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Develop and adapt active reading skills and strategies

I chose summarize it helped me understand the novel better because we had class discussions and we went over the part that we had just read so if I didn’t understand a part I would say “I don’t understand this line or paragraph” and then someone who did understand would say “ok this is what it means”. The kind of activities we did in class for this strategy is just class discussions. This strategy didn’t really change much but I did kind of stop summarizing towards the end. I didn’t really use predict that much because I don’t really like predicting what is going to happen I just like it to be a surprise and to find out so I haven’t really tried it before but maybe I will try it out next time and see what happens. J

I chose Esperanza’s view point because it changes a lot throughout the book. She believed when she was rich that the world is always rich and she never knew that there are people who are poor. But when her dad died she saw like the other side of the world. She had to go to a camp because only in those days men could look after the land so her mum couldn’t look after the land her dad had raised, then Tio Louis (Esperanza’s uncle) offered to look after the land but that meant Esperanza’s mum had to marry him and she didn’t want to, he also said to persuade her to get married with him I will give you a wagon and she sneakily she agreed but having a plan in mind. She was going to escape with the wagon and Alfonso, Miguel and Hortensia. So when she got to the camp she didn’t have maids to do everything for her and she actually had to do things for herself. Here is a video to show how she felt. 

Relate texts to the social, historical and cultural contexts in which they were written

Analyze how writers’ use of linguistic and literary features shapes and influences meaning

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All styles of fashions are different. People think one dress is nice, but your friend thinks it is ugly.  There are lots of different fashion designers, so we have a variety to choose from. There are many styles of fashion. The first style of fashion is casual. An example of casual is when you are playing out with your friends or going to buy groceries, and all you want to put on is comfy pants and a old t – shirt. You don’t really care what you look like. The next style of fashion is formal dress. An example of formal dress is if you want to go to a ball, out to your friends house for dinner, or going on a date, you would put make up on and a glamorous dress or a really smart shirt and trousers. The third style of fashion is swimwear. Alot of people fuss about what costume or bikini they wear because they want to look good or have the right style on. Also fashion is fun because it can decide what mood you are in. If you wear colourful bright clothes you tend to be very happy. On the other hand if you wore black, grey and dull clothes you tend to be depressed and unhappy. Fashion can also be a way to show what you like and what your personality is like. This is maybe because if you have a purple t – shirt on you like purple or if you have a t – shirt with a dog on you like dogs.
Being unique is being yourself. People are not all the same. We are different genders. We all like unusual styles, and we think differently. We like to be distinct. Not everyone wants to look like the same because people want to stand out from each other. Maybe if you are twins you may want to dress the same or look the same. Being unique is special and creative. Funky is being cool, new, and not being part of the crowd. Being part of a crowd you tend to follow one person who is the leader, so you might all wear the same clothes to a shopping mall. But if you are with just with one other person, or on your own you go with your own flow and do things yourself. Which to other people is boring, but to some people it is nice for them to be on their own.

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The giver is a really interesting book. It is a book that really makes you think in some parts, and parts that make you think what if we lived like that,  there was this one line that had me thinking and it is when jonas said ” We have to share our thoughts at dinner.” I thought this was interesting because some of the time you just want to keep things to yourselves and not share it but it is a rule. The other thing that is really weired so far is that you don’t have your real mother and father i would hate not knowing my mother or father also don’t get to choose your own job you have get given it and i would hate to be doing somthing i didnt want to do for the rest of my life.

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In the last term of english we are about to start a book called The Giver. To get us thinking about the novel we had to complete a survey about it. then we had to pick a question and expand on it and write a blog post.

The question i chose was Overpopulation is such a problem that families should not be allowed to have more than two children: I think you should be aloud more than 2 children but no more than 4 children in some countries it is a rule to not have more then 2 children and if they do they will kill the child and then the family will feel really bad for the rest of there life and they shouldn’t have live their live thinking that they are killers.

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This week in english we have been focusing on organization, we first took our three main ideas, mine were FUNKY, UNIQUE AND BIG we then put them on a fact chart. We then supported our ideas with a few facts, we also wrote questions about the things we didn’t know about our topic or wern’t sure about. To answer these questions some people made a survey and got other people in the class to answer these, but some people just looked on the internet. The next lesson we did was about transitions and this is what one is, a transition is connections, or links, in writing. We then went to our paragraph and highlited the transitions in that.

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This week we were talking about IDEAS first we picked a topic, like mine was Fashion but we all know that that is a big topic so I had to narrow it down to the 70s fashion with five main ideas mine were big boots, knee high tights, loads of makeup, big colours and funky hair, now from those we had to narrow it down to three main ideas about the five ideas. My three ideas are funky, big and unique we went through this long process so we got a real good main idea of what we have to do, we have now gone on to write our first paragraph, this is us just writing about what we kind of want our article to be like but we might actually want only two sentences out of the whole paragraph but we will just progress to make our article bigger and bigger.

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HENRY THE VII
BORN: 28 JANUARY 1457
SUCCEEDED: 22 AUGUST 1485
DIED: 21 APRIL 1509

The fact that Henry Tudor became King of England at all is somewhat of a miracle. His father was Edmund Tudor, a Welshman of Welsh royal lineage, but that was not too important as far as his claim to the English throne went. What was important though was his heritage through his mother, Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of Edward III.
Henry couldn’t be certain that he was safe as King of England because for a hundred years the country had been torn apart by conflicts and wars about who should rule. In order to make sure that he was not overthrown Henry married Elizabeth of York. Marrying Elizabeth would, Henry hoped, prevent the House of York trying to kill him as they now held some power.

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This is an activity we did in class!

When we did this in class I was really feeling how esperanza was and also reading the passages from the book before we started really got me in the mood for getting my hands dirty or just having fun. But for esperanza this wasnt fun because she had never done it before and she had to do it every day. When I was reading this part in the book it made me feel sorry for esperanza because she had the ladies laughing at her on her first try, we also had the cleaners at our school laughing at us but this didnt bother me because I think it is alright for them to laugh at us becacause it is unusual for them to see us cleaning. Also esperanza thought this was not funny to be cleaning and cooking because she had just come from a wealthy family. This made her feel very sad.

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 By P U M A

My family anchors me because. We spend a lot of time together and if we were separated I think my life would still be happy but a bit broken. I can tell my mum and dad anything and if I said don’t tell anyone they wouldn’t and I love that I have that good a relationship with them, I would have a bit of trouble telling my sister though because she is not very good at keeping secrets! My mum would also do anything for me but at sometimes she can be over cautious I don’t mind that sometimes but I do most of the time, for example if I wanted to go to villagio she would have to talk to my dad and discuss it and everything but that is just how she is! And I love that about her!

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