Fancy Film Noir (I dunno I'm running out of names)

Hey Bloggers! Are you having a good day? I hope so! Anywho, in literacy, we got to write a film noir plot, I will be back for more details but here's what I've written so far,

The inheritance 

 A casino in NYC, the constant chatter and hum of people talking and the sound of jazz spilling from the instruments onto the floor. The sound of rain is barely audible over everything else. The busy traffic drowned out completely by dangerous arguments breaking out and the whoops and cheers of the lucky winners. 

The owner of one of the richest casinos in NYC has been found dead underneath a bar stool with no sign of bullets.  The owner's niece (who works as a bartender) hires A P.I to investigate. The investigator is quickly falling for the niece when at the same time he's coming to a conclusion that only she could have done it. When confronted by the P.I she convinces him to keep her secret (She wanted his money). The P.I's assistant soon becomes suspicious and does some investigating himself. He quickly pulls the scam apart, instead of confronting the P.I the assistant tries to kill him, the assistant catches him as he's packing his bags to go on the run with Charlotte, Percy shoots him in the chest but the P.I manages to shoot him in the back in his last moments. Charlotte finds him and mourns for weeks then finally

Percy Cantree (Assistant) was very honest as a child (maybe too much so) had an above average I.Q. naturally people teased him for both of these. Being shunned to the side by everyone he found Frank (P.I.) who took him in and treated him like a normal person.

Frank Alexandra is a self-assured detective who has always had a knack at solving mysteries, he has a very hard personality except for when it comes to women, he always lets them have whatever they want. As a child, he never had much money and was never allowed to do much more than go to school. But as soon as he leaves home he discovers his true passion after solving who stole his grandma's purse. 5yrs later his business is going strong when a young man goes by the name of Percy Cantree.

Charlotte Acker's family were always the lowest of the low except for his uncle who had somehow procured seemingly unlimited amounts of money. Charlotte was generally a nice child but could stand up for herself when needed. She soon got herself a job at her uncle's casino and found out that he was illegally procuring the money that he needed to keep his casino afloat and greatly underpaying her. He was going to get caught eventually so Charlotte decided it would be easier and more rewarding to do it herself, inheriting the money was just a perk. 

Uncle Alexander T. Rifthold was a dodgy kid from the start, stealing cigars and hot-wiring cars, there was no particular reason for this, he had nice and fair parents who always did their best. He was just one of those kids.

She glided into my office seemingly silent then slammed her perfectly manicured hand onto my old oak desk, a thick layer of dust rising from the top. She bared her pristine white teeth, snarling,  her green sea glass eyes turned to thin slits, this was the first time I'd ever seen her lose control yet she still looked radiant.

"You sold us out didn't you- you little worm!" She growled stuttering out of pure rage, her usually silky voice rough and harsh. She grabbed the front of my ironed shirt and shook it. Hard. Before I could say anything she lifted one of her hands and slapped me across the face. I lifted my own blistered hand and touched my face, where she hit me burning like fire. Before she could do it again I threw my hands against the side of my desk and sent me and the chair I was sitting on, flying into the wall.

"What on earth are you talking about?" Was all I managed to say, still in pure shock.

"Oh, don't you lie to me, I trusted you and of course you stabbed me in the back!" Her voice though a little confused, still full of rage. 

She picked up my favourite mug with an iron grip and strutted over to the wall my chair was backed against and tipped the steaming coffee over my white shirt. Before she could do any more damage I started to explain. Everything.         

 

Wow, that's a lot! Haha, um anyways I realise that a lot of it is not finished but I hope you like it anyway!

Give me some feedback. Have a great day!

-Zoe-   

Super space!

Hey Bloggers! How are you all? I haven't posted in AGES, I hope you had a super holiday. Anyways for inquiry this term we are taking a look at space and rockets so the teachers gave us a tic-tac-toe sheet to complete. Each square had an activity to do with space or science, I chose to create a space landscape, I created my own planet. Here it is!!

    It's pretty basic but I enjoyed making it. Can you please give me a name? Have a great day.

-Zoe-

Promising problems!

Hey Bloggers! In math today we took a look at solving algebra problems backwards. It is really simple to do and make solving the problems easy to do. Firstly you need to gather what information the problem has given you, you then change everything to the opposite equation e.g. + to -visa versa. Here's a video to show you the basics of it! MATH! I got challenged to create a word problem using this technique here it is! 

The baker sold 15 cakes in the morning and 26 at lunch. He also sold 5 cupcakes to younger children. In the afternoon he sold 13. How many cakes did the baker make? Did get it? Tell me the answer in the comments! Have a great day! 

-Zoe-  

Marvellous Matariki

Hey Bloggers! For the past two weeks, we have been reviewing the Matariki constellation. After this, we got given a list of tasks that we could complete, we only had to do one so me and a group of my friends chose to make a sock puppet show depicting a Matariki story. Making the sock puppets were really fun but filming was sorta challenging. Here it is!

Do you like it? The overall everything isn't great but we still had fun! I hope you enjoyed it.

-Zoe-

Horrific horror

Hey Bloggers! How are you? For the last week, we have been looking at the conventions of horror and we got challenged to make an intro to a horror story. I'm not a huge fan of horror so this wasn't very fun but I tried... Here it goes!

   

I stared down the dark suffocating hallway, my friends edging me on, back in the comforting light of my own bedroom. Was this really a good idea? Taking that stupid dare, I exhale sharply and start down the pitch-black hallway one foot in front of the other, my body betraying my mind. I open the bathroom door with a loud creaking and step slowly inside, the hard tile cold on my bare feet. I look down at the small mirror sitting on the basin and pick it up, I stare into the mirror, looking back at me is, of course, my own reflection, lilac pyjamas and all. I let out a long sigh of relief and chuckle to myself, of course, there's nothing there, I look back down at the mirror and grin, the reflection doesn't. I quickly drop it and back toward the door, I'm only a few feet away when it slams shut so hard that one of the windows shatters onto the floor. I look back at the small mirror but it's gone, I suddenly feel something cold in my hand, I look down and find that the brass mirror is sitting in my palm. My reflection smirks and reaches out toward me. The last thing I hear is my own scream before everything is gone.              

Yeah... as I said this isn't my strong suit but I still tried to have fun with it. I feel I probably could have done a better job on this but I hope you enjoy!

-Zoe-

Awesome ASCII

Hey bloggers! Today we are learning about Binary and ASCII.  

Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers.  You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself!  Try watching this video to give it a go yourself!

ASCII is a set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard).  I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code!  Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my images below! 

Do you know how to write in code? Have a fantabulous day! 

-Zoe- 

 

Wacky websites

Kia ora bloggers, What are you up to today? A couple of days ago my literacy group finished our Wonderful Wizard of Oz websites. We had to choose 3 themes, symbols and characters. We used google sites to make these creating a page for each topic, there were workshops for characters or themes if we needed a refresh on them. This is my finished site:

WOZ site 

This was quite an interesting experience, we had to use an essay format on a webpage I didn't have any major issues though so overall it was quite fun. Have you read the wizard of oz? If so then who's your favourite character? Have a fabulous day!

-Zoe-