Reflection Section

Text Title: Harriet

Text Type: Film/Trailer 

Text Creator: Kase Lemmons 

Link to Trailer

Text Purpose: To show that slavery is wrong and that is should have never been a thing. 

Date:  26th of February 2021

Matrix Question: What does the Author of the text want us to know?

Statement: In this text you see a sad miserable people of colour being slaved around by white people. The author wants us to know that under any circumstance slavery is not ok and should be punished for. The author also want us to know that we should all be treated equal and there should be no difference between us because were all humans. 

Section Summary:

Text Title: Boogie 

Text Type: Movie/Film Trailer 

Boogie Trailer Link

Text Creator: Eddie Huang 

Text Purpose: To understand racism is happening and really needs to stop.

Date: 19 h of February 2021

Matrix Question: What is the text about? How do we know 

Statement: In the film Boogie directed by Eddie Huang it suggests and is based around racism and how it can effect peoples life's. it also touches on how just because of your race you cant have the same opportunities than others.  

In the trailer you can see a young Asian boy wanting to pursue his dreams of becoming a basketball player but because of his race a lot of people choose not to let him play. Even coaches are being stereotypes and not letting him join its in my opinion idiotic. Racism is still a problem in today's world and it really needs to stop. I breaks my heart seeing people with colour or a different race being treated differently. This movie really shows racism because you can see a young boy just wanting to become an athlete but is being stopped because of something he cant change.

Summer Holidays

"Ahhh!!!  It's finalllllyyyyy Christmas" I screamed in excitement. I felt like I was in heaven, I walked out and rushed over to my overly packed stocking. Most of the things inside were lollies and little petite toys. After ripping my stocking open I rushed to wake everyone up. I started with my Mum then my two older brothers. They all slowly stumbled over to the presents "To be fair it was like 8 in the morning". We spent the last hour nervously opening our presents it wasn't till the end where I got my pride and joy. My mum presented to me a card with my name on it which had the following words "head to the car and look whats inside". All I could remember was feeling so sick because of how nervous I was to see what was inside. I slowly approached the car and with my shaky hands I opened the car door. To then see my pride and joy my scooter an envy one s3, I jumped up and down with pure happiness and excitement and felt as if I was on cloud 9. 

It was finally the day the day I have been waiting for the day I can finally ride my scooter at the skate park. I was so nervous and shaky inside to even go let alone attempt anything. But I knew if I didn't go I'd regret it and have to wait longer because of weather purposes. I packed my things up and headed out the door and wandered to the skate park. Where I was accompanied by my two mates how got me into scootering in the first place. 

Health- Sexism in sports:

 Sexism In Sports:

In health we were asked to research something of our choice I choose to do sexism in sports. I also decided to draw a picture representing this. 

Heres my research and questions: 

When and why does this occur?

People still to this day continue to be sexist when it comes to sport especially towards women and girls. For example at every olympics the decathlon was held ever since 1912 but still to this day only Men can compete. Sexism could happen anytime any place as sad as it is; it is really common in today's era of time. It can also happen to anyone any gender but it is more common for Women and Girls to get insulted/verbally abused. For example champion tennis player Serena Williams was verbally abused about her appearance for literally no reason. 

How is Football/Soccer involved with this topic?

In basically every sport sexism is a problem and needs to be stopped. An example of a sport is Football/Soccer which is surprisingly high with sexsim being one of the top sports dealing with it. Even with the amount of hate and sexism football gets in general it's even worse when it comes to the women side of it. In many games a lot of people hate and criticise players just out of frustration which personally is not mature. The football/soccer crowds go mad and crazy at the players. Even if they make a small mistake crowds tend to get aggressive towards the players calling them names and just criticising them. People like to claim football/soccer crowds to be one of the most toxic sports supporters ever but that's only an accusation. 

How does gender relate to your topic?

Gender relates to sexim because many people claim it's a men/boys sport and that women/girls shouldn’t play for many reasons like they just ain’t strong enough. When it comes to women football many compare them against men football. People claim that women football teams are useless and not as entertaining. Even when missing a goal by mistake crowds go crazy and start to criticize anything they can whether it be appearance or even skill. Another reason is the pay ratio, many women football teams are now utterly frustrated that men get paid a lot more. They are now trying to get their rights back and sue to the point where they are at equal pay. Because a lot of women athletes are having to have part times jobs just to live comfortably. So gender relates to sexim because a lot of sexim is more towards one gender than the other.  Gender study finds that upto 90% of Men and Women are biased/against women and that is just in general let alone in sports. 

What influences people to be sexist in sports?

Many people stereotype and have opinions on sports that may be different to yours. Some reason on why people may be sexist in sports is that they may have been brought up in a way where genuinely boys/men play sports. So they could be brainwashed to think a certain way and that can cause them to criticise women playing which is not right at all. Another reason could be the physical or biological differences between the 2 genders which personally I think is childish, just because they don't have the same physical features doesn’t mean that they can't play or join in. Like there are many and I mean many girl athletes that slay and work just as hard as men and are just incredible at what they do. Even if you aren’t the same doesn’t mean you can do just as good as others for instance with football the U.S women's team do just as good as most of the men football teams. That's just one of many reasons why girls can do just as good or even more than boys/men.

What needs to change?

Personally I think that people just need to generalize sports and make it acceptable to any genders to play. I know sexim and hate is more how people think towards others but I feel as if people should realise everyone is equal to the same rights and that girls can do just as much as guys can and the same goes with men to women. Sexim happens everywhere, an example of this is school and that's my next point. I feel as if teachers should teach kids that girls and boys have the same abilities and that they can both be as good as each other to hopefully decrease sexim from happening to students at young ages. Because a lot of athletes from young ages that experience sexim tend to just give up when they are incredible at what they do. What needs to change is the rules for sports so everyone/gender is equal and no one can get mad that the “boys” rules are more unfair and harsh. I also think they should equal the pay for girls/women because many women athletes are having to work a part time job just to live comfortably. Whereas men athletes sit comfortable with the pay they access. 

Heres my drawing:

English: Among Us Ad

 LO: Create an ad

We were asked to create an ad and use two different persuasive language features. The two persuasive language features I used was Personal Pronouns and Logic. 

DTE: Reflection

Dte: Reflection

This term we’ve been working on a big project that involves a digital robot called “Sphero”. Sphero is a bluetooth device that can be controlled when connected to an ipad (sort of like a Remote control race car). With this project we decided to design a spooky maze filled with obstacles for the robot to go through. Some of the obstacles include scary Ghost,Snakes,Sharks and even Imposters from the game Among Us and much more.

Our original idea for our project was to make a cardboard maze and use play dough and crafts to make different obstacles for the Sphero. We soon found out that this would take up a lot of time and materials that we don’t have, instead we have drawn up a basic path for the Sphero to go through. We still will have obstacles like snakes, sharks and lava but we would have to draw them. I think our theme of the Indiana Jones type of thing still stands.

Each period we logged what we did.

Period 1 

We spent that time planning and coming up with ideas for our project. That included the theme equipment and ect. 

Period 2

We spent most of period 2 finishing up our planning and finding a large enough paper to start our sketching of our maze

Period 3 we finished off our sketch of our maze and started to clean up the lines and make it as straight as we can

Period 4

We used most of this period cleaning up our sketch and doing further research and ideas.

Period 5

For this period we then started to look at our obstacles that we are going to include. We looked at our maze and set out where every obstacle is going to take place and start to draw it out. 

Period 6 - Now

We have now continued to finish off drawing our Spooky obstacles and coding the sphero through our maze.

With our project I think that we did pretty well, we were able to get most of our drawing done on the maze and some of the coding. Not gonna lie the coding was the hardest part for us but we started some of it. Next time I recommend we spend more time focusing on coding the sphero than drawing the maze up. But apart from that i feel like our project went well and we did pretty good.

Class Treaty Reflection

 Class Treaty Reflection:

This term in Social Studies we have been learning about the treaty of Waitangi and how it was important.

So we set out a mission for us as a class to make our own treaty and have rules that are fair for everyone involved. We first set off in 3 groups to make our own rules. After listing all the rules in our mini groups we then formed all together to agree on what rules we should make official on our treaty. At first it was a bit crazy and loud with everyone talking over each other so we had to make a plan. We came up with the idea of having a leader and 1 person from each group going over by them self and choice which rules to use or not. After the leaders were done they come over to the rest of the class to see if everyone agreed to the rules. I feel like making this treaty was hard at first but after making a plan it was really easy and i'm happy everyone agreed and was fine with the rules.