Friday, 18 March 2011

Instructional Entry

Anzac biscuits
Ingredients
1 cup of flour
1 cup of rolled oats
1 cup of brown sugar
Half a cup of dessicated coconut
125gms of melted butter
2 table spoons of Golden syrup
1 table spoon of water
Half a tea spoon of bi carb soda

Place flour into large bowl compined with the cup of oats, brown sugar and dessicated coconut . Mix dry ingrediants together. But butter into a pan until melted, then take off stove and add suryp and stir until mixed. Once this is mixed add to the dry ingrediants and mix together until all ingrediants is together. Roll this mix into a ball about the size of a walnut onto a lightly greased tray.

Statistics and Climate Change

Daily Electrity used
11
8
21
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8
6
6
6
7
8
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7

Novel

iBoy
Writen by Kevin Brooks

Entry 1- The story called iBoy is set in the rough industrial aera of South London in the modern age. This aera is filled with drugs, alcohol and gangs roaming the streets during the day and night. This story is conveyed to the reader by you always wanting to know what around the couner, for you wanting to find out whats the next plot in the story.

Entry 2- In the novel there are many main characters but their is one who is the main focus, which is Tom Harvey.
- Tom Harvey is a 16 year old boy who has no father or Mother and has been raised single handedly by his Gram in an run down apartment block. One day after school Tom was going to meet one of his friends in the aparment block and just before he entered he heard his name being called out and the moment he looked up the was a black object hailing towards him. It was an iPhone 3gs. Tom after this incident spent 17 days in hospital where he was in a coma. After Tom woke up he found at that one of his best friends had been raped and bashed from that same room the iPhone came out of. This has Tom wanting to know who commited the crime and it has changed the character of himself.

Entry 3- During the novel voiolence is one thing that is consistant throughout the story. Voilence is the one thing in the story that effects the characters of Lucy and Tom. Lucy gets raped by a gang and therefore tom uses his iBoy powers to gain revenge on the gang members and this causes the story line to change.

Entry 4- There is many sences in the book where tom lays on his bed and uses his powers in his mind. He does this for curtain amount of times in the book an if this book was changed into a movie i would leave out thi scene.

Entry 5- The author uses much action in the book to make it feel epic. This was a topic that really entreged me through out the book and i was always wanting to know what was around the courner in the book.

Living in a Wardli

Highs: - Having a comfy bed
- In a warm environment
- Cooking your own food
- Having good food
- Being independant
- Working as a team
- Organising your self and team
- Buying your own food
- Feeling that you have a responsablitiy
- Sharing rooms with your mates

Challenages:
- having to clean up after certain people
- Having to clean up the house everyday
- Having to work in a team
- Lazy roomates
- Solving problems
- Not working as a team
- Everything has to be pretty much perfect in inspections
- Using the washining machine
- Having to sleep outside for consquence
- Keeping things in good order around your house

During my time in the waldlis i really thing to work efficiantly as a team you need people who are willing to cooperate, and this is the thing that i expect out of people in my wladli.

I expect of my self that I try to help and support everyone through the team of the house and that i show respect to others. I hope others see that in myself in the waldli.

Sharing a Waldli

Session 1

1. My strength i believe is that i think i m a good leader in the house. I try to help everyone with there little jobs in the house including my own i support and try to get everyone finish early before we have to move on to do something else. I think i have picked up these by living in the independantly in the boarding house and learning to live by myself which has given me sense of leadership and gives me an advantage over the others in my waldli.
2. Ok, well the first issue we had in the waldi was putting people on jobs on the roster on our white board. People wanted to do curtain jobs and do it consistantly for a daily period. But me and some others didnt want this, we wanted to share the load on different jobs through out the house, we resolved this by evenly splitting the jobs on a daliy basis and everyone agreed. The other issue was when we first moved into the waldli there was an issue of who wanted to room with who and what room people wanted to be in, in the house. I ended up having to just volenteer to go in a room i didnt really want which wasnt to bad any way and we also ended up pulling names from the hat which was a fair call used with inisutive. We have had other issues of people not doing their jobs in the house. This is something i m not to fussed about but it just annoys me most of the time. This is an issue that hasnt been solved but i think a way we can solve it is by following our roster and not being able to be lazy as a team.
3. One day the toilet got blocked with toilet paper and no one had really dicided to volenteer to clean it out by hand so i volenteered. In this situation it was a simple block and i had fixed the problem. This had shown to me that i felt that in myself i was a leader to me. I throught this becasuse no one really wanted to do and i throught to myself well heres my oppertunity to show that i can lead by volenteering to do an easy chore.

Session 2
1. Fuctional housemate
-Leadership: To be a leader you should be organised and willing to do the team things. For the house to be a funtional place and for it to be organised the leader is the perfect examply of keeping the house in an ordely fashion. For other people to have a leader really helps them in order to do there jobs and keep themselves in order.
-Organisation: For a house to be funtional the house need to be organised and neat, not all messy and not punctual towards time management.
-Respect: For the house to work together as a team you need everyone to give each other respect and not nag and fight each other all of the time.
-Teamwork: The house would never work in terms of all of these points with out team work. You couldn't just have one person doing all of the jobs.
-Integrety: The house also need integrety inorder for it to be a functional house. The house wouldnt work without maturity.
2.
The most sucessful person in our wardli is a person who is a great leader and is always willing to work as a team member. He is always keeping everyone in line but he is not naging at you and he is chill most of the time. These atributs i believe is something that every leader needs, but their is always improving.
3.
Organisation is one of the biggest atributes you need inorder to maintain a sucessful wardli. The wardli does not work for you becasue everything wouldnt work and you wouldnt have a functional house.

Poetry

Senses

The sound of the waves crashing against the sharpe pointy rocks,
The smell of the old and tamed ocean wind against the shore,
The feel of the small grains of sand sifting in between your hands,
The taste of the sea water simmering on your taste buds in your mouth,
The sound of the uncurtinty of the unpredictable ocean swells smashing on the shore line,
The birds floating in the ocean sky.

Community Service - Leisure Options

People who are in need that do not have the support to cope, the volenteers are the people that take their free time off to help these people. I learnt that having a disablity does not mean that you have to deal with it alone, but that there is always help out there and that you dont have to live your life like that all the time, you can actually get and in the world and do things. I really liked the type of people you met and the background they had with them, i found this very interesting. The thing i least enjoyed about this experiance wasnt really anything, i really liked this oppertunity to see how these people lived their life and to see how the interacted with us.

Scientific Research - Hooded Plover

Aim: To collect data on a bird called the hooded plover.  The data we will collect will be on the study of frequency, habitats and threats to the plover. This data that we collect will be used to establish a program to increase numbers and to make rational decisions basised on factual information for future research.

Method: Once arriving at the beach the groups will be assigned to taks like scribing, photography, threat observing, GPS operator video. The information collected will be taken on a graph in your book that comes with a table.
- Scribing: Write down threats that have been observed and write down data collected by the GPS.
- Photography: Take photos of any sightings of the plover.
- Threat observing: Observe the area around you to see threats like animals, humans and other types of things.
- GPS operator: Take down the longitude and latitude co-ordinates where the plovers where located on the beach.
- Video operator- Take video observations of the birds seen

Synopsis: A hooded plover is a bird that nests and breeds along beaches in some parts of Australia. The plover is around 10 centimetres in height and 20 centimetres in length and they weigh around 90 to 100 grams. Males and females have the same complexions and their young are just greyer versions of the adults. The problem that is killing the birds are its threats that destroy their nests and drives the bird off of the York Peninsula and many other places around Australia.

Results: In mild conditions of temperatures in low 20's and quite a percentage of cloud, the conditions out at sea where rough and on the shore there where rolling waves coming up to the shore. This is where most of the plovers we saw where located, up to the breaking waves that hit the shore, and they were there to probably catch some food like crustaceans like worms, sea lice and other small living things. During the day we saw any amount of threats to the plover. The threats we saw where cars parked on the beach which could of ran over the plover’s nests and seagulls which eat the plover’s hatchings. These two threats are something that has decreased their numbers over the years, but yesterday we found signs that the population is increasing. To be able to find 4 plovers in 2 pairs show that the research we are doing towards the hooded plover are paying off and that the plovers are increasing in numbers. The plovers that we located where found at S 35.14077 and S 35.14039 at Pondalowie bay. The spots on the beach where we found these plovers was a find where the others in the past had not found many amounts of the birds. This shows that the plovers are hopefully increasing in numbers and that hopefully one day these birds will come off the valneable list.