Discovery Time

Today for discovery time I stared to build a adventure park in Minecraft.

I showed creativity by not just doing what other people do which is just make a flat roller coaster, I have made a excitingly thrilling roller coaster with bumps and drops ect.

I showed agency by getting on with the task and not mucking around and also I was a courageous learner.

I showed excellence by fixing even the tiniest mistakes so it is the best it could be.

Next week for discovery time I am going to continue this and hope that I can get another rode finished.

Pre Reading Task And Prediction/Blooms Questions

Cover:The illustration looks interesting, but the bird flying over the waterfall is puzzling.Is the bird involved in the main plot? I hope I will find out when I read it and also is Petronas and native name or is it a foreign name?

Blurb:By the mystery of the city the blurb has really hooked me in and it make me really want to find out why it was deserted and how come it still has water, because form what I think if it was deserted then wouldn't all the water been dried out? And also how wouldn't there be people aldrady in it because it is a city and city have cathedrals so it would be spotted quite far away wouldn't it?  

Title:The title Petronas sounds really interesting and it also sound like a spell from a movie. The title has really managed to capture my interest and I wan't to read the book.

Prediction:I think that the story is set on a large city and it inhabitants have to go on a quest to find out why it was deserted. In the page the boy is teaching the girl how to float and I think he is teaching her that because she might need to be able to know how to swim.

What do you know about deserts and the life of nomadic tribes?  How did this help your understanding of the problems Baba and the nomads face in finding water to survive?

I know that desserts are usually really how and there isn't much water around and also a nomadic tribe would be hard to feed because they would have animal to help so they need water as well.

“Now, something else caught her eye.  Could it be?...It was a miracle - a dream come true.” (p.13) Why did the author not tell the reader what Baba saw here?  What was the purpose of this omission?

I was probably to build suspense and make the reader read on to see what she had seen.

Alliteration is the repetition of the first letters or sounds of words within a sentence.  The author writes, “There was grass: long, luxurious grass.” (p.11) How does this use of alliteration help you to visualise the grass?  What other words that start with “l” could you add to the sentence to enhance the description?

The useage of alliteration has made me visualise that the grass was really luxurious and not some crummy grass in a industrial city. I would add: There was grass: long lovely luxuriously grass.

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if you created a new character what would it be?

I would create a old man who is the mayor of Petronas.

What does the water stick do?

The water stick trembles when it hover over water.

Explain similarities between you and Baba?

We both are about the same age and we are both easily annoyed.

What questions would you ask in an interview with Baba?

Did you have a ceremony when you got chosen?

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Explain similarities between Tai and Anda

They both fell in a deep sleep and were found in the eastern part of the city.

Why do you think people are falling into a deep sleep?

Because I reckon that there are people that are still there and they think that the nomads have invaded their city so they are putting them into a deep sleep so they can have the city to themselves.

Describe how the people fell into a deep sleep.

They followed a yellow bird to the eastern part of the city. And there they fell into a deep sleep.  

What is Ki angry about

Ki is angry because the new Baba is a girl and he thinks that she misleads them.