Rest in peace, all those that died during the war! By Julius

World War 1 started in 1915 when Germany wanted to take over the world but other countries wanted peace and that’s how World War 1 started.

Germany declared war on the British government. New Zealand was part of the British empire, so they joined forces with New Zealand, Russia, Australia and France. A total of 30 countries were involved in the war.

Life in the trenches was hard as the British and France recruited manpower from China to support the troops with manual labour. Their main objective was digging the trenches before the main attack. More than 140,000 labourers from China helped to dig the trenches for the allies in the Western front.

Powers on one side and central powers on the other, the war went on from the 28th of July 1914 until 11th of November 1918. Between the allies and the central powers of Germany, the war ended on the 11th of November 1918 when the allies won and the rest, as we all say, is history.

WALT use the structure of a report.

Success criteria: I know this when I write the title, followed by the details and then the conclusion.  

Chromebooks or books? By Cameron

A Chromebook is a laptop running Chrome OS as its operating system.

The owner of chromebook is Google and it was produced on June the 15th in 2011. The first two available chromebooks, the Samsung Series 5 and the Acer AC700 were unveiled on May, 2011, at Google I/O developer conference. It began shipping on June 15, 2011. Lenovo company, Hewlett Packard company and Google itself entered the market in early 2013.

Chromebook are particularly designed for use while connected to the Internet. Users are able to access Google applications such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Keep and Google Drive in offline mode. Chromebooks also come with built in local music player , a photo editor and Microsoft Office document. Other apps with offline support include Amazon’s Cloud Reader, The New Yorks times app and Angry Birds.

On November 21, 2011, Google announced price on all Chromebooks Since then, the Wi-Fi only Samsung series 5 reduced to $349, the 3G Samsung Series 5 reduced to $449 and the Acer AC700 was reduced to $299. By January 2012, commercial sales for Chromebooks were flat. Google had placed nearly 27,000 Chromebooks in schools across 41 countries including New Zealand.

Chromebooks are good for kids to learn. However it is a tool and it is not for playing games and do other silly stuff on it.

WALT write a report using the correct structure.

I know this when I write the topic, followed by the details and then the conclusion in my report.