NZ Identity: Parliament.

As part of our New Zealand Identity unit we have been learning all about New Zealand Parliament.

Here is a link to the online modelling book for this unit if learning.

We have learned all about the different roles that people have in parliament.

Key roles in Parliament Activity

Some things that I have found interesting are:

1. Anyone can be kicked out of parliament.

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My next step is to see parliament in reality this/ next year on my Wellington trip.

NZ Identity

Assessment task connectives and adverbial clauses - Milan Stirling

I can make links across texts by recognizing connectives or adverbial clauses

In this unit I learnt what an adverbial clause is and a connective/ conjunction.

A connective is words that join a sentence together.

An adverbial clause describes the place, time or action that occurs in a situation/ consequence.

Here is a link to a compare and contrast map of an adverbial clause and a connective.

Milan Stirling - Use a range of multiplicative strategies when operating on whole numbers - Assessment Task

Use a range of multiplicative strategies when operating on whole numbers

I can apply the strategy to problem solving questions

The escape

A prisoner sits in his cell planning his escape. The prisoner is kept in by 5 laser beams, which operate along a corridor. Each laser is switched off at a specific time interval for just long enough to allow a person to walk through. The time between being switched off for each laser is shown below:

• Laser One = every 3 minutes 12
• Laser Two = every 2 minutes  12
• Laser Three = every 5 minutes 15
• Laser Four = every 4 minutes 16
• Laser Five = every 1 minutes 16

The guard patrols and checks the prisoner each time all the laser beams are off simultaneously. Because each laser only switches off for a short time the prisoner knows he can only get past one laser at a time. He has to get past the five lasers from 1 to 5 in order. Laser One is at the entrance of the prisoner’s cell and laser Five is at the door to the outside. He also knows that if he spends longer than 4 minutes 12 seconds in the corridor an alarm will go off.

Can the prisoner escape without the alarm in the corridor going off?

Yes, because it’s under the 4 minutes and 12 seconds.

If he can escape, how many minutes should he wait before passing Laser One?          

He doesn't have to wait.

How much time will he have after passing Laser Five before the guard raises the alarm? 12 seconds.

Book review - Friends

The most interesting book I read in Term 2 was "Friends" By Joy Crowley and Gavin Bishop I really enjoyed this book because it was about a snake and a lizard becoming friends and surviving in the desert. The snake and the lizard search the desert and try to find shelter, food and water but they come across trouble.

Assessment task- Creating a Pyroxenes shape

Identify classes of two- and three-dimensional shapes

by their geometric properties Assessment task

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0NIVKGPGgaIkeNZKh0G0D5C9QtZRi0HMQTI1l-wPr8/edit

Term 2 Novel study

This term I have been reading and studying the novel see ya, Simon

I found this novel interesting because he is a normal boy with normal characteristics but he cant do normal things

During the novel I had to complete a thinking map which shows that I can classify how the author has shown the theme of the book.

• Link to Classify Map

National Standard this covers

• Year 7/8  Standard
• I can identify and evaluate the way writers’ use language and ideas to suit their purpose and I can use my growing wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary to understand texts.

Overall I would give this novel a rating of  7/10 ( insert your rating here) and I would / would not recommend it to others to read because I feel like it sure teach's you a life lesson because not many people get to live the life others do and we need to enjoy it.