Writing

= Titanic = This term we are writing about the Titanic, there are port holes on the walls and there are activities next to them. Everyone has to complete all 9 before the end of the term.
 * The Legend Of Slender **


 * One Dark Evening a bus pulled up in front of the mansions gates, a man got off the bus and paid the bus driver some money, the driver smiled and waved goodbye as he whispered “Have a good stay and see you soon.” then the driver started to chuckle a wicked chuckle as he shut the bus doors. The man who got off the bus was called Peter, Peter was at his uncle's mansion because his uncle passed away a week ago. His uncle's death was unknown but near his mansion is a forest and in that forest a family of five disappeared without a trace. Peter was not here just for his uncle's death he was here because he writes about strange occurrences around the world such as paranormal activity and he is writing about the strange disappearances of people in the forest nearby. **


 * Peter picked up his bags and carried them through the gate and up to the front door of the mansion, the doors were huge they were about 5 meters high but the mansion was 50 meters high it was about 3 stories including the attic. On the rails to the side of the door there are statues of gargoyles with their tongues poking out of their mouths but on the door there were carvings of bats and dragons the door knocker was a dragon holding a big ring in its mouth, Peter grabbed hold of the ring, he pulled the knocker up and then smashed it on the door a few times and then he waited, then Peter heard clicking behind the door and then the door opened and there stood an old man wearing a dusty looking suit, it was black and white but the tie was red, the man's face was wrinkled, the man was also wearing a black toupee. Peter could tell that he was wearing a toupee because his hair looked like dolls hair. Inside the house Peter could see that in the main room you can see two floors, the main floor and the bedrooms, and there are hallways parting off with stairs and more rooms that are out of sight. There were stairs leading up to the second floor, the stairs were wide and the railings were curled at the end and the start of the stairs. **


 * “Do you want me to carry your bags sir?” the old man croaked, Peter nodded, the old man picked up the bags and he started to walk away then he turned his head and croaked again “My name is Alfred Slender, but you can call me Alfred.” Peter nodded again and Alfred started to walk down a hallway to Peter’s room but Peter shouted “My name is Peter by the way.” The old man nodded and walked away. **


 * Peter started to explore the mansion, mainly the main room. After a while Peter couldn’t find anything interesting but just as he was going to his room he heard a “Psssst.” Peter jumped and spun round knocking over a flower pot with blue flowers decorating the white surface, it hit the ground and smashed into pieces, Peter looked at the smashed pieces of pottery on the ground, as he was looking at them he caught a glimpse of something moving just out of his vision, Peter looked up, he saw two mice staring at him one of them opened it mouth “Hello, sorry to startle you, my name is Jack and this is my wife Jill.” Peter was frozen in shock, he wanted to run be he couldn’t. Peter tried to say something but his mouth wouldn’t move. Peter finally opened his mouth and he whispered “How can you talk?” “Well my wife and I got cursed by a magical, powerful, being that no one has seen and lived to talk about....except us that is.” Peter bent down and started to whisper to the mice so Alfred wouldn’t think he was crazy, “Eh hem” Alfred murmured, “AAAGGGHHHH!” Peter screamed, Peter jumped backwards and bumped Alfred backwards, Alfred tripped and almost did a full somersault and landed on his head, he went straight through the floor ‘THUD!’. After the dust disappeared Peter looked down the hole and shouted “Alfred, are you alright?!” No answer, Peter picked up Jack and Jill and said “Is there a rope or ladder somewhere?” “Yes, there is a ladder in the tool shed outside and there is a rope in the attic.” Jack squeaked. Peter stuffed Jack and Jill in his pocket, he jumped over the hole and ran down the stairs, he burst out the front door, he spun his head looking for the tool shed but all he could see was blackness, Peter looked at his watch, it was 11:11. **


 * Peter ran back inside and slammed the door and yelled at the mice “How do I get to the attic!” Jill popped her head outside of Peter’s pocket and pointed to the pitch black hallway on the second floor and squeaked “You’ll need to get a candle if you want to be able to see, the candles are in that drawer next to the front door.” Peter nodded and turned to the front door and next to it was the drawer, Peter ran to the drawer and opened up every draw until he found a box of matches and 10 unlit candles. Peter opened up the box carefully, he didn’t want to matches to fall through the cracks in the floor, he struck a match on the side of the box and the whole room lit up with light, the match in Peter’s hand slipped and burnt his hand and then landed into the box of matches, the box burst into flames. Peter threw the box into the air and it hit the floor, embers puffed into the air, Peter poked the fire with the candlestick, the bit of string on the top of the caught on fire and Peter left the pile of burning matches on the floor and ran upstairs into the dark hallway. **


 * *Cough cough* Peter looked behind him, there was a glow of orange at the start of the hallway where he just came from, he took Jack out of his pocket “Where now?” Peter asked, Jack looked around, “On your next left...A...A..AAA...CHOO!” Jack sneezed, “Thank you.” Peter put Jack back into his pocket and turned left. He was now in a room, a plain white room except for a black square outline in the ceiling with a piece of string hanging down, Peter reached up and pulled on the string, it didn’t do anything, he pulled again, nothing, he pulled with all of his strength, a panel in the ceiling came down and a ladder unfolded, Peter just jumped out of the way in time before the ladder crashed into the ground and made a huge dent in the floor. Peter grabbed the ladder with one hand and in the other he was holding a candle, Peter hauled himself up the ladder and into the attic. **


 * Peter looked around, he got the mice out of his pocket “Where is the rope?” Peter asked, “It is near the window.” Jack and Jill squeaked at the same time. Peter wandered over to the window, looking for the rope he looked outside the window and saw a figure near the edges of the forest beyond the garden, Peter heard a noise behind him, he turned to see what it was, it was the panel, it had closed. Peter looked out the window again, the figure was gone, Peter started looking for the rope again as he turned he saw two little girls standing in front of him, they smiled and said “Boo!” in high pitch scream, a shockwave of dust shot towards Peter, Peter flew backwards and through the glass. **
 * Stick Insect Test **
 * I can see a plant with a white coat in the middle of the garden but near the top of the plant but I notice a stick moving slightly and slowly, I realise that it is a stick insect slowly making its way to the top of the plant. When I look up I can see the trees swaying above me and the clouds moving fast in the sky, and a bird whoosh past my head. I look back at the insect and I can see that it has a white coat just like the plant itself. I look around the garden and see more plants and roses and flowers I’ve never seen before. **


 * I can hear the birds singing a tune I never thought a bird could sing too, I can also hear the trees above swaying and the leaves rustling with them. I can hear the sound of some crickets in the bushes just in front of me. **


 * I can smell the sweet scent of flowers just blooming out from the bushes in front of me. I can smell the fresh smell of soil crunching under my feet. **


 * I pick up a flower off the soil and it feels like a tiny sheet of cotton has turned itself into a flower, I reach out to pick a rose from the bush, but when I grab the stem of the flower I get pricked by a thorn ‘Ouch’, I get the rose and I feel the pedals, I can feel that the pedals are a bit damp, I put the flower down to pick up the insect. I get the insect into my hands and its skin feels rough and dry, I put the insect back onto the plant and I take a picture. **

** Room 9 made this Story!! **


 * There once was a boy who lived in a village that was thought to be haunted, he lived in a house but on foggy stormy nights white scary shadows came out of nowhere. The white scary shadows gave the people next door a warning to leave the village. When the boy woke up the next morning and there was nobody in the village because the white scary shadows went out of control and scared the whole village away, he looked around the whole village and nobody was there except ghosts. After a while the village became a ghost town, the boy became a slave to the ghosts. Anybody who came near were turned into slaves. **


 * Until one day a pair of soldiers came and sleighed the ghosts to death and took over the village. The slaves got their freedom and it became a peaceful town once again, but some people still say the white scary shadows still haunt this village on foggy stormy nights. **

** Descriptive writing introducing your best friend Sam ** ** WALT: Paint a picture with words, learn to introduce a description  **


 * My best friend is a person that I got to know while playing my favourite sport and that sport was his favourite sport, that person is Sam, he is a huge soccer fan, he comes up with the most random things in the wrong time, he is hilarious though. Sam is my best friend **


 * Sam wants to be a vet because he’s quite good with animals, he has 3 dogs, Billy, Jake and Oscar, he sometimes looks after another one called Millie. He is in FTC (Federation Talent Center), he is a really good soccer player but he likes playing goalkeeper most. His favourite football team is Chelsea F.C from England. In the weekend he likes to play soccer or play on the Xbox. **
 * Sam has brown hair, brown eyes, he is about 1 inch taller than me and he is quite tanned. He always wears shorts and a t-shirt, almost never wears jeans. **
 * He moved into Greytown this year from the countryside, to just down the road from me. Sam is really scared of spiders but he loves animals. Sam is special to me because he always makes me smile and laugh when I’m feeling sad Sam is always there for me. Sam is my best friend. **


 * Describe an event that you found memorable Date:3.2.12 **
 * WALT:Find our skills in descriptive writing **


 * The green is marking. **


 * Moving to NZ **


 * All I remember is hopping into our old, red, rusty car with the weirdest number plate ‘ELA888’ and driving into the busy and noisy city ‘Sidney’ it took about half an hour to get the noisy airport, because I could hear the huge planes taking off and landing, but I was just buzzing to get on the plane. We stop at Kris Kringle's (I think that's what its called . ) and grabbed our favourite doughnuts, mine was the plain ones, covered in this sticky and glassy looking icing, my brothers was the same, same with my dads and mums, but Courtney was about 2 so Mum gave her some of her delicious doughnut . We sat down and finished the sticky doughnuts while Dad and Jordan went to the window and watched the planes, I started to focus on the sound, I heard people shouting, babies crying, wheels of suitcases rolling, screeching and then I heard Dads deep voice “Hurry Up Tyler” I got off the red leather chair and followed Dad, I bumped into a couple people rushing past me. Some long sentences, and paragraphs need to contain one concept. **


 * Then we went to get our tickets while Dad put the suitcases on to the convier belt and I watched them disappear through the black strips of rubber hanging down. **
 * After that we went through the metal detector thing and saw our bags being X- R ayed by the huge machine with little bits coming out of it, I could see my batman toy next to my clothes through the x-ray, we got our bags and kept walking then a man in a big looking golf cart picked us up and drove us to the place where there are heaps of red seats and where we are supposed to wait, Mum and Dad thanked the tall man and he drove off while we sat down and waited for the plane. It felt like hours but the plane finally arrived and we showed the lady our tickets, we got on the plane and sat at our seats while Mum and Dad put our bags above us. It was awesome on the plane because there were TV’s on the seats, I watched out the window and saw the bright lights starting to turn on on the buildings because it was getting dark.I fell asleep and Mum woke me up and we left the plane and got to the airports parking lot and my nana and cousin was there and they drove us home. Long sentences, can separate ideas, ticketing, boarding, flight into different paragraphs. **


 * Overall level 3p; Yum! the donuts sounds so good. Great description of the car. **
 * Next steps; Understand how paragraphs work and when to end a sentence. Past, present and future tense. Punctuation; capitals for proper nouns, when to use commas. **