Should we kill butterflies?

Should we be killing butterflies?

Today in English we read a short story about a little girl who wrote in her book that they should kill butterflies because they eat the cabbage that her grandparents grow but her teachers though that we shouldn't kill butterflies.

What kind of Language are they using in this story? Not the best grammar, I think that the grandparents didn't have a education.

What is this text about and how do you know? This text is about the different views on people. the view of the teacher is that the butterflies don't need to be killed because they aren't a threat to her but the grandparents agree with the little girl because they know that the butterflies eat there cabbages that they grow.

What does the author want you to know? That everyone sees life differently, it just depends on what they do in there everyday life.

How are the characters construed in this text? They seem very proud of there granddaughter and how she goes to school. based of there grammar it sounds like they didn't get much of an education.

what kind of social realities does this portray? The different ways that people do things and just because someone does something one way doesn't mean any other way is wrong.

What am I learning? critical literacy 

How does this show my learning? I answered all the questions i was given

What am I wondering? What other people think about the family growing there own food.

Real or fake protest in Germany??

Real or Fake

Today in English class we were shown a picture and asked to use our google skills to find out if its real or fake. This image was going around in 2017 but the image was from 2010.

I think its fake because the website that we were given to look at says that it is a multi day traffic jam in china in august 2010 on a national highway.

Why do I think people shared this? Because they were fooled into thinking that the picture was real or maybe they were just mad that in some places the fuel is this expensive.  

What am I learning? Critical Literacy

How does this show my learning? By me using my google skills and finding out if this is real or not.

What am I wondering? Why the person who shared it lied about it.

Treaty of Waitangi

Learning objective: understand what the treaty is and why its important 

What I already knew: That it was first signed on the 6th of February.

What I found interesting: That 12-15 woman signed the treaty

What am I wondering: Who the woman were.

  

Drama

Ideas for this year

Preforming for year 4 - 8s

makeup and hair

musical 

singing

making costumes 

high school musical re create

interactive with the audience 

Factual or Satirical?

Finding real or fake news sites.

The onion: Fake

What does the website look like? Looks like a normal website.

What photos is it using? Photos that looks photo-shopped 

What headlines are they sharing? Ridiculous headlines 

Do you think this is A fake or real website?  Fake 

The New York times: Real

What does the website look like? looks like a normal well put together website.

What photos is it using? A mix between selfies, profession and stock images. 

What headlines are they sharing? well put together headlines.

Do you think this is A fake or real website? Real

The civilian: Fake

What does the website look like? Different to all the others

What photos is it using? stolen or stock images

What headlines are they sharing? Ridiculous and funny headlines 

Do you think this is A fake or real website?  Fake

The daily mail: real

What does the website look like? Like a normal website

What photos is it using? looks like out of a magazine  

What headlines are they sharing? long and boring but realistic 

Do you think this is A fake or real website? real

The daily mash: Fake

What does the website look like? like a normal real website

What photos is it using? stock images 

What headlines are they sharing? funny and clearly fake

Do you think this is A fake or real website?  Fake

The herald: real

What does the website look like? A legit website

What photos is it using? real photos

What headlines are they sharing? realistic serious headlines 

Do you think this is A fake or real website?  real

The shovel:Fake

What does the website look like? like a normal website

What photos is it using? stole and stock images

What headlines are they sharing? funny and fake

Do you think this is A fake or real website? Fake

Daily Telegragh: real

What does the website look like? every other website

What photos is it using? real images 

What headlines are they sharing? real long and boring 

Do you think this is A fake or real website? real

5 ways to check is its Factual or Satirical:
1. Are the headlines ridiculous and funny or long serious and a little boring.
2. Are the photos they are using photo shopped or stock images or are the real photos from real news story's
3.  Are they using good language or bad language. while looking over the websites most fake websites had bad language use.
4. Take notice of there name and what font its in. most fake news sources have funny or just dumb names.
5.  Read between the lines on there story's. uses your critical literacy skills while looking on websites.

What am I learning? critical literacy 

How does this show my learning? by me taking the time to go through all websites and find what is real and what is fake

What am I wondering? How many fake websites are there.

Fake news in critical literacy ??

In English today we were asked to play a game called fake news. it was pretty cool.

Then we were asked to write definitions of some vocabulary. here are some vocabulary that I heard a lot over the past two lessons and the definitions to help you understand.

    

What I'm learning? Critical literacy 

How does this show my learning? With my google drawing and my work

what I'm wondering? Why people in the real world are so manipulating.

Critical literacy

Today in English we watched two videos and that video that most interested me was the last one.

It was about a girl that was explaining critical media literacy. She showed a couple of different photos.
she showed the original photo and then the photo after they had read through the lines and re wrote it to show what they were really implying in the image.

My favourite part about the video was then she was talking about how when she was younger she wanted to be wonder woman and she wanted to have the golden lasso of truth, I related to that as I would love to have the golden lasso as well.

If I had to ask the girl one thing I would probably ask her why she is a speaker and what made her what to do that as a job

What am I learning? I am learning about critical literacy
How does this show my learning? This shows my learning be me showing my thought on this video
What am I wondering? I am wondering why she added in the wonder woman part.