Book Title: Salt River
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Author: Elizabeth Hegarty
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Reviewer: Dhara
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Grand total of books read this year: 1
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(Optional - Give a brief review of the book) This book is about 2 parents and their 4 children Tom the older one Tosti the second older one Mary the one that is in charge for the supplies and Frankie the little one, this story starts off like this the four children are playing and their parents were thinking of to go for the week so the called their children and said so we have called you to tell you that your father and I are going for the week and I will see you on Monday and just to let you know tom is in charge of all of you in this week, after they had left once they had left tom was acting all manly and said thing like 'If you don't clean up your mess I'll have my belt ready. on the second day they had to do their farm chores like milking the cow and stuff like that the third day they had a break and went down the beach then suddenly tom had saw Frankie drowning he jumped into the water and never returned. |
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(Optional - Find a good quote from the book that might make people want to read it) He could barley see as he fell lower and lower, the muddy harbour bottom was so churned up by the current, and then he and the anchor struck bottom. there was a pressing pain growing and growing in his chest; the need to breathe making him desperate and stupid with fear. Did you see me go over ?.he craned upwards, but the Arizona was nothing more but a dark shadow in a swirling brown world. no one was coming down. |
Friday, February 28, 2014
Dhara's review: Salt River
The Point England Way
Hello everyone today I am going to write about The Point England Way
Everyday when Pt England students come to this school we come with a positive mind, we have rules at our school but mostly it is especially based on the korero, (korero means to us is like a logo to us) last year our korero was about kia pai Te kotahi, (means better together). I think it’s best for everyone to follow the Point England Way, I think that way because most people would just ignore the rules and just would get in trouble then they will feel bad about themselves and think about why did they did that but some will just won’t care.
The Point England Way started in 2000-2001 it that is was made about 14 or 13 years ago, The Point England Way discovered by Mr Burt but to machine Mr Burt did not discover it by himself he did have help from a helpful teacher Miss Malaysia but she left which was very said but our teacher remember her as a legend and it is awesome that we have been carried on until 2014. This is a quote from Mr Burt that class 4 (which I am) had received ‘ The Point England Way ". “...means that it is our kawa of care, the way we do things so that we can be happy with another, safe, enjoy each others’ company, learn well and have a good time at school.”
At our school in each class we have a small TV (if you guy be thinking like ‘OMG they really watch TV that's so cool” well on that TV we all have we do not watch cartoons we actually watch Penn (Penn is short for Point England New News) penn is not a channel it is news, for our school like it tells us what is going to happen today, what sports are coming up for people who want to join in, and the weather and stuff like that and at Mrs Telea's there are a group of ambassadors, that make the news everyday it is a big job. every Friday our school has an assembly, and in that assembly we always have an new korero or the same one because some people just don’t get the word he is saying or explaining.
The reason we do this at our school is to get us ready for the future because if we wanted to buy something from your local shop then what will you say after been served? or after you have been saved from a dog chasing you what will you say ?, and most importantly our behavior and our attitude when something funny happens to a person and they don’t like it then don’t laugh if its a sad day for someone and they don’t like it then don’t laugh it just gets worse its better to do the right thing, and all these thing mean all to just one word RESPECT.
The thing that I have just said goes the same like the treaty of Waitangi the British people and the Maori people the British people made a treaty for the Maori people to sign just to bring peace and harmony in New Zealand. At Point England School we always have to your the three P’s the three P’s are protection participation and partnership.
Well I hope you learnt enough today take care.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Waitangi Treaty
Treaty of Waitangi
In the 1840s 174 years ago there was a treaty sign by the British people and the Maori people, it was an agreement trying to stop some of the problems that were happening in New Zealand.
One day Queen Victoria of England had instructed to William Hobson to have a treaty made in English translated into Maori in three months time. The day before Hobson had to present the treaty it didn't look like he was interested or cared because he hadn't even started writing it yet and didn't look like he was going to. It was finally translated from English to Maori just before all the Maori chiefs had gathered to discuss the treaty, if they should sign it or not.
The Treaty talked about Participation, Partnership and Protection for the Maori people. When they all gathered together to sign the treaty, the British thought that if they would sign the treaty, they would rule over NZ. The Maoris thought that if they would sign the treaty then they would have more trade and have peace. They also thought that British will control the settlers. Somehow they started trading and it became more peaceful. But as time came on the misunderstandings lead to war.
Once William Hobson had convinced the chiefs the treaty was sent around the country for 500 other chiefs to sign. Now it is 174 year old.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
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