A post from James...

In Twilight, how are Stephanie Meyer’s vampires different than the traditional vampire found in literature by writers like Bram Stoker?

The story of Twilight is different to the old style Dracula story because of the relationships between the vampires and the normal human characters. With Twilight, people have grown less scared of vampires from before in the early 20th century vampire story of Dracula. Edward Cullen, the main character vampire in Twilight, is seen as more of a lovable character rather than the scary frightening character of Dracula. The story of Twilight is more of a romance story than being a horror story that have involved vampire in the past. It may be that people have start to see vampires as less frighting fictional characters or that the story has changed and their harmful nature of the vampire has transformed into a love story.

By James Lawton.

A post from Daniel...

Hi I’m Daniel McGeoch and this term we have been reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula it is a very interesting book made back in 1897 the novel is influenced by folk stile stories. The novel was controversial for it’s time because themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, post colonialism and folklore. The book was made into a very successful movie made in 1931 directed by Tod Browing and staring Bela Lugosi. The movie was considered the scariest movie ever made but now day is considered giant flop special effects wise, I mean they had a stupid flashlight on Dracula’s face to add a glowing feel to his eyes. The book was and is a great timeless classic.

By Daniel McGeoch

A post from Je'verta

In Twilight, what do you think about Edward and Belle’s relationship? Is it realistic? Why or why not?

When I was reading the novel Twilight I noticed that Edward and Bella’s relationship was not like the kinds we have today. Where women are more self dependent and don’t always need the help of another man. Bella is more of an obsessive character towards Edward; dreaming about him, clinging too him. Their relationship based on both of them trying to figure each other out, rather than the normal becoming “in love at the first sight” and “being everything they’d ever dreamed of”. They have their different views of things being the way they attract to each other. But they find it harder to express how they feel under harder circumstances. It’s good how they have built on their relationship without much experience on both sides.

A post from Michael...

Hi its Michael again, today I’m talking about the book of Dracula. Dracula the novel is a horror fiction, gothic novel that was produced on May 1897 and is 528 pages long. The novel is about a young intelligent man called Jonathon Harker who is an English solicitor and travels to a castle Transylvania called castle Dracula. Jonathon has to visit castle Dracula to sign a house in England over to Count Dracula when Jonathon arrives he meets the count to sign the papers for the house but he is under the counts commands and has to stay to teach the count the fluent English language. The count is tall, pale faced, wears a cape, has big teeth, and talks very angrily or aggressive. Read the book to find out if Jonathon survives

By Michael
(Year 10)

A post from Joshua...

In Twilight All of the Cullen’s seem to have special abilities/powers. What would your special ability be if you were a vampire?

If I was a Cullen the special abilities I would have would be super strength, super speed, never be able to die, invincibility, not be able to kill my family, also if I was a vampire I would like to be able to control my thirst for blood, have any eye colour I would like to have in the world, transform into anything in the world I would like to transform into, to be able to eat anything I would like to and still be the person that I would be in Twilight and also be the best at Parkour J

This blog post was made by Joshua Gardner

A post from Cian...

I like Bella because she is a good actor and the way she plays the person on Twilight. I might see it I do not know. Bella kinda sucked and I think that Edward is a good character for the movie and the part that he plays is good. I don’t like the movie but I watch lots of movies so yeah I probably will see the New Moon the second movie of Twilight. I don’t like Twilight because I don’t like love story movies like this one.

The end

A post from Brad...

In Twilight All of the Cullen’s seem to have special abilities/ powers. What would your special ability be if you were a vampire?

If I was a vampire my ability would be the same as Edwards. I could run extremely fast and have massive strength. I would be able to climb up objects with ease and glide long distances or have thermal and night vision or if possible be able to teleport me and any object with me to a place when I think of it or even with a photo of the place. I would also like to control my thirst for blood so I wouldn’t harm anyone I care about or to transfer my thirst for blood and change it to any other form of liquid.

Brad

A post from Ashlee...

Heyya i’m Ashlee (Awesomeness) Selleck. I am in year 10 :D. It is a wicked ass class, we have fun and do awesome work! We are now doing a play on Dracula! It’s about Jonathon who has to stay at Draculas house, and he tries to eat him, but we stop him, the end :D. I have a pretty good part (Arthur) :P, The main charters are Daniel (Dracula). Matt (Jonathon) He isn’t very good though!! Our class is very noisy and we are pretty crazy at times! I don’t know how he can handle us! We have been reading the Twilight book also. Over all my favourite part of the class is doing the play! It’s hard when you have a class next door who are babies and can’t handle some NOISE!!! But Jayden takes care of them ;) Some people take this play way to seriously (Matthew Davis)(Jayden Hickey), they say I have anger issues, but they make me angry :D, they are so mean :( But over all this is my favourite class :D love Ash xx

A post from Ashley...

In Twilight all of the Cullen’s seem to have special abilities/powers. What would your special ability/power be if you were a vampire?

If I was a vampire I would have the ability of cat like reflexes so when I do parkour I would land on my feet, I could also be really fast. There are other abilities if we could have any power I wouldn’t mind having laser eyes because that would be cool mine wouldn’t be red like usual though mine would be brown and blue if I had laser eyes. There are more fun abilities like super speed, and transformation. If I had transformation I would transform into a wolf, also a shape shifter would be fun, if I was a shape shifter I would transform into anything, mainly a wolf or something though, also to teleport. Another good power would be to control time or control other beings or inanimate objects.

Tis Ashley Cook

A post from Aimee

This term we have been doing a lot of different things to do with fiction characters .We have been focusing on Dracula a fair bit. We have read the book, and we are now doing the play. In the play its about a man who has to go to Draculas castle and help him learn English, but it all goes wrong and Dracula bites several people but in the end it all goes alright and he dies. Everybody is participating and getting into their characters well. People are getting more confident and the play is coming along pretty good. We also had to read the book Twilight, Twilight and Dracula are very different even though they are both about vampires. Aimee x x

A post from Chantel...

Q. Do you like the Twilight character Bella?

No, I do not like Bella the character because she is too clumsy and not realistic. The character needs to be more realistic with the lines, not too fake and make it as if it was real and what people would actually do in real life, to make her character better. In the book she is not as bad as in the movie because her lines are a little different and not as bad. Her relationship with Edward is weird because you wouldn’t think that a normal human would give up her normal life to become a vampire to be with one. She confuses me because she changes her mind so much it does not make sense to the story.

By Chantel Williams

In the future - Mario

In the future I would like to make a console for games where you can use your whole body in the game.I would like to travel around the world.Have my own business so I can sell stuff this made out of wood.Design my own house on a big hill so I can see the sea. And a car where it can fly like a plane in the air.

Make my own lighter holders for lighters.

Be the mayor of Bunbury.

I want to be a millionaire so I can help the poor people.

Mario

In the future - James

In the future I will like to be a game maker so I can make a lot of games. Then I will sell them in the shops so I can make a lot of money.I will make a game that is good so people can like it.

If that does not work I will try to be a surveyor which is a guy that measures the road. So that’s want I what to be when I leave school.

Here are some pictures of what I want to be.

This is a game that people make so people can play it but its still being worked on.
I would like to make a game like world of war craft.

James

A post from Aimee...

Hey everyone my name is Aimee (: Im in Mr Excell’s class. We have been learning about pop culture. It has been pretty interesting learning about all the different aspects of pop culture. We have also been looking at celebrities. We watched the movie Step Up 2 to see how things from today’s world have changed since back in the olden days. We have also been watching music videos which were pretty good. After we learned many different aspects of music we had a chance to write our own songs. It was pretty hard but he helped a lot by showing us different techniques to write them. Its good being in this class and thanks Mr Excell (:See yah Lovee Aimee Lee White
x x

A post from Michael...

Hey I’m Michael (Year10) and I’m in Mr Excell’s English class for 2009. Mr Excell has risen to the challenge of controlling the class while having fun. Over the last term we have leant about pop culture, quotes, music videos, fads, publishing album, influential people, camera angles and genres. I enjoying working on project album making which requires us to create an album, create our song, and make our own record company own logo. Mr. Excell’s is a great teacher with a funny sense of humour and a kind happy cheerful personality. We have enjoyed Mr Excell’s class and his attitude towards our class this term has been a blast and I hope next term will be the same. I hope that if you ever have Mr Excell as a teacher, you will experience the same happiness I have.

A post from Kiara...

Hey man, its Kiara Lynch! (Year 10) In this boss teacher’s class {Mr Excell}, we have been learning about pop culture, it has been a great pleasure studying things about songs, their meaning and different interpretations the songs. Our class is awesome to be with, because we have different opinions about every topic that comes up. We have also been learning about inspirations and idols that many famous people have, just to see how they have grown up and lived their lives and how they have become an idol. One particular day, we went around the school taking pictures of different angles and views. Lately we have been researching songs that have a teenage issue in them and one of the main challenges has been writing a teenage issue song with our own wicked minds.

A post from Caitlyn...

Dear people that are reading this,
My name is Caitlin (CJ) (Year 9) and I am 14 years old. I have a 9 week old newborn sister (Hope). I like English because it is fun with Mr Excell. He is our second teacher for this year. Before we had Miss Stapleton but she had to do a program, so we swapped. We get to watch movies, make masks and draw posters of superheroes. We have been studying superheroes for this term. We have been watching movies like Power Rangers and The Incredibles. These movies are PG rated because we are too young to watch M rated movies. We are now creating a superhero and making it into a TV show. I hope you like my superhero because it may be coming to your screens soon!! ! ! ! :) talk to u later.

A post from Holly...

Hi my name is Holly Bennell and I am a student at Newton Moore Senior High School. In Mr Excell’s class we have been studying and learning about Super heroes and gender stereo types. It has been really fun, because at the moment we are drawing our own super heroes. Taylor (bffl) and I are drawing the same super hero; she is the best friend anyone could ever have, lol. Mr Excell is the best teacher; he is so nice and funny. It must really suck for all the people who don’t have Mr Excell as a teacher. I love school because I get to be with friends and learn about new things that I may not know already. I know I will enjoy the rest of this year being in Mr Excell’s class, and for all the other kids that don’t have Mr Excell then… [Mr. Excell had to edit this part just in case any children are reading!]

Hahahahahaha
Ily <3
Love Holly :D
(Year 9)

A post from Tiana

Hi everyone my name is Tiana Taylor and I am a student at Newton Moore. In Mr Excell’s class we have learnt about stereotypes and heroes, we are now doing a cartoon character for a new show on Nickelodeon. I really enjoy this class because most of my mates are in my class. I am really enjoy studying heroes it is more fun than reading (I hate reading). Mr Excell is the best teacher at Newton Moore even though he doesn’t let us play with our phones in class he is still cool.

Love from Tiana Taylor (Year 9)
XoXoX
HOPE YOU ENJOY REDING ILY

A post from Cheyanne

I am in Mr Excell’s year 9 English class. We’ve been learning about superheroes and stereotypes. In class, we are creating our own superhero and making a TV show about them. Mr Excell’s class is awesome because we draw pictures and watch movies. Plus we also get to listen to music that we bring in instead of [EDIT] stuff like ABBA. We have heaps of fun and not do much work but somehow we still are learning along the way. I hope your English class is as fun as ours. If not, bad luck!!

Bye xoxo (:

C.J-T
(Year 9)

A post from Allysha...

Hey, I’m Allysha, I’m 13 and am very outgoing. I am a yr8 student in Mr. X’s English class 09. We have a lot of fun and learn at the same time. Our main focus has been magazines. Courtney and I were in charge of the sealed section. You can find these in Girlfriend and Dolly mag’s. It was cool. The thing I mostly enjoyed about being in this class was all the games and fun we all had. Mr. X really made learning fun. <3<3<3 xxxx xoxo

A post from Courtney...

This term in English, we have had Mr. Ex as our teacher, he has been great :). Recently we have been studying magazines and we have been able to make our own as a class. The subject I was given was ‘friends and body’, this has been really good because I was able to work with my friends. Yes, it was a little hard because we had to come up with things very quickly. My end result turned out good because I came up with some good advice from scratch, with a little help from my partner Allysha Mounsey. I think that this was a great experience for the class, because during this time we have started bonding with each other. It’s been a privilege to be able to have Mr. Ex as my English teacher this term, I have really enjoyed everything we have done
Courtney Ugle x
(Year 8)

A post from Matt F...

Hey blogger, its Matt (Year 8) here from Mr Excells yr 8 English class. I would just like to tell you what our class has done this last semester. We have been working on magazines and cover pages on the magazine page that we are making my page was on body boarding product reviews I’ve had the best time ever in Mr X’s English class he’s so nice he lets us kick the footy some times or pump some tunes on the laptop, we also have word sleuth comps I never win but its still fun. That’s why this class is the ‘kingiest’ class ever.

A post from Ollie...

This term was a really awesome term in English it has been really fun having Mr Excell as a teacher, we have all learnt heaps from him and I am sure he has learnt a few things to ( good / not good ).
We have been doing a lot this term including;
- Making a magazine.
- Doing lots of activities
- and more about magazines.

So it really has been fun.
Thanks Ollie
(Year 8)

A post from Sallie...

Mr Ex’s class has been learning about magazines, their covers and what is in the magazine. We also made our own magazine as a class and everyone had to put in two pages of whatever they selected. We made a book up of word searches. We have been playing a spelling game every day. I have enjoyed this topic alot, my favourite part would have been making my two pages.

Sallie
(Year 8)

A post from Wes...

Hey blogger, it’s your pal Wes (Year 8) here. I would just like to tell you what classroom ‘G7’ have been doing over the past semester. The things we have done include studying magazines, looking at different magazines, designing our own magazines and much more.
It has been real fun especially with our home dog, Mr Excell. He is the ‘bestest’ teacher, he’s fun to be around with, very kind, smart and the thing I like about him the most is that he’s more like your friend than a teacher.
I love English and the things we do in it, I hope we do more fun things like this in the near future (:

A post from Richard...

The thing I liked in Mr Excell’s class was when we got to go and make our own two magazine pages on what we wanted to do. I chose Myspace and Top Music Charts in Australia. The number 1 was ‘I Gotta Feelin’ by The Black Eyed Peas. There’s two more I like to do. The spelling game, when 1 person goes into the middle of a circle of people and call out words to spell. Say I said say spell three, 1 person would say ‘t’ and it would just keep going around until someone gets a letter wrong or when the word is finished. And another one I liked was when we got to make some word sleuths but we could only use words out of the magazines, like the title.
Richard
(Year 8)

What we like about school...

What I like about school by James (Year 9)
I like sport and playing soccer.
I like working with my friends.
I like going to class.
I like doing work.
I like starting a new day.
I like going home at the end of the day.
I like going to lunch.
I like walking to school.
I like going on the computer.
I like watching movies.

What I like doing at School
I like school because I see my friends.
I learn new things at school.
I like reading books
I like going home at the end of the day.
I like going on the computer.
I like eating at lunch
Denardo Fisher(Year 9)

What I like about School – by Kiarna (Year 9)
Getting to see all of my friends
Meet more people
Lunch and recess because I get to eat
Nice teachers
Lots of camps

My favourite things I like to do at school are…
Talking to my friends during work.
I like to play sports, they are soccer, cricket, basketball and indoor soccer.
I like to go on field trips in Marine Studies.
I like to play hand ball with my friends at lunch and recess.
I like to eat at recess and lunch because I always have a lot of food.
Mario Broddesson (Year 9)

What I like about school...
I like school because I get to see my friends.
I like photography and English but I only like English because we have Mr Xl now.
I go to school so I can learn thing so I can get a job and because my Mum says that I have to.
I like recess and lunch because I get to eat.
I don’t like photo day.
By Summer (Year 9)

The best thing about being at school… by Kaitlin (Year 9)
I like being at school because I have a good teacher for English.
Cool friends around Newton Moore Senior High School.
I like my English class because they are sharing and caring people
I like sport and the teacher and the people in my class
I like recess and lunch

A post from Matthew...

Hey, I’m Matt Davis (Year 10). And I am in Mr X’s year 10 English class 09. He has been our English teacher for only 1 term so far, and I think he has taken upon himself the challenge of teaching our class, full of distraction, misfits and people with anger management problems (Ashlee Selleck). Mr X has picked pop culture as our topic this term in an attempt to keep our easily distracted class amused. This term I have learnt about camera angles, as Mr X sent us on an adventure to take photos of a whole bunch of different angles, as my group climbed fences and threw bin lids around the oval to get the required photos. This term has been very fun and I am looking forward to next term.

A post from Daniel...

This term in Mr Excell’s year 8 English class our topic is magazines. We made a magazine called ‘8OH!9’. Each person in the class made two pages each to go in the magazine I made the national sports and a jokes page. Before we made our pages we read lots of magazines to see how they are made to look in the real magazines. This term we played games and had lots of fun.

By Daniel Curtis
(Year 8)