Titi's 2016 Reporting Blog

What is surrealism art? Surrealism began as a philosophical movement that said the way to find truth in the world through the subconscious mind and dreams. Surrealist works often show familiar things in unexpected or impossible ways. Art is not my thing. But I stepped out of my comfort zone and had a try. I was really good at relating to others because I asked for advice on what colors I could use. In my art, I combined a guitar and my face. It shows that music is my passion. My hair has patterns in it which show my culture which is Samoan. The K.C skills I used was self-managing. I focused and chose the right people and the right place to get my art done. I didn’t distract other people and I shared my ideas. I was struggling with the equipment because it was too thick like the pastel. So I knew that my next steps were to not draw small patterns or else it will be hard to color. My advice for those people who don’t like art is to not be shy and just draw. Don’t be

Technology Learning Story. “Technology is coming up”. “12:30 to 2:30 on Thursday”.”Can’t wait, Yay!!!”. Every thursdays we go to Brandon Intermediate to learn different activities, we call it ‘Technology’. There is different groups for example Music, Hard Material, Cooking, Sewing and Art. My first group was Hard materiel. In hard material we have been trying to make a box. We started making them in week 3. The purpose of making a box is to put our belongings in it. In hard material I was good at asking my peers if they needed help because on Thursday I asked Aria if she needed help with her box because she looked like she was struggling. The K.C skill I used was relating to others. Things that I found hard was remembering the tools/equipment because the tools had difficult names that I couldn't remember like block plane. In hard material the tool that I was struggling with the most was the block plane. I haven’t used a block plane before but I stepped out of my comfo

Writing Learning Story. “I write to give myself strength”. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of”- A quote by Joss Whedon. To communicate our identity effectively, as writers we can… Use a hook, Maybe use other ways of making our reader want to read more, like... (ellipses) or only giving a little information at once, Make our readers work something out (in` fer) by: Giving clues and not stating directly, Using anecdotes and examples-storie from our past. Use clever Dialogue, Punctuation, Carefully choose language to create a picture for our reader, Use informal language-everyday language/language we use with our friends, Rhetorical questions. This is our success criteria to help us write our personal/identity. My Personal Profile. I was good at sharing information that people didn’t know about me. In each paragraph I talked about something different and made a little idea seem so

Titi’s Reading Learning Story. “This bittersweet tale had the publishing world buzzing”. Glam Reads 2009’s best books- Best Book to curl up with, Glamour. What’s the name of your book? Well, my one’s called Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater. I found out that my book is a Fantasy book. I think that fantasy makes you imagine about anything you want. And m ost importantly, I think that fantasy isn't just for children. Becoming a teenager, rites of passage, facing failure and defeat, coming to terms with betrayal and disappointment - all the stuff of emerging adult life also has to be faced and coped with. “The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking”.- By Christopher Morley. I am working on trying to find out what this book is about. What made me read this book was the praises at the start of the book for example “Shiver is a haunting, breathtaking and original supernatural love story that will have you hooked from the very first page... The qua