Why we need to have manners in our classroom

 In a classroom, manners is one of the most important things to have, to keep the cleanliness of the actual room. And to make sure people are safe and respected. Students and teachers alike. 

Without manners in a classroom environment things would turn to chaos. People would be bullied. The furniture would be disgusting and no one would be having a good time at all! 

When you go to school you expect decent things, maybe not an iron chandelier or endless break times. But decentness. Things like clean chairs or floors to sit on. People need manners to keep those decent thoughts alive. No one likes sitting in a disgusting grimy chair or a crummy yogurt stained floor. 

Another thing is when people are just rude. They know what manners are but they don’t use them. They do things for the benefit of themselves. Like not cleaning up their own mess, or shoving people out of the doorways, which happens pretty much every time we leave to get our bags. Everyone knows what it's like to be shoved out of a doorway. 

And while that's not nice. It's not the worst thing ever either. It's simply unpleasant, but things like that can actually get so much worse. Like if you get shoved into someone with a leg injury and they trip and hurt way worse than before! They could end up in hospital because of plain rudeness! 

This can also lead to triggering someone's mental illness. Getting up in someone's face and being rude and self concerned. People with anxiety could break down from the stress of someone being too absorbed in their personal bubble. Or have a panic attack. Which is a lot worse guilt then just leaving them alone and being polite

People saying things like ‘shame’ can actually really hurt or embarrass people and you don’t even know it! 

Being polite isn’t even that hard! Everyone does it! Just take a moment and be kind. People will complain that you are rude and selfish and you might feel guilty. It's called karma! If you want friends then be friendly! If you want a clean house then clean your room! It's really simple! Using harsh language doesn’t make you as cool as you think it does. When I see someone swearing their head off in public I don’t think

“Wow, they are so awesome and cool.” I think “They are disturbing the shared public space”

There are people in the world that will not take your rudeness well. Please just be a decent human being. That's all I ask. 

You don't need to be a hero, just be nice enough so that people will be nice to you. 

And what about when you go to college, it's not people's jobs there to guarantee you a career, or a future. YOU have to be the one to be organized and on time. If you want a job you can’t be rude and expect to get the job, if you don’t clean your mess, you’re fired. It's not your boss's job to take responsibility for you, in fact, it shouldn’t be anyones. No matter how old you are! We are not toddlers that need to be held and babied. We are capable of being good!

Clap for peoples achievements, dont talk when others are talking, pick up your own mess, don’t swear, respect the teachers who take us out to events, plan our school days and get everything ready on time, respect the teachers who give you second chances! 

Now I have listed all of my reasons as to why people should just use manners! It's easy, it's nice, it's also beneficial to you, just do it!

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Literacy Reflection

Literacy Reflection - Character Scene Analysis.

For the past week in class we have been examining and talking about all the things that directors and writers do that make us understand a character. We discovered that they do this in a number of ways, including how a character dresses, how a character acts, how a character talks. Etc. 

In class we looked at multiple clips from the first scenes that Harry potter characters are introduced. And we realized really quickly that most characters fit a certain stereotype because it is easier for the audience to get an understanding of the character. Like Snape, he is tall, dark, wears intimidating clothing, for example, long black robes. His gaze is icy, all of these give lots of clues to what his personality is. 

In groups or pairs we wrote character scripts/stories based on a character we created, we had to keep all of the aspects that authors and directors use in mind. I wrote the script for my group but we all created the character. Afterwards I had my friend go through and highlight all of those things. Yellow for clothing and appearance, green for environment, blue for speech, red for actions. I think that helped me see what things I needed more of and less of. 

I think I have done a good job of character writing by describing how the character looks, the person that did the analysis of my writing said they could easily see who the character is from the clothing, and I think I also did well with actions, the character had a lot of cool, character building action moments. 

I need to work on describing more of the environment to add to the character, only a little bit of the environment added to her character but not very much. And there was hardly any description of it. 

 

William Pike progress.

 

Script analysis

                                                           

The Main character - Cassie Evans Green.

Extra characters - Cop, Ward Owner. 

Script  (Written by Bluebell Barr)

INT. 1992 - A psych ward in New York, ‘Cop’ is leaning against the wall next to ‘Ward Owner’ the setting is dim and dark, - late afternoon

Cop is wearing the typical cop uniform, the camera is looking up at him, he is frowning.

Ward owner is wearing a long silk robe, she has her hair down and it's dead straight. The camera is looking down at her, she is straight faced. 

Cop (Skeptical)

“Is it safe? Is she properly contained in there?”

‘Cop’ gestures to the door

Ward Owner (Smirking)

“Fully held back and defenceless.”

‘Cop’ smiles

‘Cop’ stands up from the wall and gently pushes against the solitary confinement room

Camera focuses on ‘Cassie’ she is hunched over in a corner with her hands behind her back, crying.

Cassie is wearing a white long gown, her hair is in rough plaits, the camera looks directly at her.

Cassie (Sniffling)

“Please don’t shoot me…”

Blue- Speech by character

Green- Environment that adds to character

Red- Actions the character does

Yellow- What the character looks like.

Clara and Kirsten had a look at my story and highlighted bits they think match what the colours are.

after looking at there analysis I realized that I probably needed more things in the environment around Cassie to add to her character. and I had enough actions and words, but maybe a bit more of what the character looks like. This is only a snippet of the full text and its pretty much the same average of highlights through out. but I definitely need more environment related things.

My Science Inquiry

 

Clean up- Rubbish walk.

 Yesterday me and some other students went on a walk around Sea eagles park and around our school area with big bags and picked up rubbish. we wore plastic gloves and looked around to find trash. me and the people in my group (Jessica, Sophie, Caitlyn) found 67 used cigarettes. we went really far into the prickly bushes and it hurt but we found heaps! we nearly filled our whole bag. and on the way back we found these big boxes and we carried them back to school. there was a lot of them. 

I actually really enjoyed it and I found a bunch of dandelions and I gave them to everyone. 

:) 

Essay of Character Synthesising

 In movies and books we always take notice of the characters, and for some reason we instantly understand them, their personality, and what role they play in the story, have you ever wondered why that is. Well, all of the decisions that a director, or author makes is to give you an understanding of that character. Everything has a purpose. So how much can you find out about a character by just one scene?

The very first thing you would notice about a character is the outfit they wear, if we take a look at some characters from harry potter you can see that most of the characters have a stereotype that you can figure out from just looking at what they wear, take snape for example, he wears long black robes that are silky and mysterious liked spilled ink, and jet black hair, with deep dull eyes. Portraying an evil character, a bad guy stereotype, the same thing happens with Hermione granger, from her poofy hair and  clean and ironed school uniform you can decide that she is a bit of a neat freak and likes being perfect, also, she got in her uniform before anyone else, making her seem like the person that thrives on being on time. 

Another thing that helps you find out what a character is like is the actions that they do, from a short two minute scene watching Ron weasley, by studying the actions that he does you get a pretty decent accurate idea of what he is like, if you look at this phrase you can break it down and discover heaps! 

¨I'm the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I've got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left -- Bill was head boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy's a prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they're really funny. Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first. You never get anything new, either, with five brothers. I've got Bill's old robes, Charlie's old wand, and Percy's old rat."

He says how he has a lot to live up to and that everyone expects him to do great things, but you can obviously tell that he is unsure that he can do it, which makes you think he is shy and a bit scared, and nervous to go to hogwarts, you also can tell that he is resentful which comes in to play later in the books. So from one phrase you learn so much about Ron. 

Now we are going back again to look at snape, and the environment he is in, which again, tells us a lot about him. Snape teaches in a dungeon, which typically is a stereotype for evil places, a dark gloomy dungeon would normally be where bad things lie ahead? 

Also you can see pickled animals and flickering lights, not the greatest thing to see in a dungeon, which makes us suspicious. Which gives you ANOTHER idea of the character. 

So in a brief conclusion, everything a director/writer does is 100% on purpose, nothing is placed in a book or movie without careful consideration and thinking. Everything in a scene can help you discover what a character is about and their personality. 

Thank you for reading.