For spelling I had to make my words have colours and then the red parts mean the hard parts for a word.
narrative
gas
density
fuse
dioxide
carbon
attend
listen
reaction
solution
complication
orientation
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
My story for writing
In a time similar to ours there was a man, his name was Sake. One day, he was out with his friends and while on his way back home, he found a dying kitten. He just glanced at it and continued. The kitten morphed back into its original form. A slightly over aged man in a slightly tinted brown robe.
“You have no care for things in need! Suffer the consequences!”
He pulled out a old stick supposedly made of oak and struck the ground three times.
“Weak old man”
Sake walked away before his head just started acting crazy and his head was spinning. He staggered to his front door and his hand slammed into the doorknob. The metal was cooling his hot hands down again. He twisted at it.
Locked. He reached for the key in his pocket. Nothing.
His mind couldn’t think. His instincts were throwing different words at him.
Locked...
Cold...
Jacket...
It came to him. He reached for his jacket pocket and the metal was hugging his arms with the coldness. He grabbed it and tried to find the lock. His eyes were taunting him. Then he randomly pushed with the key. It flew into the hole and he slowly twisted the doorknob.
He leaned into it and stumbled to the ground. He pulled for the other side of the door and he came back up. He went into the bathroom and lay there. Sleeping...
Morning. First words in his head. Aspirin. He used his paw like hands and got up. He was on his feet while his hands were still touching the ground he didn’t care he looked into the mirror and his eyes were blurred for a moment. Tangerine stripes were covered over his face. A fur coat around his body. His eyesight returned. Then he saw it.
I am the coat. His words were taken in and spat back out as a loud “Roar” and he fell back. He needed to find the wizard man.
He saw a cat on his way out. He heard it mumbling some words he wouldn't quite make out. As he came closer he could understand.
“Stupid owners don’t give me food”
“Hey”
“Who are you? Wizard get at you two?”
“You too?”
“Yeah. Fourteen years now”
The tiger sat back in suprise.
“You hungry”
“Yeah. Haven’t eaten for days”
“Go in my house and have some food”
“Thanks mate!”
The cat ran into the apartment.
The wizard came round the corner.
“Nice boy.”
“What do you want?”
“To change you back”
“OK”
“You have learned you message”
He used his staff and lightly tapped him on the head.
He turned back into his normal form and the wizard hobbled away slowly.
Sake went back inside.
“Hello kitty”
“I ain’t no kitty cat!”
“What!?”
My story for writing
In a time similar to ours there was a man, his name was Sake. One day, he was out with his friends and while on his way back home, he found a dying kitten. He just glanced at it and continued. The kitten morphed back into its original form. A slightly over aged man in a slightly tinted brown robe.
“You have no care for things in need! Suffer the consequences!”
He pulled out a old stick supposedly made of oak and struck the ground three times.
“Weak old man”
Sake walked away before his head just started acting crazy and his head was spinning. He staggered to his front door and his hand slammed into the doorknob. The metal was cooling his hot hands down again. He twisted at it.
Locked. He reached for the key in his pocket. Nothing.
His mind couldn’t think. His instincts were throwing different words at him.
Locked...
Cold...
Jacket...
It came to him. He reached for his jacket pocket and the metal was hugging his arms with the coldness. He grabbed it and tried to find the lock. His eyes were taunting him. Then he randomly pushed with the key. It flew into the hole and he slowly twisted the doorknob.
He leaned into it and stumbled to the ground. He pulled for the other side of the door and he came back up. He went into the bathroom and lay there. Sleeping...
Morning. First words in his head. Aspirin. He used his paw like hands and got up. He was on his feet while his hands were still touching the ground he didn’t care he looked into the mirror and his eyes were blurred for a moment. Tangerine stripes were covered over his face. A fur coat around his body. His eyesight returned. Then he saw it.
I am the coat. His words were taken in and spat back out as a loud “Roar” and he fell back. He needed to find the wizard man.
He saw a cat on his way out. He heard it mumbling some words he wouldn't quite make out. As he came closer he could understand.
“Stupid owners don’t give me food”
“Hey”
“Who are you? Wizard get at you two?”
“You too?”
“Yeah. Fourteen years now”
The tiger sat back in suprise.
“You hungry”
“Yeah. Haven’t eaten for days”
“Go in my house and have some food”
“Thanks mate!”
The cat ran into the apartment.
The wizard came round the corner.
“Nice boy.”
“What do you want?”
“To change you back”
“OK”
“You have learned you message”
He used his staff and lightly tapped him on the head.
He turned back into his normal form and the wizard hobbled away slowly.
Sake went back inside.
“Hello kitty”
“I ain’t no kitty cat!”
“What!?”
Monday, 27 May 2013
Friday, 24 May 2013
Novel Study T2W3
NOVEL STUDY
WALT self manage our reading time while maintaining meaning and understanding in an extended text.
1
I am in the Harry Potters Reading group. This week we are reading the novel Under the Mountain It was written by Maurice Gee.
You can find all of my work in my novel study doc in my Reading folder. It is titled ‘Harry Potters Novel Study Task Sheet - T2W2-3’.
Reading Plan:
We have decided to read the following parts of our novel on these days:
Day One: Page 1 to Page 30
Day Two: Page 31 to Page 60
Day Three: Page 61 to Page 90
Day Four: Page 91 to Page 120
Day Five: Page 121 to Page 150
Day Six: Page 151 to Page 177
By the end of day six, the novel should be finished!
Reading Tasks:
These will be completed each day, after I have read my section of the novel.
Task One: Extending Vocabulary
Choose 2 new words you have come across while reading today.
-Write the words.
-Write the words.
-Write a direct quote from the book using quote marks and write the page number you found it.
-Now write down what you think it means, then find the meaning of the word in a dictionary or online dictionary and write it down.
Task Two: Summarising
Write a summary of what you have read today. Remember a summary should be written in your own words and should be quite brief (short).
Task Three: Evaluating
Write a personal response. What did you like about what you read today? Why? What didn’t you like? Why? (This could be based on the characters actions, setting or plot) If you are writing this on Days 1, 2, or 3, write a prediction about what you think might happen next.
Task Four
The daily question
Daily Questions
Day One: Summarising and Evaluating
Describe the main setting. How important is it? Does the setting
help set a mood?
Day Two: Evaluating, Visualising, Inferring
Analyse two characters. Describe their physical characteristics (what they look like) and their personality traits (e.g. friendly, kind, horrible, nasty). Use a Venn Diagram to complete this task.
Day Three: Summarising, Evaluating, Inferring
What is the plot? Explain what the conflict (problem) or goal is and how the character is trying to solve or achieve it.
Day Four: Evaluating, Inferring
How have characters developed since the start of the story? Has anyone shown a different side? What would you do if you were that character?
Day Five: Predicting, Inferring
What do you predict the ending will be? Why do you think this?
Day Six: Evaluating, Synthesising, Making Connections
What is the theme of your novel? What message, moral, or lesson is the author trying to get across. Was the theme explicit or implicit (did the author make it obvious or did you have to use your inference skills to figure it out?).
Begin your work below...
Task 1 + 2 + 3 + Daily Question - Day One:
1:
Maar - ‘The name of basins of this sort is maar’
I think it is a basin.
A shallow crater.
Recessive Genes - ‘Haven’t you ever heard of recessive genes?’
I think it means when you get attributes and things from a grandparent.
Gene that makes its characteristic appearance when its allele is identical.
2:
First it is about the Matheson Twins as they were children, they lay down in a bush by the riverside and no one could find them. A mysterious man finds them and says that he will wait for them and disappears. Then it is about when they are older and they move to their uncle and aunt’s house in Auckland and a mysterious man sniffs her lock of hair that she lost when she got it caught in a tree.
3:
I like what I read today because it was really interesting and it has an interesting prologue and orientation for the beginning of the story.
DQ:
DQ:
The setting was pretty important because it is set in a river and by the mountain.
The setting makes you feel pretty good because it is about the sea and the sea is pretty heart warming.
Task 1 + 2 + 3 + Daily Question - Day Two:
1:
Telepathy: ‘How do you alk in our minds? Is it telepathy?’
It might be like mind powers.
The supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses.
Impenetrable: ‘Impenetrable - stones’
Meaning unbreakable.
Impossible to pass through or enter.
2:
On this part the Matheson twins see Mr Jones on Mt Eden and he communicates with them while they are on the mountain (Telepathy) and then they go on a boat with Ricky and sharks attack them and they barely make it back. Later they meet Mr JOnes and he tells them to come with him, they follow him to his house and he teaches them to use telepathy and shows them special stones that they don’t know how to use.
3:
I like what I read to today because it starts to get interesting and the story starts to lead in to the problem.
Daily Question:
Mr Jones Mr Wilberforce
Helpful Creepy
Kind Strong
Friendly Weird
Old Old
Good Evil
Powerful Dark
Mysterious Mysterious
Secretive Secretive
Task 1 + 2 + 3 + Daily Question - Day Three:
1:
Symbiosis: ‘Have you hear of symbiosis?’
The joining of two things together.
Semi-Transparent: ‘Some sort of semi-transparent jelly’
I think it means like kind of see through.
Slightly coloured.
2:
Right now it is about some mysterious man who ‘Pebbles’ with the twins saying to help and they go into the Wilberforces’ house and realize it was a trap. They run into a trap door that lead into a room with another cave and they get stuck by a dead end. Mysterious quacking worm creatures try to attack them but they make a light and they find an hidden door that lead into the ocean. Mr Jones then explains to them that the Wilberforces are trying to destroy the universe.
3:
I liked this part of the story because it has a very interesting problem to the story and the twins are discovering new powers that they learn to escape.
Daily:
The problem of the story is that the Wilberforces are a kind of slug race who are trying to destroy the universe. The Matheson twins goal is to try and realize what the weapons are so they can stop the Wilberforces.
Task 1 + 2 + 3 + Daily Question - Day Four:
1:
Wooden Clapper: ‘He spoke as though his tongue were a wooden clapper’
I think it might be something that is familiar to a tongue.
The free-swinging metal piece inside a bell that is made to strike the bell to produce the sound.
Banister: ‘She felt for the banister’
Something by stairs
The structure formed by uprights and a handrail at the side of a staircase.
2:
Mr Jones tells the twins about a story of the previous two twins with the stones while they try to hold and focus on the stones. Later they go home, Ricky and their aunt and uncle were gone for the night. A mysterious cop says that their parents were in an accident and says in Hamilton. (It wasn’t) and he attacks them.
3:
I like what I read today because it was action and the story started to get more mysterious and there is some sad parts as well as the funny parts.
DQ:
Theo has started to become more wiser since the start of this story and Rachel has started to become a bit more brave as well as Mr Jones is starting to get a bit more emotional.
Task 1 + 2 + 3 + Daily Question - Day Five:
1:
Hearse - ‘A real hearse’
Maybe a car for dead people.
A vehicle for conveying the coffin at a funeral.
Oblivion - ‘We bring you the gift of oblivion’
Death
The state of being unaware or unconscious.
2:
Today they had to fake Rachel’s death so they could defeat the Wilberforce’s blind handed. While they go they aren’t supposed to let go of the stones and Theo drops the stone and Mr Jones doesn’t stop calling him a fool. Rachel succeeds with her stone and she says an incantation ‘Go down, people of the mud’
3:
I like what I read today because it is either life or death and the world’s fate is in their hands. It is starting to have some really ‘Off the edge’ parts and the story starts to get more action.
DQ:
I predict that Theo will fail and die and the whole world will end. I think this because Theo never stops failing and he let go of the stone when Mr Jones told him not to.
Task 1 + 2 + 3 + Daily Question - Day Five:
1:
Anxious: I think this means impatient.
Experiencing worry, unease or nervousness.
Chugging: I think it is like choking
Explosive sounds
2:
On this the twins and Mr Jones travel by one of their underground tunnels and they see a massive worm they fought was a cliff. The worms nearly get them and Mr Jones transforms into his true form, A golden ball of flame. He carries them back up to the top and loses his powers (Weak) and a worm nearly kills Theo before he throws his stone and says the incantation.
3:
I didn’t like this part because Theo survived and Ricky died. This part was sad because Ricky was really cool guy.
DQ:
I think the moral of this story was teamwork. This is because they go through a series of teamwork exercises.
Extra:
Another way this could've ended was that a worm was disguised as ricky and he dragged Theo into the river and drowns him. Mr Jones finds out and tries to stop him but is too late so he kills himself.
Friday, 17 May 2013
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Monday, 13 May 2013
Writing T2W2
This week we are focusing on procedural writing. We are beginning the literacy cycle with 'Planning' This is our group brainstorm for possible ideas to write a procedure for. Our audience is Y4-6 classes. Come back to see my final piece of writing on Friday.
Friday, 10 May 2013
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
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