Burger Competition - Cooking

BBQ BLAST - BURGER

Flavor: 8.5 - Carimarilizing the onions and cooking the tomatoes a little gave the burger a sweet and tangy flavor. The sauce we made out of garlic aioli and BBQ sauce made the BBQ blast into a BBQ mess because we put too much on it and since the pattie was already juicy it had a lot of moisture. Overall, it was a nice combination with a delectable and flavorful burger.

Texture: 3 - The bacon was meant to be crunchy but it was soft and didn't give the burger the texture we wanted. The only other thing that was meant to bring out the texture was the crotons but our teacher ended up forgetting to get those. In the end, our burgers texture was plain and it wasn't great for most of the food in it was soft and sloppy. 

Color: 5 - Our BBQ Blast had a great color scheme but it was just the normal color scheme for a burger so it wasn't really an intricate and stunning burger. We got the award for the best presentation with our burgers but we didn't really stray from the traditional burger look. Ultimately, basic looking burger and not really much else to it.

Margret Mahy - Memory

Mess and Money: 08/06/2021

Johnny was helping Sophie cleaning up when he found a lot of money. He wanted to keep it but we haven't found out what he did yet. I think he should leave the money even if Sophie doesn't know it was there because if he was Sophie he wouldn't want someone to take that kind of cash.

Values - Beliefs that guide us through our everyday life to help us make the right choices and so we know the wrong from right. Values "

Morals - They are like values.

Poetic Text: 27/05/2021

Quotes Pg 25-30 -
"A night wind, patrolling the city, rushed at him, its paws on his chest, slapping his face with an icy tongue."
"Feeling like a man from outer space revisiting the world after the neutron bomb had killed every living thing but left all properties intact, he hesitated."
"A moment later he made out a short, thin, old woman wearing a hat like a crimson chamber-pot without a handle."

JOHNNY:

Facts about Jonny -

1. He is drunk "I'm not THAT drunk Jonny argued aloud,"
   
2. His mother, father, and his twin siblings are alive but Janine (his sister is dead0'
3. Janine's photo is on the TV "The twins had continued to push and squeak, but all they knew of Janine was her photograph smiling from the top of the TV set'

Jonny's emotions - 

1. Grieving "hoping to hold off attacks of memory"
2. Brave "Jonny stepped boldly towards the lighted window knowing there would be hundreds of traps and pitfalls for anyone wandering through the darkness."

Describe Jonny - 

1. Swollen eye, battered face, puffy lips "Jonny touched his battered face," "One eye was swollen, though not entirely closed." "His lips felt puffy."

Sustainable Fishing - Social Studies

Is sustainable fishing even possible?
People won't be able to control what other people do in the ocean when people aren't watching what they are doing and punishing the people who break the law. In the ocean, the law can't be promised for when over 4600000 commercial boats go out and fish while killing all this bycatch because no one is going to go around and stop all of them. 

How is commercial fishing a threat to dolphins and birds in bycatch?
Over 300,000 small whales, dolphins, and porpoises dying from bycatch each year from these commercial fishing boats. There are also 300,000 sea birds being drowned, thrown around, and killed from bycatch with these horrible people on those commercial boats. They are endangering so many marine animals and the rest of us are doing nothing but then again there is not much we can do while staying on the land.

 

Shark Finning - Social Studies

What is Shark Finning?
Shark finning is a gruesome practice that involves cutting LIVE shark's fins off and then sometimes throwing the de-finned sharks back into the ocean to die slowly and painfully. The fins are mostly used in china and hong kong as a key ingredient in the shark-fin soup. 

Why is it a delicacy?
The fin-shark soup played an important role as an indicator of social standing. It has the consistency close to noodles but it has no flavor of nutritional value so people add chicken broth to make it taste like something. It was first created by an Emporer in the sun dynasty during the Chinese golden era. The dish was made to represent the wealth, power, and generosity of the Emporer. 

How is Shak Finning impacting our oceans?
Sharks are the top predator in the ocean so if they get whipped out then the spices below them with overpopulating which will cause the next preorder on the list to die off until there is no more which will kill the spices below the sharks. This would continue until there would be no marine life in the ocean.

 

The Star Fish Poem - Social Studies

THE  STARFISH  POEM

Once upon a time, there was a wise man 

who used to go to the ocean 

to do his writing. 

He had a habit of walking 

on the beach 

before he began his work. 

One day he was walking along 

the shore. 

As he looked down the beach, 

he saw a human 

figure moving like a dancer. 

He smiled to himself to think 

of someone who would 

dance to the day. 

So he began to walk faster 

to catch up. 

As he got closer, he saw 

that it was a young man 

and the young man wasn't dancing, 

but instead, he was reaching 

down to the shore, 

picking up something 

and very gently throwing it 

into the ocean. 

As he got closer he called out, 

"Good morning! What are you doing?" 

The young man paused, 

looked up, and replied, 

"Throwing starfish in the ocean." 

"I guess I should have asked, 

why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?" 

"The sun is up and the tide is going out. 

And if I don't throw them in they'll die." 

"But, young man, don't you realize that 

there are miles and miles of beach 

and starfish all along it. 

You can't possibly make a difference!" 

The young man listened politely. 

Then bent down, picked up another starfish 

and threw it into the sea, 

past the breaking waves and said- 

"It made a difference for that one."

What is the meaning of this poem?
This poem is saying that we can make a difference even though what we do may be small. We may be able to change what we do but we can't always change what others do. Every little thing we do to help a problem can sometimes change the problem because every little thing helps. "It made a difference for that one," the young man said after the man on the beach asked why he was doing it. He knew that he wouldn't be able to save all of the starfish but he still said as he threw another out to sea "It made a difference for that one". What the young boy did may not have saved all of the starfish and solved the problem of them dying, but he was able to help some of them and he saved as many as he could. That is what really matters.