Thursday 14 May 2015

Children's story

Anna’s Story
There once was a girl named Anna, she was the most hardworking girl at her school, her marks were higher than the others. She was the best, but nobody wanted to be her friend. They didn't want to play with her and made fun of her.
One day, her teacher gave the class a test and a boy called Christian signed his test using Anna’s name, and took hers to cheat. When the teacher returned all the tests, everybody was shocked that Anna did not pass the test, but the other kids were happy of this.
The next day, after Anna arrived at school all the kids wanted to be with her and invited her to play with them. Suddenly, when Anna was playing with the other children, the teacher came over to her and told her that there had been a mistake, and Anna did not fail the test.  The teacher told the kids what had happened with Christian and afterwards the children stopped playing with Anna again knowing she passed.
A few weeks later a lady went to visit the school, to do a presentation for the children. During her visit she saw that Anna was crying and so she asked her “What is your name?”
“Anna” she replied
The lady then asked her why was she crying, Anna explained what had happened. She told her how the other kids didn’t like her just because she always got good grades. The Lady then told the children stories about her childhood that were similar to Anna’s.
After her speech all the children realized that they had been rude to Anna, and felt sorry. They should have been happy to have a friend that got such good marks and made such a big effort at school.
They decided to follow Anna’s example of wanting good grades and after that they always played together without ignoring her or anyone else.
From then on everyone was very happy and learned the lesson of respecting others.

Monday 4 May 2015

Children Story Reviews

Ollie’s Jar

This children's story is about an eel named Ollie, it describes what Ollie likes to do around his home. I do not see an importance to this children's story, it is very boring and does not have an educational purpose. The story is seven short pages long with no more than 10 words per page, and over all is not worth the read.


The Brave Monkey Pirate
This story tells the tale of a little monkey who goes shopping with his mom then has to go to a surprise visit at the doctors office. The little monkey is of course scared but he finds a way to get through it without a problem. The story is 23 pages and I think has a good story line. I recommend this children's book.


The Zoo Animals
This children's story is a cute one that describes zoo animals simply but effectively for a young reader. It describes each animal, by what they look like, what they do, and the noises they make (if any). I recommend this one to any child that's interested in animals.

Tuesday 14 April 2015

How to run a Successful Twitter Fan Account

How to run a Successful Twitter fan Account


In this article I will be giving my tips and tricks on how to run and maintain a successful twitter fan account. These steps will help for whatever fandom you are in. Running a fan account can be fun and easy if you know what to do; that's why I'm here to help! There are 4 main steps to achieving this:


First Step: The Account
  • Make a username thats original and relatable to the fandom you are in.
  • Follow “mutuals”: people with the same interests or in the same fandom as you. I recommend to follow a bunch of people to start off your account.
  • Its also beneficial to follow people who aren't very popular and who follow a lot of people back, so you have a better chance of them following you in return.
  • Matching layout is very important as well.
Second Step: Tweeting
  • Be creative with your tweets, use interesting hashtags.
  • Also tweet pictures (it makes things more fun).
  • Join in tweeting things that are “trending”, or popular hashtags that people in your fandom are talking about.
  • Don’t retweet too many things, that makes your account look unoriginal and unappealing. Keep your retweets similar to what you're account is about, don't retweet something completely different.
  • Don't always tweet negative or mean things, of course you can say your opinion/feelings on things, but tweeting too many negative things is as turn off and will annoy your followers and probably end up with you losing followers.
Third Step: Spam
  • Spam can be good or bad, depends how you are spamming. Some people go overboard and constantly tweet out spam to people. Those people tend to get annoying and you will lose followers.
  • Good spam that normally gets your idols attention to follow/tweet you normally consists of jokes, emoticons, and pictures/drawings.
  • Don't constantly tweet your spam, its better to leave some time in between, so it doesn't show up on your followers timeline all at once, which is very annoying.
Fourth Step: Internet Friends
  • Reply to peoples tweets
  • Reply/retweet “indirects”, which are when a person gives you their opinion on you and your account. This can help if they suggest that you seem cool, or you should direct message/become friends with them.
  • Do the basic thing and tweet “Anyone wanna become friends?’ and pray that someone actually does.
  • Pretend you’re super cool and interesting and try to intrigue people to wonder more about you.
  • Its easier to become friends with people who have around the same followers as you.

I'm not skilled with every single step, but those are what I've learned from other people and myself. I hope this article helped you out!! Good luck!! 

Thursday 2 April 2015

Article Review: How to Get a 5SOS Band Member to Follow you on Twitter

I chose the Article The Official Guidebook on how to get 5 Seconds of Summer band members to follow you on Twitter, because I struggle everyday to try to get one of the members to follow me, so it relates to my everyday life. The article was done very well and is highly accurate. I thought all the steps were very helpful, and effective. In the article it explained reasoning behind the authors suggestions well, and also added other helpful tips, ex: the different time zones. It was divided up giving tips that normally will get each band member's attention and it included tips for the band account as well. It was short and got to the point of everything that was useful but also gave a quick explanation behind everything. I've seen on twitter in the past that a lot of these steps actually helped people get one of the band members follow. I definitely recommend that if you're looking for a follow from a 5SOS band member, to read this how to article. I'm very excited to try these steps out and hopefully you will hear in the close upcoming future that I managed to get one of the boys follow! 

Rubric: 

There are no more than three grammatical or spelling errors in the article. 5/5 
The article has a catchy headline that makes you want to read it. 5/5 
The article has a purpose, explaining benefits to the reader. 5/5 
Did they use descriptive words? 2/5 
The steps in the article are clear and easy to understand. 5/5 
Total: 22/25

Wednesday 11 March 2015

Finding Forrester Movie Review

Finding Forrester movie review


Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich, and directed by Gus Van Sant. An african-american teenage boy named Jamal Wallace, is invited prestigious private high school. During this time Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester, through whom he helps find his talent for writing and also helps Jamal find his true self.


16 year old Jamal Wallace plays basketball with his friends at the court outside Forrester’s house, the group of friends usually notice that Forrester watches them play from the window on the top floor of the building. One day Jamals friends dared him to sneak up to Forresters apartment and take something, to prove he was there. To his surprise Forrester catches him, making Jamal run away leaving his backpack. Later that day Forrester dropped Jamals backpack onto the street for him to retrieve, and in Jamals notebook he noticed that his journal entries were edited and there were other notes made. Jamal then goes back to Forrester apartment to get him to read more of his writing. Forrester agrees to help Jamal with his writing only if he doesn't ask him about his personal life.


Throughout the movie, their friendship keeps growing and they end up both helping each other overcome things in their lives. To make their friendship stronger, Jamal takes Forrester to a Yankee stadium one night, where Forrester revealed stuff about his personal life and his family. He also explains to Jamal why he became reclusive.


During this time of Forrester helping Jamal with his writing, Jamals writing improved, making his professor, Crawford accuse him of plagiarism. To settle this Forrester appears at the class and reads aloud an inspiring essay, which professor Crawford praised thinking it was written by Forrester, but soon was told that Jamal actually wrote it.

Overall I think this is a great movie to show true friendship forming between who was once two strangers. I thought the film was very powerful and inspiring. I've learned that everyone deals with things internally. I definitely recommend everyone to watch this movie.

Wednesday 18 February 2015

THE CHEETAH GIRLS ARE NOT CHEETAS

 "The Cheetah Girls"
Link

This review explained the film perfectly.  I felt like I  watched the movie again once I read it. They include many interesting parts that I forgot about when I watched the movie. This movie review really focuses on how the movie is really supportive about being different and how self respect is key

The movie review also warns parents that the "diva persona are likely to be copied by tween (and younger) viewers, which can lead to parental headaches over wardrobe, gotta-have gadgets, and attitude.", which I think is really necessary because there is a dramatic change in the characters attitudes because they all have very powerful attitudes. 


Friday 30 January 2015

Writing

Please accept my application to join your writing 110 course. I am really interested in joining this class, as I feel it may give me more confidence in my writing skills. I do not write as often as I should but with help from this course I feel it will give me more ideas and experience that will help me further in life. I will work hard to earn this spot in your course.


I do not usually write on my spare time, but I do read a lot and enjoy it, other things I do on my spare time is listen to music, and spend time with my friends. Some of my favourite authors are Sara Shepard and John Green, they write teen-fiction novels. A type of writing that comes easy to me is fictional stories, I enjoy writing this type because I feel I can be more creative in what I write about. A type of writing I find challenging is persuasive.


I find my writing ideas from things I have read in the past, or from tv shows/movies. In grade 4, I was extremely proud of my first writing piece, it was about turtles. I was so taken up with the story I even brought a prompt in, which was my turtle webkinz. To this day I am still proud of the work involved in the story, I was very proud to receive the high mark that I got, that I never forgot about it.


I usually write 1 to 2 draft copies depending on when the essay has to be completed by. I feel I am a strong writer once I get my writing structure planned out, some weaknesses I have as a writer are that I lose confidence in what i'm writing about sometimes.

My goal as a writer and expectation of the course is to learn to be more confident and learn more skills in writing to further my education. I do believe this class will benefit me for my future plans in life.