1.) What were the major events throughout 1910-1920? World War
2.)Who was J.B. Priestly and what did he do in his life? He was a novelist, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. He is the author of "An Inspector Calls"
3.)What are symbols and motifs on narratives?
The theme
4.) What was life like in England in the 1910s?
This week at maths we started a new topic, Transformations. There are four elements of transformation and discussed only three of them. Reflection, which is where each point is the opposite side of the mirror line. Rotation, where points rotate at an angle without moving. Translation, which is where each point moves in the same distance and direction.
We did not go over the last one yet which is enlargement and scale factors.
Tsunami comes from the Japanese word "Harbour wave". It is a series of waves that are caused by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions under the water. Most Tsunamis are caused by converging tectonic plate boundaries. Tsunamis can be as fast as a Jetplane.
In social studies, we have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. We were asked to research a treaty we would like to learn about and compare it to the Treaty of Waitangi. I chose the Antarctic Treaty.
This week in ESOL, we continued our learning of the Chocolate industry. We were asked to work with our teams from the last activity we did. Where we mapped out what countries most of the producers and consumers were. Our activity was to represent a role in the 'bean to bar' process for making and selling chocolates. There were five roles that we chose from.
The growers of cocoa. The growers of the cocoa, plant, and harvest cocoa to sell to the cocoa buyers. The growers work in Tropical Lands.
The buyers of cocoa import to the chocolate makers and pay the growers. They also work in air-conditioned offices. They sell the cocoas to rich producing countries.
The producers of other ingredients of the chocolate. They produce the other ingredients of the chocolate. They have workers who work to produce the ingredients.
The chocolate manufacturers. They make the actual product and work with laborers and machines. They usually work in factories.
Lastly, the shopkeepers. This was the role my group chose. Retailers work in retails with good air conditioning and are usually dressed nicely and sell the finished product to consumers.
We also divided the money using percentages. Our first choice was to have 25 percent of the 1.23. But the total exceeded the limit so we had to negotiate. A classmate of ours became a solicitor and removed a few percentages and our group settled at 19 percent. We then found out the actual percentage and the actual percentage we were supposed to have was 23 percent.
It did not really surprise me once I found out the actual percentages our roles were supposed to have.
To conclude, I personally think that it is quite fair. Since everybody has families, rent and stuff to pay.
In art, we did dilution painting. The subject matter of my painting is the sculpture of a persons head with their skull coming out. The face is the focus of the piece. I used diluted white acrylic paint to make a thin wash. I brushed this on the painting paper with the black gesso. This created a grey tone. To make lighter, grey tones, I added second and third layers of wash. for the highlights I did was I layered it over and over or thickening up the acrylic by using less water. The negative space also helps the subject matter to pop out more and helps with the tones.
I chose this image because I just find it interesting. With the skull coming out of the sculpture's head.
I find this art technique really interesting and challenging since this time I had to start with the highlights rather than the shadows.
