Reading log

Title of story- Hunger Games

Author- Suzanne Collins

Text type- Novel

Date finished- not sure, sometime last year

The Hunger Games is a novel based mainly around a Girl name Katniss Everdeen and her family and boy called Peeta Malark she shares a mysterious and almost intimate love for one another. They live in a corrupt society named Panem, which is much different to ours but very quite similar in some ways. They're 12 different districts of which people of different nationalities, privileges and even stereotypes are put and made to live in. Katniss and her family live in district 11; one of the lower class district where they spend most day making crops for fruit and veges and farming.

Each year a tournament known as the 'Hunger Games' takes place in Panems wealthiest district, The Capitol.
Each district will hold a ceremony where two people, male or female from age 12 to 18 are nominated to compete in this tournament. However, this a very abnormal competition that consists of each competitor literally being force to fight for there lives as only one person will leave alive. They must survive in a large unknown terrain or habitat with a limited amount of resources.
Katniss's younger sister (aged 12) happens to be nominated from there district to compete in this years tournament, however Katniss does not accept this volunteers as tribute for her sister. Meaning she will instead compete and her sisters life will be spared (as she would probably not survive in the tournament).

I believe I can relate myself to this story as coming from a not quite wealthy family of many siblings I have grown to have strong bonds with those younger and older than me, and can understand the terror she must've felt when hearing her sisters named called out and I can also understand that her first instinct would be to risk her life for her younger sisters; something I strongly believe I would do.

Beef wrap and sushi

Recipes

JAPANESE RICE BALLS

Ingredients

• 2 cups uncooked short-grain white rice
• 2 cups water
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 sheets nori (dry seaweed), cut into 1/2-inch strips OPTIONAL
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds OPTIONAL

Filling

• Avocado
• Peppers
• Chicken with teriyaki
• mayo

Directions

1. Wash the rice in a mesh strainer until the water runs clear.
2. Combine washed rice and 2 cups water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to low; cover. Simmer rice until the water is absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes.
3. Let rice rest, for 15 minutes to allow the rice to continue to steam and become tender. Allow cooked rice to cool.
4. Combine 1 cup water with the salt in a small bowl. Use this water to dampen hands before handling the rice. Divide the cooked rice into 4 equal portions. Use one portion of rice for each onigiri.
5. Divide one portion of rice in two. Create a dimple in the rice and fill with filing. Cover with the remaining portion of rice and press lightly to enclose filling inside rice ball. Gently press the rice to shape into a triangle.
6. You can also use glad wrap in a bowl – see teacher for demonstration.
7. OPTIONAL: Wrap shaped onigiri with a strip of nori. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Repeat to make a total of 8 onigiri.

Chicken wraps

Ingredients:

• 1 wrap per person
• Lettuce
• Cheese
• Tomato
• Grated carrot
• ¼ onions
• 1t oil
• Sauces – tomato, bbq, mayo, hummus, chilli
• 70grams of chicken or 1 breast per table

Method:

1. Sauté the chicken and onions together in a pan with oil, high-med heat
2. Chop and grate the vegetables you require
3. Place Wraps in microwave for 20 seconds
4. Place filling onto wrap, roll, pierce with a tooth pick to keep in place (optional)

Why should we clean our ingredients?
Because they're many ways they could all be contaminated. Starting from the veges growing in the crop fields with the possibilities of animal fesses, contaminated water or the chemicals they spray coming in contact with the produce; to possible 100s of people touch them in supermarkets.

Two high risk foods?
Chicken and rice. Chicken obviously coz of its high risk of salmonella poisoning. To prevent this we cook it thoroughly and keep apart from other ingredients. Also use different equipment.
With rice, once we again we cook thoroughly but there is no need to keep it apart from everything else.
I know that these strategies will keep me safe because bacteria will be killed at temperature from 70-80 degrees. Also keeping it away from everything will mean the bacteria won't spread.

Health and safety

• Health and safety is important in the food industry because they're multiple ways that health and safety can be at risk in the kitchen and in the food you cook.
• 5 guidelines we followed yesterday to do with health and safety were washing our hands, washing our ingredients, putting an apron on, wiping our table and doing the dishes.
• Salmonella, we avoided the spread of salmonella or salmonella poisoning by cooking our chicken properly and dealing with our chicken on the correct boards and knives. 

Reflection of PBL 2

How I felt working in my group?
It was pretty easy, Lachlan doesn't really muck around and he helped me with that also. Most of the work was evenly spread.

Was I happy with the topic I picked?
Yeah I was because its a major issue at the moment and seriously needs to be dealt with. I also didn't mind doing a bit of hands on work to help out with this problem. To me it was for the best cause out of the options.

Something I learned about myself through the process?
I need to get use to preparing and even rehearsing for presenting in the future. I also realised that if I just even do a little bit each period or every chance I have it makes everything a lot easier ( rather than mucking around ).

Reflection of PBL

What I thought about PBL?
I thought it was pretty good as combined the aspects of planning and writing etc with the end product being a bit of hands on work. Each topic was for a good cause and good for us learn about.`

Did we achieve our goal?
We did complete our second goal in improvisation of not being able to proceed with our primary idea of planting trees around the school. We couldn't do this because of time issues.

How we enriched or improved lives of others?
Well we didn't exactly enrich a person and/or people but our everyday environment. I does improve the air and a few other things that do effect us. So it kinda did enrich people. teehee


What we do different next time?
Maybe been more organised for our presentation and put it bit more effort into it. Maybe get more students to help pick up rubbish. Videos in our presentation would have been good.

What was successful about what we did and why?
We managed pick up the large amount of the schools litter in the the main areas. We did to the thorough standard we hoped to.
We also completed all the paper work efficiently to a good standard,

PBL Posts For Sustainability

Towards the end of the term, our year 10 syndicate has begun a new topic of project based learning, we were given multiple problems or projects to work on and come up with a solution for it.

Lachlan (My partner) and I chose the issue of sustainability and pollution. We came up with a few ideas or projects, one being the plan to plant a few trees around the school. However we were unable to proceed with this idea dew to the lack of time left in the school year. Luckily, we were able to improvise and come up with a new one, that being our plan to gather a team of year 7 & 8´s that are keen to help our environment and help us rid our school of all its litter.

Over the process of our planning one of us (me) was sick and away from school for a few days, which was an obvious set back. However, our hard work over the first few days minimized the disadvantage.

In result of our action, the school should be thoroughly clean and rid of litter and pollution. And hopefully our project creates an influence and attitude of keeping our environment clean.

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