Reflection Section. - How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped

 How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped.

In English, we read a story about the kidnapped of a little girl. The little girl is European. She was kidnapped by two Maori women who were walking and they saw her playing in her house of boxes. So our teacher told us to read through the story and tell us the main point about it. He told us to find out what kind of kidnapping was it because the Maori women didn't do anything to her they were just showing her around the beach and collecting shells. 

English Teachers Question -

What would the European think about the kidnapping?

Were the Maori women harming her?

Is it to form a relationship between pakeha and Maori?

Critical Literacy QuestionWhy are we/you reading this text? -The story could relate to reality because if people read the story they would learn some main points where it tells us not to go with any strangers unless we know them or if they look harmless. 

Reflection Section

 Effects of Drugs&Alcohol

In Health we learned about the effects of alcohol and drugs. Our teacher or advisor told us how many bad things that could happen if we continue to take drugs and alcohol. Why? Because when you are addicted to drugs or alcohol you can get in serious danger because someone might give you alcohol but you don't know what's in it may be strong drugs that you don't even know. Someone might try to force you to take it while you are drunk.  

-What are the long-term and short-term effects?

Long Term Effects-

alcohol dependence, brain damage, memory loss, nerve damage, cancer, cardiovascular disease, swelling, and pain.

Short Term Effects-

blurred vision, slurred and confused speech, mood changes, thought processes, judgment, and concentration are impaired, flushing and sweating.

-What should we do if a person passes out at a party (impact for safety)?

call the ambulance, call their parents, lying them on their side against the wall, and put their knee up. 

Hopefully, this text could help young people learn and know more about how to stay safe around drugs or alcohol.

English - The Lake.

 Listing - when you list three or more things.- The wave shut me off from the world, from the birds in the sky, the children on the beach, my mother on the shore.

Figurative Language - 

Simile -Compare one thing to another using "as '' or "like.

Metaphor -Comparison from saying something is something.  "silence green''.

Personification - Giving non-human objects human-like features 

Dialogue - The lines that the character speaks in the writing film.

Emotive Language- words used to define emotion or the reader

Allusions (Hint; Tell me the narrator's cold without telling me he is cold) - An indirect reference to something else.

Yellow Brick Road' - English

1. Why does the narrator (speaker) believe they are moving to Wellington? - Because he thinks that they don't have enough money. Buts to the parents thy wants to have a better life for them and their kids.
2. On page 1, what big difference between Waituhi and Wellington does the narrator mention? - Wellington has a lot more pakehas.
3. On page 3, we find out that Dad told uncle Sam that they were moving to Wellington because......? - There's a lot of work there and that they can make lots of money. A lot of factories.
4. How does the narrator's attitude towards moving change once they draw nearer to the city? - Matiu is happy at the start of the story but when they get closer he was nervous.
5. Emerald city, Yellow Brick Road, Flying Monkeys, scarecrow, tinman, and cowardly lion, are all illusions (reference) to what famous book?- The Wizard Of Oz.
6. They are starting a new journey.