Spanish Animation

Hi Bloggers!

In the past few weeks we have been learning Spanish during swimming weeks. Apart of this, we had to put together what we have learnt so far, and make an animation from it. I did mine with a partner and edited it together with WeVideo. Enjoy the animation! I encourage you to try to learn a bit of Spanish.

Spanish Animation

Japanese Art

Japanese Art

Hi Bloggers!!!
For Inquiry we have been studying 3 different cultures and their art. This week we studied Japan and its culture. Here are 3 different types of Japanese Art, and some Japanese traditions. Enjoy!

The Tribe

Hi Bloggers!
In Inquiry, we have been studying art, and the first cultural art section we have been studying is African art. In a group or individually we studied either a part of Africa or Africa as a whole. I and a few other pupils chose the tribe of Tuareg, located in the Sahara desert. Enjoy this presentation created using Adobe Spark.
The Tribe Of Tuareg
If you had to choose a part or a tribe of Africa to study, what would you choose?

Exploring Antartica

Hi Bloggers
We had to research about Ernest Shackleton, and his exploration to Antartica with the help of this website. Link. We also had to take down note of his exploration, and write a mini biography on him. Here is my work.

Will The Worm

Hi Bloggers
In maths, we have been working on linear equations,  by using Maia The Moa as an example. After we figured out how to show equations for Maia The Moa, we had to make our own animal or number using linear equations and figuring out the equation of our animal. Here is my animal, Will The Worm. I challenge you to try to figure out how big Will The Worm will be at the age of 20.
The Maia The Moa link.
The equation to Will
Body = Age + 4
For example
Will is 6 years old - His body total will be 10.
The answer is at the bottom

The torso (length) is 60 blocks long, the head is one block, and the tail is one block.

Algebra Evidence

For Maths we have had to learn several things, including long division, and algebra. Here are some of the questions, working out, and photographic evidence. Please leave some feedback.

Swamp Media Inquiry

This term for inquiry, we learnt about media, and showed our learning at a Swamp Media exhibition. It went brilliantly, with me and a friend introducing each group over the radio. Here is part of our live radio broadcasting (the first part, news with Tanisha & Mackenzie)
Enjoy, and please leave some feedback
Link

Video Essay

Video Essay

Recently we have been working on Video Essays on a topic of our choice. It will be similar to a speech or an argument. Here i my SCRIPT for mine, and I am still yet to finish animating it. Hope you enjoy! What is your opinion on vaccines?

Poetry Anthology

Poetry Anthology

Hi Everyone!

This is the work we have been doing for literacy every Tuesday, for a few weeks, working on Poetry anthology, and our own poems! Here are my poems, please note, it is not finished yet, and it will be updated every time a new poem is created. Thanks and enjoy the poems!

What type of poem do you think I should do next?

Math's Evidence

Maths Evidence

For Maths we have been working on a range of things, but most recently, area and volume, and a circumference of a circle. Here is my math evidence, and what we have been doing. The most recent tasks are at the bottom.




Can you prove any of my answers wrong? 

Wearable Arts Fashion Show

This term for inquiry we have been working on showing people the dangers of plastic and making an outfit out of plastic. This is our final outcome, and our speech along with it (I was speaking :))

One million seabirds die from marine litter every year. That’s equivalent to more than the entire
population of San Francisco. Plastic is much worse than we all thought, and soon it will kill us too.

 Sharp-edged plastic kills birds by punching holes in internal organs, and before you know it,
the sea birds disappear. Pulled under by the tide.

These animals are what keep our ecosystem stable and healthy, but with them all dying around us
and not being saved, who knows what will become of earth’s future?

Our outfit, pulled under, is showing that the plastic is dragging the bird down and it has taken over
its body. You can see that the wings have been broken and tattered because the plastic has beaten
it around and worked it down to be this weak animal. 

We need to raise awareness about seabirds and sea creatures becoming extinct because before
we know it, seabirds will disappear in front of our very eyes.

Is this what you want to see?

Alibi

For literacy, we had to make narratives, and plan it out. Here is my end result, called alibi. About 2 men, who are twins who commit murders. Here is my narrative, please read it and leave some feedback, or comments.

Idea:a set of identical twin men commit countless murders that they plan together, but continuously use each other as an alibi.

Alibi Theme

24/3/2013

Dan Munson reads the newspaper aloud; “Another murder, another suspect.”-’

Don shakes his head and tuts. They both chuckle simultaneously.

Dan drops the newspaper and strolls casually to behind the kitchen island, and pulls a blood-soaked sponge out of the sink.

“Couldn’t get the blood off the sponge, better burn it, we wouldn’t want the police on our tails again, Would we?”

“Definitely” Don adds.

Dan throws the blood-soaked sponge in the smouldering fireplace. The sponge gets set alight and breaks down into ashes within seconds. Don looks back at the shiny, spotless stainless steel chef's knife that was used for evil, and mumbles.

“The knife will live for another day, another murder, another death…”

4 Days Later

“Did you, Don Arthur Munson  the murders of both, Emily Amber Hill, and Robert Bathurst?”

Those words echoed throughout the courthouse. Don shook his head, with, knowing that he and his identical twin brother Dan James Munson, had been through this process too many times to count, (Approximately 9 times.)

“If so, please present your lawyer or alibi to us all now”

Dan chimes in “I, Dan James Munson, am my brother’s alibi. I claim he was with me that very night, 8:00 to 10:00, at my house, watching our favourite show together….”

He gulps, and mumbles “Kath and Kim…”

The judge keeps a stern face, trying not to crack and mumbles “Too much information.”

Don mouths ‘Good job.’

Dan grins because they just got away with ANOTHER two murders and a life sentence.

“Well, let’s hear one of the victim’s spouses, who claims he was there at the murder scene.”

A boy who looks like he is in his mid 20s steps up to the podium. 

“Yes I was there that night, a fortnight ago, but if he claims his brother was with him, he might be correct. I can’t recall much that night because I had a few too many shots, and was a bit drunk and woke up in a nearby forest what felt like a few days later.”

The court stenographer nods, and types every word by word onto a document.

“Thank you, Tom Abercrombie, for your statement, but I am afraid it does not help your case for the victims. Overall, we do not have any proof Don Arthur Munson murdered these two victims, so you are free to go.” The judge says, clearly troubled that she has not gotten to the bottom of yet another Munson Twins case. The court security officers lead the twins out to the door and set them free to the world once again. They walk home, shoulder to shoulder, not a glimpse of guilt or distraught in their heads.

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“That was-...” Don mumbles, but Dan covers his mouth and whispers

“hushhh…” and points towards the radio. Dan picks up a thick book from the oak bookshelf and throws it at the radio. It smashes into smithereens. 

“What were you saying?” Dan says with a certain poise.

“Right, umm. That was great acting by you bruvver. But Kath & Kim, really? Why? You just made a fool of the both of us.” Don mutters.

“Don, admit it. I have seen you in your room binge-watching, Kath & Kim.”

Don’s cheeks turn crimson, in embarrassment. Don changes the subject and mutters 

“I miss Father, but we will carry on his legacy, by taking away the lives of those who took his life away from him…”

They bless their father simultaneously, by motioning their hands from shoulder to shoulder, and head to shoulders. Their father joined a religious cult, and was pleading to leave, and tell the world of all the torture they give to innocent people, and then they slaughtered him, as they couldn’t risk having their secret exposed. The twins only murder people apart of the cult, knocking them off one by one. Their ultimate goal, exterminating the cult.

The phone suddenly makes a sonorous sound, alarming the twins. Dan rushes over and removes the phone from the stand, and places it next to his ear. 

“Hello.”

“Umm, Good day sir,” The speaker on the other side of the line replies.

“May I ask, who am I speaking to currently?”

“Dan Arthur Munson?” Dan replies, a bit perplexed.

“Oh good, may you answer some simple questions for an interview with The Guardian?”

The male on the other side of the phone says, in a posh, British accent.

“But we are in Australia.” Dan tries to argue his way out of the interview.

“Yes but you’re a countless amount of murders, are known here in Great Britain too.

“Umm no thank you, we have enough news coverage already, and we don’t need anymore.”

Dan complains and hangs up the phone before the interviewer could even open his mouth.

“Jeez, everyone, everywhere,  knows about the murders,” Dan mumbles. Don nods. 

“This isn’t good 

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Later that day….

“Ok, this is the blueprint of the house of the leader of the cult, Nancy Smith.”

Dan declares as he rolls out the complicated blueprint of a huge mansion.

“Here is the master bedroom. Her bedtime is at exactly 9:00 pm. At 9:01, we begin our treacherous journey to Adelaide, 2 hours away.” 

“And on a normal day, she spends an hour and 10 minutes watching television.”

Don adds.

Dan darts his eyes across the blueprint and drags his finger from room to room, showing their entering plan, their emergency exit plan, and murder plan. 

“You, dart through the door connected to her walk in robe, signal if it’s clear, I scurry in, and take the knife to her heart. Then broadcast from her huge television to all the still living members of the cult, of us, warning them to quit the cult, because we have killed the leader, and if they continue the cult, or try to take leadership, we will slaughter them like a newborn lamb in a butchery.”

3 days later

9:01pm

Dan turns the key to the land rover, as it roars in power. He presses his foot on the accelerator, and it goes flying forward. His eyes are focused on the road ahead, as Don stares at the navigation system and repeats the directions to Nancy Smith’s mansion. 

The Bowie knife sitting in the back seat, next to the Microfiber dust fingerprint proof gloves. The endless, coiling road, spiralling in front of them. Traffic lights and busy apartments,  illuminating the city landscape. The twins dressed in full black, with a ski mask, and a bulletproof vest underneath a thick hoodie. A mob of pedestrians in front of the car, rushing to get to the end of the road, bumping those occupied by phones and sending them towards the cars. Dan lift his foot off the brake, sending the car into a roar. Dozens of car horns tooting horns simultaneously warning the pedestrians on their phone to hurry up. 

“This is gonna be a long journey” Dan mumbles.

2 hours 

They pull up 100 metres away from the mansion, at the start of the winding driveway, with automated gates. They creep up to the gate, enter the pin, and tip toe up the driveway. All lights are off in the mansion. They pry open a window on the first story, and slide themselves in. They cautiously creep up the stairs, stopping at every creak to hush each other. Don scurries down the hallway and pushes the bedroom door open slightly, and signals to Dan ‘It’s all clear.’ Dan pulls out the bowie knife from a drawstring bag, and scurries over to the huge californian king bed, occupied by only one small, slender, elderly women, Nancy Smith. He sighs, and mumbles to himself

“Well, this could be the end…”

He holds the bowie knife high, as he brings it down towards her chest. It pierces through her skin, breaking through one layer at a time. When it reaches her heart, he pushes the knife all the through, until he hits her spine. Blood comes leaking out of the stab. He draws the knife away from the body, and looks down at what he has done. He solemnly nods to his brother, and he switches on the broadcasting service, to all the still remaining members of the cult. 

“You all better run, as fast as you can, to America, or Mexico, or anywhere that will accept you. But if you stay, we WILL slaughter you, like we did to Nancy Smith.”

Don says with a firm but shaky voice, and moves the camera over to show the gore of the body. Everyone on screen gasps, a few fainting, a few shutting down their screens in horror. Don shuts down the broadcasting service, and peers over his shoulder to see Dan in tears, hands sheltering his eyes from his brother’s disappointed glare.

“Why are you sad. We’ve been waiting for this moment for 15 years, AND NOW YOU’RE CRYING??? You're just weak. AND TO THINK that you were the stronger one out of us…” Don walks out, leaving the distraught, and guilty Dan sitting on the bed, back turned away from the body. He mutters to himself

“I can’t believe I did it. Took away the lives of 20 people, to avenge one’s.”

The guilt of everything got to his head. Don, by now long gone, the car missing from the driveway. Police sirens approaching the building. He stood up, but still slumped, walked down the stairs to the front door. He opens the door, to see the police standing there with guns, locked and loaded. 

“TAKE YOUR HANDS OUT OF YOUR POCKETS, STEP OUTSIDE WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR, AND GET ON THE GROUND.” 

A police officer demands of Dan. He does as told, and surrenders himself. He steps in the car, and is taken away…

“News in! They police caught Dan Munson, at the scene of a well known lady, Nancy Smith’s mansion, where she murdered just moments before. He has pleaded guilty, and has been sent for a lifetime, for 20 murders. His twin, Don Munson has still not been caught, and is thought to be on the run.”

Don hears blasting from the radio of his phone. He peers out of the airplane window, and suddenly the air hostesses announce “We will be having an emergency landing in California. Sorry for the inconvenience. He rolls his eyes, and as soon as the plane lands he goes sprinting off the tarmac, police with guns ready for him, chasing him down like a dog chasing a gopher. They shoot his leg, and he collapses. They drag him to a police helicopter, and fly him away to ADX Florence, thought to be the toughest prison in America. He yells out from the back, cuffed, 

“I DEMAND A LAWYER!”

In Don’s prison later that day…

“Oh brother.” 

Don mumbles as he watches the international news. 

“Dan Munson, charged with 20 murders, found DEAD in his jail cell, with a knife next to him. Inmates claim it was not them. Police believe the inmates are innocent, and that the guilt had gotten to Dan. More news, still incoming.”

The jail curator switched off the television, and nodded.

“I know what ya feelin’ buddy, you’ll get ova’ it soon.”

Don mutters

“What have I done….”

Themes & Narratives.

In Literacy we are learning how to identify themes in stories, and make our own based on a plot. Here is my work, hope you leave some feedback.

Mapping

In Maths, we have been doing work on maps, including figuring out what some things mean, like using latitude, longitude, which way is ACTUALLY the true north, and why the magnet of the compass is pointing which way, and how, with the help of TopoMap. We got given questions about a certain area on the map, and we had to answer them. Here are the questions, answers, and the map.

Map Work

The Black Numbers- The Black numbers could represent the height of the mountain.

The Green Parts- I think the green parts are National Reserves.

The Steepest hill-  Mt Olympus

The Highest Hill- Mt Olympus

The Dots- A man-made walking trail.

In Real Life- In real life, I can imagine this would look like a mountain Range with lots of lakes and rivers intertwined.

Frankenstein Vocab

This is Frankensteins vocab for ch2-3 of volume 2. Enjoy, and please leave some feedback and comments.

Frankenstein Vocab Chapters                       Volume 2 Chapter 3

Immutable - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3) : working of immutable laws,

Our Meaning: Not changing at all..

Sentence: Her rules were immutable.

Congregated - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3) :They congregated round me;

Our Meaning: To gather.

Sentence : We all congregated in the living room.

Sombre - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3):but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.

Our Meaning: Dull, serious.

Sentence : There was a sombre feeling in the room.

Dissipated - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3) :Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud,

Our Meaning: Dissolved, got rid of.

Correct Meaning: overindulging in sensual pleasures.

Sentence : He had dissipated behavior.

Perpendicular - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3) :The opposite mountain is a bare perpendicular rock.

Our Meaning: Angle

Sentence : The tree was perpendicular.

Abhorred - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3) : ‘Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art!

Our Meaning: Disgusted, disgusting.

Sentence : “The bathroom is absolutely abhorred!”

Satiated - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3) : until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.’

Our Meaning: Satisfy

Sentence : The food critic was satiated.

Virtuous - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3) :and I shall again be virtuous.’

Our Meaning: Good mannered.

Sentence : He was Virtuous.

Entreaties - Ch.10 (Vol 2, Ch. 3) :Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature,

Our Meaning: A plea or a request.

Sentence : He had a entreaties.

Frankenstein Vocab

Here is our weeks Vocab for frankenstein, chapter 1-2 of volume. Enjoy!

Frankenstein Vocab Chapters 9-10

Benevolent Ch9: I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings.

Our definition: Kind

My sentence: He was a benevolent soul.

Perceptible Ch9:My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured…..

Our definition: Seeing or unable to see.

My sentence: He found it perceptible.

Augment Ch9:‘but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?

Our definition: To make great or bigger.

My sentence: He augmented the situation more than it had to be.

Abhorrence Ch9:My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.

Our definition: Revolting, disgusting or gross.

My sentence: The toilets were a scene of abhorrence.

Sublime Ch9:But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose...

Our definition: Excellent.

My sentence: The sight was truly sublime.

Malignity Ch10:tenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while...

Our definition: Unhappiness and distress.

My sentence: The malignity he force on the people was shocking.

Contempt Ch10: Felix rejected his offers with contempt, yet when he saw the lovely Safie….

Our definition: Worthless, unworthy.

My sentence: She felt contempt, from all the bullying and distress she has experienced.

Spurn Ch10: Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by

ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

Our definition: Avoid, or shut out.

My sentence: My former friends spurn me.

Ignominy Ch9: and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death.’

Our definition: Pain and disgrace.

My sentence: She suffered with ignomyiny.

Render Ch9: Have we lost the power of rendering you happy?

Our definition: Classified.

My sentence: I render you as a crazy person.

Frankenstein Vocab Chapter 7-8

Frankenstein Vocab
In literacy we need to do vocab every week of a different two chapters every week. This week we did Chapter 7-8. Here it is, feel free to leave some feedback and comments.

Frankenstein Vocab                                       Chapter 8

Mockery - Ch.8 :During the whole of this wretched

mockery of justice I suffered living torture.

What we think it means: To mock or not take seriously.

My sentence: Everyone thought of him as a mockery to the family, and the heritage.

Ignominious - Ch.8 :Justine

also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated

in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!

What we think it means: Shame.

My Sentence: The mayor was greeted with ignominious individuals.

Exculpated - Ch.8 :but I was absent when it was committed,and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.

What we think it means: Included, with wrongdoing.

My Sentence: The murderer was clearly excuplated.

Countenance - Ch.8 :She was dressed in mourning, and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful.

What we think it means: Expression.

My Sentence: The guilt she felt, was hidden by her angered countenance.

Indignation - Ch.8 : she had placed round his neck, a murmur of horror and indignation filled the court.

What we think it means: Dictatorship.

My Sentence: Kim Jong Un ruled with indignation as his motivation.

Conjecture - Ch.8 :I am only left to conjecture concerning the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket.

What we think it means: Speak an opinion or thought.

My sentence: She conjectures about her thoughts on the guilty as charged.

Wantonly - Ch.8 :But here also I am checked. I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.

What we think it means: A deliberate way.

My Sentence: She wantonly set the building on fire.

Approbation - Ch.8 :A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth’s simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous.

What we think it means: Admiration.  

My Sentence:  She showed approbation when she was staing up at her idol.

Guile - Ch.8 :Her mild eyes seemed incapable of any severity or guile, and yet she has committed a murder.’

What we think it means: Slyness.

My Sentence: The guile on his faced, persuaded the judge that he was innocent.

Absolution - Ch.8 :‘I did confess, but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution;

What we think it means: Punishment.

My Sentence: The guilty as charged were given absolution