We recently watched the movie about a boy after reading the book. The movie adaptation had a few minor differences, but the ending strayed quite far away from the book. The ending of the movie didn’t include the fact that Kurt Cobain died, which played a vital role in the ending of the book. In … More About a Boy – After the Movie
This year, scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. This year, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are running for the democrats. Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Donald Trump are running for the republicans. In total, there have been 23 candidates running for the election in November, but most of … More United States presidential election of 2016
In our English class today we chose a book to read. We had the option of either The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian or About a Boy. I chose the latter, mostly because it seemed like a book that would be easier to relate to, in terms of plot and characters. The Absolutely True … More About a boy
Some people call Alaska the Norway of the United States, and for good reason. Both countries share similar features like Arctic climate, oil wealth and tourism, but despite this, Alaska has a $50 billion permanent fund compared to Norway’s massive $900 billion sovereign wealth fund. What are the biggest similarities between Alaska and Norway? And … More Alaska and Norway – Oil resources
We chose articles from “the guardian” and “The wall street journal” who were both from the UK. In the article, french taxi drivers protested against so-called car-hailing apps which give the user easy access to taxi services. The only problem was that the taxi drivers had to drive back to their garage after they had driven … More Comparing two articles from different news papers
This is the second post I have written about the technology we use at Sandvika VGS. Today we made a movie, where me and my friend Ruben were the starring actors. The class was divided into two groups, who each made their own video about different subjects. We had directors, editors, cameracrew, and actors working … More Technology In Our Class: Part 2
In our English class today we saw the movie Rabbit Proof Fence. It tells the true story of a girl named Molly Kelly and her battle for freedom. During the time period 1905-1970’s, Australian Aboriginal children were taken from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions. At least 35 000 children … More Rabbit Proof Fence – The Stolen Generation
The indigenous people in Australia are called Aboriginals. They came to Australia about 50.000 years ago. When the British came to Australia in 1788, they called these native people “aboriginals”, meaning people who had lived there since the earliest times. Many of them suffered when Europeans (mainly from Britain) arrived in Australia, because of disease and the loss … More Indigenous peoples in Australia
Today Kahoot! visited our school! Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages! We created a fun learning game in minutes (what is called ‘kahoots‘), made from a series of multiple choice questions. Each question can have four or … More Kahoot! visits our school
“A day’s wait is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway in 1933. The story focuses on the boy and his father who calls him Schatz (German, meaning darling). When the boy gets the flu, a doctor is called in and recommends three different medicines and tells the boy’s father that his temperature is 102 degrees … More “A day’s wait” by Ernest Hemingway
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