Jamie Curry writing

Hello everyone it is Rosemary here, and I'm going to be sharing my Jamie Curry writing with you guys.
So like I said in my reading response, I have been doing some research on Jamie Curry and I am not going to say who she is yet because it is in my writing. So what I had to do was find heaps of new information for my writing and it was really fun. The reason I am sharing this is because I am very very proud of my writing and myself. I hope you like it and learn a lot from it.

Success Criteria (based on Kidspeak progressions)

• beginning, middle and end (structure)
• topic words (vocabulary) collaborates, receives and inspired
• different sentence beginnings (sentence formation)
• added detail to my ideas (content and ideas)
• punctuation that helps the reader (punctuation)
• my writing goal is to use better words

Jamie Curry

Introduction

Jamie Curry is a 19 year old popular Youtuber and comedian that lives in New Zealand and she is not afraid to make a fool of herself. She can be weird or geeky and she doesn’t care what people think.

Her life

Jamie Curry used to be a local here in Hawke’s Bay but now she lives in Auckland. Jamie used to be a student at Sacred Heart College and went with her sister Tayla. When Jamie went to soccer, her friends and her sister inspired her to make a Youtube page and a Facebook page called Jamie's world so she did. The funny thing is she is bad at technology. We New Zealand should be very proud of Jamie because she is the most famous teenager in the world.

Youtube fame and Facebook fame

Jamie has heaps of fans but most of her fans live in a Australia, Italy or New Zealand. Sometimes Jamie struggles to keep up with her fan mail but she gets up to it in the end. Jamie wears costumes in her video and that's one of the reasons that makes her funny. She receives tens of thousands of likes on her Facebook page and gets 7 million people a week to follower her.

Other Successes

Jamie Curry was in a music video with Massad. Massad is a kiwi song artist who wanted Jamie to be in his music video. In the video Jamie was a geeky girl from next door and Massad had feelings for her. The song was called Girl Next Door. Sometimes Jamie collaborates with Jamie McDell. They would hang out or make videos with each other. Jamie is an author as well. She has just written a book called They let me write a book! It is going to be published in November 2015.

Conclusion

Jamie is going to be touring the UK with M.A.D a british boy band. Jamie Curry really wants to do everything in her future but has her heart set on being an actress in the United States.

Reading task

Down behind our place flows the muddy old river.  I often go there after school and watch the sticks and leaves drift sluggishly past.

        One time I found a plastic drink bottle stranded on the green slime.

        Noticing something different about the bottle, I fished it out.  Cutting the bottle open, I pulled out a piece of paper.  On the paper was written this letter.

        125 Riverside Road

        Wakanui

        New Zealand

        Dear friend,

                    If you find this letter please write to me.  I have brown hair and am 9 years old.    Please write to me, specially if you live in Australia or America.  I don't have many     friends here.

        Love from

        Amy Brown

        "What a laugh," I thought.  Amy Brown lives just up the river from us.  She's in my class, too.  Amy is strange and she really doesn't have many friends.  She's often away from school, and the kids only take notice of her if they want to tease her, or want something from her, like money for ice blocks.

        I put her letter in my pocket to show it around at school.

        But by the end of the week that letter was still in my pocket.  I supposed that really, like Amy, I was a bit lonely, too.  Or perhaps I just didn't have enough courage to be that mean.

        What about her letter?

        On Saturday morning I got another empty drink bottle and poked her letter into it.  I screwed the top tightly on and biked down the road carrying it.

        From the old wharf by the factories, I threw the bottle far out into the tide.  The water there was swift enough to carry it out to sea at least.

        That was last year.

        Amy is still in my class and she still seems lonely.  I haven't heard about the letter.  But then, that sort of mail can take ages to get to Australia or America.

Source:  School Journal, Pt 3, No. 1, 1991. Learning Media. Illustrated by Sarah Mathieson.

 

Personal mail

This task is about making inferences by identifying information in a story.

Read the story "Personal Mail" and follow the instructions below.

Read each sentence below and circle whether it is true or false. On the lines below each sentence, write some words from the story that help show whether the sentence is true or false. The first one has been done for you.

”Down behind our place flows the muddy old river.” a)      The boy in the story lives near a river.                              True   /   False
Its true because the river is behind his house.

b)      The water in the river flows quickly.                                                                       
True   /   False
Its false because the river flows smuggle not quickly.  

  

c)      When the boy first reads the letter he thinks it is a bit of a joke.          

True   /   False

Because he says what a laugh.  

       

d) The reason the boy decides not to show the letter around at school is that he is worried he will get into trouble.

True   /   False

Its false because the boy in the story feels lonely to.                 

       

e)      The boy has lots of friends.                                                                                    

True   /   False

Its false because the boy in the story feels lonely to.

f)   The boy throws the bottle out to sea because he thinks it will have  a better chance of floating to another place than it will in the river.

True   /   False

        
Because of the tide.

g) The boy is the sort of person who notices how other people are feeling.

     True   /   False

Because he knew how Amy Brown was feeling.

h)      The boy never tells Amy about finding her letter.                                      

True   /   False
Because the boy felt lonely to.

i)       The boy wants to believe that the bottle will arrive in Australia or America.

True   /   False

Because it could land anywhere.  

j)   Briefly describe a time when you felt a bit like the boy in this story.

      I felt lonely when my friends did want to play with me.

Statistics

Mean -The Mean is the average.

Median -The one in the middle.

Mode-The one that comes up often.

Range - The interval between the greatest and least values in set of data.

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Knowledge Goal and Reflection 29/07/14

I got 39 / 50  78%100  for stage 5 number knowledge.

I did well in, Number bonds and Addition and subtraction.

My number knowledge goal is Division Facts.

Something I am proud of is My Score.

Something I want to learn more about is Groupings.

My Learning Presentation

Something I enjoyed was talking to my teacher and my mum and dad.

Something I want to get better at is learning about space and stars. 

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