11Eng - Non Fiction

1 Vocabulary

a. Scooter - A vehicle that has two wheels

b. Intricate - Very complicated and detailed

c. Fete - A public function

d. Incomprehensible - Not being able to understand

e. Estimated - an approximation

f. Recruited - To hire someone

g. Invaluable - Extremely useful

h. Denied - Neglected

i. Campaign - an organized plan by a group of people

I think this piece will be about two friends growing up together then joining the army because the words suggest one of them got denied however the other got recruited.

2 The Title

a. I moved to Christchurch

Unpacking the Text 

1.

Paragraph	Summary
1	Memories of things the narrator did as a child, a list of what Juliet lost when she was 10
2	The narrator remembers the face paint they got when they were 10 then compares it to what face paint Juliet had at 10
3	Juliet paints her face getting ready for battle with war music in the background
4	List of the narrator’s happy experiences of play fighting, a list of Juliet’s experiences of war
5	Not all children are blessed with a good life like Juliet
6	The speakers want us to raise awareness that not all kids have the same privileges
7	Summaries the feelings felt in the story. Child soldiers international

2 Summaries
This story is about the narrator comparing their life at 10 years old with Juliet who has to prepare for war at 10 years old. The narrator is talking about how they do the same stuff but on different feelings and occasions. For example, putting on face paint and listening to music. One's war music and the other is nice music you listen to relax.

The speaker wanted to teach us about how we shouldn't take life for granted and be glad about what we have. Because she wants to raise awareness and for people to donate and care for the child soldiers. 

Tooth - Poetry

First Impression
My first impression is that she takes good care of her child. When her child lost her tooth she said she would tell him in the morning and about how he would get money.

Vocabulary
1) Lazarus

2) Alveolus
The bony socket for the root of the tooth

3)Fossick
Searching for something

My Picktochart

Poetry

What do these poems suggest about the way we should approach poetry? What is one specific example (evidence from the text)?
These poems suggest we should approach them by painting a picture. It is also giving us a first-person perspective as if your experiencing it. It also shows us a perspective of how we should process it like the process of eating. Like the poem How to eat a poem.



Poems

English Exam Criteria

Excellence Criteria

• Write in detail how the text made you feel. 
• Give more of an emotional effect and relate to that text. 
• Talk about the author's experience and what made him write something like that. 
• Write how it might've changed your precipitation on things. 
• The introduction and thesis should include the author's message. 
• Write about how the tone and techniques made you feel in detail. 
•  Add in your personal voice (engage with the text)
• Relate it with personal experiences
• Have an appreciation for the text 
• How the author uses language features in the text, how it makes you feel

For achievement, you have to show that you understand the text and the aspects of the unfamiliar texts, with supporting evidence and an explanation. For merit, you have to display a convicing understanding of important aspects, with a helping example and a supporting explanation. For excellence, show perceptive understanding of important and meaningful language features and aspects, through close reading, and using supportive evidence and explanations. 

Visual Language Features

In English, we had to define and give an example about what visual language features are in film. Here is what me and my partner Arlan did.
Arlan/Aseem Visual Language Features

Places in Books

Tangier, Morrocco
The Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesFrom the book:
“The desert landscape is always at its best in the half-light of dawn or dusk. The sense of distance lacks: a ridge nearby can be a far-off mountain range, each small detail can take on the importance of a major variant on the countryside’s repetitious theme.”


My Work:
The scorching sun is hotter than usual on this desert land. I and my friends decided to get out of our houses because of it too heated in there. We decided to hang out by the fountain with its glorious sparkling water and the sun just about peaking over swaying palm trees. The breeze is just right, enough to get sand on your face but not in your eyes, while admiring the mountain tops.

Similes and Metaphors

Metaphor - A figure of speech where a saying is applied to an object or an action. 

Simile - A figure of speech where you're comparing something to something else. 

Today we are trying to find songs that contain similes and metaphors in their lyrics.

#1 Country Road, Take me Home. John Denver

Almost heaven, West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

All my memories gather round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

#2 Billionaire. Bruno Mars, Travie McCoy

I wanna be a billionaire so freakin' bad
Buy all of the things I never had
Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine
Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen

Oh every time I close my eyes
I see my name in shining lights
Yeah, a different city every night oh right
I swear the world better prepare
For when I'm a billionaire

Yeah I would have a show like Oprah
I would be the host of, everyday Christmas
Give Travie a wish list
I'd probably pull an Angelina and Brad Pitt
And adopt a bunch of babies that ain't never had shit
Give away a few Mercedes like here lady have this
And last but not least grant somebody their last wish
It's been a couple months that I've been single so
You can call me Travie Claus minus the Ho Ho
Get it, hehe, I'd probably visit where Katrina hit
And damn sure do a lot more than FEMA did
Yeah can't forget about me stupid
Everywhere I go Imma have my own theme music

Oh every time I close my eyes
I see my name in shining lights
A different city every night oh right
I swear the world better prepare
For when I'm a billionaire
Oh ooh oh ooh for when I'm a billionaire
Oh ooh oh ooh for when I'm a billionaire

I'll be playing basketball with the President
Dunking on his delegates
Then I'll compliment him on his political etiquette
Toss a couple milli in the air just for the heck of it
But keep the five, twenties tens and bens completely separate
And yeah I'll be in a whole new tax bracket
We in recession but let me take a crack at it
I'll probably take whatever's left and just split it up
So everybody that I love can have a couple bucks
And not a single tummy around me would know what hungry was
Eating good sleeping soundly
I know we all have a similar dream
Go in your pocket pull out your wallet
And put it in the air and sing

I wanna be a billionaire so f****n' bad
Buy all of the things I never had
Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine
Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen
Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights
A different city every night all right
I swear the world better prepare for when I'm a billionaire
Oh ooh oh ooh for when I'm a billionaire
Oh ooh oh ooh for when I'm a billionaire

I wanna be a billionaire so f****n' bad!

Soundtrack of my Life

Here is the slideshow we had to do for English. The slideshow is about the soundtrack of my life.