Cooking Research Task

 For the last 6-7 weeks in cooking we have been researching a country of our choose and then we had to pick a food from that country and cook it. Me and my two partners William and Phillip choose to research England and the food we choose was the English breakfast. We choose the English breakfast because it looked good it we had all never had it before so it would be something new. Below is the slide if all of our research and the evaluation on England and the English Breakfast.

Textiles Hoodie Update

 As you know for the last two terms we have been working on making an item of clothing. I choose to make a hoodie. Since the last time I have done a blog post I have cut most of the peaces out at least once and the peaces that need to be cut more than once I have cut. The only peace I have not cut yet is the hem band which I cut out with a different stretchy material. After I have cut those two peaces I am now going to start overlocking my material with an overlocker.

The image below is an overlocker.

 

DTE XBOX 360 Project

For the last term and a couple of weeks me and two other people have been working on fixing an XBOX 360 and then modifying it to make it better. The first thing that we did was take the main cover over and we started to clean some of the dust off of the main components of the XBOX. Once we had dusted them off we plugged it in to see if it would work and lucky it did. We then started to take some stuff off of the mother board like the fan, disc tray and some of the clips holding the mother board down so that we could take it out of the metal frame. We then took a couple of lessons to plan on what we are going to do with the XBOX to modify it. We came up with the idea that we would cut open the top of the case so that you can see on the inside and put acrylic on the top so you can see through. We also thought that we would hydro tip the case so that it is not just a bland white case as well as add some colourful LED's on the inside of the case. I think that it is going really well right now the only problem we have is the tool we are using is not cutting through the plastic cover very well. 

English Coggle Task

 Last week in English we had the choice between four different task and we had to work on them throughout the week. The task I choose was the coggle and I had to pick four characters in the movie and give one problem that they face during the movie. I then had to say how they dealt with this. I thought that this was going to be easy at first but then I found that I could only think of Katniss and Peeta so it took me a while to think about who else I could write about. I eventually came up with Prim Rose and Gale to write but I still struggled to think of a problem that they had because they are not the main characters.

Here is a link to the site I used.

 

Textiles Hoodie Progression

My Hoodie

For the last four-five week in Textiles we have been working on making an item of clothing of our choosing. Out of all of the options I choose to make a hoodie. The first thing that we had to do was take our measurements so that we know how big we have to make the hoodie. The next thing that we had to do was trace out the shape of all the peaces that we need for the hoodie using a pattern tracer to mark the paper so we could cut it out. The peaces that we need are Front, Back, Sleeve, Hood, Pocket, Hem Band and Sleeve Band. After we did all of the shapes we then choose a colour that we want our hoodie to look like I choose a grey colour. We then had to lay the peaces of paper down and pin them as flat as we can so that we can cut around them and it is the same size as the paper. This is as far as I have gotten so far I just have to cut out the rest of the pieces.

Know Your Place

For the last week in social Studies we have been working on a slide about some different places in New Zealand and some important things in those places. The two places that I picked were Kaikoura's Sperm Whales and Hornby High School. I started off by talking about what where the Sperm Whales live and what they eat as well as where they are on the food chain. For Hornby High I just started by talking about when the school was getting built and where it is in Hornby. In Kaikoura I also wrote about their history with the whales and the dolphins and how they still do the Whale watch and the dolphin encounter. an interesting fact I found out about Kaikoura was that they have a small cottage on a hill which is built on Whale Bones. I also found out that Hornby High School building was delayed for a year because of complications. In the Prezzie I could of added a little bit more information about Hornby High School but I could not really find much about the school.

English Workshop 5 / Music

Reaping Scene:
Major/Minor: Minor
Tempo-Fast/Slow/Moderate: Moderate
Dynamics: The volume went all the way up and then went down. (Starts quiet, gets louder to build tension/intensity then dies down again.
Effect On Viewer: Hopeful, Scared, Anxious.
Why Did The Directer To This: Put us in the shoes of the children in District 12.

Rues Farewell:
What Happens In This Scene?: Puts Rue to rest, she died,. was speared through the chest, we were not happy about this, mainly sad.
Major/Minor: Minor
Tempo: Slow
Dynamics: Diminuendo- Starts loud ends quieter.
Effect On Viewer: Depressed, sorrowful, melancholic.
Why Did The Director Do This: Because someone just died, she was close with Katniss, Katniss is the main character, Katniss cares because Rue is a child and reminds her of Prim.

Paragraph: In the scene where Rue dies, the technique of music is used effectively to show the theme of 'Hope and Rebellion'. In this scene we see Rue put to rest after she is impaled with a spear by another tribute. The music that is used makes the audience feel depressed, sorrowful, and melancholic through the use of minor chords, slow tempo and rising and falling dynamics. The purpose of this is to show the relationship between Katniss and Rue. They are friends and Katniss sees Rue like her sister Prim. This worked well with the use of the three finger salute which is a symbol of hope from Katniss's district. This shows hope and rebellion because as a result ok Katniss's actions, the people of district of District 11 start rioting against the Peace Keepers.

English timeline

For the last two days in English we have had to make a timeline about different points in the hunger games.