When one of our beloved shapes is murdered, it is up to us to find the criminal at fault for this death. using attributes given to us by our teacher, our class, works with a partner to find the delinquent guilty. only a few were able to figure it out. I am proud to say that I am one of those few. With the help of my trustworthy sidekick, Dechei, we got it right. below is my response to it.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Thursday, May 5, 2022
An Extension Of Forgiveness
These past two days have partially been about an article, Embracing Forgiveness, after reading the text we were instructed to respond to it. Below you will catch sight of my reading response.
This activity was enjoyable, my next step is to improve my capability of summarising.
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Hatchet; a story about a 13 year old's trauma.
In class, I read a book, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. Lately, I have been thinking deeper into the book. What is the author's message? Today myself and one-third of my class, have each written an individual draft on what we think the message could be. Here is mine...
Daizaleah Marupo
Hatchet Novel Response
Hatchet is a fiction novel that revolves around survival, Gary Paulsen is the author of this book. But the question is, what is the message of this book? What is the author trying to tell his readers? Is there a message? So many questions are swimming in my mind; and I have a few ideas on what the answers could be.
There is evidence in the text that shows a few of my ideas: independence, responsibility and determination. Chapter 16, page 147 Brian -the protagonist- has just witnessed a fierce, merciless whirlwind. It takes out his shelter, his temporary home. Determined, Brian thinks “Is that the best you can do?” Later in the book it shows that Brian rebuilds his shelter using his surrounding resources; this proves my point of independence and responsibility.
Perseverance, my next idea. Hatchet has a lot of evidence surrounding perseverance, one of many being in page 118, Brian is attempting to capture a fish. Brian made many mistakes while trying to catch the fish, but that's what is pushing him to persevere. Brian knows he makes mistakes; he learns from them. After many failed attempts Brian remembers something, something useful. He had learnt in school that water refracts, bends light. Now that he knows this he improves his strategy and succeeds his mission.
I think there are many messages to this book. Everyone has a different view of this book and what the message is. I have shown mine, but there are others who have a different train of thoughts. For all I know the author could have an entirely different message to mine.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Their Plane Crashed.
This term, we were assigned to write a news report on a plane crash. Here is mine.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Courage Writing Snapshot
In class, I have been reading about Jesus Christ's life and looking for acts of courage. I then had thirty minutes to write about it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." In the bible, there are many ways Jesus showed courage, that is what I will be writing about today. What can we learn from Jesus' action and why should we apply this to our life.
The Storm
One day Jesus was awoken from his nap by his disciples who were in a panic, a fierce storm had come down on the lake they were crossing. "Master, Master, we're going to drown!" his disciples shouted, their words filled with fear. The boat was filling with water and they were in great danger. Jesus stayed calm and had faith in his father. He got up and rebuked the storm with authority. He then turned to his disciples and said, "Where is your faith."
The reason for this being courageous is because Jesus was in a life-risking situation but instead of panicking and losing hope, he had faith in his father, he stayed calm, and spoke to the storm with authority. Something we can learn from this is that even if you come to a rough situation in life rebuke those storms with the authority of Jesus Christ and his Father.
The Wilderness
Jesus was led to the wilderness by the spirit. For forty days and forty nights, he fasted. During that time the devil came and said, "if you are the Son of God tell these stones to become loaves of bread." but Jesus answered with, "No! the scriptures say, people do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."
How this shows courage is because Jesus stayed with his beliefs and rejected the temptation of the devil.
In conclusion, If we apply the ways of Jesus to ourselves we will be courageous and able to get through the rough situations, storms, and temptations in life.
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Narrative
This term we have been learning about narrative. A few things I have been focusing on are: using a variety of our new sentence types as well as using show not tell more often.
I still need to gain confidence with our new sentence types.
The Future
The once beautiful, appealing city had become an ancient, neglected one. The sky was dim, the clouds were
dense and the grassy vines had overgrown the entire place. As for the inhabitants, there were none. They were
all missing. All but one. His name was Keanu. He planned to find his people and bring them back.
Keanu searched the buildings for essentials. He scanned the room. A box. In the box, he found a tablet. The
energy from the tablet traveled through his arm. He would use the energy to kill Spacecraft-2200. Ted’s dull
plastic eyes stared deep into Keanu’s soul. “Don’t look at me like that. Have some faith,” Keanu scolded Ted.
As Keanu calmly walked the alleyway he heard a noise, WOOOSH his attention snapped towards the noise. Shock
and terror came over him. He began to doubt himself, he knew that this thing existed but he hadn’t thought it
could have been that big. Keanu’s mind returned to reality, he reminisced the reason he was doing all of this. He
grabbed Ted from his bag and determined, “we will get her back, no matter what.”
Without hesitation, Keanu bolted across the city to his bike immediately driving away from the spacecraft-2200
he looped around so that he was behind it without knowing. He was on a bank just above the top of the spacecraft.
Mindless. He somersaulted, landing on the ship he wielded his sword stabbing it right into the space craft's weak
point. He was happy, not just happy he was proud. Proud of being able to overcome fear and have courage. He
grabbed Ted. “We did it,” his words were full of joy. Ted’s face remained emotionless, his thermal fur brushing
against Keanu’s grip.
There was one more thing: finding Her. He began looking around for things, secret tunnels or hidden doors that he
hadn’t seen before. Then it almost skipped his mind. He had seen an odd-looking door earlier. He got on his bike
and raced through the city back to the door. There it was before his eyes, a cellar. He busted the door down with
panic. Civilians came running out but one of them caught his eyes. There she was. Delilah. - Delilah is 17 - They
pranced to each other, just like in the movies. “I missed you,” he told Delilah. “I missed you too,” Delilah told her f
ather. “Do you have Ted?” Delilah asked. “Yeah I do, here you go,” Keanu answered. Ted was Delilah’s teddy; he
was the only thing Keanu had left of her after she was abducted. Now they were reunited.
It is now September 17th 3027. Delilah’s 21st. To celebrate her birthday she was to travel overseas to see her
mother’s family. Due to her mother’s death whilst giving birth, Delilah had never met her mother’s side. But she
was a big girl now, she was going to meet them or so she thought. On her flight, she fell asleep. “Seat Belts
please,” spoke the pilot. Delilah did not hear. 10 hours later. Just like Madagascar movie down the plane went, the
left engine burning in a scorching fire. BOOM Delilah met her mother.
Thursday, November 4, 2021
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