Year 10 writing Portfolio

 Some writing I did in 2021 English 

Is shylock a villain 

What does the word ‘vindictive’ mean? Vindictive means when someone has a strong desire to seek revenge. 

“When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock is vindictive, claiming he wants Antonio’s flesh for no practical reason other than spite.”

What is What is Anti-Semitism? 

Anti-Semitism is discrimation towrads jews as rilgen and race. 

What is one reason we should take pity on Shylock? 

Because He is being treated badly because he is a jew and his daughter took all this money and ran away.  

Sometimes a thing or an idea can be the antagonist in a story (we call this an abstract antagonist), rather than a person. For example corruption, jealousy, or disease. Based on the reading above, what is the thing/idea that could be considered the abstract antagonist in the Merchant of Venice?

Greed because throughout this story you can see that everyone wants something in this story. 

Money because everyone wants it and not everyone can get it.  

English essay 

Essay Question: Describe at least one character or individual you could relate to in the text. Explain why it is important that you were able to relate to the character or individual.

 “The secret life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is a short story text the author intended for this text to show the way Walter mitty deals with his life in an adventurous way for the reader. This made Walter mitty relatable to me and the readers. This is because he was so bored he would imagine himself in interesting situations. Also not pay attention to his surroundings. This makes the text more interesting to read on a personal level. 

This is shown in the story when Walter Mitty spaces out and does not pay attention Quote: “The Old Man’ll get us through,” they said to one another. “The Old Man ain’t afraid of Hell!” . . . 

“Not so fast! You’re driving too fast!” said Mrs. Mitty. “What are you driving so fast for?” This means when he is imagining things he's unaware of his surroundings but also can be snapped back to reality. The author did this to make it more relatable to the reader. This made the reader feel closer to the text and more understanding rather than just reading a story. This happens to me when someone is speaking to me and I zone out and don't know what they're talking about.

Showing the reader an adventurous way of dealing with boredom. This makes the story more enjoyable for the reader of the text. This can be compared to this quote in the text: He picked up an old copy of Liberty and sank down into the chair. “Can Germany Conquer the World Through the Air?” Walter Mitty looked at the pictures of bombing planes and of ruined streets. . ..

“The cannonading has got the wind up in young Raleigh, sir,” said the sergeant. 

This means Walter Mitty is boring, causing him to go off and imagine again but with the pictures in front of him. The author did this to bring the reader along on this adventure and make a vivid image of what was happening. This reminds me of picture puzzles ‘what do you see in the picture’ and using your imagination. 

The final reason why it was important that I could relate to the character of Walter Mitty was that the character challenges the reader to question whether Mitty is doing the right thing by living in his head. This can be looked at in the text where “I don’t need overshoes,” said Mitty. ‘She put her mirror back into her bag. “We’ve been all through that,” she said, getting out of the car. “You’re not a young man any longer.” This means that Walter chose not to get but chose to space out instead showing the reader that he's not willing to do anything. This should make the reader think Walter is a relatable character but is he a good one. This idea is important because it shows two different views of a character.

In conclusion, an important character in the story was Walter mitty it was good that I could relate to this character for example when Walter Mitty spaces out and does not pay attention. An adventurous way of dealing with boredom. Mitty is doing the right thing by living in his head. I enjoyed this book because it got you thinking about the charter on what's right and wrong and your morals. 

1900s Fashion

Hello and welcome to my blog in today's blog I will be telling you some 1900s fashion facts. In the 1900s you were most likely to see cosets and layers it was inappropriate to show skin so long skirts were also a thing rich people wore pearls feathers lace some also had umbrellas. Men wore mostly suits and waistcoats some of the jackets came with tailcoats some suits came with striped pants. That's all I have I hope you enjoyed this.

         

Passion Projects

 Hello and welcome to my blog in today's blog I will be talking about passion projects.

For wananga, we are doing passion project about Art. I am doing animations with Nikita the animations are about people dancing and the motive is to make a successful animation. We so far have finished one half of a video out of the 4 videos we are doing. It's a big task, but should be worth the effort.

Happy broadcast ( What good things have been happening)

Hello and welcome to my blog today I will be sharing some stories from the happy broadcast. 

(Dark chocolate) has shown that it can boost your mood in positive ways and can help people with bad anxiety. But other chocolates don't show the same effect like milk chocolate has no nutritional value and white chocolate is not truely a chocolate so the darker it is the better. 

Studies have shown that if you

have cold showers in the morning it can make your immune system stronger and improve your energy levels. Cold showers can also help blood flow and make your heart pump blood more efficiently. Would you start doing this? 

In Switzerland is the first city to make green rooftops mandatory for every new building. They did this for the benefits of climate change and this has worked out in their favor. This has lowered humidity so the building cool off faster. Also, 1 million square meters of green                                                                 roofs has been put down.

What one did you like the most? 

If you enjoyed this you can go and check out the site.

https://thehappybroadcast.com/news 

The speed of cars

 Aim: See how many cars are speeding past the school.

Method: 

1. measure the distance from a power pole to power pole. 

2. Time how long it takes a car to travel this distance.

-flag person indicates when car passes their pole 

-timer person starts a timer when the flag person swings the flag down and stops when car passes their pole.

-writer person writes down times

3.collect 10 times

4.calculate speed in m/s counter to km/hr

5.are there any speeders?

The speed on this road is 50 as you can see there are some speeders.

Results

car 1- 69.84

car 2-21.24

car 3-33.12

car 4-50.4

car 5-48.96

car 6-41.76

car 7-47.16

car 8-45.36

car 9- 62.64

I expected to see some speeders and I was correct.

short film

 Hello and welcome to my blog in today's blog I am talking about the short film we made in English that has something to do with the merchant to Venice in the court scene and also using different technics.

The technics we used are birds-eye view, tilt, and panning. 

Tilt was used to indicate confusion on the character.

Bird's eye view was used so the viewer understood more detail of the scene.

panning was used to track a character to show how they were running from the scene.

How this short film is retelling this scene is in the film the son asks for cod indicating a video game but the mother gives the son the fish cod. given what you exactly asked for this was shown in the merchant of Venice when shylock wanted his pound of flesh but he didn't ask for blood so he got exactly what he asked for.

what were some challenges in this project?

One of the challenges was finding the right placement for the scenes.

What would I do next time?

Nothing differently except using a better editing app.

What did we get from these challenges?

Success!!!!

 

Social studies The happy boradcast

 Hello and welcome to my blog today's blog is about some good things about the environment on the site of the happy broadcast.

In 1994 California banned fishing nets the reason for this is a large percent of dolphins are get caught and killed in these nets.

What I think?

I feel like this would be good for the ocean to regain itself but fish companies will plum it so I think they can only fish with nets at a certain time of year. 

The first human-compost funeral home in the US instead of cremating your body you can turn yours into healthy soil.

What I think?

I think it better because you don't have to pay for a coffin and it's better for the environment.

In South Africa, big cats are banned to be bread in captivity.

What I think?

I think  I better because the big cats would be able to bread better due to the environment.