Well I don't think I would really read this book if I didn't have to but I guess it is quite interesting so when Ms. Narsiman asked the question "how is Will just like you" at first I thought that's easy Wills like me because.... than I stopped. How is Will like me? IT is actually a harder question than it seems. So I am now sitting at my computer wondering how is Will just like me? then it struck me.......
Will is just like me because he has his own mind. As said in the book, Will is different because he is worried about being capped but everyone else in the village think that is completely normal but Will has his own thoughts on what to do that is why he is going to the White Mountains so he can be free. This is like me because I am not a follower I have my own mind and like to make my own choices for example if one of my friends ask me to go to someones party and everyone is going and I don't feel up to it or I am busy, I am not afraid to say I can't come or I don't feel up to coming. I don't go just because everyone else is going. I dislike being controlled like you would be if you were capped you would be controlled by the tripods but I will not sit here being controlled by friends and other people and I listen to what my mind tells me!
So this is why I am like Will, we both dislike the thought of someone or something else being in control of us and telling us what to do or whot to think and if we do not like something, we are not afraid to do or say something about it. However if I had the choice to runaway from home I probably would not runaway as I would miss my family too much. I wonder what Will would do if he didn't feel like going out but everyone else was?
Monday, March 7, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Ancient Egyptian Pharoah's with "App"titude
Another project OK OK, EGYPT what I know NOTHING about EGYPT, what EGYPT!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I wasn't like that, OK well maybe I was, but still it was actually really fun. Read this blog post and find out more about how this project went for me!!!!!!!
Why do you think Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs created monuments?
I think Pharaohs created monuments so that they could look good and exiting not lame and boring. If you look at most Pharaohs the monuments they made kept getting bigger and better if you ask me I think that it was kind of contest to which Pharaoh was better and what Pharaoh could make the best monument!!!!!
What monuments in our society are similar?
Ramses II made a museum that was pretty big. Today we have big museums like the Smithsonian museum in America which is a monument that we now have in our society. People in Egypt a long time made huge tombs for the Pharaohs and we to build big graveyards like in churches and you can go and prey for your loved ones similar to what they did in Egypt.
How did the using google docs as the main portal for collaboration help you with this assignment?
Google docs helped me with the collaboration because you can chat on the page when you are at home if your partner was on and then you could help each other if you were stuck. Also because when you type something on the page it automatically saves and then your partner can see what your adding to the facts or script. What really helped though is the way you can just hit share and give access to your partner so you can both work on the page at the same time because if you used a word document then you can't share it over the Internet well you sort of can but anyway you wouldn't be able to see if your partner was adding something, it would be much harder to use a word document.
What did you learn from this assignment?
I learnt that Pharaoh is spelt P H A R A O H not "P H E R O H" ha ha just kidding....... I learnt that working together is some times the only way you can get things done and finished quickly. I also learnt that some times it's good to work with some one you don't normally work with and anyway you can't just have one friend right so it's good to be a bit social.
What was challenging?
For me one challenge was getting in touch with my partner because sometimes when I needed to tell Nadia something about the project she wasn't online and that was hard because you can send them an email but if their not online then they might not get it until the next day and it might have been something really important!!!
Which school wide learning results were evident in this assignment?
I think that it would have to be think creatively because it was hard to think of an idea of how you are going to get the information out there like are you going to make a talk show or just record something in mine me and Nadia decided that she was in a dream and she was in Egypt interviewing me Ramses II it was good fun!
So I wasn't like that, OK well maybe I was, but still it was actually really fun. Read this blog post and find out more about how this project went for me!!!!!!!
Why do you think Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs created monuments?
I think Pharaohs created monuments so that they could look good and exiting not lame and boring. If you look at most Pharaohs the monuments they made kept getting bigger and better if you ask me I think that it was kind of contest to which Pharaoh was better and what Pharaoh could make the best monument!!!!!
What monuments in our society are similar?
Ramses II made a museum that was pretty big. Today we have big museums like the Smithsonian museum in America which is a monument that we now have in our society. People in Egypt a long time made huge tombs for the Pharaohs and we to build big graveyards like in churches and you can go and prey for your loved ones similar to what they did in Egypt.
How did the using google docs as the main portal for collaboration help you with this assignment?
Google docs helped me with the collaboration because you can chat on the page when you are at home if your partner was on and then you could help each other if you were stuck. Also because when you type something on the page it automatically saves and then your partner can see what your adding to the facts or script. What really helped though is the way you can just hit share and give access to your partner so you can both work on the page at the same time because if you used a word document then you can't share it over the Internet well you sort of can but anyway you wouldn't be able to see if your partner was adding something, it would be much harder to use a word document.
What did you learn from this assignment?
I learnt that Pharaoh is spelt P H A R A O H not "P H E R O H" ha ha just kidding....... I learnt that working together is some times the only way you can get things done and finished quickly. I also learnt that some times it's good to work with some one you don't normally work with and anyway you can't just have one friend right so it's good to be a bit social.
What was challenging?
For me one challenge was getting in touch with my partner because sometimes when I needed to tell Nadia something about the project she wasn't online and that was hard because you can send them an email but if their not online then they might not get it until the next day and it might have been something really important!!!
Which school wide learning results were evident in this assignment?
I think that it would have to be think creatively because it was hard to think of an idea of how you are going to get the information out there like are you going to make a talk show or just record something in mine me and Nadia decided that she was in a dream and she was in Egypt interviewing me Ramses II it was good fun!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
City Connections Reflections
UMMMMMMMMM okay we made power points on the country we came from Personally I would have rather done it on Justin Bieber or Cody Simpson and how awesomely cool they are but, doing a presentation on a country that I have lived in was actually pretty fun. We have done may presentations but I think that this one was definitely in my top 3 but then again doing a power point on a famous person would be fun but that will never happen because I mean it's humanities not celeb research! (ha ha ha)
I think that what I did well on my project is I had lots of pictures for every slide and they were clear and the right picture for each topic and I think my information was clear and I had a good amount on every slide and the information was useful and meaning full, and I also think I had good eye contact and a clear loud voice and made sure my audience was interested in what I was saying.
What you would improve for future presentations/projects?
I think I could improve on making my information more detailed and well explained I feel that I waste to much time looking at pictures and getting distracted by other things like emails and videos on YouTube about the Auckland sky tower and don't take a lot of time focusing on the stuff that needs to be shown on the final product. To many distractions make an very unfocused Fynnola. I feel also that my layout on slides don't look very neat sometimes I didn't even notice that my pictures were overlapping my writing. So I think that I should take a bit more time on the way my PowerPoint looked.
What did you learn from your preparation (for your presentation) in addition to the presentations of others?
Making the power point about New Zealand made me realize and learn more about my country like I found out that Auckland is New Zealand's largest city but it has never been the capital. I hope that my class mates learnt more about New Zealand and found out some good informational facts, I also hope they realized how NZ people really love rugby and seeing the Hakka even if Richie McCaw's picture did make him look like a crazy person the Hakka is still really cool. I also learnt a lot about other people and where they come from.
What is your analysis of your performance?
I really think that my presentation overall was pretty good as my I used eye contact and I had a loud voice. I also think that if I focus on getting my facts and not getting distractions I could have the best presentation in the world, or maybe just in school, or just in 6A okay lets just say the best presentation I could ever do! :)
P.S All teachers reading this please consider a day when we can do something on cool famous people. JUTS KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
New Years Resolutions
One of my new years resolutions is to not give up to easily and if I put my mind to something I will keep trying until I can ecomplish my goal. My second resolution is to keep my room and school locker tidy not so messy that I can't find anything. I will be proud of my self if I can accomplish both these things this year.
Over the years I have given up to easily on things like once I was making a thank you card for my friend and tryed to draw her a picture of a dog but gave up because I kept making the dogs head look fat and decided to trace a dog from a photo once I gave the card to her I felt disappointed in myself because even if my dog did look a bit strange she probaly would still have loved it. This year I am going to set a goal to never give up and keep trying to get better at things and maybe by the end of the year I will be able to draw the best looking dog in the world (or maybe just the best out of the things I can draw).
WOW my room is always a mess there are cloths every wear on the floor and if I just open my cuboard door and step into it I swear I could get lost in there for a thousand years. My locker at school isn't any better there are loose papers every wear and I can never find the right books, once I was getting ready to go to math when I realized I had my science book instead and had to run back to my locker to find the right book. Today my mum and I cleaned my room and organized everything hopefully I will be able to keep it that way by when I get somthing out I put it back wear I got it from so that way I can always find what im looking for!
Over the christmas brake I went to New Zealand and had a blast me and one of my best friends made a music video of a bunch of Justin Bieber songs that followed a story we also went on a three day holiday up north to Russell and had so much fun we went on a boat to see the dolphins and went through the hole in the rock. With my other best friend we found a picture of justin Bieber jumping in the air and tried to do the same thing but it didnt really work.
Over the years I have given up to easily on things like once I was making a thank you card for my friend and tryed to draw her a picture of a dog but gave up because I kept making the dogs head look fat and decided to trace a dog from a photo once I gave the card to her I felt disappointed in myself because even if my dog did look a bit strange she probaly would still have loved it. This year I am going to set a goal to never give up and keep trying to get better at things and maybe by the end of the year I will be able to draw the best looking dog in the world (or maybe just the best out of the things I can draw).
WOW my room is always a mess there are cloths every wear on the floor and if I just open my cuboard door and step into it I swear I could get lost in there for a thousand years. My locker at school isn't any better there are loose papers every wear and I can never find the right books, once I was getting ready to go to math when I realized I had my science book instead and had to run back to my locker to find the right book. Today my mum and I cleaned my room and organized everything hopefully I will be able to keep it that way by when I get somthing out I put it back wear I got it from so that way I can always find what im looking for!
Over the christmas brake I went to New Zealand and had a blast me and one of my best friends made a music video of a bunch of Justin Bieber songs that followed a story we also went on a three day holiday up north to Russell and had so much fun we went on a boat to see the dolphins and went through the hole in the rock. With my other best friend we found a picture of justin Bieber jumping in the air and tried to do the same thing but it didnt really work.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Learning Profile
Profile L - ok, so I'm profile L. Most of the things it says about me are true, like I'm good at sports and I like to fiddle with things while taking in information. I don't think I learn best when I am sitting on my own without other students next to me because I feel that having other students around me makes me feel like I have someone there to talk to if I get stuck, or if I run out of ideas, like say we were thinking of ideas for a story. I might not know what to write and one of my friends can give me an idea of what would sound good. Even though it says that sitting on my own is a benefit, I strongly disagree, I think I learn best when I am in an environment where other students are around me to support me. I also feel I learn best when I have something to play around with like a pen or a pencil, so I can fiddle with it while I am thinking of ideas.
Being an L profile I do not perform well when under stress, therefore I can't stand it when the teacher is saying ten million different things all at the same time and then asking us to do a work sheet or reflection on what she just told us - it puts pressure on me and I dislike it a lot. In my head I am saying "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? I didn't know what you said you were talking in a fast pace languge". I think every now again I need to just take a deep breath and try to process what is happening in the class and pay more attention to the words coming out of the teachers mouth. I feel I need to relax more and not try to do everything at once.
When Mr. Whiting came to talk to us in class he told us a few exercises to help us concentrate when under stress. I think drawing lazy 8's on the desk will help me when I am learning. I also think that if I can't think of what the answer is on a test, then getting up and walking around may help me to relax and take time to think. Possibly drawing on a peice of paper may help me feel not so stressed, also if there was some nice calm music in the background then it may help me concentrate.
I would like my teachers to know that under stress I will not perform as well as I would if I was relaxed and calm. If my teachers would let me have a peice of paper next to me during a test so I can doodle on to make me feel more floaty and not so squeezed up together, like a rubber band tied tightly around a plastic bag, then I might be able to get the correct answer more quickly. To all my teachers - if you try to say to many things at once I will not get anything you said and if I look like a frozen tub of ice cream looking at you like I just saw a ghost, then it might tell you that I didn't understand anything you said!!!!!
Being an L profile I do not perform well when under stress, therefore I can't stand it when the teacher is saying ten million different things all at the same time and then asking us to do a work sheet or reflection on what she just told us - it puts pressure on me and I dislike it a lot. In my head I am saying "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? I didn't know what you said you were talking in a fast pace languge". I think every now again I need to just take a deep breath and try to process what is happening in the class and pay more attention to the words coming out of the teachers mouth. I feel I need to relax more and not try to do everything at once.
When Mr. Whiting came to talk to us in class he told us a few exercises to help us concentrate when under stress. I think drawing lazy 8's on the desk will help me when I am learning. I also think that if I can't think of what the answer is on a test, then getting up and walking around may help me to relax and take time to think. Possibly drawing on a peice of paper may help me feel not so stressed, also if there was some nice calm music in the background then it may help me concentrate.
I would like my teachers to know that under stress I will not perform as well as I would if I was relaxed and calm. If my teachers would let me have a peice of paper next to me during a test so I can doodle on to make me feel more floaty and not so squeezed up together, like a rubber band tied tightly around a plastic bag, then I might be able to get the correct answer more quickly. To all my teachers - if you try to say to many things at once I will not get anything you said and if I look like a frozen tub of ice cream looking at you like I just saw a ghost, then it might tell you that I didn't understand anything you said!!!!!
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