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The “Sweet” and “Sour” Twins

October 24, 2016 / / 1 Comment

On the 25th of December, at precisely  12:00 in the morning, the cry of a baby (two babies to be exact) could be heard from a flat. Twins, both girls were given birth to in their very own house. The first one was a nice, pretty girl with long blonde hair, the other was a sharp, squished – faced like girl that didn’t look like anything would make her happy. They were two different girls who grew up to be different people. The sweet girl named Grace, grew up to be a person who everyone liked. The other girl named Penny,  grew up to be a person who was the opposite of her sister, in everything they did.

Grace became an actress, because she was likeable and knew how to express feelings. She made a lot of money and was rich. When she was about 26, she finally got married to someone of the same kind as her, his name was Humphrey. Humphrey was a man she met in one of her films in America. The couple went on to produce many other films together, such as: The adventurous four and the mystery of the seven rings of eternal heat, Heroes of Olympus: The thunder snatcher and many more.

Penny, on the other hand, was a librarian, and kept working there until she had enough money to move out of her mum and dad’s house and finally got her own house. She didn’t get married until later in her life, due to her appearance, so she got her house and stayed in there, just doing whatever she could to make a living. Her life was completely down the hill, until she was going to work one day. She bumped into a man. This person was a very well known man which had the most money in the whole neighbourhood! They came from the same personality, so they wouldn’t always get along, his name was Frank. It took quite a long time for them to actually get to know each other and finally, in a few years, got married to him. Because they were of the same kind, they would mostly talk about sad and miserable things going on in their lives.

On Christmas, they decided that they should go to see the movie: Heroes of Olympus, the thunder snatcher. They were just getting ready first. But they weren’t the only ones getting ready…

Penny and Frank set off to go to the movies and got there just in time too, because they had enough time to get snacks. As soon as they got inside, they were told to sit in the middle of the middle. Waiting for the film to start, two people came to sit next to them. Penny found it strange that someone would sit next to her, she was the most not liked girl in the whole neighbourhood. Only someone who didn’t care who she sat next to, someone who liked everyone…

The movie had started, a lot of chatter was coming from the person next to her, it wasn’t long until she knew it was her sister, after all, she did grow up to be known as Grace the chatter box. “Grace, is that you?” Grace turned her head, completely baffled about how a stranger knew her name. She was for about 5 minutes until she had no doubt it was Penny. They talked about all that had gone on in their lives and how they got to the cinema. Later they all decided to go to the restaurant and book a 4 seat table.

Whilst waiting for their food, they kept on talking and talking about how they came to the same cine and why they came also. Grace went on and on about how it was her birthday and why they came to the same cinema. Penny however, wasn’t. the food was served, they were still talking, but not as much as before. Since they were twins, Grace was kind enough to buy a birthday cake for them. Talking was non-stop on that table, everyone stayed rock solid even when the cake was finished. Finally the time had come for them to say goodbye, Grace and Humphrey went on to design many other films, and Penny and Frank also went o to find jobs and moved to America. Grace never heard of Penny again, Penny also never heard of Grace again, and it stayed like that for many years to come…

Worlds Apart – Part Two

October 15, 2016 / / 1 Comment

To follow this story, click here to read part one

She didn’t know what to do, where to go or how to get back. The girl only knew (or so she thought) that whatever happened, she would be OK, but she was wrong. Out of nowhere, the same person who she was asking the name of, had appeared. He was even taller than before, but looking younger and more polite than before. The man never spoke at all, and he definitely never smiled. It took a while to figure out she was tied up, it also took a while to realise that it wasn’t dark, for she was in shock.

Finally, she loosened herself ad headed for the door, but, to her surprise, the door was locked, and she couldn’t get out. She was trapped. Frantically smashing on the door, she heard footsteps coming her way. They were slow, so she smashed even faster until she was exhausted of all her energy. The footsteps were getting faster also, so she had no choice, and used the remaining of her strength and kicked the door down and ran off.

Running for dear life, the girl headed the right way back home. She thought she was safe, little did she know that she was being followed…

Back at the village, everyone had long forgotten the girl, most people had just moved on. It was only a year later, when they were woken up by a certain noise, that they remembered her. The same ogre like man came stomping so hard on the floor that tiles came up from the floor. This time they had had enough. Pitch forks in hands, they raced out of their houses, chased the man back into the forest. Soon after, rustling came yet again from the same forest. But instead of the same old, annoying, ugly to the core old man, came a nice girl. The same one that had been gone for almost 2 years now, had come back.

It had been a month since she had come back and as expected, every man still wanted her hand in   marriage. She just couldn’t take it anymore, and said that whoever wins the dance contest coming up, will not only get the prize money, but also will get her hand in marriage. The date was settled, and the dance was to be held on the next day. They all thought that it was going to go well, but she wasn’t the only one that had made a comeback.She was all by herself, waiting for the contest to finish, then she could finally meet her match. Everyone would think she would be OK, but they were wrong

The day of the contest was finally here and all the men (most of them at least) were practising for the big day. The same rustling in the bushes reminded none of them what was coming next, they were too caught up in what they were doing to realise it. The dance was down to its final minutes before it was announced who it was, but it was too late to warn anyone now. Out of nowhere, came the same, ugly to the core creature who had terrorized the place for years. The girl was on stage, ready to get married finally, the monster of a man wouldn’t have it. He snatched her out of human reach and traveled into the forest…

DRAMA WRITTEN REFLECTION

October 11, 2016 / / 2 Comments

Movement can communicate emotion when you do something that shows an obvious feeling. For example, making a sad face, or rubbing your tummy, would show that you are hungry and sad.

In our groups we had to show certain emotions in order to look sad and happy. The people of the village were cold and sad at first because they didn’t have fire to keep warm, but when fire was brought, they could feel the warmth and be happy. Their posture and the way they were on the floor, shows that they were cold. When we moved, it showed that they were happy.

 

Worlds Apart Part One

October 10, 2016 / / 1 Comment

In February, 1880 when the weather was bitterly cold and out of the deep from the woods came a grumpy,  8 feet tall and huge in stature man. He looked so unkempt and slams his foot on the paving stones as he walked towards the village square of  Cookney, Aberdeenshire in the early hours of one Sunday morning. His footsteps woke up the whole village as pictures and clocks hanging on the walls fell down as he walked pass.

Before he could cover about 200 yards more than half of the villagers followed him wanting to see his face. No one had the courage to ask him his name or who he was. Only one lady had the courage to go up to him and ask. She was the nicest person in the whole village, so if anything she said was a good suggestion, the whole village would agree. She was very petty, and a day wouldn’t go by without some of the men lining up at her door, asking for her hand in marriage.

“What’s your name?” The roughen was about entering his home, but before he did, he gave a menacing stare that drove all the villagers away. The lady had followed him, a few of the men tried to stop her, but it was too late. On the way, the man found it strange that she wasn’t afraid of him…

The lady couldn’t help but to sing while wondering into the meaningless and empty forest, she wasn’t aware of her whereabouts or if someone or something was watching her. But she kept on singing. Humming to assure herself of any danger, she noticed that every time she hummed or sang a song, a lower voice would mix in and make a beautiful harmony. She decided to follow the voice until she came to a fork between two roads, the one on the left was higher than the voice on the right, but the left was also more louder, so she couldn’t decide which one to take.

It was the following day, and as usual, the men of the village would go to her door and ask for her hand in marriage, also bringing gifts to win her over, but alas, she wasn’t there. They had forgotten she was even gone, so the people of the village were all alerted and alarmed, because the most favoured person in the whole of the village, was gone. She was still picking though, until she took the right. It wasn’t a wise decision. It was extremely dark, even though it was day time. She was robbed of her sight as soon as soon as she chose the path, causing her to wonder through a totally different world. The whole town was panicking about where she was and if she was OK, even she herself couldn’t even force a squeak out of her mouth.

Suddenly, a pair of yellow eyes stared straight at her own, she

wanted to walk forward, but she found herself going backwards until she was falling, falling to her doom. The people of the village created a search party to look for her, but she had already gone down the hole. When she thought all hope was lost, a giant hand reached in for her and caught her.

The woman didn’t know where she was or when she got to this mysterious place, but she didn’t want to stick around to find out. She dashed for the village, but her sight was still robbed and she went in the wrong direction. For she had bumped into the feared man she was looking for. He was a complete stranger to only her. Everyone knew that he was the person who terrorized the village until someone had the courage to go and teach him a lesson and he was never seen again.

 Part two…

BARACK OBAMA

October 7, 2016 / / 2 Comments

Barack Obama originated from Kenya, were his dad stayed until he got a scholarship and was able to come here to study in the America, where he met Obama’s mum, Ann. She was an American anthropologist who specialized in economic anthropology and rural development. Obama junior was born in August 4, 1961 and was the first born. He married Michelle had two daughters, called “Malia” and “Sasha”.

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Barack Obama is one of the world’s greatest leaders, because he not only cares for his country, but he also doesn’t take advantage and make promises he can’t keep. He wanted to study law, so he went to . He studied in Colombia University and also studied law in Harvard law school.

Barack Obama’s qualities are a lot : He is fair, he cares for the country, people like him and he only makes promises he can keep. These are the qualities of a good leader. Barack Obama received national attention during his campaign in 2004 and won it. He also started his campaign in 2007 and was rewarded later with the 2009 Nobel peace prize laureate.

During his first years in office, Obama signed into law economic stimulus legislation in response to the Great Recession in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. Other major domestic initiatives in his first term included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as “Obama care”; the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; and they Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010.

It is his 8th year in power now and there is an election coming up.

The Shrinkinator – By Joshua Lathbridge

October 4, 2016 / / 6 Comments

As Bob got out from his mums car, he dribbled his football over to the shed, where his Grandpa normally worked. Going into the shed he was about to step on a snail but it looked as if it had transformed and – and wheels grew out of its shell. Entering the shed, his eyes met with some sort of machine, like a karaoke player for cavemen. Turning the handle with his hand, he noticed that it kept going faster and faster until Grandpa burst into shouting, hoping to get bobs attention. But it was too late, Bob and Grandpa had shrunk!

Waking up from the explosion, Grandpa was chatting about how it was a breakthrough because they had shrunk down to the size of bugs. Bob was not at all happy that he was the smallest in his family, even before he was shrunk down in the size of a ant! “good job, Grandpa how did you get that small?” asked a curious little wasp. Bob wasn’t sure of what was happening or why a wasp could talk. “Yeah, why are you the size of an ant?” Bob remembered this snail, because he almost stepped on it when he was half way to the shed! Scratching his head, he noticed his hand was cold. Later on, he realised that he didn’t have a hand. It was made of metal.

“What happened to my hand?!” Bob exclaimed in his outside voice. He didn’t know at all what was happening, “first I had to come to my grandpa’s place because my mum is travelling and I don’t know where my dad is, secondly, I get shrunk down to the size of an insect and lastly, I don’t have an arm! So, I don’t care what it takes to get big again, but I will find those shrinkinator parts and I’m going to be big again!” Bob thought he could inspire them with such a speech, but willow and Syd (short for Sydney) didn’t agree.

“You don’t know what you’re getting into and you definitely don’t want to run into Lydia and her henchmen.” Bob was very confused now, he didn’t know who a “Lydia” even was. “What’s a Lydia anyway?” Bob was really curious of what was so dangerous about a yard anyway…

Meanwhile…

“High, Low, get here now!” Lydia was in a rage yet happy at the same time. “So, the shrinkinator has had a hiccup and exploded. This means that I can grab my chance and take over the world!” As Lydia celebrated her chance, bob and the rest of the gang went out to find shrinkinator parts, while grandpa put them together. “See, what could possibly go wrong?” asking willow and Syd, almost wanting a reaction from them. “Guys!, r-roach-roaches coming our way!” Chowder burst like a packet of sweets mixed with soda. bob slowly turned around, body locked in place until his neck had reached half way round. Head fully turned, he stared in horror at what he was looking towards.

“Look who showed up, a puny human, smaller than us, walking around the back-yard.” The others, except for bob, all backed away. “Run away!” They screamed simultaneously, bob locked his feet steady n the ground, but he was lifted up by chowder and brought back to the shed. “What did you just do, we have all the power because we have all the gear. We should be the ones to get them to run away!” Syd, Willow and Chowder all knew this was true, but they were aware of the ranking system and they definitely knew that a roach out ranked a snail, a wasp and a caterpillar, but they went back anyway. The roaches were almost at the giant sprinkler, but bob and his friends were well on their way to catching up.

Finally, they were gaining on them, all of them, especially bob were ecstatic. The roaches started to run as the team charged at them. Willow, who was in a rage, transformed and sent her drill straight at them, but, splitting up, she drilled into the floor. Bob and chowder were having more luck. Bob, being able to shoot things out his robotic hand, got a piece of his string around low’s legs. High, however, was almost at the giant sprinkler! Bob, with the help of chowders blades, when high fell down, caught their first part with his grappling hook. Going back victoriously, they all talked about how they were able to perform all that without getting hurt by them.

“Hi mum, I’m OK. I met a few bullies but nothing I can’t handle, love from bob”.

They kept doing this until the shrinkinator was ready, and when it was ready, bob was going to get big until Lydia shrank down smaller than she even was. So, bob couldn’t get big because his dad was the only one who could make more…

ANIMAL FARM REVIEW – ANOTHER BOOK I HAVE READ!

October 1, 2016 / / 6 Comments

The Animal farm is also another great book made by George Orwell.
This book is about a farmer called Mr Jones, who terrorizes his poor defend less animals. One day he and his men went too far and the animals rebelled as the wise Major had said. Mollie and snowball, who betray their own kind, chose to join Mr Jones on Fox-wood farm and they both tried to help him win the battle of the cowshed.

By that time the animal farm became known to all of London, but supporters of Mr Jones wanted to take it back to its rightful owner. Before Snowball had left, he said that they should build a windmill, to save the energy of the animals, but comrade Napoleon said they shouldn’t.
They ended up building it without Snowballs help because Napoleon had took the idea for himself.

Later on Snowball had destroyed the windmill because of his jealousy and joined Mr Jones in his pledge to take back the farm. Subsequently, Fredrick wanted to take back the animal infested place an punish the animals in it, but Napoleon wasn’t having that. He and everyone worked even harder to rebuild the windmill and they did, they even made the walls thicker. But when Fredrick had ambushed them, he then made his way to the windmill and blew it into oblivion!

When the animals opened their eyes to see that all their hard work had gone down the drain, all animals’ rage boiled like water in a pot. The charged at Fredrick and his men, but the men were too strong and killed quite a few of them. Boxer was on his hooves, knocking them down all at once. Eventually Fredrick said they should retreat while they still could.

I would rate this book 5 stars because it is really interesting and it would be a really good for people who like to read.

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Stick a Badge On It

September 20, 2016 / / 1 Comment

Every badge available for you to earn can be found online on our special badge site: achieve.community.edutronic.net

When you submit something for assessment your teacher will evaluate it against the published criteria for each badge. You can submit work for assessment at any time – and the work can come from inside our outside the classroom.

The criteria is published in conjunction with each achievement badge, along with samples of other students’ work that has met the criteria, so you can be clear about the standards that are expected.

If your work successfully meets the criteria then your teacher will award you that badge. You will receive an email, it will be added to your Credly account and it will show up on the right side of the page whenever you log into the achievement site.

If you want to know more of what is required to unlock an achievement, simply click on its icon or title. Here are a few examples from English, Drama and Science:

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