Podcast

5 4 3 2 1 + 8 Health Presentation

Special Effects

1. What special effect skill did you feel you best utilized in your 5x5? Which was special effect what the most difficult to incorporate?
I think that the slow motion really utilized the video. The hardest was cloning.

2. How did you brainstorm your story for your 5x5? Did you speak to some of your classmates or was it something you brainstormed on your own? How did storyboarding help your planning?
I saw a computer and it came to me, make a video on a stolen computer. We brainstormed it ourselves. It helped us not get lost and not think of ideas on the spot.
3. Describe what filming your 5x5 was like; did more work happen during filming or in post-production?
It was fun filming and more work was put in editing.
4. What other special effects would you have liked to have learned for this project? Why?
I am fine and I felt like we have covered all the special effects.

Personal Narrative Reflection

How have you grown as a writer?
I learned how to zoom and slow down on the moment. I also learned how to shorten down the less important parts of the story. More details on the moment, less on non-important stuff.

What new skills do you feel more confident to apply to your narrative writing?
I've learn how to make my leads better with a skill called SACRED seed leads. Each letter in sacred stands for a way to start your story. I also learned a skill called How Do I Do DAT. It's a way to make the body of the writing better. For the conclusion, we end with a "So What. These are 3 skills I feel more confident to apply to future narrative writing pieces.

What challenges did you face when writing your personal narrative?
When I first wrote the story, I didn't zoom into the moment. I had a lot of unimportant details. It was a bit of a challenge to focus on the moment.

How have you surprised yourself as a writer?
When I read my story, I had some emotional sentences. I didn't know I could write like that!

What feedback did you receive that will help you to grow as a writer?
I received a lot of constructive feedback. Most of the feedback told me to zoom in even more into the heart of the story.

My Archaeology Google Site 2014

This is a link to my Archaeology Google Site that I made in grade 6 Social Studies. I hope you learn something about that great moais of Easter Island.

https://sites.google.com/a/sas.edu.sg/johan-s-archaeology-site/

The Big Accident

The Big Accident

It was a normal day. I was at a playdate at Adventure Cove having fun with my brother and two of his friends, until the big accident.

I was in line to slide down a slide at the Big Bucket Tree House. Water was dripping from the wet ropes holding the playground together. I looked at the line in front of me and behind me.

“Three more people,” I informed Justin, my brother. He nodded his head in reply.

My brother just got of the slide and out of the way. I looked at my hands and saw multiple scratches from ropes on the playground. I knew more scratches were coming. But I didn’t know that once I get off the slide, Adventure Cove would be over for me.

The lifeguard told me that it was safe to slide and so I sat down and let go of the bars above the start of the slide. Since my swimsuit wasn’t slippery, I had to use my hands to push myself down the slide. Once I got far enough that I could get up and walk to the exit, I got up. I quickly walked so I could catch up the rest. The exit was about a meter away, when I slipped.

I tried to get up and walk but I couldn’t. The only option was to get on my belly and use my hands to drag myself to the exit. I looked around to see if there was a seat I could sit on. When I saw a seat, I stopped looking around and squinted my eyes to double check that it was a seat.

Justin and his two friends continued playing at the Big Bucket Tree House while I sat on the edge of the pool, clueless of what I should do. I tried to walk but I couldn’t. I started to call Justin. “Justin!” I shouted as loud as I could.

Justin screamed back, “What!”

“Come here!” I told him because I didn’t want to shout out what happened.

“Wait!” Justin replied, “I’m playing with my friends!”

He went up the treehouse to slide down the slide again. He was so far away that if I shouted again, he wouldn’t hear it. The second he touched the playground floor, I screamed, “Come here!”

“Wait!” Justin said, becoming annoyed.

He went up the treehouse again to slide down the slide again. I can’t move and can’t call Justin! What should I do? I asked myself. Another minute of hard thinking has gone by and I thought of calling Ryan, Justin’s friend.

“Ryan” I called Ryan.

He came.

“I can’t walk.” I told him.

“Ok” Ryan said and walked away.

The same thing happened again, he didn’t help me! I felt so annoyed that tears started falling out of my eyes. I wiped the first few tears and I kept the rest of the tears in my eye. I just needed someone to tell my mom.

Before long, Ryan told my mom about me. My mom came over and got a lifeguard to help me. The lifeguards got a medic and the medic checked the injury to see if it minor or major. It was a minor injury. Even though Adventure Cove was over for me, I was and still am really thankful that it was just a minor accident. Now the next time I think of rushing, I know that it doesn’t always help. Thanks to my sprained ankle.