Level 2: Determination [HEP]

Welcome to your page on Determination

A quick way to find out more about a reaching a goal or people who have worked with determination towards a goal is to do an internet search but remember to think critically about which websites you use. For example, the Te Ara website is probably more reliable than Wikipedia. Wikipedia has great coverage of many topics, including the topics below, but you need to be aware that this information is contributed to by lots of different people. If you are using this site, it always pays to check the information against that on other sites or in books from the library.

Using a clustering search engine (such as Carrot2) or a pre-checked search engine (such as SweetSearch) rather than relying on a 'JGI' (Just Google It) approach is a more time effective strategy. You will still need to assess the websites you find for suitability - assess your sites using the CRAP test. :)

Click here for a link to the Radio NZ programme featuring
Li Cunxin

Li Cunxin, best known for his autobiography 'Mao's Last Dancer', which also became a feature film, will tour New Zealand as part of the Asia New Zealand Foundation's 20th Anniversary celebrations. While he is here he will speak in Auckland and Christchurch to hundreds of secondary school children, and the dance and literary community. In Wellington, he will lead a private master class in classical ballet at the New Zealand School of Dance. Li talks to Wallace about his amazing life story - from rural poverty in China to dancing on stages around the world. He is now the artistic director of the Queensland Ballet.

Click here for a link to the Radio NZ programme featuring
Sophie Pascoe

Sophie Pascoe, winner of 10 Paralympic medals, talks about the battles she's fought in and out of the pool, and the legacy she would like to create for other disabled athletes. It's all in her new book 'Stroke of Fate'.

An example of real life determination from
Nick Talbot ...

Here are some tools to help you search for information for your topic:

Carrot2

Click above to use this clustering search engine using the keywords you have chosen

Encyclopaedia Britannica
[+ other databases]

Click above to use this Encyclopaedia using the keywords you have chosen

*** Please ask a teacher or librarian to help you with the username
and password for this site ***

Te Ara Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

Click above to use this NZ Encyclopaedia using the keywords you have chosen

World Book Advanced