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Badjelly The Witch - Answers To Questions On 'Literacy' Class Page

The main character I have chosen is Badjelly. Key words to describe Badjelly are: foul, immoral, vile, sinful, irrational, deranged, fiendish.

I think Badjelly’s actions were unwise. It was unwise to: Kidnap kids and turning them into sausages, enslaving monsters, and going against God, because in the end she got what she deserved and got killed.

I think Badjelly acted the way she did because she might have a phycological disorder, or her parents might have been a bad influence on her, telling her it was okay to eat people when really it isn’t.

The effects of Badjelly’s behaviour were very great. It was her fault that Tim and Rose went into the woods looking for Lucy anyway, let alone them getting put into the sack and taken to her castle. She made Tim and Rose’s parents upset, she made dinglemouse a banana, the policeman an apple tree and many more. She made others lives a misery, resulting in hatred toward her.

I think Badjelly is round, because she was repaid for her actions when God killed her. I think when she got to hell she may have regretted her actions, resulting in a change of heart.

I think I relate Badjelly the Witch to the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz because they are both extremely cruel to others for some unknown reason. They both also enslave other creatures to do their dirty work for them.

DESCRIPTION OF HER LOOKS:Her sharp, extensive nose points toward her prey. Her slim, lengthy fingers make objects disappear in a click. Her pointed hat is a dark shade of brown, not matching her thin black garment, covering her prolonged arms and narrow, scrawny legs. Her wicked soul filled with hatred conducts her slaves to boil her captives into a smooth soup. If I had to add another character into the story I would of added a talking butterfly to calm Rose down. Throughout the story Rose seems quite tense and frightened when Tim failed to reassure her that everything would be okay. The butterfly would play role of ‘mother’ while Rose’s mother wasn’t there.

My Picture of Badjelly:



1. In the story, when setting the scene, the narrator says Tim was 6 years old and Rose was 5. 2. ‘Tim had black hair and blue eyes. Rose had red hair that hung down to her waist, and green eyes like the sea.’ 3. ‘After a long while, the children came to a big forest, with very big trees, some __as tall as a church__, and some as __thick as their teachers legs at school__.’ - Exaggeration and 2 Similes ‘__As tiny as a match stick.__’ - Simile ‘__He’s barking like a doggie.__’ - Simile 4. ‘They lived with their Mummy and Daddy in a big log cabin made from wood trees, with a yellow straw roof and little birds made nests for their eggs in it.’ - Page 1 5. I think when Tim asks Rose if she’s tired and she says ‘Only my legs’ it’s because they had been walking so much, and she is so young that her legs had gotten sore, so she replied that her legs were tired. 6. I think Tim is more dominant than Rose. He is older, making him the leader and the guardian of his little sister when they aren’t with their parents. He made the decisions in their little adventure and did most of the talking when they were socializing with other creatures in the forest. 7. //“It’s getting very dark-and-night-time” said Rose. “We better go home, or Mummy and Daddy will be worried about us”. Tim said “No, we must find Lucy first.”// I think the kids should have gone home at this point. It was getting dark and they are very young. It’s dangerous to be in the forest at that time of night. But Tim was determined to find their cow, so they carried on. 8. I think Dinglemouse is very odd because he was originally a banana, and could talk to humans. I think the author made him that way to make the story a little interesting and to find an escape for Tim and Rose from the witches castle. 9. I think Silly Sausage would be a very effective guard dog. Sometimes, criminals will target a different house because they see the guard dog and get frightened, or find a way to eliminate it. But they wouldn’t be able to see Silly Sausage, since he’s a grass-hopper. So they would try to commit a crime, but then would get caught because of the barking from Silly Sausage. It is better for them to get caught than to be scared away, able to commit their crime somewhere else. 10. One day, Rose was skipping around in the field where Lucy lives. “Look out!” She looked around for where the voice just came from. “You coulda stepped on me there!” She spotted a talking pebble on the ground. “Pebbles have feelings too you know!” “Sorry little pebble!” “You better be!” He groaned. She skipped away, quite frightened of the rude little pebble on the ground.

= Fairytale Story = We wrote fairytale stories for 7-8 year olds and read them to students in younger classrooms. Click the image below to read mine. = Personal Goal Writing =

After our fairytales, we set a personal goal for us to try and achieve. My goal was to use more short, sharp, one-word sentences that make the feeling more effective (as can be seen in 'Nika') Here is my online book of vignettes:





Osama bin Laden's Death - Pros/Cons Brainstorm As most of you know, Osama bin Laden was killed on the 1st of May 2011. Here are my ideas about the pros and cons of his death.





Probability Brainstorm.
Probability is chance. It's the possibility of something happening.You will use probability in Lotto, betting at the TAB, the weather, prediction of sports games, and prediction in general.Probability looks like choosing your numbers in the Lotto, the Horse in the TAB, or looking outside to guess the weather.Probability is taken into account when the Meteorologists predict the weather, they look at the probability of a certain weather pattern coming into event.My parents would use probability when they look at the rugby team versing my brother to predict who they think will win the game.

**My Understanding of the Tree Main Inquiry Concepts:** Design is a plan of a product or item that is going to be made. It’s the look, feel and purpose of an item. It’s making it stand out from the other similar products. Enterprise is the business side of things. Selling and buying of the product, and the growth of the business and the product itself. Innovation is thinking creatively and critically, and ‘piggybacking’ on an idea to make it better or more useful. media type="youtube" key="NzS1SPO_uCU?version=3" height="349" width="425" align="center"

We then chose groups and made a muffin making/selling company. I was CEO of @Muffinz Inc. From here we watched videos about enterprise, confirmed positions of work, found a muffin recipe and added an innovated idea to the recipe. We then made them, and sold them in the atrium. Here are some pictures:



We had to choose something that different cultures share and outline the certainties. Here is my poster: Then we had to do a slideshow about a country of our choice. Here is the presentation I made:

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We then took a look at ourselves and made a slideshow on our own personalities. media type="youtube" key="3aAzGm_zCc4?version=3" height="349" width="425" align="center"

This is my 'Being a Connecter' presentation that I filled in. Please click the image below to view. In Art we have been exploring colour, tone and texture. For one of our pieces we used pastel overtop a photo of ourselves. Here is mine:

Then, to go with our Inquiry topic (The World's In Our Hands) we made masks of a culture of our choice. I chose the Native American people. Here is my journey: media type="youtube" key="-N-ehb5u9Bg?version=3" height="349" width="425"





Here is my final evaluation for my mask. To stop dissing Michael so much. I think I have done quite well to resist dissing Michael. It was usually just for fun but I feel like he might have taken some of my jokes to heart, so I set this goal. I haven't made as many jokes about him personally and think he has been very thankful for that. To figure out how to work with people I don't get along with.I think finding something that I have in common with the person is a good way to get talking and decrease the tension. To have courage with my learning buddy and don't let them get away with any crap. I think I did very well with this. I didn't let my buddy go off the rails. To think about how my words will effect others before I say them.I think I did pretty well with this but I still need to work on it. To be responsible for my work and get it done on time. Term 2 has been a very productive term for me. I have been working a lot of my writing - something I enjoy very much. I think my writing has improved greatly this term as well as this year. I want to work more on writing next term, but I know my maths needs some more work, so I should be working on that. My decimals is something I need to work on in that area. I think my manners have been good this term. I knock before I enter, say please and thank you and I am respectful to the decisions the teachers have made. I think I need to work on being more polite to my peers, since I tend to get annoyed when they make the wrong decisions. Though we haven't done it this term, I think I've improved on my Perseverance. I've tried my hardest at everything I've done, even if I'm not specifically good at it. I think I try harder at the things I'm not good at. Term 2 has been a very productive term for me. I hope Term 3 will bring the same.