Persuasive Writing

Cats vs Dogs

Today for writing we did persuasive writing on which we think is better "Cats or Dogs", I think this is a very interesting topic because to me cats and dogs are both my favorite. 

But I came to my decision.

Here's my Persuasive writing.

I don't know about you but I think that dogs is an pretty amazing pet, because you can take them for walks, take a stroll and swim around at the beach, have play fights, have cuddles and many more things you can do that you can't exactly do with a cat. For e.g most of the things you can do with cats are ( Take them for walks, swim around with them, run around, take them to the park ) There are so many other things I could say but I prefer not to.

Let's take the example of taking your dog for a stroll on the beach.

Do you love just having a nice relaxing day on the beach but miss your cat or a different pet, but you just can't bring them cause there either, 1- scared of water 2- can't go to the beach or 3- hate car rides.

Well the most perfect pet for that is your dog, they are so much fun to play with at the beach, you can chuck around sticks in the water and let them chase it, you might even be able to have swimming races. It's easy for bringing a dog to the beach because, they LOVE car rides and having a cool fresh swim.

The reason why I know all this is because of personal experience, I have a dog at home that we take for rides and a swim at the beach and she loves it, she has so much fun, and your dog most probably to. 

EOTC Week

Nga Te Moki

This week we have had a series of activities to choose from with 4 different subjects.

I chose to read about Nga Te Moki Marae because a couple years back I went to the Marae with my school. It was such an amazing experience.

Here is the work that I did.

1) Where did Cath Brown grow up? What roles did she hold?

-She grew up at taumutu and lived there most of her life.

-She held the position of Chair of Te Taumutu Rūnanga and Upoko.

2) What type of art did Cath make? How do you know she was successful at it? 

-Ngati Tahu weaver.

-How we know she was definitely respectful because she was awarded the Sir kingi Ihaka!

3) Where is the marae located? What does the land around it look like? 

-Taumutu on the quiet shores of Te waihora (lake ellesmere.

4) What does mahinga kai mean? What do you think they ate?

-Mahinga Kai means food source.

-Hangi 

5) What is Ngāti Moki Marae built on?

-an old structure that stood on the same site.

6) What is the Awhitu House? 

-a scene of many important gatherings. (Family gatherings, success gatherings and much more important stuff)

-it also was a gathering of success.

Narrative Writing

Harry Potter- Darkness vs teenagers

In class we have been doing some fairy tail narrative writing, we either got to do a fairytail legend or myth, I chose Harry Potter.
But there is a plot twist with our writing, we are taking the story's and changing it and making it into something of our own.

Here's what I have started writing so far:

It was one stormy night and 3 friends were just having look around the school there names were Zak, Krissi, and Acea, they didn't even know how dark it actually was until they saw they walked around and went into an unlocked room with Windows all around it.

That's when they soon realised how late it actually was, so they decided to go home but what they didn't know is that someone was watching them… Following them… Hunting them…

Business and Enterprise

His term we are doing business and Enterprise, this week we had a review on what business and enterprise actually is.
Miss Birtch gave us the topic of, if we had a class pet which pet would be suitable for us, (what pet could we get with only $150 for a pet in the class)
Me and my buddy Trisha chose a class fish.
The choices we got out of was ( Dog, Cat, Rabbit/Guinea Pig, Frog, Fish,Axoloti, Mouse/Rat, Turtle)
We have created a D.L.O on the costs and everything u need for a class fish.
Unfortunately due to technical difecultys I can not post the slide on my blog but the slide is on my buddy's Trishas blog.

Click link to Trishas blog to see the presintation.
Trishas Blog

The Mystery

She saw it coming from around the corner, something she had never seen before, it was almost like a creature.
She couldn't really see anything all she saw was a shadow of some sort with beedy White eyes that were as bright as a flashlight, and the teeth as sharp as a dragons scale. Before she could get a good eye on this.. Creature, it flashed before her eyes and appeared again across the road, like it wanted her to follow.
She wanted to find out who or what this thing was so she decided to follow.
About 22 minutes later of chasing and looking, she found her self in this abandoned mansion deep in the middle of the woods.
If your asking why it's abandon well she'll find that out very soon. 
With in 30 seconds being in the mansion she heard a huge crash and bang down the dark long hall.
And she found her self in a situation no ones been in before the type of situation that she might not even make it out of here alive....

Reading!

ANZAC Jack

This week in my reading group we got split into two and got different books to read.

The book I got is called ANZAC Jack.

For this blogpost I am going to be saying what I found interesting about this story so far etc.

To be honest the most interesting part I found in this story is when I read that ANZAC Jack could have been in jail when he was younger, the reason why I found that interesting because they didn't actually tell us if he was there or not the boys that were talking to ANZAC Jack just kept thinking that, that was possible.
Something that I'm predicting that will happen during the rest of the book is.
The boys will find out that ANZAC Jack was actual in jail! The reason being is because in chapter one when the boys had thought he was in jail they asked, as soon as they asked ANZAC Jack act a bit suspicious, in my mind.
But have been wondering, was ANZAC Jack really an ANZAC?
To me the most enjoyable part is all the mystery if ANZAC Jack was really in jail...

Is all this possible well we will see when I've read all the book.

Writing

Respect!

Today me and the rest of 8Bh had to do a blog about something respectful they did today.

In class or out of class.

Something respectful I did today...

Was at morning tea me and my friends went to the cafe in our new building and had lunch.

By the time the bell went for period 3 I held the door open for them to walk through, and a couple more people.

But that's not this only thing, also in class I was a it stuck on something I was doing for my glossary.

I held my hand up being quite while waiting for miss Birtch to come over when she's ready. That's showing respect because I was not yelling out her name and I was just sitting there waiting quietly.

What about you can you do something respectful like those thing or can you be respectful by doing something else?