Writing: Narrative

14: A frightening experience

Ben is a competitive individual with an iron will and is willing to jump in for his friends if they are in danger. He also can be very loud and disruptive in class frequently being sent to detention.Ben has very long hair causing people to mistake him for a female. He has tan skin with high cheek bones and is considered handsome mostly hinted by how girls act around him.He is tall for his age and has a slim build. In terms of spirit in everything he does none come close to his determination. He is a very skilled athlete and most of the sports he easily masters but academically he is below average. Ben always carries a  necklace around he uses as a bracelet that he was given to by his grandfather that recently passed away. Although Ben normally fails at his grades his skill in sports and his unbreakable spirit makes up for it.

On an incredibly sunny afternoon Ben was slowly strolling through the streets from school. He finally reached his destination but he needed to cross, unfortunately the road was busy. He decided to take a different, more cautious route.  He had just recently came from detention and the glorious sun was setting. Suddenly Ben plummeted to the ground in an instance. He picked himself up and turned to face an acquaintance from school. Ben realized that him tripping over was no accident and immediately recognized the face of the attacker. It was tyson and seemed more obnoxious than usual. Tyson is a tall young man with a muscular build,he has a tendency of disrespecting teacher's and using his peers as punching bags. He also is a talented athlete and is normally picked for sports teams. He has a steel hard grudge with Ben since he is resistant to tyson’s overwhelming strength. “What was that for!” yelled Ben with all his breath that possibly could be heard from a mile away.

Tyson slowly recovered from the suppressing blast of sound Ben emitted. Without saying a word Tyson firmly gripped onto Ben’s shoulder and pushed him over again with no hesitation.

Once again Ben came back to his feet and struck a devastating blow at tyson. “Crack” The sound of tysons jaw shattering echoed through the streets. “Aaaggghhhh!” shouted Tyson in agony. “ You’ll pay for that!”. Tyson straight after the punch occurred struck back but with less accuracy than Ben. Ben countered his fist with relative ease and pushed his whole arm back. After Tyson stuttered and was pushed away Ben sends a barrage of punches with speed too fast for the naked eye to keep track of.  

Ironically Tyson dropped on the ground with a loud “thud!” and almost instantaneously got to his feet. Ben was was quite glad about being able to knock down Tyson and had a wide grin on his face that could be regarded as creepy. Tyson however was furious and his dense skin was damaged by concrete path. Tyson, blood dripping slowly from his arm onto the path charged at Ben with all his might. Ben easily dodged his futile attack and kicks him in the stomach. Tyson fell to the ground dramatically

Ben was relieved that the fight was over and calmly continued on his path. “Huff,huff,huff,huff!” Tyson breathed heavily. His arm had finally stopped bleeding and had accepted defeat. Ben peered back and shrugged his shoulders as if nothing happened and kept walking. Tyson struggled to get up to his feet but could manage. Tyson covered his wound on his arm and hurried back home. Not long after Ben had finally arrived home and saw his mother arms folded with steam coming from her ears just by trying to contain her violent fury. Ben quivering with fear slowly made his way inside.

After the fight Tyson promised that he would never bother Ben or any student since he is always terrified just by remembering that day. Ben however was punished severely by his parents after they eventually discovered why Ben delayed. From experiencing the fight both Ben and Tyson vowed never to pick fights with or rush to quick decisions easily.

Science of the arts

Aim: I want to find out which kinds of wood can burn faster or what one can last the longest.

Research: I'll find out with two different methods. One of them is to measure how long it takes for it to burn until completely incinerated by flames. The other is to see how quickly the wood is engulfed by flames. Here is a quick video explaining oak trees.
Facts About Oak

Equipment:

• Softwood such as pine, spruce, cedar or fir.
• Hard wood e.g: oak,hickory and maple.
• Bunsen burner.
• Metal plate.
• Stop watch.

Method:
The first thing to do with this experiment is to cut the wood into 1 inch pieces. Place a metal plate with one of the blocks of wood set on it and ignite the Bunsen burner then start the timing process. Once the plates heat is equal to the woods combustion temperature the wood will soon burst into flames. Straight after that, quickly turn off the heat and note the time on your watch. Continue timing and watching until the block of wood is completely burned. Use this same process with the remaining remaining pieces of wood.

Results: This experiment was not completed since I didn't ask for permission of the tools I required. However I managed to collect a range of different types of wood that I could burn to see the span of time it took to completely burn.

Discussion: I have failed to finish my experiment since I did not ask for permission of the use of the equipment I needed. When I was collecting different kinds

FOA 2017

Today my work shop were learning how to produce art work from lino cutting. We also explained what it meant to be an artist and how to contribute in art around the world.

This is what my group came up with for what an artist is.

Day 2:We have started to create our own lino art and are learning to print them.



Day 3: We are finding out meanings of different art works and using our own meanings to create our own. Here is something I have written down to express what my art work will be.

Day 4: We are still practicing on our lino cutting and are improving at printing as well.




Day 5: We have started adding our own themes into our lino cuts and making art out of it.  We are currently learning how to transform our specific themes into lino cuts.



Day 6: I have made a lino cut from my theme which is sports. I have drawn a basketball and football surrounded by unusual auras this is how it looks like.

Day 7: I am starting to draw my theme into art and transfer it to the wood cutting.

Day 8: I am practicing more on my lino cutting and improving even more than before. I have drawn a basketball with all the things I like. 

Day 9: I made a lino cut with completely random things in it like swords and a pencil and a sheet of paper. 

Day 10: My lino cut is pretty much just more random things in it like most of my previous art works. I drew and cut a something that looks like either Pac man or a crescent moon and a bunch of lines.

Continental

Triassic period

Plant

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Animals

Herrerasaurus

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Eoraptor


Riojasaurus



Psianosaurus



Staurikosaurus



 Coloradisaurus





Isanosaurus

Jurrasic period

Plants

Allosaurus



Brachiosaurus

Why New Zealand has no crocodiles

New Zealand was split from Australia before crocodiles appeared explaining why there are no crocodiles in New Zealand.

Why Nz's only native animal a bat

The reason why we only have bats as native mammal because Nz split off with Australia and they had more mammals thriving.

No evidence of wooly mammoth

There were no mammoth around due to the fact that their hairy bodies would not survive in tempratures higher than ice cold levels and would over heat. Also they were much farther up in the north than nz.

Wetas and tuataras 

Living fossils are animals that have lived so long that they remained unchanged through geological periods. 

Geological time periods

Precambrian Earliest

This was the time where  the firs single celled beings thrived and they went through extreme conditions. They later became multicelled organismed.

Cambrian 540 mya

A large amount of organisms with different shapes and sizes.

The first animals with backbones were present.

Mostly carbon dioxide in the air in this time period.

Ordovician 490 mya

There were many animals without skeletons.

Early shellfis, trlobites, nautilus, starfish and fish.

First green plants and fungi.

End of the Ice age period.

Silurian 443 mya

First advanced plants.

First Jawed fish with exoskeleton.

More shellfish.

Devonian 

First ferns.

The earliest fir trees with seeds.

The first insects that were wingless.

Amphibians.

Animals from earlier period die out due to moist and cool climate.

Carboniferus 359 mya

Enviroment has swampy lands.

First appearance of coal forest.

Early sharks, large trees larger than the ones we have now.

First reptiles and vertebrates.

Trilites dissapearing.

Glaciers form.

Appearance of winged insects.

Oxygen in the air.

Permian 290 mya

Land masses were formed in to a whole continent called pangaea.

Glaciers dissapear higher climate.

Lots of reptiles.

Cone bearing trees appear.

Beetles and flies appear.

Ocean life is in a large amount.

251 mya 95% life extinct.

Triassic 248 mya

First dinosaurs appear.

First mammals and crocodiles appear.

Modern corals and fish.

Jurassic 206 mya

Lots of different diosaurs.

Ferns an cone bearing plants.

Mammals common but small.

First birds and lizards.

Land mass, pangaea breaks up into Gondwanaland and Laurasia.

High carbon dioxide levels.

Cretaceuos 144 mya

Lots of dinosaurs including tyrannosaurus.

New types of insects.

Flowering plants appear and become plentiful.

Modern crocodiles and sharks.

Early birds appear.

Gondwana land breaks up.

Rocky mountains appear.

Carbon dioxide similar today.

Paleogene 65 mya

Modern plants.

Lots of differnent mammals.

Dinosaurs extinct.

Primitive whales.

First grasses.

Rapid changes in mammals.

Climate cools.

Ice age begins and ends during this period.

Neogene

Modern climate.

Modern mammals and birds.

Horses evolve from dog like animal.

Lots of grasses.

First apes.

Southern Alps of NZ appear.

Quaternary 1.8mya- present

Anamotically modern humans.

Human ston age.

Ice age comes and goes.

Sahar forms from grass land.

Humans begin agriculture.

Stone age, Bronze age 3300BC, Iron age1120BC.

Industial revolution leads to rise in carbon dioxide levels.

Change nature

1. Is the time period of differen times of Earth which occured for different animals.

2. Jurassic
    Cretaceous
    Triassic
     Permian
     Carboniferous

  3

Endangered species

Endangered species are a group of animals that are low in number.

List of endangered species

• Maui dolphin
• Chesterfield skink
• Eylash seaweed
• Mokohinau stag beetle
• Nz fairy tern
• Blue duck

Maui dolphin

The species will become extinct because of lack of support and be killed by predators or humans. 

1.  They became endangered because they became entangled in fishing nets and most of their deaths were caused by bruccela.
2. Fishing nets have been banned from Maunganui Bluff to Pariokariwa Point .
3. It has been successful in banning fishing but only 48 to 69 mature dolphins have remain.

Yellow eyed penguins

Chick can be easily killed by stoats,feral cats,ferrets and dogs.  There was an unknown disease that killed 60% of yellow eyed penguin chicks described as  diphtheritic stomatitis. The population of the penguins is 4000. There is a reserve in Long point the Catlins protecting 10% of the yellow eyed penguins.
 

Sperm whales

Sperm whales are endangered because of extensive hunting during the 18 to 19th century for oil and their teeth to write with scrimshaw.  They are threatened by whalers currently because they have much more able ships with better equipment that whalers used to have.

Plastic problems

   Issue

The problem with plastic is that too many people use products made out of it. Also we increase the problem with plastic by littering. There are billions of dozens of plastic items floating located in the pacific called the great Pacific patch. Animals of all kinds are trapped or even killed by plastic products because they think of it as food or run into them.

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Cause

The massive size of the Great Pacific patch is due to people littering plastic bottles or bags. We might even lose possesion of a plastic bag and float to the Pacific patch. Since plastic is not bio degradable instead of breaking down it breaks into smaller pieces and animals mistake this for food.

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 Solution 

Solving this problem maybe hard but we could prevent the Pacific patch from expanding. We could simply reduce the amount of plastic we use and use tote bags or bags made of natural materials. 

Kaitiakitanga

Kaitiakitanga is the guardianship of of nature.

Introduced species are animals not native to a country.

Most of them have been mating and also eating the native plants and animals.

Inroduced species have an impact on animals because they have hunted some native birds to extinction specifically flightless ones .They also eat our native plants.

They have made 1080 to kill predators of the native birds. DOC is getting rid of invasive weeds.

Stoats: Stoats are a large threat and common threat of native birds. People are using 1080 to control the stoats and get rid of them this has proven an almost success.

Kiore:  Kiore first arrived in Newzealand by the Maori. They originated in south east asia and colinated in parts of polynesia. The Maori introduced them becouse there weren't any mammals except for bats.

Common bushtail possum: 

Gymnastics 2

I do not want to achieve anything in this period because because I don't enjoy gymnastics. I am decent with the bars and have improved on it.

Traditional dancing

Maori instruments

• Koauau
• Tumutumu
• Poiawhiowhio
• Pahu pounamu
• Koauau
• Nguru
• Putorino
• Putatara
• Koauau, end-blown flute
• Pukaea

Experts in role

1. I was JOOOHN CEEEENA! from los angles college and an expert of boredom and laziness.
2. It was made of a hard material that was oviously not from earth.
3. It had stripes and all that stuff.a

Gymnastics

Today we done gymnastics and it was not enjoyable because I do not like gymnastics as much as sports. The rolling was the thing I found the hardest.

Tendons,lingamets,muscles

Tendon: Connects muscles to bones

Ligaments: Connect bone to bone

Muscles: Moves the human body.

Hamstring: Any of the 5 tendons back of a person's knee.

Types of muscles.

skeletal muscle: Muscle 

Cartilage

What it is

• Stops friction
• Acts as an absorber
• Tough
• Smooth
• Strong 
• On ends of bones that move across each other.

Thing that can damage cartilags.

• Heavy impact
• Wear and tear
• Stress
• Lack of movement

These can result in bone grinding as they move over each other and cause arthiritis. 

Two types of arthiritis are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthiritis. Rheumatoid arthiritis affects joints and it can cause bone erosion and lumps. This arthiritis can occur in the hands, neck, lower back, knees and hips are the most common symptons.

Centering exercising

  What it is used for

• Good for posture

• Releasing tension

• Develop focus

• Concenetration

• Belief

• Use Stillness

• Controlled movement

• Isolate body parts

Visualisation 

This is when you use your imagination and relax. You can do this by closing your eyes and imagine something. You tense your muscles and relax after.

Improvisation

This is when you just go with the flow and start acting with other people.

Skeleton

Names of bones in the human body:

• Ribs

• SternumCranium

• Humerus

• Ulna

• Radius

• Scaphoid bone 

• Lunate bone       

• Pisiform bone    

• Trapezeum

• Calcaneus

1. How many bones does a baby have:?300 How many do you have?:206
2. The structure of a long bone is: yellow marrow on the Long bone structure
3. Types of joints:

• Ball and socket(are the joints for the hips and shoulders)
• Pivot(Is located in the neck) 
• Hinge (Moves the toes and fingers)
• Gliding(Located between the radius ,schaphoid and lunate bones.

     4.

     5.Bones are vital for the human body because it keeps the body from falling down also the skull protects the brain and ribs protects the heart and lungs.

                     

Drama skills

Drama games:

Name game

Tequilla 

Copy circle

Flocking 

Energy 

Look: Eye contact .

Sound: Focusing on what you are learning something new and keeping quiet.

Feel: Heart bumps high or low. 

                                                             

Respect

Look: Personal space and participating.

Sound: Listening when the teacher is talking. Being supportive to your classmates.

Feel: Being controlled and having fun with out making any contact.

 

8 Kete

Tahi tinana

Tahi tinana is the physical well being of a person like keeping active and exercising. Also lifting weights and pulling weights.

Taha whanau

This is social well being and esteem for example communicating with people and talking to your friends or family.

              

                           

Anatomy

This is a diagram of human body organs.

Brain:

Function:This organ gives you the ability to move your body, store knowledge, see h
ear and smell.

How a brain works

Gallbladder

This stores bile we can survive with out a gallbladder.

Spleen

The spleen is a filter for blood and can fight against certain types of bacteria.

Liver

The liver produces protein that are important for the human body.

Appendix

This organ sits in the right side of the abdomen of the human body it is unknown what it is used for.

Pancreas

The pancreas is used to convert the food we eat into fuel inside our body.

Kidney

Is used to remove waste from blood and balance body fluids.

Anus:

This organ allows you to know if something is liquid,gas or solid.

Rectum

This is the last stop for the feces before it is destroyed through the anal canal.

Small intestein

This organ digests most of the food that you eat.

Large intestine

The large intestine sucks all the water out of the remaining food and transmit the useless waste inside the body.

Stomach

The stomach secretes acid and enzymes that digest food it is located at the left side of the upper abdomen.    

 This is a picture of organs of a plastic model of human body.

  This plastic model for the anatomy shows the different organs. 

Chronic kidney disease

This is occurs when the kidney stops filtering waste and fail causing waste to build up in the body. Some people have symptons from it can suffer from: fatigue, swelling, loss of appetite, high blood pressure and many more.

     

Kiva

I read a story about someone being bullied and calling the boy something that he did not understand. The next day he was shoved into a wall by somone causing a concussion and he reported it to his mother.His mother contacted his principle but the teacher said that she didn't see a hole in the wall. 

I think that the bullies in this story are the student and the principle because the students intensionaly make him cry and their principle does not do anything about the hole in the wall. He said that one person gave him a concussion and a group of them made him cry. The types of bullying were physical and verbal bulllying.   

Drama

The purpose of warm-ups

Reduces chance of injury

Relax mental and physical tension

Prepare physically and mentally for performance work.

Help you be more expressive with your body.

Physical exercises

These encourage alertness, team building, ensemble awareness, use of space, create energy 

They use floor pattern, eye contact, chorus
EG:Tequila, 

Archimedes screw

This is a picture of an archimede screw we constructed of coca cola cans. The water travels throught the tubes on an angle all the way up. When you rotate it clock wise so it will empty at the top.We softened the tube by leaving it in hot water. We could improve this by making a larger model and transport more water.

Buisness and enterprise

What my company is doing.

Our product is called egg heads they are boiled eggs that are easily drawn on. Either we draw on it or if you are the appropriate age you can draw on it yourself. 

How we are constructing our product

Logan will boil the eggs at home and we already have a perminent marker to draw on our product. We have all our equipment is no need to rush to purchase materials.

What we are working on now

We are now working on our business plan and are almost done. Our keeping track of progress is nearly complete.

My audience

High impact

 Gravity:

Is the thing that pulls us into the centre of the Earth and prevents us from floating off into space.

In this photo  we can see Vince Carter dunking and coming back down.

Friction:

Is the  force that stops you from slipping over when you run.Another example is when you kick  a football and it stops,that is because the grasses friction stops it.

Potential energy

Is the energy stored in a motionless object that can be released when a force acts upon it.

Force

This is something that makes motionless objects move.

Pull

Is a force that acts when you are trying to move something heavy and have to bring it to you.

Push

Is when you use your weight to move something forward.

Unbalanced forces

Are forces that cause a change in the motion of an object:for instance when you when you kick a football and it stops.That is an unbalanced force acting on it.

Kinetic energy

Is kind of force that opperates when you or an object is moving.

Air resisitance

This is is a force that helps to stop something from landing hard on the ground.

Balanced forces

Balanced forces are two forces going in two diifferent ways but is equal.

Acceleration

Is when you put enough force into it will begin to speed up.

Motion

This is a force that helps us keep moving.

                          

Art

This is a drawing of the flash's head that I think is very well drawn.

This drawing is of batman that I put Maori patterns on.

The drawing I made of lake Ellesmire is very colourful.

                       

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