Tag: Writing

LI: to identify and understand literary devices used in poetry.

For this haiku task we wrote a haiku poem about winter. This poem uses 3 haikus to describe winter. In the first haiku tells how it changes for the summer season to the winter season. The second haiku explains how the weather is during that season. For the last haiku it explains how people stay warm with their jumpers and jackets and how people enjoy to play in the snow.

I found this activity interesting and joyful because I was trying to find out the correct amount of syllables for each line.

LI: to identify and understand literary devices used in poetry.

For this task we learned how to write a haiku poem. A haiku is a short Japanese peom which uses 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the middle line, and 5 syllables in the last line. This haiku is descibing about our whenua which has the tamaki river surrounding our land and it leads to the sea.

I found this task interesting because I tried to solve which syllable or words have the exact syllable.

 

 

LI: To write a poem that describes as moment in time.

In this task we wrote a moment in time poem about our hike on Maungarei. This poem is about what we heard, saw, felt, and wondered while we were climbing Maungarei. We wrote the sentences comparing from now to the past. An Example of this is that I heard the crunches of the scoria rock as we walk by wondering if these types of crunches were the sounds to warn our ansestors from the past. For I saw we saw our river circling back and forth thinking if these were the waves that carried the wakas from the  past. For I felt we felt the winds brushing by and though that our ansestors had dealt with more trouble than just the wind. For I wonders we wondered how hard if would be to climb the mountain with any pathway to lead to their village. We used our prio knowledge to wonder how it might be like comparing to the past.

 

I found this activity enjoying because I predict about what might a certain thing we heard, saw, felt, or wondered reflected to the past.

LI: To write a poem that describes as moment in time.

In this task we wrote a moment in time poem about polar bears. This poem is about a researcher who is trapped in a cube because it was being hunted by the polar bear. The first sentence say about what we heard in the video. We heard the polar bear scratching on the plastic cube where the researchers trapped in. The second sentence explains what we saw in the video. We saw that polar bear staring into the researcher with its black eyes. The third sentence is about how might we felt if we were in that situation. We think that we would have felt petrified and frightened. The last sentence showcases what we might have felt in this situation. We think that we might have wondered if this would be our last breath in this cube.

I found this activity enjoying because I wrote a poem from how I might of felt if I were the researcher.

LI: To understand the 5 senses can be used to strengthen a description

Our challenge was to co construct a text using the olfactory, auditory, gustatorial, visual and kinethetic senses to describe the story behind the shoes in this image. This time we were able to speak and sat facing our partners. 

Once we had completed this part of the challenge we joined together with another group to share our writing and make sure what we had written made sense and had met the language feature challenge.

I found this activity interesting because I described how life could be like a shoe

LI:To write a procedural that tells how to make Hangi

How to make Hangi

A Hangi is a traditional steam oven cooking method made by the Maori people of New Zealand.

You will need:

• Equipment/Materials
• Volcanic stones
• Twigs
• Lighter
• Sacks
• Food tray
• Leaves
• Sack

 

• Ingredient
• Vegetables (cabbage, potatoes, kumara, taro, leaf, pumpkin, water crisp)
• Meat (ox, chicken, lamb, pork beef)

 

1. Dig a hole slightly bigger than the food baskets that you will be putting your food in
2. Collect Twigs, volcanic stones, and iron.
3. Light the Twigs on fire with a lighter and wait for the iron to turn red.
4. Get all your food in your food tray. (Meat and Vegetables)
5. Hook the iron into the hangi hole quickly.
6. Put the food tray in the hangi meat at the bottom and vegetables at the top.
7. Cover the food with wet cloth and dirt on top.
8. Remove the dirt and cloths when finished
9. Take the food tray
10. Cut up and season the food and enjoy

Always keep watch of the Hangi

 

Today we unpacked how to follow and write a set of instructions. To do this effectively your instructions need to be explicit and the steps to follow ordered. Each step begins with an instructional verb and should be written in a way that is easy to understand.

I enjoyed the roleplay because I got to know how to explain a procedural with words.

To understand the structure and language features in an explanation

To upset someone is to make people unhappy, disappointed or worried. In the fairy tales Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Goldilocks made some problems that upsets the 3 Bears. Has anyone upset you before?

Goldilocks did not think of what might happen to other people if she consequently upset them by disrespecting their privacy. Goldilocks was certainly curious, so with this in mind she decided to enter the house. The smell of the porridge made her hungry, she felt the urge to try every single bowl of porridge as a result she found the one that was just right. In fact, Goldilocks destroyed the Bear’s property which she is not showing respect to the Bear’s property.  How would you feel if someone destroyed your property?

She felt tired when she finished eating. Otherwise she went into the bedroom. Goldilocks tried every until as a result she found one that was just right, the bed was so cosy and comfortable so she constantly fell asleep. This means that she is using the Bear’s property without asking or knowing it’s theirs. When the Three Bear’s came back, they were so shocked by what they saw. How would you feel if someone broke into your house?

If someone came into my house, I would be shocked. If someone destroyed one of our property, I would be angry and sad. If someone is sleeping on my bed, I would be disappointed.

To help us understand how to write an explanation we looked at the purpose, the structure (what it looks like) and the language features. An expalantaion tells us how or why something is the way it is. To help us understand this we learnt about cause and effect. Cause and effect is an action and a reaction. We used the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears to help us understand this. Here is our explanation that describes how Goldilocks upset the Bear family.

This activity was fun beacause I learned what an explantion has or does.