Reflection Section

The Week that Was

This past week has been a bit boring, I haven't really done that much except go to school, sleep, eat and repeat. Although on Saturday I will be going to my nieces birthday party and on the next day I'm gonna hang out with some friends and go to the mall. 

One thing that did happen this week is I got a new phone, its pretty good and has run pretty smooth so far. I just hope I don't break it as my past experience with phones has not been so good. I have been watching a bit of the Office recently and it is pretty funny, my favorite character has got to be Dwight because of how dumb his character acts. 

On Thursday at school my friends and I had a funeral for a dead bird and it was a very interesting / odd experience. The dead bird ended up being named Bob Marley? Which was a unexpected experience. 

So in conclusion this week was a bit boring but it was still an eventful week!

Parihaka - Tim Finn and The Herbs

Parihaka Song

MyMaps

The main message of this song is to bring awareness to the tragic events that occurred to the people in Parihaka.

"His children's children wearing the white plume" This explains their passive resistance method.

The line "You can't pull out the roots" refers to their ancestors that brought them here and the history that has occurred on their lands.

The lines "I know Te Whiti will never be defeated, And even at the darkest hour" are evidence of their determination to never give up.

This shows the significance of Parihaka by speaking about Te Whiti and how brutal this event was and the troubles they went through. It also shows how many people were effected.

Sensory Language

In this task I had to write a short paragraph using sensory language that connects to the five senses.

Metaphors & Similes

Today in English we were doing creative writing and I chose to do Metaphors & Similes.

Definition: A metaphor is when you explain something as something it isn't.

Example: You are my sunshine.

The Use of Spirituals

Source

My Maps

Unnamed song sung by Harriet Tubman when approaching her group after taking a detour to get food for the day. This song lets them know it is safe to approach her. Source: Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her People by Sarah Hopkins Bradford.

Hail, oh hail, ye happy spirits,
Death no more shall make you fear,
Grief nor sorrow, pain nor anguish,
Shall no more distress you there.

Around Him are then thousand angels,
Always ready to obey command;
They are always hovering round you,
Till you reach the heavenly land.

Jesus, Jesus will go with you,
He will lead you to his throne;
He who died, has gone before you,
Through the wine-press all alone.

He whose thunders shake creation,
He who bids the planets roll;
He who rides upon the tempest,
And whose scepter sways the whole.

This song is based around religion as most slaves would turn to religion to give them hope, Harriet Tubman would use it to let people know she is safe to approach and is going to help them.

Death no more shall make you fear,
Grief nor sorrow, pain nor anguish,
Shall no more distress you there.

This is saying that she is here to save them from their torture and set them free.

Spirituals were used to send messages, keep moral up and have hope.

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery but escaped and made missions to save thousands of enslaved people from their owners. She also had an important role in building the underground railway which was a network of secret routes to safehouses which would help them go to the slave free states and Canada.

Slam poetry

NZ Slam Poetry Video

My favorite performance was place to be by Ben Stokes. I liked it because it was about our country and our world around us. It also is about the challenges that our country has faced and what our country has been through.

I think that place to be was good because how it spoke about New Zealand.

"We are Australia's younger better-looking brother, the pacific's best kept secret beneath cloud cover" 

One of my other favorite things was that it talked about the history about our country and what our ancestors sacrificed for us. 

"We are parents who fought apartheid, grandparents who defied social norms, great-grandparents who died on the beaches of gallipoli against machine guns and dysentery for the better world" 

Physical or Chemical Change (Heating ZnO)

Physical or Chemical Change 

(Heating ZnO)