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Friday, 4 June 2021

English - Freedom Writers

 Unpacking themes and ideas.

Theme/Idea - the ideas the story centers around. - message we are trying to convey to the audience.

Tolerance - the quality of allowing other people to have their own attitudes, beliefs, or to behave in a particular way, even if we don't agree or approve.   

Overcoming Adversity - Pushing past/getting through something difficult or dangerous.  

The students don't respect or have a relationship with their teacher. They don't understand each other. They drew a racist picture of Jamal. The students yell at the teachers, face different directions, tell her they don't give her respect.

Andre - "why should I give my respect to you? Because you're a teacher? I don't know you. How do I know you're not a liar standing up there" 

They aren't in a headspace to learn because they don't feel safe-bring guns to school, mock each other, no tolerance for each other. Marcus - " Lady, I'm lucky if I make it to 18, we in a war! We graduating every day we live because we ain't afraid to die protecting our own"


Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Freedom Writters

Anne Frank-Jewish kid Anne frank was a little girl who hid from the Nazis during world war 2. She wrote in her diary every day and was later found dead.


The diary of Anne Frank-Anne Frank wrote a diary while she was hiding for 2 years from Nazi took over Germany.


Holocaust-The holocaust is the killing of many jews.


Miep Gies-Miep Gies was a dutch citezen who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis. 


Monday, 12 April 2021

Maths - Mead, Meadian, and Mode

 Writing a blog post explaining what mean, median, and mode mean. 


 

Mean-The mean is the average of the numbers. It is easy to calculate: add up all the numbers, then divide by how many numbers there are. In other words, it is the sum divided by the count.

Identify - 10 + 10 + 10 = 30 divide by 3 = 10.

 This means 10 is the means  

when was it invented - The Belgian statistician Quetelet (1796-1874), famous as the inventor of l'homme moyen, the average man, was one of the first scientists to use the mean as the representative value for an aspect of a population.

 Median - The median is the middle number in a sorted, ascending or descending, list of numbers and can be more descriptive of that data set than the average. The median is sometimes used as opposed to the mean when there are outliers in the sequence that might skew the average of the values. 

Identify - 1, 3, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9

 Median = 6

when was it invented - Antoine Augustin Cournot in 1843 was the first to use the term median for the value that divides a probability distribution into two equal halves. 

 Mode - The mode is the value that appears most frequently in a data set. A set of data may have one mode, more than one mode, or no mode at all. Other popular measures of central tendency include the mean, or the average of a set, and the median, the middle value in a set.

Identify  - 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 5, 7 

The mode is 1 because it appears more frequently on the set

when was it invented - An early use of the statistical concept of the mode was by English mathematician Karl Pearson (1857-1936) in 1895 when he stated that “I have found it convenient to use the term mode for the abscissa corresponding to the ordinate of maximum frequency”  



Monday, 1 March 2021

Maths - Area

 Area -  the area can be defined as the space occupied by a flat shape or the surface.

Area of the basic shape

Rectangle






Triangle

  







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Thursday, 18 February 2021

Maths convertion

 


Mm                                  cm                                 M                                   Km

12000mm

1200cm

12M

0.012

5000mm

500cm

5M

0.005

1200000mm

120000cm

1200M

1.2Km

326mm

32.6cm

0.326M

0.000326km

1200mm 

120cm

1.2M

0.0012Km


Parts of a tree - VOT

 Task 1 - leaves - the  leaves are apart of a tree it is connected to the branch 

                       Branch - it is a part of the tree that grows from the trunk

                        Crown - refers to the total of an individual plant's aboveground parts

                        Twig  - are the smallest branches

                        Trunk - is the stem and is the main part of the tree

                        Roots - the part of the tree that is attached to the ground to help support the tree  


Task 2 -


Task 3 -Describe how trees become timber? The trees are cut down into the right lengths and then get transported to the timber mill where it is turned into the timber.


Task 4 - Describe and explain the different types of cuts?

              Quartersawn - The log is being cut in a radial angle into four quarters.

           plain sawn - is the most common type of cut. the annular rings are 30 degrees or less to                                                 the face of the board

            Rift sawn - is the most elite cuts the log is milled perpendicular to the growth rings which are 30-60 degrees to the face of the board



Task 5 - Give an example of timbers used in NZ?  KAURI, MATAI, BLACK PINE and RIMU


Task 6 - Give an example of defects in timber? Water stains, knots, Rind gals, shakes, and upsets

                


Basic Woodworking tools

 Different types of hand tools in a tech workshop.

Engineering set squares - is used as a marking and checking tool used to assess and mark straight lines. Made up of two straight pieces (stock & blade) that work together to create a right angle at exactly 90°.






Carpenters pencil: the reason why the shape is like this is that to stop it from rolling away. You can sharpen a carpenter's pencil by using a craft knife. 




Marking gaugeA marking gauge is used in woodworking to mark out lines for cutting or other purposes. The main purpose is to scribe a line parallel to a reference edge. 



Combination squarecombination square is a multi-use measuring instrument that is primarily used for ensuring the integrity of a 90° angle, measuring a 45° angle, measuring the center of a circular object, find depth, and simple distance measurements. It can also be used to determine level and plumb using its spirit level vial.


Sliding bevel sliding T bevel, also known as a bevel gauge or false square is an adjustable gauge for setting and transferring angles. Different from the square, which is fixed and can only set a 90° angle, the sliding T bevel can set any angle and transfer it to another piece.