Reflection - The trolley

 Reflection - The trolley

Today we read a story called "The trolley"  and answered questions about it. The story is about a mom who was planning to get a present for her two children but didn't have enough money to get them an expensive present instead she made a home-made trolley made out of used things from her house as a present, she spent a sleepless night just to finish the present but she was anxious her children would be embarrassed and unhappy with the present since others had gotten expensive presents. 

Questions: 

1) What was the mother’s name? The mother’s name was TaniaWhat were the names of her kids? Her children’s names are Miria and Hoani.

2)Why did she make them a trolley? She made her children a trolley since she wanted to give them a present because she loves them.

3) What was her anxiety about? Why was she so anxious about that? She was anxious about giving the gift because other children were getting expensive gifts and her gift was homemade.

4) How did the children react to the gift? The children loved the gift although they didn’t say anything they quickly rode on it in their pyjamas.

5) What does this teach us? This topic teaches us that happiness can’t always be bought with money.

Arts Kete

 Arts Kete

At the end of term 2, we were given a form of different options we could pick for our Arts kete like stone carving, watercolour painting, cross-stitch and more. We had to pick 2 different options in case if we couldn't get into our first options, the two options I picked were watercolour and storyboard art. Our Arts Kete is only on Wednesdays, yesterday for watercolour we made our Kahui birds which were either Mohua, Riroriro, and Tieke. 

We also introduced ourselves to our class to get to know each other a bit, after we chose designs and songs as recommendations of what we would like to learn/listen to next class.

Health: Discrimination and Racism

Health: Discrimination and Racism

 In health, we were set a task that required us to go either in pairs or by ourselves. The topic we chose to write about is discrimination and racism around the world.  Firstly we had to choose our 6 big questions, The reason we picked these is that we think these questions related to our topic about discrimination and racism.

Discrimination And Racism

Why are discrimination and racism harmful?

Discrimination and racism are harmful because people that have different races are being made fun of for things that they have to do or what they look like because of their race, and it affects them and makes them extremely insecure and sometimes it makes them anxious about the point that they get headaches, increased heart rate, sweating, trembling and muscle tension. 

What influences people to do it?

Back in the past, children were taught whatever their society and culture have learnt about such as beauty standards, skin colours, Appearances, what’s normal and abnormal, etc). Social media could also be the cause of racism, back in 2017 racism was normalized for a whole year with a president in America running a hate-filled platform that denigrated and demeaned anyone who was not a white male. Children under the influence of social media.

Who can’t and who can?

Personally, I don’t think that anyone should be racist against each other. Each race is different and has different quirks so I don’t think anyone can be racist to each other.

What needs to change?

How the rest of the world views different cultures and races. Standing up against discrimination by peaceful protests, donations for people who are being tormented.

What assumptions are made?

There are many assumptions made about each race like; Black people being criminals, and Asians being the reason for covid 19 just like how trump calls it the China virus. 

What are the common beauty standards around the world?

Since the early 2000s, beauty standards have gradually changed. Now we need to have a flat stomach, “healthy” skin, Large breasts + butt, thigh gap etc).

A way to manage racism.

We should spread awareness. Employers can raise awareness by giving materials to educate employees about the culture of racism and the history of different races, in addition to having talks. The majority of people are oblivious of racial injustice and the unintentional comments they make towards their BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) coworkers.  

I worked well with my partner because we both have experienced racism throughout our life especially when Covid-19 broke out and half of the world had blamed us for the breakout and because we were Asian. People had called us either "Chinese Eyes" or "Ching Chong". 

Bibliography:

https://au.reachout.com/articles/standing-up-to-racism

https://www.scienceofpeople.com/beauty-standards/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/14/why-are-people-still-racist-what-science-says-about-americas-race-problem/

Human Rights Blog

 Human Rights Blog

Last week we started a poster about the 30 rules of Human rights while rephrasing it in our own words. We also had to go in pairs for this project, I teamed up with Alexis as my partner.

Human Rights Poster:

Next time, I would add a bit more information about Human Rights and how it was changed from Natural Laws to Human rights.

Abomination book Questions

Gloriavale Questions:

• What are the traditional roles of men, women and children that are shown in this community? one traditional role for men would be construction.

• At what age are members of Gloriavale expected to begin work? About 2 to 3 years old, basically when the child is able to walk.

• What role does religion play in the lives of Gloriavale members? It is rumoured that if they leave Gloriavale in the afterlife they will go to hell.

• Do you think the people living in Gloriavale are happy? Why or why not? In my opinion, I think most of them are neutral living in Gloriavale, the reason for this is because that was the way they were thought to live because of their strict religion. I do think some feel different but are afraid to speak about it to others.

• Do you think the people in Gloriavale experience Human Rights? People in Gloriavale do not get to experience Human Rights especially women. They are told what their roles are.

• Would you be happy to live in a community like Gloriavale. Why or why not? I would be unhappy to live in Gloriavale, having your own freedom taken away just when your life had started would be the worst.