Reading - Poem (Did I Miss Anything?)

Did I Miss Anything?

Question frequently asked by students after missing a class

Nothing. When we realised you weren’t here

we sat with our hands folded on our desks

in silence, for the full two hours

Everything. I gave an exam worth

40 percent of the grade for this term

and assigned some reading due today

on which I’m about to hand out a quiz

worth 50 percent

Nothing. None of the content of this course

has value or meaning

Take as many days off as you like:

any activities we undertake as a class

I assure you will not matter either to you or me

and are without purpose

Everything. A few minutes after we began the last time

a shaft of light descended and an angel

or other heavenly being appeared

and revealed to us what each woman or man must do

to attain divine wisdom in this life and the hereafter

This is the last time the class will meet

before we disperse to bring this good news to all people

on earth

Nothing. When you are not present

how could something significant occur?

Everything. Contained in this classroom

is a microcosm of human existence

assembled for you to query and examine and ponder

This is not the only place such an opportunity has been

gathered

but it was one place

And you weren’t here

(Tom Wayman)

There are two ‘voices’ in the poem.

Who do you think it talking in the Nothing verses?

I think Nothing will be the Students.

Who do you think is talking in the Everything verses?

I think Everything will be a Teacher.

Choose 5 interesting words from this poem and explain what they mean.

• Revealed - Revealed means that unknown or secret information.
• Disperse - Disperse means that something is spretting out.
• Significant - Having a particular meaning
• Microcosm - Microcosm means a small group.
• Existence - Existence means that something that exist or alive.

Take ONE of the verses in the poem and illustrate it.

Verse one -

Find out 5 facts about the poet Tom Wayman.

1. He was born in 13th of August 1945 at Hawkesbury, Canada.
2. He has published 21 poetry.
3. He wrote a first poetry in 1973. (When he was 28 years old)
4. Wayman’s father was Pulp Mill chemist
5. He has written Poetry, Novels, Short Fiction, Anthologies and Criticism.

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For reading we read the poem about Did I Miss Anything? I learnt that this poem has written by Tom Wayman. I had fun doing this activity because question were quite hard and I need to illustrate the verse. For this learning I worked with Miki. 

The Lost Ship - 5 - 7 - 10

The Lost Ship

Did you know that every year there are 10,000 ship that get sunk
in the ocean? Well it is true, there are lots of lost ship that get
submerged in the ocean and are never found.
Titanic is one of the largest and famous ship that got submerged
in the ocean. It is really old it is almost 100 years old.
Titanic sunk down in the ocean at 2:20 am on April 15 1912,
it carried over 2,200 passenger and crew members.
Many people lost their lives, it was over 1,503 and some survive,
the first lifeboat to live the titanic carried only 28 people but it could
hold 68 people. If you explore our ocean there are lots of things that
you can find like: Lost cities, lost statue and lost ships.

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Today for writing we are doing 5 - 7 - 10, this time we can pick any photo we want. I chose the lost ship, because I have lots of knowledge about lost stuff under our ocean. My story is based on true facts, everything is real in my story.

Emotive Words

Today for reading we are learning about Emotive words, emotive words explain the emotion of the writer. There are different kind of emotive words, It is positive and negative words. One of the Positive word is caring, caring is really positive value and one of negative is Agonise, agonise means being anxious that why it is negative. 

Tech Reflection - Art

Today for tech we are now putting our design to our wood block and carving it next. My design is all about my culture which is about Philippine I put lots of cultural pattern to my design to show my culture. It was really fun and now I am close to carving which is hard but fun.

Maths Problem - Radius and Diameter

Today we played the Radius and Diameter game on Khad Academy and we were to make a DLO with three of the problems and explain how we solved the three questions. For one of the questions it says: If the radius is 7.5 what is the diameter. This was pretty easy because all you had to do was times 7.5 by 2. The answer was 15. There were 2 others that we explained in our DLO. If you don't know what the radius and the diameter is well the radius is half the circle and the diameter is times the radius. 

Maths Game

Today for maths we played a game which was for people who have finished their work. This game was called Puppy Chase Fractions to Decimals. This game was pretty easy because all you had to do was convert the fractions into decimals. If you got the right answer your puppy would move forward. This was a race so I tried my best to get all answers right. 

Radius, Circumference, Pi and Diameter

Today for Math we are learning how to find the radius and the diameter of a circle. It is easy radius is half of the circle from the centre and the diameter is the half of the circle, r x 2  = d (Radius x 2 = Diameter). 

Informal to Formal Letters

Today for reading we are learning how to change an informal letters to formal. The yellow one is the informal, because it use 'took forever'. The blue one is formal I remove the 'took forever' and replacing it with 'service is quite slow'. Changing informal letters to formal is very easy, you just need to change some words to make it really formal.

Niuean Language Week

This week is the Niuean Language Week. Today I made a DLO that shows name of the fruits and name of the Animals into Niuean Language. I think this DLO helps to learn some Niuean Language. For this activity I worked with Miki. Click the words that you want to listen so you will know how to say it the sounds.

Tech Reflection

Today for tech we are now finishing our design and transferring it to a wooden board. Some people is carving it and some of us is catching up. My design is all about my country, I did different types of patterns and I also put my flag, which is flag of Philippines.

Kiwi Can

Today for Kiwi can we are learning about respecting our school, teacher and other students. What are rules in our school? No phone aloud, No lollies, Only water. Why do we have rules? we have rules so we can make our school better, cleaner and safer. Our Care Values in our school, Confidence, Attitude, Respect and Excellence and Innovation.  Should we drink fizzy drink at school? No, because it is a policy that we should obey. Should we have rules at our School? Yes we should, because it will make our school safer and better.

National Shakeout Day

Today is the 2018 October the 18th which is a National Shakeout Day. We learnt that if the Earthquake comes we need to do three simple step which is Drop, Cover and Hold. For this activity I worked with Miki and Reneir. One of the thing that I learnt was first Shakeout day was on the 2012 October the 18th. I think it is very important to know what we need to do when the earthquake comes.

Narrative Poem

Today for reading we are learning about Narrative poem at the start we read a narrative poem that was written by Pam Ayers, she is a famous poem writer, song writer and also a comedian. Narrative poem is a story about someone or the narrator. Some narrative poem is only a joke and it shouldn't take it personal. 

Formal and Informal Letters

Today for reading we are learning about formal and informal letters. The first one is formal because it uses, 'I am writing to complain' it is very formal to use it and it also uses 'a great deal of litter' instead of 'loads of rubbish'. The second one is informal because it is talking to a friend and it use words like, 'dead busy' and to 'get ready', 'dead busy' is informal language that what it makes the second one informal letter. You can identify if its informal or formal by looking to the language it uses in the letter or text message. You can use informal language if your talking to your friends or family also you can use formal language if you are talking to your teacher, boss and workmates.