Tag: Reading

Piano Quiz Progress

My group and I have been working on creating a interactive report of a quiz.

First, we planned everything and gave everybody jobs, for example: linking, decorating, finding information, timeline, etc.

Then we started working on our timeline and finding information, we found lots of different information like, the first piano ever created, when the first piano was created, and the first electric piano(keyboard) to be created.

Lastly we started adding some questions and linking the answers on if it was correct of incorrect. We added a variaty of questions like: What did white keys on a piano used to be made of? When was the first piano created? and, When was first electric piano(keyboard) was created?

I enjoyed this task because creating quiz’s is fun. I need to improve on finding accurate information. I did good at creating the questions, and linking the answers.

 

Piano Controversy

Group 8 created a podcast about pianos and the material used for making the keys on a piano.

First we reasearched about the piano and what material is used to create the white keys. We found out that the white keys on a piano used to be made out of ivory, ivory comes from the elephants tusks and rhinoceros horns.

Then, we wrote down some notes on what we found about the white piano keys. We wrote down notes about what ivory is, where it comes from, and the global treaty. The global treaty was signed in 1990 to ban ivory trading, becuase it was putting elephants and rhinoceros at risk of extinction.

Lastly, we wrote down a short script. After we wrote that we recorded our podcast outside. We used our scripts as a guide so that our voices sounded normal.

I enjoyed this task because I think reasearching about animals is fun. I think I could get better at noticing what I want to say first. I did good at writing notes and researching about the elephants and rhinoceros.

 

History of Sports Cars

Sports cars are a type of car that is specifically used for racing. They have been used for many years. There are lots of different kinds of sports cars, some of them are: Porsche, Tesla Roadster,  Ferraris and many other ones.

The first sports car that was ever made was the Prince Henry Vauxhaul. The Prince Henry Vauxhaul was made in 1914. This car could reach up to 90 MHP, and had a 3 litre engine. The person who designed this car was called Laurence Pomeroy.

Now, sports cars have evolved. Some of the sports cars engines now are between 2.0 engine litres to 7 engine litres. Once of these cars are the Porsche Cayenne with a engine that can reach 3.0 litres.

Sports cars have been around for many years the first sports car to ever be made was teh prince Henry Vauxhaul, and one of the most recent sports car is the 2022 Chevrolet Corvette.

 

Processed Food

I learnt about evaluating processed food.

First, we read 7 articles that had information about processed food on wether it was good for humans or not, most of them said that processed food can mostly be good for humans.

Next, we discussed our opinions using the extended discussion cards. My question was, How can processed food be bad for humans?

Lastly, we wrote our own opinions about processed food, my opinion is: I think that processed food is good for humans because we can eat it when there is no fresh food to eat, and processing food can kill microorganisms and make food last longer. But if we eat too much processed food it can be bad for us.

I enjoyed this task because I learnt to form my opinion. I did well on forming my opinion about processed food. I need to improve on finding questions.

Evaluating

I learnt about evaluating, and practised with a text called the youngest pilot fies around the world.

First we learnt what evaluating is, evaluating is judging events, information and arguments inside a text.

Then, we made 2 arguments about what we think that Mack could have done, or did well at, and summarised both of them. My 2 arguments were that Mack wasted his time,and it didn’t matter that he flew around the world. The other agrument is that he used his time wisely, and he should get an award.

Lastly, we chose which argument we thought was best, I choose that Mack used his time wisely, and he shoukld be awarded my accomplishing a world reccord.

I enjoyed this task becuase I learnt how to evaluate, I think I need to get better at choosing an opinion, I was good at summarising the 2 argiments.

Mobile Garden

I am learning how to sumamrise texts, one of them is the Mobile Garden.

This story is about a man named Vijayanagar who was sent a letter from the sultan wanting fresh vegetables sent to the kitchen. The sutlan was trying to trick him so that the sultan had an exuse to invade Vijayanagar’s kingdom, Vijayanagar had noticed the sultan tried to trick him, so he hired Apaji to help him. Apaji had bullock carts sent to the royal gardeners so that they could grow their own vegetables. The sultan sent a letter back saying that he had got the vegetables and managed to complete the task, Vijayanagar gave apaji gold coins in return for helping him.

I enjoyed this task because I found this text interesting.

First attepmt

Second attepmt

Making Connections

We learnt about making text to text connactions.

First we read a poem called This little Piggy, and a story called The three Little Pigs.

Then we each made a text to text connection, a text to text connactions is when you compare 2 texts togeather that have something simalar to each other.

The text to text connection I made is that in the poem is says “this little piggy stayed home” , and in the story all of the pigs staying in the brick home in the end.

Making Connections

I revised about the three different types of connections. We revised text to self connections first. We read a text called By the River, and make text to self connections.