Social Studies

Social Studies NZ

Term 1 

In term one, my class and I started one of our new classes, this subject is Social studies. I have chosen to write my blog about heroes and identities. In Term One as a class we learnt about Identities and what makes a person and their personality, and how they were a hero in way. We explained how people could be heroes, from doing many different things, an act of kindness, act of helpfulness etc. Then we had to do a essay, we got to choose who to write about, but it had to be someone from NZ, and at least have a book written about. 

We also did some art on the very last day of Term one, classmates paired up and we made profiles. One person had to hold up a phone torch, while the other person stood in front of the white paper so their shadow reflected off onto the white paper. Then someone else would trace the shadow onto the white paper, after we finished that, we cut out of the shadow and stuck it onto inky black paper. But lots of people were struggling so we got Miss BearmingHam to do the tracing, she did an amazing job!

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9MG Greymouth HighSchool Term One English Reflections

English

It has nearly been one whole term, our teacher is the wonderful Miss Evans. I've been taught quite a bit in English. We have been using Hapara and doing our work on there. We did a Hero Exhibit, we all had to make a poster showing who is our Hero's and why they are our Hero's, we learned the 12 Hero cycles, we worked in pairs and designed a poster explaining the 12 Hero Cycles. Before every class we do a Big Question on Hapara. Miss Evans puts down a question or a 100 word challenge, where we have to try write 100 words. Usually we have a 5 minute timer on the Big Question, or sometimes we get to free write for 10 minutes. After that 5 minutes is up we submit our work to Miss Evans. Here are some pictures - 

 Here is a link to the work I did on Cyber Bullying -https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W8HMytf29LoEo49ukkQaMl41Of0T3QC-SKUZE0vC5m8/edit

At the end of the period we usually do a success ticket, also on Hapara, It's like the Big Question Miss Evan would put down a question for us, usually asking what we did well today, or asked what we learnt, what information was helpful for our learning. With that as well we have a timer for 5 minutes.

After we have done our success ticket we submit it, like the picture above.

My partner Shialla and I have been working on a presentation Poster about the 12 Hero Cycles. Here is a picture of our 12 Hero Cycle Poster! -

The poster shows the 12 hero cycles, that you might read in books or see in movies! In every book there is always 12 stages the main character will go through.