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.

Paper Boy Question

Yesterday I finished reading chapter 9. When we finished chapters 7 - 9 you had to go onto the next slide and there was questions. In chapter 9 Mrs Worthington was drunk and didn't give the money for the news paper. Mam had a fight with someone but didn't tell Little Man so Little Man was sad. Here is the questions and answers.

Q: What is the conflict between Ara T and Little Man? How will it be resolved?

A: The conflict between Ara T and Little Man is that Ara T is not giveing Little Man his yellow handed knife back. Ara T is trying to get Little Man to say knife but he cant say that because the k is to hard for him to say. I think that Little Man will come out and say that Ara T is not giving his knife back.

Q: Why do you think Little Man likes Mr Spiro so much?

A: I think Little Man likes Mr Spiro because he is always there for him and lets Little Man ask him questions that he is scared to ask his parent them. Mr Spiro lets Little Man talk and doesn't interrupt Little Man.

Q: Research what a speech pathologist does. Explain what their job is and how they help people.

A: A speech pathologist is sort of like a speech therapist. They help with speech sounds, language(aphasia), social communication, voice, fluency, cognitive-communication, feeding and swallowing. You can find speech pathologist at private practices, physicians' offices, hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, rehabilitation centers, long-term and residential health care facilities.

Q: Who is Mam? What is her role in the family?

A: Mam is a like a caregiver for Little Man. She helps the family out with dinner and work. Mam is always nice to Little Man but she keeps secrets from Little Man.

Watercolour Art

Last week we had to do watercolour. We got given a piece of paper and it had 4 corners. On the first corner it said blend. On the second corner it said salt. On the third corner it said drip. On the last corner it said splat. The colours I used were blue and red, warm and cool. The blue turned to purple and the red turned into a pink but it also stayed the same. Here is my watercolour art.

Speaking My Truth Questions

Yesterday in Speaking my truth we got given a piece of paper. We had to choose a character from a story. The story was called "Benny". The characters were Mum, Benny and I. I choose to do I. On the piece of paper we had to put 5 or more questions down the are open not closed questions. Here are the questions I put down.

1. How did you feel after Benny moved school?
2. What are you and Bennys favourite subjects and why?
3. If Benny still talked to you would you bring up the fight you had and why?
4. If Benny still talked to you would it be awkward or?
5. If you could change last week, what would you change?
6. If Benny didn't move would you still got to eastbourne and why?

The teacher made us do hot seating (if you don't know what that is go to another blog it did) and recorded it. Here is a example of hotsetting:

Diamante Poem

Last week we had to create a poem. The poem we made is called "Diamante". Diamante poem is a poem that has 7 lines and it is shaped as a diamond. In line 1 we had put the starting subject. In line 2 had to put 2 words describing line 1. In line 3 we had to put 3 doing words (ing). In line 4 a short phrase about line 1 and 7. In line 5 we had to put 3 doing words about line 7. In line 6 we had to put 2 describing words about line 7. In line 7 we had to put the ending subject .We had to create the poem about a book. The book was called "The Taniwha of the Rakaia gorge". We had to thing about 2 things from the story and we had to write the poem about them. Here is my poem.

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.