Drama

 Today in drama we are writing a reflection about this term. We have to write about what we did and what we enjoyed. I learnt that melodrama is a genre. My favourite genre is mystery and adventure. I also learnt what clowning is.  At the start of the term, we learn about F.A.R.T.S. F stands for focus. A stands for action. R stands for role. T stands for tension. S stands for space. The most recent thing we learnt was different types of drama/theatre. The drama/theatre types we learnt were tragedy, melodrama, comedy, physical drama and epic drama. My favourite game that we played would be park bench. 

1. Tragedy: I like tragedy because there are lots of stuff that happen. A tragedy movie is Romeo and Juliet.
2. Comedy: I like comedy because there are lots of funny stuff in their movies. A comedy movie is Deadpool.
3.  MeloDrama: I liked melodrama because there are different types of villains, heroes and victims. A MeloDrama movie is spiderman. 

Here is a video of comedy:

Clowning

 Hi, guys today I'm writing about what we did last week. We did some clowning in the theatre. Clowning is basically being a mimic and mining things. Something that I think about clowns is that they are ugly. For clowning, you basically pretend you trip over something, pretend to get hurt, be dumb, and act like a child. Sometimes they look like clowns or just have white paint on their faces while acting. We also watched some videos about clowning.

Drama

 For the past 2 weeks we have started term 4 and we had to do drama. Since one of our teachers have gone into to maternity leave so we have a different teacher. Last week our focus was freeze frame. There were four things we were looking at in our freeze frame. The four things were gesture, layers, facial expressions spacial relationship. Last week we had to get into groups and create four freeze frames from a script we were learning. My group was with my friends Shanaya, Alexia and Casey. I think these freeze frames good because there layers are all different and they are all doing some thing different form each other. Here is a photo of some our freeze frames. 

Speaking My Truth - Bullies

Yesterday we had Drama and we had to put the slide show that the teacher made on a blog. Last week we played games. I forgot what the games were but we did human statues. We had to put the Bullies script on here. We had to fold a piece of paper and write 1 - 6  in the corner. We had to draw photos of what we think is happening in the script. It helps us recap the story. Here is the Slide show and Script and Photo

Slide show:

Bullies Script

Picture dictation

Figurative Language

Today I have to describe what a simile and metaphor is to you. Here is one simile and metaphor from PaperBoy. Metaphor: “Mrs. Worthington and her red hair. That was the dessert of my thinking” (p. 156). Simile: “[Mr. Spiro] sounded official like he was calling a baseball game on the radio”

(p. 30). What is a simile?: A simile is a repranse with like or as, here is a example: The dog was running as fast as a cheater. You can us similes and metaphors in writing. What is a metaphor?: A metaphor is a figure of speech in which word or a phrase is applied to an object or action. Here is a example of a metaphor: Her heart is gold. The activity said we had write a metaphor that best describes Little Man’s relationship with Mam and write a simile that describes Little Man’s communication with TV boy. Here is the simile and metaphor.

Simile: Both don't talk alot like a turtle very quite.

Metaphor: Little Man and Mam are very strong together.

Paper Boy - Novel Study

Today I read chapters 10-12. I wish I could read more but we have to do it at different times. Sadly Mam was still busted up. Here is some events that were in the story. Little Man's parents went on a business trip. Little Man sneaks into Ara T's shed to try and find his yellow handed knife but instead he found his old big chrome headlight from his old schwinn. Mam had a choir on. Little Man and Mam went to the zoo. The dialogue is write different from normal books. When Little Man speaks it says  s-s-s-s Yes Ma'am s-s-s-s But only a s-s-s-s little one. When other people speak it says, have you flown in it, no speech marks or nothing. The speech parts from page 17 when Little Man is talking to Mrs Worthington.

Character Description

Today I am starting a new activity for PaperBoy. In the activity we have to describe 2 characters from the story, the 2 characters I am doing are "Mr Spiro" and "Mrs Worthington". Here is a short summary of the 2 characters. Mrs Worthington: She can be mean and nice if she is in a good mood, there is always weird sounds coming from here house. Mr Spiro: Always nice, always here to talk to you, invites you to talk if you want. I know that because Mr Spiro always talks to little man and always invites him in the story. I know this because that first time little man meet Mrs Worthington she was all rude and strict to little man but later on in the story Mrs Worthington was nice to him and asked him if he wanted a drink and have a little talk.

Reflect On Paper Boy

Today I had to watch a video. The video was about Paper Boy. In the video the author(Vince Vawter) read chapter 1. Here is the link to the video.
In the video Vinces voice there was a tiny stutter in every word he said. Vinces voice was quiet but loud enough to hear him. His voice was calm and smooth. His voice was different to most people because his voice was stuttering a tiny bit.

Benny

For the past week we had to draw stuff about a book. The book is called "Benny". 

We go given a piece of paper and we had to filled to into 6 squares. 

Then the teacher read parts of the story and when to finished reading the part we had to draw the main event in the part.

On the back of the paper we had to draw a person and choose from Benny or I.

In the person we had to put there emotions they felt and what we think they are like and there personality. The person on the back of the paper was called "Role On The Wall"

The teacher showed us a thing called Iceberg. 

At the bottom of the iceberg we had to put stuff down that was not in the story and it doesn't show. At the top of the iceberg is were we put what was in the story and what it does show.

Freeze Frames

Today we had to take a photo of our freeze frame and say what the character were thinking. The book we did the freeze frame about was called "Bok Choy". The book was by Paul Mason. A freeze frame is people in  group making a point about the story and the people are holding the photo for 3 seconds. We got given into groups we could of been in 1,2,3,3,4,5 or 6. I was in group 3. The characters in the story were Jacob, Jacobs Mother, Ah Sum, Mrs Bishop and William. Here is my groups freeze frame.