Narrative writing - An upward struggle

An Upward struggle

Lara let out a gasp as she reached up for the next finger hold. She could feel the sun burning her back and shoulders, not even halfway of the climb Lara was covered in sweat. She let out a loud grunt and forced herself to keep climbing the dove white mountain. Lara could feel her back and arms aching as she struggled to keep going. Even though Lara love climbing she wasn't enjoying herself, never in her life has she climbed a mountain so steep. She could taste the saltiness of her own sweat that as it dripped down onto her lips. Straining her muscles she lunged towards the next finger hold.

Ignoring the pain that she could feel in her body she kept climbing and climbing Lara wasn't that type of person that would give up. During her struggle she heard a rumbling noise coming from her left, Lara let out a gasp as huge wall of snow came crashing down fortunately for her Lara was a safe distance away but she could still feel the impact, Lara braced herself and waited till the little avalanche stopped, she could hear the snow tumbling to the ground with a powerful impact. Lara let a shaky breath and and tried to calm herself down. She could still feel her heart rapidly beating in her chest. Lara stood still not daring to move she closed her eyes and let out a deep breath, 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5….  She counted to 10 to try and calm herself.

After a while of resting Lara decided it was a safe time to go on and start climbing.

It was victory, she did it despite the pain and danger she was faced with Lara did it.

She made it to the top of the mountain.   

Here is a piece of narrative writing that I did using google docs. My narrative is about a mountain climber Lara who task was to climb to the top of the snowy mountain. The purpose for writing a narrative was to get better and hopefully use the skill that we learnt to help improve out writing and move up ti the next level.

NZ flag change

LI: To make an informed choice based on the information.

Today the students of LS2 took part in the NZ flag change, based on what we think we selected what flag NZ should have the current flag or the new flag. We thought about reasons about why we should change the flag and why we shouldn't and selected which one we think would be better for NZ. We made are own inform choice based on  information and facts that we found online. 

Keeping the pace - Writing

Exemplar 1:

On the street, day time. Leg’s run along the pavement. They are Mark Renton’s. Just ahead of him is Spud. They are both belting along. As they travel various objects, ( pens, tapes, CD’s toiletries, ties, sunglasses and so on)

either fall or discarded from inside their jackets. They are pursued by two hard looking store detectives in identical uniforms. The men are fast, but Renton and spud maintain their lead. Suddenly, as Renton crosses a road, a car skids to halt, inches from him. In a moment of detachment Renton stops and looks at the shocked driver, then at Spud, who has continued running, then at the two men who are closing in. He smiles.

He stood there thinking, of ways to get out of this problem. Renton looks behind him seeing that the detectives were only five steps away. One of the detectives reached out his hands to grab the collar of Renton's T- shirt. Renton panic he sprinted as fast as he could, dodging the beeping cars. He raced through the streets trying to get away from the detectives, not caring who was in front of him. Up a head Spud was pumping his legs, jumping over food stalls and pushing people over.

“ You got to catch up” yelled Spud.

As he looked backed seeing that Renton was having trouble getting away from the detectives.

Spud could hear angry voices behind him. He could hear the angry shouts coming from the people he pushed.

Renton was a fair distance away from the detectives his heart was beating rapidly in his chest. All of a sudden Renton heard someone scream, ahead of him not watching where he was going Spud crashed into a angry woman who was just about to cross the streets. Spud stumbled hard, hitting his head as he fell to the ground. One of the detectives ran ahead of Renton seeing this was the only opportunity to catch Spud. The other detective ran to Spud with cuffs in his hand trying to get him to stand up. Renton took a deep breath, as the detectives were to busy talking to Spud they forgot about Renton. Renton didn't waste any time and sprinted away from the detectives not caring that Supd was hurt. Renton ran to the corner of the streets thinking that he was going to get away but there were two cops cars waiting for him. He couldn't turn back.

They caught him.  

Here is a writing task that my teacher Mrs Anderson had set up for us. The purpose of this task was to learn how to keep the pace when a writing a narrative. We chose two exemplar writing's exemplar one and exemplar two and we had to carry on the rest of the story by keeping the pace. I chose exemplar one because for me I think that one was more interesting. 

Dialouge challenge

For writing our teacher set us up with a task to create a conversion between the two characters the big bad wolf and the three little pigs from the story three little pigs. What we had to do was, by using I fake text in two pairs or a group of three we had to use dialouge and more interesting words other that most common words to create the conversion but with different scenario for each conversion.

Comparing between flags

Here is a DLO I created using Google slides to show the difference between the NZ naval flag and NZ current flag. We have searched up the coats of arm for Auckland and explained what the designs mean.

How to survive a cow attack

Using  Google slides I created this DLO with my partner Jessie about how to survive a cow attack. We have included in our DLO five tips on how to keep safe around a herd of cows.

How to cook Terotero

Here is a DLO I created about how to cook Terotero. Terotero is the maori word for pig meat. I found a a recipe on the internet and made it into a DLO about how to cook terotero.