'The Giver' - Reflection

What kind of suffering is worse in The Giver - physical or emotional?


I think that emotional suffering is worse because they didn't have feelings unless you were the Giver or the Receiver because it would all be new to you would find out the emotion sadness.  Then when bad things happened you would know what sad felt like so you would feel sad and people wouldn't want to be your friend  cause you would be sad.  They wouldn't want to be your friend because you would be acting weird.

Speeches: Tongue Twisters

We have been learning about Speeches and Debates.  Here is a chatter pix of me saying Red lorry Yellow lorry Red lorry Yellow lorry 5 times.

Hawkes Bay BandQuest

Barney, Lachlan, Noah, Max and I entered the BandQuest competition on Thursday 4th September. The competition started at 2pm. My band Sound City (the Y7 Rock Band) left Havelock North Intermediate and were on our way to the Napier Municipal Theatre. Once the whole band got there we sat in the auditorium and then Jimmy (the MC) called us up band-by-band to go backstage, get the guitars tuned and wait to be called on stage. When it was our turn I was actually quite nervous, even though it was only the sound check. I knew I would be singing to many more people when it was our time to perform! At four thirty all the bands got a one and a half hour break for dinner. At 6pm we were back at the auditorium with one hour until the show started. The show begun...my nerves disappeared as soon as I sung the first words of our song. After we had finished we walked off stage and we all said to each other, "THAT WAS AWESOME!!!" After watching all the bands we were all nervous. Then the prize giving came...I was so excited when my song was awarded best original song lyrics prize! What a fun, new experience. Here are the lyrics:

'Meant To Be'

Verse 1

I can see you every day

Out of the corner of my eye

I like to hang around you but you try to stay away from me

Chorus

You love maths

You’re funny

You’re strong and you are fast

It’s almost like we were meant to be

Were meant to be

Verse 2

As soon as I saw you I knew that I had seen you before were meant to be, yea you and me. All of this time I knew

Chorus

You love maths

You’re funny

You’re strong and you are fast

It’s almost like we were meant to be

Were meant to be

SOLO

Chorus

You love maths

You’re funny

You’re strong and you are fast

It’s almost like we were meant to be

Were meant to be

Repeat Chorus

By Paige B

Electronics: Soldering

Today we had soldering practice.  It was my first time ever soldering I found it quite easy but tricky at the same time.  We had a piece of cardboard with two pieces of copper tape

My Dance Elective

For dance we had finished our dance of Friday.  I was in the 90s dance group. It was fun when we were filming because half way through the dance I fell off the stage, but I got up and kept going.   For our costume my dance group wore Canterbury track pants but for our shirts we all wore something different.  The shirt that I was wearing was a baggy red sweatshirt.  I thought that dance was lots of fun.

Persuasive Writing

The Intermediate School Day Should Finish At 5pm

School, a place where kids come to learn.  For intermediate students it is normally  8:35 in the morning till 3:00 in the afternoon.  The  intermediate school day should be changed  finish at 5:00pm.

If intermediate finished at 5pm you would have lots more time in each period For example if you were learning algebra in maths you cover most of the subject because you would of had a lot more time for it and you can tackle all the tough questions and problems.That means you would be smarter.  Your grades would be a lot higher because you would have learnt a lot more.  

Another good reason is because you wouldn't have so much time on video games. That is good because of course everyone knows that they all ruin your little minds.  Those video games involve punching and kicking what if kids brought all that to school, they would get in fights and it would give schools bad looks.

Did you ever think about what would happen on later on in life? Of course they would succeed because they would be smarter which means they would get better and more money earning jobs.  They would be better at things that now our days adults wouldn't even know.

What a time saver for teachers there would be no homework.  One reason why there would be no homework is because you would have done it all through the day.  Which is great for all those teacher around the world because they wouldn’t have to take all their time after school to set out homework.  

That is why it is a great idea to stretch out when school finishes to 5:00 in the evening.  Learning more, no as much time on video games,  succeed later on in life and NO HOMEWORK.  Those are all great reasons to stretch the school day.

PE: Social Dance

The dances we have learnt for social dance are.1.Gay Gordons 2. Coconut Cream 3. Red Hot 4. Sha La La La La  5. Maxina 6. Sea Cruise 7. Bus stop. I find social dancing really fun, except for the first time when there weren't enough boys! My favorite dance is the Gay Gordons because you switch partners instead of staying with one.