I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 9 and in 2021 I will be a year 10. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
Friday, February 26, 2021
Weekly Reflection- Wanaga
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Art
Our class were working on how to shade and make a tool to use for shading. We choose which picture to draw and then shade it.
Friday, February 19, 2021
Examine The cover
How do you think this story will be written?
-I think this the story will be written like people being living a dehumanise life life living under control. They only follow one leader and they have to respect the leader and do what the leader to them to do.
Why do you think the story is entitled as it is?
- The Slacken
Where do you think the story will take place?
-In a city or town
What time period do you think the story is set in?
- 12:00
Unwind
What do you already know about pro-life and pro-choice groups? What do these terms mean? Is it an issue you have thought about?
-Pro-choice emphasises the woman's choice whether to terminate a pregnancy. Pro-life proposes the right of the embryo or fetus to gestate to term and be born. Both terms are considered loaded in mainstream media, where terms such as "abortion rights" or "anti-abortion" are generally preferred.
- Both terms are considered loaded in mainstream media, where terms such as "abortion rights" or "anti-abortion" are generally preferred.
-In this article, we outline the pro-life and pro-choice meanings, equipping you with enough knowledge to make a confident decision
What do you know about organ donation?
-organ donation about people killing other people and took out their organ and sell it for money.
Teenagers to be unwound are sent to Harvest Camps. Can you make a connection between the language used to describe this place, and the places have been sent historically?
-Well, it means that the teen's body and brain are dismantled and preserved as an organ transplant for someone else. It's like recycling, but with people. Neal Shusterman published Unwind in 2007. Since then, there's been no going back.
The term "living in a divide state" here is really a euphemism for what.? Can you think of other, common euphemism.? Why do people use euphemism?.
-Does anyone really deal with death well? It's such a delicate - and final - state that many of us like to dance around the truth.
- Passed away instead of died.
- Dearly departed instead of died.
- Ethnic cleansing instead of genocide.
- Negative patient outcome instead of died.
- Collateral damage instead of accidental deaths.
- Put to sleep instead of euthanize.
- Pregnancy termination instead of abortion.
- Bite the big one instead of die.
- permitted by law.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Music Through Time Unit
Spirituals Songs : Spiritual songs were used to encourage them and help them escape.
Harriet Tubman : Harriet Tubman was a slave when she was little she helped thousands of slave escape. After that she was a wanted person dead or alive.
A spiritual song Lyrics : Wade through the water is the lyrics of a slave song i pick because when you wade through the water no one will know you where you go even dogs can't sniff you because if a slave escape the master guard used dog to sniff them out cause dogs have a good sense of smell but not in water but if a slave is found that means dead of slave.
How are this still significant today : Slavery played a crucial role in the development of the modern world economy. Slaves provided the labour power necessary to settle and develop the New World. Slaves also produced the products for the first mass consumer markets: sugar, tobacco, coffee, cocoa, and later cotton