Anzac Exposition Writing

for the past 3 weeks, our teacher have changed up our writing programe where we have a topic and this weeks one was Anzac, and with the topic we have 3 options of types of writing we have to do. We Pick our type and then we have 3 weeks to write on. After we finish writing we have to publish so that we can post it to our blog. When we publish them tho, it has to fit one page. The one page really limited my choices on how to publish it. So this week I just did a boring publish presentation on Google Docs. For my first week I did a Exposition and I argued that Men should've had a choice to go to war. Here is my BORING Google Doc... Hope you enjoy :)

To go or not to go ?

Should men have had the choice to go to war or not? I firmly believe that men should have had the
choice to go to war. Why? May you ask, because firstly men had a very little amount of training and
was expected to just go and shoot someone. Secondly, they would’ve had families, businesses, and
a farm to run. Lastly, Men who were deserted in war couldn't deal with all the harm and chaos that was
going on. All this chaos and fear should have stopped !

Firstly, Not all men were trained to use guns and fight in wars. Yes there is a list of men like farmers
that were trained with guns but then there were barbers, teachers, and all those people that never had a
experience with a gun. What even made it worse was that they just had a tiny amount of time to learn the
ways of the gun and all the techniques. Can you imagine a barber going in the war not knowing a single
thing to with guns ?

Secondly,   They have family and businesses or farms to run and look after. Young mothers were left to
look after her and her husbands and then plus the farm that the men would usually look after.
Those same young women couldn’t handle the stress of the farm so they would ask their kids to stay
home from school to help out, which causes the child to have less education. Quickly imagine, your on
your own, just you, your kids, and your farm. You have to wake up every morning, feed your kids and
then straight after feed the animals. Tell me, how will you feel ?...How will you feel ?

Last but not least, Men who deserted in war because they could not deal with it and were severely
punished. Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter, does this name ring a bell ? Yes?, if not, he was a boxer
and marksman that didn’t want to lay a hand on a single man, because in the year 1900 Alfred Barclay
stood and spoke against war, which made him realise that war was not good and it was bad to kill
someone under any circumstances. Archibald was just one of the few that were punished. People after
had PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder) after the seeing what they done to innocent people.
Archibald Baxter if you ask me, was a humble man. Humble man like him had to be punished.

In conclusion I strongly believe that all men should have a choice to go to war, because, Not all men
were trained to use guns and fight in war, They have family and businesses and farms to run, and men
who deserted in war because they could not deal with it and were severely punished. If I was in the past
when all this terrible stuff I will stand and make a point and would have tried and persuaded the country.
So please think about if men should have a choice to war. Think hard and deep.

Written by: Jacque

Last Weeks Rocket Challenge Reflections

Last Week I forgot to post up my Rocket Challenge slide up so I decided to put it up today. Last week we learnt about the Safety rules and Hazards that may happen. On our slide we write reflections. Here is our slide so far... Hope you Enjoy :)

Free Writing: Friday 17th of May Disco

 My free writing this week will be about the Disco that we had last week (week 3) Disco that we had to fundraiser for our Kapa Haka group Te Rau Pou Manawa to go down to nationals. I've decided to talk about this because, it was the first disco this year and it was my mothers Birthday on the same day. Hope you enjoy :)

Disco 

Last week Friday we had a disco fund raising for our nationals that will happen in November down in Waikato. For the disco, the kaihaka that are in Te Rau Pou Manawa, their parents had to give in some ideas on what we should have at the disco. My parents decided to be in the kitchen and make steak, egg, onion roll (the onion and egg were optional). On the day when I got home my Mum and my Aunty Em were in the kitchen cooking the steak so that when we get to the kitchen all we need to do is keep the steak warm and they would only have to cook the eggs at the hall. The same day as the disco was my Mum's birthday and all she wanted to do was help out in the kitchen. At disco it started of with a little amount of people and the more people started coming in, and then more, an then more, and then even more. There was so much people, that it was so hard to get form one place to the other. The disco was fantastic and fun, I was so glad to send with my friends and have eat a lot of food. To me, at the disco, I was like the mother figure to all my friends, because if they wanted something to eat they asked me to get it for them, or I will make sure that they had something to eat & drink. During the disco I accidentally fell on a little boy... sorry Noah :(. Over all the disco was fun and I had a fantastic time...Thanks Horrace for the BEST MUSIC. I can't wait for our next disco and what it will hold :(

Fraction of a Whole

This Week for our Group Maths, we were learning about Finding Fractions in a Whole number, because it was a bit of our weakness when it came to our check in test. After leaning about how to find it Whaea Dana said for us to make a google drawing to show people how to work it out. Here us my Google Drawing... Hope you Enjoy :)

Free Writing: Carpool Karaoke (Assembly)

For my Free Writing this week I will be talking about our Carpool Karaoke that we done for our first Assembly of Term 2. HOPE YOU ENJOY :)

Last week (Week 2 of Term 2) it was my classes Assembly. It was a really rough week cause people were going places for trips and we just had 3 days to get it all sorted. While making our assembly we decided to do a carpool Karaoke because we didn't have enough time to make something else. So on Monday we had to get in a group of 3 and choose our song, so that on Tuesday all we needed to do was get in the car and film. Consuming the little bit of time that we had we all had to be quick and try and just get it in 1 go. In my group was Miria and Roxy and our song was London Thumakda. Miria and I were in the front seats (I was in the drivers seat) and Roxy was in the back. We had to rotate a lot of times just to see who looks better where. We had to be comfortable because there is a part where one of us had to twerk, and the only confident one was Roxy. After 5 shots of filming we finally got our song done. After ours we had the job to help out all the other groups with setting. After all the hard editing and cutting here is the video that our teacher came up...

HOPE YOU ENJOY :)