Character Profile | Erza Scarlet

 LI: To create a character profile.

Our challenge was to choose our favourite anime/manga character. Our next challenge was to draw the character on our chromebooks or on paper. I chose to draw my character digitally because I am not very skilled with drawing on paper. It took me a while to trace my character as there was many details for me to add. Our final challenge was to write a paragraph that describes our character and explains why this character is your favourite. My character, Erza Scarlet. The reason to why Erza is one of my favorite anime characters is due to her overwhelming leadership abilities. She is a very straight-forward person and sticks to her morals. I also admire her as she is the strongest female mage in the Fairy Tail guild. 

History of Manga

LI: To read for meaning and understanding

Our challenge last week was to complete a reading comprehension about the history of Manga to show that we are reading for meaning and understanding. Our final challenge in this activity was to create a DLO to share the information we found out. 'Manga' is the term originally made in Japan that defines 'comics'. They are used to tell stories or explain an event. There are no limits to what manga can be about, the genres can range from fantasy worlds, to horror gore stories. 

Manga Artist

LI: To read for meaning and understanding

Last week, our challenge was to use our smart searching skills to create a DLO in our own words that tells us about the life of our favourite manga artist or a well known manga artist. The manga artist I chose was Io Sakisaka. She is one of my favourite manga artists as her 3 popular shoujo romances are some of my favourite romance manga's. I enjoy reading shoujo romance and Io Sakisaka has given the best impression on me. She started her manga career in 1999 when she made her first anthology story. 

Tuesday Maths Challenge | Distance Learning

 LI: to use the most sufficient strategy to solve your problem. 

Today I completed the second maths challenge of the week, today's question was 'There are 54 students in LS2. If everyone shook hands with each other how many handshakes would there be altogether?' . For this question I would use multiplication. So, 53 x 27. 53 times a student is handshaking every other students hand then multiply that by half the number of students (27). The answer I got was 1431. I used the place value method to check if my answer was correct. 

List Poem | Distance Learning

LI: To write a list poem that describes a topic by painting a picture with your words.

My culture is the red and white flag that hangs proudly in the Kingdom of Tonga

It is the fresh mango picked off a tree to make an otai

The ta'ovala worn to show respect 

It is the oil that drips down her skin as one performs a  tau'olunga

The lea faka tonga spoken by my ancestors 

It is the hymns sung on sunday mornings,

The 15 minute prayers that seem to be 9 hours along with it. 

My culture is, Tongan

List poems are a simple way to get into poetry writing that can be based on ideas that are familiar to you. Lists can be an inventory of items, people, places, or ideas. List poems don’t require rhyme and often involve repetition. My list poem was based on "My culture is...". In this poem I expressed what it means to be apart of the tongan culture. 

I enjoyed writing this poem because I could truly express what my culture is. 

Letter Q | Distance Learning

LI: To evaluate. 

This week we read about the origin of the Letter Q, and where it came from. Our task was to create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) to identify words that begin with the Letter Q. Once we had done that we identified the words we didin’t know and defined these. If you would like to see my DLO explaining 3 words starting with the letter Q click the text box that says "Link to canva". 

I found out the word 'qibla' is a direction which muslims pray towards.

I enjoyed this activity because I learnt so many words that I never even used or knew before. 

Monday Maths Challenge | Distance Learning

LI: use the most efficient strategy to solve your problem. 

For these maths challenges I used addition and subtraction with written algorithm. For the challenge and super challenge I used written algorithm in addition and for the extra challenge I used written algorithm in subtraction. These questions were based off of past news of ‘Dutch couple move into world’s first 3D printed home’. In the news there was an elderly couple that retired from being shop keepers that moved into the worlds first 3D printed home . Their comment on the house was - “It is beautiful,” “It has the feel of a bunker – it feels safe,”.