Whale Rider Identifying Bias

WAL to identify bias in a text.  We had to highlight the words that showed Koro Apirana being biased.  He would be mean to Kahu because he wanted a boy to be the chief but Kahu was next in line and she is a girl.  

I thought this activity was easy because I could find the examples.

The easiest part was the ones where it said he was grumpy with her.  The hardest part was where it didn’t say it very clearly.

I hope we get to do something like this again.

Persuasive Writing

WAL to identify persuasive techniques.  We had to figure out which technique they were using.  We had practiced these techniques in the skits we created.  For example

They dress up like a scientist so we believe their expert opinion

30 Seconds has a slogan :”Spray and Walk Away”

Emotional Appeal makes you feel guilty if you don’t use the product

The technique I found easiest to remember is slogan because I remember it easily.

The technique that was hardest was emotional appeal because I found it hard to manipulate a person to think I was right

Overall, it was easy because I could tell that they use this or that technique

Mixed and Improper Fractions

Reflection

We learnt how to use Mixed and Improper fractions.
We learnt what was an Improper Fractions  and what was a Mixed Fractions.
We had a to learn how change an improper fraction to an Mixed.
My favorite one was changing a improper fraction to a mixed fraction.

Divisibility Rules

Reflection
We were researching how to divide the numbers 1-10.
It was hard because there were some words that we couldn't understand,

Long e Sound