YR9 Photography Project

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Title Grab the reader’s attention	YR9 Photography project
Learning What have you been learning about?  Why did you learn this?	This term in art we have been studying the artist Slinkachu. Slinkachu is an artist who creates a design in public and leaves it there for people to see, each new scene has a different meaning to it. Slinkachu is very creative when it comes to his ideas and creating an awesome outcome of a photograph.  We also focused on an idea called ‘leading lines’ ; this task was using Slinkachu as an inspiration and re-created his art, and putting in some techniques that become really handy when doing any source of art. We also focused on the grid of the drawing, where the focal point was and where the leading lines took place.
DLO How can you show what you have been doing? Screenshot? Photo? Video? Drive?
Reflection How did your learning go?	Personally I think that my photography could have been a little bit better, because I know my personal standards.
Question What do you want your readers to comment on?	What I could have done better with my photographs.
Sources Links to where you found the information and any extra programmes or apps you used.	https://slinkachu.com/ was a site we used for rescourse.
Label Which folder of your drive would this work go in?	9ART2

Music Evaluation

 1. This year I enjoyed learning how to play the Piano. 

2. Something I found challenging this year was trying to understand the guitar. 

3.  Our group did a piano duet along with a ukulele, to the song All of me. We choose this song because we felt like it had a nice rhythm to it and we really wanted to try something outside our comfort zone. 

4. I was really nervous to perform at the start, but once I did it I felt better. 

5. Personally I was a little disappointed about myself in the performance because I did mess up at the end, wasn't really noticeable. 

6. I really enjoyed music this year! 

Home Economics

 Open Steak Sandwiches 

In food class, our task for the lesson was to make an open steak sandwich. This lesson required a lot of prepping with food. First, we chopped up all the fillings and put them into bowls, and cooked the steak, once we were ready we put what fillings we wanted into our sandwich, we ate it. I'm vegetarian so I didn't have steak in mine, but it still tasted good. If I was to ever re-cook this again something I would change is the bun it would make it bigger so it's more filling. 

Rice Paper Spring Rolls 

Last week's lesson was rice paper spring rolls, I personally didn't like these they were just not my type of food. The rice paper tasted like plastic. Inside there were a bunch of vegetables. If we wanted to we could dip it into some sweet chilli sauce to give it some flavour. These were not a favorite and I wouldn't cook them again.  

Group performance

 1. What is the name of the song you doing? Who wrote it? Add the link. 

We are doing All of me by John Legend. (Link)

2. What is the song about? 

Love

3. Who is in ur group? What is each person doing? 

Camryn and I, we both doing a piano duet,

4. Which park of the song are you working on?

We are working on the melody and intro. 

5. How do you feel about performing in front on class for first time? 

Nervous and scared. 

Dissolving

 What are the ideas from today? 

- Dissolving 

What factors affect dissolving? 

- Surface, Mixing, and  Temperature 

Aim method and Results: 

Aim: To figure out the rate of dissolving depending on temperature and string.

Method: To get 50ml of water and a spatula of sugar, depending on what one we were doing. 1 2 3 4. We then put the sugar into the beaker of water, and timed how long it took to dissolve 

1 CW + S + STIR	2 HW + S + STIR	3 HW + S + NS	4 CW + S + NS
490s 70s each	213s 27s each	590s 98s each	622s 124.4s each

These are the results from all groups, the number up the top is all the seconds combined, and the number below it. We thought that the Hot water, sugar, and string would be the fastest because of the hot water giving the sugar more energy to move and dissolve, we also thought the Coldwater, sugar, and no stiring  Would be the slowest because your not stirring it which is isn't getting around which then the cold water takes slower to dissolve the sugar. 

Tokelauan Language Week

 This week is Tokelauan Language Week. Today we created a DLO about some phrases used in Tokelauan Language. I created little flashcards to use o learn these phrases. 

Business & Enterprise Kete

For the past 3 weekes we have been involved in the B&E kete of 2020. 

My file in this has been the CEO, and my job was to make sure that the business we created was coming together, keeping all the other roles in place. 

Our company was called 'Spinkaholics LTD' 

Our product was a cake in a cup. 

My reflection  on how the business went overall is that our group did really well and end up selling out of our product. I also think that everyone in the group played their role in our buinessness really well, everything was done on time there was no mucking around and things moved fast! 

My reflection on the overall B&E is that is was a really good experience for the second year. I think it was a good day to get out of thee classroom and doing something new. 

Apple Sauce Muffins

 In cooking on Wednesday we made Apple sauce Muffins. Personally, I didn't really like any of the Apple Sauce Muffins because I left that they tasted bland and lumpy. The only flavour you could taste when eating the Muffins was they rolled oats. 

Each group made a substitution of the recipe and then did a survey of the ones we liked and disliked. 

To make it better, add more Apple, take out the oats, and add more cinnamon  

These were the substitutions: 

Substitute	Like	Ok	Do not like
Original Recipe			✔️
Canola & Milk			✔️
Canola & Soy			✔️
Butter & Wholemeal flour		✔️
Soy & Wholemeal flour			✔️
Canola & Wholemeal Flour			✔️
Butter & Soy			✔️

Music - Final Task

Instrument Evaluation

1. What have you studied in music this term? 

- This term in music we have studied 3 instruments (Guitar, keyboard, Ukulele). In guitar were learning to play at least 3 chords. In Keyboard, we were learning to play left and right-hand melody, and final one ukulele, we were also learning to play 3 chords. 

2. Why instrument did you enjoy and why? 

-  The instrument I enjoyed the most was the keyboard, because it was more comfortable to play and it was also an instrument I would have never thought of playing. 

3. Which instrument did you find most challenging and why? 

- I found the guitar was most challenging, as it was hard to figure out where my fingers went on the neck of the guritar. 

4. Which instrument are you going to focus on for the rest of the term and why? What would you like to achieve? 

- I would like to carry on working on the keyboard, because I want to continue to learn new chords and play new songs. 

Thumbnail Sketch / Photomontage

Art

In art we have been working on creating a piece of art called a 'photomontage'. This type of art is using images t create a picture that has a meaning to it. For example the message could be about women's rights or that black lives matter, it's just another way of explaining something without using words.

When it came to creating our own piece of photomontage, I found it difficult to put my ideas together and create something that really had a meaning to it. I understood how it worked but I couldn't work out where to place images. 

Someone that gave the class a really good inspiration to her photomontage was HANNAH HOCH, she was a female artist who wanted women rights, and she used art to create that message, as no one cared about words that came out of a women's mouth. 
(The image above is something she created)

Thumbnail sketch 

After finishing our photomontage, we started creating a thumbnail sketch of a photograph we took. I found this photo of the nice sunset outside my window, my end result was:

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Guitar

 Guitar 

Q1 Add a picture of a labeled guitar (Acoustic) 

Q2 What is challenging/learning the guitar? 

 Personally, I think it's placing your fingers on the threats. 

Q3 What are the differences between guitar and ukulele? 

 The guitar is bigger and has more strings (6) than the ukulele, the sounding to the different instrument. I find the guitar easier to play.

Q4 Find a song that you like where guitar is the main instrument. Add the link to your blog to explain it, and why you like it. 

Ukulele Reflection

 1. Describe your study of ukulele, have you enjoyed it? Found it hard/easy? 

Personally, I found that the ukulele was a littler harder to play it was also very challenging. 

2. Where is the ukulele from? Where was it formed? By who? 

The ukulele is from Hawaii, it was also formed in Hawaii, Joao Fernandez. 

3. Add a labeled diagram of the Ukulele. 

4. Which songs have you been learning? Add a video.. 

I have been learning to play, 'Just the way you are'. 

Chemicals + Chaos

 Ways to survive a zombie apocalypse 

In chemicals and chaos, we looked at 33 rules to survive a zombie apocalypse. 

Our task was to complete 10 posters of 10 rules we thought were most important. 

Mac n Cheese

 The ingredients we used to make Mac n Cheese were 

• Cheese
• Onion 
• Garlic 
• Pasta 
• Ham
• Cornflour
• Milk 
• Butter

Our cheese sauce turned out really well it was really thick and had a nice cheese flavor to it. 

The sight of the Mac n Cheese looked cheesy an greasy

The smell of the Mac n Cheese smelt cheesy. 

The taste of the Mac n Cheese tasted weird. 

I rate my food a 7/10

Next time I could add bacon to it make it taste better. 

My team worked well together. 

Film Study

- What was your film about? Me winning a match of volleyball. 

- Something I enjoyed in making my film? I enjoyed the laughs we had. 

 

- Something I learned when making my film? Not to work with my friends. 

- Some film techniques I included were...  Camera shots 

- Something I found challenging? Getting everything done when people were not focused! 

- What I would do differently next time? Work with people who aren't my friends... 

Well Being In Wananga

 In the last two weeks, we have looked at Resilience - Emotional Awareness (understanding emotions) and Impulses. I have come to realize that it doesn't help any situation getting angry at someone.

Being able to control my emotions in different situations avoids:

- Losing friends

- Having a healthy Social Well Being

- Getting angry.

- conflict

Knowing how to react and respond in situations rather than acting on impulses means that I'm not going to get myself in trouble for making the wrong move.

The effect is that these things have on my Social Wellbeing (Taha Whanau) when being friendly helpful and kind, your relationships become stronger, but on the other hand, you're being rude, unkind and disrespectful, your friendships won't be as strong as they if you were kind about any situation.

The Piano

 

Vegetarian Nachos

 Today in Home Economics class we made Vegetarian Nachos. When I first looked at it I thought 'Disgusting'! but then once it was in the bowl ready to eat, it tasted great! Had a nice rich tomato smell, a very nice textured taste. 

Last week the class made stirfry, I don't eat stirfry so I don't have a taste for it. But it had a really strong smell of sesame oil. Something that I heard that could have been better did not use 2-minute noodles. 

Inside Out - Digestive System

In science, we have been learning about the nutrients you need in the body and how you digest it. Our task for this was to create a DLO about the digestive system and what its job is. I created a google slide with information and a diagram to show what I'm talking about. 

Hannah Hoch

In art, we have been studying an artist called Hannah Hoch, our task was to create a poster to show information about Hannah Hoch. 

Music Lesson 1

Music

Why did you choose music? I chose music to be able to learn to play an instrument, the instrument I would like to learn to play either the guitar or piano. 

What would you like to learn in music? I would like to learn how to play the guitar or piano. 

Do you play an instrument? No, I don’t. 

Who is your favorite singer/band? I don’t have a favorite singer or band. 

5 of your favorite songs? (I listen to all I don't have favorites)