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=Task 1: Mini Photo Essays= __Please note:__ 1. Do **not** post individual pictures of students on the internet - group photos are fine 2. Do **not** give out your email on this wiki - pass it onto your teacher's spreadsheet to share with others 3. Contribute to the discussion tab above each time you add to the wiki - let others know what you have done and get to know them

=Creators - Tell us about your self and give your blog URL= Alphonso Banureka SangHyukChun Kim Eun Seol [|Dean] Reid Han Jong In Niall-http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?user_id=108026&amp;blogger_id=112941

My School

 * Deer Park**

Summary Paragraph My school is called Deer Park. The main subjects we study are Math, English, History/Geography, Science and French. It is located near downtown Toronto and is in a good neighboorhood.





Summary Paragraph These are two pictures of my school. The first picture is the outside of my school and the front door. But the students are supposed to use the front door to come in there supposed to use the back ones. The second picture is the deer park swimming were the students are forced to swim. Reid

My Community


Summay Paragraph This is the Forest Hill Village. It is about a 2 minute walk from my house. It has lots of stores and good restaurants. I go there alot. My favourite place in the Forest Hill village is the village chill. It is a really great Ice Cream store.

Summay Paragraph  These are photos of the Toronto Ravine. It is very close to my house. The top photo is of a stream. The one on the bottom is of an old brick-making factory that went out of business. On Saturday morning, there is a farmer's market, where farmers sell homemade organic food. I bike in the ravine a lot.

My City


Summary Paragraph These pictures are of the Toronto Skyline, The C.N.Tower and Kensington market. The C.N. stands for Canadian National. It is one of the largest in not the largest freestanding buildings in the world. Kensington market is a very sketchy neighbourhood that is mainly full of stores where you can but a lot of fake clothes (imitation designer name), and other things that a legitamite store might not sell you. As you can see, it gets very crowded. It is located in Chinatown.





Summary Paragraph These are two photos of my city. The first one is a few thing in our city. In this picture is one of the great lakes lake ontario, the CN tower one of the tallest free standing structures in the world, and the sky dome or rogers center as it was recently named where we host our baseball games and a Dane Cook comedy show which I saw. The second picture is a steetcar. It is one of the many different ways of pubkic transit in our city. Reid



In the middle of this picture there is a street car. Street cars are a form of transportation knd of like a bus. They run on tracks in the middle of the road. Toronto is one of the few places where there are street cars. At the bottom of the picture there is a picture of Toronto taken from Lake Ontario, you can see the CN Tower. At the top left there is a picture of Casa Loma. Casa Loma is a castle near my house that was being bilt a long ime ago but the owner went bankrupt. On the right there is a picture of the Air Canada Center. The Air Canada Center is a sports arena where the Toronto Maple Leafs and The Toronto Raptors play. The picture in the middle that the street car is covering is City Hall.

My Country


Summary Paragraph These photos are the Candian Rockies, and the North. For those of you that don't know, the Rockies are a huge mountain tange located in the west of Canada. Canada is a very beautiful place.

Summary Paragraph This is a map of Canada. Toronto is at the bottom right of the map. There is also the Canadian flag. Our flag is red and white with a maple leaf in the middle. The flag was adopted in 1965 and we had many other flags before that.





These are 2 pictures of my country (Canada). The first picture is a buch of differet picture in one that all are part of Canada. Like the picture of the city. It represents how in Canada there are alot of big citys, and the totem pole that represents that we have more then ne culture our city. The second picture is Niara falls which is one of the biggest water falls in the world and helps to make alot of power for our country. Reid

My School
Uijungbu Science High School

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In my school, students study math and science more than any subject. I live in school dorm

My Community
Anyong

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My City
Seoul

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My Country
Born : Korea live in : Korea

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Hello,

My School
Our school is called Secondary School Padre Alberto Neto or only ESPAN. It is big and it has seven flags. We have a library too, a bar, many trees, fields of football and basket, laboratories of science, gyms to make gymnastic, it has a stationery to buy material to our subjects, we have a room of media and much more. Actually, this school has 2200 students, 210 teachers and 72 auxiliary people. This school is located in Queluz, in the district of Lisbon. Our school have new Professional Courses and Training for Adults, integrated as New Opportunities, thereby complementing its offer of the previous courses in school education day and night.

My Community
Our community is called Queluz. It has 111,424 habitants. Is a small city but have many things, like fields to make sport, parks, spaces with many trees and things like that. Queluz has a palace very beautiful and is attractive for the tourists. It’s called **National Palace of Queluz. It’s very attractive for the tourists and it has a architectur very beautiful,** Using various styles like **baroque, rococo and neoclássicos.** The palace has beautiful gardens, pieces of the the eighteenth century and is very important for the tourism in Queluz.

My City
Lisbon is the capital of Portugal and is the largest city of Portugal. Is located in the estuary of the River Tejo. The capital of Portugal since its conquest from the Moors in 1147, Lisbon is a legendary city with over 20 centuries of History. The Alfama is one of the oldest quarters in Lisboa. Since it largely survived the earthquake of 1755, the area still retains much of its original layout. Adjacent to the Alfama are the likewise old quarters of Castelo and Mouraria, on the western and northern slopes of the hill that is crowned by St. George's Castle. Every year in June, the streets of all three quarters come alive with the feasts in honour of the popular saints. The Graça quarter and the churches of São Vicente de Fora and Santa Engrácia are within walking distance of this area. Radiant skies brighten the monumental city, with its typical tile covered building façades and narrow Medieval streets, where one can hear the fado being played and sung at night. But Lisbon is also the stage for popular festivities, the place for exquisite shopping, exciting nightlife, and interesting museums, a place from where motorways branch off in different directions.

The Brigde on 25 April, is a brigde located on the top of the River Tejo.



Lisbon Oceanarium



My Country
Portugal is a country in the south-west of Europe. The Atlantic Ocean is on its west and south, and Spain is on its north and east. Comparing to the countries near Portugal, we realize that Portugal is quite smaller. Three groups of islands in the Atlantic Ocean are also part of Portugal: the Azores (//Açores//), the Madeira and the Savage Isles (//Ilhas Selvagens//). The Savage Isles are a small group of islands with nobody on them, controlled by Madeira. The country says that Olivença is also part of it, but it is controlled by Spain (even the United Nations do not recognize the occupation).



My School


This picture shows my school logo. The writing below is in Latin, if translated, it basically means the character opens the way to the heavens. We chose this picture to represent our school because it sets the school standards.

This picture shows the a mortaboard and a degree. We chose this picture to represent our school because every students leave the school with pride and lots of knowledge. Moving forward with their lifes to University after studying in college for 5 yrs with so many friends is like graduating. The students take on their lifes without fear, they have the courage to overcome any obstacles and so many of the successful people also has been in our school.

Aorere College is a multi-cultural school made up of different background and people with talents. Students are challenged to reach their goals and potentials to a high standard. Students also get to go to many trips relating to the topics that are studied in class. One of the great things about our college is that it is not about learning full of facts and informations all the time, we get to do practical, think critical, solve problems, learn new skills and much more. It is not like some other country that we know off, where you have to study, study and study. We have many options like Fabrics, Graphics, Business and etc to choose from. The skills we learn in our school is preparing us for the future. Despite learning, we also have lots and lots of fun. Students get to communicate with the community. Even though the school has some strict rules, students are still allowed to express their opinion in class and around the school. The school also provide the opportunity for students to take part in certain groups like writing, book, leos, librarian, sports and much more groups. There are groups for each department. These groups are held so that the students can ask for help or improve in certain subjects. The school also acknowledges students who are successful not only in academic with scholarship, prizes or even certificates. It is also great that parents gets invited to come to the school, to look at their kids achievement. The teachers are all friendly, they don't force you to do something but instead they give assistance throughout. They are always there for you when you need them. Our school is like our second family.

My Community
This is Mangere mountain. It is in a cone-shaped volcanic structure like most typical mountains. This is the largest mountain in our community, well to be honest the only mountain in our community, anything else you see is either a big rock or a hill. Mangere mountain is a very cool place to visit and if you're lucky enough you could check out the amazing view of the domain at the top of the mountain or actually find something worth keeping like a pot of gold.

This picture shows a marae. A marae is a sacred meeting house. It is the home of Maori and it is the symbol of tribal identity. Many functions take place here. If you look closely at the three pillars (poles) connecting directly from the ground to the roof you'll see that there are engraved carvings on them. We are not too sure but we've heard that each of these carvings contains a story behind them which could speak of practically anything.

Our community is Mangere. Mangere is one of the larger suburbs in Manukau City. Mangere is a beautiful spacious area with a lot of residents which vary in many different cultures and it's main cultural backgrounds come from its pacific islanders. Although a small capacity of Mangere's population are influenced with street life and gang manner, Mangere is still a highly active community that mainly aims at the well being of the youth and of course the adults (but come on we kids are the future generation) to create a safer enviroment for not only individual families but for the whole community. There is not much to say about our community because everyone is friendly to each other. When you drive down some streets, you could see neighbours playing sport. The most common played sport is touch, it is a modified game of rugby. The whole community have lots of fun.

My City


This picture shows the skytower in Auckland city. It is a great sight to see at night with the city looking colourful. We chose this picture to represent our city because the sky tower is one of the most known feature around the world. It will be great for people to see the New Zealand's skytower.



The first picture shows the Polynesian culture and the second picture shows the Maori culture. We chose these pictures because our city has the largest population of polynesians and we wanted to show the lively and colourful culture which will always bring brightness in your lives. Among with these two main cultures are also Asians, Europeans and much more cultures.

Auckland is known as the city of sails.Auckland is also known as Tamaki-Makau-Rau - ‘the maiden with a hundred lovers’. It has the largest number of Polynesians making it a multicultural country. New Zealand’s most known feature the sky tower is also located in our city. Auckland's most iconic feature is the Rangitoto Island. It was formed 1,000 years ago. Few birds and insects inhabit the island because of the rich acidic soil and the type of flora growing out of the rocky soil. There are many wonderful volcanic cones in Auckland like Rangitoto Island, Mt Eden, Mt Victoria and One tree Hill. To have a good look at this view the most known park to go to is the Auckland Domain. Auckland has a number of important educational institutions, including some of the largest universities in the country. Auckland is also known to be a major centre of overseas language education, with large numbers of foreign students (particularly East Asians) coming to the city for several months or years to learn English or study at universities. Auckland is close to many islands that if you take a ferry, you could go to lots of astonishing islands and discover many things.

My Country


This is one of the landscapes in New Zealand and it is called the Fiordland. We chose this picture to represent our country because New Zealand has many wonderful natural features similar to this. It will be pleasing to travel around New Zealand looking at the eye-catching features everywhere. Mountain ranges and hill dominate New Zealand. The most striking physical feature is the Southern Alps.



Both of this picture represents a kiwi. We chose the first picture to show how a kiwi really looks like because the kiwi in the second picture does not have the proper feature of a kiwi. We chose the second picture because a kiwi is holding onto a New Zealand flag. A kiwi is a flightless bird and most of them are endangered. A kiwi is the national symbol of New Zealand.

Aotearoa, it is the most widely known accepted name for New Zealand in Maori. Maori are the indigenous polynesians of New Zealand. **“**The land of the long white cloud" is the English meaning for Aotearoa. Basically New Zealand is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and divided into two main parts, the North Island and South Island. The Stewart island is right at the bottom of both islands. Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. As mentioned above, New Zealand has many beautiful natural features. For example Mount Cook is the tallest mountain. Rotorua is also a well known place for geothermal activity. It is wonderful to live in a country with so many places that you can visit where you can experience the real life nature. Travelling around New Zealand is like travelling around the world but instead looking at the features that the God created. New Zealand was also known as the youngest country in earth. You can discover so much from New Zealand. We know we are praising our country too much but truly everyone who visits New Zealand, they never forget the experience they had. New Zealand is truly unique with friendly people.

=Task 2: Thinking=

Task A:


Brainstorm reasons why this picture could be relevant to your country. Make sure you give a reason for your ideas.


 * **Canada** || **South Korea** || **Portugal** || **New Zealand** ||
 * * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || * Portugal isn't very advanced in the education.
 * The Portugese schools try to maintain discipline and some schools in Portugal are very demanding.
 * The average of the courses are high in Portugal like Medicine and Biology.
 * The schools have conditions for the disabled people.
 * All people have the right to have a good education but there are always exceptions. || * New Zealand is good in different areas.
 * New Zealand provides a high standard education
 * New Zealand provide many opportunities especially in educations
 * There are many different ways of providing education to New Zealand students.
 * Everyone has the right to get an education. ||

Task B:
Brainstorm all the attributes for each of your countries. Combine the attributes of your countries and together create a new country with these new attributes. Be as **creative** as you like, as long as you use the **attributes** of all **four countries**. Tell us...
 * where it would be located and why you have chosen this location
 * how big it would be and why you have chosen this size
 * why we should visit your country
 * and what it would look like if we were to fly over it in a hot air balloon.

• Green spaces • Attractions for the tourism • Clean beaches • Wonderful scenery • Nice people • Natural scenery || * Clean and green
 * **Attributes of Canada** || **Attributes of South Korea** || **Attributes of Portugal** || **Attributes of New Zealand** ||
 * * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || • Monuments
 * Multicultural country
 * Safe country
 * Nuclear free
 * Many astonishing natural features.
 * Lots of tourists attractions
 * Unforgettable experiences
 * Friendly people ||


 * Our new Country...**

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