My Buddy And I.

Today is Tuakana Teina day with Room 4. This mean coming together and working with a student from another class. The buddy that I am working with is Arizona. She thinking netbook is cool and fun, Arizona like playing games and writing stories in netbook.
                                       By Arizona and Renee.

Renee&Simon's Current Events.

This is a presentation about how the All Blacks vs France, and there are some good questions in this event.

Cyber smart and Cyber bully.

American Football League.

This is a presentation about P.E, this are some skills that room 7 have in American Football League.

My 6 Thinking Hats.

Me and my partner made this presentation about a plane being launch without a pilot.

My Weekly Poem.

WALT read a poem and analyse the language features of a poem. This will help us think poetically so that we can write a similar poem to share with others.

Friends come and go,
But the future is something you will never know,
So lets stay close to the people who we love,
And never let them go like a flying dove,
When we are lost, or are feeling scared,
A friend is someone who is always there,
So thanks my friends who have stood by me,
And i will love you like a sister, for eternity.

1. Summarise the poem you have read in your own words.

• The poem I read this week is about friendship and the author is describing her/his best friend.

2. Identify at least 2 different language features in the poem and give examples. 

You can identify more than 2 language features.

• One of the language features in this poem is a rhyming words. Here is an example of this language feature
  So lets stay close to the people who we love,
  
  
                                          And never let them go like a flying dove,
• Another language feature in this poem is a emotional words .Here is an example of this language feature
  So thanks my friends who have stood by me,
  
  
                                               And i will love you like a sister, for eternity.

3. Evaluate (which means reflect and give your opinion) the author’s purpose for writing this poem - in your answers include the words: inform, entertain, persuade.

• By analysing the poem I have read this week I think the author wrote this poem is to remember our friends.
• The author was informing the audience about friendship.
• The author was entertaining the audience by emotional languages
  

  The author is trying to persuade the audience to believe what he/she said.

Narrative Writing

Narrative Writing 

  A narrative purposes is to entertain and enthral.

A opening includes setting and characters

A problem or change

A series of event 

A complication

Resulting event

Resolution and ending.

Language feature:

Written in 1st or 3rd person

Past tense 

Chronological but may contain flashbacks

Distinctive character.

Time Connective
Dialogue in different tense
Powerful verbs for action and feelings
Poetic used to create effect
Conversation used to move the story forward.

Purpose to entertain and enthral making 
the reader picture the story in there mind.

Knowing your ending and good links
Use question to draw readers into events.
Use a small number of character
Main character makes a comment I the end.
Do not introduce another problem. 

Story Connectives 
One day
Later that day
Soon afterwards
Not long that after that
Next
That afternoon
Early that morning 
That same morning 
So whenever
For  a moment 
By the time