Liberty

LI: to edit our writing using DRAFT.

Today's focus was about editing our abstract noun poems. We used the procedure DRAFT, which stands for delete, rearrange, add, fix and talk. First, we talked about what abstract noun poems include in them. In an abstract noun poem, there are things like: the 5 senses, an abstract noun, punctuation, complex sentences and compound words. We chose the abstract noun 'liberty'. Liberty means to be free or freedom. We chose this noun because we thought it was an easy noun to describe. We paired up with another pair and practiced 'DRAFT' with them. We deleted the unnecessary words, rearranged the sentences, added more words that were missing, fixed the sentences and read the poems to our other pair. I thought this activity was fun and enjoyable.

Forming an Opinion

LI: To consider both perspectives.

For this task we chose one of the seven places  Maori in legends and looked at the evidence for the stories being real or not. After we have looked at the evidence we as a group were tasked to form an opinion about the place and if we think if the stories are real or not.

Main Ideas

LI: to identify the main ideas in the text.

For this task we watched a video about the story of how maui slowed the sun. From this video we had to pick the ideas in the video, the four main ideas in the story and the three main ideas of the story. The main idea is the point of a text, story, book, etc..

Venn Diagram

LI: to find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and the text of “The Beginning”.

For this task we compared the text “The beginning” and the video of rangi and papa’s story on a Venn Diagram. A venn diagram is used to show the similarities and differences between two or more things, the parts of the circle that overlap the other are for writing similarities and the parts that do not overlap are for writing the differences between the two things.

Summarising

LI: to explain in fewer words what the text is about.

A summary is a quick and short way to explain the main points of a story or text. For this activity we watched a Video about Rangi and Papa and their story. From the video we had to choose twenty important words from the story. Then we chose the six most important words and wrote a short summary that tells the reader what the story is about.

Science | Dissecting Hibiscus

LI: to learn about the different parts of a hibiscus flower.

Today, the year 7's went to tech to dissect a hibiscus flower. Our first task was based around our prior knowledge of the flowers. We answered two questions like: "What are your thoughts about flowers?" and "What have you noticed about flowers?". We did not have that much knowlegde about flowers. 

After this, we identified the parts of a hibiscus as our second task. On the right side, there is a stigma, style, anther, pollen tube, sepal and thalamus. On the left side, there was the male gametophyte, petal, ovule and female gametophyte. 

The next task was to dissect the flower. We used tools like: knife, cutting board and toothpick, We carefully removes one petal and one sepal. After this, we pinched the sides of the ovary and made a smooth cut down the middle. Then we removed the entire organ of from the style. 

While dissecting the flower, we saw the pollens. We placed one or two pollens to see them under a microscope.

I learned the many parts of a flower. I found it interesting that female and male cells are shared throughout a single flower. 

Misery

LI: to write an abstract noun senses poem.

Today, we focused on writing abstract noun senses poems. An abstract noun is an existing thing that cannot be touched or physical obtained such as, happiness, sadness, and anger. Metaphors compare two things without using the words 'like' or 'as'. The five human senses are sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. 

For this task we worked collaboratively to create a poem using abstract nouns. Our group was given a list of abstract nouns that we can use to write a poem. The abstract noun we choose was misery. We used the five senses to describe what misery sounds, looks, tastes, and smells like while using metaphors to structure a poem correctly. 

An abstract noun is a feeling or emotion that cannot be physically touched. A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. For example: Happiness is a river of joy that is flowing through my heart. The word happiness is the abstract noun and is used to create this metaphor. The five senses are: hear, touch, smell, feel and see. Each of these five senses are what many humans are able to do. A metaphor is the comparison between two things without using as or like. 

I really enjoyed doing this because I got to work collaboratively and work together in a group and also use powerful words to strengthen the poem to make our poem stand out.