Alan Duff

Alan Duff

Alan Duff was born in Rotorua to a Maori mother of little education and a European  father who had a university degree. He was 'Academically bright and behaviourally difficult'. Alan Duff was sent to Christchurch Boys' High for his fourth form year. He excelled playing rugby for Canterbury under 15 and being a school and province sprinter. 

After a young adult life of working, Alan knew that he wanted to be self-employed. He wrote "Once Were Warriors" which became an instant best-seller. "Once Were Warriors" was a huge international hit and his books are published worldwide. 

Later he was joined by the energetic Christine Fernyhough, and the company Mainfreight, school principal Terry Morrison, Rex Graham and others. 'The person he most credits with its success is Mainfreight founder, Bruce Plested, more than himself. 'Mr. Plested is the true hero, one of those great, unsung, modest Kiwis. To conclude with Alan words: If you don't read you won't succeed. And never give up - never!

Maui And The Giant Fish

Maui And The Giant Fish

What did the story explain? Listen to someone's idea and start having trust to each other when they say they can do it.

What did you think of the story?

Positive - the story was pretty lit and it has a lesson to be learned of.

My Own Learning

Hi everyone,

    

During self selected learning time today I chose to watch a comedy movie that has a title named "This Time" on youtube. It is about a couple that has the same funny personality and every time they go out or go for a date, they'll try to annoy every body on their way.  

Just So You Know Questions

Just So You Know Role Questions

Who am I?

I am the person who is always being treated like a slave and enemy of her sister.

What kind of person am I?

I am kind and I always have patient.

What do I look like?

I am a girl and I am 25 years old.

What do I believe in?

I like hanging out with my friends and I don’t like how my sister treat me.

What time is it?

It is the Sunday afternoon and it’s summer.

Where am I?

I’m inside the house and it’s located in Montreal, Canada.

What surrounds me?

I am surrounded by the people around me, furniture, and sounds.

What are my relationships?

My family has their own business and I have a lot of friends. The only person that treat me like her enemy was my sister.

Dilution Experiment

Dilution Experiment

Aim: I want to investigate how to dilute a solution.

Dilution:
Dilution is something that mix with water. It is also the action of making something weaker in force, content, or value.

Equipment:
5 Test Tube Rack
Test Tubes
10mL measuring cylinder

Method
1. Fill the measuring cylinder with 10mL of water.
2. Add 10mL of water to the first tube.
3. Add 9mL of water to the 5 more test tubes.
4. Add a small spatulaful of Potassium Permanganate to the first 10mL test tube of water
5. Add 1mL of the dark purple Potassium Permanganate into the second test tube
6. Add 1mL of the second tube into the third test tube.
7. Add 1mL of the third test tube into the fourth test tube.
8. Add 1mL of the fourth test tube into the fifth test tube.
9. Add 1mL of the fifth test tube into the sixth test tube.

Result

Hector Zeroni

Hector Zeroni

This is about the friendship of Hector Zeroni and Stanley Yelnats. This will show you the importance of friendship that no matter what you did to each other, you will be still friends in the end.

Hector Zeroni was a character in the novel‘Holes’ and he is also the deuteragonist of ‘Holes’. Hector was a homeless boy and he constantly had to steal in order to provide for himself. At that age, he didn’t even understand stealing was wrong, but he only took what he needed. At a young age, his mother Mrs. Zeroni accidentally left him at Laney Park. So Hector lived on his own his whole life, never attending school and therefore never learning how to read. One day, Hector stole a pair of Clyde Livingston’s shoes from a homeless shelter’s auction. He threw the shoes over the overpass and they landed on Stanley Yelnats IV who was subsequently arrested. Hector was arrested the next day for stealing a pair of shoes from Wal-Mart. When Hector arrived at Camp Green Lake, he was placed in D-Tent and received the nickname Zero because of his lack of intelligence

When Stanley arrived at Camp Green Lake he haven´t got any friends. He was alone and helpless. Then he met the others from Group D. X-Ray, Armpit, Squid, Zigzag, Magnet and at least Zero. Since the beginning Zero was very closed and didn't talked very much. You could almost say, he would be inconspicuous. Stanley was the only, who took contact to him. Stanley extract some secrets out of him. Zero never tells anyone that he can not write. I think it´s very hard to say something like this, because someone could laugh about this. Stanley was friendly to him and they made a deal: Zero should dig Stanley´s holes and Stanley is teaching Zero the writing. Zero is very thankful about this and I think this is very good for their friendship. Now they began to trust each other. They keep each other. I think it was luck that Stanley found in the wasteland to Zero. When Zero is went, Stanley was very sad about this.

After being released from Camp Green Lake, Hector went to stay with Stanley. While at Stanley's house, they decided half of the items in that chest go to Hector. Hector then used this money to hire a team of Private Investigators to find his mother, then they found Zero's mom and he went home safely. He got to meet his hero Clyde Livingston and told him that he stole the shoes and Stanley didn't. After being released from Camp Green Lake, Hector went to stay with Stanley. While at Stanley's house, they decided half of the items in that chest go to Hector. Hector then used this money to hire a team of Private Investigators to find his mother, then they found Zero's mom and he went home safely. He got to meet his hero Clyde Livingston and told him that he stole the shoes and Stanley didn't.

In this part of the book you can see how big was their friendship. Stanley gives everything to help Zero, because Zero is at the end of his power. Stanley tried to find water for him and similar. Then Stanley found out, that Zero have stolen the sneakers from Clyde Livingston and thrown them from the bridge. But I think when Stanley didn't come to Camp Green Lake he wouldn´t know Zero. Also there is any connection between Stanley and “Hector Zeroni”, because of the past from Stanley's great-great grandfather.

Comic Strip

Yr. 9 Social Studies

Daily life in Maori communities - te noho a te hapori

Comic Strip

Paper Bridges

🌉Paper Bridges🌉

Identify what you did - We built our second paper bridge.

Describe the process - The first bridge that we did collapse because it’s not strong enough and we didn’t fold the paper. As we were building our second bridge, we folded the paper which gave strength to our bridge and we put a stand in the bottom of our second bridge. We tried to put things in both of the bridge such as scissor and book, and we found out that the second bridge was stronger than the first bridge. 

Why did you build a bridge - We are doing this for our Geometry in our math class and how Geometry works in our daily life especially for engineers and architects.

Just So You Know Script/Monologue

Just So You Know

Why do you have to be such a loser to me all the time? You literally treat me like a dirt. It’s like we’re not even sisters. You never want to hang out and you’re always so mean to me, especially when you’re with your friends. God forbid I’m even in the same room with you when your friends stop over. You always tell me to leave. It’s my house too and I don’t have to go into another room just because you say so. Just because you are older doesn’t make you the boss of me.

You’re never there for me. Not even as a friend let alone sister. Seriously. You don’t even know who I am and we live together. It’s pathetic, really. It is.

I hope that one day you stop trying to be so cool and start treating me like someone you actually care about in your life. Nothing would be cooler and more important to me than that…just so you know.

Dirty Water Problem

Dirty Water Problems

Aim
I want to investigate how to filter dirty water and make it safe to drink.
Hypothesis
No hypothesis needed.
Equipment

• dirty contaminated water
• 3x funnels
• stand
• 3x clamps
• pebbles
• sand
• cotton
• charcoal
• paper towel
• Bunsen Burner

Method

1. Set up the funnels in a line on the stand using clamp to hold them in place.

 In the top funnel, put a small wad of cotton and then fill with small pebbles.
3. In the middle funnel put a small wad of cotton and then fill with sand.
4. In the bottom funnel put a small wad of cotton and then fill with charcoal.
5. Place a cup under the bottom funnel to catch the water.
6. Pour the dirty water into the top funnel, be careful not to overfill the funnel.
7. Boil the filtrate (filtered water) for 2 minutes and let cool.

Results

The water still had a very "earthy" flavour to it but the water became more cleaner.

Discussion
The pebble filter was able to filter out all the big items like twigs, leaves, bark debris.
The sand filter filtered the small debris like the dissolved mud.
The charcoal filter was able to remove most of the "cloudiness".
I did end up using a 4th funnel where I used coffee filter paper. The filtrate was relatively clear.

Conclusion
This was an effective way of filtering although by the time the water had gotten to the last filter, the water was only dribbling through.

Kinds of Energy

Chemical Potential Energy -Energy that is stared in the bonds between atoms. Found in substances such as petrol and food.

Electrical Energy -The movement of electrically charged particles. Found in wires, generators and lightning. 

Gravitational Potential Energy -Energy stored in objects due to their height above the ground.

Heat Energy -Caused by the movement of atoms. Found inside all hot objects.

Maui And The Sun

Maui And The Sun

1.) What did you think of the story?
     I think the story is about Maui and his brothers wants the sun to move slowly.

2.) Explain why you think that. 

   It is because to make their life easier and so they can easily sleep, eat and hunt for a long time.

3.) What characters can you relate to? 

  Since I don't have any siblings, my cousins are considered to be my sister/brother. I think that the characters that I can relate to was Maui's brothers, because every time I ask for help to them, they do not hesitate to help me immediately.

Maui

WHAT KIND OF LEADER WAS MAUI?

• GREAT LEADER

• SELFISH LEADER - MAKING HIS   BROTHERS DO WHAT HE WANTS
• BRAVE LEADER
• SMART LEADER
• FEARLESS LEADER AND COURAGEOUS LEADER
• GOOD COMMUNICATION
• DEVOTED TO HIS TRIBE
• ARROGANT WITH BIG ASPIRATIONS
• HE IS VAIN
• STRONG LEADER

Something Positive About My Holiday

Something Positive About My Holiday

During the holiday, my family decided to go out and spend time with each other. So me and my family went onto a mall and we bought so much stuff like shoes, bags, and clothes. After we went there, we went straight to a park and then fishing which is near Queenstown. As we got enough fish to bring it home, we went home to my cousins house in Asburton for a week, we watched some movies and we ate food. Me and my cousins played sports like Badminton, Football and Basketball. When the night came, we went to our friends 18th birthday party and we enjoyed it. 

3 Things You Won't Know About Me

3 THINGS YOU WON'T KNOW ABOUT ME

1) I love playing sports than watching movies.

2) I like photography and editing videos.

3) I love making new friends.

1 TYPE OF ACTING PERFORMANCE I SAW OVER THE HOLIDAYS

1) Action movies.