12Eng - Bystander Effect

The bystander effect claims that people are less likely to offer help to someone when there are people around. They call it the diffusion of responsibility. When there are others around, people they think about trying to help but actually don’t offer. They feel like they don’t have a responsibility to help because there are others around who might think the same. However when you are alone, you are more likely to offer help because you are the only one who the victim can rely on. A YouTube channel called SoulPancake did an experiment where he proves that the bystander effect is true. He conducted experiments between a group with 10 people, 5 people and just by themself to see how long it would take them to offer help. It was clear that people who are surrounded with larger groups tend to take more time before they offer help. However when they are alone, they offer help immediately.

11ENG - Unfamiliar Texts - Poetry Booklet

2. Record your first impressions below.
I think that this poem is great because it uses a lot of metaphors and similes to describe what things are like.

3. Vocabulary Work
starboard - right side of the boat

alveolus - bony part of a socket where the tooth goes in

fossick- looking for something

4. Making Connections
Normally, people grow older but in this poem, the person grows younger. It might be because when you lose a tooth, you look a bit younger.

5. Identifying the point of change

a. Paragraph 3
b. Paragraph 7
c. The atmosphere is calm because the characters were by the seashore, looking for shells, and they were at home, sliding across their floor
d.

6. Identifying how the poem is communicated

alliteration   - twelve teeth old
metaphor - your gums are an ocean of blood
personal pronoun - I
direct address -
listing - shells, starfish, pipi , and paua
adjective
simile
personification

NCEA Level 1 - How to get E8 (High Excellence) in Unfamiliar Texts

How to get E8 (High Excellence) in Unfamiliar Texts

These are helpful tips to get High Excellence in your upcoming NCEA Level 1 Externals for English

- Identifying techniques and language features and explaining how it made the readers feel and how it changes the readers perspective towards the text.

- Add in your personal voice, link it to yourself, make it genuine.

- Have an appreciation for the text

Problem with Plastics - the costs of plastic production

The Problem With Plastics - the costs of plastic production

By Ray Gomez

Plastic production has increased because it is cheaper to make than other traditional resources like wood and metal. There are positives and negatives for manufacturing plastics. Plastic is used as water bottles, bags, chairs etc. However, it uses up our natural resources like crude oil. In this essay, I will explain how plastic is made and how much it costs to make it.

Crude oil is an essential for making plastic. Crude oil is a natural resources that is harvested using oil wells. To make plastic, crude oil goes into a process called refining where it separates the necessary things like propane, butane, methane, gasoline, kerosine, diesel, lubricating oil, tar, and asphalt from the unnecessary things. Interestingly, there are seven types of plastics. The common plastic we use is Polyethylene terephthalate or PET. These components are turned into pellets which can be melted and molded into bottles and plastic bags.

There are many costs involved in producing plastics. Significantly, a pound of new plastic pellets cost 80-85 cents while recycled plastic pellets cost 55-70 cents. The cost depends on the prices of oil and petroleum. Manufacturers prefer making new plastic pellets than recycling old plastic because they have to sort and clean them which can take time. As a result of all these new plastic, our efforts on trying to ban plastic bags is not making a very big impact. We should realise that what we have done so far is not enough.

Basically, plastic is easy to produce and convenient to use. As long as the price of crude oil doesn’t rise, plastic will be the cheapest material to use. Also, we still have an option to recycle plastic. Manufacturers should produce new plastic and recycle old ones so that old plastic doesn’t get dumped in our landfills.

Passion Projects : Planning our Event

Today, we are continuing on planning for our Passion projects. We have changed our target to student football tournament with the Year 7 and 8 because they're too many groups that are doing basketball. So far, we have emailed Mr.Hilliard for permission to use the gym. We’ve presented in front of the project group to explain what our project is about.

Our next step is to get an equipment list to have the right equipment for our tournament. We need this because we can’t play football without correct gear.

Passion Projects : Introduction

For the rest of the term, we are doing Passion Projects. The project I chose Is Community Sport and Recreation. We are trying to involve the community in doing sports. Our group is Lindley, Gian, Jhade, Roswell, Vince and I. Our interests are sports, mainly basketball. So far, we have put down our ideas into a brainstorm.

We also did a SWOT analysis. It is a table where we write down our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. We now have a plan but we need to develop it.

Geometry : Transformation level 5

Introduction
My fifth Achievement Objective is Apply trigonometric ratios and Pythagoras’ theorem in two dimensions. So far this was the hardest AO for me because I didn't know anything about it beforehand. I spent the last week learning SOHCAHTOA, and the Pythagoras' Theorem. In order to complete this, I have to apply Interpersonal Intelligence. One way of showing the interpersonal intelligence is to share or teach what I learned to someone.

Digital Learning Object
Here are videos of Caleb solving questions after I taught him SOHCAHTOA and Pythagoras' Theorem

Reflection
When I first looked at the rubric, this topic seemed to be the hardest but really, it's not. I learned what the opposite, hypotenuse and the adjacent of a triangle. By using SOHCAHTOA, you could find missing sides of a triangle. It was challenging to teach Caleb because I don't know if he understands me. After 2 periods, he learned it and answered the questions correctly. This benefited both of us, he now knows what Trigonometry and Pythagoras are and he helped me complete my fifth achievement objective.