How could Energy Usage in Ōtaki homes be more efficient. - Group: Violet, Rakei and James. - (Week 9 Reflection/Week 5 Reflection - Last Week of the project.)

 1. What have you achieved/learned/found out since your last post?:

We have finished everything.

2. How effectively have you used your time this week?:

Not much cause we have finished off everything so there was a huge amount of time that was left.

3. How have you contributed to your group’s progress?:

I helped James do the last little bits of finishing and then we finished and presented our presentation/project on Wednesday 6th of December yesterday.

4. Glows: something that is going well in your project:

Finishing the project and presenting it.

5. Grows: Something you need to work on:

Doing the final blog reflection.

6. Where could you get help with this?:

James and by myself.

7. What are the next steps for your project?:

Nothing, just making a reflection at the end of it today and tomorrow.

How could Energy Usage in Ōtaki homes be more efficient. - Group: Violet, Rakei and James. - (Week 8 Reflection/Week 4 Reflection.) (Late posted.)

 1. What have you achieved/learned/found out since your last post?:

We finished our presentation and printed out the slides, we glued them onto the A4 piece of paper, and we managed to glue the A4 presentation piece of paper onto the huge cardboard stand. Right now I'm gluing some symbols and decorations around the paper and all over the cardboard. James has started writing down the do's and don'ts for our project.

2. How effectively have you used your time this week?:

Very big amount, same with James, but unfortunately Rakei hasn't been at school.

3. How have you contributed to your group’s progress?:

I asked Mr. O'Leary for some normal pieces of paper to sketch the symbols on and I sketched and coloured in flame symbols, leaf symbols, light bulb symbols, and electric bolt symbols for the design. I also gave James ideas on the do's and don'ts for our project.

4. Glows: something that is going well in your project:

Designing and more interesting add-ons.

5. Grows: Something you need to work on:

Adding some of the do's and don'ts list onto our cardboard stand, as well as design around the paper.

6. Where could you get help with this?:

If I needed help I would ask for help from Mr. O'Leary or James.

7. What are the next steps for your project?: In week 9 we should've been on the edge of finishing and all done, but our next steps are to finish designing and adding extra information and useful ones for the sides of the cardboard stand.

How could Energy Usage in Ōtaki homes be more efficient. - Group: Violet, Rakei and James. - (Week 7 Reflection/Week 3 Reflection.)

We've made humungous and rapid changes throughout our project and presentation design, as well as research. Next week we'll hopefully be onto making new ideas and adding some more stuff.

As well as for our model to be finished.

1. What have you achieved/learned/found out since your last post?:

We have finished our presentation and printed out the slides, as well as I put together a script for me, James, and Rakei.

2. How effectively have you used your time this week?: Quite a lot.

3. How have you contributed to your group’s progress?:

I asked Mr. O'Leary to print out the presentation slides and an A4 piece of paper to glue them on, along with a bit of designing which I'm gonna be doing in week 8 (next week).

4. Glows: something that is going well in your project:

Just about almost finishing the online model, finishing the presentation, and printing out the slides.

5. Grows: Something you need to work on:

I'm not really sure, but I need to work on designing the A4 piece of paper with the slides stuck on it next week.

6. Where could you get help with this?: If I needed help I would ask for help from Mr. O'Leary or James.

7. What are the next steps for your project?: Designing, making symbols, and gluing the slides to the A4 piece of paper next week in week 8.

Power to the People Project - Our question: How could Energy Usage in Ōtaki homes be more efficient? - Group: James, Violet and Rakei. - Week 6, a little late to post. (Week 2 of doing our project.)

 Our progress on what we've done so far in week 6 on working on our project: 

(A little late to post.)

1. What have you achieved/learned/found out since your last post?:

We've managed to completely finish off our presentation and slides, now for the edits on mistakes.

We have also managed to make quite a huge progress on our Model.

2. How effectively have you used your time this week?: Quite a bit.

3. How have you contributed to your group’s progress?:

I've given quite a few ideas to James to help him with the model.

4. Glows: something that is going well in your project:

We have just about finished our presentation.

As well as still on the right track with the making of our model.

5. Grows: Something you need to work on:

Print out our presentation in Week 7 (next week.)

6. Where could you get help with this?:

Our Mentor Mr. Sean O'Leary can help us print the slides out.

7. What are the next steps for your project?:

Printing the presentation out and finishing the model.

Power to the People Project - Our question: How could Energy Usage in Ōtaki homes be more efficient? - Group: James, Violet and Rakei. (Week 5)

So far our group has been working well on our project, we've almost finished our presentation by researching our question on "How could Energy Usage in Ōtaki homes be more efficient?"

Me, James, and Rakei are now working on researching a little more information for our Presentation.

1. What have you achieved/learned/found out since your last post?: A lot about the amount of Energy being used.

2. How effectively have you used your time this week?: Quite a bit, mostly to do with researching.

3. How have you contributed to your group’s progress?: Yes, me and James has done a lot of deep research into this question, James is already working on the model online.

4. Glows: something that is going well in your project: Our model

5. Grows: Something you need to work on: Making the model better.

6. Where could you get help with this?: From James and from Rakei, for some new ideas.

7. What are the next steps for your project?: Making the model better with progress and finishing up little bits of our presentation.

Elie Wiesel, Author of Night, Page 3 - 5 Empathy Map.

 Me and James are working on this Empathy Map in our English class, as a task we have to do. It is about a young boy survivor that survived the Holocaust, his name is Elie Wielsel.  

It's a real Autobiography about Elie's Life and being born in a Jewish ghetto in Hungary.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi As A Wave.

 I see myself as the person on the hill.

My Essay on "Night" by Elie Wiesel.

 Essay Question:

Describe at least one important technique used in the text. Explain how the technique created an emotional response in you.

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The Book "Night" by Elie Wiesel.

The memoir book "Night" I have read is based on the Holocaust by Elie Wiesel's experience.

Three of those horrific, devastating, and truly depressing events/incidents that I've come across in that book, impacted me emotionally, those poor innocent people.

One of those that I'm deeply saddened to hear is that a lot of bodies got thrown into burning flames of fire, Elie got to witness that as well, which is just depressing. Not just that but other deeply dull, dark, and depressing events/incidents such as Elie's Dad's death and the Death March that happened.. I'm going to talk about now and how those all made me feel, as well as to reflect on Elie's story.

 

As I was reading through "Night" the first part I came across that erupted my emotions and made me very saddened was when I read that Elie was witnessing a horrific and depressing sight of the bodies of those innocent Jews getting thrown into burning flames of fire, thrown to their death. Elie (the Author) said sorrowfully using the technique of repetition "Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky". This impacted my emotions and left me feeling quite low and unhappy, finding out that Hitler did all of this with his power is truly disgusting and cruel behavior.

 

 Then next, almost near the end of the book. Elie and his father were still alive but fighting to stay alive severely. 

All the survivors of the past devastating events/incidents had to go through a death march. Elie was running with his Dad, even though they were literally on the verge of death they were all very skinny and crippled to the point that they almost looked like skeletons. Up came behind him a boy from Poland following beside him his name was Zalman. 

As they were running the boy collapsed on the snow behind Elie and began to undo his buttons and yelled: "I can't go on. My stomach is bursting..."

Elie tries to get him back on track.

Zalman: "I can't go on" he groaned.

Elie keeps running ahead, forgetting about Zalman but he knows that he must've been trampled under the feet of thousands of men who followed us.

While I was reading about this event, it hit me, knowing that all those men trying their hardest to stay alive. Just upsets me incredibly and impacts me in a way that I don't want to imagine looking at those officers right in the face, or even getting a glimpse. 

 

Just about near the end of the book, Elie's father begins to feel death coming to him. He came down with a very bad sickness, Elie tried his best to help out to save his father and keep him alive, he kept begging for water over and over again. 

Elie knew it was a bad idea but he had no choice now, but to give him water.

One morning, Elie woke up to his father not on his bed bunk, he wasn't on any bed bunk. Elie thought that his father died and that the SS finished him off and killed him. Elie had loads of emotions come at him and hit him. Guilt, relief, and sadness from his own father's death. Elie wants us to remember all those people he knew, who have passed away in such a horrible way. As well as to know that all those people fought to survive and stay alive like being in a dreadful and gruesome war against death.

Reading this part in Elie's book was quite depressing just like the other events in this book. This is awful and devasting to hear that a very loved one that you grew up with and learned from died trying to keep their son alive and his son trying to keep his father alive, through the tough and exhausting challenges. 

 

 

After reading this book about Elie's Holocaust story. I've felt deeply saddened to hear that loads of those dear, innocent loved ones and friends have died trying to stay alive while fighting for their lives and other loved one's lives whenever they went through a challenge.

To me, every single event that has happened in this has left me steaming with rage. This mass murder should never have happened in life and history, it's truly terrible and cruel to see that these evil people exist in the world. I'm REALLY hoping and praying that this type of event will NEVER happen again. 

Sad Joke on a Marae - worksheet - Violet

 Sad Joke on a Marae,

By Apirana Taylor.

In English we are doing the Sad Joke on a Marae, for the Sad Joke on a Marae I'm gonna have a picture drawn of Apirana Taylor under bars.