Melodrama

Last week drama started, we are focusing on melodrama. Melodrama is a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and thrilling events intended to appeal to the emotions. The genre for melodrama is history. 

            

What is a Theatre Green Room? 

In show business the Green Room is a space that's a waiting room and lounge for performers before, during and after a performance or show when they aren't engaged on stage. But the origin of the term often ascribed to such rooms historically being painted green.

What is a Proscenium Arch Theatre?

A Proscenium is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, generally surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch, on the bottom by the stage floor itself which serves as the frame into which the audience observes from a more or less... 

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Kiwi Baker - Chocolate Chip Cookies

Last Tuesday for Home Economics we made Chocolate Chip Cookies. The ingredients for making our chocolate chip cookies were White Sugar, Brown Sugar, Flour, Egg, Salt, Butter, Vanilla Essence, Baking Powder and Chocolate chips. 

First we had to collect the ingredients and equipment needed for making the cookies. We melted to butter and creamed it together adding both sugars. Well creaming the mixture we combined all the dry ingredients into another bowl. Once the mixture was fully creamed we added the egg and vanilla essence. Then we mixed the wet and dry ingredients together. After mixing the ingredients together we rolled them out on the baking tray, making sure they were even. After they were done in the oven, we moved them to a wired rack to slightly cool down. Minutes later my group tasted them, they were delicious. 

Here's our Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Kiwi Baker - Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Last week on Tuesday for Home Economics we made Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins. We baked Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins as a starter back into home economics. Every groups recipe was different in some way expect my groups was the normal recipe. Some groups didn't add egg or added brown sugar instead of normal white sugar etc. The muffins turned out beautifully. I tried a muffin but I didn't like it as I don't even like banana cake. The other groups muffins turned out well consider there's was changed in some way.  

Table Tennis, Juggling, Just Dance

In PE for the past 3 weeks we have been doing Table Tennis and Juggling. In Table Tennis we were learning the basics of how to play and trying to hit the ball continuously 20 times. In Juggling we were learning how to juggle properly with one hand and both hands. But last week we were allowed to do some just dance and there was about 10 of us that did that. We did Rasputin, Vodovorot, Kill this love, Whip nae nae, Juju on that beat, Airplanes, We got the power and Footloose. These dances were a lot fun and especially when doing it with my friends. 

In Table Tennis you have to have great coordination and at first mine wasn't that good then I started getting better as I played more. For Juggling you have to have great coordination. When I started juggling mine wasn't good and to this day I'm still working on it for Juggling. For Just Dance you need coordination and mine was really good but a couples of times my left and rights got mixed up. 

   

Hello, and goodbye poem

For Wananga our class has been working on a poem called hello and goodbye. This poem is about saying hello to something and goodbye to something. We were saying goodbye to our Covid-19 lives in lockdown and saying hello to normality. This poem will have helped people move on from lockdown and leap back into normality. 

Here's my Hello, and goodbye poem: 

Hello to Mum waking me up in the mornings 

Goodbye to having sleep ins in the mornings 

Hello to seeing people in reality

Goodbye to google meets 

Hello to making school lunches 

Goodbye to making home cooked lunches 

Hello to the netball girlieees

Goodbye to netball in the driveway 

Hello to normality and freedom 

Goodbye to lockdown   

Life in the middle ages

In social studies we have been learning about the black death. This week my task was to complete life in the middle ages. Life in the middle ages had a king, nobles, lords, knights, vassals, peasants, serfs and farmers.

Here's a question I had to research: 

What is the difference between a pandemic and epidemic?

An epidemic is a disease that affects a huge number of people within a community, population or region and a pandemic is a deadly disease that can be spread worldwide. For example Covid-19 is a pandemic as it is a deadly disease being spread worldwide.

 

Theses were the key words for life in the middle ages:

Clergy: Someone appointed to take charge of religious duties 

Lord: A man of noble (Rich) rank, also known as nobleman 

Peasants: A poor farmer who owns little or nothing

Village: An area where peasants live usually farming areas away from towns or cities 

Here's a medieval society pyramid: 

What I thought life was like in the middle ages:

Life in the middle ages looked like absolutely hard work for the peasants, serfs and farmers who worked the land to grow crops. The peasants, serfs and farmers lived in a small village with no bed to sleep on at nighttime. The serfs were the slaves of the village for the lords. The peasants and serfs were very religious and believed their faith could take them to a better world. The knights had an awesome privilege to ride horses and work for the lords.

What life was actually like in the middle ages:

The majority living during the middle ages lived in the country working as farmers. Generally there was a lord who lived in a large house called a manor or a castle. The peasants and serfs worked the land for the lord, they were called the lords “villeins” which is a servant. In the early middle ages under the feudal system life for the peasants, serfs and farmers was hard. Even in the later middle ages the peasants, serfs and farmers life was still hard. Their village was made of wattle and daub with a thatch roof but no windows, also they had no beds. The peasants and serfs were very religious and believed their faith could take them to a better world.

The Cardio Respiratory System

Today for PE my task was to complete a slideshow about The Cardio Respiratory System. The Cardio Respiratory System is made up of the heart, lungs and blood vessels that are responsible for circulating oxygen and carbon dioxide around the body. 

Here's 2 questions I had to research:

What are the three major cell types that you would find in the blood? 

Red Blood Cells

White Blood Cells

Platelets 

What is there purpose?

Red blood cells carries oxygen and removes the carbon dioxide from your body, transporting it to the lungs for you to exhale. Red blood cells are made in the bone marrow. 

White blood cells are an important part of the immune system. These cells help you fight infections by attacking bacteria, viruses and germs that invade the body. White blood cells originate in the bone marrow but circulate throughout the bloodstream. 

Platelets are tiny blood cells that help your body from clots to stop bleeding. If a blood vessel gets damaged, it sends out signals to the platelets. The platelets rush to the site of damage and they form a clot to fix the damage. 

Here's my slideshow about The Cardio Respiratory System: