English Term 1 - 10EV

English Term 1 - 10EV

In my first term of year 10, I did many things such as do a competition to create a
poster about making a difference.  We all worked in groups for this task, however our
poster was based off of our respectful attitude. This poster was created with many
respectful things you can do at the school, such as helping someone up, opening the
door, picking someone's books up or even putting your rubbish away!  We wrote
a paragraph of what making a difference means and looks like, and inserted
pictures of making a difference. In the end, me and my desk group (Aaron,
Hannah, Samara) won the poster competition andearned some coupons
for $10 to where ever we want.

We read a book called “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-time Indian”.  This book
is about a boy named Junior who goes to a new school called Rearden School.  
This school however, is a full white school, he also loses his previous friend named
Rowdy as soon as he enters the school straight after. He starts this school poor,
unable to eat food in the morning, however he makes friends who do have enough
wealth to support him. He experiences multiple deaths while in the school, such
as Eugene’s (Junior’s Dad’s friend) death, Grandmother Spirit’s death or even her
sister’s death.  He plays a basketball against Rowdy’s team, wins, and later
becomes Rowdy’s friend again, while having a fun practise of basketball in the
middle of the night.

After finishing our book, we watched a documentary called “Girl Rising” about 9 girls
who showed their struggles in order to try to get to their dreams.  We have so far
watched what I think is 3 out of the 9 girls’ stories, Including an earthquake and an
attempt of slavery. I also watched a girl who was sold into slavery two or three
times to masters who treated her terribly bad, resulting to having to eat corn
scraps when with her second master.  Eventually this girl however, was set free
from her last master with a song of movement to push her free. I also watched a
girl who was threatened to slavery, however the girl thought back with a dagger
and struck down the man attacking her with a cutlass.

Lastly I remember watching a girl who lived well and happy until an earthquake
struck her town and she

had to work everyday from then-on to live.

We have also been doing multiple Big Questions and Success Tickets throughout
last term.  Big Questions we usually do 2-3 times every week, each containing a
question which we have to answer in 5 or 10 minutes.  We do a Success Ticket
at most 2 times every week, of which we have to explain what did or did not go
well today, and what will we do differently tomorrow.  We work on these to show
our mentor teacher, Ms. Evans, our opinions on things that we do in our English
class. Overall, the Big Questions and Success Tickets are useful for me to say
my opinions on things we do in class, however I prefer to do proper English
instead of keeping a journal of my day every week.  Here are some examples:

Big Question:

Success Ticket:

The piece of work that makes me most proud is my paragraphs on The Absolutely
True Diary book, especially my last paragraph, the one which resulted in me
becoming scholar of the week.

This is my favourite work because it shows me how much work I put into my
paragraphs.

It shows me how much words I write in one of my paragraphs, and how happy
Ms. Evans is from my work ethic.  It shows me why I earned Scholar Of The Week,
on the very last week of the term, and why I put in as much effort as I do.  
Overall it shows me how much time and work
into my writing and making as best as physically possible.

I think that many things went well for me this term, especially finishing all of my work.  
I completed reading the book with the class (except for when I was sick), resulting in
the Girl Rising documentary afterwards.  I finished my five paragraphs for writing
about which is better, drawing or writing, resulting in both on different occasions.
I finished most of my Big Questions and Success Tickets, the Big Questions
which at least 100 words usually.  Finally, the best thing I finished for this term,
was my best and longest work, my blog post.

By Aedan Gunn 2018

Raising Funds

3 Ways I Would Raise Funds In The 1930's

1.  Open a lemonade stand in the centre of town for all people to enjoy (if lemonade existed back then).
2. Make toys for children's parents to buy and raise a little extra money.
3. Open a small petting zoo for children to enjoy along with their parents. 

What Is A Hero Cycle

A hero cycle starts with a normal person which is usually the hero/main character in this story.  They come across an offer to become a hero, but will usually reject the offer, but then their mentor (this can be anything from a human to an object) will come and support them.  They have to fight monsters to get the treasure, the hero will have a downfall like losing their only weapon, or lose their mentor, but they will continue on.  When they reach the end they eventually get the treasure and start to return home, the place the treasure was in might collapse and they would struggle to get out, however they do make it out and return home.  When returning home they are back living their normal life however they are different to what they usually were, but they are still usually cared for by their families at least.

By Aedan Gunn 2017

A New Beginning

A New Beginning

My blog shows when I was a year 8, talking about primary school things, but now that I’m at high school I’ve got to talk about my class and growth mindset.  I think that high school is a big school, however it’s not so big that I get lost often, it’s a good size and a good experience to learn about the high school.  I think that learning is important because when learning you get smarter and learn more and more things about the topic you're learning about making it quicker to finish learning completely about.  I’m a student at Grey High and my favourite subject at the moment is math, I may not be the best at it, but I do it the most often, meaning I learn lots of new things about math.  The difference between my primary school and my school now is the size, and that Grey High has a cafeteria and lots more classes and teachers. It’s not that worrying anymore because it’s pretty simple to get around when you have the same periods each term.

Incase you didn’t know, growth mindset means that you enjoy learning new things and enjoy being challenged, however fixed mind set means the opposite, you are scared of learning new things thinking you’ll make a fool of yourself and do not enjoy being challenged, meaning they’ll give up easily.  I however think I’m between having a fixed mindset and a growth mindset meaning I’m an average learning student.  Being in between means I’ve got to work harder and try different things to become a growth mindset person.  I think that my knowledge of the school is going well because I am learning where everything is and finding it very easily.  I think I could become a growth mindset student if I just put my mind to it and worked hard for it.

The reason I’m going to Grey High is because it looks like a very nice school, and because my friend Matt was going, and it would be pretty unsettling if I were to go to a school without my friend.  I think I’m an average growth mindset student because I tend to try new things however I usually struggle to put in the effort to complete it well.  The reason I’ve got a chromebook is because we’re learning to be a digital school, so we each need a chromebook for our digital learning and learn how to be cyber safe online with our chromebooks. The reason I have a blog is because we are needed to post something about our class each day on it, it however will probably be about how well or how bad they were on that day.   

I was at school one day and I was getting lost, I was panicking walking around the school and not knowing where to to go.  After a bit of time I asked a few teachers where the class was, they told me where it was however I was still confused about where I was supposed to go.  Next I figured to go all the way around the school looking for the classroom, however I ended up going to 9 Social Studies instead of 9 English making me very confused.  After that I went around the school one more time and found my class!  However I was late obviously.  When I got there I found out that we annoyingly had mentor that day without them telling us and I burst out crying getting annoyed at mainly myself, however I was let outside to read and calm down which was helpful.

My opinion about high school is that I think it’s fun, releasing new possibilities to me.  I think that High school isn’t too hard to get around, if you figure out where each place is in the school that is.  High school shows many activities to exercise and have fun around the property of the high school, meaning you need a hat if you are going to go outside that is.  The high school however has one important thing that most of the primary schools don’t have, and that is a cafeteria, they sell chips, soda, pies, ice creams/ice blocks, sushi, American hot dogs and more.  It’s the place to get tasty food at our school.  Overall Grey High is a great school so far and I love exploring it for new things, however the people who work at the school are the best things I could ask for.

By Aedan Gunn 2017