🗡Divergent🗡

Divergent is the first book in a three book series. All the books now have movies on Netflix.

Veronica Roth

The Author Veronica Roth is a No.1 New York Times bestselling author, Veronica has written 35 books and has sold over 36 million copies. Veronica Roth has received many awards for her Divergent trilogy, including Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction and Favorite Book. In addition, she won the senior category of the 2014 Young Reader’s Choice Award. Her best selling book is the Divergent trilogy.

🗡Divergent🗡

Divergent is the first book in a three book series. All the books now have movies on Netflix.

Veronica Roth

The Author Veronica Roth is a No.1 New York Times bestselling author, Veronica has written 35 books and has sold over 36 million copies. Veronica Roth has received many awards for her Diver

gent trilogy, including Good

reads Choice Awards for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction and Favorite Book. In addition, she won the senior category of the 2014 Young Reader’s Choice Award. Her best selling book is the Divergent trilogy.

Summary 

Divergent is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago that has separated its population into five factions.

Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the kind), Edrudite (the intelligent), Abnegation (the selfless) and candor (the honest). But there is another faction that is considered dangerous and will be killed if found out, called the Divergent.

Beatrice Prior, (the main character of this series) finds herself being a Divergent but she needs to hide this big detail from everyone, even from her own family.

So she chose to be Dauntless to hide that she’s a Divergent. As she enters Dauntless she is asked if she wants to change her name. So she chose to go from Beatrice to Tris. while she looks around she comes across a man that is 2 years older than her called four.

Over this long journey she trains in combat and survival skills. Trying to make the list as she goes on so she doesn’t get kicked out her faction into the factionless. The factionless is where the non-wanted/didn’t make the cut of their chosen factions.

Towards the end of the book Tris starts to get feelings for Four. And he realizes that she’s in grave danger.

What I enjoyed

I enjoyed this book as the action packed setting and the hint of romance is something I really enjoyed and something I thought mixed well together.

Divergent is suggested as a 13+ read.

I would give Divergent a 4.2 / 5

Written by Gracie

Summary 

Divergent is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago that has separated its population into five factions.

Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the kind), Edrudite (the intelligent), Abnegation (the selfless) and candor (the honest). But there is another faction that is considered dangerous and will be killed if found out, called the Divergent.

Beatrice Prior, (the main character of this series) finds herself being a Divergent but she needs to hide this big detail from everyone, even from her own family.

So she chose to be Dauntless to hide that she’s a Divergent. As she enters Dauntless she is asked if she wants to change her name. So she chose to go from Beatrice to Tris. while she looks around she comes across a man that is 2 years older than her called four.

Over this long journey she trains in combat and survival skills. Trying to make the list as she goes on so she doesn’t get kicked out her faction into the factionless. The factionless is where the non-wanted/didn’t make the cut of their chosen factions.

Towards the end of the book Tris starts to get feelings for Four. And he realizes that she’s in grave danger.

What I enjoyed

I enjoyed this book as the action packed setting and the hint of romance is something I really enjoyed and something I thought mixed well together.

Divergent is suggested as a 13+ read.

I would give Divergent a 4.2 / 5

Written by Gracie

🕍International museum day🕍

I was walking into the old museum that had been in my small town for decades, the one that I have spent 5 birthdays at, the one that I have some of my most fond memories of. Was being shut down and then soon destroyed. This was the last day us visitors would visit and look at all the beautiful old relics that they have been collecting over the years.

Some were over a hundred years old and were known for being things that had been touched by queen victoria in 1832. And they were just ready to move all these artifacts from England all the way to a new museum in california. I just couldn’t let them.

But what can a 17 year old highschool student do about something this big. However I did come here today kind of for a last goodbye. I walked down all of my favourite sections. All the memories racing back. 

When I was young I used to believe that this museum had magic hidden in some of the artifacts. Since I vaguely remembered seeing light coming from an old masquerade mask that had been hung up on the wall in the royalty section that had the old clothes from old kings and queens. I also remember noticing a large poofy dress moving by itself. That dress had the same mask that just glowed right on top of it on the same old mauguin. I thought it might have been an electronic hidden in the dresses or maybe the breeze had moved it. Or the sun reflecting on the mask. But no, all the windows were closed and the window right next to had the blinds pulled down so the sun could not have been the problem.and I may or may not have looked under a 100 year old dress and behind the mask. However I did find something out. Something moved that dress.

While I was walking I all of a sudden came across that same dress I came across several years ago. That memorie ran through my mind while I stood directly in front of the dress. I quickly rotated my body around and walked down the corridor. As I strolled down the narrow corridor there were at least 200 hundred books that were completely submerged in dust and cobwebs; those books were most probably over a century old. Some books were turned so the pages were facing me and I could see every crinkle in the paper. Every page was a tan brown, some darker than others .

I looked side to side left and right. When I knew there was nobody coming I then looked up at the ceiling and then I remembered how old this museum was and discovered that there were no cameras. I tilted my head down and at a rapid pace I slid open the glass that held the old books and searched for one that had the title magic or ghosts or anything supernatural to try and figure out what happened that day with that dress. 

I quickly scurried through the book shelf and I came across a book that had a title which said The whispers of the otherworld world. And right below it, it also had something written that said An their hidden magic. I looked at all other covers and even inside the book there was no name that was written. I stuffed the book in my large shoulder bag and was at the tip of smashing the glass when I basically slammed the glass  compartment shut. And ran out of the corridor and into the bath rooms which were about a 30 second trip if i sprinted and that’s exactly what i did.

I entered the bathroom stalls and ran to the farvest to the door and locked the door shut.

I sat down on the toilet lid. The coldness of the toilet seat seeped through my thin wavy maxi skirt. I put my legs up on the toilet seat and opened the book and dust flew everywhere. “ACHU” the dust went up my nose then my eyes. I squinted. I didn’t know if I was squinting my eyes from the dust or from the bright light that began to shine from the middle seam of the book I was holding in my hands. 

 I examined the glowing light before me. It was a ridiculously bright shade of yellow and

kind of like a light pale orange in the tiny middle. I was incredibly intriguing how bright the light was that I  closed it so quickly that people would think i had super speed.

To be continued 

Doing this writing I have learnt that there is actually an international drone day on the 4th of May.

It’s the fourth of May and I just invented a brand new one of a kind drone.

This drone is incredibly different to all the other drones you have probably seen or heard of, since this drone is the one and only drone that can do more than film and fly.

This drone can show pictures, holligraphs and can project tv shows of your choice. All you need to do is connect any device to your drone and you can watch, see and listen to something of your choice. Whether it’s an Inspirational speech, a song, audio book and so much more.  

This drone can talk to you if you are a loner and be your guide dog if you need something for you specific needs it can also be tapped twice on the right top where there is a red button and can shrink to either the size of a book to the size of a mans big toe so it can fit right in your pocket.

This drone will help you in so many ways you can just put the kids you no longer want right back in the orphanage, it can also look after people in your family if you need to go to the store or for a work trip and it can respond with accuracy with what you need to hear. Since these drones have the intelligence of all the best doctors in the world. 

Do you need help with homework ask the drone since it is the smarter then any phone you come across it works better than a GPS and is right now being sold at the low low price $100000000,000000000000000000,000000000000000,0000000000000,0000 and that’s without tax!🤑💵

World dance day 

My favourite style of dance is ballet. Ballet is more something i love to watch. As it is a very classic and symphonic. I personally think it takes a lot of skill and talent to be able to do. Proper on stage in front of thousands of people ballet performances.

Especially male ballerinas, I think they have a lot of strength and self-esteem to keep going in this style of dance. Male ballerinas have a lot of strength from dedicated training and physical demand of this art style.

Another reason why I enjoy ballet is because there are several sacrifices you have to make if you want to pursue  it into an ongoing hobby or a full career. Such as dedicating many hours a day 5-6 times a week which doesn’t give much time for your-self or your personal life.

Overall ballet is a very expressive, almost whimsical art. If it is performed well enough it can be timeless. Also ballet is a very graceful dance which is one of the reasons I think it looks very magical.

While doing this challenge I figurd out so much more things that google draw has to offer. such as word art.

over all this challenge was quite easy.

Tech progress

This term our main focus was to build a lost property for all the lost property around the school.

First we brainstormed what we should build for our school. The biggest problem we convided in was the lost property around the school and the current state of our lost property box. So we all decided we should make a lost property box.

Second, We started to do a concept statement, we wrote why we needed to have a lost property box and then we got our budget and started the..

Design problem\ design brief, we all talked about what we wanted the box to have and how we wanted it to look and we all drew a sketch of what we wanted. We all came together and kind of took a little thing from everybody’s designs and put them into 1.

Then we made templates out of nets on paper and we all concluded in a design that we were happy about.

Right now we are measuring and cutting out 35cm by 35cm squares on triboard wood.

This week with Rob we have started wrapping our boxes with our collages that we have made. Our lost property boxes are coming together slowly but surely. We finished sticking our collages to our boxes with PVA glue which when it dries we will put varnish on all the sides.

During this process I have learnt how to screw, drill and use wood glue.

My favourite part of this project was painting the boxes.

I wish I spent more time on putting our collages on because they are not very nicely stuck on.I think my best work was the painting. My least enjoyable part of this project was watching our teacher eat food in front of us. I think if I had to change anything about this project it would be giving us more time.

I learnt how to use more attachments on my webcam .

Writing Prompt 

If I hadn’t learnt to time travel this would have never happened…..

As I looked around, I heard screams from every direction. All I was thinking was why did I go into the future.That’s all i heard when i closed my eyes.My thoughts were destroying me, i tried not to think but the silence was killer too. Then something touched my shoulder and I suddenly sprung back to reality. As my friend dragged me to an abandoned warehouse.

“Why did you do this Iris? Why did you bring them here?” She cried, shaking me vigorously. While she had tears streaming down her face. 

“They’re all gone!” 

“Who’s gone?”

“My family,friends, the love of my life, they’re all gone!”

Then the realization hit me, people are dying.Because of me.then i looked at her neck there was what looked like rope marks around her neck my best friend had tried to kill herself because she lost everything because of me.

All of a sudden a loud screeching sound came from the door to the left of us. I quickly grabbed Billy Gene ( my best friend ) and hid behind some  messed up cargo boxes that were close to us. “Who’s there?” I mumbled. But no response. Just 30 seconds later we heard the screeching sound again. “Who’s there?” I repeated.  But still no answer. I kept repeating this one sentence and another until “CRASH” the door swung open. That’s when I saw the things that i accidently bought over. Those things suddenly just kept coming one after the other. They created a circle around us and we were surrounded… by human terminators.

That’s how I discovered that I was the one who started the robot apocalypse. As the robots  closed in, a sudden pump of adrenaline went through me.I suddenly jumped up.And before I knew it. I was over 8 meters up in the air . My arm reached out and I was on the second floor of the ruined building we were in. I screamed out for Billy Gene  to jump. But all she did was smile at me and started walking towards the robots, shot her several times, on her last breath as he suddenly said 

“See you soon Iris”

“N000”I cried

As I was covering my mouth, I could hear her body drop to the cold concrete floor. I started climbing higher and higher up the ruined building. Jumping from rock to pipes to metal rods. As I jumped I could feel tears streaming down my dirty pale face .” Ahhhhh!” I shredded my hand and missed the metal rod in front of me as I was falling. I couldn’t help but feel relieved.

Today this morning this woman called Gina came in. she set up the game ripper adn we all got split up in teams. Gina played this game with us to help us understand a deeper meaning of teamwork. It was quite enjoyable running around stealing eachothers tags in the hall. I was in a team of three, while the other teams had teams of 7,5 and 6. yes i know you would think it was unfair but yet my team still ended up having around thye same amount of tags wheater we had less or more than the others. But it very entertaining seeing people jump around and squel.

Thank you Gina

this is a challenge where you have to use parts of google docs that most people don’t know about.