During these last 2 weeks of my Year 11 jumpstart I have experienced a drastic change. Personally, I am already feeling the sudden pressure of acheiving higher.
My goals I will be striving to fufil in 2025 is to pass level 1 NCEA endorsed with merit and an attendance higher than 85%. A goal that I’d like to achieve that doesn’t involve my education in 2025 is to save $5000.
The subjects I have decided to take for next year is level 1 history, level 1 biochemitry and level 1 general science. The reason I have choice these subejcts is to get into the pathway of dentistry at Otago University. To get to there, it is reccomended I achieve level 3 Psychics and Chemistry. It is also reccomended I acheive level 3 of any English subject, Biology and Statistics.
If I succeed in achieving the max credits throughout these three chosen subjects I will have 60 credits. 20 from each subjects.
This is the English version of the Treaty of Versaille. It was an armistice that subjected Germany to take the responcibility of war. It is something I have been researching and defending as the cause of WW2 for history during jumpstart. As of right now this is my hardest subject since I have to find evidence to support what Iv’e been saying. Trying to find evidence about treaties is incredibly arduous and still, I am not completely sure how to find.
This is a type of fungi. A we are learning about in biochem. This is one out of the three microorganisms we are reasearching about. Knowledge about microorganisms is varst so I can’t wait to learn more about it.
This is an atom. We are recapping our knowledge on atoms so we can further explore them in general science. We haven’t done much work on this since we have had substitute teachers that have been giving us other work but I prefer learning about atoms compared to filling out a booklet.
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Summary
The text, named ‘It used to be Green Once’ written by Patricia Grace is about the perspective of a daughter with thirteen siblings and an incredibly frugal mother. In the beginning, the narrator, the daughter, explains feeling shame towards her mother. This is because of her prudent habits of not letting anything go to waste. It shows this in the text by their mother cutting togs that are way too big into two so her brother and sister could both wear them as well as cutting rotten parts out of fruit to give them for lunch. One day a neighbour sees their brutally cut up fruit since their mother doesn’t want to buy thirteen lunch boxes or school bags and the kids get called out. This makes them all feel incredibly embarrassed. But this text mainly focuses on an old rusty car that the mother likes to drive to do the grocery shopping. This car is described as having barely any paint, no brakes and it used to have a roof that you could put up or down. When driving the ruggard car shopping, she has to beep the horn and yell for traffic to pull over to prevent collisions since she can’t use the brakes. On her way to the grocery store, her relatives would hear the distinctive honk and shout out to her what they would like and on her way back she curtles the groceries they wanted back at them. Once she had hurled a side of lamb to an uncle and it had broken his leg. All the shame the kids had endured from their mother lugging around the old piece of metal had been substantial, from the grocery shopping and even offering people home but this all came to a change one day.
After school had finished, the kids came home and found their father dressed informally with an expensive smile pursed on his lips, their mother explained that they had just won the $50,000 lottery and that they would finally buy their mother a new car. Their days of shame had come to an end because now they would be getting fresh fruit for school, new school bags, new togs and more importantly a big fancy green Chevrolet for a ride. The kids adapted to the new lavish life but the parents both continue to live their frugal life.
Something I have learnt from this text.
There are quite a few lessons that teach some very educational lessons in the text, One of them being that you shouldn’t take things for granted. Even with the kids’ incredibly frugal mother they did of course survive. It teaches you that you don’t have to have the coolest and expensive necessities to survive. Another educational lesson taught in this text is that you shouldn’t let money change you. The kids’ parents showed a great example of this by keeping all of the new equipment they bought with the lotto money until it was totaled like the mothers old car. This was shown in the very last sentence of the text where it is stated ‘And the new car – it used to be green once, because if you look closely you can still see some patches of green paint.’. This means that the ‘new’ Chevrolet had been worn so much you could barely notice that it used to be green since all the paint had gradually corroded away.
Story board of the text ‘It used to be Green Once’ by Patricia Grace.
The narrator was complaining about how herself and her siblings, Peti and Rana, had to put up with mum’s shaming. |
They always made a fuss about having holey fruit or their fruit being over ripe and having dig out the rotten parts |
The kids hated wednesdays when their mum would go shopping in the really grimy old car which she tooted and yelled at people to pull over since it had no breaks, it really embarrassed the kids. |
 The family won the lottery of $50,000. |
| They dumped the old shabby car and Mum said she couldn’t watch. | Mum bought a new green Chevrolet and could pick up all her friends and relations so they could all go shopping together. |
