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Thursday, February 11, 2021

My Reflection Blog

 11/02/21

Title: Back to Black

Genre: Article

Source: Listener 28/1/21

This story is about Akira Ioane a New Zealand rugby player who has everything looking good until he failed. He was a rugby player who was looking like he was going to be a star until he started to believe what social media said about him and he hit a low point in his life. He started to gain weight and now was not at a good enough fitness level to succeed in his sport and other players got ahead of him. This wasn't looking good until his dad helped him get back on track. "I knew I had more to give" Akira Ioane stated. He started to get back on track during lockdown because at this point no one was able to worry about him and he and his wife started to train together. This was because he knew he was falling off track and he had heaps of help from his pairs to get him back to the top and competing at his sports at a high level. I think this is a good example to never give up and never give up on yourself.

15/02/21

Title: The Recruit

Genre: Fictional

Author: Robert Muchamor

Key Points:

James Choke was in a science class that he hates to be in. He is tired from play GTA all of the night before. Samantha the person who sat next to him was known as a nerd and was really smart but James hated her because she made fun of his mum for being fat. He was probably the strongest in his year and bet up any boy who made fun of his mum but what way he going to do to a girl. Samantha kept on making fun of him so he gripped her and held her against the wall and she got her face cut in the wall so James had to run to get out of trouble but he was caught.

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17/02/21

Title: The Recruit

Genre: Fictional

Author: Robert Muchamor

Key Points:

What views of the world is the text reflecting: The part I've read about this text is about a boy who gets into an argument and makes a mistake he then gets bully and beat up by his classmate's brother who he accidentally cut with a nail in the wall. This shows that the boy thinks that this world is cruel and a bad place to be. He isn't having a good time at home as well as his mum's husband is pretty rude and mean to James (the boy). He thinks that his mum's husband is just using her for money and isn't going anywhere in life as his longest time employed is only two weeks.

24/02/19

Title: The Recruit

Genre: Fictional

Author: Robert Muchamor

Purpose: To entertain.

Key Points:

James got home after getting a beating and grabbed something to eat. After this, he made his way to the bathroom and looked into the mirror just to see that half his body is covered in blood and scrapes. He went to cover the cuts until he realized he needed to clean it first. He jumped into the shower and it was pretty soothing for his face apart from the fact the there was a blood spiral forming around his feet. While in the shower he decided he might as well pray so he did. After he got out of the shower he went to play some computer games but he got bored pretty quickly so he thought he should invite one of his friends to play with him. When he asked his friend his friend told him he couldn't risk getting bet up too and left. James was now starting to think if his friends are fake. 

Does this text construct a version of reality? Yes because it creates a setting in a made up place that is in this world. These places and easily be compared to common places that we have. eg. school, and his house/apartment.

26/02/21

Title: Athletics Day

Genre: Fictional

Author: Patrica Grace

Purpose: To entertain

Key Points:

Keri was a school student who was pretty unknown at school, she didn't have many friends but she was hoping that today since was athletics day she would try to impress everyone. She signs up for the 200-meter event and her heat is about to start. She was thinking she was going to beat everyone by far and that it would be pretty easy. Her race starts and she runs as fast as she can but as she glances over she sees someone run past her at the last second. She lost that race but still made the finals as she prepared for the finals she starts to tense up. As the race was about to start her friend was thinking that she's got to put in her all. The race starts and she's making her way down to the end and she's in a close race with the person who beat her last time. She crosses the line and she wins and she is really excited. After the race, the second place comes up and congratulates her. She now made a new friend.

Who is real in this text? None of the characters are real as it is a made-up story about a girl's experience on athletics day.

05/03/21

Title: Diary of a wimpy kid: The Getaway.

Author: Jeff Kenedy

Genre: Fictional

Purpose: Entertainment

Key point:

Gregory and his family are going on holiday on Christmas eve for Christmas morning and to have Christmas away on a hot resort instead of on the inside away from the snow. The fact of Christmas away wasn't fun for Greg and he found out he won't get any gifts because of this. Another thing he hated is that he has to go on a plane for the first time and he wasn't looking forward to it. His family was running late to the airport and stress was building once they got there they were trying to rush to their gate just to find out it was delayed.

Who benefits from this text: The reader benefits from this as it entertains them as it doesn't teach them anything but they will still get something out of it and that is entertainment.

15/03/21

Title: Diary of a wimpy kid: The Getaway.

Author: Jeff Kenedy

Genre: Fictional

Purpose: Entertainment

Key Points:

Gregory and his family make their way to this resort they are going to as they get on the plane to begin their journey Greg starts to worry as he seats next to some random family. he is on the plane but as they are in the air he starts to worry about things like turbulence. They finally get there and go to the resort which they thought was cool and they liked how the room was massive. they go get changed so they can go and look around but they realized that they grabbed the wrong bag at the airport so they couldn't get ready.

What knowledge does that reader need to bring to understand this text: To understand this text the reader must be able to read and speak English fluently. Other than that no specific knowledge or skill is needed.

19/03/21

Title: Diary of a wimpy kid: The Getaway.

Author: Jeff Kenedy

Genre: Fictional

Purpose: Entertainment

Key Points:

Greg and his family are doing some activity at the resort and having a normal holiday until it all goes wrong as on the last two days. It started looking good as they use the wrong bag for some clothes which they use to go into a restaurant and get food but then a family realized that they were their clothes and now they had a target on them they gave they clothes back and then went scuba diving but Greg younger brother caught a box jellyfish and it was let out at the pool so now everyone is trying to attack them. they get a kick out of the resort after this day and they decide that they will sneak back in but chaos started but they managed to get some family photos. After this, they get noticed and are now on the run. Greg somehow gets to the other side of the resort and is trying to get to the exit. he realizes he has to jump a fence to do soo but as he did that he broke it and now both sides of the resort can be accessed by anyone so chaos broke loose and they got out of their quick and go back home straight away. 

What genre this text belong to: Fictional as it's not real.

26/03/21

Title: At the student poetry reading

Author: Kim Stafford

Genre: Poem

Key points:

This poem, it is talking about students at a poetry event who are making poems to say. This is about how people can feel when they are writing a poem. They express their feeling through poems and this poem may be a reflection on some of Kim's feelings when she first was writing a poem.

What do the word suggest: these words suggest some of the feelings poets get when they are about to perform or when they are performing, in the text she uses a class as an example of how this is shown. This poem also shows how people can be affected by writing poems of their feelings. 

This shows feeling from the kids used this quote from the text proves that: 

"I guess you could call me broken,

says one. I’m still lonely, says another,
but now I can name it with a song."

1 comment:

  1. Great reading Tobey, well organised notes- titled, published. A good start to reflection

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