Fixing a surface features writing!

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In room 9 we are learning to fix a surface features. Surface features are a little bit in the writing that we need to fix. Surface is punctuation spelling repeated words. We are doing this to improve in our writing by rereading it and fixing the mistakes in our writing. 

An example is: thissentsaChulymakessen Zbuttisrellyhrd to reed. The sentence has no surface features. We also changed our writing because there were to many of the same words.

On the room 9 site weekly writing there is a link that takes you to a document that we made a copy of the document. And then starting fixing the mistakes. Here is the instructions and the document:

Reading 1

Find the ends of the sentences. 

To do this: 

Look for each time a person or thing is mentioned again.

Look for when a new piece of information is given.

Think about where you pause to make sense of what you are reading.

Reading 2

Highlight the most repeated word.

Can you fix it?

Reading 3

Does this feel easier to read now?

How many sentences start the same way?

Kai kept absolutely still as the footsteps got louder. He tried not to suffocate as he laid under the bed. He was wondering what had happened to his brother and his family. The man with the knife in his hand stormed around the house.

 Mum has had boyfriends before but we had not thought that they would ever find us. Maybe Elijah was one of them looking for revenge, but why would he come? Mum would just move and how did he find us? We live on the other side of the planet from where all of mum’s boyfriends were. So how could Elijah find us. He might have put a tracker on mum when he last saw her or on one of her devices.

‘Hello where are you? I know you're here. You're going to tell me where your mother is or you shall join your father... in the skies so which will it be, death or freedom! You have 10 seconds to choose wisely’.

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Birthday party writing

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Today I am sharing with you my amazing descriptive writing about a birthday picture. For writing this term we are still using language features. The picture we are describing is a picture from a birthday party. Here is my writing and the picture:

 I see: I see the little girl on the side out of the photo eating the cake like if she didn’t eat the cake she would explode. I see people wearing puletaha. People holding little kids

I hear: I hear little kids crying like “ waaaaaa” not wanting to be in the picture. I put a timer on the phone “321” and run into the frame. ‘Bang’ a balloon pops behind us and the girl sitting down screams, she was so embarrassed she wanted to stick her face in the cake.

I smell: I smell the fancy perfume from the girls standing up. The smell of the food swimmed around us. 

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Remarkable

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Today I am sharing with you my amazing new weekly words/ word of the week. Word of the week is when we get or choose a word that we do a definition of, a example and our own sentence. This week I picked remarkable. Here is my work.

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Fia fia

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Today I am sharing with you my schools Fia Fia from last term.

 Fia Fia is when my school's pacifika group get's to perform normally at the high school but this year we did it in our school gym. For us all together there are 6 dances. We had a lot of months to practice with Miss Clifford, Miss Harris and Nuu's mum. A day before Fia fia we got our outfits, here is what the girls one's looked like.

We wore something like that with our own tops and flower decoration on our heads. Going up we were really scared and embarrassed, Here is the video: Click here. After that we ran up and got food but then we got told the parents were going first and we got sad. We went back to the classroom where we got dressed back in our normal clothes and played around then we left!

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Bemused

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Today I am sharing with you awesome people my new word of the week/ weekly words. Weekly words is when my teacher gives me a word that we do a definition of, a example of and my own sentence. This week the word is bemused. Here is my work.

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Describing a picture

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Today I am sharing with you my describing a picture writing. First I picked a photo, then went onto my language features document and put the picture in and wrote the date and wrote down: I see, I hear, I smell, I taste and I wonder. Here is my writing: I see

• I can see my feet shaking walking across the tightrope

• I can see the water crashing down like a tree falling to the ground

• I can see the branches sticking out of the side of the big water whole.

I hear

• I can hear the water crashing down underneath my feet

• I hear the sound of the wind

• I can hear the sound of things falling from the sides

I smell

• I smell the clear air from the sky

• I can smell the dirty water from the tightrope

I taste 

• I taste the saliva in my mouth 

• I taste the fresh air from the sky

• I can taste the dryness in my mouth from the air

I wonder

• I wonder if I’ll fall and break my neck on the water and I’ll die

• I wonder if the rope will break and I’ll fall and drown 

• I wonder if I fall of it and get knocked out and drown and die there

After that I got it checked off and wrote a story about it.

It was a good idea, I think. It was just there I thought to myself, I wonder if I’ll fall and break my neck on the water and die, what if the rope breaks and I’ll fall and drown, what if I fall and get knocked out and drown and die there. After worrying I think of something positive to get my mind off it. I taste the saliva in my mouth, I taste the fresh air from the sky, I taste the dryness in my mouth from the air. I can see the water crashing down like a tree falling to the ground. I can see my feet shaking walking across the tightrope. I can see the branches sticking out of the side of the big water whole. I can hear the water crashing down underneath my feet. I hear the sound of the wind. I smell the clear air from the sky.

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Why discrimination is wrong.

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For reading in my group we are learning about discrimination. Discrimination is when someone judges a person for the way they look, act, do and even there culture or who your family/ friends are. I went on Canva and made a small article about discrimination. Here is my discrimination article.

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