Self Directed Learning Goals

Last week for our self directed learning goal I had chosen the goal "Ask for feedback when I am done." I said before that I would do this by asking for someone to proofread my work and leave comments on what I should do next. Currently I think I am still working on this as I still haven't asked many people for help whenever I finish.

Athletics

For the past few weeks we were working on athletics and preparing for the day. We learnt a lot of things, some which were new and some that we practiced to work on to become better. At the start of the unit I thought it wouldn't be that fun but as we went on it became really fun. I especially liked using the javelin because we had to throw the javelin and it was also our first time using it. Some skills I learnt were how to throw the javelin properly and how to do a proper run up, how to use the sprint blocks properly, how to perfect the triple jump ( which i didn't actually perfect). On the day of athletics I sadly wasn't able to compete because I volunteered to help out with shot put. I was able to see my classmates and friends do their choices, I saw a lot of races which was entertaining to watch. I wasn't able to get my results as I didn't do anything for athletics but it was still a fun day. I really liked how when we were training we were able to go into small groups and practice with friends who might've had the same skills as me. It was also fun to learn how to use a javelin properly and also be able to throw the javelin. If I had a choice to do athletics again I probably would. 

Iqbal's Human Rights

Iqbal’s human rights were lost when his parents sent him off to pay a debt. At the age of four Iqbal was placed into a bonded labour program. He was sold off towards a master which took away his freedom, a human right that everyone should have. This affected him negatively as he wasn’t able to do as he wished and held against his will to pay off his parent's debt.  Sent to a carpenter, Iqbal was forced to make expensive carpets for foreigners to buy. Because his hands were small and he worked fast he was forced to create the hardest designs that were set out. He later found out later that his debt never ended and he was going to work forever. His rights were taken away from him because he was sent off to a master to forcibly work. This made Iqbal change for the better as soon after he had started learning about his human rights after he had escaped a carpet factory. Iqbal’s rights were taken away from the moment he was given away. Iqbal’s human rights were taken away from him as a child because of his parents. This is also likely why Iqbal fought to stop child labour and bonded labour.

Richard Pearse Fact File

Name: Richard William Pearse

Date Of Birth: 3 December 1877

Nationality: New Zealand

Occupation: Aviator 

Date Of Death: 29 July 1953

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Facts

Richard Pearse Never Married.

He was sent to a mental hospital when he became very paranoid

There was a debate whether or not Pearse was actually the first person to fly a plane because of the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers were the first people to record and share their experience of creating a plane.

Richard pearse was said to be ahead of his time because he added motorised engines in his plane so that it could run further than someone having to do too much.

During his life Richard faced a lot of hardships involving his planes. First he criticised if he actually was the first person to create a plane because he never recorded his flights. He also never tried to brag about his works because he was a modest man, this is also why he was always told that he wasn’t the first to create the first planes. He overcame this by not talking about his studies to anyone and talking it upon himself to create the plane all by himself. He flew in public so if people wanted to watch they could.

Creative Writing

Figurative Language

Figurative Language

Figurative language is a figure of speech that show to be more effective persuasive and give a bigger impact. It uses speech like metaphors and similes to give other meaning different to the literal meaning of the words to give more details and ideas.

Literal Language

Literal language is a figure of speech that shows the literal or general idea of the word. 

Simile - 'As' or 'like' in a sentence to describe an unrealistic view.

Metaphor - A metaphor is comparing something as something else without using the words'like' or 'as'

Idiom -  Word or phrase with a meaning different from the literal meaning.

Alliteration - Words starting with the same letter to create a sentence.

Hyperbole - Exaggerating something in a sentence

Personification - Something that isn't human is given human characteristics.

Onomatopoeia - A word that is usually gives off a sound.

Assonance - When two or more words have the same vowel in the same place of a word but have different consonants.

Consonance - The same sound being used again and again.

Examples

Simile 

She was as fast as a cheetah

He was like Einstein, extremely smart.

They looked Like Twins, instead they were cousins.

Metaphor 

He was the black sheep of the family.

She was so fast at math's that she was called a human calculator.

The man was a angry bear at work.

Idiom 

We walked outside and we walked into oven.
She looked at me with a certain glint in her eyes. 
It was a piece of cake.

Alliteration

She slipped soundlessly on some slimy pickles 

Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

She sells seashells by the seashore. 

Hyperbole

I hadn't seen her in forever

She was like a machine when she cooked.

I had almost died when I was falling.

Personification

The sun was smiling brightly towards me.
The wind was breathing down my back.
The sky was angry, as it was roaring with anger.

Onomatopoeia

Boom! the building had blown up.

Pow! the robber was punched to the 

Bang! The gunshot rung through the air as he kneeled down in pain.

Assonance

He sees me walking home tonight.
Twice in the high night.
The trees shook three times towards Teena.

Consonance

The black sack is in the back.
Toss the glass, boss
let the boy try along his bayonet blade.

Self Directed Learning Goal

Last week for our self directed learning goals I had picked the goal "Ask for feedback when I am done." I said I would do this by asking someone to read or look at my work and then ask for their opinion. This week I want to keep this as my goal because last week we were doing PATs so I wasn't able to work towards my goal. This week I should be able to get towards making this goal green before the end of the term.

Richard Pearse Timeline

1877- 3 December 1877 Richard William Pearse was born. He was born in Waitohi flat, Temuka. He was one out of nine children that his parents had. Richards father was a farmer while his mother's job was unknown. His family was cultured with music as they were an orchestra, Richard played the cello

1898 - Instead of going to study engineering in Canterbury college, his parents had given him use of a nearby 100-acre farm block as they couldn’t afford to send him to college. He built a workshop on the land, designed his own forge and lathe. He spent most of his time inventing gadgets

1899 - There was evidence that he was looking into ideas for powered flight.

1902 - His first patented invention was a new form of bicycle, though it wasn’t his interest. He was very interested in creating something that could fly instead of something that worked on land. Through Scientific American he was keeping touch with what inventions were made overseas. He had also built his first two-cylinder petrol engine. Using bamboo, tubular steel, wire and canvas he had built a monoplane. It resembled a modern Micro-light with its appearance. In that same year he had made his first public flight attempt down Main Waitohi Road. Around 50 Meters he had crashed on top of his own gorse fence even though no details were recorded. Later he had written that he did not achieve proper flight and also didn’t beat the american Orville brothers who had flown on 17 December 1903

1903 - Eyewitnesses testimonies that on march 31st was his first attempt at flying. He kept trying, achieving many further powered take offs or long hops which were all witnessed. None matched the description of a true flight.

1906 - He had patented his aircraft to be able to fly further. His first aircraft was a monoplane with wing flaps and a tricycle undercarriage with a steerable nose wheel and a propeller with variable-pitch blades driven by a petrol engine.

1911 - He had shifted to South Otago when he had failed as a farmer and was treated unkindly by most of his neighbours. He harmed at Loudens Gully near Milton. There he thought of original farm equipment.

1917 - Richard was conscripted into the Otago Infantry in May.

1918 - He was sent overseas in January but illness had prevented him from seeing any action and he returned to New Zealand in October later that year.

1921 - Pearse had moved to Christchurch where he had built three houses.

1930 - In a garage workshop in the house in Woolston he had set out to create his second aircraft, which was his Utility Plane.

1943 - He applied for a patent and it was approved in 1949. Constructed in absolute secrecy, Pearse’s plane had some of the main features of the Harrier jump jet, a tilting engine to allow for vertical take-off and landing. Airplane companies didn’t show that much interest and Pearse became bitter. 

1951 - He became increasingly paranoid and was admitted into Sunnyside Mental Hospital.

1953 - On the 29th of July Richard William Pearse passed away due to a heart attack, he had never married.