Roald Dahl

 Genre: auto-biography

Author: Roald Dahl

Title: Boy

Summary:

Roald Dahl finished school and he has to find a job. He was asked if he wanted to go to a university like oxford but he turned down the opportunity to go to further schooling. This was so that he could do work. He choose that he wanted to work in a place that would send him to travel the world since in his day this was a rare feat. He applied for a job at shell because that's the place he would prefer to work at. He ended up getting selected for one of the seven available jobs even though around one hundred people applied for the job. He got the job and after training, he was offered to go to Egypt but turned it down because it was too dusty. He ended up getting sent to East Africa. He thought it was perfect.

This shows he was determined to get the job he wanted and go somewhere where he wanted to go.

My Holidays: My unique story

Hi Guys!

My Holidays

18/10/21

Throughout the holidays I did many things. Most of the things I did were centered around family.

My cousin came down from Wellington in the holidays. I stayed with him all week and we did heaps of stuff. For instance, we went to the movies and saw Free Guy. We also went to the pools, went out for lunch with our grandparents, went mini-golfing, and had a family lunch for everyone to catch up and to celebrate our uncle for making the Aotearoa men netball team that played the silver ferns. 

How this links with my CV: This would show that I am a family-oriented person. Many employers are looking for people that do things like this.

What skills does it show: flexibility, It shows that I can make time for things such as family time. I can attend things that I have been welcomed to turn up to. It also shows that I can be placed at the correct time.

BYE!

Ecosystem

 Yesterday we made an ecosystem in science. 

My ecosystem consisted of a giraffe, a tree, fungi under the tree, and bacteria in the dirt.

Our ecosystem: 

Research the animal...

Giraffe:

Movement: It can move around and it moves its neck up to reach its food. It has four legs with which it uses to walk or run with.

Reproduction: It uses sexual reproduction meaning the giraffe would need to find a mate of the opposite gender to reproduce with.

Sensitivity: It feels pain and if an animal it would either try to fight back with its neck or run away.

Growth: It gets bigger and a baby giraffe isn't the same size as a fully grown giraffe.

Respiration: I eat food leaves and turns them into energy when it digests its food.

Excretion: It gets rid of its waste by doing both poos and urinating.

Nutrition: The giraffe eats plants mainly tree leaves and branches meaning that it is a herbivore. The giraffe also eats heaps of food eating up to 75 pounds. It doesn't drink as often though like once every few days.

Adaptations: 

Giraffes can go weeks without water since they might not see it that often. 

They have long necks allowing them to get food. 

They had a hard tongue so they can rip the plants off the tree without it cutting their tongue.

Predation/prey relationship:

Poacher and giraffe: Poachers target a variety of animals in the African Savana. One of the poached animals is the giraffe. Giraffes often would try and run away but since the poachers have guns they shoot them and take their heads home or take parts and sell them. This is having a bad impact on the animals. Here is a possible outcome because of poachers:

As you can in the image the giraffe is unfortunately dead.

Giraffe and tree: The giraffe eats plants in the ecosystem including trees. The tree would be the prey. This could be bad for the planet because the giraffes would eat so much meaning there is less of the plant in the ecosystem. But since the plant can adapt it might adapt to form protection against the giraffe.

Cells

 

Large Vacuole: 

The large vacuole is sacs that are inside the cytoplasm of a cell. This does things like storage of water, waste disposal, protection, and growth

Cell Wall:

The cell wall surrounds the cell membrane. This is used to give strength and protection.

Cell Membrane:

The cell membrane protects the cell. This also makes sure how much or a substance comes in and if the cell needs it or not.

Chloroplast:

The Chloroplast converts light into energy. This can then be used for photosynthesis.

Cytoplasm:

The Cytoplasm is the gel-like substance inside the cell. This helps everything operate inside the cell.

Nucleus:

The nucleus is inside the cell. This holds the chromosomes this has 46 chromosome

Mitochondria:

Mitochondria hold a bunch of energy for the cell. This is like the power system. The mitochondria produce chemical energy for the cell to use. 

Roald Dahl Boy

Title: Roald Dahl

Chapter: Getting dressed for the big school. 

State: Uniform

Explain: In this chapter, Roald Dahl got sent off to a British public school Repton. In this, he has to buy a uniform which he doesn't like. On the day of school, he has to get into his uniform and he finds it hard with the fancy collars and things that he doesn't like. It takes him a while but eventually he gets it and hops on the train to school.

Examples: 

butterfly collar, braces, waistcoat, tailcoat.

Example of Britain public school uniform:

Why do Christchurch NZ schools value school uniforms?

I think that NZ/Christchurch schools use uniforms because it's culturally accepted because everyone would feel a part of the group. This means that everyone would be together and it also goes with the Maori concepts of the Whanua all sticking together. 

They also have their uniforms for reasons such as everyone looking tidy and so people cant be bullied by their clothes.

Reading Reflection

 27/09/21

Title: New Zealand Olypian Gianni Stensness opts for Australia as All Whites squad name.

Author: Andrew Voerman

Text type: Article

One of NZ's top Oly Whites will decide to play for Australia which was the country of his birth doing forward. He 22 male had played every minute of the Olympics at Center Back. NZ isn't too worried though since they have many great players in the same position. Captain Winston Reid is still the Country's preferred position but he hasn't been named to play these exhibition matches. Members of the team have stated: "I'm not going to say it isn't disappointing to see Gianni make that choice". This is disappointing to many members and fans of this football team.

My opinion on the text:

I think that many fans and members will miss the player but they do have many good replacements so its not to much of a hassle for the team.

Roald Dahl

14/09/21 

Title: Boy - Roald Dahl

Author: Roald Dahl

Autobiography

non-fiction

Characters Met: The Matron, Headmaster

Description:

In this story, Roald Dahl is talking about his life, and it starts in his childhood where he was sent to a boarding school. He then introduces us to two new characters, The Matron, and The Headmaster. The Headmaster is in love with money and power while the Matron hates kids and many people fear her. He goes on to tell many stories on how horrid she is to kids like when they talk after lights out she takes them to get a beating or when they snore she pored a liquid in their mouth that would foam up all over their face and wake them up. She was truly horrid.

20/09/21

Title: Boy - Roald Dahl

Author: Roald Dahl

Autobiography

non-fiction

Characters Met: The Matron, Headmaster, Roald Dahl, 

Description:

Roald Dahl, had to go to the doctor for an issue with his nose and mouth after it was thought he had adenoids. In boiling water, the doctor put a metal rod. Then the doctor then pulled out the metal rod which turned out to have a blade attached to it. The doctor made Roald open his mouth and cut out the flesh from Roald's mouth. These ended up being his agnoids. The doctor made him spit every last bit of the adenoids. He then went home and rested. unfortunately, in the 1920s they didn't use any anesthetic so that would have hurt a heap but it was normal so it wasn't a fuss.

What Genre does this text belong to: This text is an autobiography of Roald Dahl's life. In this book, he tells us what his life was like and some events that he went through. It is quite interesting to go and look back on Roald Dahl's life.