Paper Planes

Yesterday for maths we were collaboratively working with our groups given by Mrs Anderson making paper planes. This activity was a silent collaborative challenge, where Mrs Anderson didn't talk, but she did put all the instructions on a presentation which we all had to follow very carefully. I worked with Sebastian, Oh Hsen, Tai, Breeana and Calvin designing different types of paper planes. We went on YouTube videos, websites and images to make our paper planes. When we all finished our design, we went outside to trial and measure (with our feet) how far it flew. Our whole group was helping each other and having so much fun. The plane that went furtherest was Tai's and Breeana's. 

Godwits DLO

This term we have been looking at flight, the year 7's have been learning about Godwits (Kuaka in Maori). We were learning about their migration, I worked collaboratively with Calvin and Oh Hsen and improved our team work skills. When we were researching, we had to narrow our search so that we can get the information needed, and putting the keywords only. I learnt that the Godwits migrate from Auckland to Alaska non stop, but stop at the yellow sea to refuel. We also tried something new, we made a digital sketchnote where we used shapes and text boxes. 

American Slavery Speech

American slavery is the worst thing that happened in American history. What do you think? I agree with this statement. I think that this was an awful thing that happened in history. I will be talking about how American slavery affected human rights, the slaves treatment as well as the amount of people who got killed. The tasks that these slaves had and information about the triangular slave trade.

American slavery affected human rights! Human rights is the rights you have simply because you’re human. American slavery was a type of slavery which was legal in America in the 1620 to 1865. Slaves weren’t free, they had to work or else they would be punished or worse murdered. How would you feel if this happened to you or your parents? This is why I state that American slavery is the worst thing that happened in American history.

The way these slaves got treated and the amount of people who died is absolutely disgusting! The way that these slaves were treated was very harsh! The owners of the slaves thought they could do anything to the slaves. They thought that this was ok. The white slave owners chose dark skinned people only because they hated them. Over 10 million people died either because they got, murdered, committed suicide, died because of the journeys around the atlantic sea, starved to death and more.

The work that some slaves had to do was very harsh. They would have to work day til night every single day. There were many jobs for the slaves like harvesting sugar canes, women would have to work in people’s houses and growing crops.

The triangular slave trade is about the trading between 3 continents, Europe, Africa and Americas. America offered raw materials like sugar and cotton to Europe, Europe offered Africa some manufactured goods, Africa on the other hand realised they didn’t have anything to give, so they just sent slaves to America. African tribes would kidnap people from different African tribes and send them to America. Many slaves on board got thrown out. Men on board got chained on the floor, sometimes they got chained to a shelf.

Do you see why slavery in America was so terrible? Most of the white, rich people kept on abusing the dark skinned people from Africa. Do you think that this is fair?

Today, we had to talk about our speech in our thinking groups. My speech was about my statement that I have chose, American slavery is the worst thing that happened in American history. Then after I said my speech, Calvin, Nesi and Evelyn chose how I did on a rubric. In the rubric I saw that I have to talk louder! 

Conflict about aliens

This is my reading activity. I had to read about how some people beleive that Abner Doubleday is the father of basebell, while some other people beleive that Alexander Joy Cartwrigh is the father of baseball. At the end, we thought that Alexander Joy Cartwrigh was the father of baseball as he has more primary sources. We then had to make our own conflict, I worked with Calvin and Sakae to make a conflict about aliens.