This Week's Subjects

This is what I've been doing for the past few weeks for my subjects. In English, we are starting to write an essay about a director and I chose Quentin Tarantino to write about we had to choose two movies, and I chose Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I also need to do a speech on it as well. In P.E., we are learning how to play badminton with a training program and it's helping my skills. In History, we had a guest speaker who spoke about the Chinese in the Central Otago Gold Rush, I learned a lot and used it for my assessment. In DVC, we are designing a cafe to build in Taylor's Mistake on the beach. 

Klara and the Sun Post Reading Task

 Locate 3 new vocabulary words in the articles and define them.

Mysophobic - A strong reaction to specific sounds

Sentient - Able to perceive or feel things

Nascent - Displaying signs of potential

What important themes/ideas does Klara and the Sun show? (according to the articles.)

It shows the nature of future intelligence and the cost of loneliness and relationships. As Klara is a artificial friend to Josie and their relationship even though Klara is not even a real human being. Klara helps Josie with loneliness and it shows how people can be affected when they are lonely. 

Locate another article about Klara and the Sun and record something that you learned from it. 

This article helped me know more about the theme of the book and the idea of the book. It takes it more in depth.   

https://www.allofusbookclub.com/loving-what-we-dont-understand-in-klara-and-the-sun/

What connections can you draw so far between Klara and the Sun and Blade Runner 2049?

The artificial intelligence is similar as there is artificial life in Klara and Joi. They cure Josie's and K's loneliness in the film and they feel accompanied by the artificial people. They are not real humans. 

Has your understanding of what it means to be human/have personhood changed since studying these texts?

Yes as the artificial intelligence don't have feelings or emotions and it shows in these texts. Humans have feelings and emotions. 

Passion Project

 Pizza Passion Project

Austin, Andre and I practised making pizza for our passion project and it was good, I enjoyed making it and it tasted good. I think we are ready to make the final product on Friday. We didn't even have a recipe, we made it without one. This week, we will make an even better pizza and will have a chicken pizza with the pepperoni one. I'm excited to make the final product.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck

 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck Summary

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck tells the story of Greg, a middle school boy who can't seem to catch a break. Greg's luck begins to go downhill when his best friend, Rowley, starts spending all his time with his new girlfriend, Abigail. Greg sees everything else as spiraling downward and it isn't until he starts making decisions for himself that Greg begins to see his luck change. His school year gets a lot better. I liked this book as it is relatable for middle schoolers or high schoolers. You can see someone elses perspective of school and their life which is interesting. 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney

 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth Summary

Greg faces challenges with the start of a new school year. He's not friends with his old best friend, Rowley anymore and doesn't know anyone else who is best friend material. Rowley got a pimple before Greg and Greg was jealous because having a pimple is being 'manly'. Other kids his age are starting to attend boy-girl parties and post pictures of their exciting lives online. He tries to find new friends but cannot and in the end, will get back together with Rowley and try get into a party which he does. I think it is a good book and it is pretty realistic to some high school students. I personally liked reading the book.

Far-right threats to Maori women

Far-right threats to Maori women

13 August 2021, The Press

Maori women have been getting racist threats including Siouxsie Wiles, who was threatened after her work on COVID-19. Some have been even getting racist mails which is really bad because the racists know where the Maori women live because they have been sending letters. They even get rape threats and they get threats and racist comments everyday through email, Tiktok, Instagram etc. This needs to change.

1.5 Persuasive Writing

Pathos

Pathos is greek for emotion and it is used to show emotion. Your argument on your persuasive writing will be a lot better with showing emotion towards your argument. For instance, if you want your audience to be sad then you will show sad emotions in your writing so it makes your audience feels sad. The emotions can be love, humour, anger or any emotional response. For example, if you are convincing your audience to not do drugs, you can make them feel sad about how their parents will feel about you doing drugs which will make them not want to do it so they don't disappoint their parents. 

Logos

Logos is greek for logic and logos is used to show logic like data or statistics. The points are straight forward. You use facts to convince your audience rather than trying to appeal to the audiences emotions. For instance, if you write about a Nike shoe and say that they have the most comfortable shoes shown by statistics because it's really soft fabric then your audience will most likely be convinced into your argument. If you use logic and facts then your audience will be more convinced because facts cannot be proven wrong because they are true. 

Ethos

Ethos is greek for customs or character and is used to show credibility for the writer. Ethos make sure that the argument is reliable and trustworthy. Ethos is best used to unlock trust from the audience. It's great to show that you understand your audience and show that you can be trusted. You have to show that you actually care or are passionate about your argument so it looks trustworthy and reliable. Also it is sometimes good to admit some wrongs to greater prove that you can be trusted. If you are also an expert about your argument then it makes you more trustworthy. For instance, if you are trying to convince your audience that it is good to wear covid masks and you are a doctor then your audience will believe you because you are a doctor.

Putting pathos, logos and ethos together would make a great persuasive argument and your audience will most likely will be persuaded by your argument,