Spaghetti Bolognese for Meal Planning

Spaghetti Bolognese

Recipe:

• 25g butter 
• 1 large onion chopped
• 500g mince
• 1/2 table salt
• 400g can tomatoes in juice chopped
• 135g of tomato paste
• 3/4 packet of spaghetti noodles

Instruction:

1. Pan cook onion in the oil until browned. Add mince and brown. Start to boil noodles.
2. Add vegetables, tomatoes in juice and tomato paste. Simmer for about 15 mins and vegetables are tender. 
3. Serve noodles onto plates with mine mixture on top.
4. Garnish with a little-grated cheese and herbs

What is the focus of the meals that we are cooking for this unit?

- The focus of this unit is to balance food according to what is more healthier to eat and appropriate for us.

Apply variations and substitutions to the recipe that you would use and why would you make these changes.

- Instead of butter, we used 1 tbsp of oil, we used 200g of mince, and we just used 2 tbsp of tomato paste instead of one can. You could apply these alternatives to suit your diet and these are all to prevent cooking too much which lead to wasted foods.

The butter has more fats than oil so it is more favorable to use. 500 g would be too many so reduce it into 200-300g as well as the tomato paste.

Since our main goal for this term is to achieve meal planning, these alternatives that we applied in our dishes are really helpful to us.

Tomorrow When the War Began pt.1

Chapter One

Must Do Questions:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of first-person narration?

The advantages of the first person narration are that she can detail things from her perspective and can express her own feelings. The disadvantages are that there are things that can’t be detailed like the thoughts of the other characters and some things happening in their surroundings.

Why do you think Ellie needs to tell the story in chronological order?

For us to understand it clearly. Sometimes if the story is told in a not chronological order we find it so difficult to understand especially when we are thinking why did something like that? what happened before that for this scene to occur?

Pick one interesting word from the chapter, find its meaning, and explain why it is interesting.

Hermit. I wonder who is he and if the story is true about him. Would the characters meet him?

John Marsden foreshadows several events and characters in this chapter. Make three predictions based on the evidence in the text about what may occur later in the story.

1. The war.- It says there in Ellie’s pov that “None of us wants to end up as a pile of dead white bones, unnoticed, unknown, with no one knowing or appreciating the risks we’ve run” 
2. Chris- “ To be honest I’m only writing about the pool to avoid doing what I’m meant to be doing. That’s like Chris, finding ways to avoid things he doesn’t want to do”
3. Lee- “ Corrie had been puzzled when I’d said I wanted to ask Lee/ We didn’t really hang around with him at school. He seemed a serious guy, very into his music, but I just thought he was interesting” and then she continues to introduce him by detailing things about Lee.

What kind of story do you think Ellie is going to tell? Uses evidence from the text to support your answers.

Ellie will tell a story of when did it starts, where and who is involved especially in her plan of getting to hell. She will state the details about their trip to Hell and what is the after the event of getting to Hell.

What set of skills do these characters have that convince their parents that they can ‘go bush’ independently. Find examples of three characters. 

1. Ellie. She has this personality where she can hook people with her words. She can play words and make them be persuaded.
2. Robyn. She is the kind of daughter with strict parents. She even had a long conversation with her parents before she was allowed to go on the trip. With her patience and endurance, she managed to convince them
3. Lee. Lee is the easiest person to induce his parents. As of the description to him in this chapter, he is a serious guy and sort of an obedient man.

Tomorrow When the War Brief Information

After the film study in the movie of 'The Power of One', we are now learning the book 'Tomorrow When the War Began'. Here's the brief information about it.

Full Title:	Tomorrow, When the War Began
Author:	John Marsden	Type of Work:	Novel
Genre:	Young Adult Fiction	Language:	English
Time & Place Written	Australia, 1993	Date of First Publication:	1993
Publisher:	Mc Pherson Printing Group	Current Edition:	7th

Narrator/ Point of View:	Ellie	Tense:	Past tense- reflective
Protagonist(s) The leading character, hero or heroine	Ellie, Corrie, Homer, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Robyn, Chris	Antagonist(s) The character who actively opposes the protagonist
Setting (Time)		Setting (Place)	Australian Outback

I haven't filled out the other information since I haven't read the whole book.

Ecstacy

 Hello everyone! Today I'm going to share you some posters I did about ecstasy. It has information about Ecstasy, how does it affect you and laws. There are also strategies to influence adolescents not to use drugs.Here it is:

Essay Making The Power of One pt.2

Here is my second part of my blog about essay making like what's in my title. Right now, this blog will contain the third paragraph and the conclusion.

In additional, Doc also became his staircase to look for purpose in life. In the scene where they went to the prison, where it was shown that Doc let PK show the Africans and it was the beginning of the building of purpose of PK’s life again. Doc introduced PK to a lieutenant but he was busy so they met Geel Piet. Then, boxing was now formed in PK’s passion in his heart. The director executed this moment to show us the new personality that is being built in his character. After being brave from the sufferings that he been through where one of it was he lost his ‘mother courage’, boxing made him stronger too and now in a physical manner. This was the meaning that Doc said to PK that his body and education is the crucial things in life. To improve PK’s physical state, Doc saw a way to enter him in the world of boxing. It made a big effect on audience perception. The audience perceived how PK was having the great talent in boxing. And boxing made a way to push PK’s heart closer to Africans. Not only he found his purpose but it also added up to more purposes. Being close to Africans was a bad thing for that time since Afrikaners are leading Africa and it didn’t matter for PK cause what he believed is friendship and unity. Afterall, he grew up associating with Africans which made his bond to them stronger. This can be linked to the scene where the cruel act of the sergeant to Geel piet where he commanded Geel Piet to eat manure sticking in his feet. If how PK is being united and bonded with the Africans, that’s how hatred Afrikaners feel towards Africans.

Pk was so lucky to have Doc not only as his grandfather but also as his guide to lift up himself after all the hardships he suffered in life. He lifted himself to look for purpose in life and he found boxing as his passion, he saw things differently from before, he learned new things and gained knowledge being Africa as his classroom and his life got much better than as it is before. This moment is certainly an important moment to prepare us for another scene. We saw how enlightenment was in PK’s life after meeting his grandfather.

Essay Making of The Power of One

Hello everybody! Today I'm going to share you the essay paragraphs I worked on in my English class. I'm going to cut my paragraphs cause I know it will be really long if I'm gonna put it all here. Now, here's my introduction, first and second paragraph.

Do you know how lucky you are when you have someone to lift you up at the time of your worst days? The director of ‘The Power of One’, John Avildsen showed us the key moment that helped us to prepare for another moment in the film and it is when he accepted his grandfather’s hand. This moment created a big impact on PK’s life which established him hope to continue his life and his grandfather served as his guide  and staircase to search and build purpose to live. It also made him learned so much things in living which is beneficial for him since he doesn’t have parents anymore and even though he experienced all of this adversity in life, it made him realize that in the end of the day there is an aid to all the sufferings.

It was a devastating situation for PK when he lost important people in his life but it is also a rising hope when he met his grandfather. For instance, this is the moment when PK’s grandfather approached him and cheered him up. In this scene, PK’s face became brighter and enthusiastic as his grandfather showed him interesting things like talking to his donkey. After all the adversity that PK suffered like losing his mother, nanny and even his chicken ‘mother courage’, being bullied to school that made his life in the boarding school living like in hell, the coming of his grandfather was like a surprise, not in a bad way but in a good way. The surprise didn’t made his life in a worse situation but it lightened his life and made him see in the other side of the beautiful life.The purpose of the director of this movie is to inform the audience that PK’s life doesn’t only circling around miserable and cruelty happenings but there are also genuine joy and happiness that will come to his life.This prepare the audience that after the handing the hand of PK to his grandfather scene there will be a change to life of PK, a good change.This made the audience feel assured that the childhood of PK was still in good hands and it is because of his grandfather.The scene helped audiences to get a hint that after that moment his grandfather will lift him up and will teach him stuff to live as a normal kid. He made PK learned something from life despite all the hindrances that stopping PK from savouring the good life.This can be juxtaposed to the next moment of the scene where he got trained by Geel Piet to box and that is one of the main reason of meaningful existence of PK.

Moreover, PK’s life was led to a more desirable life together with the guide of his grandfather. At the particular clip in the movie, PK said that he is taught how to see things differently the way he had before by his grandfather. His grandfather, Doc, he accompany PK to see the varieties of life. He made PK explore life without school where in school PK just faced deprivation of living happily but been bothered with the immature acts of the Afrikaners. Avildsen made the viewers perceive how things got change in the life of PK when he is with Doc. Avildsen instituted the scenes where we can see Doc initiated the journey to PK explore the nature. The audiences understand how Doc loved PK. Doc knows that he himself undergo in the same situation that he also lived alone after his family got killed by Hitler because they stand in their ground as they believed in having peace. Doc is aware of the feeling of being lonely and he don’t want PK to experience this kind of emotion. He stayed in PK’s side and educated him with his knowledge as he stated that a person’s fundamental needs in life are health and education. PK is in a good and healthy body but his education needed a deep attention. Doc toured PK around Africa and Africa served as PK’s classroom of learning. Everyday was his study sessions and it began at sunrise of every morning. Later in the moment which can be link in this scene, is the coming of the Afrikaners announced the citizenship of Doc because he came from the Germany but got stuck to go home and it is a problem again.

Listening Skill pt.2

Song: Avalanche City- Love love love

Listening Questions:

Genre: Alternative, Pop, Folk (calm)

Tempo: Medium

Dynamics: Medium


What do you like/ dislike?
-I love how cheerful song it is and how can you hate it if it is about love?! Obviously, I love the message of the song. It suits for everybody and will really move you. I do love the music video too and I don't have anything to dislike.