Reflection Section: Denzel Washington's Life advice.

 Text Title: Denzel Washington's Life advice

Text type: Visual imaginary (Video) speech

Text Creator: Denzel Washington

Text purpose: To show the importance of how to take losses.

Date: May 21 2021

Summary: 

In this video, Denzel explains how failing is a way to success. He explains failure in various ways. First how it leads you to success. Secondly, how not able to accept failure you can't go on forward. Lastly, how it can be a source of motivation to carry a career in life. He then pursues on going about how he lived through someone's prophecy which he couldn't see at the start of his life. However, in the end, everything came three prior to the elder's prophecy.

Creative writing:

Who benefits from this text?

From senior high school students to graduating students, they can benefit from it since it talks about not giving up. Having the acceptance to lose and fall forward. Not being scared of failing multiple times before success happens.

What do the images suggest?

In this text, they made the speech of Denzel Washington into a video prior to his dialogue. We can see each image portrays each of the emotions of what is Denzel speaking about. Also, the thing that is happening to him at that time.

Explanation on the Static Image

 1. Sakura Tree - My love for japan

2. Mount Cook - Living in Nz

3. Maori hut - My respect for Maori (A traditional  hut)

4. Person/costume - These are traditional clothing, used in formal events in the Philippines. My Traditional attire.

5. Rake - The hardship of Filipino slaves in the 1600s since they are worked to death working on a farm. My pity towards the death and pain during the tough times of the Philippines.

6. Silver Fern Tree - A native plant of New Zealand.

7. Sampaguita - The national flower of the Philippines and native as well.

8. Dog in a Pope costume - A remembrance of my early dog that had died and him going up to heaven. The costume he's wearing represents my religion (Christianity).

9. Rice Fields - Represents the agriculture of the Philipines and my life in the countryside.

10. Carabao (A type of cow native to the Philippines) - The national animal of the Philippines. 

11. Pohutukawa - A native plant to New Zealand.

12. Manuka - A native plant to New Zealand.

13. A tiny marble/ball on the hands of the person - It represents my love for sports and childhood. (Volleyball, Basketball, and Football). I draw a marble instead of a regular ball because during my brainstorming I remembered the very first ball game that I played while I was still a kid. That involved using a marble, therefore I decided to draw it instead of a regular ball.

14. Tin can be surrounded by slippers - It is the most known game in the Philippines (Tumabng Patis). It is a traditional Filipino game mostly played by children. It represents my childhood and the cultured person that I am.

15. Quote from William Hobson - He is the first-ever governor of Aotearoa.

16. Quote from Andreas Bonifacio - A famous leader in the Philippines who led the revolutionary army during the war against the Spaniards during the Philippine Revolution in 1896 - 1898. After the revolutionary age, the philippine soon became an independent country. My respect for the national heroes of the Philippines.

17. Swing - It represents my love to get active. I often go to the park to play with my youngest brother.

My Cultural Image

 

Cultural stuff - DLO (What is it?)

 Culture:
A widespread of custom beliefs throughout a society that escorts people. The description of a particular group of people who live life in a specific way. Culture can be past down by generations, continuously changing. Arts, dancing, singing, food, values, language are all examples of cultural factors.

Society:
Every society has culture, but they are not the same thing. 
Society includes people who share mutual beliefs, values and overall the way of living. Society in this case is about a group of people who live or are connected in a geographic area who interact with each other more than they interact with the outsiders. An example of this is NZ. 





Subculture:
A group that has similar but different beliefs and behaviors from a larger society. Some examples of subcultures are hippies, goths, emo, and etc. 

Counterculture:
It is when the subculture interferes with the bigger culture’s rules. An example of this would be the hippies in the 1960’s. The punks in the 1970’s.

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Self-Esteem

What am I learning?

I am learning how to explain and demonstrate what is Self-Esteem. Examples of it. 

Why am I learning?

I'm learning this because it helps me portray my own opinion of what is Self-Esteem.

What am I wondering?

During my research, I wondered why do we have uncertainties in our lives.

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What is Tieke - Kahui

 This week on our class, we were told to create a poster presenting what is Tieke. Down below is the result.

Ways to make the world a better place for women.

 In our Wananga class, we are learning more in-depth about women's week. So we decided to work on a mindmap about ways to make a better place for women. This is the result.

The cards - Text, Reflection section

 Text title: A game of cards

Type article: Short story

Text Creator: Witi Ihimaera

Text purpose: To acknowledge people that something so simple can be so important.

Date: 26/02/2021

In this short story, the protagonist is the mokopuna (grand child) of Nani Miro, whose the favourite one, going back to her grandma just before she dies. The story begins in the protagonist childhood talks about him wanting to go back to her granndma's house every weekend. He explains how a game of cards excites her grandma and that her rival and Miro's closest friend at the same time. At the end of the story, everyone gathered to play a game of cards, and there they are, grandma Miro and mrs Heta arguing who cheats. THen eventually Nani Miro died and years later Mrs Heta died. They were buried close.

Critical Thinking:

What does the author of this text want us to know?

- In my thimking, the author want us to know that something can be a symbol as the most important thing to them.

Who is missing in the text?

In my perspective, the author is missing the mentioning of the Grandma's childrens.

Reflection Time - The Treaty

 In the dramazitation "The Treaty of Waitangi - Wha really happened" directed by Peter Burger. This dramazitation shows what really happened in the Treaty of Waitangi. The key points are, the Crown writing the Treaty. The arguments and discussions between the maori and the pakeha about the treaty. The Maori signing the Treaty and lastly, tobacco and blankets getting shared out to the people.

Text title: Dramatisation

Text Creater: Peter Burger

Text Purpose: To indicate a similar event in th Treaty Of Waitangi

Date: Friday, 12 of February 2021