Story Review: Reconnecting The Brain

Story: Reconnecting The Brain

Story By: Bronwen Wall

Reviewed By: Jedida

Age: 11

School: Pt England

                   Reconnecting the Brain Story Review

This story is called Reconnecting The Brain, but it’s actually not fully
about that, it is about someone called Melanie Cheung. Melanie Cheung
is a Neurobiologist and she studys brains. Right now,(in the story), she is
trying to find a treatment for people with something called huntington's
disease. I didn’t know what that was before I read the story, or what it
even was But after reading it, I know more, even about brains.

Melanie Cheung is part Maori and Tahitian Chinese, and she uses
Karakia to remove tapu from the brain before studying it. At first she
wasn’t really sure if she wanted to become a Neurobiologist because
the brain is tapu for Maori people, which means that the brain is very
sacred, important, and restricted to Maori people.  

I have learnt quite a lot of things from this story. Like what huntington's
disease is, and a lot of different words and some different Maori words
that can be helpful at different times. Some of the different words that I
learnt were Neuroplasticity, Tapu, Tikanga, Whakanoa, and much much
more.

Overall, I think that this book is very good, and I definitely recommend it
for anyone. It can also teach you quite a lot of different things and words,
especially about brains, and It’s just a great book overall, and I give it 4
out of 5 stars.

Reconnecting The Brain

Walt: Ask questions to clarify our understanding of a text.


Task Description:
For this task we had to answer the questions about the book that my group are reading this week called, Reconnecting The Brain By Bronwen Wall. This slide show has two videos in it as well. One of them is an interview with Melanie Cheung. If you don't know who she is, you should go and read my story review, or even the book. 

Moriori: Story of Survival Book Review

Book: Moriori: Story of Survival

Author: Maui and Henemata Solomon

Reviewed by: Jedida

Age: 11

School: Pt England

                           :Story Review:

This week’s book is called Moriori: Story of Survival, and
it is a non-fiction book about Moriori people and just
explains mainly their culture, their island, and where their from.

This book is about someone called Maui Solomon, and how
he grew up in a school telling him that his culture, his heritage,
and where he came from was a myth, wasn’t real, but fake.
But it’s also about his Grandfather, Tommy Solomon, their
culture, and them.

Do you know what the island Moriori people live on? Well,
the island is called Rekohu in Maori and the Chatham islands
in English.

Over all, I think that this book is great and I definitely
recommend this book, and I would give it  4 out of 5 stars.

Information Web

Walt: Find and summarise key information in a text.


Task Description:
For this task we had to Collect information from the names of our reading groups, my reading group is called Campion, so I had to collect information from Jane Campion and put it in my information web. So this is my information web.   

Sewing at Tech

Walt: Practice makes perfect.

Task Description: Today is week 4 at Tech, we practised sewing straight lines on paper. This is my                                                      piece of paper that I practised sewing on.

Mixture of problems

Walt: Do your best at the test by practising word problems. Task Description: For this task we had to work out and solve/ answer the problems in the presentation in the different slides. This is my slide , and what I did.

Writers Eye

Walt: generate ideas on a specific topic using a graphic organiser. 


Task Description:
For this task, room 2 had to make one eye, and some eye lashes around it, then writing between the eye lashes what we see everyday. This is my eye, and it has some of the things I see everyday on it.