English : Gloriavale

In English, amongst reading a book called Abomination Mrs Handley our English teacher had the class watch a documentary about Gloriavale. If you haven't heard of Gloriavale its a religious community.

Gloriavale's traditions appear more 19th century possibly earlier. The males do all the handy work. Building, farming, engineering while the females do all the 'easy' tasks. Cooking, making clothes, doing washing, teaching and so fourth.

The education would be from preschool up until year 10, if you are able to become a teacher or midwife example you'd get more education.

Around the age of two or three you'll start to receive chores, putting washing away, vacuuming and as you get older you'd get harder jobs. For females that could be helping with cooking, males could be helping with the farming.

While Gloriavale follows the Christian religion, there is a lot of things they do. You get no say in who you marry, the first meeting is the proposal, and the first time you touch is when you officially get married at the wedding. Many more things are put in place to stay with god.

Those who live in Gloriavale are happy as its the only life they have, they don't know any different from the way they live.

People in Gloriavale don't have the human rights they deserve, they don't get to make choices for themselves, the clothing they wear, what they eat, who they marry and live with and so on. If I had the choice I'd never live in Gloriavale nor be happy living there due to the lack of freedom I'd have.

Wananga : Math

 Yesterday (Monday 2nd August) Miss Bancroft helped me with figuring out how to converting Percentages into fractions, decimals into Percentages and with finding the HCF (highest common factor).

Example Question-
56% to Fraction.

Take the 56 and put it over a Hundred like so 56/100.
The reasoning being that a percent is out of 100.

That would be correct if you didn't need to simplify it. To simplify it you find out what number both can be divisible by.

56 ÷ 2 = 28

100 ÷ 2 = 50 

That makes 28/50. These numbers can be divided again.

28 ÷ 2 = 14

50 ÷ 2 = 25 

Making 14/25. These numbers can be divided again but they cannot be divided by the same number. So the Answer of 56% to a Fraction would be 14/25.

Example Question 2 -

.85 into Percent.

To make a decimal into percentage you times the number by 100 (moving the dot 2 spaces to the right.)

The answer would be 85%

If you had 8.719 and had to make it into a percent you follow the same procedure. Having the answer of 871.9%

Example Question 3 - 

45 / 5 Find the HCF

A factor is all the numbers that make a number up. 45 can be divided by: 1, 5, 9, 45. 5 can be divided by: 1, 5.

So the highest common factor would be 5.

Social Studies : Learning Time Line

Today we had to do a reflection of the work done this term. 

My Learning Story
Hurumanu: 2 Humanities		Module: Power to the People
Name: Apollo (Safiyya) Searles	Teacher: Ds			Term: 2
Reflection: Give at least three examples in each of the boxes below.
What We Did:  Informational Poster (Solo) On a famous (inspirational) leader. Did mine on Joseph Stalin Types of Government (Group) Learnt about the 7 types Had to locate a country with one of these Needed a leader who ran this type of Government Political Parties (Group) Created a speech about our Political Party then presented it in front of the class Designed a logo that fit with our Party (Anti Bullying Party) Made a poster with the Logo and Slogan. Came up with a slogan Manifesto
What I Learned:  Joseph Stalin was friends with Hitler The 7 types of Government Making a party isn’t easy
My Favourite Parts: Being able to work with friends Learning about someone I knew nothing about Making a cool poster for my Party
My Next Steps: Manage my time more Focus on the must do steps (to prevent a few being left out) Work at home as well as at school to help more work being made
CARR Values:  Make a statement below describing how you showed each of our CARR values during this Hurumanu.
Commitment Focused on work and continued working during breaks to make sure it was finished before the due date, continuing to work when stuck, pushing through.		Achievement Did good work, mainly with the Inspirational leader work although the types of Government work could have been finished to higher/better standards.
Resilience When stuck I pushed through the work and it got better after it was hard.		Respect Respecting my peers and teachers, making sure to use appropriate words and language.
Feedback for my Teachers: Possibly assign the work earlier in time to allow more work to be done.

Textiles : Jeans project

For a few weeks (if not the entire term) we've been working with or around denim. Doing research on them and other clothing brands and making a final project. 

We also made a slide to do out work/the work progress on. 

Write That Essay Sentences #3 : English

  The W sentence. Try starting the sentence with the 'ed' form of the word. It makes a punchy start to the sentence.

Remember the rule:  - When you have finished you 'ed' phrase, place a comma, then complete the sentence.

Some 'w' words you can use: 
Surprised, excited, committed, undaunted, determined, overpowered, concerned, cornered, delighted, enthralled, murdered, wised, lived, electrified, haunted, electrocuted.

Examples:
Determined to win, Tony pushed himself in the last meters of the sprint.
Concerned for the well being of others, the Prime Minister passed new laws.

Sentences: 
Horrified due to the loud noises, the herds echoed stamped shuddered the earth.
Zapped by lightening, a burnt body flopped to the floor.
Scratched by the zombie, he soon lost his vision.
Flustered by the attention, the kids lost focus and soon lost the race.
Wished wasn't right, more like he hoped to meet her.

The 'Power' sentence.

If you waffle a lot in your writing, try using a power sentence. Begin your paragraph with a power sentence with 12 words or less. Get straight to the point.

Set One.

Task #1:
Cautiously observing the grave, gloomy heads tilted to the ground.
Calmly leaving the property, six small bodies followed excitedly.
Shockingly, you may find small wings attached to your back.
Happily the girl took the candy, sadly it was a lore.

Task #2:
Under the bride, the cat snored.
Far behind the rest, small legs continuously stumbled.
Near the river, the deer stood. 

Task #3:

Silently, the cat stalked its prey.

In 1975, a high school was finally built in Hornby.

Amongst the papers, I found my homework.

Anxiously, I awaited my test results.

Fortunately, the kai today was something good.

About twenty years ago. a law was passed that changed everything.

Often the things we say, and the things we mean are two different things.

Cautiously, he knocked on the principals door and await a reply.

Set Two

Task #1 & #2 were incomplete

Task #3: Emerging from the depth, the monster sought its new prey.

When the baking was complete, the ovens were cleaned thoroughly.

Committed to improving their routine, the dancers trained daily.

Overpowered by the wave, the swimmers were swept off their feet.

Analysing the situation, the commander decided the hill route was best.

While we were watching, the experiment the paper ignited.

Hoping to improve his score, Matthew studied his times tables daily.

With their friends and family watching, the students took to the stage. Undaunted by the work, the builders pushed on to repair the house.

Write That Essay Sentences #2 : English

 The W sentence. Try starting with a word staring with 'w', these sentences make your work sound thoughtful and knowledgeable.

Remember the rule:  - Not every 'w' work work as a sentence starter. Remember to put your comma when the parts of the sentence are effected by your 'w' word.

Some 'w' words you can use: 
Who, while, whilst, whereas, where, when, what, with, whom.

Examples:
Whilst the teacher was talking, the students were pretending to listen.
With the majority of the votes, Hitler seized power.
When the bell rings, we run to leave the class.

Sentences: 
While the birds fled, the egg shook.
Whom the teacher assists, must listen carefully.
When Rose married Jack, the flower girl smiled.
With the assistance, the student succeeded.
Why she cried, no one shall know.
Who the man crowned, shall be the king. 

 The ing sentence. Try starting the sentence the 'ing' form of the verb. Swimming

Remember the rule:  - When you have finished your 'ing' phrase, place a comma then finish the sentence.

Some 'ing' words you can use: 
Listening, watching, Playing, singing, exposing, spoiling, menacing 

Examples:
Realising the danger, people fled from cities.
Shaking away the nerves, he walked towards the microwave.

Sentences: 
Shuddering, his body shook from the cold.
Writing slowly, he soon fell behind.
Stretching, six satisfying pops echoed softly.

Types Of Government : Social Studies

.0 In social studies the class was instructed to learn about the seven types of Government, we needed to find which countries had these Government types (one country for each) and then locate it using the FACKTS mapping skills we learnt in term one.

Bellow is the work done. 

Group: - Charlize - Jrae - Safiyya  -

Anarchy

Communism

Democracy 

Dictatorship

Monarchy

Oligarchy

Totalitarianism

^ Find information about these Government types. ^

• Find One Country that fits under these Government 

Below is our findings and mapping-

Anarchy; complete and utter freedom of the individuals within the group/country. Federation of Egalitarian Communities is an example of Anarchy, although it’s not a country

Communism: the government controls all and cares for all. The US is a communist country.

Democracy is when the government is run by the elidged people ruled by a majority of people. The United States and Nigerian are examples of Presidential Democracy.

When a government shows/is a Dictatorship form of government it’s characterized by a single leader with little to no tolerance for political pluralism. (Sometimes it has a group of leaders) Countries that have this type of Government are; China, Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam.

Monarchy is a form of government where there’s one person who leads everything. Examples being The United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, Japan and Thailand.

Oligarchy is a small group of people having control of a country or organization. South Africa is one of those.

Totalitarianism is when a single party government prohibits freedom within the community. North Korea being one of those countries.
< > Kim Jong-Un : North Korea < > Xi Jinping : China  < Erna Solberg : Norway < > Donald Trump… US < >Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo < >Cyril Ramaphosa    

Most are current leaders aside from Donald Trump.