Thursday 30 June 2016

Student Led Conference Reflection

The things I enjoyed most about my SLC were:
Sharing my learning to mum and telling her what I have done this year .


What went well and why?
What I think went well was when I was showing her ( my mum ) my  asttle test I told her what everything meant .



What were the challenges you faced when preparing and presenting your SLC?
When we came in I had to get my stuff and all I did was go and say " here mum read this " and ran to get my stuff.


What changes would you make for next time and why?
I would tell myself to stop saying um .

Friday 3 June 2016

Year 7/8 Standard: Reading Assessment task


Year 7/8 Standard: Assessment task

WALT: I can use a use a wide range of comprehension strategies to understand text such as: - using their prior knowledge, along with information in the text, to interpret abstract ideas, complex plots, and sophisticated themes - gathering, evaluating, and synthesising information across a small range of texts - identifying and resolving issues that come from competing information in texts
Complete both texts and write the answers in your own words.
TASK 1 - read the text about Sneakairs

TEXT: EasyJet's Smart "Sneakairs" Makes Sightseeing Effortless

What I already know about navigating with maps?
  • it is hard to figure out where you are and where you want to be. 
  • google have now made an easier map to show you the way to your destination.  
  • maps have made many people in the world get lost and give up on them . 
Who created “Senakairs?”?

  • EasiJet
How do the “Sneakairs” work?
  • well you have to have the app and tell it your destination and the shoe will Gide you to your destination it will vibrate there times when you are their and if you need to turn right it will vibrate in your right foot if you need to turn left it will vibrate in your left foot 
How do “Sneakairs” help tourists visiting a new city or town?
  • they show you the way to the place that they want to go to .
  • so the tourists can go were ever they want to go with out getting lost and they don't need to use a map .
What challenge does easyJet need to overcome before “Sneakairs” can go mainstream?
  • they still need to tweak the prototypes and they also need to make the battery life longer and a way to get the battery life to charge so the tourist  can use them again when they go on a holiday once again .
Can you think of any other uses for smart shoes like Sneakairs? - (give at least 2)
  • if you get lost you tell it where your house is or a friends that is close to you .
  • if you want to go somewhere e.g a party but you cant find the way you can use your shoes .
Can you think of a better invention than Sneakairs to help us navigate places? Why is that invention better than Sneakairs?
  • a chair that you sit on and you type where you want to go and it takes you there .


TASK 2: The purpose of this task is to identify details that support a main idea.
A main idea that the author David Hill often explores is: New Zealand's natural environment, and how awesome (impressive and amazing) and powerful it can be.
Read the following passages from pages 7, 8 and 9 of "The Sleeper Wakes" by David Hill.
a) Find details in the text that support this main idea. Underline these details.
b) Think about what the 'sleeper' is, and how it would 'wake' up. Highlight details in the text that suggest this development.
Two girls stood with their parents by a car, watching him. So Corey tried to look cool and expert, and he started up the track behind his father.
The blunt pyramid of Mt Taranaki lifted into a blue winter sky. Snow softened the cliffs where lava had flowed, thousands of years ago. High up towards the summit, the ridge of The Lizard showed where more lava had crawled downwards before cooling and setting.
Corey lowered his gaze to the 4WD track twisting up the mountain's north-east flank. Packed grey and green trees rose on either side. After just ten metres, all sounds from the carpark faded away. Only the crunch of their boots broke the silence.
Three steps ahead, his Dad walked steadily. He wore a woollen hat and green Gortex jacket to keep out the June cold. Warwick Lockyer, Department of Conservation Field Officer; expert on Mt Taranaki; tramper and climber.
His father loved this mountain. He loved its silences and stories, the way it tested people. Corey felt the same way. Being up here was the greatest feeling in the world. Pity some other people couldn't see it that way.
* * *
After 30 minutes' climbing, they paused, took deep breaths, and gazed around. The trees were lower. Tangled, waist-high shrubs had taken over, crammed together for shelter, tops flattened by the wind. In summer, white and yellow flowers blazed here, flowers that grew nowhere else in the world. Now everything huddled beneath winter snow.
Far below, the towns glinted like little grey models – New Plymouth, Inglewood, Stratford. Off to the left, the Tasman Sea was a sheet of grey steel.
On the horizon, blue-and-white shapes shouldered upwards: the peaks of Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, Tongariro. Corey thought of Riki, the other DoC Field Officer. From Riki, he'd heard how Mt Taranaki once stood beside those other volcanoes, fought with them for the love of beautiful Mt Pihanga, then marched away in anger after losing the fight. Hardly any Maori people lived along the line between Ruapehu and Mt Taranaki; they believe that one day, Taranaki would head back in the fire and smoke to find his love again.
Corey stood listening to the silence. A puff of wind slid past. A pebble, loosened by the morning sun probably, dropped from an icy bank nearby.
'Awesome day,' Corey said.
His father nodded. 'Pity Dean couldn't make it.'
Corey glanced up at the dazzling white summit. Dean was a volcanologist who monitored New Zealand's North Island volcanoes to see if any eruptions seemed likely. He came to visit two or three times a year, even though nothing ever happened on Mt Taranaki.
Corey's father was gazing upwards, too. He stretched, and grinned at his son. 'Come on, mate. We're sleepier than this mountain.'

I think that Mt Taranaki is a volcano and if it erupts it is awake and it hasn't so it is sleeping .