Titanium slow writing

WALT use a technique to carefully craft our writing

If I didn’t arrive on the school grounds, if I had stayed at home, if I was better behaved then this wouldn’t have happened. I was scared, terrified and worried because there were aliens trashing the school.  I wish I was a normal, ordinary boy coming from an amazing family, but something happened. There was ripped wallpaper and tables tipped over on the floor, with  dirty paper drifting in the air. Slowly and cautiously filled with fear I tiptoe outside. I stole a red bike from the school.  Grinding my teeth; biting my nails; I scrunched my cold hands up and then…

Roro

Tinana

WAL the moari names for the parts of our bodys

Somilia

WALT write a narrative through the eyes of one of the crew, or robots.

Somalia

From inside of my container I could hear loud noises, the shiny blue  waves crashing against the massive red boat, I could see the captain steering the massive boat so we wouldn't crash.

Ah pirates are coming on their little boat. The smelly pirates threw anchors up on the silver rusty rail and climbed aboard. All the pirates ran in the white doors. Their ran into the kitchen first. A pirate said raise your hands. The chef did. Some pirates tried the soup my beautiful soup.  Then the pirates went to the machinery to turn it off. The machines were as loud as an herd of elephants. When the pirates finished turning the machinery off the people went to the captain and said “ The pirates turned off the machines.” Three pirates came into the captain's cabin.th We need to get your silver robots out. I opened the red roof and came out to fight the pirates. The robots started fighting the pirates and one robot pushed an priate into the shiny blue sea. One robot came into the cabin and tapped on the shoulder of the pirate. The pirate turned around and the robot  said look outside. So the pirates did. The pirate said where  are my crew. The robot said die. The robot took the captain’s hat back and the keys back. The robot gave the captain’s stuff back and the captain had an hot coffee. The captain was driving us all back to home.

The Moa

WALT: to make inferences and interpret information when we read.
The Moa

Sourced from: arbs

This task is about reading to find information and make inferences. Read the article below then answer the questions that follow.

Nobody today has seen a live moa – the bird is extinct.

The things we know about the moa come from accounts left by people who saw it in the past, and from the studies of scientists.

Thousands and thousands of moas have lived and died here, but their bodies have all rotted away long ago. In order to find out how the moa looked and lived, scientists must study the things which are still left – mainly bones.

As well as the bones, people often find little heaps of stones which came from the bird's gizzard. The moa swallowed these stones to help grind up its food. And in very dry parts of New Zealand, people have even found skin and feathers, still stuck to dried-up moa bones.

If you have been to a museum, you may have seen a model of a moa. The model has been built by using all this information as a guide.

Model-building is not very difficult to do. We have lots of moa bones. If you put a set of bones together to make a skeleton, you then have a shape of the bird.

There are places on the bones which show where the muscles should go. You can model the muscles from a plastic material and put them on to the skeleton. Then you put a skin over it.

It is more difficult to find the right sort of feathers. Most models use emu feathers. The moa feathers which have been found look soft and droopy, like emu feathers. But they have more colour than those of the emu – they are golden-brown, with a purple streak down the middle.

Even so, these feathers may be faded. Some early Maori, who were asked about moas, said that they had bright, bright feathers. It may be that the moa was more brightly coloured than the models that you see in the museum.

Source: School Journal, Part 2, No 3, Learning Media, 1982.

Use the text above to answer these questions. Highlight your answer

1. Information about moas comes mainly from

(A)   Studies of dried skin and feathers.

(B)   Scientific studies and records of people's observations.

(C)   Remains found in very dry parts of New Zealand.

(D)   Stories told by early Maori.

(E)   Making visits to museums.

2. What is often found together with moa bones?

(A)   Rotting bodies.

(B)   Skin and feathers.

(C)   Small piles of stones.

(D)   Birds' gizzards.

(E)   Ground-up food.

3. Which is the best description of a 'gizzard'?

(A)   Container for small stones.

(B)   Part of a bird's stomach.

(C)   What is left when a bird dies.

(D)   Part of a moa.

(E)   Part of a bird's digestive system.

4. How is the basic shape of the moa worked out?

(A)   By looking at the places where muscles attach to the bones.

(B)   From making a model out of plastic material.

(C)   By reading accounts left by people who once saw it.

(D)   From examining dried skins and feathers.

(E)   By putting together a complete set of bones.

5. Compared with emu feathers, moa feathers were probably

(A)   Softer and droopier.

(B)   Less colourful.

(C)   Harder and stiffer.

(D)   Faded and streaked.

(E)   Brighter.

6. Why has no living person ever seen a live moa?

I think nobody has seen them because they were extinct long ago. Probably scientists have seen them when they created them.

Thousands and thousands of moas have lived and died here, but their bodies have all rotted away long ago. In order to find out how the moa looked and lived, scientists must study the things which are still left – mainly bones.

7. Why would moa skin and feathers only be found in 'very dry' parts of New Zealand?

In very dry parts of New Zealand, people have even found skin and feathers , still stuck to dried up Moa bones.

8. How do scientists know where the moa's muscles were attached to its skeleton?

There are places on the bones which show where the muscles should go. You can model the muscles from a plastic material and put them on to the skeleton. Then you put a skin over it.