Provocation and Opinion

A provocation is an action or speech that attracts strong feelings about the topic. This Weeks topic is about Energy drinks and this topic is related to current events. As was recently showcased on social media countdown has announced that energy drinks will no longer be sold due to the under aging of younger people buying Energy products. I created a DLO to show the 2 sides of the story and give points of view, I agree that countdown should stop selling Energy drinks because it contains more than 5g of sugar.

Exploring our national current events

News Editors make decisions everyday about which current event stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in NZ. I worked with Haylee, Fui and Sakina.
The current that we chose were stated at each point of New Zealand from Christchurch to Auckland.
Their were 12 main literary awareness's that we looked for in the events that we read on National News. To explain were the events to place we plotted them on google maps.

Explanation: Should New Zealand ban plastic straws?

You may not agree with me, but I believe that plastic straws should be banned from all facilities including supermarkets. Plastic straws has been an issue for years and I totally agree that factories should stop producing the number of plastic straws. Think about all the harm that people are causing without even noticing. Can't you see that our wild/marine life is suffering because of our ignorant actions. How would you feel if you were a poor animal with no voice? Plastic straws take 500 years to break down into micro plastic.

Did you know 65,000 straws are thrown away each year? Plastic straws are usually found in public areas, but mostly at beaches. People are getting upset, confused and mad because of the amount of plastic straws that are being thrown away after one use.

What is happening to people's minds?, This is ridiculous, disgusting and gross. Why use plastic straws when we have a lot of other choices to choose from? Would you rather save our animals or leave them to die? You tell me. Straws can be a great use, but think about it? Losing an animal is like losing a loved one. 

I feel so annoyed when I hear that plastic straws end up in our oceans, especially with our marine animals.

So think about the number of damages we are causing, because of the plastic straws that we use everyday. I as a proud New Zealander take my stand and fight on behalf of the animal welfare community! What can we do? How can we stop it? Now you tell me!

Kiwi Can

Today in Kiwi Can we were recapping back on our topic and theme resilience/Self control. Which means coping with challenges and bouncing back. Our focus was learning all about the different types of awareness's that get caught up in a distraction for example: If I'm at school and its learning time and the person setting next to me is either on social media or watching a video I might get distracted and end up in same situation as that person. We also learnt how we can control our distractions and focus on task + we also played a activity which involved distracting the people around us. To get started we did an energizer that is involves a Mexican wave + a another movement( This all relates to focusing, Listening and watching).

Persuasive Speech

LI: To Write a Speech that persuades others to think the way you do.

Why the media should stop showcasing violence on the news 

Paragraph 1 – Fakalofa Lahi Atu, My name is Joel and I am writing this speech to tell others why the media should stop showcasing violence on the news. In my opinion this has a big affect on us as people which makes it even harder for all of us to move on with our lives. As was recently showcased on T.V this year  the Christchurch Terrorist attack has been a shocking moment for all those who have lost someone during the tragedy. As humans we have been given the freedom that we have always wanted , but when casting breaking news on T.V stops us from sharing the moment that we have in this world can cause a major impact on who we are.

Paragraph 2 – 

Why is the news broadcasting these inappropriate and brutal videos and reports?

People are unnecessarily worried because of what they have seen & heard and to think about what has been shown people are reacting and are not thinking about what they should do before they made their actions appear.

This is a cautious environment because from my point of view  this sounds like a big misunderstanding. From the way they have intimidated others to follow them, This can cause a number of dangers to people's lives, for example it can lead to suicide, protests, schools being shut down and mostly online texting and showcasing.

Paragraph 3 – Are the media making the right decision

to cast these juvenile reports on live TV. Well there are many people out their who have

lost a friend,staff or family member , whether they have died from a serious cause.

These families do not want their hearts broken again because

of the tragedies that are taking place around the world.

Sometimes this can be a warning sign for families but it might

also cause stress and depression.

That's why I am giving this speech today to let the media know

that it's done an over because those who suffer from watching rudeness cannot keep

on listening to this nonsense and we as a people should ask this question too ourselves, 

is it OK to feel upset because of this, No, we should fight back

but together we come as one.

We are not the people that are making these changes it is those

who are thought to believe that violence is the right thing to do. Well I'm about to make

that all change with this powerful speech I give today I hope you understand the reasons

why I have chosen this topical issue to convince the people of this world that we can't and we shouldn't let them keep on doing this.

For 3 weeks, in writing we have been producing speeches that talk or convince people about a persuasive topic. For this task I chose to write about why the media should stop showcasing violence on the news. I found this topic interesting because it talks about the changes that people are making and this is caused all through social media and + the news. The powerful words I used helped made my paragraphs more convincing. But the Main point of this part was to hook the reader in and make 

people want to think like me. To make the readers want to think like me I also used language features such as, technical words, vocabulary, Organization. The part when i practiced my speech was that I have to be confident show eye contact to the audience and also communicating with other speakers.

The feedback that I would give to myself is- that I have confidence and pride in what I speak for.

The feedfoward-   is that I need to work on getting my tenses write so that my speech can be more informal.

Tech Blogpost

Today in Tech we filled out worksheets, these worksheets explained about the food dangers and safety + we learned a new word(Contamination) which means clean or dirty- another specific word that relates to Contamination is (cross) which means clean food or dirty food for e.g if I've got a lot of food steins on me or another example I have long nails and in between I have bacteria, this can make my food taste disgusting because I'm actually using my hands to prepare the food. The next pages explained a few examples that we noted as kitchen equipment and kitchen movement. The last task we did was to create a pizza using 1/2 of both which is savory and sweet. 

Kiwi Can- blogpost

In Kiwi Can our focus is about showing emotions and showing resilience, To explain our facial expressions we did a role play about emotive ability. In this role play we got into groups of 4,5 and 6. Nidhi, Alice, Haylee and I worked collaboratively together to put together a role play showing the emotions that we will have at a playground. Our emotion was to be happy and to be excited. These actions promoted how we were feeling.