Film Visual Sounds and Techniques Kahoot

We have recently started working on a film study in English. For this film study, we watched Dragonheart. For 5 weeks we choose 1 task out of 4 options based around the category. For the first one, we are looking at Film Visual and Sound Techniques. It is currently only able to be played by myself (because it is being stupid) so here is just a simple screenshot of it. Once it is ready I will put a link up.

Digestive system

The Human Digestive System

First stage: The Oesophagus

The Digestive system is the process of our body taking in food, absorbing the nutrients and then sending the remains out of our body. This system is crucial in our body, starting right at our mouth and ending at our anus. When you eat food it is rolled into a ball by your tongue and then moistened by your salivary glands. Once this process is done the ball of food is sent down the Oesophagus. The Oesophagus uses muscles to push the food down and stop the food from coming back up while the muscles below the food widen the tube for the food to go through. The Oesophagus also aids in breaking down the nutrients a bit, mostly Carbohydrates with Gastric juices and Enzymes. This is the first process of the digestive system done.

Second Stage: The Stomach

The next part of the digestive system involves the Stomach where the food is transported to through the Oesophagus. The Stomach has a special type of acid inside it, this acid is generally called "Stomach acid" however its scientific name is "Hydrochloric acid (HCI)". To prevent the acid from burning through your Stomach Mucus is added as a protective layer. The Stomach acts like a giant elastic bag allowing it to expand when a large amount of food comes down the Esophagus allowing for big amounts to be quickly digested. The Stomach helps break down some nutrients as well as digesting the food. The main nutrients affected by this is Protein. Once the Stomach has digested the food it reaches the intestines as a creamy paste called Chyme.

Third Stage: The Intestines

The 2 intestines are the small Intestines and the large Intestines. Really their names should be swapped around as the small intestines cover most of the area with the large Intestines only covering the outer area. The small intestines begin to absorb the nutrients into the bloodstream where they are then distributed across the body. The food is then given to the large Intestines where the remaining nutrient-free waste is drained out until it had no water left. The waste is then transported to the Rectum where it is stored until it is ready to be shoved forcibly out of the Anus. The small Intestines are covered in things called villi. Vili ensures fast nutrient absorption into the bloodstream.

Fourth Stage: The Liver

The Liver is where the nutrients are first transported to. Here they are either converted into energy, sent to muscles or stored for later use (creating fat in the body). A liquid is produced called bile which goes to the bile duct and is then realised to stop any acids from the Stomach escaping into the digestive system and basically burning you inside out. The Liver also helps break down lipids (fats and oils).

History of the Black Death

The Black Death

Warning this blog may contain sort of graphic images, the images contain symptoms of the black death.

The Great Plague, commonly known as the Black Death or simply the Plague was an Asain born disease which spread throughout almost all of Europe in 1347 and later dates. There is two big popular belief in the way that the plague got to Europe here is one of them. The cause of the plague to reach Europe was indirectly caused by the Mongolian empire. They were sieging a town on the black sea called Messina but the plague was infecting many of their troops so what do you do in that situation? Here are some options they had. 1. Throw your men over the walls to infect the enemy 2. Siege the town normally or 3. retreat until the disease is gone for the time being. Let's go with option 1. The Mongolians begin to fling their dead bodies over the walls causing the troops and people inside to get infected and die with no way to escape but the sea. They sent out many boats to Europe hoping to escape the plague and the Mongolians, however, rats and fleas had come with them carrying the plague. In the other belief, it was just random trade ships from this town.

Bubonic

The ways to spread the plague were separated into 3 different names they each had different symptoms and different survival rates. The most commonly thought of is the Bubonic way. Rats would carry this type of plague in their blood which would then we drunk by fleas and insects like that. These fleas would then bite Humans spreading the plague into the Humans bloodstream because of this, many people on the boats were infected. The infected people would get boils on their skin, big round puss filled balls that would cause great pain and would eventually explode opening you to even more infections. You would begin throwing up blood, internally bleeding, your nose fingers and toes would go black, cramps, seizures and many other things until after an extremely painful 10 days you would normally die. This type of plague isn't as bad these days since the chance to die can reduce to 10% and it can't easily spread as fleas and rats are dealt with these days when back then they were a norm.

Septicemic

The 2nd way is called Septicemic. It is like the common flu in a lot of ways, however unlike the common flu. It would begin causing organ failure, vomiting and internal bleeding from blood clot problems. It could easily kill you before the symptoms showed and were spread through fleas and rats, as well as coughing from a person infected because this would infect those areas of the body mostly. Just like both other ways of infection these days it has a low infect rate and high survivability however it is the most common now since it can be spread through coughing as well as rats and fleas. All 3 plagues spread extremely well back in the first outbreak, however, I personally believe this would have spread the most.

Pneumonic

The 3rd and final way is called Pneumonic. This one was contracted through open blood cells contact. It could also infect open cuts out in the open, you could get this by touching their blood or any infected bit on their body or if they touch an open wound of yours. This one could kill fast, some people were as healthy as ever and died in their sleep. Those that did survive the first part went through the agonising pain until eventually they died or the plague left their system. It is possibly the most painful one but the hardest to catch however back in 1347 even this one spread as fast as the others. I will explain why later.

The ships reach Europe

In both main stories, there were ships that arrived at Europe's shores, on them were dead or barely alive, victims with disease spread across the ship. The Europeans let them dock without realizing what they had just caused, now the plague was into Europe as the rats, fleas and dead victims came off the ship, men on the shoreline would get infected quickly and it would just keep spreading from there. At the time there was no way to cure this plague so many died quickly. People tried to flee but they were already infected unknown to several of them. Animals were infected, everything was, caravans, other boats and many of the people. The environment at this time was extremely plague friendly. However a few months before this event another lot of ships arrived at the coast of Venice spreading the plague into Venice this caused mass outbreak all over Europe.

Why it spread so well

At this time in Europe cities and towns were crowded, homeless people everywhere and living standards were terrible. However many Jewish areas were fine and not overcrowded, the Jews at this type had really good living conditions this caused them to be blamed even more when the plague came and many of the Jews survived. Seeing a dead body in the middle of the street was quite common, food was traded in an easily infected way and the people were always crowded with the streets filled with homeless people. Flu, fleas and rats were already extremely common so when the plague arrived it was like a party for it. So many easy people to infect. Immediately Jews were targeted as the first few victims got puss filled spots on them. They began throwing Jews into wells and throwing them next to dead victims. It's quite possible that more Jews were killed by Christians than the plague. In my opinion yes more Jews were killed by Christians than by the plague since they were generally separated from the massive crowded areas with homeless people. They had pretty good living conditions. Because of their low death rate and just because Christians at that time were nothing like most Christians these days, immediately blamed them and basically went all Inquisitor on them. They slaughtered many Jews.

Middle East outbreak

Europe wasn't the only place that had a serious outbreak at the time. Through trading with the Mongolians and other Asain countries, the disease spread into Middle Eastern land going right through Egypt, Constantinople and Meca. This caused the plague to get into Africa which is where it still resides today. The Middle East at the time was just as bad as the European countries, overpopulation, low infrastructure stuff like that causing it to do just as well as it did in Europe. With the plague now in Africa, it began to spread through there infecting many people in Africa.

How they reacted

Europe was massively Christian so immediately Jews were unfairly killed by Christians because in their eyes the mass Jews displeased god and by killing them his faith in Humans would be restored. As death tolls raised the graveyard would be full so they would resort to stacking bodies in Churches and burning them to try to please their god, anyone found to be infected would be locked in their house and in many cases left to die or burn down inside either by themselves or with other infected victims. Christians began to carry a flower called a Possie as they believed it to be gods luck, however, they would still die. Some people took advantage of this become "Plague Doctors" some people legitimately thought they were helping by becoming these Plague Doctors, others did it simply for money. They managed to mostly protect themselves with the gear they wore, they would autopsy victims and try to find a solution sometimes the suggestions they gave actually work to help stop the spread so they began valued people to all the leaders. In several cases, Plague Doctors were kidnapped and held for ransom with an extraordinary price which would be paid because of their supposed value. People did anything they could to survive, Christians would sacrifice Jews, regular people would barricade themselves and other would run to other cities only to die in the country or spread it.

Minorly affected places

Poland during this time was largely unaffected as it had a very spread out population, their infrastructure was fine and they didn't suffer nearly as many problems as the others did. Their leader at the time was quite smart and quarantined the border immediately. They were infected a bit but the country was mostly fine not suffering mass destruction. There were several areas of people also not affected due to resistant blood types from I guess you would call it evolution? (not completely sure, think it is though). There is some belief that possibly the death rates are seemed to be low since there is more lack of recorded history due to small cities and low population.

Events up to today

After a few years, the first outbreak was over, massive amounts of the European population was dead and people were still attempting to recover. The plague was mostly gone but bits of it still affected people in Europe, around 80% of the European population was dead resulting in hard work for everyone. Minor outbreaks happened all through the years until finally it mostly ended in Europe with the 1665 great plague of London. Affecting over millions once again. However, the great fire of London greatly stopped the plague killing many rats, fleas and bacteria. The plague was now almost completely gone from Europe, however, it had spread to Africa and stayed in China causing a 3rd outbreak in China killing million in India and China. Minor outbreaks happened in places like Australia until modern times the African outbreak causing around 140 people to die and over 10 thousand infected.

Why it goes away and comes back out of the blue

The plague bacteria have begun to hibernate into the ground and multiplying. Once it is once again ready to come back as it can't stay underground forever it will come up and attack then go back into hiding. This has only really happened to Africa recently, however, there is a chance that America, Australia, all of Asai and all of Europe will still have the bacteria in the ground multiplying just like in Africa. There is a possibility that the Bacteria is evolving to travel through the sea now just like it can in the air and somewhat through the ground. The black death is one of the most deadly and successful diseases in history going worldwide from Asai to America to Australia and many other places.

Was it good in the long run for Humans?

In my opinion yes it was. It stopped overpopulation and forced Humans to seek better technologies to cope with their situation. Humans weren't making many advances at that time and people were as separated as ever. With the black plague, the people with better immune systems survived so we as a species evolved in a way with better immune systems. This disease was bad in the short run but good in the long run as it made Humans evolve to cope with this, better immune systems. Without this plague, I doubt that our technological success would be at the level it is these days.

Wonder Kahoot

Wonder Kahoot Quiz!!!!

Recently I finished the book Wonder and one of the can-do options we had was to make a Kahoot quiz about this book. Here is the link to it, try it out and tell me what you think.  <----- Click words for the link

One of the worlds worst war: WW2

World War Two

World war two is one of the worlds worst war so far, it involved all of the current major powers and resulted in the first and only nuclear weapons used in war. Casualties going over 75 million the war lasted 16 years with the final defeat of Japan. Here is a overveiw of some of the major events in the war. I am unable to cover all the little things as that would make this far to long.

The main axis powers:

The world war one treaty absolutely destroyed Germany they lost land had to get rid of the air force, demilitarize an area at the France border. Poland now separated part of Germany and their country had to pay money it didn't have. At this time the renamed Nazi party began to get a lot of support from the German population. They then won an election so Hitler the new leader of the party ran for leader of the country but was outvoted, he then demanded to be made chancellor which means he was basically 2nd in charge of the government. Later on, the current leader died and Hitler was made the leader of the country he then used his party to intimidate some people and to imprison all of the opposers so he could be voted in emergency powers. This worked. Meanwhile, Italy was part of the winner's side of the war however they didn't get what they thought they deserved, meanwhile a bad economy and struggling government resulted in the easy overthrow of Mussolini.

The two countries had a lot in common and became friend pretty quickly they both had mostly the same ideas. The next main ally they would get was Japan. Japan had isolated itself for many years until all of a sudden the Americans forced some unequal treaties on the Japanese so their economy was in ruin. They also had no natural resources so because of this they invaded China and took over Korea however the west basically told them to go away so they did since they couldn't go to war with the west. The west then set up spheres of influence in China since it was weakened which greatly annoyed the Japanese so they invaded the Russian area in China which was Korea and an area above it. They won. Then an incident that is speculated to be caused by the Japanese, a train blew up in their territory which gave them a reason to attack and take over more of chinas stuff they made their way through Beijing and reached Chinas current capital at that time Nanking.

The moments leading up to the start:
Now the axis nations prepared for war completely violating the treaty Germany had its air force operational conscription was added and the German army began to grow big once again. He then sent his troops into the demilitarized zone telling them to retreat if the allies showed up, they did nothing. Hitler then sent his troops into Austria, there was almost no resistance so now Austria was in German hands he then demanded land in Czechoslovakia, a place with many ethnic Germans. A meeting was held with Hitler and Mussolini were they let him take that land as long as he didn't invade the rest of Czechoslovakia. He, however, did take it. Mussolini then took over Abyssinia. Hitler now began to prepare to invade Poland to get rid of the hated polish corridor, the allies responded to this by saying that if he does attack Poland they would be forced to declare war. He made an alliance with Stalin so he didn't have to fight a war on multiple fronts.

The start

On September the 1st 1939 Germany Declared war on Poland 2 days later the allies declared war on Hitler. Poland was no match for both Russia and Germany attacking them at once so they lost and were split between Germany and Russia. Now a period known as the phony war began were no one really did anything. France had sent a small attack force into the Saar region but after a few days just decided to leave. Both the Uk and France didn't want a repeat of the first world war so they began to talk with Norway. Sweden was exporting iron ore through Norway so the allies tried to ask them to stop exporting iron ore. They refused. They then mined the coastal waters off Norway to force all transport ships into the allied water they also attacked a nearby German ship. Hitler now knowing what they were doing invaded Norway, the allies rushed troops into areas along the Norwegian coast, however, Germany now controlled Norway's airfields so their airforce decided to fight. This resulted in Norway being taken over after this battle Winston Churchill became Prime Minister.

The French invasion

The phony war gave Hitler the time he needed to prepare his army, the Allies talked to Belgium to station troops there to prevent Germany from getting a major advantage against France. You see Frane made a massive defensive line only covering their territory next to Germany not the Belgium area so they were afraid Hitler would attack Belgium to get around the defences of France. Belgium refused to let allied troops in them since they wanted to be neutral and then something happened. Something predictable. Hitler attack Belgium and the Netherlands. Once the allies heard of this they charged into Belgium to help however Hitler had a new trick up his sleeve. Blitzkrieg they started by sending thousands of refugees to slow the allies down. France had left an area known as the Arden filled with hills and forest hardly defender. They did this because they thought it was naturally impenetrable. However, Hitler thought otherwise he sent 3 divisions into the area and surrounded the allied forces. A lot of the allied forces were trapped in, completely surrounded almost all of them died. The English made a desperate last stand at dun Kerq. Civilian ships came to get the soldiers back to England and the English airforce did there best to delay the Germans. They managed to escape but now many of the French armies was dead so Germany easily took over the rest of France. He only occupied the coastal areas for defence but the rest of France and its colonies became a German puppet state.

The England Invasion

Hitler planned an invasion into Britain he decided to carry out air raids to make the invasion easier with ground troops. First of all, he would bomb the navy bases in the British Isles after these bombings the German air force would then target ARF (British air force) airbases. The ground invasion was about to begin and people in Britain said themselves that if they kept it up they would be taken over very soon. However, Winston Churchill organized a quick bombing run on Berlin it did hardly any damage, however, Hitler was beyond pissed. He made his air force target civilian targets in the British capital, this allowed the ARF to rebuild. Hitler sent a full out attack on the capital however the ARF was prepared and destroyed many German aircraft. Hitler's invasion was stopped, for now, however, they continued to bomb British cities.

The Winter war
Just before the invasion of Norway, the Soviet Union declared war on Finland since they believe Germany might use Finland to take out a key Soviet city. This war turned out to be an embarrassment as the Soviets would have completely failed against the small country if not for Finland's size. The Fins killed many Soviets and a single sniper killed an entire squadron by himself. However, they did eventually force the Fins to go for peace. They then began pushing around states near the German border annexing them.

The African battles

Some colonies in France decided they would not join the Germans and began a free France movement aiding the British in Africa and later the French liberation. They toke Kabul after it didn't join their movement than with the British they attempted to take over the port city of Drakar. Mussolini has seen Hitler's success and thought it was now his time. He took over British Somaliland that went well. He then tried to take Egypt, that went less well and then he tried to take Greece, that went really bad. Churchill began to refer to him as Europe's soft underbelly. Churchill began to plan an invasion from the south going up through Italy so he sent troops to Greece, Hitler got worried because Mussolini was being really stupid so he made Hungary join the Axis, Romania also joined to be safe from Russia. After a meeting with Churchill America began to supply the allies with supplies. Germany began to sink these trade ships so Britain would starve during this period scientists and engineers worked hard to improve there capabilities against the German u boats. 

Some more African battles
Churchill then pushed Italy out of Egypt, it was pretty easy so they kept going Hitler then stepped in. He began to reinforce the Italian areas with some of his forces than with the reinforcements they took over Greece. He then went to Yugoslavia and Bulgaria and tell them to join him or be invaded. Bulgaria decided to join them however Yugoslavia decided to be invaded. Now Greece finally fell. Because of British sending troops to Greece Italy and Germany pushed the British back and they could have kept going, however, an almost completely Australian force held out in a crucial port city for months denying the Germans a key point and disrupting their supply lines. The British had some success in the middle east but Hitler thought they were no threat.

Suprise invasion

Hitler launched the biggest ground invasion in all history and the Soviet Union were far from ready, Hitler made staggering progress capturing thousands of troops with encircling movements. The Soviets were doing really bad since recently Stalin was removing smart officers that he feared would overthrow him this left weak officers in charge of the armies. 250,000 Soviets captured at Bialystok-Minsk, 300,000 at Smolensk, around 700,00 at Kiev and 660,000 at Vyazma - Bryansk. Because of the invasion of Finland, the Fins let Germany go through them and allied with them. They then began to take back lost territory and sieged Leningrad (the city the Soviets were trying to protect with the winter war) for 4 years! Many people in Russia suffered from the occupying Germans is was extremely brutal for them. The Germans then reached Moscow the Russian capital but then it happened. The Russian winter swept in. Hitler didn't let his troops dig in so they were pushed back by the specially trained Russian snow troops until they dug in for Winter.

The Japanese
The Japanese were eager to begin more conquest to get more resources so they began to spread through the Pacific however much of the Pacific was colonized by the Americans and British and it was filled with water. There was a way the Japanese could stand against the American navy so they decided to destroy it before it was a worry. They attacked the American navy base, Pearl Harbour and destroyed a lot of ships however they didn't target the repair bays, fuel storage tanks or the navy base so the American navy would be up again pretty soon. However, meanwhile, the Japanese began their conquest taking many Asian countries such as Hong Kong, the Philippines and many American/British colonies. They got to the point where they were able to bomb northern Australia. The main reason why the Axis gained so much territory was surprised however that advantage was about to leave them as the Americans neared completion of their nuclear weapons. 

Germanys advance on Russia
Winter was finally over so Hitler began pushing further into Russia and it went pretty easy. His new plan was to capture the Caucasus an area filled with massive amounts of oil. He began to push through Russia up to that point and was close to taking it however he made a vital mistake. He redirected a massive amount of troops leaving one division to take a key city called Stalingrad. It toe months of fighting and Germany didn't make to much progress but then massive Russian reinforcements came. Russia had to move a lot of their factories at the start of the war but now they had enough tanks and airforce to give a counterattack. They began pushing back Germany.

The Allies advance
American had been attempting to supply Britain with food and ammunition before they were put into the war by Japan, however, German U boats and other German ships sunk many of these trading ships. When American got involved in the war Germany suffered heavy bombing many people died during this. The allies were ready to push into France and Germany however they both had different ideas on how to do it. Britain wanted to attack through Italy while American wanted to do a full-scale attack through England. Going through Italy was the plan that went ahead first. They began their invasion on September the 3rd 1943. It went really well mainly because the Italians just didn't want war any more many soldiers had relatives in the American army so they greeted them. Mussolini was voted out and Italy surrendered Hitler then ordered all Italian troops to be disarmed in an operation he called operation Axis. Germany kept getting pushed back until winter was the war went into a standstill. 

Dday 

The Italian campaign was at a standstill because of winter so Britain decided to do the Americas plan as well. On the 6th of June 1944, the invasion began. Allied forces were dropped in key locations to stop German reinforcements however many died. The next day the artillery strike came as the Allies heavily bombed the German defences. Then came the landings the Americans at Utah and Omaha and the British and Canadians at gold, Juno and sword beach. The Allies pushed in and a few weeks later British and African free France troops landed in southern France. France was liberated and now Allied forces pushed into Germany.

Japan gets pushed back
Japan now was receiving many losses as America's navy kept pushing them further and further back they received massive losses and were pushed right back. The Japanese fought fiercely doing whatever they could to halt the invasion. They flew planes into American boats and would use inhuman tactics. This was because they believed the best thing you could do was die in battle and the worst was to retreat.

Germany and Japan fall
Germany was now being invaded by all sides and it couldn't hold out for long Hitler had one last attempt to keep them alive. He decided to attempt another Blitzkrieg, however, this failed he created a bulge but this used up all of Germany remaining strength. Once America and Britain destroyed the bulge Hitler realised his defeat. The allies pushed in from all sides and once the Soviets got into Berlin Hitler suicided in his bunker with one of his commanders. Japan was now getting firebombed however American didn't want the war to last much longer so they decided to use their most recently designed weapons of mass destruction. The first and only nuclear bombs used in war were dropped. On the 6th of August 1945, the first bomb fell on Hiroshima. On the 9th the other one fell onto Nagasaki. Many civilians died in this but Japan surrendered world war 2 was over.

The Animal Kingdom Vertebrates

The Animal Kingdom

We have started our new topic in Science it is called Ecology. We just finished a topic, waves, and energy but we had no blog posts for it. For our first thing we are doing Animal Kingdoms so here it is.

Vertebrates:

Vertebrates are Animals with backbones. Humans are vertebrates because we contain backbones.

Fish:

Features: Fish live in water and are able to survive in this condition by breathing through gills. They are generally covered in slimy skin and produce eggs for their offspring. They are cold blooded and generally have bony spines. A few examples of these are Blobfish, Snapper, Salmon and even a Shark.

Amphibian

Amphibian generally have moist skin and lay eggs in water for their babies to hatch from. Normally they begin as fish like things but after a while, they generally grow legs and can swim as well as walk on land. Normally the adult's breath through lungs instead of gills like the younger ones does like fish they are cold blooded. Frogs are a perfect example of Amphibian. Turtles are another good example of these.

 Reptiles

Reptiles have dry scaly skin and lay eggs. They breathe with lungs and are cold blooded. Fun fact the Tuatara which is a reptile is believed to have survived the Dinosaur extinction. They are completely land-based and don't really use the water at all besides to hydrate themselves. Examples of these are Tuatara and Chameleons. 

Bird

Birds are covered in fur and lay eggs with hard shells. They also have wings but some of them cannot use them to fly. They breathe through lungs like most non-water animals and are warm-blooded. Birds do not have to have the ability to fly to be considered birds this is the case for Kiwis, Emus and many other animals. Seagulls are an example of flying birds.

Mammals
Mammals are warm-blooded creatures that are covered in humus/hair or fur. When really young they feed of milk usually provided by their mum and breathe through lungs. Humans, which is what we are if you didn't know because of your not the brightest people. Humans are a perfect example of Mammals. Here is a perfect example of a mammal. Be careful because he may bite you.
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Mystical creatures

<Mystial Mammal

Wonder: The ending

Wonder: The ending

Explain August’s fears of going on school retreat/camp, were they justified?

In the past, he has had trouble sleeping in other places. This is most likely because his parents were a bit too protective of him early on making that happen.

Compare Eddie and Julian. How are they similar/ different. How do their interactions with August reveal their character?

They both act as if August is a monster and treat him like ****. Ths is shown by how they talk to each other Eddie calls August an Orc and all that while Julian does the same except he does it more behind August's back.

Explain how August's relationship with his classmates has changed since he first started going to Beecher Prep, give explains

At first many of them were scared of him and never talked to him now almost all of them are talking to him even protecting him from fights.

Describe how August has shown greatness during his year at Beecher Prep? Do you think he deserves the medal? Why?

He has maintained his grades while dealing with almost no friends. He has dealt with people actively trying to make his life terrible and even someone attacking him. He does probably deserve it because of all he's been through this year and the fact he's still going.

Compare the character of Auggie at the beginning of the book and in the final chapters. How has he changed and what has contributed to this change?

He has gone from a more scared attached to his parent's child to a more grown-up person for his age. He knows can be independent and has mad many friends. Situations he has been put in like the Jack one has helped this change.

Describe your favourite character in the story. Explain their impact on the story and why you picked them.

Jack is a great friend the whole time. He is shown to not be a 1-dimensional character but a 3-dimensional one. For example, you see him try to cope with being August's friend while having to deal with Julian and the rest of the school now thinking he is a freak.

This story explores the themes of; Friendship, Betrayal, Overcoming Challenges, Bullying and Family Relationships. Create a brainstorm web for each of these themes that shows what the story has told for each theme.

What do you think Auggie's future holds? What do you think will happen in his life?

His future will have difficult bits but in the end, if he manages to keep his current friendships and skills he has learnt he will likely be fine.