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The unexpected visitor writing…

The Unexpected visitor…

 

One late evening, It’s 9pm on a Saturday night. 

 

A teenage girl named Sasha, was seemingly scrolling on her phone, while eating a roasted potato. She took a bite for each engaging scroll she did. The sound of crunching from the roasted crust of the potato could be heard throughout the room, as its delicious aroma could be smelt throughout the whole room.  

Sasha’s parents had gone out, and she was left all alone. Sasha was certain that no one would knock on the door, especially this late. Sasha’s parents wouldn’t have to knock if they had the keys…

 

Sasha ate her late bite of her potato before wiping her mouth with her sleeves, continuing to scroll through her phone once again, turning the volume up to max. 

 

Light tap’s could be heard behind the door.

 

tap, tap, tap. As if they were soft knocks, though Sasha wasn’t able to make out the light knocks on the door. The light knocks continued for almost a few seconds. Before they got louder, and louder, as if the bangs on the door were begging to come inside.

 

Sasha had gotten a fright and glanced at the door, before shutting her phone off. Sasha slowly stepped to the door unsure of who or what could be out there.

 

“Delivery…!!!” 

 

A voice? Sasha thought.

 

“Strange..I didn’t order anything?” Sasha muttered to herself. Before slowly taking a glimpse through the peephole.

 

“No one?..” Sasha spoke once again, before slowly opening the door. To her surprise nothing or.. no one was there. Were they already in her home? had she invited it in? She quickly closed the door before steadily turning around, seeing a glimpse of a shadowy figure………

 

“NO DON’T EAT MY POTATOES…!!!” Sasha yelped, her face turning pale white. It was to her horror..it was the potato eating monster!! Sasha ran to her plate of potatoes she secretly hid, seeing…

 

Crumbs. Only crumbs were left behind. She really hated crumbs that someone left behind.

 

“AUGHHH, NO…MY POTATOES…I HATE YOU…!!!” 

 

Sasha groaned before falling to her knees in a dramatic way. The potato titan slowly started to exit Sasha’s home, not before eating the last potato in front of her.

 

Would Sasha get pay back? Who knows..

 

Never open the door to strangers… muahahahaha

Counter Narrative..

It was a very sad and withdrawn girl who was dragged into the principal’s office the next day. This time he did look me in the eyes.

 

“What did your grandfather say?”

 

I sat very straight in my chair.

 

“He said to tell you he won’t pay the fifteen dollars.”

 

The principal muttered something I couldn’t understand under his breath and walked over to the window. He stood looking out at something outside. He looked bigger than usual when he stood up; he was a tall, gaunt man with grey hair, and I watched the back of his head while I waited for him to speak.

 

“Why?” he finally asked. “Your grandfather has the money. He owns a two-hundred acre ranch.”

 

I looked at him, forcing my eyes to stay dry. “I know, sir, but he said if I had to pay for it, then it wouldn’t be a scholarship jacket.” I stood up to leave. “I guess you’ll just have to give it to Joann.” I hadn’t meant to say that, it had just slipped out. I was almost to the door when he stopped me.

 

“Martha — wait.”

 

I turned and looked at him, waiting. What did he want now? I could feel my heart pounding loudly in my chest and see my blouse fluttering where my breasts should have been. Something bitter and vile tasting was coming up in my mouth; I was afraid I was going to be sick. I didn’t need any sympathy speeches. He sighed loudly and went back to his big desk. He watched me, biting his lip.

 

“…i’ve decided.. That you aren’t getting the…Jacket..”

The principal said with a hesitant voice. I felt tears running down both my cheeks, as I heard those words, I definitely felt extremely sick…. A little moment later, I started to speak with a stuttering voice.

“I—I understand sir..” As I said, turning around mid-sentence , wiping the tears he could’ve noticed. There was this weird moment of awkward silence with huge tension.

 

“..The board has been thinking that Joann should get the jacket instead..” The principal spoke , breaking the silence that occurred in the room moments before.

“Since.. Her father owns the only store in town..” The principal continued while clasping his palms together. I tried not to look at him with the redness, puffiness that occurred around and inside my eyes, but it was useless. “It’s alright sir …” I said with a look of despair written on my face, there was no hope to change his mind now.. 
The principal started to avoid my gaze as he felt.. Ashamed?

“..perhaps that is all I needed to confirm..You may leave”.. After those last words, I left as quickly as I could before bursting into tears. There was no one in the hallway so it was the right moment to shed my tears I’ve been holding in for a long time. I walked away from the room and went straight home to where my grandparents were.

As I took my step on the front porch I rushed past my grandmother and straight to my room. I didn’t come out for hours, until my grandmother started knocking on the door speaking in Spanish. I ignored the pleas to get up and get out, I started to think about the mistakes that would’ve happened to not get the scholarship jacket.

 

After months, Joann was able to earn the jacket by paying the 15 dollars. While Marta was stuck with great grades and able to live her normal life without the scholarship jacket which was still wounded to her heart.

 

Original:
It was a very sad and withdrawn girl who was dragged into the principal’s office the next day. This time he did look me in the eyes.

 

“What did your grandfather say?”

 

I sat very straight in my chair.

 

“He said to tell you he won’t pay the fifteen dollars.”

 

The principal muttered something I couldn’t understand under his breath and walked over to the window. He stood looking out at something outside. He looked bigger than usual when he stood up; he was a tall, gaunt man with grey hair, and I watched the back of his head while I waited for him to speak.

 

“Why?” he finally asked. “Your grandfather has the money. He owns a two-hundred acre ranch.”

 

I looked at him, forcing my eyes to stay dry. “I know, sir, but he said if I had to pay for it, then it wouldn’t be a scholarship jacket.” I stood up to leave. “I guess you’ll just have to give it to Joann.” I hadn’t meant to say that, it had just slipped out. I was almost to the door when he stopped me.

 

“Martha — wait.”

 

I turned and looked at him, waiting. What did he want now? I could feel my heart pounding loudly in my chest and see my blouse fluttering where my breasts should have been. Something bitter and vile tasting was coming up in my mouth; I was afraid I was going to be sick. I didn’t need any sympathy speeches. He sighed loudly and went back to his big desk. He watched me, biting his lip.

 

“Okay. We’ll make an exception in your case. I’ll tell the Board, you’ll get your jacket.”

 

I could hardly believe my ears. I spoke in a trembling rush. “Oh, thank you, sir!” Suddenly I felt great. I didn’t know about adrenaline in those days, but I knew something was pumping through me, making me feel as tall as the sky. I wanted to yell, jump, run the mile, do something. I ran out so I could cry in the hall where there was no one to see me.

Description: 
This is my rewritten version of the scholarship jacket. I took a scene from the story and wrote my own different version. A version were Martha doesn’t get the jacket :b… I think this story was very interesting by learning new things, i wrote my version completely different from the actual story. A different story that is still related to the original story. :3! 

Suspense Story.

 Ptengland school was mysterious, not filled with many students but extremely creepy to say the least. A specific classroom doesn’t know what will happen next..
Alazye, Jayla, and finally Helena, a specific trio that never listens to any teachers that are in front of them at all. 

 

Jayla was carelessly scrolling through her phone without a care. While Helena was loudly munching on chips, not being able to hear the teachers sayings. Alazye was seen throwing crumpled paper across the room, messing the classroom more than it already was, completely ignoring Ms Thompsons pleas of attention.

“These girls never listen..” Ms Thompson muttered quietly to herself, she tried many desperate attempts to get the trio’s attention, but none of them seemed to work. “Class we’ll be working on this task for the next hour!!” Her gaze slowly went to the trio watching their every movement. “Girls, I’m expecting you to listen.” Ms Thompson said sternly as her gaze left the trio.

 

 Helena was too stubborn to listen at all, there were loud sounds of chewing with dropping crumbs left on the floor. “Dude this newest flavour is awesome bruh..” Helena mentioned before stuffing her face with more. Alazye specifically was throwing crumpled papers across the room making an incredible mess, accidentally hitting Jayla’s forehead. Jayla wasn’t fazed at all as she was too busy scrolling through her phone without care.

“Boring, dumb, cool..” Jayla spoke to herself scrolling through. The trio was too busy doing their own thing to care..

Throughout the class it has passed one hour, and it was about time to have recess. During class the trio had left the classroom immediately, going outside to enjoy their time. As they walked Helena carelessly threw her plastic chip packet to the floor making the wind push it away. “Dude.. I’m still hungry bru.” Helena muttered before stopping her tracks, before looking behind gazing at the classroom they had just left from. “Dude’s I’m going back, and getting the rest of my snacks.” Helena didn’t wait for a response and left.

Helena started whistling to herself a silly tone before reaching the entrance of the classroom. For some reason she started to feel goosebumps running across her arm. “What..?” She whispered.. The lights on the ceiling started flickering as the weather started to change, dark clouds hovering the school. Helena looked behind her as she swore she saw a dark figure hovering behind her.

As she thought, the figure was extremely tall and completely black, with only a white glow in the eyes. Is what Helena thought it looked like, it didn’t look human or alive.

As she kept looking behind her trying to figure out what person or thing was out there watching her…

“U-uhm, hello???” She finally spoke, getting the stuttering words out her mouth. “..run…run..” Whispered voices were heard in the classroom. Helena had to check it out, so she walked towards where the whispers were coming from, the closer she got the clearer the whispers got. “run…before…too … .late..” She heard them, she was finally able to hear them clearer. She didn’t need to be told twice as she left, as she was halfway near the entrance of the classroom. The door shut.

Leaving Helena all alone, or what she thought she was. She heard silence, there was no noise at all and she became extremely sweaty. Her blood ran cold for a moment and sudden shivers started to appear. “What…who’s there? What are you?” Helena spoke out to the classroom as a flickering in the lights appeared once again. As if it was responding to Helena’s response.

 

 “Run now. You’re not safe. Should’ve listened. You’re in danger.” 

The words started to form into a louder voice. “I’m not safe?.. I should’ve listened? To whom!?” Helena was finally able to break the door and run out. She could’ve sworn the shadowy figure was following her until she bumped into Leni.. “watch where ya going dude. Before I give you a knuckle sandwich.” Helena looked up at the figure admiring their presence. “I’M INSANELY SORRY!!” Helena slowly walked away still having goosebumps from the earlier event.

“Helena, Jayla, Alazye!!.. It’s not the time to be sleeping!” Helena stopped her tracks before looking back. “What..? sleeping..?” she then saw the flickering figure. “It’s so…cold” Helena opened her eyes slowly, figuring out why she was in the classroom instead of outside. “What..?” Helena muttered. “You three were all sleeping during class!” Leni said while looking up and down at Helena.

“Sleeping? So it was all a dream..?” Helena replied back to Leni. “Don’t know what you mean but it’s class time! We have to listen to the teacher, remember??” Leni spoke while looking at Ms Thompson, teacher of the class. “Right” Helena then looked at Alazye and Jayla’s horrified faces, so Helena assumed they were all in the same dream.. With the same shadowy figure.

From this day on, The trio started to listen to any teachers that were in front of them. And the so-called bully, Leni was always a straight A student.

Description: This is a suspense story about the MC getting a weird creepy dream, a figure who haunts the MC and her friends for not listening to teachers, i actually hope you enjoy reading this >:3… Im veryveryglad for sharing my suspense idea ;3 !! literary have a great day .

Why should all New zealanders speak Maori

Why should all New Zealanders learn how to speak Maori? All New Zealanders should understand how to speak Maori. Most schools located in New zealand teach Maori to study and show respect. People protect the language by passing it down to their children. Maori is the official language that most New Zealanders speak.

First of all, Back then, many New Zealand generations didn’t know the  Maori language? They didn’t know Maori because of the strict rule that was created around schools. The Maori language was banned from most every school located in New zealand. If kids were to speak Maori during school, it’ll cause the teacher’s to even hit them. So, people around Aotearoa signed petitions to deliver to the government. Saying for schools to teach kids Maori language. In 1975, schools started teaching kids Maori during school.

Secondly, Many New Zealand generations pass down the Maori language to their kids, or even family. They protect the Maori language, to respect, and cherish the language. They also pass the culture down to keep the culture going on for years. Even though some New Zealand generations didn’t know how to speak Maori, families were determined to make them speak Maori.

Lastly, If New Zealanders were to learn Te reo Maori. It’d respect Maori culture. It’ll be great if all New Zealanders learned Maori, and passed it down to their own kids. Besides, if New Zealanders speak Maori, it’ll be considered as a natural thing.

In conclusion, all New Zealanders should all learn how to speak Te reo Maori so we pass down and respect the culture. Many Generations really didn’t know Maori, which is why schools added Maori back. Schools would hit children if they spoke or learnt Maori in school.

Speech

Kia ora! Im Chevelle. A year 7 that attends at Pt england school. Today i’ll be talking about the reason why we should have longer breaks at school. Schools regularly would give out notices that have times. Like 3pm or 2:30pm. The Parents would circle the time they would want for their child. And the children would send them back to school to deliver to their teachers. I suggest that 3pm would be the minimum.

First of all, if we have a longer lunch break so that we can have more time to spend with our friends. When we have these breaks, sure we’ll get tired and exhausted, but we’ll be able to talk to our friends instead of during class time! Teachers would get annoyed if we were to talk during class, which wastes our learning time. If this kept repeating, it’ll lead to a bad future. As in being late on the job, or important meetings.

Secondly, Longer breaks can lower anxiety and stress from a child. Don’t you think 30 minutes of morning tea time and a 1 hour of lunch time is enough? Think about what you can do in a hour. Longer breaks can lower anxiety and stress from a child. These minimum breaks help produce more knowledge to the child’s brain. If the child is into running it could not only help the heart rate faster than ever. But! Also help the child’s brain when working on a specific subject! 

Finally, longer breaks help our memory. Back in the 1800’s breaks was a cause to help us better to understand researching, way faster and better! Breaks helps develop more social skills when interacting with people! breaks can help improve our memory or attention that can help us stay focus during learning time! Longer breaks help us develop more physically and emotionally! This boosts our health level even higher than before!

In Conclusion, longer break times at school is better for children. It’s about their education and their physical action. Longer breaks could support not only physical health, but also mental health. Its an investment in a children’s future as well. Longer breaks provide children with learning success. It could help children’s attitude change into a positive one by relieving stress.

Matariki Explaination writing

Have you ever heard of Matariki?

Have you ever heard or seen Matariki? Well if not I can explain! Did you know that Matariki is a big Maori celebration for Maori people? Matariki is celebrated on a specific day. Families gather together to enjoy this public holiday with loved ones.

Matariki is seen as the mother star out of her siblings. Maori people in history used to harvest fruits or vegetables from the ground, since it was the harvesting season. Matariki is the main star out of her 8 siblings. Matariki is explained to be a main public holiday for New Zealand. On Matariki night there would be about 9 stars in the sky that represent Matariki and her siblings.

Back in history did you know? The Maori people would follow the moon for their very own calendar. During the Matariki holidays people would enjoy their time by having a big feast with their very own family and friends. Matariki is said to be a cluster instead of a constellation. We can also celebrate Matariki in our own way. Just as long as we do it with . Matariki is an important star out of the 8 siblings. Matariki can be a time to celebrate in Aotearoa. Maori people would prepare for what is coming in the future.

Matariki can be translated as “The eyes of God”. Mata means “Eyes” while Ariki means “God”. Matariki can be a time to celebrate with family or friends. Were you informed? Matariki was the first ever Maori public holiday. 

In conclusion, Matariki is a time to celebrate throughout Aotearoa. People gather to spend time with loved ones on Matariki. Matariki is the most important start out of her siblings. Matariki is a famous public holiday in New Zealand. Matariki is a cluster not a constellation.

Year 7 step up programme Recount

Fakaalofa Lahi atu, I’m Chevelle, a year 7 student who attends Point England school, aged 11 years old. Last week on Wednesday our year 7-step up programme was coming up. During the morning we had the teachers explain the programme to all of our year 7’s. Each individual teacher called our names out. Later after they called our names each, we had to remain in that group for the last three days. 

Our group chose our two leaders that we thought would step-up and show leadership. Our two leaders were Justine and Ariyana. We were then commanded to form a circle with the whole group. We tried to think of a group name, there were two suggestions, first name buckles, second name the bold eagles. We fairly chose our group name by putting our hand’s up on which was best, Buckles was what most of us chose.

 Whaea saf explained what we were doing for our first challenge which was a haka challenge, we all had to participate during this challenge.  Our group had to put 100 percent into this challenge in order to win, we practised for half-an hour.  The other groups names were announced during the haka challenge, Ms Lagitupu’s group was named Mana, while Ms Tipene’s group name was Hustlers.

 

Mana, Buckles, and the Hustlers sat down on each side of the street, each girl leader from each group went up to play rock paper scissors. Our leader won and listed which group was going first for the haka challenge, our strategy was putting the biggest group first. Hustlers were first up, and Mana was second, we were last in order to see what volume the other two groups had.

First up, the Hustlers went on and did their Haka first, I enjoyed how they all participated. I can tell they used teamwork in order to be successful, they all went hundred percent and showed leadership. The Mana group walked up to the front of the street, they all got in position. They started hyping their group up in order for them to be confident.

They started performing, while the audience was watching. They were all trying their best to be positive. Overall their performance was surprising, they participated to give it their all. Their chant was surprisingly welcoming, they all shouted the lyrics from the chant to hype up the whole room. The audience continued loudly cheering from afar, which filled the whole space volume to 100 percent. Next up was Buckles, there was loud cheering coming from each side of the room, we then got into positions where we could see the leaders in the front. The leaders of our group started shouting the first part before the big performance, hyping all of us up. There were some shy people during our performance, but still gave it our all during the haka. Right after our chant was up next, sounding a bit loud at first filling most of the room volume. Afterwards there were points given to us by each teacher’s group individually, Ms Lagitupu, Whaea Saf, and Ms Tipene. There was no winner said against the haka challenge which did leave us in confusion for the last two days.

 

The following time Mrs Ilaoa explained that we were going over to our classes for our very first rotation of the day, after explaining we went up walking over to our classes and sitting down. Whaea Saf described what our first rotation was for today, we had our morning tea break before our rotation even started. We were told to first go straight to the hall after morning tea time was over. Our group was waiting for Whaea Saf to arrive soon. As soon as Whaea Saf arrived she all told us to go in groups of 3 people each. We started off with a pen and paper, writing down what we think that Maori word is. It did take us a while for our group to figure it out. After rotating each side, we then came to a stop once we discovered each 4 Maori words. Whaea Saf wanted to explain a warm up game to do before our rotation started. The activity was called human tic tac toe, the game described that 2 groups had to verse each other. We had three people in each group, we had to run around the chair and make a row of three people, while the other group had to do the exact same thing but faster. We first started up with a warm up challenge, two first groups went up to get it over with by starting first. It was interesting seeing them verse each other, surprisingly one of the groups won by around seconds. Next up were eliminations, we all had two groups to verse each. We succeeded in participating in each round of human tic tac toe. Soon enough Whaea Saf explained our rotation of the day. We had to play rock paper scissors with the other group right next to us. If we won, we would run straight to the other side of the hall, where there were silly costumes with a small piece of chocolate on a plate. There was a knife and fork right next to the plate, in order to be able to cut the chocolate, And pick it right up with the fork.  but there was a tricky twist between this activity. Once you run straight there to put the silly costume on your teammate would most likely have to keep winning in order for you to keep going, but if your teammate loses you would most constantly have to take the costume all off and run straight back, and repeat.

 

The first round started, most of the groups were pretty confused as we continued playing. We did start to get used to it bit by bit. In my group were Dallas, Khaing Shwe , and myself. Our activity was quite challenging, everyone challenged each other, their faces were filled with laughter, and joy.

We moved on to the final rounds, everyone participated, giving it their all.

Our group moved on to the next activity which seemed like a tricky obstacle, we went into girl versus boy rounds, each person from each group had to compete against one person. There were flat rubber platforms placed on the ground that went on zig zags. There were metal bars that almost looked like chairs, we had to jump over them to get straight to the next course. There was a net that’s meant for crawling under, with big heavy weight bags on the side of them. Jumping ropes were at the end of the course, we had to do 5 jumps until we ran straight back. We did practise rounds to learn the rules. Elimination rounds were up next, but this time we had to do 10 jumps on the jump rope. 

We played all the rounds containing us to be completely finished, we lined up in two lines and walked back to team 5. We had our lunch, then after we had our lunch break.

 

After lunch we lined up in our group lines in the street, Ms Tipene explained we were going to participate in sports, there were three different sports, basketball, Volleyball, and dodgeball. Whaea Saf took our group to play some basketball right outside of room 3.

There were some people from the Hustlers group, we had six people from Buckles to compete with six other people from the Hustlers groups. The first six people from each group ran straight to the middle where the ball was located. We played all the rounds, most of us were exhausted throughout the whole afternoon. Later we walked back into team 5, then sat directly on the ground. Ms Ilaoa notified that day one was completed, we went back to our assigned classes, then proceeded to go home.

 

The next day was our second rotation, my group was rotating to Ms Lagitupu.

Ms Lagitupu explained our rotation was related to dancing. There was a list of songs on the google slide we had to choose from. We had a group of 4 each, Ms Lagitupu assigned us to classes to start our dance, she gave us half an hour to complete our dance. Our group picked a song to dance to for the last 30 minutes. After those 30 minutes Ms Lagitupu told all of us to come back to room 4, each group had to show our performance to the whole class. Ms Lagitupu started recording each group’s performances. I enjoyed how each group gave it a go. We had our morning tea time break, before our final sports game of the day. Dodgeball was our final sport to finish off the day. We played  against Mana, and Hustlers. After all the rounds Mana was declared winner of the game. We went back to the street to finish the day off.

 

Day three was our last day of the year 7 step-up programme. 

Buckles went straight into our last rotation of the day, Ms Tipene’s rotation was activities.

We went into groups of 7. Then at the end of the day we watched a movie, with snacks.

Why do we need sleep?

Imagine someone not getting enough sleep. Sleeping can help you feel refreshed every morning. If we don’t get enough sleep, this can cause the brain to eat itself. Or it can cause you to start losing motivation to learn or do something. Sleeping can make your body feel supported and gain more physical health, also energy can be boosted throughout the body.

The lack of sleep will affect your brain. If we don’t get enough sleep this can cause the brain to eat itself and it can give you headaches. Sleep can give you more energy throughout the body all the way to the brain. Getting enough sleep can help yourself by getting enough energy throughout the night .Getting enough sleep will help you to be on time. Sleeping can help by waking up early for school, work, or anything else important. We take schedules on the days that are important. Sleeping makes all the energy and motivation come into the body for the next day. Imagine if you went to sleep early, this can help you way better by relaxing your muscles, and body movement. If we never got sleep during the night, we’d feel tired and very lost in time.

There are negative effects on the body from not having enough sleep. Lack of sleep can cause heaps of damage to the brain system,

this causes many big headaches during the night, your eyesight will start to become blurry, you’ll start to limp or leap during days, no energy can be bad for our system. For example, imagine someone having heaps of sleep. This keeps them healthier during naps or long sleeps.In conclusion, having enough sleep is good for your brain and body. It helps you to feel more energetic and have more energy. It also helps you to be on time. Sleep is important for everyone.