Black Lives Matter = #BLM

#BLM = Black Lives Matter
George Floyd
Slavery
Unfair Jail Sentences
Protesters

George Floyd
I can’t breathe as George Floyd said for his last words. Everyone saw and recorded the death of George Floyd. The black community was pissed and made a protest For Justice. They protested because they wanted to stop the police from killing black people and if they did they needed to go to jail and wanted to change the law. People saw the death of George Floyd. They stood there and did nothing because the police were threatening them with a gun. So they stood back. After that Derek Chauvin, the racist police man put his dirty knee onto George Floyd’s neck and made him suffocate his breathing. Derek Chauvin stayed like that onto George Floyd's neck for the next 8 minutes. Then he passed away. Later than 4 police went to jail for murdering George Floyd.

Protesters

When protesters saw George Floyd's death then they immediately wanted to protest for their rights. And demand that Derek Gauvin must be arrested. The protest grew all around the world. They all wanted to change the laws to help to protect the black community. Also in America, all of the 50 states protested and over 18 countries protested.

Slavery

Slavery was owned by whited farmers and treated them very unfairly and killed them. More than 400 years ago. The ‘N’ word was made up. The ‘N’ came from the slavery 400 years ago. The white people used the black people like they were hopeless. So then the white community abused them and called them ‘N’ word so they can hurry up and do their commands such as picking cotton on plantations and digging up crops. They all wanted to protest so they wouldn’t be treated like trash. But they weren’t allowed to protest their rights. And killed black people.

Unfair Jail Sentences
If an white person does a really bad thing like murder then they have would at least be a life sentences but instead it’s like 20 years. Compared to black people they will go to jail for 80 years or for life. And if it was little like burglary and they would get a harsher year to jail. Like this balck man that was committed to 2nd-degree murder and the white polices treated him with water.

Genres of writing

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I✓	Reasons	PAST	No I’s	C.O.P.S
5 Paragraphs	Disagree	Topic,Place, Person	Language Features	characters
Language Features	Good	No I’s	Telling people about something	punctuation
Idioms	SEE	Information about someone or something		Soulution idioms
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TECH/TAMAKI COLLEGE

                

                    One sunny morning our syndicate called kia manawanui went to technology. 

Once we got to Tamaki college we first got out of the bus that we all couldn't fit in and get into our groups. When we were all settled in our classes we straight away went to our classes. Once I got into my class which is cooking we put all our stuff in the back room and went to put our apron on. Then washed our hands super clean and sit down with our group. The person who was supposed to here with us didn't come so it was just us 2 year 7s/Me and Maria. We went back to the kitchen station we were on before. Then our teacher told us to get our mixing bowls,pan and pot to cook it. We sat down and got the ingredients from the whiteboard off the projector. After that we got our mixing bowls and went to the ingredients station to make the batter but I was confused so Timote asked if I needed help and I said "yeah." After that he told me "mix that up with the whisk and I replied "okay." I went back to Maria and told her that I need to get the whisk. So I grabbed it out and whisk it up.

I grabbed all the ingredients that we needed and used it to make it. Then once we were all done making the batter I went back to get a cup of frozen blueberry. Once I got it our teacher told us to have 2 tablespoons of hot water in to the small pot to make our berry sauce/syrup. So when we already did the blueberry into the small pot we let it cook. But we kept checking on it. Then we finished the batter and take 1/4 of a cup and put the batter inside and put it in the pan. Next we finished our pancakes and cleaned up our mess and sat down on our station. Our berry sauce was done then we poured it on our pancakes and also got ice-cream on top then we were also allowed to put frozen blueberries on top.  That was my adventure at tech.

Joan Wiffen

Joan Wiffen is a famous fossil Hunter. From NZ. Joan wiffen was born in 4 of February 1922. She lived in NZ and had married Pont Wiffen and had 2 kids. her job a palaeontologist. In 1975. Joan Wiffen found the first ever fossil in NZ. At Hawkes Bay at the Maunga Hounga stream and found 6 types of species. She found a tailbone from a theropod. Because her family and friends were helping her find lots of fossils. They probably knew that they were fossils in rocks so they got tools to split the rocks up and find some cool interesting fossils. When they found a fossil they put in there backpack and carried it to there car. An Australian Palaeontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980. At Maunga Hounga stream, inland Hawke’s bay Joan Wiffen and her family and friends found at least six different kinds of dinosaur bones and was 70 - 80 million yrs old. At south of port waikato )kin cliffs along the coast) found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur found by brendan hayes and was about 150 million yrs old. In northwest nelson dr greg browne found dinosaur footprints about 70 million yrs old. In tioriori, chatham islands Dr jeffery stilwell found several dinosaur bones (theropod and sauropod) and was about 66-145 million yrs old. When Joan wiffen gave a fossil to the University of Auckland. They gave her a degree because she just knew lots about fossils. Sadly Joan wiffen died on the 30 of june 2009. She knows that she remembers that the fossils she found is now safe at safe places she knows and knows some is at the University Of Auckland. Also her collection of is also with another that is the paleontological collections at GNS science in lower hutt. The first one she found is on the display of Te Papa. We will remember Joan Wiffen because of her marvelous actions she’s done.

What we learnt

Room 7

Dinosaur knowledge

Prior Knowledge	In 2 weeks, we learnt that...
Animal Predator Dino is the root word ‘Saurs’ means something Species  Extinct  Huge Large bones Long necks Eggs  Sharp teeth Long tails Eat people Different kinds Spikes Horns Mammals 4 legs	Bipedal means 2 feet and quadruped means 4 feet. Some dinosaurs are bipedal and some are quadrupeds. Some can change between the two stances. They are sturdy. Theropod is a 3 clawed dinosaurs Dinosaurs are warm-blooded, which means their blood temperature is always the same Carnivore means a meat eater Herbivore means a plant eater Omnivore means it can eat plants and meat Some dinosaurs are huge and some are small. Typically, huge dinosaurs were sluggish (slow).  Dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. They started existed 230 million years.  They died because of an extinction event, most people think this was because a meteor hit the Earth.  Dinosaurs legs go out the bottom of their hip bones, whereas reptiles bones go to the side of their hips. Reptiles do not have an extra hole in their skull, but dinosaurs do.  Mary Anning found lots of fossils on a cliffside in England in the 19th century. She was born in 1799 and died in 1847. She survived a lightning strike as a baby. In 1824 she found the first fossil.	Non-avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs that are not birds. Avian means birds. Metabolism means how fast or slow your body converts food into energy Diverse means a big range Modifications means changes. Dinosaurs have modifications such as spikes, armour, horns or crests.  Clade means family. Lineage means ancestors/descendants  Paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including dinosaurs There are 4 main groups of dinosaurs; theropods, sauropods, ankylosaurus and pterosaurs. Titanoboa was top of the food chain after the dinosaurs died. It killed people by constricting people. It spent most of its time in the water because it was super heavy. It was 13m long, as big as a bus.  Hominins existed when 7-6 million years ago, the first humans to walk on 2 feet.  People did not exist when dinosaurs existed.	Adaptation is something that changes over time.  Ecology - how animals relate to each other Fossils are made when dinosaurs die and their bones get trapped in rock or mud. The bones break down over time but leave a mould, which is filled with rock. This becomes the fossil.  Dinosaurs sometimes eat each other.  There were 3 periods of time that have dinosaurs. This is called the ‘age of dinosaurs’ also known as the ‘Mesozoic Era’; Triassic period, Jurassic period, and Cretasous period.  Then there were 3 more periods in time, “Age of mammals”, also known as ‘Cenozoic Era’; Paleogene Period, Neogene period and  Quaternary period. Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil (a theropods tailbone) in NZ in 1975, in Hawkes Bay. She died in 2009.  Dinosaurs laid eggs and they lived in family groups.

Parihaka

First we remembered everything we could from last week.

Last week we learnt that there was something called the New Zealand Land Wars that happened between 1845-1872. It was all about who controlled the land in NZ. It was complicated because some land was traded fairly and some was taken. The wars were imbalanced (unfair) because the Europeans had more manpower (people), and a higher quantity and quality of weapons (more of them and better ones). The Maoris were outnumbered so they had to use secret plans and some guerilla warfare tactics in order to fight back.
The big idea about this is that the two groups of people viewed the land differently - Maori’s held a collectivist viewpoint, where land and other resources (oceans, fish, forests) should be cared for and shared by everyone. Europeans held an individualistic viewpoint, and wanted to own the land in order to have farms and make money. Even today there viewpoints cause conflict around the world.

Parihaka
Our first questions -
Junefia - What does Parihaka mean?
Parihaka means it is the name of their village or their place.

Marlene - why did the people send the kids out?
They didn't want them to get hert.

Dyzon - why were the two guys sent to prison for 16 months?
Te whiti and his friend tohu went to jail cause the europeans thought that if they take the leaders of the tribe they all would run away, but they didn’t.

Marilyn - why was the village surrounded by soldiers?

Lynch - what people left the land that Parihaka was built on? (Who was there before them?) There was a Maori tribe that lived there but we don’t know who. They got sent off the land by the government and the land was claimed for Europeans but they didn’t build on it for ten years.

Garth - why did Te Whiti go to jail?
Te Whiti was sent to jail because he was the leader of the Maoris and the Pakehas wanted the land back to make farms. But when he was in jail, his people were scared but did not run away from the land. They protected it.

Anittah - was there a reason Why all the Maori men went to jail?
So when the men go the Children and the ladies will get scared and leave.

Ana - why were the protectors put in jail?
The government put the mens in jail so they could scare the womens and children away and they could take the land back, but they didn’t run away they protected the land.

Maria - why did the government promise the people land?
So the government promised to them a piece of land for them to live on. And in ten years no one claim to live on the land so they built a new village called Parihaka.

Moana - why did 200 children block the road?
Because the europeans did not want them to get harmed or killed them.

Wesley - does Parihaka still exist?
Yes the Parihaka village still exist and Maori people still live there and honour the history

Tisharn - why was Parihaka famous?
Because he was a peaceful man and he taught it to a lot of the maori.
Angellynah - why did the soldiers burn the peoples houses down and destroy their crops?
Cause they soldiers thought that the land was theirs and they wanted to get off the land.

Michael - How was the government able to keep Te Whiti and Tohu for 16 months without a trial?? The government was made up of Europeans so they had control. There was no Maoris in the government to defend Te Whiti and Tohu, so they just did what they wanted.

Tsai - Why did the Europeans want the land?
Because they were jalless that the maori had land and the parihaka did not. They wanted to make farms.

Joshua/Rakel - why did the Maori people build their new village at Parihaka?
They built land because the europeans government didn't give them land so they had to build some new land and they called it parihaka and their leader was called te whiti.

Janett - Why did the government let the men go out of jail?
Because the jail have to many parihaka mens in the jail and the they set them free.

Langiola - Why did the people offer the soldiers 500 loaves of bread?
So there kids can survie and themselves because there in a war so the can fight people to. They have to be full with food so they cant die cause they have to protect people that are in danger and not make themselves or anyone, else stave because together we are strong we are family because we all love each other so much.

Mathew - Why is this story famous in NZ?
The Maoris were peaceful.

Litia - Why was Te Whiti preaching to the people? What was he preaching about?
He was preaching by peace. Cause he wanted to make people peace full like how he is.

Rona - What happened at the end of the story? What did the people of Parihaka do?
Founded in the mid-1860s, Parihaka was soon attracting dispossessed and disillusioned Māori from around the country.

Miss Ashley - where is the village of Parihaka? Where were the prisons kept?
The village of Parihaka is near the coast by Taranaki. The prisoners from Parihaka were sent to jails in different places all over NZ. The most famous one was in Dunedin, and it was pretty much a cave. The men were kept in caves without trial. When they were released they went ship back to Taranaki.

Big ideas -
Maori were peaceful!
Europeans wanted land to make farms.
Maori were kind and offered the soldiers food.
The government promised them land, but they never gave it.

Should zoos exsist

Most people would agree that wild animals just came to the zoo are scared of human being. The fact is wild animals that just came into the zoo are scared of people. Because when they were in the wild there was no people in the jungle. And maybe people didn’t want to go in the jungle because they think it is haunted or they think there is a animal in it which they might be some animals in it. And if people come into the environment that the animal probably lives in it. Will probably get them injured. The problem why they might be injured because the animal have probably  panicked and got so scared and started attacking them.

In my opinion i disagree that animals shouldn’t be out in the wild because what happened if they don’t find any food,water and shelter. And what happened if there was natural disasters. That will be bad because they will die because they had know where to go