Jeffrey's iFolio – A CDNIS Student iFolio

Stranded on Solaro (My Disaster Narrative)

June 7, 2017Jeffrey

Prologue

After 10 years of civil war the Solaran civil war ends.The Solaro sector is left in ruins and the Galactic Union sends building teams every month to Solaro VI, because it is the most ravaged planet in the sector. The Solarans are very grateful. Because not only was their planet ravaged by civil war it is also terrorized by natural disasters: Earthquakes, Sinkholes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes and worst of all Tornadoes. These Tornadoes are not normal Tornadoes but super Tornadoes that destroy everything in it’s path. What will happen next?

Chapter 1 : The Storm

On August 11 2509, when James Spacebound was born, his parents wished that he would become the most famous lifeform in the galaxy. He was born to a man from the USA on Earth and a mother from Holalipi XXXI in the Holalipi Mega-cluster.

30 years later, Captain James Spacebound was sent to Solaro VI to investigate the disappearance of workers helping rebuild the Solaro Sector. When he arrived all seemed well so he proceeded to ask the Solarans if they’d seen the teams. Then he checked the Solaro VI database on the main computer to see if there was anything unusual.

That was when there was an ear-piercing noise, the Solarans started screaming “Palofee, Palofee!” Jim knew that a Palofee was a super-tornado and ran outside the ship and into the nearest tornado shelter along with his trusted friend John Moonjumper and his communications officer Jack Saturn.

Jim heard a Solaran say: “Gubaua I’m being pulled into the maset!” He knew that the maset was the eye of the storm. So Jim tried to open the door but it wouldn’t budge, he thought “The Solarans must be really strong.” But a few seconds later the sound ended.

Chapter 2: Stranded

When the Solarans twisted the wheel to open the hatch and Jim thought “why did I try to open the door, not the hatch?” When they exited Jim, John and Jack saw the wreckage of Jim’s ship, the Subspace, all that was left was the comm room but that needed to be connected to the ship. So Jim tried his ear comm and he was barely able to get a message to Command on Earth that he needed help help would come but in 3 days.

They Jim, John and Jack went to work on building a shelter so they could survive the 3 days on Solaro VI. The first thing they did was see if the ships beds were still intact and luckily they were. So they made a sleeping area in the shelter which was made in one of the underground bunkers.

Chapter 3: Help

3 days later: in the morning it was planning on where they were going to tell the spaceship to land, they ended up choosing Hanger 232, when the ship, the U.S.S. Jupiter landed the crew of the Subspace was very happy. The ship was a 2 kilometers long ship, a Solar class ship. It had a hot tub, a swimming pool, 40 bathrooms, a 100 meter long bridge and a crew of 20,000 lifeforms. It’s captain, Grant Jackson was very honored to meet Jim because Jim was very famous for saving the Maxian sun from exploding.

When Jim and his crew got back to Earth there were lots of people wanting to interview him, Jack and John. There was this one interviewer who asked :”How did you survive?” Jim answered :”Because we are good at are jobs.” When Jim saw his family he was ecstatic. His parents hugged him, they hugged for about 3 minutes.

Epilogue

1 month later Jim in command of the U.S.S. Neptune which is 3 kilometers long, has a bridge that is 150 meter long bridge, has a crew of 30,000 and is a Planet class ship. Jim, his First officer John Moonjumper and his comm officer Jack Saturn all remember what happened that day.

Glossary how to speak Solaran

Solaro= Solar anomaly

Palofee= Ultra Tornado

Gubaua= Help

Maset= The eye of the Ultra Tornado

Character Profiling

May 22, 2017Jeffrey

Last week we started brainstorming for the main character for a disaster narrative. I created a space explorer, he has a space-suit and wears a fedora on top of his helmet. I haven’t yet came up with a last name yet but his first name is James.

We also had to write the weaknesses, strengths, things the character might say and behaviour of our character. I also haven’t came up with weaknesses or behaviours. But my character’s strengths are he has an unusually high dexterity level and high very high resilience. What he might say are : Who do you work for; do you need help.

Make-Create-Collaborate

May 15, 2017Jeffrey

Last week at CDNIS we had a convention called make-create-collaborate, where there were different stations, Alec and I just walked around at first but we found the green-screen station. The green-screen station was to make it look like you were doing impossible things but you were really just lying on the ground. Alec and I just walked about doing nothing until we saw the mosaic station. The mosaic station was about making mosaics out of plastic bottle and tin can lids found washed up on the beach. We made a mosaic that said JOY. It was very funny because I found a Lego Elsa from Frozen in the pile, so I put it on one of the bottle lids and Alec found loads of crystals. So Alec just glued them on, in the end there was like 10 crystals. I really liked the make-create-collaborate.

Learning Buddies Spotlight

May 10, 2017May 11, 2017Jeffrey

Yesterday, our learning buddies had their spotlight, but it wasn’t just 1E’S spotlight but 1B’S and 1D’S spotlight. It was about a girl called Amrita and her special tree. She stopped woodcutters from cutting down trees she does this by hugging her tree and the wood cutters run away. Then a royal person came and told the woodcutters to stop cutting down trees. The was a lot of singing and artworks. The concept was that they mixed what they learned in homeroom class with what they learned in visual arts and performing arts. They used shadow puppets for the Amrita story for the trees in the forest. It was very interesting to watch.

Coding Using Scratch

May 10, 2017Jeffrey

Last week and the week before last week, we had coding classes in order to learn how to make tessellations using scratch. I made a octagon tessellation, even though they don’t actually work because they overlap and have rhombuses in it. But it was fun during the process, because I was always trying to find the right angle so it tessellated perfectly, but it took a long time and I even did the closest angle to being correct but it didn’t work. It didn’t successfully tessellate at all sadly it just overlapped. It actually did the complete opposite of what I expected it to do. The most challenging bit of it was finding the closest angle to being correct. Something new I learnt is how to tessellate using scratch and the pick random block. The pick random chooses a random edge on when it starts the next shape which has to be the same shape.

Leonardo Da Vinci

May 8, 2017Jeffrey

This week we learnt about the artist, inventor and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci. He is most famous for 2 of his masterpieces: The Last Supper which he actually put himself in and Mona Lisa, the World’s most famous painting. Mona Lisa is actually a portrait of a woman named Lisa Gherardi. He was credited with designing the bicycle, the tank, a city of the future,the helicopter, parachute, airplane and the armoured car. He actually was the first person to find out the span of our limbs with the vitruvian man. He also studied the heart and that is why we know a lot about it.

Why I enjoyed it is that I really like Da Vinci because he gave us a lot of the knowledge that we know. We wouldn’t have airplanes because the Wright Brothers Design was based on sketches by Da Vinci. So I think Da Vinci was a genius!

Coding with Ms. Vivian Fung

May 5, 2017May 5, 2017Jeffrey

This week and last week we had coding classes in order to learn how to make tessellations using scratch. I made a octagon tessellation, even though they don’t actually work because they overlap and have rhombuses in it. But it was fun during the process, because I was always trying to find the right angle so it tessellated perfectly, but it took a long time and I even did the closest angle to being correct but it didn’t work. It didn’t successfully tessellate at all sadly it just overlapped. It actually did the complete opposite of what I expected it to do. The most challenging bit of it was finding the closest angle to being correct. Something new I learnt is how to tessellate using scratch and the pick random block.

Visual Arts #2

April 26, 2017Jeffrey

In Visual Arts this week our class made paper cut-outs inspired by Henri Matisse. We worked on a single piece, but Luca, Jacob and me decided to work together to make a bigger piece. We decided to make biomes: mine was the jungle; Luca’s was the savanna; Jacob’s was the swamp. Mine had a treehouse and tarzan on pop-up trees; Luca’s had a crashed plane; Jacob’s had lots of trees.

Why we did it was for an artist inquiry for Visual Arts, and why I choose it was because it was really fun. How we did it was cutting and gluing paper onto a bigger piece of paper and we. What I learnt is that paper cut-out is an art strategy invented by Henri Matisse. My thoughts are that it is very fun to create paper cut-outs and we can be very creative using this art forms. I really enjoyed it because we made lots and lots of cut-outs! In all it was very funny trying to relate one thing with the biome.

Students Should Be Able To Write Report Cards For Their Teachers

April 24, 2017Jeffrey

I believe students at CDNIS should be able to write report cards for their teachers. Because how come students always get bad grades and some teachers don’t care. Also, why do teachers get to write reports for students but not vice versa?

Firstly, if teachers give students report cards, students should be able to write report cards for teachers. It would also be fair because there would be a scale from good to bad at a subject, but for overall there will be four choices : nice, hard, easy and strict. Also, there will be no exceedings, meetings or approaching or scales from 1-8. Also, they will try their best to make the students learn more than they normally would to move up a grade.

Secondly, it would help choosing what class a student should be in. Students would have suited teachers. Smart students who pay attention in class will go to nicer teachers or the ones who try the student’s skills. Bad students the ones who don’t pay attention in class will go to stricter teachers.

Lastly, the school will know if they should move a teacher up a grade if they get a hard grade. The students will also have suited homework too. Also, the teacher can give homework to students that actually know how to do it, so not all the students would have bad grades. Also, every student wouldn’t be stressed because of homework.

In conclusion, I strongly believe the students should write report cards for the teachers. Students should take a break from schoolwork and write reports.