Tomorrow When The War Began - Vocabulary #1 ( own words )

Chronological - The establishment of dates of past events...

Authority - Something that you have control on...

Alternatives - Courses of action that can be chosen...

Gratification  - Wanting to grant something...

Obstinate - Stubbornly on changing someone's idea...

Hoist - Lifting something heavily...

Unsympathetic - Something unkind or unfeeling...

Scrutinising - Observing something you really want to observe..

Commemoration Day - Celebration something important like war or people.

Hysterically - Uncontrolled emotion like laughing...

Concealed - Something that's hidden secret...

Are Students Addicted To Their Cellphones? If So, Is That A Problem?

Some students may be addicted to their cellphones, probably because it makes them feel sociable to others which is fun to them, it makes them distracted in their school work, meaning it's a bad thing to do. If this continues, they might get in trouble in some way, for example, getting no pass in a test, getting no school lesson learned, and missing school homework etc. Banning use of cellphone in school will surely stop students getting addicted to their cell phones.

How Has Technology Changed People's Lives

Technology has made us live easily than before. Having technology improving will make our life easier. For example, humans created cars so we can easily travel far away possible and not travel with foot. Another example are electricity lights, they are made for letting us see clearly in the dark and can last longer than candles. Another example are factories, most of the things we're using right now are probably made by factories, they can make products easily rather than having many people making a product at the same time. Without factories, we probably don't have the things we have right now. These examples will keep improving in the future, maybe, so our lives will be more better, some will make us worse only if you don't used it in the right way.

Street Art

Why do we look at street art?

• To discover what it is or how it is different from other arts.

Why do we stop when we see it? 

• We stop because we’re interested in seeing arts that blow our mind.

What is our reaction? *

• Majority of people get amazed and overwhelmed by seeing this beautiful street art.

Does it relate to its surroundings in a noticeable way?

• Yes, it is noticeable because of how big street art is, but some are  not maybe.

Why do we need and use visuals around us?

• Because It is an effective way to to pass information because the human mind processes things in images

What are examples of common visual symbols in our environment?

• Heart symbol: this represents love, compassion and health.

• Dove symbol: this represents peace, love, and calm.

• Raven symbol: this represents death and doom.

• Tree symbol: this represents growth, nature, stability, and eternal life.

• Owl symbol: this represents wisdom and intelligence.

• Dragon symbol: this represents power, wisdom, strength, and mysticism.

• Butterfly symbol: this represents rebirth, beauty, and transformation.

• Dog symbol: this represents loyalty, protection, and companionship.

• Lion symbol: this represents courage, leadership, and royalty.

• Fox symbol: this represents slyness and cleverness

https://venngage.com/blog/symbols-and-meanings/

I chose this because the right side of the picture has 2 wolves facing each other, if you look harder, you can actually see 4 wolves faces in the drawing.

Writing an exposition ~ESOL~

Dogs in National Parks

Title of exposition: Protect the Abel Tasman National Park.

I: Many dog owners have been carrying their pet dogs in Abel Tasman National Park. Where you can swim and run around, and many of their pet dogs like to ruin the areas of the park by peeing, leaving their dog waste, and digging holes around.

A: If the dog owners continue having their dogs ruining the park, many visitors will complain about it. What's worse is that dog urine gets in the water that people swim in and they don’t know that they’re already swimming with dog urines. It is nasty to say.

C: What we can do to prevent dogs from coming into the park, we can put signs that say “Dogs are prohibited”, and have a guard to check if there’s dogs coming to the park. We can also build or make a dog area somewhere in the area of the park where they can play and stay.

Hunger Game Symbols

Essay Writing Hunger Games Practice

Brainstorm: 

Katniss

- Emotionally and physically stronger.

- More powerful and popular - everyone knows who she is now

- Beginning - caring for her sister, shy, quiet, good in hunting/archery, shows caring and selfless when she volunteers for Prim in the reaping, values family.

- Middle - when she enters the games - determined, cautious - runs away and hides, smart, doesn't kill unless she has too, still see she is caring and look after others, doesn't want to use her skills to hunt others, she watches people die - her reactions are big forms an alliance with Peeta which make them favourites and her popular in the Capitol, more cunning - no longer oblivious to the influence of the Capitol - we see when she forms alliance with Peeta.

- End - angry, powerful - has power over the Capitol because she was going to end the games with no victor, intimidating.

Theme link to -

Hope & Rebellion - starts by following the Capitol's rules but by the end she stops and rebels against them.

Rich vs Poor - not a good choice.

Propaganda - she goes against the propaganda of the Capitol - they are fighting for glory, the Capitol is superior, the games are a good thing.

Struggle for power - in the games she was powerless, eventually she gains the power through rebellion.

Thesis Statement:

In Gary Ross's film, The Hunger Games, one way that Katniss changed was by gaining power and influence in the Capitol. This is shown through her struggles with the themes of hope and rebellion.

Paragraph 1 - Describe her at beginning in detail - clothes, make up, family, values, characteristics. 

Sentence linking to theme - has no hope at start.

Paragraph 2 - Describe change at middle in detail, link to theme.