Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Position and Orientation- Evidence of my learning
In room 10 our maths focus for the past two weeks has been position and orientation. I have learnt a lot from this maths subject, but one of the key things I have learnt is how to use a protractor. Here is a picture of one of the activities we had to do in one of our workshops with Miss O'B. we were given clues of which letters go where and from then on we had to figure out the positions they are meant to be in, we only placed two in the wrong area!
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Speech
In room 10 we have recently presented our speeches. My speech was on herbal remedies and how they are safer and healthier for your body than antibiotics. This speech was inspired by my mum who graduates from her school this year, 2017 and will become naturopathy and herbal medicalist.
Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Room 10, Week 7 and 8 inquiry
Healthy Bodies - Strong Minds
Weeks 7&8
Global Learning Intention: We are learning about being healthy.
BIG IDEA: By keeping physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually fit, we are holistically looking after our HAUORA, (Health).
Big Questions for learning weeks 7&8:
What is a stereotype and how can it affect the way I think about myself and others?
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Authentic Contexts:
Stereotypes
The way different cultures see beauty
Positive body image
The effect of the media on self perception
Profile photos
Photos from google. Use these if you want.
- Pin the profile photos around the classroom. Divide students into eight groups and give each group several profile sheets from Copysheet: Profile. Allocate a starting photo for each group and allow them a set period of time to come up with a profile of that person. Each group then moves on to the next photo, until they have worked with all the photographs.
Completed profiles
Consider: How accurate were your profiles?
Our profiles (me,Luca and Ollie) weren’t really accurate. We only got like one or two people right and even then it was only a few things that we got right about them.
What sort of things did you make mistakes about? (Age, hobbies ...)
It wost mostly age and career
Why do you think your profiles weren’t always accurate?
Because someone may look different than what they are on the inside
What information did you use to make your profiles? (The look of the person, what they were wearing, their culture, their age, what you think you know about people like that ...)
The look of the person and everything that was also in the image with them
Is this a fair thing to do? Why or why not?
No it is not a fair thing to do because you might judge someone by their look and never go near them but once you start talking to them they become like your best friend.
What should you do before you make decisions about what a person is like? (Really get to know them, find out about their personality, talk to them ...)
Get to know them, the real them. Spend time with them and find more out about them.
Create a list of the dangers of stereotyping people into categories.
· It can be incorrect.
It is also harmful.
It can be emotionally damaging to the people being stereotyped.
It could lead the people being stereotyped to committing suicide.
It can lead to people having depression and not having any friends.
Knowing and Respecting People
1. Before I make a judgement about a person I should:
Get to know them and if I don’t know them maybe I could ask someone about them or do some research.
2. It is unwise to stereotype people because:
It could potentially hurt their feelings and it also kind of counts as bullying. You also might not even know them but you still fit a stereotype with their image which is uncool.
3. We can make people in our school and community who we think are different feel
welcome by:
Treating them normally
Introducing them into your friend group so you can all be friends
Help them when they need help
Step i if they are having mean things said about them behind their backs or to their faces.
4. In future when I meet new people I will try to …
Be kind to them
Not judge them on their appearance and culture
Try to be friends with them
Step in if they need help
Cultural Perceptions of Beauty
- Brainstorm – What do you think is the perfect body? Draw/ cut pictures out of magazine as to what they think the perfect body is?
I don’t think there is a perfect body. Everyone is a different shape and size you shouldn’t have to change how you look to gain what everyone thinks is “beauty”
- Is there such a thing?
No there isn’t because every body is perfect the way it is.
- Are children and adults pressured to LOOK a certain way?
Some might be because of bullying or tradition and culture
- What is vanity? How does it affect ‘The perfect body?”
It is pride and when people admire their own beauty so it might make people love themselves the way they are
- Culture – What is it?
Culture is what identifies you and your country. It also can be tradition that originates from long ago ancestors
My ideas and thoughts...
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The Customised Body – The perfect body?
What practices are you aware of?
I am aware of neck stretching (african/asian?),foot binding (chinese) and lip/ear plates/discs (african)
- SCARIFICATION – cutting patterns in the skin, is a common way for African women and men to decorate their bodies. The cuts heal over, but raised scars remain on the body as elaborate and long – lasting patterns. Scarification video from National Geographic.
- Elaborate gold jewellery, pendants, beads, neck chains, earings, and a headband are used by Masai tribe in Kenya.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ZW6oSLnMM A more modern view of scarification.
- Metal/ brass rings. Burma or Ndebele people of South Africa.
- Nose plumes of the Ergpactsa chief pierce the soft tissue between his nostrils. The skin of his ear lobes has been stretched by wooden discs.
- A wooden disc inserted between his lower gums and lips. Lip discs – Suya tribe Brazil.
- Foot-binding – 19 photos of Chinese foot binding
- Generation of women in China had their feet bound to attract men, the custom was supported to have been handed down since ancient times. “How to bind feet” pg 105 - 06Body Bizarre, Body beautiful
- Tattooing, piercing
- More technologically advanced societies, they also change the shape of their bodies, special diets, exercising, cosmetic surgery, liposuction, botox.
In some cultures the ideal body can be very different to the perception and beliefs in New Zealand.
- SCARIFICATION – cutting patterns in the skin, is a common way for African women and men to decorate their bodies. The cuts heal over, but raised scars remain on the body as elaborate and long – lasting patterns. Scarification video from National Geographic.
- Elaborate gold jewellery, pendants, beads, neck chains, ear – rings, and a headband are used by Masai tribe in Kenya.
- Metal/ brass rings. Burma or Ndebele people of South Africa.
- Nose plumes of the Ergpactsa chief pierce the soft tissue between his nostrils. The skin of his ear lobes has been stretched by wooden discs. Nose plumes and pearls
- A wooden disc inserted between his lower gums and lips. Lip discs – Suya tribe Brazil.
- Foot-binding – 19 photos of Chinese foot binding
http://share100.goingviralposts.biz/coca-cola-campaign-aims-to-remove-labels/ Stereotypes in the dark An interesting point of view
This is a more modern approach to scarification and downright silly body alterations. My point of view there.
Monday, 11 September 2017
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Social Dance
I am going to tell you how to do the red hot salsa. Some of the steps in the video arn't the same as how we do it.
Here are the steps:
1) lasso on the right side
2) lasso on the left side
3) swing your hips
4) do the salsa
5) Step onto your right foot and tap your left foot's toe on the ground behind the right foot then repeat again.
6) grapevine to the right
7) slide back to the left
8) kick ball change twice
9) kick your right foot out to the side, then your left, then your right and back together
10) tab your right heel on the ground then the right foot's toe
11) take your arms up in the air and shout sheppard
12) then do the heel toe thing again once
13) turn around and repeat
Here is a link to a video of the red hot salsa line dance.
red hot salsa
Here are the steps:
1) lasso on the right side
2) lasso on the left side
3) swing your hips
4) do the salsa
5) Step onto your right foot and tap your left foot's toe on the ground behind the right foot then repeat again.
6) grapevine to the right
7) slide back to the left
8) kick ball change twice
9) kick your right foot out to the side, then your left, then your right and back together
10) tab your right heel on the ground then the right foot's toe
11) take your arms up in the air and shout sheppard
12) then do the heel toe thing again once
13) turn around and repeat
Here is a link to a video of the red hot salsa line dance.
red hot salsa
Mandarin lesson menu
In Mandarin we have been doing a roleplay game. This is our menuu we made. (I,Sunshine and Imogen)
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