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this term we are doing A.R.C ( aotearoa reading challenge) and i am already finished!!!! if anyone needs help or are stuck you can ask me. A.R.C is a reading thing where we have to read the length of n.z (and answer some questions and find facts about towns along the way!) every one page counts as five kilometers, we have to read from Cape Rienga to the Bluff! sounds fun? it is kind-of actually.


 * SO GET READING GUYS!!!!!**( and girls)

We also have to do a power point about an author that we like, i am doing mine on Jacqueline Wilson. I like these books: Girls in Love. Girls Out Late Girls Under Pressure The Dream Palace Lizzie Zipmouth AND HEAPS MORE!!!!!!!!



LIVING IN THE OLD MUSEUM HOUSE: COMPREHENSION: Q1:What do you think the story is about? A1: This story is about a girl named Saapi, she is an only child and is deprived of happiness.She can not leave the old museum and is bored out of her mind!!!

Q2: Describe the water recycling process and why it is so important. A2: water recycling is very important because in the book, there is a passage that says: Because there was nothing outside apart from a few kilometers of sand dunes that was real. It wasn't possible to swim in the ocean that seemed to be right there. Which would lead people to think that there wasn't much water left

Q3: What does It mean by "nothing but the sand dunes are real? A3: Because the story is set in the future, a lot of things would be holographic (holograms)

Q4:why were these people living in the 'museum house' ? what do you think it means? A4: When people visit the museum, they expect to see old and ancient things, so by the term 'museum house' they mean an old, and maybe historic house.

Q5:What are the windows in this house for? A5:To create an illusion of things that arent really there, a holoscreen.

Q6:Explain what saapi disliked and liked about Urr A6: She disliked the fact that Urr was very predictable, she liked how he can change the weather in the holoscreens.

Q7: Why would Urr not change places with saapi? A7: Because Saapi's teeth were not strong enough, Urr would not be able to fit into her sneakers, and it wold e a safety issue.

Q8: Why do you think saapi was bored? A8: because the epidemics forced her to stay inside and there was nothing to do.

Q9:Saapi thought sometimes that her mum was a robot, why? A9:Because she thought to herself that her mum was brilliant and knew everything, and robots DID know everything

Q10: explain why everyone is so lokking after Saapi so well? A10: She is a person, and the epidemics wiped out most of the people, so Saapi is important.

 Word Study:

A) This means if someone is lonely a dog ( or other animal) can fulfill that space in the house.But animals are special because they are living things, not material pieces.

B) Imperfections means that someone or something isn't perfect e.g a glass has cracks in it, that is an imperfection.

C) If someone REALLY likes chocolate, and they have money to spare, there would be no doubt that they would go to the shop and buy some. Urr is from the caveman stage of the world, so there would be no doubt of smelling hoards of plants and animal leavings.

D) Logically appropriate would aslo be meant as reasonably appropriate. Logic means reason.

E) You learn things later in life, when the time comes.This will mean that Saapi is guessing things that she should be doing later on.

 Definitions:

A) A conservatory is a greenhouse attached to a house.

B) Being primitive is being in an early stage of development.

C) A holoscreen is like a window, and projectiles the outside to what is on the inside.

D) A mammoth is a prehistoric stage of the elephant, not the same but alike, except the mammoth has a lot more fur and bigger tusks.

E) Devastating is a feeling that you experience when something bad happens e.g if your mum had died, the twin tower resuults were devastating.

F) When you feel content, you are happy with how things are, discontent means that something is not quite right.

A) The salt-sea breezes on and off shore as the land warmed and cooled.
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B) Clouds and rainbows decorated the horizon, sometimes there was a glimpse of a whale surfacing.

C) The walls were real wood, the windows had glass with imperfections, and outside, butterflies frolicked over the lavender hedge.

AcTiViTiEs

go through to meet the others OR I would keep Saapi company.
 * 1) 1 There are panels between the parts of the museum, I would probably try to smash them (as I would be pretty annoyed at the time) and then


 * 2
 * Golden Kea || Kiwi ||
 * || This creature lives in one country ||
 * A normal Kea with golden Feathers || out of the whole world ||
 * Very rare or || rarer by the day. ||
 * Extinct ||  ||


 * Blue Robin || Pandas ||
 * || An almost worldwide ||
 * A very small bird || animal, poachers ||
 * also very rare || are solwly killing them ||
 * Slowly populating ||  ||


 * Tahlia. Te rata .Griffis ||
 * A very VERY rare being and there is only one in the world. ||
 * Should live for another 90 or so years. ||
 * Should live for another 90 or so years. ||

de Bonos Thinking Hats:

Black Hat: Some negative things about the story are that Saapi cannot get outside, this will make her socially difficult as she has been kept in for far too long.

Green Hat: Saapi could go on the computer and look at things on the internet, and print them out and maybe stick them on his walls. Plus he could ask his mum because he thinks she knows everything.  Blue Hat: Basically, life isn't fair, but it does have a silver lining, like a cloud( a big , fat unfair, horrid, annoying and lingering one) And this story is not a reality as it is set in the future but it could be realistic as this book was made in 1995.

