Yearly Reflection

This is my end of the year reflection, it is what I enjoyed this year what I was bad at and what I was good at. I am going to miss this class but can't wait for next year.

Courage Snapshot

 In class, I have been reading about Jesus Christ's life and looking for acts of courage. I then had thirty minutes to write about it.

Anyone can hide, facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. The world needs courageous people. Valient, bold, mighty - all of these are traits of a courageous person. Courageous people feel fear, however, they don't let it control them. Instead, they triumph over it and stand up for what is right. The perfect example of this is the life of Jesus Christ. In Jesus's life, he overcame many trials and challenges. He overcame a man possessed by a demon, he conquered a storm, even overcame death itself. Jesus was human like you and me and yet still stood up to all these challenges, which leads me to the point of this writing: How Jesus showed courage.

It was said in Luke 4:31 that Jesus was preaching to his followers when he was confronted by a man possessed by a demon. The demon threw himself in front of Jesus and cried out to him in an attempt to intimidate Jesus. Nevertheless, Jesus didn't back down, with authority he rebuked the demon and banished it from the man's body. Jesus was courageous in this story because he wasn't threatened by the demon, he had the courage to stand up to it and rebuke it even though it would've been frightening. This story teaches me to never back down, never give up, never bow down to challenges that I face, with God on our side he will give us the courage to face anything and everything in life. 

We all know the story of Jesus's crucifixion, but what you might not know is the grief Jesus went through before it. Before Jesus was crucified he went to the garden of Gethsemene to pray. Jesus cried out to God being him to take the burden off him, Jesus was overwhelmed to the point of death, he was trembling and sweating blood. This goes to show Jesus was a human and felt fear and pain to the point where he was trembling. Jesus was super courageous in this story; he didn't let fear control him. He had the willpower to go to Mt Calvary pay the ultimate price for our sins. What this means to me is, it's fine to feel fear, courage isn't the absence of fear but the power to overcome it. And with Jesus anything is possible.     

In short, we can learn many things from the life of Jesus, it teaches us the value of courage and how we can apply it in our lives, it teaches us to never give up for we have God on our side, it teaches us that we can move mountains with the power of Jesus. Jesus was courageous and to this day is a superb role model to all of us.               

Probability Thingy

For the past weeks, we have been learning about probability and how to express it in words and fractions. This is a question the whole class worked on. 

Ruin

 This term, we were learning about the key aspects to make a good narrative/imaginative recount. We used a short video called Ruin as our inspiration. I find writing in first person better so I choose to do an imaginative recount. For me, it was quite hard to add a variety of sentence starters and new sentence structures. I think I did alright. 

My Brick Goals.

The class made smart goals for what we are aiming to achieve by week six in our basic facts brick wall and our fraction work.   

 

Courage Poster.

 One of our focuses in class is courage. We are also learning about the key elements to making a good poster. This is the poster I made about a famous quote about courage by Sarah Dessen.

Cold Task Self-Assessment.

 Earlier in the term, the class did a narrative or imaginative recount cold task. We got 30 minutes to write a story on an animation we watched. This is a self-assessment I did on my cold task. 

The Wringer

 In class, we did doing a novel study on the book Wringer written by Jerry Spinelli. 

What Is Courage?

For devotions, we are looking at what courage is, who in the Bible was courageous, courageous people in the world and why the world needs courageous people.  

 

Character Inference

In class, we learned how to do character inferences. An inference is when you take clues about something from the text and your prior knowledge. To do a character inference you do this just with a character. It was challenging at first but once I got going it was quite easy.  

Credible - Believable

 Great authors make characters with believable personalities. They show personalities through these: Actions, dialogue/direct speech, reactions, physical descriptions & thoughts. I can see this in Beans' character. He is obnoxious and has a loud, mocking, demanding personality. It is shown in the story when beans scoops the icing off palmers birthday cake and eats it. Beans even goes to the point where he blows the candles off Palmers birthday cake.   

Simple Probability

 We have been learning to calculate probability, in maths. Probability is the likelihood of something happening. these are simple slides we did to help us extend our knowledge on probability. 

Probability.

For maths, we are working on probability. Probability is the likelihood of something happening. We did an activity to help us express probability as a fraction.

 

The Zoo

We have been learning how to think critically about something we read. This means to dig deeper when we read a book or something. We do this by looking closer at things like images., the language features used by the author, character dialogue and other things. This is a reading response on a book called The Zoo by Anthony Browne.

Basic Facts Reflection.

 At the beginning of the term, we set goals to move up on our class basic facts brick wall. My goal was to be off brick 26 by week 5. I failed. I did not get off brick 26 because it is too hard and I need to memorise more facts.`    

COVID-19 Vaccine.

During lockdown and in class, I wrote a persuasive argument trying to persuade readers to keep the Covid - 19 Phizer vaccine optional. I learned how to write a counterargument.

                                                                 

When God created the world he gave his people freedom of choice. A choice to do right or wrong, a choice to do what you want to. If the government makes the COVID 19 (Pfizer vaccine) mandatory, our rights to exercise free choice will be stripped away. The use of any medicine doesn't come without a ranging risk, which is why I believe the COVID 19/Pfizer vaccine should not be mandatory in NZ.

Back in 1993, the New Zealand government passed a law called ‘The human rights act’. This act was aimed at giving every citizen of New Zealand rights, this includes: The right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and freedom of speech, opinion and expression. According to NZ Human Rights, the 1990 New Zealand bill of rights states that NZ citizens have the right to refuse medical treatment. Tyranny, dictatorship, dominance - is this what we want our country to become? Some people are against the vaccine; others think everyone should get it. Studies have shown about 95% of people who received both doses of the vaccine were protected against contracting COVID 19. However, forcing it upon people who don't want it is literally against the law.

 

To date, the COVID 19 Pfizer vaccine has many known side effects. The most commonly reported reactions are headaches, muscle aches, fatigue, a fever, chills and joint pains, only to name a few. Take it from me, I'm tall and often experience joint pains and muscle aches, it is not fun. The Pfizer vaccine can also cause an allergic reaction causing rashes, swelling and itching at the injection site. According to RNZ, On August 31 NZ reported its first death linked to the vaccine’s side effects. 

To conclude, I believe the Pfizer vaccine should not be mandatory - as it is quite literally against the law. People should have free choice on what they put into their bodies. Not only this, the side effects of the Pfizer vaccine can be very harmful and in my opinion not worth the risk. Hence why I believe that our government should give New Zealanders the choice to get the Pfizer vaccine or not.

Money.

 During lockdown, we have been learning about money. We have been using sites like Money Time and education perfect to help us gain knowledge about money. This slide is what we've been learning about: earnings, interest and savings.

Persuasive Parts.

In class, we have been learning about all the things that make up a piece of persuasive writing and how to properly write one. 

Quote & References...

 Today, s2 learned the difference between a quote and a reference. And how to properly reference and quote our research found on the internet.  

Ehara tenei!

 Last term we were learning to negate (To say something is not)