W.T.E Sentences - English

WALT: Identify W.T.E (Write the essay) sentences to improve our writing.

Simple sentence - The students are being moved to a new classroom in a few months.

Very short sentence - Students are moving to Nga Kahui. - New classrooms have been built.

Power sentence - The student's designated classrooms are being moved to Nga Kahui.

Red, White and Blue - The new classroom will give students the opportunity to have cleaner learning space, better resources and a safer environment.

The adverb start - Interestingly, the buildings will be built by the end of the term.

Begin with a preposition - After the building is built, students will begin to move to the new building.

The -ing start - Seeing the end of the passageway, the students moved faster.
The -ed start - Thrilled to buy an article of new clothing, the man saved up some money.
The semi-colon - He was a talented player; basketball was his ideal sport.
The em-dash - Performance enhancing drugs are sometimes used - by athletes - in sports.
The w-start sentence - While we waited for the food, we chatted to pass the time.
Explore the subject - Hornby High, a school that was opened up in 1975.

Art Title (In Progress)

In paint, we painted a part of an art that we were looking at. We used techniques like mono-printing, glazing, blending, etc. (This blog post is not done.)

Stencils!

In art, we drew logos that we see in everyday life like the Nike logo and the Adidas logo. What I drew was the wifi symbol and after that, we cut up a stencil art from the stuff we drew.

I drew the symbol on the cardboard and used a craft knife to cut up the symbol and then I painted it in with a brush and a bellow.

Sports and Drugs

Should drugs be allowed in sports?

Why drugs shouldn't be allowed.

Gathering Ideas.

Against

-Using performance-enhancing drugs can cause high blood pressure, severe acne, aggressive behaviours, rage or violence, psychiatric behaviours like depression and many more.

-Your accomplishments are not by your own account, you are using drugs and not achieving anything with your own strength. 

-It is cheating. Why should you be using performance-enhancing drugs while others don't? Well if performance-enhancing was allowed in sports, there are still some people who would not want to risk their health.

For

-Athletes who are using drugs are getting harder to catch so might as well use them.

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Organising Ideas.

1.) Using performance-enhancing drugs can cause high blood pressure, severe acne, aggressive behaviours, rage or violence, psychiatric behaviours like depression and many more.

2.) It is cheating. Why should you be using performance-enhancing drugs while others don't?
Well if performance-enhancing was allowed in sports, there are still some people who would not want to risk their health.
3.) Your accomplishments are not by your own account, you are using drugs and not achieving anything with your own strength.
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Sports, an event where people strives for success.
Whether it is a competition or a practice match and whether it is played with a team or without one.
Sports is where everyone can show their outstanding athletic abilities, like shooting a ball from a three-pointer and getting it straight in, to swimming in a pool like a dolphin and getting to the other side in seconds.
Competitive events like these, bring people to their limit to strive to be the best out of everyone else. Although this type of events also brings out the worst in people. Drugs like performance-enhancing drugs have been used, in sports events,  a lot of times in the past.
Drugs should not be used in sports like events because using drugs like the performance-enhancing drug (or PED for short) can cause a lot of harm on the person, cheating is bad sportsmanship and winning by using these type of drugs are not your own accomplishments.

The used of PED is useful in some cases but it deals a great risk to its user.
Athletes should not be allowed to use drugs because it can cause long term damages to a person's health, something nobody ever wants. PED can cause high blood pressure, it is one of its many symptoms like severe acne, aggressive behaviours and psychiatric behaviours like depression for example. It can also make the hair growth of a person faster and deepening a person's voice.
While using drugs can boost your abilities, your health is still more important than winning a medal or a trophy.

Not only does it harm your body, but it is also a bad show of sportsmanship. Why should you be using drugs while others don't?  Even if drugs were allowed to be used in events, there are still people who do not want to risk their health just for the recognition that they are the best at that game. Using PED shows that you need an extra boost to beat somebody else and you were not good enough to achieve it by hard work. By not using drugs and losing, it can teach them to work harder next time and that accomplishment won't just be easily handed to them and to come their way.

What is better, to accomplish something with your own wits and strength or by using an outsiders help by cheating? The answer is simple, it is gaining something with your own wits and power. Using drugs in sports and succeeding, are not achieved by your own account. You are cheating and you are not accomplishing your own goal with your own talent. We as humans think the better way to do things, are morally correct ways. Although some people beg to differ.

Drugs should not be used in competitive physical events because it can cause a lot of harm to the person using it. It also shows bad sportsmanship and the achievement and praise you get weren't performed with your own strength. Although the people using drugs are getting harder to catch because of our recent advancements in technology, we should at least try and catch the people who are using drugs to make it fair for the people who aren't.

How a compass work

The design of the compass allows the magnet to respond easily to Earth's magnetic field. Earth itself is a giant magnet that has its own magnet. So the north end of the compass will align to the Earth north pole.

Persuasive Discussion - English 2019-2020

Pathos - Pathos derives from the Greek word pathea. It means to evoke a feeling already inside an audience or a reader. Usually, it elicits a feeling of sadness or pity. Speechwriters used this method to get people on their side. 

Ethos - Ethos is like pathos but it deals with persuading people with ethics. It is when you're persuading them by using ideas of how a person is like, their morals and personal behaviour. It basically appeals to what a person thinks is right or wrong.

Logos - Logos is like the other two but you are persuading people with logics. You used facts and logic to convince audiences or readers to get them on your side. Bloggers tend to use statistics to prove points that things are happening and a lot of stuff changes over the year.  

What are we doing? We are learning and researching about what ethos, pathos and logos mean.

Why are we doing it? We are doing it because we need to better understand what persuasive discussion is.

What questions do I have? Nothing.

Boomerangs and Aboriginal Art!

In Social Studies we studied aboriginal arts and the meaning behind it. We made a boomerang and painted it to make our own story.

What does your symbol mean? And the colours?
I used the Australian aboriginal designs and painted my boomerang to make a story.
On the bottom of the boomerang, on both sides, I painted the symbol of a man.
I did the bush tucker design after then the witchetty grub design.
The dots in the middle is my ancestors.
I used brown for the background to make the aboriginal theme and then I just used normal colours.

What did you do well with your research?
I was able to explain why aboriginals used this type of art and why they used boomerangs.
The arts is to make a hidden story where only they can understand it and the boomerangs are used for entertainment and hunting.

How could you have improved your research?
I could have explained it more and give more detail.