Egg Drop

I made my design by using cardboard, newspaper and a type of foam. I made a box using cardboards to keep things together. I also used the newspaper and a type of foam to cushion the egg from inside.

I also used plastic to make a parachute but it didn't work properly so I took it out.

Special FXs

Revision exercises

Exercise 1

Complete these sentences with examples of personification to make them interesting for readers. 

1. The waves felt dreary.
2. Clouds felt heavy.  
3. The train was angrily moving.
4. Fear - Can't think of anything for fear.
5. The bulldozer was energetic.
6. Bells  - Can't think anything for bells.

Exercise 2

Come up with a sound affect word for each of these

eg a racquet hitting a tennis ball = pock

1 an arrow hitting a target = thunk

2 cold water hitting a hot piece of metal = shh shh

3 a startled noise made by a bird. = twit twit

4 the sound made by an unhappy puppy = ngruueeh ngruueeh

5 a piece of paper being screwed up = shrrr

6 a juicy, ripe tomato hitting the floor after being dropped = splat

7 big waves hitting rocks = sloshed

8 tyres on a wet road = shpshpshp - hiss sound

Exercise 3

Sports reports often use alliteration in their headlines for impact. 

Write five sports headlines for a newspaper. Use alliteration to give an impact.

Sport	Headline
Rugby	The rugby player tackled, tripped and threw the ball.
Hockey	The ball slid, slammed and sprang back from the wall.
Soccer	The soccer player slid and smashed the ball.
Golf	The golfer watched while waiting for his turn.

Astronomy in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptian Astronomy was very sacred to the Ancient Egyptians. The pyramids were built to be in the same position as some of the stars. They knew when the annual flood would occur because they could see the brightest star, Sirius, rose before the sun. Because of this, throughout the decades, we were able to use the stars to point us to directions. For example, people use the north star to point them to directions. In today's time, we are able to locate different stars from very far away using the technologies we have built. One of the technologies we have today can sense star changing, exploding and many other things by sensing the vibrations it sends back to the technology they use.

Natural Environmental (Plants and Animals) (Persuasive Writing) (National Parks)

National Parks are taking up valuable real estate and should be cleared for development.

Which side I'm in: For/Against

For

- Growing population.

- The business makes more money.

Against

- It should stay cause it's as valuable as real estate.

- All those hard work of keeping national parks good is destroyed.

-  It's very important that we have plants for our environment.

Organizing Ideas

- Growing population. / It should stay cause it's as valuable as real estate.

-  All those hard work of keeping national parks good is destroyed.

-  The business makes more money. / It's very important that we have plants for our environment.

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National Parks should not be cleared out just to make space for real estate. Clearing these parks out could further ruin our environment. We shouldn't destroy them because they are just as valuable as real estates. Also, there were people who have been before born some of us that have been cultivating these lands, all there hard work will be all for nothing if we destroy these parks. Plants are also an important part of our environment, we need them now more than ever and if we were to cut down more who knows what will happen.

We can't deny the fact that we need more space to build more buildings because of our growing population, but we also can't deny the fact that nature is also very important to us. We need nature as a whole, without trees, we would not have oxygen to breathe in, without animals we would not have food to eat. The environment is just as valuable to us, as buildings and pieces of equipment are. Taking down national parks would ruin our environment even more. 

(Second Body Paragraph.) (W.I.P)

Business who are part of real estate companies would probably agree to the idea. There is no denying that money means a lot at this point in time. Without them, we would not be able to live properly. Plants play a very huge rule in keeping our planet clean.

Season Semiles

Spring looks like blossoms.

Spring tastes like fruit.

Spring smells like daffodils.

Spring feels like warm sun.

Spring sounds like birds chirping.

Summer looks like volleyball at the beach.

Summer tastes like ice cream.

Summer smells like barbeque.

Summer feels like gentle breeze under the warm sun.

Summer sounds like kids playing outside.

Autumn looks like leaves falling.

Autumn tastes like hot pies.

Autumn smells like crisp air

Autumn feels like chilly air

Autumn sounds like dried leaves crunching

Winter looks like foggy air

Winter tastes like hot chocolate

Winter smells like

Winter feels like wrapping up in warms sweaters/jackets.

Winter sounds like quite evenings.

Old Stone Age and New Stone Age

Palaeolithic 

• Paleo - Old.
• Lith - Stone.
• Palaeolithic means the Old Stone Age.
• Palaeolithic Huts - Caves Mud and Animal Skin.
• Paleolithic Tools - Chipped Stone - Wood Weapons.
• Food - Hunters and Gatherers - Meat, Fish and Berries- Store only what they can carry.
• Discoveries - Fire - Rough Stone Tools.

Palaeolithic is all about the old stone age which is a caveman time. They made houses out of cave muds and animal skin. They used tools like chipped stones and wood weapons, they made it by banging two stones together. They also ate raw meat and fishes and they picked out berries from bushes.

Neolithic 

• Neo - New.
• Lith - Stone.
• Neolithic means the New Stone Age.
• Neolithic Huts - Mudbrick with Timber.
• Neolithic Tools - Polished Stone - Shard Tools from Grinding.
• Food - Grew crops like Corn, Wheat and Beans - Could store extra food.
• Discoveries - Agriculture (Farming) - Polished Tools.

Neolithic is all about the New Stone Age. New discoveries being discovered to help people from that era live better. They discovered farming which helped them out a lot. They made houses out of mudbricks and timber to make it more sturdy. These tools got upgraded and they found new ways to make it better. The food they ate was from the crops they grew and also the meat they hunted.

The City That Never Sleeps (In Progress)

New York should turn off the billboard lights in Time Square at night

Which side I'm on: For/Against

Why they should not turn it off.

Gathering Ideas.

For

-Reduce power use/waste a lot of (energy/electricity).

-Slow down global warming.

-Fewer harmful power plants being built.

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Against

-It will be hard to change how the city will run.

-It will be darker since most of the light will be off.
-The business might start dropping for some people
-It will lose its meaning of 'The City That Never Sleeps'
-There will be people who will oppose it.
-Tourism will drop.

Organising Ideas

-The business will start dopping/There will be people who will oppose it.
-Tourism will drop
-It will lose its meaning of 'The City That Never Sleeps'.

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New York City, a place with new opportunities, tall buildings and a mass amount of people. It's a sight to behold. The tall buildings in the city, the different flavours of food and the various type of clothing brands attract the attention of everyone. Especially at night time, it is when billboards light up and paint the towering buildings, it's the reason why it's called 'The City That Never Sleeps.'

Having the billboards turned off at night time will change a lot of things in New York.
The business that was booming will start dropping - so people will oppose it - tourism will drop and it will lose its meaning of 'The City That Never Sleeps'.

Turning off the billboards might reduce power/electricity use but there will be many companies that will oppose the idea. The money they paid to get billboards up and running will be a waste.