Tag: Reading

Hone Tuwhare – Google Vids

LI: To understand poetry can transform everyday life into something meaningful. Poets use various techniques to make this happen, creating specific feelings and moods for the reader.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In order to make images and record ourselves we used Adobe Express and Google Vids to help us for this task. Hone Tuwhare’s poem is about ‘Rain’, And Hone Tuwhare is a widely respected man for his speeches. To complete this assesment is to read and structure the words carefully in a similiar tone in addition to how he declares it.

I enjoyed this activity because I get to read Hone Tuwhare’s poem and structure an image using AI.

Malala Yousfzai – Canva Poster

 

This is a poster of Malala Yousafzai, she was a brave woman who protested against the Talibans who went against women to go to school and get educated, but she herself believed in both justice and equality. That day when she was about 16/15 years old, she was shot by the Taliban all because she supported girls to get educated. Gladly she recovered from her injury from a various amount of people supporting her all the way her surgery.

I enjoyed this activity because we get to make a poster about Malala Yousafzai.

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.

Our group read the text Once a Panther and asked to create a comic strip that represents a scene 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 hard it actually was for me to think of the dialogue instead of how easy it was.

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.

‘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



My group and I read a text about ‘Shameful stain on NZ history’: Polynesian Panthers push for dawn raids apology’ And was given the provocation – Should the Government of today(2021) apologise for the dawn raids of yesterday (1970s)? As a group we disccused and explored our thinking by creating a DLO that represents both sides of the provocation.

Something I found interesting was that we shared different provocations such as A, B and our opinion. I also found it interesting of how we mostly agreed on Provocation A, which shows us that they should have apologized for the dawn raids.

Matariki

  • LI: Identify Matariki as the Māori New Year and explain its cultural importance.
  • LI: Explain how the rising of Matariki signaled a time of celebration, reflection, and preparation.
  • LI: Create a piece of work that expresses their understanding of the significance of the Matariki stars.

To explore Matariki we worked collaborativley to complete a various amounts of challenges. As you can see on top of this text, it shows the DLO’s me and my working partner made. We shared our ideas that we know about Matariki and combined it all together throught our DLO’s. We both agreed that Matariki should stay as a public holiday, because we are all Kiwi and we should all celebrate it together as one.

Something I found interesting about this activity was how fish is important to Matariki. It is important to to Matariki because it means a time of plenty revival. As it is tied to the star cluster’s connection with freshwater and food sources.

Impact of Volcanoes

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

Our challenge was to research the impacts specific volcanoes had inflicted. From in between Mt Tarawera and Whakaari, we pick from one of those two that erupted in Aotearoa. For this subject, me and my collaborating buddy chose to research the Wakaari White Island, as our volcano to research about out.

We found out that over 22 people/tourists died after the Whakaari erupted. (It was still very active when those 22 people took a visit to the Island.)

I found this task interesting because we just found out that it last erupted in December 9, 2019. (The year before the pandemic started.)

Diary WW1

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there

For this period, we have been looking at the events that took place at the ANZAC Cove on 25 April 1915 during WW1. A various amount of our NZ soldiers were either injured or killed whilst fighing for their lives. Whilst we were learning about ANZAC, we looked at videos that have shown life in the trenches, explored the past in the ANZACS site and read Hami Grace’s Diary. Doing these steps helped us put or own diaries together and on track. After finishing our diaries, we used Google Vids to record what we wrote.

 

I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to explore more of my vocabulary

 

Something I found interesting  about this task was how we explored the past and how it really was.

 

 

Mapping the Migratory Flight of the Kuaka

LI: To use Google My Maps to show the migratory flight path of the Kuaka.

Using google maps we put the location and places/countries the birds travel to. Kuaka travels so far which can mostly likely include that they could fly for 80 kliometres an hour and how they go to different places to migrate (Depending on the season.) It also looks for food resource marine worms, tiny shellfish and crabs because they like to eat them. From what I saw in pictures, their refuelling stops/spots are mostly wet land/sand. And an interesting fact I learnt about the Kuaka was that it migrates in not only in one place, but to many different places too!

The Kuaka

LI: To create an infographic that tells others about the migration of the kuaka
For this activity, we made a Kuaka Infographic/DLO in Google Draw and used all the information I could remember about the Kuaka! Something interesting I found out about the Kuaka was that they use their long bills to dig out of the sand as for a search of food resource like marine, worms, tiny shellfish and lastly crabs! (They dig them out because they mostly like to eat them!)

From this DLO I can see that the Kuaka is most likely to land on wet land instead of dry land after their migratory flight!