Hurumanu 2 | Film Studies | Coraline |

This week on hurumanu 2, we are learning about the colours & lighting used in Coraline. We were tasked to make paragraphs about how the colours & lighting were used in the movie. I made 3 paragraphs to show my work and used screenshots from the movie to link what I was talking about.

What are we learning? We are learning how colours and lighting were used in the film Coraline.

How does this show my learning? This shows my learning because I have understood how the colours were used effectively in the shots.

What am I wondering as a result of my learning? I am not wondering anything at the moment.

P.E. | Gymnastics | Hurumanu 7 |

Today my focus is: To learn more about gymnastics and improve on some of the activities it contains I mainly focused on the parallel bars because I think that they required a lot of upper body strength to swing yourself on the bars. I quickly learned how to properly do the parallel bars by landing forward, however, I was close to landing backwards. Although, I believe that I could succeed with a little more practice.

The most difficult activity from today was the balance beam, I found it quite hard to balance myself and jump as well as land on the beam properly. Nevertheless, I did succeed at the end and properly landed on the beam.

The activities that I have done from today are:

• Balance Beam
• Parallel Bars
• Horizontal Bar
• Trampoline

What Makes a Good Leader?

Last week on our Wananga time, us year 9's have a leadership program which always happens during Wednesdays. On this leadership program, we learn about what a leader is and what makes a good leader. We were tasked to write what qualities we think a good leader has, and after we finished writing the qualities we then had to make a video of ourselves talking about the qualities. As well as who we think a good leader was. I personally chose 'Winston Churchill' because he showed courage and was an inspiration to others. 

Anyways, here are the qualities that I wrote for what qualities a good leader has. The video that I made wasn't really the best, because the camera was below me and my list was above. So I wasn't really looking at the camera and the volume was really low, however, I still finished the video so here it is!

My friend also made a video with all of the other videos collected into one, so you can see what my friends put into their video. Here is the link to the video.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3wRTX5G126RnpPMMBmsttqE6UGbwlYN/view?ts=5f9888db

 

Hurumanu 2 | Film Studies | Coraline |

This week on Hurumanu 2, for our film studies we learned about SEXXXY paragraphs. The letters from SEXXXY are abbreviations, each letter had a meaning to it. Here are their meanings "Statement, Evidence, Explanation, Explanation, Explanation, Link". Anyway, after we learned about this paragraph technique we had to use it on four different scenes from the movie. Our teacher first demonstrated how to do it, so that we have a bit of knowledge on how we can start our paragraphs. Moving on I chose 4 different scenes and wrote a paragraph for each of them.  

What am I learning?: I am learning about SEXXXY paragraphs.

How does this show my learning?: My four paragraphs for each scene shows, how I did my SEXXXY paragraphs and I also put the letter beside to show how I used that technique.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?: I am not wondering anything at the moment.

CMM | Metal Work | Drill Gauge |

For the past few weeks on CMM, which is our metalwork. We are making a drill gauge, we have made 2 different types of drill gauge so far. One of them being made from acrylic as a mock-up, which we designed using tinkercad. We made an acrylic drill gauge to guide us with the right measurements for the aluminium one.  Anyways, we are finished making the one made out of aluminium. However, I did make some mistakes during the making of my drill gauge. 

First of while drilling the different-sized holes, I have made some mistakes. Some of the holes are slightly bigger than what it is supposed to be, and some are smaller. I also cut the aluminium unevenly, although, I think I slightly fixed it. Anyways, here is my drill gauge. 

Hurumanu 2 | Film Study | Coraline |

This week on hurumanu 2, for our film studies we have set another task that is about the theme of the movie. We had to choose from 2 tasks and those were, create a coggle that shows as many examples from our visual text of one of the themes listed. The second one is Write a theme guide booklet for a student to use whilst viewing. After we have chosen the task that we want to do, we had to choose a theme to write about. The themes that we were able to choose from were; Be careful about what you wish for, looks can be deceiving, be grateful with what you have, bravery is doing things even when you are afraid, and last of all don't judge a book by it's cover. I chose to do the bravery one and showed my learning using coggle.

What am I learning? Analyse the ideas and themes of a film.

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by discussing the way a theme or idea is portrayed in the text.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? I am wondering if I have missed anyone who also portrayed bravery through the film.

 

Hurumanu 2 | Film Study | Coraline |

Last term on hurumanu 2, we watched the movie, Coraline. We watched the movie for 2 periods and finished it. We were given 2 tasks that we can choose from, we either make a resume or a character's challenge chart. I chose to make a challenge chart and used google drawings to present my work. 

What am I learning? I am learning what challenges the characters faced throughout the movie, as well as what kind of personalities they have and feeling they had in the movie.

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by explaining how a character was portrayed in the movie.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? I am wondering If I have missed any important pats of the movie.