Queen of air and darkness Book Review

Queen of Air and Darkness


So far in my book the main characters Julian, Emma, Christina and Mark have been involved in some pretty cool action filled death defying missions. This is the third book in the series. The story arc is following Emma and Julian's complicated, extremely forbidden and law breaking, family breaking, love story. And also the love triangle/pentagon with Mark, Christina and Kieran. Believe me both of these love stories are very confusing to understand. But! While these are going their is also a half war half revolution going on because the inquisitor of the shadow hunter council (The Clave) sucks quite a fair deal. And his daughter is really annoying. Basically they hate him. But that's not the main story arc. Julian and Emma can't fall in love because of a curse called the parabatai curse (They are parabatai), the curse means that if parabatai where to fall in love then they get stronger and more powerful but then they get so strong that they become mindless monsters that will destroy everything that gets in their path. So, naturally, they are so keen on that because Julian has 6 siblings and the oldest, Helen Blackthorn, got sent away because of a law that passed after the dark war called the cold peace. Which basically means that faeries have no rights, at all… and Helen is a half faerie so she got sent away to an island called wrangel island. And Mark, who is also half faerie, got captured by a faerie “gang” called the wild hunt, and they are pretty gangsta. (No, actually they reap the souls of the dead and help them pass on to the afterlife. They also are pretty scary and strong)

So because of this Julian was the oldest and at 11 he had to look after all the children and he now thinks of himself as their father. So yeah. Doesn't want to kill them. I would say the main goal of the characters in the book is to exterminate the cold peace. But there is also a lot going on as well that could take ages to write, Like the main villain from another series related to this one I found out had a child that enters things in this book! Which I think is awesome because I loved that villains narrative.

Anyway thats basically whats poppin in Queen of Air and Darkness.

100% 10 stars. I love this series and author (Cassandra Clare) so much!!

Pride Writing :3

Everything was going smoothly, everything was in place and ready for the following day, the glorious artwork was shimmering softly in the glow of the moon. It was near midnight. My best friend was finishing making the playlist of music to burst through the speakers the following day. Hundreds of pride flags were dotted through the streets of New York. We had just finished chalking out various pride flags along the streets, with the gorgeous colours of the transgender flag, the special pigments in the bisexual flag, and the fun childlike colours of the pansexual flag everything looked perfect.

 The dream was being shaped out and created in the city of life. It was going to be amazing, except for my speech. I hadn't even started, I have so many words revolving around in my head that I can't even write down! I need to escape and write it. I needed more than just pictures and music to persuade lgbtqi+ rights in New York. I needed to move the crowd, to persuade them, so I said farewell to my friend and headed to the closest milkshake bar. 

I ordered nachos and sat at the table with my head plonked down on the computer. Yeah. it's gonna be a long night. My fingers fly across the keyboard but consistently backtrack to the backspace key. As I am close to giving up I hear an angel calling me from above. Is it time for resting? I am dragged to reality as I see a girl looking down at me. I blush and pull my long black hair behind my face as she smiles at me. She is beautiful. “Are you running the pride parade tomorrow?

I sigh, “Don't even ask… All night I have been trying to write a speech.” she sits down next to me. I shiver at the cold, but I don't feel it.

“Thanks.”

......


“And that kid is how I met your mother!” I say, flourishing my hands out wide. I hear her sigh behind me and I intertwine my fingers with hers.

“She was soooo tired that night, nearly fell asleep talking to me.” She exclaims to the kids.

“Oh shoosh.” I sighed out. Content at the world.



Everything was going smoothly.

WE are the Resistance.

Klaus… as far as I know, that's my name. There are facts about me that I know. My age, my skin colour, my name, last name. That's all irrelevant to who I really am. What really matters is who I love, what I believe in, what am I fighting for… I'm fighting for freedom, I'm fighting to save who I love, I'm fighting for equality. This government has been in power for way too long making all the wrong decisions. That is what I will put an end to. And if I die, it doesn't matter because I know that the people that are rooting for me won't just remember my name, my age or my family name. They remember me for saving them...




In the afterlife maybe I will remember stepping up on the podium with my comrades keeping the government officials still so they watch me destroy their power. I walk up to the whirring diamond.
My hand plunges through the force field keeping the government in power. As their power source, nothing will be fixed now. The acid reaches a boil on my fist. I bubble away to the cheers of my people. The cries of my betrayed lover. And the wails of the sirens that are blaring through the cities.

My goals are keeping everything in paragraphs and using correct grammar. 

How to find the area of a shape

"Area! The mathematics of finding how much surface area is in a shape! That sounds exciting! We're basically going to be learning how to do simple geography! You must be on the edge of your seat!"

say I have a square, the perimeter of that square is 10cm, 5cm, 5cm, 10cm. Say I wanted to find the area of the square using the perimeter. First you get the length and width of the square. The length is 10cm, and the width is 5cm.
So you go 10cm x 5cm = 50cm.
So 50cm would be the area of the square. (My apologies its actually a rectangle.)

NOW YOU KNOW

Visual Prompt (Show not Tell)

The tears flickered and burned in the corners of her eyes, he stood a few feet back. She turned her heel and pelted back to him, wrapping her arms securely around his waist, She heard him sigh, saw his eyebrows widen, and watched as his long arms draped around her waist loosely. He tried to tug her away but she dug her fingernails into his shirt with a fire inside her, refusing to be ruled over. The bell rang, a loud clear noise, ringing through her ears, tormenting her, she flung herself away from him and ran as fast as her shivering legs would run. He could hear him yell for her but she was burning through her body with new found power and she ran faster, faster and faster, in the direction of the forest.

Maths Blog Update-Circumference

Nogo told us to go and measure the Diameter of the circle in the middle of the court. Being the very intelligent being that I am I decided to measure the VERY small circle. you know, the tiny one. and while everyone else measurements were around 12 and 14. mine was 3 1/2. wow, nice one Bluebell.
Then we were told to work out the circumference of the circle with only the measurements of the diameter.

SO 3.5 (d) = 11 (c)!

  I worked this out because C = pi x d.

Wolf Diagram

Maths- Volume Learning

Maths- Volume Learning Session

Today in Maths we learnt about Volume and finding the volume of objects such as cubes, etc. One of the questions was 

width= 16 Length= 11 Height= 1.5

Find the volume of this cube, (use calculaters) and then work out how much concrete you would need to make it. its $4 per cubix metre. 

The volume was = 264m 

and the final answer was 1056. yay!

Scientific Diagram Explaination

Growing a vegetable garden Audience Purpose Visuals Symbols Labels Text 1 Gardening in the Living Room - Page 3 How do plants grow Year 5-Year 8 and up because it looks a bit higher level then juniors but not difficult enough to be for adults or teens. The purpose is to help people understand the whole process of plants growing. Using factual language. There are images so we can have a full idea of how it works and there are also close ups to show the closer things. Arrows showing what different parts of the text are explaining. There are words near the arrows to show what goes where. And also a big text box explaining it in a lot more detail. Text 2 Planting an apple tree Year 6 to Year 8 because it has a few hard words but still a bit easy for older kids To help people understand how a tree grows. Giant tree and roots The arrows pointing to the different parts of the tree Short texts that explain each piece Text 3 Tui planting calendar Year 7 to year 10 because there is quite a lot going on and it's quite a hard to red chart To show people when it is best to plant certain animals. And also how long it takes Like plan images showing how good out of three. A big chart/graph The plant images on the graph to show the best out of 3 Text is on the side with a few steps on how to plant Text 3 Own choice

This Synthesis is about all the different elements in a scientific graph, such as audience, visuals, etc. 

First you have to know what a scientific diagram is, its basically a visual representation

Audience- The audience can be decided by what words people are using in their texts. Words like flower, bug and dirt would be words used in level 1 to 3. But in a year level for 7 to 8s then words like photosynthesis and jargon and nutrition would be used. You can also tell in the pictures. If there are a bunch of little cartoon images everywhere. Then it is highly likely that it is for younger kids. But a more detailed, toned down image for older kids and adults. Like in one of the texts above there is quite a few scientific words but not too hard so that it is adult level. It has a picture of a tree and the roots with simple arrows pointing to different elements, so its around the age of 9 to 14.

Purpose- When you are trying to find out what the purpose in a diagram is, you have to look at the factual information that it gives, the title and also subheadings, once you have a pretty good idea of what the main idea of the text is, then you have the purpose. Like if you look at the first text above, You can clearly see that it is to describe photosynthesis and how a plant grows, you can figure this out from the image and the main texts. 

Visuals - Visuals are not the key element in a scientific diagram, but they do help pull the whole thing together, If you were making a diagram about trees and tree roots you would probably have an image of a tree and roots so that you can clearly see what happens with the roots and etc. 

You can also have images that don’t have any value to the diagram, like a little fish for an ocean diagram. And it makes the diagram pop!

A good example of this is in the second diagram above here, about planting trees, it has a tree held up by posts. Fitting the text. Oh yes, that's another thing, visual images must fit the text so it's not random and it all works together.

Symbols- Symbols are relatively important to a diagram, symbols are things like arrows and dashes, mostly the arrows are pointing to different points on an image and explaining bits about them, like pointing to an apple on an apple tree and talking about apples and worms and things about apples, but you wouldn't point to an apple and talk about pears. Symbols can also be the squiggly line that you draw to mark a bees path across the sky. Stuff like that.

Labels- Labels means text, the words that explain things in a diagram, normally using scientifically correct words and sentences, very factual and informative, just like in the last text above, which is a graph of when it is best to plant depending on the month, they explain why its best and they also use little plant pictures to show how good it is out of three. 

Rifleman Ecosystem