Their Plane Crashed.

This term, we were assigned to write a news report on a plane crash. Here is mine.

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. 

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.

My Narrative Writing Goals

 My Writing Goals 

Not yet	Developing	Got it!

My story flows and I use punctuation for effect
I have an interesting hook
I have good organisation (paragraphs help reader with the orientation, problem, complication, solution)
I have used , . ?!  correctly within direct speech
I have short sentences for impact and longer sentences to build detail
I have used wow words (verbs, adjectives, nouns)
I have figurative language ( simile, metaphor, idiom personification)
I mostly use show not tell
I have a wide variety of  sentence starters
I have a 2A, double ly; de;de;  simile; verb, person sentence; 3 ed; emotion word, sentence; P.C sentence. ( comment on them)
I can give, and respond to, peer and teacher feedback to improve my work and my friend’s.
My writing goals are...
Use show not tell  Use wow words Improve my sentence starters

Wringer Chapter 1-5 Response

In class, we have been learning about The Wringer I have written my reading response. Down below you will find it. 

Credible-believable

 Great authors make with believable personalities. They show personalities through these: actions, dialogue, reaction, physical descriptions, and thoughts. 

I can see this in Beans character, he is obnoxious, selfish, and very disrespectful, he expects far too much and thinks the world revolves around him. Beans leaned across the table, took a deep breath, and blasted away. This example shows Beans blowing out Palmer's birthday candles.

Character Inference.

In class, during literacy, we have been writing our own Character Inference, the characters have come from the novel Wringer by Jerry Spinelli. Below is my inference on one of the main characters, Mutto.