Character Profile

LI: To describe your favourite online gaming character.

For this task we had to create our own character using the make fortnite skins site. After creating the character we made a detailed description about our character . I enjoyed this task because I found really fun to customize my own skin.

Cinquain

LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe a sports star

 We have been learning to write cinquain poems to help us strengthen our connections to description. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun.

I enjoyed this activity because I learnt new words like ruler.

Screenplay

 This week for writing we had to write a screen play about our narrative. 

A screenplay is story written in spoken parts only. 

When writing a screenplay the characters name has to be all in caps(ABC). 

The name of the character has to be centre aligned. 

You have to write what the character said under their names so the actor knows what to say. 

It's important to know how to write a screenplay because if the actor doesn't understand it the film might be bad.

Narrative

 

This week we learn how to plan narrative. We first recapped what a narrative is and the structure of a narrative. A narrative is a fictional(made up) story and the structure if a recount is T.O.P.E.S . T.O.P.E.S stands for (title, orientation, problem, events and solution). 

The orientation has to show who,when,where and what. The problem is the main conflict that the main character has to attempt to resolve. The events shows what happens to the character as they complete step to solving the problem. The solution shows what happens to the characters while they attempt the final steps to resolving the problem.

LI: To write a short narrative 

Informal & formal language

What is informal and formal? Formality tells people when to use formal and informal language.

Formal is when times when rules and politeness need to be followed. An example of formal language: "Greeting my name is Oliver, would like to go down town and get some coffee ? ".

Informal is when times when rules are pointless and don't have to followed. An example of informal language: "Sup bro, wanna play some basketball on the court with the boys ".

LI: To identify informal and formal situations and language.

 

Recount

What is a recount?

A recount is to retell something that happened in the past. A structure of recount is TREE ( Title, reveal, events and ending).

The language that is used while doing a recount is 1st person such as I , me , my , myself and mine.

On a google doc we had to write recount of one regular day in a week. 

Then we had to plan the events, the title, reveal and the ending which is the reflection.

The were four events before school, at school, after school, and after dinner.

After that I started to write my recount about my Friday routine. Some of the things I do are playing games and watching YouTube on my TV.

Rewriting a Narrative

LI: To rewrite a narrative

Rewriting is where you take a small part of story and change using your ideas. The three things that you change is the character, where the character lives and the Gruffalos favourite thing to eat. 

The part I changed was the fox scene. I changed the fox to a tiger because they are both predators. 
I made tiger live in a cave because caves are cold and tigers love cold temperature places. Lastly I made the Gruffalos favourite food tiger bolognese.

   

Simile

A simile is a comparison of two thing using 'like', or and 'as...as'. A simile is part of figurative language.

The like simile is used with a verb. Examples using like:

The elephant toothpaste exploded like a volcano.
Oscar swims like a dolphin.
The couple danced like fire.

The as....as is used with an adjective. Examples using as....as:

The man's muscles are as big as an elephant.
The man is as smart as Albert Einstein.
Kahu is as small as a mouse.

Similes help people compare two things in a more detailed way.

L.I- To learn what is simile.

Identifying punctuation

For writing we had to do 2 task.

The overall task was to identify and use punctuation in sentences.

The first task was identifying punctuation. I moved the correct symbols and sentences that matched the punctuation.

The second task was trying to use all of the punctuation in as few sentences as we could. I had six sentences using all of the punctuation.

I found all of these task very interesting because now I know how to use all punctuation when i'm writing.

LI. To identify the correct use of different punctuation

Procedural text | Writing

For writing we learnt about procedural text.

We first looked at different procedural text types like cooking and baking.

The structure of a recount is TEMPS (Title, End result, Material, Pictures and Steps).

I first broke my task into steps. My task was to make sandwich.

Next I used verbs in the beginning of every step. The verbs I used  were specific to the action.

Then I finish off  writing all my steps. In a step you only use third person or second person.

After that I used pictures that matched each step.

Lastly, I wrote a list of ingredients so you know what you need in this sandwich.

Adverb

What is an adverb?

A adverb is a word that gives more information about an action(verb).

Adverb also help answer to how, where, when and to what extent questions. Many adverbs describe verbs by telling how an action happens like peacefully. A sentence using peacefully: David was meditating peacefully.

Many adverbs end with L & Y. For example the word peacefully. Peace is an adjective that can describe a nouns but when you want to describe a verb,  people often use L & Y at the end to create an adverb.

Adverbs also describe when or how something happens like these words now, then, tomorrow, always and never. You can use these words to describe a verb and a adjective like walking or always.  Sentence: Yesterday I was walking to the shop.

Words such as outside, here, there, up and down can be used as adverbs to tell where something happens. Sentence:  The twin girls were playing outside.

These words barley, almost, very and extremely these adverbs can describe verbs like almost crying and they can modify adjectives like extremely cold. Sentence: Oscar was extremely cold.

Conclusion: Adverbs can help revive boring sentences.

LI: To learn about adverbs