FOUR FACTS - Halloween. (T4, W4)

 

Room 8 Response to Text: Short Film (T4 W4)

 Response to text:

Short Films

Highlight the correct answer or write down the appropriate response.

1. What is the general length of a short film? 

a) Between 30 & 60 minutes                 b) About 5 minutes long

c) Over an hour                                          d) Between 5 & 30 minutes 

2. Why are short films good for beginning filmmakers? 

a) Less risk                                 b) Less cost

c) More freedom                        d) All of the above

3. Explain in your own words why short films are a good place to start filmmaking?

It's very easy and cool plus it's less expensive so in the future you would have enough money for the big budget movies.

4. True or False: Animated films can cost $200,000 per minute of animation.

a) True b) False

5. What do these words mean? Find the word in the article, and use the word in your own sentence.

WORD	SENTENCE
investors	An investor is a person who gives money to companies.
budget	your expenses
innovative	make changes in something like a project, especially by making new methods and ideas.

6. Short films encourage the use of “innovative film techniques”? What do you think this means? New methods and ideas

7. What is one thing (film technique) from the short film “Coin Operated” we watched today that you found different from normal movies? Explain what it was, and why you think the filmmakers made that choice. It was really short but it was meaningful because it is a short film plus there is no talking.

4 Facts: Good Decisions in our Country

 

4 Facts Niuean Hiapo

 

4 Facts: Niue Food

 

Response to Text: Inside Out (Thursday W10, T3)

 Response to text:

Inside Out

Highlight the correct answer or write down the appropriate response.

1. How many emotions live in Riley’s head? 

a) 7 emotions                                          b) 5 emotions

c) 10 emotions                                             d) 3 emotions

2. Which emotion helps to keep Riley safe? 

a) Fear                                  b) Joy

c) Sadness                                    d) Anger

3. Explain why Joy tries to stop Sadness from touching any more memories

→It turns them blue, meaning she's making them sad memories.

4. True or False: Joy sees sad memories as a bad thing

a) True b) False

5. Who is Riley’s old imaginary friend?

a) Train of Thought                             b) Billy Bong

c) Bing Bong                                       d) Sadness

6. The place where obsolete memories are erased is called 

a) Imagination Land                           b) Princess Dream World

c) Abstract Thought                             d) Memory Dump

7. Which emotion was able to cheer Bing Bong up when he was feeling really upset?

a) Joy                                                    b) Disgust

c) Sadness                                            d) Fear

8. In your own words describe which emotion is important to you and why

→happiness everyone needs happiness in there lives.

Response to Text

 Response to text:

Māori Kai

1. A hangi is… 

a) a way Maori greet each other b) a type of food

c) an earth oven d) a way of storing food

2. Māori brought these animals with them as a source of food.

a) Pigs b) Cows

c) Dogs d) Sheep

3. Explain how Māori boiled their water

→Māori did not make pottery, so their only means of boiling was to place a red-hot stone in a wooden bowl of liquid.

4. True or False: rua kūmara is an elevated storage platform

a) True b) False

5. Which of the following is NOT a species of whitebait?

a) Inanga b) Kōaro

c) Pikopiko    d) Kōkopu

6. Why do you think it was important for Māori to store their food underground, or above the ground?

→So it would be safe from anyone trying to steal it 

7. In your own words, explain how to build a hangi.

→dig a deep hole put long wood pieces, layer it across the hole then add what you want to cook but before you do that, check the wood to see if it's wet. If not then you're okay.

4 Facts: Famous Māori

 

Response to Text (Wednesday T3, W8)

Response to Text

1. Who was the article about? Sir Āpirana Ngata

2. When and where was he born? 3rd of july 1874

3. Which Iwi was Apirana Ngata most connected to? Nagti porou

4. What was he the first Maori person to do? He was the first Maori to graduate from university.

5. 
   

1. “Apirana dedicated himself to the improvement of… ‘’Moari”

2. “Apirana was a proud Maori, and fought to… “Māori and fought to set up businesses and schools for Māori throughout New Zealand”

6. Why do you think it was important for Apirana to educate himself like a European? I think he wants to educate himself like a European because he wants to show people that even if you have a different culture does not mean you can’t educate yourself like other cultures and that it's your choice.

What do you think motivated him to fight so hard to keep Maori Culture alive? I think he wanted to represent his culture and show those out there that anybody can do anything if they believe in themselves. 

Response to Text: Kakahu Pekepeke (Tuesday (W8, T3)

 Response to text:

Kakahu Pekepeke 

by Keri Welham

1. A whakairo is… 

a) another word for taonga b) a Maori food

c) a traditional carving d) a gift 

2. The whakairo was gifted to the school in...

a) 1990 b) 1992

c) 2000 d) 2002

3. Explain why the whakairo is called “Kakahu Pekepeke”

→Kakahu Pekepeke was presented to the school by Kerry Wilson in 1992 for the school’s new Library.

4. True or False: A pekepeke is a cloak.

a) True b) False

5. Which of the following is NOT a taonga that Ōtūmoetai School has?

a) Carvings of Tākitimu waka b) The prow of the Tākitimu waka

c) Murals of the first Principal d) A 125 year old Oak Tree

6. What can the idea of “kakahu pekepeke” (giving a cloak to a family who is mourning) tell us about Maori, and their sense of community?

→to tell us that they give one to another and not get anything in return

7. How does the design of the whakairo show  the importance of the environment to Maori communities and culture? It shows the past and how graceful they used their time to make it.

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Research Task: Food in Tonga

 

Research Task: Tongan Landmarks

 

This is my research about the tonga landmarks and at the end of the presentation is the tongan alphabet.