Attitude presentation :)

On Friday the 9th of November Jordan from Attitude came to make a presentation to us, the year 10's. Jordan's job was to explain to us the positive and negative things technology can have on the society, especially on an individuals life. Jordan differnately gave us a lot to think about. He gave us multiple examples of how the internet or cell phones can destroy or change lives forever.  Jordans presentation was really inspiring yet funny and entertaining. He put across the message that he wanted us to know in a way that we can relate to, showing us videos, telling us stories, and relating it back to his own experiences as well. He gave us multiple examples of how the internet or cell phones can destroy or change lives forever. He told us that whatever we do at this age, whatever we send, say or text can make a big impact on our lives in the future because bad decisions can cause a lot of damage but not just on ourselves but to people around us aswell. His message came across in a funny way, just enough for us not get bored, but in a serious way that his message was being heard.

Shakespeare voki

William Shakespear

William Shakespeare was a very famous English poet and play writer. He was viewed as the greatest writer in English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His birthday is unknown, however, we do know that he was born and baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon on the 26^th of April 1564 and died at the age of 52 on the 23^rd of April in 1616.

Most biographers agree that he was educated at King’s New School.  When he was 18 years old, he married Anne Hathaway, who was 26 at the time. Six months later Anne gave birth to their first child, Susanna. Almost two years later she had twins, son Hammet and daughter Judith. Unfortunately, Hammet died at the age of 11 from unknown causes. He was buried on the 11 of August 1596.

The time between 1585 and 1592 are known as Shakespears’ “lost years”, this was when the twins were born until he was mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592 where there is evidence that he earned a living as an actor and play writer in London and possibly has a few produced.

By 1597, William Shakespear had published 15 out of 37 plays credited to him. By 1599, Shakespears and his business partners had built their own theater, called the Globe, on the bank of Thames River.

William Shakespear died on the 23rd of April 1616. Susanna married a physician, John Hall, in 1607, and two months before Shakespeare’s death. Judith married Thomas Quiney, a vintner. Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death.

List of plays by Shakespear : First Performed	Plays	First Printed
1590-91	Henry VI, Part II	1594?
1590-91	Henry VI, Part III	1594?
1591-92	Henry VI, Part I	1623
1592-93	Richard III	1597
1592-93	Comedy of Errors	1623
1593-94	Titus Andronicus	1594
1593-94	Taming of the Shrew	1623
1594-95	Two Gentlemen of Verona	1623
1594-95	Love's Labour's Lost	1598?
1594-95	Romeo and Juliet	1597
1595-96	Richard II	1597
1595-96	A Midsummer Night's Dream	1600
1596-97	King John	1623
1596-97	The Merchant of Venice	1600
1597-98	Henry IV, Part I	1598
1597-98	Henry IV, Part II	1600
1598-99	Much Ado About Nothing	1600
1598-99	Henry V	1600
1599-1600	Julius Caesar	1623
1599-1600	As You Like It	1623
1599-1600	Twelfth Night	1623
1600-01	Hamlet	1603
1600-01	The Merry Wives of Windsor	1602
1601-02	Troilus and Cressida	1609
1602-03	All's Well That Ends Well	1623
1604-05	Measure for Measure	1623
1604-05	Othello	1622
1605-06	King Lear	1608
1605-06	Macbeth	1623
1606-07	Antony and Cleopatra	1623
1607-08	Coriolanus	1623
1607-08	Timon of Athens	1623
1608-09	Pericles	1609
1609-10	Cymbeline	1623
1610-11	The Winter's Tale	1623
1611-12	The Tempest	1623
1612-13	Henry VIII	1623
1612-13	The Two Noble Kinsmen*	1634

lists of shakespears poems by first line:

All the world's a stage Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears Let me not to the marriage of true minds My love is as a fever, longing still My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun O me! what eyes hath love put in my head Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day

Tell me where is Fancy bred The expense of spirit in a waste of shame To be, or not to be: that is the question When I do count the clock that tells the time When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes When my love swears that she is made of truth When to the sessions of sweet silent thought List of Shakespears sonnets:

Sonnet 01: From fairest creatures we desire increase

Sonnet 02: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

Sonnet 03: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest

Sonnet 04: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend

Sonnet 05: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

Sonnet 06: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

Sonnet 07: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light

Sonnet 08: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

Sonnet 09: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye

Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any

Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st

Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time

Sonnet 13: O, that you were your self! But, love, you are

Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck

Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows

Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way

Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws

Sonnet 20: A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted

Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse

Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old

Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage

Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled

Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars

Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed

Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight

Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes

Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts

Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day

Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen

Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day

Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done

Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain

Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight

Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent

Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing

Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all

Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits

Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief

Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see

Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought

Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire

Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war

Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took

Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way

Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come

Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way

Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence

Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessed key

Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made

Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem

Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

Sonnet 56: Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said

Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend

Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave

Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is

Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore

Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open

Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye

Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now

Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced

Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea

Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry

Sonnet 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live

Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn

Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view

Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect

Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite

Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold

Sonnet 74: But be contented when that fell arrest

Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life

Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride?

Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear

Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse

Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid

Sonnet 80: O, how I faint when I of you do write

Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make

Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse

Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need

Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more

Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still

Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse

Sonnet 87: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing

Sonnet 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light

Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault

Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now

Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill

Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away

Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true

Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none

Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame

Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness

Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been

Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring

Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide

Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long

Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends

Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming

Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth

Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old

Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry

Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time

Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul

Sonnet 108: What's in the brain that ink may character

Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart

Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there

Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide

Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill

Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind

Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you

Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie

Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all

Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen

Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears

Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now

Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed

Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain

Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change

Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state

Sonnet 125: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy

Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power

Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair

Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st

Sonnet 129: Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art

Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me

Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan

Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine

Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will

Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near

Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes

Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth

Sonnet 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong

Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press

Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes

Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate

Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful huswife runs to catch

Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair

Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make

Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth

Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still

Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath love put in my head

Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not

Sonnet 150: O from what power hast thou this powerful might

Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is

Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn

Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep

Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep

-Alison

Twilight: The Graphic Novel Volume #2

I have been waiting for this book to come out and only just found out a couple of weeks ago. Rutakau let me borrow it off her so that I could read it. I never got the time to finish it so this will be a good reason to. This book came out in October in the USA, I'm not sure about when it came out in NZ though.

The Twilight Graphic Novel is written by Stephenie Meyer and the art and adaptation by Young Kim.
The picture of Edward on the cover instantly reminds you that this book is the 2nd volume, to the Twilight Graphics Novel, for the picture is volume one's other half. The two would fit together just like puzzle exactly like Bella and Edward. The picture is of Bella and Edward in the meadow  laying on the grass staring at each other. The meadow where Edward took Bella to show her who he really is.

The book starts out at Bellas house, where Edward reveals that he's been coming to Bella's house every night without her knowing, just to watch her sleep. Edward then makes plans about inviting Bella to his house to meet his family for the first time, where Bella learns about their background. The second half is where all the bad stuff happens, we meet James, Victoria, and Laurent. James is a tracker, his new game and obsession becomes Bella and Edward does everything he can to protect her.

The book is mostly in black and white except for the bits where its explaining about Carlisle's past and history and eventually edward, Esme and Rosalie's rebirths. It goes on explaining about how Emmett, Alice and Jasper come to join them too. The pictures are shown in this bronze-y, red-ish colour. Like once you see them, its like going back in the past, which is what it's meant to do I guess, separating the past and present. The Animation is really cool, the characters look like what they were described as. Another coloured bit is when we get introduced to the James, Victoria and Laurent, where we see a close up of their red eyes, showing us that they are not like the Cullens.

I recommend this book to any Twilight Fans and to people who like comics, especially the ones who haven't read Twilight. Its pretty awesome. It doesn't take you long to read either, its good if you just want a basic but good idea of what happens in Twilight :-)

-Alison

Screencast :-)

My poem :)

Broken alarm clock.

I have a broken clock.

It went tick tock.

It was very loud,

for it gave me shocks at seven o'clock.

My clock has a winnie the pooh inside it.

It is pink and can be lit.

It is dusty

because it quit at going tick.

 

My clock is now a souvenir.

It was given to me by uncle here -->

It meant good-bye,

For we were leaving for New Zealand that night.

Why Winnie the Pooh you say?

well my brother was born in may

then I came along,

and so to say pooh was here to stay.

Most Inspiring teacher

The most inspiring teacher for me would have to be Miss Cottee. She's probably one my best teachers this year because she is a very out going and fun person thats makes learning awesome for us. She challenges us in our learning, doing so in the most enjoyable ways.

Miss Cottee has an awesome personality that is probably the main factor to her being such a good teacher. She never fails to make us smile in class, even when its the end of the day and we just want to go home or we are just having a lame day. I always look forward to going to her class for I know that It'd be an enjoyable lesson where we actually learn heaps and because I know its gonna be fun and funny and cool etc...

She always tries to make learning different and cool for us so that its not boring. She helps us out when its needed, answering our questions, even when its not about the thing we are learning about specifically.

So yeah, that is why I think miss Cottee is the most inspiring teacher :)

-Alison