10 bass

 The genre me and my partner are doing is rock. She is playing the electric guitar and I am singing. In my group there is Dominique and me. The name of the song we have selected is Smells like teen spirit by Nirvana. We have not yet decided what part of the song we are going to work on first we are thinking of doing the pre-chorus but not completely sure. What has been challenging so far has been finding a song that is right for both of us and that won't be too difficult for the electric guitar  

Parihaka

 Parihaka - Tim Finn and The Hurbs 

Main message of the song? This was to tell the story of Parihaka and so it will be remembered  

What line explains their passive resistance method? Te Whiti used the language of spirit,   

What dose "you can't pull out the roots" refer to? You can't pull out the roots is to imply that you can't take away the belief, remembrance of Parihaka   

Evidence of their determination. Their determination is shown throughout the song where they are saying how Te Whiti will never be defeated     

How dose this song show the significance of Parihaka? It is of significance because it happens to talk about Te Whiti and how Te Whiti will always be remembered 

What makes an event significant? It has affected so many people and is still remembered and will be for years to come   

How many people are affected? This affected the people of New Zealand and others around the world  

How long did this affect people for? This would have affected people for years. 

To what extent are people affected? Parihaka was peoples home, Some people died and some houses, gardens and crops were destroyed this would have strongly affected those people 

 

English Reflection

 For English we have been doing creative writing relative tasks. we had a range of tasks to complete and post on our blogs.

The first task I did was Language Features, We had a 5 language Features to choose from. We only had to choose 3, The 3 I chose from were onomatopoeia, Alliteration and personification. I presented this on a slide show then put it on a blog post with the rest of my work    

The second task was Sensory language of which we had to create a paragraph without using the words See, smell, feel and taste. This was using show not tell and describing something in more depth 

The Third task was metaphor and simile. We had to write and explain the difference between a metaphor  

For haiku's we had to write 4 and each one had to be about a season  

we had to listen to slam poetry and write about it    

Reflection section

Title: My Mahi

Text type: Text

Creator; Jeff King  

The purpose of this text: To Inform and Educate readers of this site 

Date:  26, February, 2021 

Who would be interested in this: This might catch the interest of those such as students and teachers

This week in wananga we learned about my Mahi, this site is where we can track our points about NCEA this site also gives assistance on what possible job to find. We did a career test to see what kind of career or course we could do in the future this also sets a template for a CV with set questions to make the process of creating a CV a lot easier. There are a bunch of articles under news feed and goal settings to track your goals and progress of them. 

Badly injured surfer saved on remote Auckland beach  after writing "HELP" in the sand   

This text is about alone surfer that lost his surf board in a wave he was stranded at karekare beach in Auckland. He wrote "HELP" in the sand A surf life saving woman said that he was servery injured unable to walk. 

 

Art

 For art we were asked to draw a item our teacher put in front of us, this was for her to see how comfortable we are with her seeing us draw and for her to see how well we draw. we then had to draw a few items put together we took a photo and this is called a still life, We have been learning to use tone and shading in our drawings   

Here is my still life and another drawing we were asked to do 

the drawing on the left bottom corner is my still life and the drawing that takes up most the page is a telephone of which we were asked to draw  

Slave triangle

The spirituals were used to send a message to help the slaves escape without the English knowing they also used it for motivation to keep working. They were a way for slaves to express there feeling as they we also passed down from generations . 

Wade in the water. Wade in the water was used as a message telling the slaves to wade in the water so the dogs couldn't track them.

Wade in the water  
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in red
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite
Oh, God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water is another way of saying walk on the water indicating getting off the ship into the water  because as stated earlier going through the water make it so the dogs can't track them. 

Harriet Tubman was a slave that escaped only to find that her husband had left her for another woman. Harriet help may other slaves escape, she conducted underground railroads from south american to Canada. It was her who told the slaves to wade in the water  

Reflection section

 Self-identity 

Text type : Text

Creator: Mark Mason

Text purpose: Informing us of the two minds

Date: 19th of February 2021

What is this text about Mark Mason and his research of the thinking and observing mind, He speaks of mind chatter and meditation.