L2 English - Matching the three videos

 Video 1: 

Focus length is the distance from the centre of the lens to where the image is in focus. Focal length determines the field of view. 

Fixed focal length - also known as prime lens, have a higher quality glass lens because its specialist for just one focal length.

Variable focal length - the lens are able to adapt more to a zoom lens, because its able to zoom in and out. 

A digital camera is like a data storage for devices like tapes, cards, or disks. A cinematographer creates the shot list with the director. They plan how everything in the screenplay will be captured visually. The camera operator controls the camera and frames the shots. The camera operator uses a tripod (also known as "on sticks") for static shots. If there needs to be a moving shot, the operator uses a handheld camera or attaches one to a dolly. They also use a device called a steadicam, which allows a shot to be smoother than a handheld camera but not as smooth as a dolly. The person that manages all these equpitment and sets up the cameras is the first assistant camera. They work under the camera operator

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Discrimination has a negative effect on society

Use Google to help you answer the following questions. 

1. What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

Prejudice can be a negative feeling towards a person or group based on their lies and expectations. Discrimiantion is when you don't like someone based on groups. 

2. Why does prejudice persist in society?

Groups/individuals have different beliefs and reactions than others. 

3. What examples of discrimination did  we see in The Hate U Give? (List as many as you can)

Racism, Identity, Nationality, Groups, family and friends, rivals between schools, Starr’s father, the diner cops

4. What examples of discrimination did  we see in Freedom Writers  (List as many as you can)

Racism - Criticism - Age - Nationality - Groups - Gang affiliation 

5. What examples of discrimination did  we see in The Help  (List as many as you can)

6. List one specific historic/current example of EACH of these types of discrimination. Include specific details:

1. Racial - People acting differently around you or saying nasty things about the color of your skin. 

2. Religious - There are many religions, such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. 

3. Gender - 2 genders , boy and girl.

4. Sexual orientation - Sexual orientation is traditionally defined as including heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, while asexuality is considered the fourth category of sexual orientation by some researchers and has been defined as the absence of a traditional sexual orientation.

7. What is stereotyping?

Where people assume you automatically do something. Thinking that somebody is this or having a negative expectation about them. 

8. What is one example of stereotyping that you saw in each of the three texts we viewed in class?

When someone arrives late and everyone assumes that they came late on purpose, or thinking they were doing this without knowing what actually is going on.

9. What is Social Identity Theory? (Click on the link and watch the clip before answering the question.

Social identity theory explains that they drive self esteem from a group that they positively identify with, therefore they favor it. They allocate more resources to the in-group to maximize the difference between their in-group and out-groups in order to achieve such identifications

Freedom Writers

 In the film The Freedom Writers, they start off as a bunch of kids that didn't want to have an education. They all hated each other and wanted nothing to do with the class. Throughout the years they create a tight bond with each other and the teacher Ms Guwell. Ms Guwell loved the kids in the class so much that she took them out on trips and let them participate in interviews with famous survivors from the holocaust. 

Gay marrige

 3 arguments why we support gay marriage -

1. everyone is equal and has the same rights. If they are lesbian, bisexual, or asexual they should get the same respect as straight people.

2. what wrong with loving the opposite sex? people can love whoever they want to weather the circumstances and it doesn't concern your life and others around you.

3. Judging peoples beliefs and discriminating them as them selves just because you think it will benefit you in life. 

 We are learning to express our views and persuade each other by our writing

gymnastics

 For my assessment, I will focus on the horizontal bars, tramp, and beam. 

Today I have done the tramp and the beam. 

For the tramp, I will focus on an Excellence 

For the beam, I will focus on getting a Merit

And for the horizontal bars, I will focus on getting a excellence

 

Reading skills are the ability to interact and understand the meaning to read, comprehend, interpret, and docode written text. Reading skills are important in school as they allow the children to assess their curriculum and improve their communication and language skills and helps them by making sentences while adding new words.

Some reading strategies are.

Using prior knowledge/previewing, predicting, identifying the main idea and summarization, questioning, making inferences, visualizing, story maps and retelling.

difficulties when working with the treaty

 On the day that it was first signed, there were versions in English and Māori. William Hobson's task was to take possession of it with the consent of as many Māori chiefs as possible. Hobson had to rely on other British treaties and any advice that he could get. Henry Williams and his son Edward both knew the language Maori but had little time to translate it, that was one of the biggest difficulties. they received it on that evening of February 4th and was needed to be finished for the next day. He thought that Māori would be better off under British sovereignty. He knew the chiefs would not agree to a treaty that took too much power from them. The translation was key to getting the Māori agreement. This may be why the words used in the translation had certain emphases and were not a mirror of the English but a particular type of missionary Māori that would be familiar to the chiefs.