward to seeing my dad for the first time in fourish months.
I hope I find new experiences in year eight and will enjoy finding out my year eight teacher.
thanks, Shamus.
I hope I find new experiences in year eight and will enjoy finding out my year eight teacher.
thanks, Shamus.
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
jibjab
in clas we have been making funny christmas videos on jibjab here is a photo from one of the shows
kahoot
here is a link to a kahoot i created
https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=31ce35e7-2394-457f-a58f-b77719e45ad9&token=0d428c7a-d21a-4088-b01d-a287d71bce74&user=2016missob
https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=31ce35e7-2394-457f-a58f-b77719e45ad9&token=0d428c7a-d21a-4088-b01d-a287d71bce74&user=2016missob
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
passion project
The zodiac killer killed 37 people and to this day his identity still remains unsolved.
The zodiacs first kill took place on the night of December 20th, 1968 where he killed 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen and her boyfriend 17-year-old David faraday by gun whilst near there car in a remote spot on lake Herman road on the outskirts of California. At the time nobody knew that this was the act of a mass murderer. The next attacks where six months later on the morning of July 5th, 1969 where he shoots Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mago he confesses to the shootings himself but ensure’s that his identity remains unrevealed.
Astonishingly Mike Mago survives the shooting and describes the man who shoots him as
Heavyset, 5 foot 8, with brown hair and 26-30 year’s old
On August first, 1969 three copies of the same handwritten letter were sent to the San Francisco Chronicles the San Francisco Examiner and the Vallejo Times-Herald. Signed with the zodiacs symbol that claimed responsibility for all the shootings and had in-depth descriptions of all the shootings that only the police would know. The letter also has codes which he claims will reveal his identity. The zodiac demands that the Vallejo times print the codes or he will kill again. So the newspaper prints the codes not wanting blood on their hands.
Seven days later an ordinary couple Donald and Betty Harding crack the code and while it doesn't reveal anything about the shooter it does read an interesting code. The cracked code reads this “I like killing because it is so much fun it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is when I die I will be reborn in paradise and those I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow down or stop my collecting of slaves for afterlife”
on September 27, 1969, couple Bryan Hartnell and cochlea Shepard are feasting over a picnic on Lake Berryessa napa when near a tree a man approaches the couple wearing an executioner's mask and the zodiac symbol chest. He grabs the couple ties them up and stabs them repeatedly. He paints a message on the door dating all the murders he convicted that day's date and the words by stabbing wrote at the bottom of the message. Bryan Hartnell survived the killing.
On October 11th, 1969 cab driver Paul Stine was shot dead in the center of his head by a passenger. A bystanding teen witnesses the shooting and the man walking away from the scene as a white male, 5 foot 8, 25-30 years old with glasses somehow the police dispatcher calls out the suspect as a black male. So when two police officers later that week see a white male, 5 foot 8, 25-30 years old with glasses they just ask him if he has seen the suspect and then let him go on his way. In his next letter to the press he exclaims that he was the male the police talked to and basically called them out as idiots, he now says he is going to start killing kids due to this mix-up. He doesn't though but he wasn't above it either.
Two days after the Paul Stine murder Kathleen johns is driving with her baby daughter when a car signals her to pull over. Something is suddenly wrong with her tire and she accepts a ride from him in his car. Once they are driving and on their way, the man explains that he will kill her and throw her baby out after her. The stop for a moment before getting on the highway when Kathleen jumps out of the car and runs into the field with her baby and lies down. The man can’t find her and turns around and drives off. He later references this encounter in another letter.
In 1974 he writes his last letter indicating he has killed 37 people.
The Zodiac killer has never been found but there still are suspects. The first and most convincing one to me is Arthur Leigh Allen. this theory was made by Robert Graysmith who was a political cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He wrote two books on his research towards the zodiacs case which mainly pointed at Arthur Leigh Allen. Arthur told his family that he was going diving at Lake Berryessa the day of the Hartnell and Shepard attacks. He came home covered in blood and holding a knife also a friend remembers Arthur referring to himself as the zodiac before the zodiac killer came public about it. The police searched Arthur's trailer and found bits of dead animals, bloody knifes, and sexual objects. Arthur was arrested for child molestation in 1974, the same years the letters stopped. His DNA was tested against one of the stamps from the letters that the zodiac sent it didn't match but he was rumored to have a habit of letting other people lick his stamps.
The second believed suspect is Earl Van Best Jr this theory was made by his own son Stewart who even went as far as to make a book about it called the animal inside us and to add on top that Van Best looks like the male on the sketch's printed by the police but does not match earlier descriptions. The number of letters in his name matches one of the ciphers wrote by the Zodiac himself.
Now to the third and final suspect Lawrence Kane Kay. he was profiled on the November 14th, 1998 Americas most wanted. He lived in the area where every one of the victims lived or died.
Darlien Farenes sister told the press that Lawrence was harassing her sister up to her murder and one of the cops who supposedly saw the killer said that he was the closest to the man that he had seen. Another believed zodiac murder we didn't talk about was a woman who worked at the same hotel as Lawrence and mysteriously disappeared.
So who do you believe it was I personally think it was Arthur Leigh Allen but it's up to you to decide.
Conclusion
It was a fun yet boring project to complete I liked it at the start and then later found it boring and not as interesting as it used to be.
In the end, I liked it but probably would never do it again.
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
My Short Story
Timothy was a shallow child with pale white skin and a unruly mop of ginger hair. He preserved very few people to be his friend. Despite having this choice, nobody found interest in the boy. Timothy lived in a small town called Hawea flat where his house was placed on 13 Long Grass Place. He never really had time to talk to a female figure as his parents split up twelve years prior before he could even walk. The closest thing to a mother was an English woman named Dani that his father met at a local pub called Kai. Dani grew up in Yorkshire, England where she was abused; hence she migrated to New Zealand. Timothy knew she was going to be his well… ‘mother’ as soon as she moved in from her flat in Wanaka.
The classroom is Timothy's (or Tim as his father calls him) favourite area in the school due to the countless times he was bullied in and outside of school. Walking home, Tim was singing a song that he faintly remembered his mum singing to him on the phone. Blackbirds singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly.’ Tim sung chirpily when he was stopped by a sudden twitching figure in the distance blocking his pathway home. He couldn't tell distinctly who it was due to the blurred figure but the two things he could point out was the blue balloon the figure was holding and the sudden ear bleeding hush that passed through his ear. As he creeped over, the sound became more and more dull until the sound was eliminated by Tims confusion to why the balloon was still there and the figure wasn’t. Tim wondered about that night and if he was imagining it until he peered out of his bedroom window and saw the exact figure hushing into his ear. Before he could think he screamed… “DAD!” His father came rushing out, “do you see it, do you see it?” Timothy shrieked, ‘see what his father said. “The, the,”’ nothing was there but a blue helium balloon floating outside his window. “Wow cool balloon” His father said sarcastically. “There was a figure… a, a, a man outside the window,” Tim said. “Maybe you're imagining things” “I’m not, belive me please.” “Goodnight Tim.” “Goodnight dad,” Tim said angrily.
Seeing this man repeatedly has reinvented a new daily routine day after day, hour after hour. The figure appeared and the remains of the balloon came back with the man as he disappeared into Tim's glare. It never connected to Tim that these reappearances had consequences. Once Tim's house was near he couldn't help but notice his reflection in the puddle happened to blur black eyes. The figure behind him, he turned back with black eyes and saw nothing. Not even the balloon. He looked in the puddle again hoping not to see the man. Tim had a dull face as he noticed he could see the once silhouetted figure clearly. As his eyes grew darker the figure became more and more manly.
The man had a distinctive pale face, brown hair and hazel eyes. He wore a black tuxedo and always hunched his back. Bolting home Tim begged his father to get rid of the black. “What do you mean?” “The black eyes, please get rid of them!” “I,” don't know what you are on about wee man” Tim's father said. He ran outside crying, hoping to catch a breath of fresh air. Crying he opened his eyes but couldn't see. He turned around in the black abyss and saw one blue balloon but no man. His eyes turned to black flakes as they crusted into tims hands and as tears welled up in his eyes but none appeared. The only tears were the tears of his fathers as they dripped over his son's cold dead body as he wondered what he could have done.
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
making dumplings and chopstick games.
How to do high jump athletics learning
links to descriptive videos
In this description I will be talking about high jump.
There are three different techniques when it comes to high jump.
There is the scissor kick, straddle, and the one I will be talking about most the Fosbury flop invented by Dick Fosbury.
the man behind it
Dick Fosbury is the man behind the secret of the Fosbury flop but before the world of high jump was introduced to the Fosbury flop, high jump was a whole different story. Let's go on a trip back to ye old days where every man and women used the traditional technique of the straddle. The straddle was composed when the man/women ran in an arch where they would continue to jump sideways and over the pole causing the straddle. It was like this for years until Dick Fosbury revolutionized high jumping by jumping backwards over the pole which eventually qualified him for the 1968 olympics which he by the way got gold in and set a new world record of 2.24m high.
How to
The fosbury flop is composed when the jumper runs in an arch on a 90 degree angle once you reach the pole kick off with your left foot if you're running from right or you’re right foot if you are running from your left. If you twist whilst your foot is still on the ground it will propel you into a backwards position, from the pole. Once you are in the air and facing away from the pole upside down curve your back into a 135 degree angle so your centre of gravity is under the pole. Flick your feet over the pole and congratulations you officially jumped over a pole.
The science behind it
The science behind the Fosbury flop is the fact that compared to the straddle you drop your centre of gravity under the pole by arching your back leaving more space for you to kick up over and get more height.
So now you know how to jump over a pole with remarkable heights and the science behind it. What do you say? Will you give it a shoot and hopefully master it, or do you think ‘nah screw it, it sounds like to much work’. If you would gratefully say number one then good on you and I hope you enjoy it.
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
speech self reflection
Self Reflection!
WALT: Plan, prepare and deliver a persuasive speech related to our T3 inquiry topic - Healthy Bodies, Strong Minds
Topic: why pollutants have an impact on our lives
Persuasive component: work on your conclusion
Time: 2:37
Keep
(What would you keep in your speech if you did it again?)
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Change
(What would you change in your speech for next time, how could you make it even better? and why?)
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Match
(Pick a partner from our class and ask what they would keep, change, add and chuck. What is similar to your thinking?)
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Most of my speech including my start but not my end
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My conclusion because as told by the teacher my conclusion was a little fast and didn't really disengage the audience.
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Ollie:
Keep:
mostly the whole speech i reckon it was pretty good
Change:
Nothing really?
Add:
Don’t know?
Chuck:
Don’t know?
(ollie doesn't know?)
Nothing matched between ollie and i because i would like to add to help me get into the finals but ollie thinks his speech was fine just the way it was…..
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Add
(What further ideas and/or detail would you add to your speech? Were you persuasive enough - what do you peers think?)
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Chuck
(What are some of the parts of your speech you would scrap?)
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I would add more to my conclusion, as i previously said it did not disengage the audience.
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Nothing really i would only just add to my speech to make it better.
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Reflective thoughts above + feedback from your learning buddy/peers/teacher
= your next LEARNING step...
My next learning step for my next speech in the future is …….
because...
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my class speech
tena a koutou
Ko Shamus taku ingoa
No nga ra tena a koutou tena a koutou tena a koutou katou
Just because your life is stable does not necessarily mean everthing else is
We spend all our lives protecting each other that we forget about the most important thing of all.
The environment.
And this is Why pollutants have an impact on our lives.
Well let's set aside the serious stuff and get into the more informative reasoning
Air Pollutants are made when gases are burnt and toxins are released into the air which is the main cause of air pollution, however, water pollution is caused predominantly by industrial farms and or the disposal of waste. But despite all the negatives pollution can be stopped With a little enthusiasm yes pollutants can be stopped
Unfortunately, until that day comes we have to realize how pollutants have an impact on our lives. And spoiler alert that is the topic of this speech
Pollutants don't have a percussion on our lives due to the fact that we are all probably going to die from it.
No, it’s everything but that, first let's start off with smog pollution which happens when sunlight reacts with burnt gases and leave pollutants in the atmosphere which informs what the name entitles….. it smogs up the air. first off let me disclaim that smog is terrible for your lung/respiratory systems but neither less smog restrict your eyesight and as it is typically viewed in China, billions have to squint to just see their family.
Now, this doesn't commonly happen so something more universal would have a bigger impact on our trivial lives.
For instance water pollution more specifically lake pollution which is habitual near vast industrial farms and or plantations this is huge for not just ours but everyone else's lives.
What if you were agonizing for water and all you could see was hazy and mucky polluted water all you could do is lay there in distress and hope for the best and yes i'm talking about those less in contact to fresh water than us people who have to wake up everyday in hope that every mile they walk down the unimaginable thought that they will hit a water oasis that is clean and filtered.
yet they struggle with fixed eyes and no prospect discouraged by other people they are told that know one has the tendency to help so we need to try, think and encourage the discouraged.
So next time you lay in a tub of fresh filtered water think of the children who would kill to be in your place in time.
inquiry wk7&8
Healthy Bodies - Strong Minds
Weeks 7&8
Global Learning Intention: We are learning about being healthy.
BIG IDEA: By keeping physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually fit, we are holistically looking after our HAUORA, (Health).
Big Questions for learning weeks 7&8:
What is a stereotype and how can it affect the way I think about myself and others?
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Authentic Contexts:
Stereotypes
The way different cultures see beauty
Positive body image
The effect of the media on self-perception
Profile photos
Photos from google. Use these if you want.
- Pin the profile photos around the classroom. Divide students into eight groups and give each group several profile sheets from Copysheet: Profile. Allocate a starting photo for each group and allow them a set period of time to come up with a profile of that person. Each group then moves on to the next photo, until they have worked with all the photographs.
Completed profiles
Consider: How accurate were your profiles?- some close some not so close it was just a mix of stereotypes and guessing so in conclusion stereotypes can be accurate sometimes but not always.
What sort of things did you make mistakes about? (Age, hobbies ...) hobbies and jobs age is pretty easy to guess
Why do you think your profiles weren’t always accurate? Because i can't look into their soul and guess who they are
What information did you use to make your profiles? Looks, their emotional state and or where they are. (The look of the person, what they were wearing, their culture, their age, what you think you know about people like that ...)
Is this a fair thing to do? Why or why not? IYes because to categorise someone could help due to the fact the you could be walking along and see someone with mongrel mob tattooed on his forehead and is holding a blood soaked knife it is probably best you avoid him under certain circumstances
What should you do before you make decisions about what a person is like? Get to know them maybe even become there friend and once you have got the crispy details then and only then can you really start making decisions on what the person likes and what he dislikes. (Really get to know them, find out about their personality, talk to them ...)
Create a list of the dangers of stereotyping people into categorie. You could get could out as racist for stereotyping and I could make someone feel really stink for assuming something that isn't true.
Knowing and Respecting People
1. Before I make a judgement about a person I should: ask some questions about them like where they were born and what age they are etc but it is still not good to assume someone's background.
2. It is unwise to stereotype people because it is a racist comment that is not always true and makes people feel insecure about themselves and kills their feelings.
3. We can make people in our school and community who we think are different feel
welcome by: not guessing who they are by their skin colour and or background.
4. In future when I meet new people I will try to … greet them with pleasure and honesty whilst not guessing who they are by their skin colour, money, voice, clothes and even hair colour.
We are all unique in our own ways and that doesn't mean we put people down for it and if we accidentally do then we apologise and stand them up again.
Cultural Perceptions of Beauty
- Brainstorm – What do you think is the perfect body? Draw/ cut pictures out of the magazine as to what they think the perfect body is? I can’t do this task because There is no such thing as the “perfect body”
- Is there such a thing? No there is not because people have preferences which mean different people like different things and more commonly different people have different preferences and the perfect body.
- Are children and adults pressured to LOOK a certain way? Definitely, especially year 7’s/ year 8’s because of self-esteem. For some reason, it is proven the children between the ages of 11 and 14 have lower self-esteems (a cough) puberty)
- What is vanity? How does it affect ‘The perfect body?” vanity is basicly when you're in love with your own body and yes it can affect the quote on quote perfect body because what you love may not be what everybody else likes.
- Culture – What is it? Culture is a religion or tribe that you follow that involves an area that you were born in.
My ideas and thoughts… my thoughts are that culture can be beautiful but sometimes it can be NASTY.
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The Customised Body – The perfect body?
What practices are you aware of?
- SCARIFICATION – cutting patterns in the skin, is a common way for African women and men to decorate their bodies. The cuts heal over, but raised scars remain on the body as elaborate and long – lasting patterns. Scarification video from National Geographic.
- Elaborate gold jewellery, pendants, beads, neck chains, earings, and a headband are used by Masai tribe in Kenya.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ZW6oSLnMM A more modern view of scarification.
- Metal/ brass rings. Burma or Ndebele people of South Africa.
- Nose plumes of the Ergpactsa chief pierce the soft tissue between his nostrils. The skin of his ear lobes has been stretched by wooden discs.
- A wooden disc inserted between his lower gums and lips. Lip discs – Suya tribe Brazil.
- Foot-binding – 19 photos of Chinese foot binding
- Generation of women in China had their feet bound to attract men, the custom was supported to have been handed down since ancient times. “How to bind feet” pg 105 - 06Body Bizarre, Body beautiful
- Tattooing, piercing
- More technologically advanced societies, they also change the shape of their bodies, special diets, exercising, cosmetic surgery, liposuction, botox.
In some cultures the ideal body can be very different to the perception and beliefs in New Zealand.
- SCARIFICATION – cutting patterns in the skin, is a common way for African women and men to decorate their bodies. The cuts heal over, but raised scars remain on the body as elaborate and long – lasting patterns. Scarification video from National Geographic.
- Elaborate gold jewellery, pendants, beads, neck chains, ear – rings, and a headband are used by Masai tribe in Kenya.
- Metal/ brass rings. Burma or Ndebele people of South Africa.
- Nose plumes of the Ergpactsa chief pierce the soft tissue between his nostrils. The skin of his ear lobes has been stretched by wooden discs. Nose plumes and pearls
- A wooden disc inserted between his lower gums and lips. Lip discs – Suya tribe Brazil.
- Foot-binding – 19 photos of Chinese foot binding
http://share100.goingviralposts.biz/coca-cola-campaign-aims-to-remove-labels/ Stereotypes in the dark An interesting point of view
This is a more modern approach to scarification and downright silly body alterations. My point of view there.
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