Time to think critically!

WALT: Think critically about what we read.

Kiwi Kids news

Task description: Make something from a kiwi kids news thing.... <:D

Reading :(

The Jacket! ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) :o

Percy Jackson: The last Olympian ( Book review )

I've been setting some work for myself to complete during the holidays to keep my learning up to date. Over the following days I shall blog-post about 3 things. My learning of animation, the progress of my narrative, and my thoughts on this new book I received.

To be honest, I've actually had this book for quite some time, but only started reading it recently.  ( Don't worry, I've read the previous books in this series )

I'm thoroughly enjoying this book as it is full of action-packed adventure, as well as interesting and well structured characters.

(Spoilers!!! Including the rest of the books!) 

The storyline is a great feature of this book series as young Percy learns about his place as a Demi-God, also known as "Half-bloods". He goes through a series of adventures, conquering the golden fleece, defeating a giant cyclops, fighting alone, against The Greek god of war, resurrecting a demi-god, visiting the underworld and much more!

(End of spoilers)

I began reading this book yesterday, and I'm already on page one-hundred and sixty six. That's how intriguing it is! Nonetheless, I recommend this book to fictional lovers, or people that enjoy Greek mythology. (Basically me). It features a variety of epic and emotional scenes that keep the reader hooked and wanting to read the whole series. 

What I loved about this book and series is the exploration of Greek mythology, and how the author (Rick Riordian) creates a modern world based on Greek history. Percy is a likeable character. He's humble, but confident, and is able to think in intense situations, resulting in victory. 

This particular book in the series features (More spoilers) Percy Jackson and his friends, who aid a group of gods in the takedown of Kronos and his growing army. This happens at the same time that Typhon (A titan), is reeking havoc throughout his journey to New York City.

What starts off as a mission to help others quickly turns into a fight for life when Percy and his friends are confronted and challenged by the Father of monsters, Typhon. Those angered and betrayed by Percy and the Olympians lend their might in helping Kronos to strengthen his army, determined to stop Percy in his tracks. Not only does Percy have to deal with these confrontations, he also turns 16 in the following year.

So will the prophecy be true? Will he be the decider for the future of mankind?

Anyways, that's my review, so I hope this encourages you to read the book Percy Jackson: The last Olympian. Maybe even read the whole series!

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Symbolism

Atiu research

Plastic Pollution task

Task description: We had to interpret reading description........  

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, part 1

Task description: We had to read the story, then answer some questions about it.

How to spot click bait.

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Here is the site I got information

(Actual) How to spot clickbait

If you go on some site/app and you're suppose to click on something that would have information, you might get click baited. If you have been click baited, but don't want to, I, have some good tips for you that can help you spot click bait.

Some ways are to put some research in the subject. If there isn't much about it, it's most likely fake. Another one is if you feel somewhat emotional, the publisher might've done that to make you more interested in it. The publisher might also exaggerate the title, for example, it might mention someone going to space, but the content might just show it as in a video game. 

I hope you learnt something.              :)











Here's the site that I got information, it has awesome information and some deep meaning with a cool story 

Scandalous Satire

 Task description: We had to read articles and figure out if they were Satire or not.

Fake news!

Task description: We had to read an article that explains fake news.

Naughts and Crosses

Task description: After reading the text, we had to than think of how the characters thought of the world.

Protests

 Task description: We had to learn about how people protested.

A brush with the dark side

Task description: We had to read the text and then answer questions based on clauses.

If only text

Task description: Our task was to read a text and then think about clauses.

What's the point

Task description: we had to learn about meanings in story and had to make one up ourselves.

"All rivers flow to the sea"

Task description: We had to learn about key things in a text called clauses and use that to complete the task in the slides.