Critical literacy

 Hello everyone, In Wananga we have been working in critical literacy. In critical literacy, we have to write a sum up (summarise) an activity that we have done in class, like 'we have read a book, the author is______this book is about____and I believe this is very interesting because it _____'. 

What is the locator flag:

The activity that I'm gonna talk about is the locator flag we made. The locator flag is where a teacher gives you a paper and you have to draw something that represents you. When you are finished with it you have to locate where you are born and put a pin and a string, I can't really explain it properly so I searched for an image that kinda represents what we are doing. 

Title: Locator flag

We made this so people could get to know our class and also to know more about our classmates. 

Text type: Art for the world flag 

Creator: Alliah (me)

Who benefits from this?

This benefits anyone because it's about getting to know our class more/ students in our class. This also helps the teacher to know us more and this also helps people who are interested in you. 

Heating Zinc Oxide

Hello everyone, today in science we are experimenting on Zinc Oxide. We have to heat up Zinc Oxide and observe what happened next. 

Aim: What change happens when we heat Zinc Oxide? 

Equipment: Bunsen burner, Heat mat, Tripod, Safety glasses, Crucible Holder and Zinc Oxide  

 Results: When it was heating up it was turning yellow and when we turn it off it turns back to white. 

Discussion: When heated, the electrons in Zinc move to other levels, making it change colours.  

Spiritual - Music through time

 Hello everyone, we are learning about the slaves since 16th centuries ago. We are looking at the music and how they have to be traded in America. The slaves would make music to lift their selves and give them hope that they could escape. Our task is to find spirituals and the hidden message behind it.  

The spirituals are a type of religious songs. They were sung in informal gatherings of slaves in praises house and bush meetings. The spirituals are used to give them hope, communicate, uplift their selves, and relay in the hidden message so they can escape.  

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman - Harriet Tubman is an ex-slave that helps the slaves to escape their owners. Harriet Tubman uses music to communicate with others and help them to escape. She created an underground railroad which is an idea of how they can escape their owners.

 

The spiritual music that I choose was...'Sweet Chariot' 

Swing low, sweet chariot,

Coming for to carry me home, 

Swing low, sweet chariot, 

Coming for to carry me home. 

I looked over Jordan and what did I see 

Coming for to carry me home, 

A band of angels coming after me, 

Coming for to carry me home. 

I you get there before I do, 

Coming for to carry me home, 

Tell all my friends that I’m coming, too, 

Coming for to carry me home.

Why did I choose this song? well, the song is really catchy and the lyrics are really nice. The song meaning is if the slave heard this song it's letting them know that a band of angels are coming to them and give them freedom. the meaning is 'the underground railroad (sweet chariot) is coming south (swing low)  to take the slaves to the north or freedom (carry me home)' 

How are these events still significant today? Well, this still affects till now because of how people not making this serious that it turns into fights. Like now, there is a  protest about the Black live matter.

Here is the song:  "Sweet chariot"

Here is the map I made for the slave trade triangle. 

Name Acronym - 10 ESOL

 Hello everyone, in ESOL we are doing a acronym with our names. We did this activity so we can get to know each other more and also give our classroom with colours. Here is the acronym that I made with my name. 

I put these words in my names because it’s how they describe me.

I have to pick 2 letters that describe me. I pick artistic and imaginative.

Imaginative - I pick this because I love to imagine things so I can get out of the real world. This also helps me to do some work.

Artistic - I pick this because I like to do art and be creative with art. This helps me visual stuff and that’s why I like it.

Cyber safety

In this ICT we are learning about cyber safety. we played some games about it and these games us about keeping us safe from the internet. 

Cybersafety tells us to be careful in the virtual world and never share any private pieces of information about your life.

Examples of dangerous things on the internet are

• Cyberbullying
• hackers
• kidnappers 
• pedophiles 
• theft of identity/catfishing 
• scammers 
• offensive images
• invasion of  privacy

How will you know you're secure? You can make a more secure password like, make uppercase letters, put numbers in it, and put 8 special characters. 

 

 

321 RIQ - 10 ESOL

 Hello everyone, today in ESOL we are learning about 321 RIQ. First I have to explain the meaning behind about 321 RIQ. 321 RIQ meaning is 3 Recalls, 2 Insight, 1 Question. The 321 RIQ helps our learning by remembering 3 things about the lessons that the teacher have taught, learning 2 new things that we haven't learned, and 1 question that we haven't ask the teacher. The strategy is that we will have much better literacy and we can always ask the teacher if we are to shy to ask in front of the class. This also can help our teacher to understand what we are up to, or what type of learner we are.

 321 RIQ reflection:

In ESOL, the 3 things that I remember about our lessons is introducing ourselves, we also learned more about our teacher and classmates, and also we learned the 321 RIQ. 2 things that I learnt about it is that I know my classmates more and also get to know my teacher Mrs Truter. I also learned more about the 321 RIQ, about the meaning behind it and how this will help our learning. 1 question I want or I want to know more about is, our teacher Mrs Truter, I want to learn more about her since she's still new in Hornby High school, and I want to get to know her more. 

In conclusion is that 321 RIQ will help our studies more because we can improve our writing and also our literature. This can also help our classmates to understand the lessons we had and this can also give information about what level of learning we are in.

Hurumanu 3 - Chaos - Black death

 Hello everyone, this chemical and chaos we are learning about The Black death, but right now we are learning about Fleas and rats. We are asked to make a Basic paragraph about the subject of black death, we have to get a topic about it. Here is the paragraph I made about it.

Basic Body Paragraph. 

Fleas and Rats. The fleas and rats were the problems to have the pandemic about the black death, it

causes a lot of problems around the city that had been hit by the black death. The black death started in

China and pass it through the ships trading routes westward to the Mediterranean. It then reached Rome,

the centre of an elaborate web of trading routes, Florence, Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and London.

The fleas were very dangerous at that time because the fleas pass the bacteria from the rat to a human. Rats

were a pest and they would always eat human foods. Rats would always eat something they think it’s edible.

Rats go to places that they shouldn’t and that’s how the fleas go to rats and fleas would jump to another rat

or person to get rid of the blood and get another blood from someone or something.