Reflection Section - Week 4

26.2.2021

 Text title: A game of cards

Text type: Story

Text creator: Witi Ihimaera

Text purpose: Fictional story 

We read this story called a game of cards in Wanaga on Tuesday. It was about this lady playing cards with her closest friends until she was on her death bed. Like she always played with her friends and one of her friends in specific were as competitive as her, and the night  she passed away she wanted to play one last game of cards with her most competitive friend.

Who would be most likely to read this type of story and why? Maybe younger kids/anyone who wants a short story so they can read but also not be there for hours.

Slavery - Social studies

In social studies we learned all about the slave trade triangle  and how music helped then through that difficult time. We had to map out our work on this site called my maps and we also had to research about one specific song that has a meaning to the slaves.

Slaves used music to get through the horrible lives the living and how poorly the treated.

Harriet Tubman was a woman born into slavery and she got sick of being in-slaved and wanted to get freedom, she  helped around 70 people to get out of the states in America that in slaved people.

We had to pick a spiritual song and write about the significance it has about slavery, I chose ´wade in the water´ The slaves that Harriet Tubman helped get to freedom had to go through the water in secret so their owners would not figure out and so they would not get punished. 

It is still significant today because black people are still fighting for their right which any human should have, and the states in America which were the slave states are still the most racist today.

Parihaka - Social Studies

 In social studies we learned all about Parihaka, what happened, the meaning and what music means now looking back on what happened.

We had to answer questions about this song by Tim Finn call Parihaka.

What is the main message of this song? To tell people about the significance of Parihaka and tell everyone that Te Whiti never gave up.

What line explains their passive resistance method? His children's children wearing the white plume

What does ´you cant pull out our roots´ refer to? Like we will always come from there and our roots will always be the same.

Give evidence of their determination? Like even after being in prison for up to 2 years they still went back peaceful.

How does this song show the significance of Parihaka? It mentions how Te whiti never stopped fighting and how he will never be defeated.

What makes a event significant? If a lot of people were harmed, or if a lot of people remember it.

How many people were affected? Around 1600

To what extent are people affected? I mean it affected people so much that they even apologised in 2017 when it happened in 1881.

The song if you wanted to listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8el8LiY2XI

Similes and metaphors

 What is a simile? A simile is where you compare something using the words like or as because they are similar to the subject.

What is a metaphor? It making a comparison but making it less softer if that makes sense. For example saying life is like a box of chocolates, a metaphor is saying life is a block of chocolates.

Examples of a simile: We are laughing as hard as rocks about what happened, life is like a box of chocolates

Examples of a metaphor: He is a star, snow is a big white blanket o the surface.

Reflection section

 19.2.2021

Text title: Butterflies

Text type: Short story

Text creator: Patricia Grace

Text purpose: Do not know

In wanaga we read this short story about this girl and at school she wrote a story about butterflies and she thought that butterflies should get killed. But her teacher told her they are beautiful creatures and she did not agree with her teacher and when she got home she told her grandparents. When she was talking to them they also agreed that her story was true because they grow there own vegetables and fruit and butterflies get annoying. Then they realised the teacher probably does not grow her own food.

What does the author of this text want us to know?Probably even if animals and creatures are pretty they can also get annoying.

Critical Litrecy

 The treaty of waitangi what really happened directed by Peter Burger is about the signing of one of our finding documents, it is a dramatisation leading up to and signing the treaty. We know this through the chiefs arguing, discussing  and eventually signing the treaty based of history. We also know through the films title and voice over. 

The Treaty of Waitangi What Really Happened

 12.2.2021

The title: The Treaty of Waitangi What Really Happened

Text type: Film

Text creator: Peter Burger

Text purpose: To show every one what happened and understand more about Waitangi.

In class we watched a video on how the Maori people and British people came up with the treaty and agreed on signing it. Before the treaty everyone was trading, losing stuff and not having a great time so the British came up with the idea to make a treaty in English and Maori so everyone can read it. It took quite a bit of hard work and everyone speaking their part, some chiefs of New Zealand did not want to sign it and felt like their rights were being taken away but some thought it would bring peace. So in the end more chiefs signed than the chiefs who did not sign the treaty and since then New Zealand has been apart of the British colony.