Planting Garlic

Today, Friday, me and 7 others of my class (the rest of them were at production and rippa rugby) did some planting. We planted garlic. We also learned how to plant the garlic properly, first you hoe a row/s and then you put your garlic cloves in with the pointy bit up and the white rough bit down, here are some photos. I enjoyed planting garlic, you would too.

(I am on the right here)

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Finders Keepers

This week my reading group has been reading 'Finders Keepers' by Emily Rodda it is a science fiction book about a kid who gets sucked into a game show. Here is some writing that I have done about it

4/6/19

Name: Finders Keepers by Emily Rodda

Genre: Science Fiction

Characters: Patrick, Claire, Danny, Judith, Paul, Estelle, Michael.

Summary of what I have read so far:

Patrick, a teenage boy One day in the middle of that week Patrick was walking home but on the way there he stopped at the computer store. He entered the computer store and looked around for a computer that was on. He found one that was humming to itself, he tried pressing a key, it suddenly lit up Patrick started playing the game on it, he moved around and found a chest filled with treasure, he collected it, the screen went black. A message popped up, it said, WHO ARE YOU WHO ARE YOU WHO ARE YOU. Patrick, typed Patrick. “Congratulations Patrick”, It read, “You have been selected to play ‘Finders Keepers’. To play go on channel 8 at 10 am on Saturday”. Patrick stopped for a second and ran home in excitement. On saturday Patrick and his mother, Judith went to the chestnut village mall to buy some new shoes for Patrick. After they had bought the shoes Judith said she was going to get a cuppa, so they went to the coffee shop and they were going to watch the big Chestnut village clock strike ten. Patrick asked his mother if he could watch from the other side of the mall, she let him, so he went over but he went to the tv store instead and a game show was on and there was a presenter on the screen, the presenter said, “Come on down Patrick.” And everything went blurry and Patrick got sucked into the TV. He opened his eyes and he was in this place with a crowd and there was that presenter on TV he saw just before.

Character development:

Patrick: Patrick is a (presumably) teenage boy who likes computers but doesn’t have one, and he got sucked into a TV in the mall into a game show that he got invited to earlier in the week.

Danny: Danny is Patrick’s toddler brother that I don’t know much about.

Claire: Claire is Patrick’s older sister and that is all I know about her.

Judith: Judith is Patrick’s mother that has taken him to the mall to buy him shoes at the chestnut tree village.

Paul: Paul is Patrick’s father that hasn’t been included in this story a lot.

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Persuasive Writing

This week we have been doing some persuasive writing, and our teacher gave us the topic: Is Greymouth's future in tourism? here is my work. l:v)

WALT: Write a piece of persuasive writing

Is Greymouth’s future in tourism? I think not. I am arguing against this because I
think it’s a bit silly, Greymouth is already a fine place and it doesn’t need to attract
tourists.

I think Greymouth is fine because there are already heaps of tourist attractions
around the West Coast like Hokitika, Westport etc. There are a fair amount of
people that have come to the west coast because in their country they don’t  
have all the green trees and all the birds and native animals that we do. That alone
attracts tourists to Greymouth so I don’t think we need all the stuff Hokitika and
Westport have because they aren't that long of a drive.

Where on earth would we get this money! It isn’t free to have all the attractions
that other countries and places do. It would be like a cycle, we buy and make the
attraction and the tourists come and pay to see the attraction. Would it be worth
all that money? Would we make income? I just don’t think it’s worth it. I’m not
exactly sure if the government would source the money or not but I don’t think
they would.

If Greymouth built tourist attractions it could steal other peoples customers. It
could cause other tourist attractions in other places to shut down because no one
was visiting their places. People could get angry, and we don’t want that, do we?
Tourists like new things to visit that’s why they tour so if we put in something new
tourists would leave the old places and they would shut down.

In conclusion, I think it would cost a lot and might not be worth all the money so
that is why I don’t think Greymouth’s future is in tourism.

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