The Shearer’s Strike

 

LI:To Making Sense of Unfamiliar Text

For this task our main focus this week was learning and exploring about the shearer’s strike. Our group looked at the two perspectives of the shearer’s strike. When we read both of them we formed an opinion of which we thought was a better argument than the other.

Why Maungarei sleeps

    Why Maungarei sleeps

 

One day Maungarei woke up furious from her rest and was outraged by the other maunga and was annoyed, but when she calmed down she wanted to play with the other young maunga like her so when she asked the other maunga if she could play with them and she was ignored, so she was even more furious then before so smoke started to exit her crater so she asked them one more time and still she was ignored so then she shot lots and lots of debris from her crater and then she snapped so then she blinded everybody and when the debris went away she Exploded! But still her mind was taken over by rage so then for one more time she Exploded again but once she calmed down she realised how much damage she caused. So she was sad and knew she would be lonely no matter what. So after thinking about everything she did she became a Dormant Volcano and has remained a Dormant Volcano ever since. And until now after hearing these stories people wonder if Maungarei was a lonely and emotional mountain or was an evil mountain who might strike the earth with meteors in the future.

A Moment In Time

LI: To write poem that describes a moment in time

At camp we had lots of challenge activities to try. Our challenge in with our poem was to choose our word carefully so that we painted a clear picture of what we were describing in the mind of our readers. jeremiah and i have described what it was like to

Expectations

 

Today in LS2 we were collaborating about expectations and we all contributed to finish our work and tried really hard. trying to find out what our teachers expect from us.

 

Poppy Research

Today in LS2 we did poppy research for ANZAC and the War that happened in gallipoli. our task was to find out what happened in the past and to give respect to the fallen soldiers who fought in the first world war.

Samuel Marsden Podcast

LI: To generate questions that will help us reflect on the past.

For Litreracy we have been using our Inquiry knowlege to write questions for Reverend Samuel Marsden.  We have asked Samuel Marsden to politely come and asnwer the questions that we have created. I enjoyed this activity because we had a lot of fun recording and collaborating as a team.

One thing that we have learnt is that when you have more expression towards what you are saying you look and sound more excited and intresting and you attract more people.