Swallowed by the sea - reading create

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WALT: Use prior knowledge to make text-text connections.

This week was basically the same thing we did last week but we just had to choose different books. I chose ¨ Swallowed by the sea.¨ It's a  story about a girl and her mother. It was a stormy day, and the girl was by the ocean at the beach. The waves sucked her into the ocean like a sea monster. But she was able to get to safety after the storm ended. My complementary video was about was the story, ¨the wizard of oz.¨ It was about a girl named Dorothy and her dog. They get sucked into a tornado and it takes them to another world. She meets courageless lion, brainless scarecrow, and a tinman with no heart and they kill the wicked witch of west and get rewarded. Dorothy says her goodbyes to her new friends and returns home to her aunt and uncle. My challenge video was about a warrior, Oddeos. After finishing a quest. He finds a island with fresh grass. Hoping to find food, they explored the island where they get trapped in a cave with a mean cyclopes. Oddeos fools him, and the crew finally is able to get back to their homes. For my first create task we had to create a poster on how to survive the disater that happened in our story. My story was swallowed by the sea, so I had to make a poster on how to survive an storm. For my second, we had to imagine we were a news reporter and we were writing about the incident that happened in our story .

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Christchurch Earthquake - Reading Create

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Welcome back to my blog!

WALT: Use prior knowledge when making text-text connections.

This week I read the book, “earthquake.” It was based on a true

event which

happened on the  4th  of September 2010.

After reading my book, I watched my  complementary video.

There was a girl that was reading a book called “Quaky Helps Out.”  It’s a about a cat who helps out when a earthquake strikes. Then, I watched my challenge video. It explained all the names and types of Earthquakes there are. For my first create task, we all had to make a poster on how to survive the disaster that happened in our story. My disaster was the 2010 Christchurch earthquake, so I had to make a poster on how to survive an earthquake. For my second task, we had to imagine we were a reporter for a newspaper company and we were writing about the natural disaster that happened in our story.

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The Longest Story-reading create

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WALT: Evaluate ideas and information in a narrative text.

This week I was reading “the longest story.” It was about a girl named Abena. Her father made a competition for whoever can tell the longest story can be Abena’s future husband. My complementary text was about a myth about a spider, Anansi and a rich man named Nothing. And it was basically about why kids say, “ It’s nothing “ when you ask them why they’re crying. And finally, 

My challenge text was about a was called “ the longest story in the world.” It’s about a chief who who loved stories.And when a man tells him a long, funny story he rewards him with gifts, and money. After reading all my texts, I had to rewrite the last paragraph of my story. The last paragraph of my story was quite short, so I added some more detail and made it a little more longer. I have my copy of the paragragh and the real copy on my slides. Then, I had to imagine I was a policeman and had to interveiw the main charcter of the story. I chose to interveiw Abena's future husband and wrote down five questions. I even wrote down what he answered.

I spent a lot of work on this post, so please give me feedback on the comments so I can improve next time!

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The weird zone - reading create

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This week the book I was reading was the “weird zone.” It’s about a father being weird about going camping because it was the first time going camping since he and his wife separated and they always have 2 tents, the parents zone and the children zone.He thought he would be lonely in his tent so , his children solved the problem by letting him sleep in their tent  with them and  renaming it the WEIRD ZONE ( a tent for children and parents ). After I read my book I read my challenge and complementary text . The complementary text was a blog about the places in Nz. I read one of the amazing posts and it was about the packhorse hut in Christchurch the others were, the Queenstown hill, arthur's path and much more. The challenge text was about a mouse  and a buffalo. The moral of the story was, if you are selfish you shall lose all at the end. For my first create task we had to rewrite the last paragraph of your story. For my second, we had to imagine we were police officers and we were interveiwing the main charcter of the story. I chose to interview the dad and wrote 5 questions to ask him.

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TASK ONE

Kahurangi’s eyes lit up.

 It looked like he had an idea.”Yeah, heaps of room.”

Dad smiles. That’s the first time he’s heard the word tent without worrying.

“Are you sure? What about the kid’s zone?”

“How about we change the tent to... “

Kahurangi says as he pauses for a moment.

“How about the weird zone? A place where everyone belongs. A place where parents and kids are allowed.”

“ Great idea kids! But could you kids tidy up?”

Asks dad.

“NO!”

-The End

 TASK TWO

POLICE OFFICER: Were you embarrassed when you didn’t tell the truth?

DAD: yes, it felt wrong not telling my own children what was wrong.

POLICE OFFICER: How did you feel when the kids thought you were weird because you couldn’t put up the tent?

DAD: It made me feel even more weird, but it is true l can’t put up a tent by myself.

POLICE OFFICER: Shouldn’t a MAN know how to put up a tent then make his children do it for him?

DAD:Umm…. Well…. Uuhhh…. The instructions were too complicating 

POLICE OFFICER: Why didn’t you tell the truth about being weird?

DAD: I was umm… too… embarrassed.

POLICE OFFICER: Why? They're your family.

DAD: I don’t know… I thought they wouldn’t understand.

But l feel much better now for telling them the problem.

POLICE OFFICER: That was our last question of the interview.

DAD: Thank you officer. I actually feel much better talking to you.

POLICE OFFICER: Thank you for your presence. You must be heading out now.