Tag: Reading

How life has changed for women in NZ

For literacy this week, my class learned about how life for women in New Zealand has changed a lot since 1870. We made a Venn diagram to compare the past and now. In 1870, women mostly stayed at home, didn’t have many rights, and couldn’t vote or work many jobs. Today, women can choose almost any job, vote, go to school, and have laws that protect their rights. Even though things have changed, women have always been important to their families and communities. It was cool to see how much things have improved and to think about how women’s lives keep getting better.

Waltzing Matilda Poem

For this task, we created a DLO about a poem, Waltzing Matilda. The paragraph represents the events that happened in the poem of Waltzing Matilda. For the full story, there was a swagman located in the billabong, he steals a sheep and was caught by the troopers. But when he was cornered, he made a decision to drown in the lake because he knew the outcome if he were to be put in jail, as poverty was inside there.

 

Shearers Strike

This week, for reading, we were set on a task. In our reading groups, We read a story about Shearers Strike, After we answered all the questions, We got to make our own opinion based of what we read, We made a perspective A perspective B and our own Opinion. In the story the shearers workers boss was not paying them enough money from the job, to feed themselves and their familys, So some workers quit, and they told other workers to stop working, and they stopped. But some had to go back to work, they still needed the money.

 

Malala Yousafazi

LI: To analyse how Malala uses her personal story and persuasive language to achieve her purpose.

 This week for reading LS2 has been learning about Malala Yousafzai who is a Pakistani education activist and when she only 16 when she gave her powerful speech to the UN(United Nations). She fought for education and equality rights for everyone but mostly girls, when she went on the bus to school she got shot by the Taliban in the left side of her face thinking it would silence her. But she only came back stronger and because that happened, that’s when she realized that girls and many other people have the problem of not being able to go to school, so she fought. She fought for everyone to have the luxury of going to school and learn many things. Her story is very important and she should be more well known. So my reading group and I created a poster that shows people one of her famous quotes, the quote we chose was “One child, one Teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” because we all thought it was a very powerful quote in our opinions. Something I found fun and interesting was that how I learnt about Malala and how she was very inspiring.

RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation.

We read the text RISE Up. The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers and created a DLO that explains both sides of perspectives and historical events. Something I found interesting about this text was how we mentioned about past, present and future.

 

Once a Panther

LI: To identify the key historical context and events related to the Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids as depicted in the graphic novel.

This week our group read the text Once a Panther and asked to create a comic strip that represents a sce ne thats related  prejudice and justice. For this comic strip, my group suggested an idea that goes to be an older man and another member from the Polynesian Panthers having a conversation between justice and prejudice. Sharing our thinking is very important, and that is how this comic strip ended up this way, alongside the chatting bubbles and the people. Something I found interesting about this challenge was how we could make our own graphic novels, that was fun to do.

Shameful stain on NZ history’: Polynesian Panthers push for dawn raids apology

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation

For Reading, we read a text called ‘Shameful stain on NZ history’: Polynesian Panthers push for dawn raids apology and we were challenged to create a DLO about a provocation about “Should the Goverment of today (2021) have apologised for the dawn raids of yesterday (970s)? Me and Cattaleya was using our smart searching about the Polynesian Panthers and dawn raids and used our own opinions about why they should apologies and why not. I enjoyed doing this acitivty because we get to learn about what happened in the past and what happened in New Zealand.

Mt Vesuvius Cinquain Poem

LI: To discuss the impact of volcanoes on the environment and human communities.

We have been exploring cinquain poems. A conquain poem. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun. We used our poem to show our understanding of volcanoes. Something I found interesting about this was that we can make a unqie story just by using some of these powerful words.

Matariki

LI: Identify Matariki as the Māori New Year and explain its cultural importance.

To explore Matariki we worked collaboratively to complete a series of challenges. 

Something I learnt about Matariki was that it is a time for people to come together as one big whanua, It is a time to remember the people who have lost their lives and about making your wishes apon Hiwa-Te-Rangi, which is the youngest star that represents wishes and aspirations. My favourite challenge was to create a star that symbolises the Matariki cluster because it shows my creativity.