Learning intentions and success criteria for today(12th Dec)

LI: To continue researching and to prepare our outcomes.
SC: To be able to set our own deadlines. 

ELP PART C

My group's cloth designs.
a. My group design.
It's the picture above.

b. A description of what is our group product.
Our group line is basically to stop child labour. Infront of the shirt will be the right hand side of the paper and behind the shirt will be the left hand side one.
c. An explanation of how relates to human rights.
 It relates to human rights because in the United Declaration of Human Rights, Article 4 is "No Slavery" but child slavery is still on and "The Right to not to work under the age of 18" but there are some children below 18 are working and not having an education. 
d. A description of what role you played in the design and production and how you worked as a group.
We are going to design the shirt and hat together. 

Types of Questions

Factual questions

Why are these questions called factual questions?

Because they usually have one answer and it’s true.

What is the difference between the two questions above?

The complication

Write 5 factual questions the topic that we are going to be studying.

1.     How do tsunamis are form?

2.     What hurricanes made of?

3.     Where is the first record tsunami?

4.     Who discovered the first volcano?

 

Interpretive questions

Why are these questions called interpretive questions?

Because they can have more than one answer and must include evidence.

What is the difference between the answers above?

Different evidence

3 interpretive questions

1.     Why do we fear volcanoes?

2.     Why does New York has their first hurricane?

3.    

Evaluative questions

3 evaluative questions

1. Did you achieve your success criteria?

2. What are you doing?

3. What is the hardest part of this learning?


My top tip for asking + answering questions are:

• You have to know about the subject in order to answer them. 
• Develop your questioning and answering skills. 
• It's hard to ask and answer by not using the taboo word. 
• It's hard to make people to say the word
• Hard to come up with question
• Learn new vocabulary
• The more specific your question is, the more exact relevant your answer will be
• You can replace some words for other than be more specific. 

Compare with 2 newspaper article(Learning!)

b. Compare these with your newspaper article.
1. Does your article include these key points?
MOST of them
2. What are the main similarities?
We got the main points.
3. What are the main differences?
We got some data wrong, like instead of billion, we wrote million.
4. Did your group effectively indentify+summarise the articles? Why or why not?
Yes, because we got the main points, even though we got some errors.

C. On your blog answer the 'learning questions'
1. What am I learning while I am doing this?
I am learning how to summarize while doing this.
2. What am I doing?
I am writing a summarized article.
3. What is the hardest part of this learning?
The hardest part of this learning is to concentrate because when I get too excited, I forgotten the information.
4. What do I do if I get stuck?
I will ask the other person to go out in the next round to get the information that I forgot.
5. What makes it easy to learn?
Working in the group
6. How do I know if I am getting it right?
To have confident in this.
7. Why am I learning this?
To summarize an article/passage so that it's easy to understand.

How do we research(note taking)?

LI: To appreciate how to research and summarize
SC:

• To be able to research relevant information.
• To be able to summarize a work that makes it easy to understand
• To be able to learn how to research and summarize.
• To be able to summarize info to make it easy to understand.
• To be able to identify relevant info.

I think note taking is basically reading a passage/work and just jot down the relevant..stuff! I think this is important because it helps to memorize things that is simplified, not memorize the whole thing.

Team role: Researcher for the Dangerous World project

RESEARCHER

Job Description §  Plan the research necessary to complete the task. §  Locate sources of information. §  Decide whether sources are reliable. §  Decide whether sources are useful to a secondary student. §  Pass on relevant sources to your experts/historians. §  Examine information and turn it into useful material for your task. §  Keep a record of where information was found. §  Other:

Personal Skills/Qualities/Knowledge §  Organised and methodical §  Use resources that is accurate by seeing the resource date §  Summarize the info §  Use the words that you think that others will understand §  Do a bibliography to keep track

What team role am I?
I am a researcher because according to the Belbin test, I am a Resource Investigator so it links to this. :) 

Team role that best fits me

I think that I am a coordinator. An example of is when doing the poster, I was making sure that everyone is my group are doing something, a bit like a shaper, but a nicer one(according to Ryan :P)

One problem is that shapers are like the opposite of coordinator. Coordinators ask for advices, while shapers just shout! I can't set my own deadlines! I need to set my own deadline-my goal!

Peer assessment part 4!

Peer Assessment by Josh



Reflection & self evaluation:
a. What have you learnt from the peer assessment?  How can you use this to develop your own learning?  
I had learn that I could have put more empathy in my work from Josh's comment. Empathy is one of the important key in  Humanities, without it, it will be quite difficult to understand the task we are doing.  
b.  What new targets do you need to set yourself?
If I can do this again, I would use Fakewall, like how Josh used because I found it quite useful. It also show lots of empathy, like Facebook. 

Constructive Feedback

LI: To understand what constructive feedback is and how to use it! :D

A
My definition of what constructive feedback is.
Constructive feedback is when you giving advices-things that you like about it and things that can be improved.

Some examples of constructive feedback.
Examples:
Your work is excellent because.........
but then.........

87%
Your work didn't get full marks because you forgot to ......... But your work was well done. 

Good work
Good work ..... but you could improve on....

Iqbal Masih by Zhermaine

Iqbal masih powerpoint zhermaine

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MY HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHT TIMELINE

Empathy....

What are your success criteria?
My success criteria:
1. To know who is Iqbal Masih
2. To know more about his background/story
3. To write a biography about him

Have you achieved them? Yes/no/not really. Why or why not? And evidence?
Yes. This is because i know Iqbal Masih, for example: "he was murdered at the age of 12. He started to work at the age of 4."

Done on my IPad 2.....
Got it 2days ago!!!

The History of Human Rights

Guess:
How long have human rights been around for?
Since 1800.

Learning Triangle:
1 thing I already knew:
<3 Human Rights exist-there are 30 of them.

2 things I don't understand/questions:
<3 the history of human rights(don't really understand)
<3 exact date Human Rights were made

3 things I learnt today
<3 the Cyrus the Great declared Natural law
<3 what the U.N is
<3 Cyrus said that people can choose their own religion.

Timeline
no rights(3000 BC)
Cyrus the Great declared there should be rights-said that people can choose their own religion and slaves are free. (539 BC)
Cyrus Cylinder (539 BC)

The Most Important Rights.....!!

I think the most important right is the right to freedom. This is because without freedom, you won't get a good life, instead you will get tortured.

3 things...

I have learnt from marking other work is
(i)when writing introduction, write a good introduction-begin by going straight to the point
(ii)when writing, write a conclusion.
(iii) use events and changes to link your ideas

If write this asssignment again, I would improve are
(i) write a good introduction and ending with a good conclusion
(ii) use real people to support my ideas.
(iii)give reasons on why the rights I chose were related to the topic. 

Peer assessment

What is Peer Assessment?
It is someone(like your friend, BUT NOT A TEACHER! :P) makes your work. He/She reads your work and give opinions and comments.

Why is it useful?
It is useful because you get opinions from other students,which gives you more ideas to edit your work

Who am I?

Who am I?

I am Zhermaine!! :D As a Humanities student, I always want to have fun learning in Humanities. Humanities is just like geography and history, but it's about humans relate to the world. Ya....

YEAR 9!!!!!!

NOW IT'S THE YEAR 9 STUFF!!!!

Empathy

a) How do you think the boy in the cartoon feels?
--> what emotions? why?
I think the boy in the cartoon feels that he is quite sad because he had been working all day long just to make footballs. He doesn't have any freedom to play, he just keep on making footballs. 

b) What hopes+dreams do you think he has?
I think his dream to play football and to get freedom. He wants to see his friends and have fun with them, but he couldn't

c) What could we do to help?
We could help is giving him some money and maybe parents should do it instead of children. Children have to right to learn and get freedom, not working adult works. We could also stop child labour is donating and support the campaign that stop child labour.

My Slave Diary Entry 5

working in the cotton field

working in the house

Dear Diary,

  OMG!!! Today was a very tiring day. In the early morning about 4 am(are you serious that the sun rises early?!?), my master woke me up and forced to work in the cotton field. Before going in the field, my owner gave me a cold bacon! I can't eat it! I'm a Muslim, but I have no choice. After eating, I straight away go to the field. In the field under the hot blazing sun, I worked and worked and I don't have a break. While working, my neighbor was crying. She told me that his master bit her and used a knife to cut off her ear. It was terrible and I started to worry that my master might do this to me. She also told me that her master will whip her if she didn't work hard enough. Slaves will be branded, stabbed, tarred and feathered(meaning: smeared with tar and then covered with feathers as a punishment), burned, shackled, tortured, maimed, crippled, mutilated and castrated. At 3pm, my master's wife called me in and I started to house work, like mopping the floor. At least this is better than working outside. My owner's wife is kind to me that I could worked while the fan is on. My master is a person who thinks that I'm a dog! That's really mean, I have feelings just like the White people. My master went to work until the evening. 

  When my master came back from work, he chased me out of the house and forced to work in the coffee field. I have to worked on 2 fields each day: the coffee field and the cotton field. After 6 hours working in the field, my master allowed me to continue working in the house. I washed the dishes, mopped the floor and cleaning the room. At 12am, my master sent me to bed. It was really a hard work. Now, I need to sleep. Tomorrow is another hard day.

    

My Slave Diary Entry 4

Dear Diary,

auction

auction

   








It was a long trip, from Africa all the way to America. It was very smelly, sweat and urgh…it just stinks! Lots of us died on the way. Most of us got punished when we talk or sing! We love singing when we worked, but the White people wouldn’t allow. :@.After that long trip, we have arrived America. What a big country it is. I always want to travel America, a great thing to experience. But, here I am a slave. Those white people brought us to a room where we’re going to be coated with oil, to make us look shiny and healthy, so that the White people won’t see any scars or white patches. It hurts a lot. Then, we were thrown into a big cage and I realised it was in an auction. It was full of White and White people! They were going to sell us! I don’t want to leave my friends. :( That’s not fair! After a while, I was sold to a woman. So, I was in a carriage, but it was not sitting in a carriage. It was standing in the back of the carriage. The White people were being mean to us! I wished I could run away, but I can't. As being slaves, we have a law. This law is very serious one. It includes the rule when we're trying to run away, we will be branded with a iron. I wish my owners are nice to me. I'm going to have a busy day tomorrow, from early morning to take care of the cotton field and worked as a maid in the afternoon. So, I better get some sleep.

 

 

My Slave Diary Entry 3

in the boat-the white people are being mean to us

Dear Diary,

   I was right. My sister and I were separated. I was chained up, from head to toe. I was with some of friends, but most of them were males. It was smelly, and disgusting (urgh!). After a while, I was unchained, but my friends and I have to break our thumbs. I was really scared but that’s was they wanted to do. We screamed but failed again. Luckily, I don’t have to break my thumbs, but going to send the captain. I am going to be sent to the captain after dinner. Meanwhile, the males have to exercise, but the workers on the ship threw water at them. They threw water at the scars. It hurts because they’ve been hit a lot.  Some of them cried and some screamed.

  Below the deck, the stench is making me sick that I wanted to die. Some of them died and they were thrown into the sea full with sharks. At dinner, it was terrible. The food was just white stickiness, look like sticky rice. It tastes terrible. After dinner, that stupid first mate just unchained me and pulled me to the Captain’s room. The Captain was furious that the first mate brought me here. After that, he left the room so in the room only the Captain and me. He asked me questions but I am not dared to answer them. He seemed to look nice, unlike the First Mate. I was scared that I couldn’t even speak. After that, the Captain called the first mate to bring me back to the deck.Urgh…Everything in the boat is terrible!! :@

My Slave Diary Entry 2

Dear Diary,

   Today was creepy. My sister and I left to mind the house. Suddenly, two men and a woman came up from nowhere, trying to capture us. We ran and ran, even though we were so tired. We ran until we came into a land where nobody was there, but surrounded by those people that were chasing us.

   We tried to scream for help, but we failed. Those people whipped us and we both felt back. Quickly, they stuffed both of us into a sack each. We were far away apart and I bet that our parents are going to so worried that we’re missing. I was really scared. I have no way but following the road that I am going-to be captured.

Aduor

My Slave Diary Entry 1

peaceful life in Africa

Dear Diary,

    Today was great! Life is peaceful and just…great! Even though our family is poor, we still in a community and help each other. My daily life was just taking care of the animals, especially the goats. That’s how we get our food from-hunting, fishing. We can’t plant vegetables and fruits because of the weather. The weather in Ghana is in December to February is the dry season. The temperature is day temperature is 27-36^oC and in night temperature is 18-26^oC. The hottest dry season is in July and August. The rainy season is from April to June, which shows that this weather is not good for planting plants. We don’t wear clothes like in other countries. We just wear a long piece of calico, wrapped around our body.

     I am really happy that I got a life being simple, even though we are poor.

     Today, my parents sent my sister and me to a teacher that I have to dance for the boys who are becoming men. I think that I have to propose for them for marriage. Oh well, I have not idea but it’s fun.

 

     After practising our dance moves, we went to a land and perform in front the men. After that, my parents show my sister and me to a house that they created for us. I was really happy.

Aduor          

British Empire Group Poster

The Questions :)


1.What was the key focus of this learning opportunity?
The key focus was about the British Empire, showing an example of Australia ( that was my group did :) )


2.How did you work as a group?


(i)Did you allocate specific roles?  Why?  How? 
    Yes, I help to design the poster. Haniza and Zoe did their research and Ubennyah find pictures to go with the poster. 


(ii) Did everyone work well?
    Yes, everyone had contributed.


(iii) Do you think you worked as a team? Why or why not?
      Yes, because we worked together to finish the poster and looked as we expected.


(iv) Did you achieve your group success criteria?
     Not really. 
    


3. What could your group have done to develop your teamwork skills?
 Some of us, like Ubennyah, had finished her work and helped each other and help each other in my group. This shows that helping each other showed some teamwork skills. 


4. What did you learn from this learning opportunity?  This may be about the topic, or about yourself as a learner.
 I learned about how British Empire used the land in Australia, what benefits they get from Australia, and the history of Australia.


5. What value did this learning have?
  I love Australia a lot. Learning about the history of Australia sparks my interest and interests me a lot. 


6. What could you do to improve your learning? 
   To improve my learning, I should do my own study about Australia so that I know about more about the history of Australia.

Actively Listening(Brazil a Land of Contrast) question 3 and 4

3. Answer question 7a, b,c,d as fully as you can.

4. a) How can this task help develop your learning?

    b) What targets could you set to develop you learning?

3) 7. Answer the following questions thinking about what it was like doing the task.

    a) Was your drawing good (accurate)?

        It was good, but it's not accurate because I didn't know that there is a house or building in the middle.

   b) Was your partner drawing good (accurate)?

        It was good, but it's not accurate too because I didn't describe well for her to draw the picture out.

   c) Did you find it easy to describe you picture?

      No, because I didn't further using the descriptive words, like density population. I just use "shallow"  

      words.

   d) Did you find it easier to listen(draw) or describe? Why?

       I find to listen(draw) easier than describing because my partner uses descriptive words that I could

       understand and easier for me to draw it out.

4. a) How can this task help develop your learning?

        This task could help me to learn how to describe a picture using descriptive words. 

    b) What targets could you set to develop you learning?

         The targets that I would set myself are:

         >o< using descriptive words

         >o< looking into further details in the future to be able get descriptive words.

Actively Listening(Brazil a Land of Contrast) question 1 and 2

1. Explain what this task "actively listening is. What did you have to do? What skills did you use? How?

2. Upload a scan of you picture and copy of the original.

1. This task is about drawing a picture that our partner that is describing, then our partner will draw what are we describing. The skills that we have to use are listening and describing because we need to listen what our partner is describing and describing so that our partner could listen and draw the picture. 

<-- the original                  the picture that I drew-->                                                                                                                 

ELP Reflection

I think I am currently at Describe and Explain in the IDEAL mountain.
My 3 targets for development are:
(i) explain what the a sustainable city should include
(ii) be able to use evidence to support my explanation
(iii)be able to appreciate how human change and affect the environment

Year 8 trip(day 3)

  Today is the last day for our trip. Before we left, we made our sculpture. We used materials on the beach and use them to make a scuplture.

Some pictures of our turtle

Year 8 trip(day 2)

Day 2:

  At 7am, my friends and I woke up by our awesome teacher Ms Suzy. After we had changed, we went for breakfast. Just like yesterday, we had a spectacular breakfast. Then, it was time to leave Bukit Tinggi and travel to Cherating. It was a long drive, it was 3 hours. Most of us in the bus slept since it was a long journey. After we had arrived,we were happy that we had arrived. Instead of having a buffet lunch, we had  packed lunch. While I was getting my lunch, it was started to rain heavily. We were dashing back to the hotel and luckily we were not soaking wet. We had an enjoyable lunch. Then, we went to our rooms.After that, we went to the Cherating Beach. The scene was fantastic. I loved the sound of the waves and the soft sand. Then, we learned about the waves. There are 2 main types of waves, one is called constructive waves and another is called deconstructive waves. In Cherating Beach, the type of wave is called deconstructive wave. Here is a picture of what I learned about deconstructive wave:

Year 8 trip(day 1)

  On 8th March to 10th of March, we went to Bukit Tinggi and Cherating for school trip. It was awesome.
Here is what we did:

8th March(Tuesday)                                                                
  At 8.30am, we hopped on the bus. We reached Bukit Tinggi around 10.30 am. When we reached there, we went to the reception. We were still happy even though it's drizzling. Instead we checked in our hotel, we went to a room where we learned about the types of shots taken in movies, magazines and more. It took about 1 hour to learn. It was interesting. Then, we checked in our hotel. Some of us had troubled finding our rooms and we are really far apart from each other. So, the teachers decided that they are going to change our rooms so that we can close to each other. Then, we had lunch. Lunch was fantastic. The food was delicious! There were laughter and joy while we were eating. Next, we walked to a man-made water playground where we did cool stuffs, like rope crossing. My favourite part what I did was rope crossing because I didn't know that I could walked across the river by holding the rope and walked on the rope. After we had done doing the activities, we made a raft. After we had done making it, we had a race! It was a fun experience. Guess which team won? My team won! Then, we went back to our hotel to get change. When my friends went to our hotel, it was really cosy, it was almost like home. But surprisingly, there wasn't any electricity. Luckily, our teacher Ms Suzy, called someone to fix it! After a while, the guy came and fixed it, it only take about 5 seconds!

  After we get change, we went for dinner. Dinner was fantastic too! After we had dinner, we went back to the room that we met in the morning to have a fun quiz! At 10pm, we went back to our room and slept.