Year 10 Writing Portfolio

Start of Year Creative Writing

“Wow, look at that” I turned around everybody had disappeared. I started to hear someone whispering then it started to echo. As my ego hesitated to follow the echo but my body strolled towards the noise. It was getting darker and darker, it was too late to turn back. My body started to shiver as goosebumps appeared on my skin, My heart started to beat while my journey continued, I wasn't sure if this was safe, started to talk to myself as my brain wondered if anything bad was going to happen. I started to overthink everything I did, and everything that was going on around me.

As I continued to explore this strange place, I noticed there was a door. I was curious about what was on the other side but had no courage to enter the door. Anything could be behind that door, so I knew that it wasn't a smart idea to open it. I watched the door for some time, and nothing had happened so I made a decision. I walked towards the door as quiet as an ant, I turned the handle as the door creaked very loudly. To my surprise there wasn't just one door on the other side there were so many doors, too many to even count.

The first door that caught my eye was spooky. It had steam rising from the cracks of the door, liquids dripping down the door. A disgusting smell evaporated in the air, but the scariest thing was, there was no handle. I bent over to look through the hole and a dark red large pupil appeared, the door kicked open. I ran as fast as I've ever run to one of the closest doors that looked the safest. When I entered this door, I locked It and slowly turned around, there was everything a teenage boy could dream of. There were gaming consoles, Junk food, Arcade games, a full gym, this room had it all and it was the size of a house. Didn't want to leave anytime soon, but I know that thing outside is waiting for me and a lock won't hold off for too long. I wandered around, this room was full of fun and surprises. I sat down and played with the games and ate everything I could fit in my stomach. I started to hear yelling, I think it was time for me to go so I grabbed this ball and sneakily opened the door as quietly as I could and ran. As I was looking back, I ran right into something. I looked up, and it was all my friends and family.

End of term essay

Introduction

In the text “Games of cards” by Witi Ihimaera, In this Whanau, their Kuia is not very well and is slowly dying. A Kuia is someone who is very important to the family, in other words, someone who runs the family or someone they look up to.  In this story, their Kuias name is Nani Miro. Nani Miro looks after her mokopuna, plays cards with her Whanau, and loves to have a little laugh with everyone. One character I relate to is Nani Miro as she always surrounds herself with her whanau, is very competitive and has good humor and really just enjoys herself.

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The first reason why I like to compare myself with Nani Miro is that I also like being around my family. I enjoy being around people my age like my cousins, friends, or even randoms I may meet at the park, Other than older people. As I realize I can relate and have fun with these people easier than I would with my elders. But in “Games of Cards” Nani Miro always liked being with everyone, I feel as when you are older you like to catch and have a chat with anyone. She was always around family. Her Mokopunas would come over often when their Parents were too broke to take care of them, or when they just needed a break.  As she said in the story “it wouldn't take very long for her to need a break from them”.  When she had enough of them she would call her kids/ her Mokopunas parents saying, “ When are you picking up your Hoeha Kids they're wrecking the place”.  Everyone enjoyed going to Nani Miros with all their cousins, but they always looked forward to Saturday because all the women would take the day off to go play cards at Nani Miros.

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When it came to Cards Nani didn’t muck around, she always had to win whether she had to cheat or not. She was really competitive, Competitivity is something I see in myself and Nani also shows she is really competitive. She’d cheat and argue but sometimes she got caught. Nani Miro was always at the top table, this table was always reserved for the best players, Nani and Mrs. Heta the unrivaled champions, the relationship between Nani Miro and Mrs. Heta was heated when they competed against each other. “You ready to be taken down, the cards are really speaking to me today”?  This is how the conversation would start, and don’t think it'd end very well for the loser.

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The last reason why I compare myself with the individual “Nani Miro '' is because she's always having a good time and a  laugh with everyone. It shows her goofy and cheeky side when she plays cards, as she argues with Mrs. Heta, Nani would wind Mr. Heta up as she said something smart like “You think you can see make tiko bum” this was Nani’s response and Mrs. Heta tried to have a sneak peek at Nani’s cards, these two would never stop squabbling fighting I don’t know how they were still friends after all. But Mrs. Heta wasn’t the only one who was winded up or got given cheeky remarks, everyone would get it. “Who would want you,” she said to her Grandson the “Narrator” after he lied about having a pretty girl that he’s talking to. Although Nani was basically bold to everyone they all knew she didn’t really mean what she said as if she was only joking which I guess made Nani such a cool person to talk to.

Conclusion

In conclusion, this story has shown me to not take your time with whanau and friends for granted, take all the opportunities with your family and friends as they might be gone as you may have never had a chance to say goodbye, and also appreciate what you have and who you have. Enjoy and cherish all the laughs and giggles you have with everyone.

English, Yellow Brick Road

Witi Ihimaera

Author Witi Ihimaera Was born in Gisbourne, New Zealand.

Five of his published works have been adapted into films.

Yellow.

To me "Yellow Brick Road" was really random when I first heard it as id never heard the expression before.

When I hear the "Yellow Brick Road" I seem to think it'll be about some sort of childhood story and have small strange characters.

On the first page, the narrator mentions some reasons why they move are because they need the money but the dad thinks they're moving for a better life.

The big difference between waituhi and wellington is there are a lot of pakeha people and lots of more money in wellington.

On page 3 there Dad told uncle, they're moving to wellington because he wants his kids to grow up with everything because he knows how hard it was as he struggled all his life.

As they got closer and could see how far Wellington was they started to get excited for what was going to happen and change, but they can see that this might not be what they think it is.

In this story the author compared The Wizzard Of Oz because in that movie they all thought someone was gonna come and save them but when he turned up he ended up not to be what they thought he was an in the end they end up sorting out there problems together, in this story the same thing is kinda happening when they get there they will be able to do what theyre aiming to do if they stick together an help each other out.

Christchurch Rubbish

This week and last week in Social Studies we've been learning about rubbish.

we've learned how we should recycle our rubbish and what not to do I have some information that I learned today to share with yous.

W22hen our yellow recycling bin gets collected by the trucks, if the trucks sense more than %10 or more rubbish they don't collect the rubbish and if this continues to happen the bins get confiscated, then if the bins want to be given back they have to pay $97.65 to get the bin back and they have to promise that they'll put the right things in the right bins. They also get tracked somehow to see if they're sticking to the rules. Many yuck and dumb things end up in recycling bins, like guns, animals, plastic, glass, cardboard, and much other waste.

I think taking bins away from people who don't use them properly is a good way to make them learn from their mistakes.

English assignment (Little film)

For the last past weeks in English, we've been focusing on making a little film that connects to a Shakespeare story/film, that we studied and listened to in like term 1/2. 

My group decided to make a video about treasure being found. My group decided to do a film with treasure because in the merchant of Venice there is always money involved and treasure was a way to share the same theme as the merchant Venice.

We mostly used two techniques which are close up and mid-shot to film our video.

It was a challenge trying to get all the footage in the time that was given but we did get it all done which is good. 

I think we learned that when we take little clips and edit them all together that makes the film a lot more cooler than just a long boring video.

If we had the opportunity to make a film again I would choose to add more scenes to make the story more interesting, We would also try to make our film as similar as the merchant Venice as possible.

The films not yet edited properly but will be published soon.

Happy broadcast

This term in social studies we've been starting to use a site called Happy Broadcast, this site has lots of interesting facts and articles to tell us and show us what happens around the World, I'll be sharing a couple of interesting things I've found with you.

Did you know in the US there's a human composting funeral home, that offers an environmentally friendly procedure, that turns bodies into healthy soil, I can imagine your shooked and feel weird about this and that's exactly how I felt but when you think about it it's not too bad.

Here's a cool interesting fact for yous who like animals.

Did you know female giraffes, live longer when they're around other female giraffes, that help out with their children and help them stop harassment from male giraffes, I like this because this can relate to people in many ways.

Here's a cool thing that has started to happen all around the world even here in Christchurch.

Barbers have started to teach students, not only to cut hair but to also support and help their clients with their mental health. I think this is good because everyone has problems in their life and may struggle to share their emotions, but they might come out with help from barbers.

Plastic Article

Today ill be persuading you to make a change with the way you choose to leave your rubbish. This is something you should do as it will make a change for our future and will be able to enjoy many more little things like swimming in the ocean.

Plastic pollution was first noticed in the ocean by scientists carrying out plankton studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and oceans and beaches still receive most of the attention of those studying and working to abate plastic pollution. We have been littering for a long time and we need to make a change before it gets worse and we kill more innocent sea animals. 

Have you ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? This is a massive island full of rubbish that just floats in the middle of the ocean there’s so much rubbish out there that not even scientists know how much is out there. 

By littering we harm the ocean and the animals that call the ocean home, when plastic goes into the ocean, many animals mistake plastic for food. This is a problem because when they consume the plastic, the more and more they eat, just builds up and the animals eventually die, as plastic takes hundreds of years to break down. 

We need to stop littering because the sea animals/ocean produces 85% of the oxygen that we need to breathe, if we kill all the animals because we are littering that means the sea will die, then there will be no oxygen and all of us human will die.

Ways we can do to make a change are, Stop using plastic for packaging or any plastic that we use to make products, we should all start reusing things like bottle cutlery and many other things. And Shops should try to limit the plastic that they sell in packaging and toys or any other products that are made with plastic.

That’s all I have to say about this topic on rubbish, I hope I’ve made u think about changing the way you use plastic.

Plastic(Make a change)

This week in social studies we have been learning about litter all around the world and how it's going to affect us in the future if we don't make a change now. 

One big thing that we learned about was the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, This is a massive island full of rubbish that just floats in the middle of the ocean. We watched a video during class and it showed a lot of ways we kill sea creatures, for example, when plastic goes into the ocean, many animals mistake plastic for food, which is a problem because when they consume the plastic, the more and more they eat just builds up and the animals eventually die, as plastic takes hundreds of years to break down. 

We need to stop littering because the sea animals/ocean produces 85% of the oxygen that we inhale, if we kill all the animals because we are littering that means the sea will die, then there will be no oxygen and all of us human will die.

Ways we can do to make a change are, Stop using plastic for packaging or any plastic that we use to make products, we should all start reusing things like bottles cutlery and many other things.