I can recognise and understand a variety of grammatical constructions and some rhetorical patterns

In this unit I have been learning about:

• The parts of speech.
• The types of nouns.
• The types of sentences.

In this unit, I found nothing challenging

I had to do sentences and it was easy.

I can apply my knowledge of adverbial clauses and connectives to see how ideas are linked in texts.

I can apply my knowledge of adverbial clauses and connectives to see how ideas are linked in texts.

For reading I have been learning about adverbial clauses. I have found this learning is a bit bring but easy because I found out it was less complicated than I thought it would be

In this activity Click here for the link , I had to highlight the adverbial clauses

My CARE Progress

My CARE Progress

I have done a check of my CARE progress so far this year.

I am doing ok because I got lots of ticks but I haven't recorded all of them yet

I am close to get my bronze but I need to record my tick's

The area of CARE that I need to try harder in C / A / R / E, (community) because I have the least amount of ticks in community.

To achieve my BRONZE award quicker I need to record my ticks

The one thing that I can do to improve my progress in CARE is recording my ticks

We will review CARE progress again at the end of the term.

Merit Must Do #2

At tech I was doing design / Textiles and on the bus I showed resilience by not talking to my friend in other seats even when I had something to tell them and I was also resilient with the sewing machine when it was hard.

I can apply the effective strategies when researching using the Google Search Engine.

Year ⅞ -  I can use appropriate skills and technologies to find and use a range of texts for specific purposes.

For my “Evaluating Leaders” research I have been researching about Richie McCaw and Brendon McCullum

During this unit I have had to use a range of strategies to find the information I needed on Google. This include: 

Cross-checking the info

Using Advanced search

I have achieved this goal because I have cross-checked and used the other strategies.

My next step is to set a new reading goal.

I can identify the way that writers use language and ideas to suit their purpose.

This is one of my follow up activity's that my group did 

We had to say if it was persuasive, entertaining or informative. We read 4 stories/ texts overall and we did two activity's
   

I can evaluate and integrate ideas and information across a few texts

WALT: I can evaluate and integrate ideas and information across a few texts

We learnt about changing the flag and peoples opinions. I went OK because I needed to focus more on others opinions instead of mine  

NZ Should Change Its Flag?

Reason/Evidence For Changing	Evidence Category (highlight)		Reason/Evidence For Keeping the Flag the Same	Evidence Category (Highlight)
The flag needs to represent New Zealand’s Culture.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		Keeping the kiwi Heritage of New Zealand’s Past	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
People want New Zealand to be more independent	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		People have died under that flag in world war 1	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
People don’t want it to be confused with Australia.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		People have grown up and lived with the flag	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
To build our image internationally.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		It reflects the things New Zealand have earned in the past.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion		It’s been the same flag since 1902.	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
	Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion			Common Knowledge Personal Opinion Statistics Expert Opinion
Overall the evidence for this side is weak because Most of these points are opinions that a group of people agree on because they want the flag to be changed.			Overall the evidence for this side is strong because most of these statements are more factual as they’re common knowledge.