Critical Literacy Bias/Agenda

08/02/19, Friday

Factual or Satirical

The Onion: https://www.theonion.com

-What does the website look like? The website looks like your average news page but if you look at the titles of the news you will notice how it's obviously fake.

-What photos is it using? Some photos they photoshopped and some photos they just found on the internet. 

-What headlines are they sharing? The headlines they're sharing are unbelievable but sometimes it makes you think that this can happen.

-Do you think it is a factual website or a Satirical website? It is a Satirical Website.

The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com

-What does the website look like? The website looks like a newspaper, it shows you different topics including opinions, Science and Politics.

-What photos is it using? The photos it's using are the pictures of what's going on or who is included in the news.

-What headlines are they sharing?  The headlines they're sharing are believable and it can happen or it did happen.

-Do you think it is a factual website or a Satirical Website?  I think it's a factual website.

The Civilian:http://www.thecivilian.co.nz

-What does the website look like? The website has their information and it has many topics.
-What photos is it using? They used the photos from the event that happened.
-What headlines are they sharing? The headlines they're sharing are unbelievable you can see the headlines as a joke.
-Do you think it is a Factual website or a Satirical website? It is a Satirical Website.

The Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

• What does the website look like?
• What photos is it using?
• What headlines are they sharing?
• Do you think it is a Factual website or a Satirical website?

Critical Literacy

07/02/19, Thursday

Link: https://youtu.be/aHAApvHZ6XE

-What aspects of stories was she interested in? The messages we don't notice right away.

-What did the ad imply with the big diamond ring? Love and kindness, it shows that to show love you need to buy something expensive.

-What is a subtext? The messages you can't see or subliminal messages in advertisements.

-With CL, can each student have their own answer? Yes, everyone has their own answers.

-What does Andrea compare CL to? Wonder Woman's lasso of truth.

-How can CL be applied to your life outside of school? You can see the hidden messages when watching movies, reading books and video games.

Maths Craft 29/11/18

 Today we did our string art for maths craft, we did the Philippines map for our string art.  For the colors, we did blue for the top one, red for the middle one, and yellow for the bottom one.

Maths Craft 22/11/18

Today in Maths craft we are doing meander. Meander is a repeated pattern or motif, usually constructed from a continuous line. Meanders can be drawn be drawn in a very systematic way. An infinite strip with a repeating pattern is called a frieze pattern. The term "frieze" is from architecture, where frieze refers to a decorative carving or pattern that runs horizontally. The seven frieze patterns are Hop, Step, Slide, Spinning Hop, Spinning Slide, Jump, Spinning jump.

Maths craft 15/11/18

Thursday

Today in Maths Craft our group split in half, the other half of my group did origami while the other half did the flexagons. This is what we did (1st picture, left to right) Tetraflexagon, Hexaflexagon, Hexa hexaflexagon.

(2nd picture, left to right) Origami sonobe cube, Sonobe Octahedron. 

Passion project- MATHS CRAFT

12/11/18, Monday

Today we did maths craft for our passion project. We went into groups of four and the other half of my group did Mobius strip. We learned how to make Menger sponge. We also learned what fractal means. Fractal means patterns that keep repeating or having the same pattern and it keeps getting smaller and smaller.

Music NZ research