Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 11

Hi everyone - here are the tasks for the last week of Term 3. We've got a pretty busy week with the earthquake drill, the show, and making lolly leis for the school fair, so there aren't too many tasks. Make sure you do all of them to a very high standard.

My poem

Wellington

Wellington is the city I live

Lots of green grasses and leaves

It’s very cold and windy

But I don’t mind

I love it that way

People are kind and friendly

Sweet as my favourite chocolate

I am always looking forward to a sunny day

So I can go out and play

Sleeping in a giant freezer

Wearing a billion blankets

Before in the middle of the night

I am awaken by the sound of the wind hitting the glass of my window pane

But now it’s just like music

Although I have gotten used to the sound of the wind

I still can’t stand the freezing wind crashing into me

My poem is about Wellington. I choose to do my poem on Wellington because it's where I live and it is the only other country that i've been in apart from the Philippines. I wrote how it was nothing like Philippines at start but then i started to get use to it. I choose to do it on Wellington because i really like it here and its where i met my best friends.

Anna

3D Artwork

This piece of 3D artwork was created using some pencils. Firstly I drew twelve straight lines that are diagonal. Secondly I drew the curves inside the columns that I had drawn. Thirdly I chose two colours that that went well with each other and coloured in the curves. Lastly I shaded in-between the columns to give them a 3D affect.

Work that I am proud of

This is the work I am proud of, it is our writing task for week 10. We had to write an essay on a song called 'I will not let you down', type it up onto the computer in a size 12 font (which is quite small) and it had to be more than a page. Mine was about one page and a bit less than a half, but it may not look like it on this post. Enjoy.

I will not let you down

By Sean Donnelly/Don McGlashan

‘I will not let you down’  was written by Sean Donnelly and sung by Don McGlashan. It contains many different ideas and images that could be interpreted in different ways, I will discuss both the meaning and the language features.

The main idea of the song is that someone is trying to get back to their girlfriend. He wants her to know that he regrets the mistakes that he made in their relationship and he wants her to believe it won’t happen again this can be seen when the song says ‘So I row to your isle all that distance reconciled should my arms and shoulders fail put my trust in wind and sail’ this also shows that he will do everything he can to try to get to her even if it drains the energy out of him.

The song has lots of religious imagery, for example ‘carried my cross’, ‘temple’, ‘altar’. 

The songwriter may have been trying to convey the idea that the singer of the song wants to be back with who he is trying to get to so badly that he asks God to help him achieve what he is trying to do.

There are many language features in this song like rhyme, for example ‘fail’, ‘sail’, ‘bind’, ‘mind’, ‘you’ and ‘true’. For the chorus the main line is ‘I will not let you down’ the songwriter was using repetition to emphasize the point that he wouldn’t let her down. Similes were also used in the song like ‘There’s a heart here that beats like a drum’ this gives us the idea that he was nervous that he wouldn’t get to his destination or that he was nervous about getting there and seeing her again. This song also contains metaphors for example ‘an ocean of swallowed pride’ which conveys the idea of that the singer of the song  is swallowing his pride and asking the person he is singing to for forgiveness.

‘I will not let you down’ is a powerful song written by Sean Donnelly that can touch your heart with many possible and deep meanings. The many language features in the song all mean something important and gives the song lots of clues to what the singer is thinking. It contains and gives you a feeling of sadness and regret throughout the song, but it also has a message of love, hope and belief.

By Christine Chow

Art

This artwork is being made by painting, sponging and printing. First, I painted the background blue, then I sponged some of the bits with white paint. While my background is drying, I start drawing my bird for the printing. When the background is dried, I printed 3 birds on my background. I chose black, because it looks betther with blue.

By stephanie

Junah's art

Art

This art work is done with a paint brush, sponge and printing. My focus was on the background more the printing. It is an autumn tree with a picture which is a bird flying over the tree. First I colored the sky I blue. Some bites darker and some bites lighter. Then I started painting the tree in autumn color. I went over the blue so the color was darker at the end of the tree so it looked weird. So I mixed a bit of blue and brown in some bits. Then I let the paint dry then I did the branches. While the paint was drying I drew a bird on a piece of paper. Then I got a thick cardboard and went over the bird so you could see the lines clearly. I chose black ink for my bird because it looks very attractive the blue and red. I rolled over the picture with the ink and placed it on the picture. Then I placed a clean piece of paper over the top. I carefully rolled over the paper with a clean roller.

Then I took off everything and now there is a printing of a bird.  

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 10

Here are the tasks for Term 3, Week 10. Make sure you have everything finished to a high standard by Friday so you can play Hunger Games Dodgeball! If you have any suggestions about improving the game, add a comment.

Spanish country, Panama

This is some work that i am proud of for my reflection.
By Lily

Panama

The Republic of Panama is the most southern country of Central America. The capital of Panama is Panama City which is situated on the coast of the country. Panama was settled by Spain in the 16^th century and was soon partnered with many of the surrounding countries. But the countries all split up. With only panama and Columbia remaining together… but not for long.

Separation from Spain

For the first 80 years after becoming part of Spain Panama was a voluntary department of Columbia. But luckily during the “thousand days of war” between 1899 and 1902 America decided to help out Panama. And by November 1903 they declared independence from Columbia.

The Canal

The famous Panama canal was made between panama and Columbia finally confirming their separation. It was built by the U.S army. An agreement was signed by the U.S and Panama before the end of the 20^th century saying that the canal was officially owned by panama

Fast facts

·       The population recorded in 2010 was 3,405,813

·       The ethnic groups are:

American and Mestizo: 70%   Indian: 14%   European: 10% Amerindian: 6%

·       The total area is 75,517 km sq

Lily

Orange Day Parade

Today our Year 7 & 8 road patrol team joined the Orange Day Parade, marching from Parliament to the Civic Square.

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 9

This week's tasks are here.

Weekly Tasks - Term3, Week 8

Now that production is over and we don't have constant dance practices, it's time to get some work done before the end of the term! This week's tasks are here.

Production!

After months of preparation, our production 'Not Another Fairytale' was held on 29 and 30 August at the Victoria University Memorial Theatre. The show was amazing and everyone's hard work really paid off.