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This is the game my class and I played to gather data to create a graph. In the game you had to kick the ball fifteen times to get the data you need. At the top of each graph there is a range of numbers from lowest-highest. In the first graph the median ended up being four. The second graph I added whisker boxes with different data and the median was nine.
An idea that helped me connect to my world is “we were born in a world of privilege”. In New Zealand we have opportunities and access to resources such as education, which creates opportunities, unlike William he grew up in a small place in Malawi where resources and education were limited. In the time when William was building a windmill for the crops, due to the lack of resources, William had to use his intelligence and perseverance. Therefore we have to be grateful for the things we have. form
Statement: “Explain how an idea in the text helped you connect with your world”
Unpack the question: William Kamkwamba explores the idea that resourcefulness and perseverance can overcome his challenges, a message that mirrors the resilience shown by everyday communities facing economic and climate challenges.
Choose your main idea: Perseverance
If you just keep grinding, you can turn having basically nothing into making crazy cool things that actually help your whole neighborhood.
My overall argument:
William Kamkwamba’s story shows that if you never give up, you can build life changing things out of literal trash, just like regular people today who are finding smart ways to survive money problems and climate change.
Aspect 1: Persevere through challenges
Evidence: When William got kicked out of school because his family couldn’t pay the fees, he didn’t just sit around or give up on learning. Instead, he went straight to the local library and started teaching himself physics and mechanics out of old textbooks.
What does it reveal about my idea? This shows that true perseverance isn’t just about trying hard when things are normal it’s about finding a completely new path when the front door gets slammed in your face. He took total control of his own future.
The author wants to show us that a lack of money or formal schooling doesn’t mean your mind has to stop growing. They are trying to inspire readers to look for alternative ways to solve their problems instead of waiting for someone else to fix things.
Aspect 2: “Never let anyone doubt you”
Evidence: Building the windmeel
What does it reveal about my idea? This proves that keeping your head down and grinding means tuning out all the background noise and haters. If he had listened to the people doubting him, his whole neighborhood would have missed out on electricity and water.
The author is trying to tell us that big, world-changing ideas usually look stupid to people at first. They want to give us the confidence to trust our own vision, even when the people around us don’t get it yet.
Connect with your world: William Kamkwamba’s story is just like the regular people today who are finding smart, cheap ways to survive climate change and money problems. Instead of waiting for someone else to help
Authors purpose + Bigger message:
The Author’s Purpose: The author wants to prove that genius and innovation don’t belong to rich people or fancy schools they belong to anyone with grit.
The Ultimate Message: The solutions to the world’s biggest problems (like climate change) start with local, everyday heroes who refuse to quit.
Planning:
1.Unpack the questions – An idea in the text that connects to my world is education, we have all the resources for school in New Zealand like buses, books, and much more resources, but William does not have opportunity’s or resources like this he doesn’t have a buses to take him to school, he doesn’t have any resources for school. This makes me realise how lucky we are to have people that care about our education.
Tick the statement that best describes your planning.
| Skill | Not yet | Sometimes | Yes |
| I identified the keywords in the exam question. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I understand what the question is asking me to explain. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| My main ideas directly answer the question. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
PEELA = Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link to the question, Author’s purpose.
| Skill | Not yet | Sometimes | Yes |
| I wrote a clear point that answers the question. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I selected specific evidence or quotations from the text. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I explained how my evidence supports my point. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I linked my ideas back to the exam question. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I considered the author’s purpose or message. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Skill | Not yet | Sometimes | Yes |
| I use capital letters and full stops correctly. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I use commas to help my sentences make sense. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I check my spelling and sentence structure. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
One thing I did well:
One thing I need to improve:
My writing goal for the next exam practice:
☐ Identify keywords more carefully.
☐ Choose stronger evidence from the text.
☐ Explain my evidence in more detail.
☐ Link my ideas back to the question.
☐ Improve punctuation and sentence structure.
☐ Explain the author’s purpose more clearly.
Question for an NCEA English Exam.
An idea in the text that connects to my world is have no access to resources such as Education, we all have in New Zealand is books, pencils, buses to bring us to school. This makes me appreciate all of the different options of Education. I want the Reader to understand the feelings that william went through during the challenges that he faced daily.
Tick the statement that best describes your planning.
| Skill | Not yet | Sometimes | Yes |
| I identified the keywords in the exam question. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I understand what the question is asking me to explain. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| My main ideas directly answer the question. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
PEELA = Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link to the question, Author’s purpose.
| Skill | Not yet | Sometimes | Yes |
| I wrote a clear point that answers the question. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I selected specific evidence or quotations from the text. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I explained how my evidence supports my point. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I linked my ideas back to the exam question. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I considered the author’s purpose or message. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Skill | Not yet | Sometimes | Yes |
| I use capital letters and full stops correctly. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I use commas to help my sentences make sense. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| I check my spelling and sentence structure. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
One thing I did well:
One thing I need to improve:
My writing goal for the next exam practice:
☐ Identify keywords more carefully.
☐ Choose stronger evidence from the text.
☐ Explain my evidence in more detail.
☐ Link my ideas back to the question.
☐ Improve punctuation and sentence structure.
☐ Explain the author’s purpose more clearly.
I have enjoyed all the sports in varies of ways.
Volleyball was my favourite by far since it´s my dedicated sport. I learnt a lot of things about myself and basically preparing myself for the Junior Boys Volleyball Try Outs. One thing I found challenging is that some people did not have the same value or effort as me but I loved that they will try.
Sexuality was chill and somewhat enjoyable, I have learned a lot of sexualities and the mans/womens anatomy. Other than that I like how we learned about bone structure also. I didn´t really find anything hard like it was that chill and the go with the flow type of thing.
Touch was lame because not everyone was actually wanting to play, it’s a fast game with quick thinking. I loved the drills and the vibes the people who actually played brought to the game. Our numbers were not a lot but I was really happy that we had a chance to play with 10R, and being combined especially
The reason I choose volleyball was because it was genuinely fun and exciting and it was so much funner than every other sports honestly if I was to pick the best sport it would be volleyball 100%.
Last term our class was assigned to play volleyball. During the three weeks of us playing we all learnt many things, we learnt how to block, spike, serve , and set. While we were playing volleyball we learnt many exercises like leg raised, high knees, and team work. To be honest if I had to pick the funnest thing I did while playing volleyball it would be the spiking, I just loved the jumping and the adrenaline that pumps through after you hit the ball is amazing, so that’s what we did for term 3 Vball. Honestly I wouldn’t want to play any modified games I would just want to play normal volleyball.
For HPE in term 3 I had to walk laps because I did not bring my gear.
I had a great time walking and it was really good looking at the view of the hills and the trees and the birds and the wood pieces and the grass and if you focus on something outside the gate like the soccer goal then the fence doesn’t feel real, it feels trippy like super dupper pupper trippy and I mean it you know when you say something and you mean it yeah well I mean it, like no it actually is trippy.
I am reflecting on Volleyball because out of the 3 units that’s the one I enjoyed the most. I expected to just play games and stuff, which we did but we also worked on communicating as a team and basic volleyball skills. My highlight of this unit was versing Rata on Tuesdays. I liked how competitive it got between classes. One challenge I faced was serving. Something I’m more confident in since doing this unit is communicating as a team. Moving forward I would like to play volleyball with my class more.
In 10 years’ time, I hope to be halfway through my apprenticeship or working full time in the construction industry. I want to be earning a good wage and building a stable future for myself through work as a builder or concreter.
I know finding work can be difficult, but I hope my parents will see what I am capable of and support me as I look for opportunities. I also want to prove to myself that I can succeed through hard work and determination.
I believe that if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing properly. That is the attitude I want to carry into my future career, whether I am building, concreting, or learning new skills on site.
¨ if a job is worth doing, do the job right ¨
I heavily agree with This quote because it implies anywhere whether you’re at home, or school, or even at a friends house and especially at your work site. If a job is given to you try to use the best of your capabilities to accomplish the job handed to you It means your hard work and determination plus your efforts can get you a long way and help you in any job site. This also can be for personal care such as dental cleaning like brushing and flossing it is worth doing because if you don’t it will come back a bite you in your rare end such as expensive care from dentists.
Yes, I agree with it because it helps you understand more responsibilities, and it will help you understand what I’ll be capable of, and it will show others that hard work and determination get you a long way, and it will help you in the future.
In this post I’m doing a reflection about the quote, “If a job is worth doing, It’s worth doing right”. I agree with this because I find that doing something to a high standard even if it’s a little job is always good, it shows other people that you’re willing to try hard to succeed in whatever goal you place. I was brought up around people with a similar mind set which is another reason I agree with it.
I agree with this statement, If a jobs worth it do it 110% put the effort in to make a job look perfect and don’t have to keep touching it up cause of a little mistake, it will make you look hard working and a good person to employ and it shows you care committed and you wont take any shortcuts on any job.
if you don’t do the job properly you going to have to go back and fix your mistakes so its basically became common sense to me to do jobs properly or right. So if the job was doing the dishes or mowing the lawn I would do the job properly and avoid any shortcuts because it would cause me to make mistakes and its gonna cost me time.
“If a jobs worth doing its worth doing right” This quote means to me that there are no short cuts in any job that you do making sure to do the job 100% no short cut, no that will be right ,no it should hold.
I agree with that statement, doing a job to the best of your ability is a good way to make yourself look good to other people but also making yourself feel good by looking at the job knowing that you did that and feeling proud of yourself for getting it done no matter how hard or easy it is.
In my opinion this quote can help other in a certain way. It will take some time to get an understanding of what that really means i don´t even know what it completely means but once you get a picture of it you start to look at things differently. You start to understand that there is no short cuts to getting things done.
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