Reflection Section

Text Title: WITI IHIMAERA

Text Type: short story

Text Creator: Witi Ihimaera

Text Purpose: To entertain and to inform the reader of what's happening in the story

Date: 26th February 2021

This is a story about how people love the reef and how they saw the seahorse. It was a story about a family who lived near the reef that was just outside town. This was where all their relatives and friends went every weekend in summer to dive for kai moana. They obviously loved kai moana and were lucky that the reef was the home of much kai moana - paua, pipi, kina, mussels and many other shellfish. How they cared for the sea animals. When they felt guilty that they poisoned the land and now they feed their poison in the sea water and by doing that they have lost their aroha for the sea. When they realize what they are doing is wrong they feel bad about what they have done to the sea. They apologize to the sea that “We have been unkind to you”.  So this whole short story is basically how the family love and care about the sea because it’s home to them.

Parihaka

Link to song

 What is the main message of this song

- Way to remember and also to make people aware of what happened at parihaka and how it still affects people today

What line explains their passive resistance method?

- His children's children wearing the white plume,

So take me for the sins of these sad islands

What does “ you can’t pull out the roots “  refer to?

- Means whatever happens to them, for example them getting locked up by the British people, they will never forget their roots, meaning they won’t forget where they came from, their ethnicity and their culture

Give evidence of their determination

• Rise up, defend yourself, never give in

How does this song show the significance of parihaka?

- Shows how many people are affected by what happened today even though it happened years ago.

What makes an event significant?

- Remember, it includes those that resulted in great change over long periods of time for large numbers of people.

How many people are affected?

- Everyone that was lived back then and their families members that live now

How long were people affected?

People are still affected by what happened years ago and they will continue to be affected by this for years

To what extent are people affected?

- Mentally and emotionally and spiritually 

Language Features

 

Music through time

 Slavery In America was so unbearable and intolerable, that the slaves slave would use music to communicate with each other and also to help them escape.  One song that they used to escape was called " wade in the water". During slavery In America there was a women named Harriet Tubman who was a slave herself, but she managed to escape, once she escaped she kept coming back to the southern states to help others escape from being brutally tortured as a slave. Harriet managed to free 300 slaves. By helping the slaves escape Harriet would lead them into the underground railroad which was not actually a railroad. Harriet used the song " wade in the water" to tell escaping slaves to get off the trail and into the water to make sure the dogs employed by the slavers lost their trail, so basically to prevent them from sniffing the slaves scent. " God's gonna trouble the water" means to agitate ( shake ) the water. 

( Link to the song ) 

Cyberbullying

 Cyberbullying is a global issue these days, especially kids aged 12-17. 

Facts about cyberbullying 

- Nearly %42 of kids have been bullied online and almost one in four have had it happen more than once

- Four out of 10 middle schools have had their password(s) stolen and changed by a bully who then locked them out of their own account or sent communications posing as them

Cyberbullying is a disturbing and not safe reality that children and teens deal with everyday. Cyberbullying is when someone uses electrons or a device to bully someone online. This usually happens through messages that are intimating and threatening which makes the victim threatened and scared then can lead to the victim being depressed or could even lead to something much more worse.