Journal Week 5

The purpose of your journal writing is to give you time to reflect on different aspects of your life and learning. Journal writing time is also a valuable opportunity to practice and improve your writing. Your journal writing should all be added to the same doc which will accumulate all your reflective journalling for the year. 

For your journal writing today you can choose ONE of these three choices of topic:

What things do you want to do before next year?

What is your most treasured possession and why?

Compare your life now to how you think teenagers lived when Rotorua was first settled? What life would you prefer and why?

Remember - you can write your journal in whatever style you like, creative, poetry, song lyrics, letters, diary etc.....

PE 1.1

Introduction to PE 1.1 Assessment

Rotorua 1970 Video Footage

Hey team, here is some inquiry related viewing for you, great video of Rotorua in 1970. Sourced from the Facebook page 'Nostalgic Rotorua' - check it out!

Literacy Week 4

Morena 10FFL, here is the powerpoint we will be working through for literacy today.

Here is the link for the Wahine Toa reading: A TRILOGY OF WAHINE TOA



 

Current Events

Here is the literacy task that we worked on today make sure you have re ordered your language features and definitions and then found the language features in the video.

NUMERACY TASK 1

Numeracy Task 1

Your tasks have been set for the Numeracy tasks are in the google slide below.  Remember that in our class we believe that everyone will develop their own learner agency!

For these activities you will need to show how you can be a 
"Lifelong Learner"
I am self aware, I set achievable goals, manage my time effectively, I plan my learning and can evaluate my own learning and the learning of others.

Work your way through the activities that are on the google slide - develop your own strategies for being able to stay on task and free from distractions.

The first two rows are to be completed in this block.  

The Statistics workbook is to be completed over the coming weeks to assist with collecting data, sorting and interpreting data for your project.  

Good luck

Project One - Introduction

Define

My Kainga, my Castle!

The driving Question:

How will we preserve our way of life so that when I retire in 50 years Rotorua is still a 'clean green' place to live?

Key Questions:

1. What can we learn from the last 200 years of settlement in Rotorua?

and/or

How have the Te Arawa people influenced the development/settlement of Rotorua?

Thinking about Tribal Narratives, myths & legends, ownership/guardianship of land, management of natural resources, interactions between British settlers and iwi, Te tiriti or Waitangi, Tourism and more

2.  What is the current Health of our region?

Thinking about people, culture, languages, rivers, lakes, land, forests, farming, agriculture factories, pollution and more

3.  So what needs to happen now in order to preserve our way of life?

Project One Introduction

Discover

How can I complete the task? What will I need to do?

Inquiry Process for Year 10 FFL - 2017

Define What is the problem, big question?	Create a brainstorm of ideas Refine and define your driving question, share this with your mentor group and your mentor teacher Driving questions are the heart of your research, they provide purpose and focus.  Your question should be clear, complex and open-ended.  They will provide the basis for you to innovate or create a product for solution. A good driving question will then provide opportunities for you to develop KEY questions - these will help you answer the driving question. See this link on our website for more help in writing a good driving question. Writing good Key Questions
Discover How can I complete the task? What will I need to do?	Select an idea and expand your thoughts. Create an ACTION PLAN Think about the 5 W’s and 1 H.   WHAT, WHERE, WHO, HOW, WHY and WHEN What information do I need to know? Where will I find this information? Who can help me?  This could be experts in our whanau, school or community Why would I use this information in my research?  Why would I choose to interview or survey people? When is my deadline and am I on track to meet this? How am I going to find the primary and secondary sources that I need?  Eg Library, Interviews, Surveys, Newspapers, Magazines, Internet? Create a folder and documents to record all your work.  You and your teachers will need to be able to access this.  Make sure it is in the shared FFL drive. Begin your plan - the HOW (what you are going to do, why and when) Record your PROCESS ensuring you evidence EVERYTHING you are doing - research, phone calls, reading etc. You MUST be able to JUSTIFY what you are doing - time management.
Dream Think big, what is it going to turn out like? Imagine a solution	What do you believe the impact of this information will have on our community in the future? What will it LOOK like? Create a vision board of your ideas.  Think about the solutions that are in place now and what future solutions could look like?  What is your place in this?  How can you affect change?
Design Create a design / plan the way you want it to work.	What do you need to do to make your dream a reality? How are you going to present your information?  What is going to be the most effective way to communicate your ideas and learnings on this topic.   How do you think you can best present your plan of action to implement change or innovation?
Deliver Deliver the idea / end product / action	Put your plan into action. Come up with an end product that encapsulates all of your learnings and work in this topic.
Debrief Go over what worked, what could be improved, next steps to improve	Present and share what you have done. Think about what you achieved throughout the process - final conclusion.   Evaluate the process and your engagement in this. What did you do well? What do you need to improve on? What were new learnings for you in this topic?

Hauora lesson period 2

Literacy periods 1 & 2 Monday

Hey team,

Here are the links to the myths for today's literacy session:

When Tamaohoi Awoke

Hatupatu

Ngatoro the Fire-Bringer

Hinemoa and Tutanekai

And also the link to the reading response template

Digital Citizenship Activity

Digital Citizenship Task

Click on the link to access the information in the slideshow Whaea Filly presented.

Complete the What do you think? Activity.

Planning to be done today (Friday 10th)  Presentations Due Monday 13th

Wednesday 8th work for Period 3, 4 & 5!

Kia Ora team,

Period 3

Today period 3 you will be working on:

1. Completing the Careers Quest work that you started yesterday (I know most of you have finished this)

2. Completing the research skills tasks on the settlement of Rotorua. I have shared the doc for this via email to you all but if you cant find it there is a link to it here. Make sure that you share this to me once you have completed all the tasks so that I can add it to your literacy portfolio. Make sure that your work for the paragraph writing section is in your OWN WORDS and is referenced correctly, I will be checking!

Period 4

Today period 4 you will be working on:

Writing your first journal entry for 2017. Open a google doc to be your journal for this year and head up with today's date and the title of your journal entry. This piece of writing will go toward your literacy portfolio.

• Your journal entry for today is to be about a place in Rotorua that is special to you
• Describe in detail how your special place looks, the sights, sounds, smells and how this place makes you feel - try to describe this in a way that a reader could close their eyes and be able to picture the place.
• Why is this place important to you? What do you do when you are there?
• What do you know about the history of the place? Has it always been as it is now? What was it like in the past? If you do not know anything about the history of the place use your imagination to write about how you think the place might have been in the past.

The above suggestions/questions are there as a guide for you - if there are extra things that you would like to add to your journal entry please do! 

This writing exercise is about being descriptive and detailed to give a real sense of this place and how it makes you feel, not about writing short simple answers to the questions. 

Period 5

Period 5 is our first health lesson of the year and will combine your knowledge of Hauora with your inquiry skills.

• Using news websites (e.g. stuff.co.nz) search for news articles that you feel relate to Hauora (e.g. recent news about notes sent home to parents discouraging lunchbox treats relates to physical wellbeing (taha tinana))

• You must find one article that you feel relates specifically to each aspect of Hauora (Taha Tinana, Taha Wairua, Taha Hinengaro and Taha Wairua), so 4 articles in total

• Create a doc that includes, for each article:
• An explanation of which aspect of hauora you feel it relates to and why
• A quote from the article that you feel highlights the link to the aspect of hauora

If you get stuck search Health/PE on the FFL website and there is a resource there to help you 

Week Two - Bits and Pieces

Welcome back to school!

Great to see you all back at school and ready to take charge of your learning for 2017!  This post is just to keep you up to date with the tasks that you should be working towards completing.  At the moment this is what you have on the go...

1.  Summer Holiday Blog post
Go onto your own blog and post a paragraph about what you did this summer Holidays. What was the highlight of your holiday and why?  Do you have any pictures?
What are your goals for this year?  These could be for home, school, sports, cultural or leadership goals.

Post this onto your blog and email Mrs McCaull when you have completed this.

2.  Pepeha
You need to design a "one pager" Pepeha to let me know where you are from.  You might like to include your Iwi, Hapu, Maunga, Awa, Marae, Waka, Tupuna, Siblings etc

You can either digitally design it - or create something amazing by hand.  Try out some of the infographic websites to see if you can design something cool.  These will go onto our classroom wall once completed.

3.  Careers Quest
Go to the Careers New Zealand website:  www.careersnz.govt.nz
You will need to create a career portfolio - ie register for this.  Once you have done this find the CAREERSQUEST and complete the 78 questions that it gives you.

From the results of your questionnaire - the website will make up to 100 suggestions about possible careers that might suit you.  Choose your top 10 that you are interested in or that you want to learn more about.  

Copy these into a google doc - with the website links and save into your drive so that we can access these later.

4.  Research Question
Post your Rotorua Settlement research onto your blog.  This is what you did with Miss Flemming last week.

If you have any questions - email Mrs McCaull