Annotation

Annotation - A handy way of reading and breaking down a text. 

*As a task, these texts was given to us to annotate.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Chapter Five)

Creative Writing (Descriptive Writing Examples)

Tūrangawaewae

New York City

"The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger"

From the book: “I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.”

My description: As of now, lagoons are frozen and trees without leaves were covered with ice. Even the cold is in its way, the beauty of New York is still there. At night, I walk and pass by the frozen lagoon, looking at the sky. The combination of the color of the sky (pink+blue=purple) and the lights in the buildings are perfect. I am imagining of how engaging and amazing this will be if it is painted. I can say that at this place, the view is relaxing and aesthetic.

Metaphor and Similes

What is a metaphor? Metaphor is a way of describing one thing in regarding another.
What is a simile? Simile is a comparison of two things using 'like' or 'as'.

Purple Highlights - Similes
Pink Highlights - Metaphor

Youth - Troye Sivan

What if, what if we run away?
What if, what if we left today?
What if we said goodbye to safe and sound?
And what if, what if we're hard to find?
What if, what if we lost our minds?
What if we let them fall behind and they're never found?

And when the lights start flashing like a photo booth
And the stars exploding, we’ll be fireproof

My youth, my youth is yours                                                   
Trippin' on skies, sippin' waterfalls
My youth, my youth is yours
Runaway now and forevermore
My youth, my youth is yours
A truth so loud you can't ignore
My youth, my youth, my youth
My youth is yours

My youth is yours
My youth is yours
My youth is yours
What if, what if we start to drive?
What if, what if we close our eyes?
What if we're speeding through red lights into paradise?
'Cause we've no time for getting old
Mortal body, timeless souls
Cross your fingers, here we go

Oh oh oh oh
And when the lights start flashing like a photo booth
And when the lights start flashing, flashing, flashing
And when the lights start flashing

My youth, my youth is yours
Trippin' on skies, sippin' waterfalls
My youth, my youth is yours
Runaway now and forevermore
My youth, my youth is yours
A truth so loud you can't ignore
My youth, my youth, my youth
My youth is yours

My youth is yours
My youth is yours
My youth is yours

Soundtrack of My Life

Future Technology 3D Printing

Guess who's back! Hi everyone, I am here to share what I have done in Digital Technology. We are tasked to research, & design a future technology that the future generation can use and 3D print it. If you are wondering, 3D print is any of various process in which material is joined or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object.

In my Digital Learning Objective you will see my design that I made from ‘Tinkercad’ and the finished product.

Individually, each student in the class are told to research a piece of future technology,
create a virtual design on tinkercad and show it to Mr. Carter when it’s done. As I research,
all the things that I’m seeing is hard to do (obviously, it was created by professionals). A lot of future technology ideas came up to my mind such as laser scalpel, tracked ambulance stretcher, robot dresser, and more. Then there's this one thing that interest me, it was the Video Frame! I decided to do this one since it wouldn’t take a lot of time and it’s easy to make. I designed my technology on tinkercad for about 6 period of the subject. Tinkercad is kind of strange for me to use because I haven’t use it before, but as I work through I am learning it little by little. Since I’m ready to 3D print my design, I asked Mr. Carter “How am I going to print this Mr.?”, then he told me to search ‘up studio’ on youtube and watch it. The next period of DTE that we had was when I printed my technology from the 3D printer.

The photo above is a 3D printer that we used to print our designed technology. There is a filament at the side of the machine that is connected to the printer head (pen). My design was printed at the print bed of the machine and this is what it looks like: 

It was a great experience to design and print my own design.

Sources:

Tinkercad

Up studio

3D printer

Questions:

Do you have some future technology ideas in mind that you could share to us?

Have you tried using the 3D printer before? 

Move-To-Improve (Re-test Fitness)

Hi guys! So this is the last week we are doing Passion Project. Do you remember my first blog about fitness for 'Move-To Improve? It is the results for the first time I did my fitness. If you can't remember, here it is!!:

- Original Fitness

Name	Test	Result	Rank
Agility	Illinois Agility Run Test	Time: 20.10 sec	Average
Balance	Standing Stork Test	Time: Right leg = 4.31 sec Left leg = 4.50 sec	Poor
Cardiovascular Endurance	Cooper 12 Minute Run	2000m	Above Average
Flexibility	Sit & Reach Test	Measurement: 20.14cm	Excellent
Muscular Endurance	NCF Abdominal Conditioning Test	Number of sit ups: 17	Average
Power	Standing Long Jump Vertical Jump	Height:2.0m Jump:2.3m Jump:1.70cm	Excellent Poor
Speed	30 Metre Sprint	Time: 30m = 6.08 sec 60m = 9.49 sec	Below Average

Today, we did it again to see the results if we made some improvement. Here it is!!:

- Re-test Fitness

Name	Test	Result	Rank
Agility	Illinois Agility Run Test	Time: 20.62 sec	Average
Balance	Standing Stork Test	Time: Right leg = 6.86 sec Left leg = 15.75 sec	Below Average
Cardiovascular Endurance	Cooper 12 Minute Run	Distance: 1200m	Average
Flexibility	Sit & Reach Test	Measurement: 18.3 cm	Excellent
Muscular Endurance	NCF Abdominal Conditioning Test	Number of sit ups: 18	Average
Power	Standing Long Jump Vertical Jump	Height: 2.0m Jump: 20cm Jump: 84cm	Excellent Poor
Speed	30 Metre Sprint	Time: 30m = 4.28 sec 60m = 11.74 sec	Below Average
Strength	Handgrip Dynamometer	20	Below Average

Move-To-Improve (Presentation)

Passion Project Group Presentation

As you all know, we've started doing Passion Project 3 weeks ago (2 days per week). This week is the last week for all the passion project that we chose. I am here because I want to share what we've learnt from Move-To-Improve. Each group are given a task to create a 2-minute video/presentation and here is what we created: