Why you should stop RACISM

I wrote down reasons why racism is bad.

First I thought of what topic I will use to persuade my audience of what I will be talking about. I wrote down the things I will use to persuade my audience and I picked why we should stop racism. I wrote down all the ideas of why we should stop rasicm.

Next I looked up more information about why we should stop racism and I looked at websites for information. I used some information I could get and wrote it all down on a document. I wrote down lot's of information and reasons.

Finally I got links to different topics about my topic. An example: According to this site before 1964 restaurants wouldn’t let dark skinned people stay and eat there, they would tell them to order take out and leave.

I learned a lot about Why racism is bad and I have to stop it.

Pursuasive Topics

I brainstormed topics that related to me, a group of people, and the world.

In the beginning, I Brainstormed topics that are related to me and a group of people. For example, Less money to pay bills and more time with friends.

Next, I brainstormed topics that relate to the world. For example, Stop racism.

Lastly, we colour coded our topics like traffic lights. Green means that is a good topic, Yellow means slow down because it isn’t interesting, and Red means stop because we’re going into problems.

I learned a lot about how to persuade someone.

What is persuading

I Watched a video from the Kid President on how to win an argument.

In the beginning, Kid President said that step 1 was to treat people like they're people. In a heated argument you can forget that you're talking to a person and yell.

Second, we watched a video on how to persuade. One of the advice they gave was to listen to what the other person says.

To finish up I made a poster of what persuading means and what argument means. I made an example of what it looks like from someone's POV.

I learned a lot about how to persuade and win an argument.

Fanboys, sentences and grammar.

My group did a presentation about the compound sentence, simple sentence, and punctuation marks.

First we made two posters explaining the simple sentences and the compound sentences. A simple sentence is only explaining one piece of information. A compound sentence is two sentences with a conjunction. 

Next we created a presentation about punctuation marks. For example: Full stop, exclamation mark, comma, question mark, etc.

To finish up we made a fanboys slide and a grammar slide. We had to cut all the incorrect words and put them into the incorrect words space. All the words were homophones. Which means it sounds the same but has a different meaning and sound.

I learned a lot about punctuation, grammer, and fanboys.

Mozzarella Cheese

We wrote 3 introductions.

My first introduction was a basis fact. A basic fact is something that is true. Mozzarella cheese is a dairy product and is made by buffalo milk, heat the milk, cool the cheese, soften the cheese and stretch the cheese.

The next Introduction was a question hook. A question hook is telling the reader something they don't know about the topic. Did you know that mozzarella cheese has more protein than cheddar cheese and is made from different milks.

The last introduction was a explain emotion. Explain emotion is showing the reader an emotional feeling while reading. Mozzarella cheese is a tasty and delicious dairy product that people eat. To make it you need buffalo milk, an oven, fridge, and warm water.

Explanation Topic Planner

I planned two different sorts of topics. In the two topics I did, adding mechanisms, using cause and effect sentences, and linking the information source.

First, I worked on a topic on how glass is made. The mechanims for this topic were silica sand, furnace, float bath and blow tube.

Next, I did a topic on how mozzarella cheese is made. The mechanims for this topic were Buffalo milk/water buffalo, heat milk, cool the cheese and warm water.

This activity was hard because I found it hard to think of a topic and could'nt finish the third topic.

Introduction

 Yesterday I watched a video of an introduction and wrote hooks. 

First we got to practise writing hooks by writing hooks about our teacher. Hooks catches people's attention by using surprising facts and a question.

Next we wrote hooks about how chocolate is made, the life cycle of a butterfly and how fireworks work.

After that we wrote an introduction for the 3 texts.

Did you know that butterflies only live for a few weeks? The butterfly life cycle starts with an egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and a butterfly. Did you know that it takes 28 to 30 days to complete the life cycle.

Did you know it takes about 400 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate. Chocolate is made by roasting cocoa beans, removing nibs and lastly blending the nibs to form a chocolate liquid. The chocolate takes 5 or 8 days depending on what chocolate it is.

Did you know that fireworks were made over 2000 years ago. The parts of a firework are the cylindrical paper container with string, a fuse, a bursting charge made with gunpowder and stars for the reaction. This process only takes 2 hours.

Next time, I should work on my introduction to add more information.

Cause and effect

We used cause and effect to help us write an explanation. 

We put an explanation about the life circle of a butterfly together.

First we wrote the cause and effect sentences on the first stage for eggs. The female butterfly hatches her eggs in a safe spot, when they hatch they are caterpillars.

Next we wrote the cause and effect sentences on the second stage for caterpillar. Caterpillars are incredibly hungry and therefore they have to eat leaves and flowers.

After we wrote the cause and effect sentences on the third stage for chrysalis. Caterpillars make themselves a chrysalis in order for them to protect them selves.

Lastly we wrote the cause and effect sentences on the last stage for butterfly. The chrysalis opens and a butterfly emerges, this causes it to fly and begin the life cycle again.

I found this activity helpful because the cause and effect can help people understand the cause, effect, and causal language sentences.

Comment Thread

Comment thread is having a learning conversation with another person on blogger. I commented on Bethany's blog post Cause & Effect. 

I commented that I liked Bethany's explanation and then asked what her favourite causal language phrase was. she answered back saying her favourite causal language phrase was the reason for that. Bethany asked what my favourite causal language phrase was.

I commented back saying my favourite causal language phrase was consequently.

Cause & Effect

Cause and effect fit within the mechanisms for the structure of an explanation.

Cause is what made something happened for example, Someone broke his vase

Effect is what happens after the cause for example, My Dad is mad

Casual language is the language in between the cause and effect. for example, therefore, because, consequently.

An example of cause & effect, my Mum told me to do the laundry and therefore I did the laundry.

Here is a task you can complete to practise. Make a copy and share it with me to check.

Cause & effect help you form and explanation for mechanisms, as you can explain the cause and effect and then elaborate further.

Explanation

I wrote an explanation about how plants grow.

First, I wrote an introduction about the explanation. A plant is important because some plants like trees give us oxygen for us to breathe in.

Next I wrote the mechanisms about how a plant grows. Water- Growing a plant requires water to pour on a plant. The water will sink into the soil to be absorbed by the roots.

Light- Growing a plant requires light to help the plant grow. The light gives energy to plants so it will grow.

Air- Growing a plant requires air to help the plant breathe. The air avoids plants from turning brown or yellow.

After I wrote a summary about how plants grow. plants require water to sink in the soil to be absorbed by the roots, light to give energy to the plant to help it grow, and air to avoid the plant from turning brown or yellow.

Next time, I should be more specific on the introduction and follow the structure of TIMES.

Handwriting

 I learned how to write the alphabet, numbers, and symbols properly. 

I watched a video to show neat handwriting. I wrote the characters neatly into my writing book.

I need to practice writing my M, P, and G more neatly because the P and G are not on the line and M is the same size as a lower case M.

About Me 2021

Kia ora. 

My name is Koura-Beau. I am Niuean and Maori. I am in LS1 at Panmure Bridge School. I enjoy reading at school and at home I like playing Minecraft on my Ipad.

Setting description

A setting description describes what a place looks ,smells, feels, sound like.

When describing the look of something people use adjectives like: yellow, shiny and more.

To describe the feeling of something people use adjectives like: cold, damp, jagged and more. This helps people to understand the feeling of something.

To describe the smell people use adjectives like: mud, fresh and more. This helps people to understand the scent of something.

When describing the sound of something people use adjectives like: fast, quick and more.

A setting description helps people to link to that setting is because more information is covered about that setting.

L.I to write a setting description.

Character Descriptions

Character descriptions describe the character. There are three areas to cover in a character description, personality, appearance, and experience.

The appearance describes the face and hair, the body, the clothes.

The experience describes where they live, their friends, interest, hobbies, talents, secrets, and achievements.

The personality describes what kind of person they are, how they behave, what they say, what makes them interesting and different.

The character description uses figurative and literal language. This activity helps people to write a character description using the appearance, experience and personality.

L.I to write a Character Description. 

Figurative language

Figurative language is the hidden messages thats explained from a person.

Simile means comparing two things using like or as.

Hyperbole means exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.

Metaphor means two things that are compared without us in like or as.

Personification means giving human to objects or ideas.

Understatement means expression with less strength than expected.

L.I Figurative language

About me 2020

About Me 2020

Kia Ora. 

Kia ora

My name is Kourabeau. I am Maori. I am in LS1 at Panmure Bridge School.
I enjoy doing the learning here and going to different places.