Music: Performing Arts Activities (Lockdown)

Types of Dance

For each style of the dance below find a description of the style and a youtube clip of the dance in action.

What is a Hip-Hop Dance? Hip-Hop dance is a dance that consists of vibrant exercises, art, movements, steps, creating a freestyle movement where individuals or groups creates a platform to express self-expression, perseverance, art and talent. 

What is a Jazz Dance? Jazz is a dance developed from the 19th and 20th centuries and traditional black social dances. To be a Jazz dancer, you need to have powerful movements and techniques that are also lines with a good base in classical ballet. For men, you need to be strong grounding and a masculine edge.

What is  Salsa Dance? Salsa is a Latin dance associated with a music genre of the same name, it was popularised in the United States in the 1960s. It was primarily developed by Puerto Ricans and Cubans living in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

What is a Tap Dance? Tap dance originated in the United States with a combination of several ethnic percussive dances, primarily West African. It is a unique dance that uses a metal end heel of shoes. It creates a tapping sound where it creates a beat and music of art, by rhythmically striking the floor or any hard surfaces.

What is the Contemporary Dance? Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performers that developed during the mid-twentieth century. Contemporary dance draws on both classical ballet and modern dance. There are unpredictable changes in rhythms, speeds, movements and directions.

Music: Performing Arts Activities (Lockdown)

What does the word choreography mean? Choreography is a formed art composed of ballets and other dances where movements, steps, are planned and arranged, usually it consists few dancers to create a pattern. It is a technique where various movements are presented creating a meaningful impact. 

What is a choreographer? A choreographer is someone who creates the dance routines and movements of sequence. They are in charge of the arrangement and forethought of the steps and patterns. Basically, they are the ones who do the choreography in stages, TV, film, performances and many more.

Find two other choreographers find three facts on each and get pictures

Rie Hata 

She is the visionary behind a number of BTS's ironic dances. Such as the "Anpanman", "Airplane pt2" and "Mic Drop". She also Choreopgrahed Chris Brown's song "Party". Rie Hata is a mother of two children with her partner/fellow dancer, Kamiya Yuki.

Matt Steffanina

Matt Steffanina is an American dancer, entrepreneur, producer and choreographer. He was born and raised in VA. Matt is the most ‘followed’ dancer in the world with over 10 million subscribers on YouTube and over 1.5 billion views on his videos.

Music: Performing Arts Activities (Lockdown)

The Royal Family

Who are the Royal Family? The Royal Family is a dance crew where Parris Goebel is involved in.

What competitions have they been involved in/won? They participated in that HHI NZ Mega Crew where they won 1st place in 2019. They have won three gold medals in 2011, 2012 and 2013. One silver medal in 2015 and one bronze medal in 2016. The group appeared at the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards, dancing on-stage for K-pop acts CL, 2NE1 and Big Bang. 

Which famous singers have they danced for? The group performed for famous artists such as Rihanna, J-Lo, Justin Bieber. Famous Korean Pop singers such as CL, K-pop group 2NE1, and Big Bang, a k-pop band. 

Add some pictures and some links to their performances.

Music: Performing Art Activities (Lockdown)

Parris Goebel

Who is Parris Goebel? Parris Renee Goebel, also known as her name "Parris", is a New Zealand choreographer, dancer, singer, director and actress. 

Where did she grow up? Ms Goebel grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and is the youngest of four children. She has a Samoan, Chinese and Scottish descent. 

How/when did she study dance? Parris is an ambitious, talented, aspiring and creative girl since young. She has always been interested in dancing since she was little. She began to attend hip-hop lessons at the age of 10, where she was part of a dance group called "groupReQuest", along with her friends. A year later, their group joined the Monster of Hip-Hop Dance Convention in the United States, where Parris was selected in the finale performance. 

Since her international performance, Parris dance crew won eight gold medals, with five silver and five bronze medals.  She was also the creative director of the Royal Family Dance Crew who wan won the World Hip Hop Dance Championship three times. She lefts school at the age of 15 to pursue her dreams of being a dancer. She quickly gained a lot of supporters. J-Lo contacted Parris because she was amazed by her dance videos on YouTube. J-Lo asked the young lady to work on her 2012 world tour. Ever since, Parris has worked with big artists like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith (How do you sleep?) , Little Mix, Janet Jackson and Justin Bieber (Sorry).

The Music of the Pacific (Performing Arts Activities - Lockdown)

Choose all or some of the following Pacific Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, New Caledonia, Tahiti. Answer the following questions.

Where is the island situated in the Pacific? Samoa is a small island country, located in the central South Pacific Ocean. Samoa sits about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii.

 What does the flag look like?

What is the music like? The music in Samoa is a complex mixture of cultures and traditions.

What instruments are used? Traditional Samoan musical instruments include a Fala. A Fala is a rolled-up mat beaten with wooden sticks and often accompanied with choral singing. Another instrument is a Pate. A Pate is a traditional Samoan percussion and it is named after its English word, "beat" or "clap". 

Is there dancing that goes with the music? What is it like? Include pictures. 

The Samoans have a unique way of displaying their culture, with their characterized dances as a representation of their Samoan identity, in contact with other civilisation such as countries from the East and West. 

Music: Performing Arts Activities (Lockdown)

These are 15 musicians that paved the way in their genres. Many of our contemporary musicians have been inspired by at least one of these artists!

Listening Task

1. Listen to one song from each artist and put the song down that you listened to.

The Beatles

Across The Universe

Ella Fitzgerald 

Cheek to Cheek

Louis Armstrong

La vie en rose

Dolly Parton

Here You Come Again

Johnny Cash

Folsom Prison Blues

Joni Mitchell

A case of you

Frank Sinatra

Fly me to the moon

Ray Charles

I got a woman

John Denver

Leaving on a jet plane

Aretha Franklin

You make me feel like

The Beach Boys

Don't worry baby

Elvis Presley

Can't help falling in love

John William

Duel of the fates

Yo-Yo Ma

Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude

The Three Tenors

Nessun Dorma

2. Is there any of them you would listen to more of? There were some songs I like and some are okay for me. Some of these songs I'm familiar with, so I listen to them more but some I just discovered from this activity and surprisingly, I did like some of them. I'm mostly interested with Louis Armstrong because of his song "La Vie En Rose" and John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane", because I've heard covers of these songs but never really listened to the original song.

3. Find a favourite song from one of the artists.

I do have favourites within the songs I put down. It was really difficult for me to choose which beautiful song to pick but I've made up my mind. La Vie En Rose by Louis Armsrong is my top 1 in the list because it's just a wonderful song, it's relaxing and really changes your mood in a good way.

Social Studies: The Holocaust Letter

Imagine you are a school principal who has received a complaint from a parent who is upset because of what his/her child has learned about the Holocaust.

Write a letter to the parent that explains your school’s point of view about teaching the Holocaust. In your letter, you should provide reasons for the school’s decision to present a learning programme about human rights and anti-semitism.

Social Studies: Re-Creating The Past

In your own words, describe what the soldiers discover. What impact does the discovery have on the soldiers?

In one of the activities assigned for us to do, there was a short clip video from a film about the Holocaust. In my opinion and from what I've understood, the allies soldiers went to one of the concentration camps and they discovered the living conditions of the people there. In the scene, I saw a bunch of men waiting from the inside of the large prison, it had barbed wires with sharp ends. The people inside looked miserable, their bodies were skeleton-like, they had dark circles, pale skin, some of them were sick and malnourished and some were near their ends. The atmosphere was dull and gloomy. The soldiers discovered that the guards didn't have enough ammo to kill everyone in the concentration camps. The situation made an immense impact on the soldiers because no one could imagine that humans would treat their own kinds like animals. The Jews in those camps didn't have any resources, no food, no water. From the look on their faces, the soldiers were depressed, confused and heartbroken from what they saw. 

Social Studies: The Gruesome Camp

 In Social Studies, we had to make a bar graph, showing the amount of death occurred in death camps during the Holocaust. From my previous blog, I made a map of where the death camps locations are. 

Death Camps and the amount of deaths:

Auschwitz-Birkenau - 1,400,000 deaths

Belzec - 600,000 deaths

Chelmno - 320,000 deaths

Majdanek - 360,000 deaths

Sobibor - 250,000 deaths

Treblinka - 870,000 deaths

During WWll, the Nazis used six extermination camps, also known as "Death Camps", where Jews were sent to be killed or exterminate in Central Europe. The victims in those camps were killed mercilessly by gassing. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp

Social Studies (Working From Home) Mapping Skills

 In Social Studies, our teacher tested our mapping skills and the knowledge we had learnt and used it in an activity where we had to map. 

The map includes F.A.C.K.T.S, it is an abbreviation of Frame, Axis, Colours, Keys, Title and Scale. 

Information:

The term “Final Solution” was first used in the records of the Wannsee Conference.  It has come to mean the systematic, large-scale killing of Jews and other “undesirables” in specially-created extermination camps (as opposed to “concentration camps” which were initially detention camps for the Nazis’ political enemies).

These camps were operated by units of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) – specially selected men who were considered hard enough to be able to do whatever was required.

What happened in the extermination camps? 

• Jews would be rounded up from an area in Europe and transported by train to a camp. 
• On arrival, they would undergo a selection – those who would be “useful” and those who were not.
• Those who were “useful” were kept as slave labourers working for the German war effort.
• Those who were not useful were herded into what they had been told were shower rooms, but were in effect sealed gas chambers.
• Poison gas would be released into the chamber. When all were dead, their bodies would be taken to crematoria to be burned.
• The goods that the deported Jews took with them were sorted and valuables were kept by the Nazis.

Reading Reflection

"And I know we weren't perfect but I've never felt this way for no one...", Take the hint? This is a lyric from the song "Drivers License" by Olivia Rodrigo. 

Olivia Rodrigo is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She rose to fame when she played the character named "Paige" from Bizaardvark at the age of thirteen. Since then, she started her career as a teen actress, she starred in the "American Girl Series" and other movies and shows too. She is a talented girl with an amazing voice. 

She released her first song "Drivers License" in 2021 where she became well-known. She recently released her first album that consists of various of her other songs. 

The songs in her albums... 

• Brutal 
• Traitor
• Drivers License
• 1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back
• Deja vu
• Good 4 U
• Enough for You
• Happier
• Jealousy, Jealousy
• Favourite Crime
• Hope ur ok

Sustainable Fishing - Social Studies

How does commercial fishing relate to bycatch? Commercial Fishing has massive effects on dolphins and sharks because many of these creatures die needlessly and accidentally. Bycatch is an issue both ecologically and economically because animals that are discarded back in the ocean often die, which means they can’t reproduce, which creates a large impact on the marine ecosystem. Other impacts of fisheries on marine animals include the removal of their preferred prey and sometimes habitat damage. 

According to an environmental organisation called the “WWF” - World Wide Fund for Nature, bycatch is believed to be the main cause of the drastically declined population of the Pacific Leatherback Turtles. The data showed over 90% of the numbers reduced since 1980. Another significant piece of information was stated that 300,00 small whales and dolphins are dying annually, due to the entanglement in fishing gears. 

The majority of seabirds are also victims of bycatch, these birds are mainly albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, etc. These birds are near being endangered, especially albatrosses, 18 albatross species are near extinction. Sharks are also being accidentally caught. In the Pacific Ocean, an estimation of 3.3 million shark species is caught each year by bycatches. 

Is Sustainable Fishing possible? Sustainable Fishing can be possible as long as we can employ limitations to catching fishes and consumptions. 

Creative Writing Reflection - English

Importance Texture, Flavour and Colour - Home Economics

 In our lesson in Home Economics, we discussed the texture, colour and flavour of the dish we created that we have chosen. We also brainstormed the reason for the food to be in that state. I used "Spaghetti Meatballs" as an example. I listed down the characteristics the meatballs had. 

I used canvas to brainstorm my ideas. 

Why is texture, flavour and colour important to a dish? 

Colour is important because grabs the attention of the people, it is more enjoyable when it has a visual appeal. When something is colourful or vibrant we expect it to taste good so the saying of we eat with our eyes is true. 

The texture is important because it determines the quality of the food also to know if it's cooked or raw. 

Flavour is important because it enhances the taste of the food.

Crispy Mexican Chicken Wrap - Home Economics

In our lesson in Home Economics, we made "Crispy Mexican Chicken Wrap". 

Ingredients: 

• Capsicum 
• Carrots
• Cheese
• Lettuce 
• Chicken 
• Crispy Seasoning 
• Tortilla  
• Chives
• Sour Cream
• Salsa

Flavour: 

It was juicy and cheese. 

Texture: 

It was crispy and smooth due to the sour cream and salsa. 

Rate: 

5/5 

Comments: I really love anything that's savoury and has meat and vegetables. What I don't like is a dish with just vegetables. But the wrap has chicken has was coated with crumbs and seasonings. It went well with the lettuce and carrots which made that wrap juicy and crunchy. There were also toppings such as the salsa, cheese and sour cream that made it creamy and sour and salty. And I love it.

Arthritis Research - Hurumanu - Science

  What are the causes of “Arthritis?”

Arthritis is the pain, swelling and stiffness on the joints of our bodies, enabling us to do daily activities and giving us difficulties to climb stairs or walk. Majority of foods have ingredients that will trigger the body and cause inflammation that may cause arthritis or/and worsen it. These ingredients are processed foods, omega-6 fatty acids, sugar, red meat, fried food, refined carbohydrates, cheese and high-fat dairy products, alcohol. 

Resources: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/7621#treatment

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/conditions/arthritis/

Can everyone get arthritis? 

Arthritis is a joint pain or disease, it is inevitable, most especially people aging. People of all ages, races, sexes can get arthritis, some will and most have. 

Resources: https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/about-arthritis/understanding-arthritis/what-is-arthritis#:~:text=Actually%2C%20%E2%80%9Carthritis%E2%80%9D%20is%20not,cause%20of%20disability%20in%20America.

Who is most likely to get arthritis?

Arthritis may be inherited from a family member, some of these cases run in the genes of the family. Ageing - getting old, can also develop arthritis. Women will most likely develop rheumatoid arthritis while most men get arthritis which is in the gout. Having previous joint injury due to sports and other activities can develop arthritis. People with obesity have a higher risk of getting arthritis.

Resources: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/arthritis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350772

What are the two most common types of arthritis? 

Osteoarthritis - It is the most common form of arthritis, affecting people worldwide, it can damage the joint but it mostly affects the joints in your hands, knees, hips and spine.

Rheumatoid Arthritis - Also known as “RA”, is a disease that causes inflammation, pain and swelling in the joints, it can occur in any age between 25-50 like I said on the other question, rheumatoid arthritis affects more women than men. 

Resources: https://www.uofmhealth.org/conditions-treatments/cmc/difference-between-osteoarthritis-and-rheumatoid-arthritis#:~:text=Osteoarthritis%20and%20rheumatoid%20arthritis%20are%20two%20of%20the%20most%20common%20forms.

What are the two ways to prevent arthritis?

Reduce the consumption of processed foods and saturated fats. Eating vegetables, fruits, nuts and beans can help prevent and fight arthritis. Maintaining a healthy and balanced diet can help reduce pain and pressure on the joints.  Start or do physical activities or exercises that keep your body to move around and as well as your muscles. Splumments can also treat arthritis pain such as omega-3 fatty acids, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, vitamin D, and curcumin. 

Resources: https://www.partnermd.com/blog/prevent-arthritis-naturally-diet-exercise

https://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/management.htm

https://www.arthritis-health.com/blog/top-4-supplements-treat-arthritis-pain

How is it treated? 

Occupational or physical therapy

can help treat arthritis, exercise, medical drugs. Sometimes, surgery can also help. 

https://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/management.htm

Antisocial Personality Disorder & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Project - Health - Hurumanu

In health, we have finished the topic of "Discovery" we had choices which kind of discovery we can make a presentation about, this presentation is important because it is an assessment. I worked with 2 people in this project, Shiela and Rieya. We were given options of how we can do our assessment to show our learning; a documentary, art, song, poster, etc. 

Firstly, we had to plan out how we are going to present our chosen topic and how we are going to include those answer to our 5 big questions. We brainstormed different ideas of our own and also told the members in our group our opinions such as pros and cons. 

After deciding on a presentation, we have decided to create a film, showing the symptoms and causes of having ASPD.  

Roles:

• Skyler (me) as Scarlette Vasquez - The psychopath 
• Shiela as Ms Alliano - The police and therapist/psychiatrist 
• Rieya as Rachael Norris - Amateur News Reporter 

(I did the editing at home)

5 Big Questions & Answers: 

Why is ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder) Harmful? ASPD has negative effects not only on the individual but also on their family and friends. You can hurt or kill other people if you are experiencing this disease. ASPD can also lead them to do things like smoking, using drugs or being addicted to alcohol. The person who has ASPD also has a higher risk of physical health problems than others. These people also don’t like to talk to others, even their family/friends, some of them are less likely to have friends.

When should you ask for help? You should seek help immediately because if you wait longer then the symptoms will get worse and it may become dangerous for the people around you and for yourself. 

How do you know when you have ASPD? The symptoms of ASPD are disregarding for the right and wrong, persistent lying, being disrespectful of others, using one's vulnerability to manipulate others, extremely opinionated, breaking laws, violating the rights of others, impulsiveness, hostility, lack of empathy, poor and abusive relationship with others, failure to identify the consequences, being irresponsible, aggression towards people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness, theft, violation of rules. 

How does society affect a person's brain before having ASPD? Genetic and environmental factors such as abuse are believed to contribute to the development of ASPD. If abuse is continued more than 3 months (long term) then there is a risk that the person being abused will have aspd even though the symptoms may not show. But if it’s stopped or prevented before 3 months then the person that’s being abused can still recover from it.

How is it passed down from generation to generation? ASPD is not inherited but it can be passed down if you are abusive to a relationship and acting out on the symptoms of the disorder to a person, most especially a young family member. 

Strategies to help people with ASPD

Strategies	What the strategies are	What areas of wellbeing the strategy will improve and how	Short term and/or long term
Strategy 1	I will try to communicate with other people especially with my friends/family.	Taha Whanau because you will have good communication with them and they can help you to improve yourself. Taha Hinengaro because you will feel better by talking and telling them the things that you were worried about.	LT
Strategy 2	I will go seek help from an adult or someone I trust.	Taha whanau because it means that you are building more connection and trust with the person you told you had ASPD on.	ST
Strategy 3	I will go to the doctor or a psychologist	Taha Hinengaro because they are the people who can help me the most with my condition and it will improve my mental and emotional health especially when the symptoms are not severe yet. It will give me reassurance.   Taha Tinana because when my mental and emotional health have improved it will also improve my physical because it will prevent me from harming anyone nor myself and it might even inspire me to have a healthy body and wellbeing.  Taha Wairua because my values and beliefs will get stronger especially if I believe in God. My devotion to God will enhance.  Taha whanau because it will help me build a much stronger and deeper connection with my relationship with others.	LT

We didn't really have a hard time or found anything difficult but of course, we did struggle on the filming part because we're not really experts with films or professionally good so we had a few giggles. But we, as a group, are able to manage ourselves; be serious and mature. After all that hard work and large amount of effort, we have finally finished the film. For some reason, it won't upload here on my blog but here is the link (Click)

20-Dollar-Budget for Dinner - Business Studies

In our lesson in Business Studies, we had an activity to do, it's a combination of grocery shopping and budgeting. We had a budget of 20 dollars and we had to buy the ingredients and calculate how much they cost so that it'd fit in our budget. 

I decided to make "Beef Broccoli with Mashed Potatoes" on the side. 

I have looked up the costs and ingredients in Pak N Save's online shopping.  

Requirements for the dinner:

• Healthy
• Nutritious 
• Yummy 
• Under or at least 20 dollars 

Ingredients for Beef Broccoli:

• Salt 
• Pepper
• Soy Sauce
• Beef 
• Broccoli 
• Oil 

Ingredient for Mashed Potatoes: 

• Milk
• Butter 
• Potatoes 

Product	Costs
	$1.95 x 4   = $7.8
	$0.99 x 4  = $3.96
	$0.25 x 10  = $2.5
	$1.94
	$1.89
	Total  $7.8 + $3.96 + $2.5  = $14.26 + $1.94 + $1.89 =$18.09

Why Do We Need To Save Up? - Business Studies

 In business studies, we are learning about 'savings'. After learning about that topic and discussion with everyone, our classmates, including our teacher. We had to brainstorm using a Mindmap. I made mine using 'Coggle'. 

This includes the purpose, benefits, keywords and the things that will happen if you don't save up. 

In addition to budgeting, we had to illustrate the key words of budgeting; Income, Conflict between a consumer and services/goods, savings, and consumer. 

We had to work with a pair, I paired up with Rieya, my friend. 

Can you guess which one is which? 

(Additional Information) Coraline Characters - English: Film Study

Miss Spink and Miss Forcible

What do they wear/look like?

• They are both wearing bathrobes - Miss Spink is wearing a turquoise/teal-ish robe, and Miss Forcible is wearing a pink-ish robe. 

• In the normal world, they are both really old and in the other world, they are much younger. 

• Pieces of jewellery 

• Reading glasses 

• They wear bright makeup 

• Circus jumpsuits (for performance) 

• Puppets with button eyes

• In the normal world, they are very fat and in the other world, they are much skinnier.   

What are their character traits? 

•  Odd

•  Dog lover 

•  Mysterious 

•  Exaggerated

•  Loves Sewing  

•  Tarot reading

•  Does Gardening

•  Acrobatics/Trapeze

How do they add to the plot of the film? 

They were added to the plot of the film to give entertainment to the viewers of the movie. The two characters both have the same personality which is optimism and cheerful where the audience would find amusing. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible were introduced with the ‘grandma/aunt’ vibe.