My Slave Diary Entry 4

Dear Diary,

auction

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It was a long trip, from Africa all the way to America. It was very smelly, sweat and urgh…it just stinks! Lots of us died on the way. Most of us got punished when we talk or sing! We love singing when we worked, but the White people wouldn’t allow. :@.After that long trip, we have arrived America. What a big country it is. I always want to travel America, a great thing to experience. But, here I am a slave. Those white people brought us to a room where we’re going to be coated with oil, to make us look shiny and healthy, so that the White people won’t see any scars or white patches. It hurts a lot. Then, we were thrown into a big cage and I realised it was in an auction. It was full of White and White people! They were going to sell us! I don’t want to leave my friends. :( That’s not fair! After a while, I was sold to a woman. So, I was in a carriage, but it was not sitting in a carriage. It was standing in the back of the carriage. The White people were being mean to us! I wished I could run away, but I can't. As being slaves, we have a law. This law is very serious one. It includes the rule when we're trying to run away, we will be branded with a iron. I wish my owners are nice to me. I'm going to have a busy day tomorrow, from early morning to take care of the cotton field and worked as a maid in the afternoon. So, I better get some sleep.

 

 

My Slave Diary Entry 3

in the boat-the white people are being mean to us

Dear Diary,

   I was right. My sister and I were separated. I was chained up, from head to toe. I was with some of friends, but most of them were males. It was smelly, and disgusting (urgh!). After a while, I was unchained, but my friends and I have to break our thumbs. I was really scared but that’s was they wanted to do. We screamed but failed again. Luckily, I don’t have to break my thumbs, but going to send the captain. I am going to be sent to the captain after dinner. Meanwhile, the males have to exercise, but the workers on the ship threw water at them. They threw water at the scars. It hurts because they’ve been hit a lot.  Some of them cried and some screamed.

  Below the deck, the stench is making me sick that I wanted to die. Some of them died and they were thrown into the sea full with sharks. At dinner, it was terrible. The food was just white stickiness, look like sticky rice. It tastes terrible. After dinner, that stupid first mate just unchained me and pulled me to the Captain’s room. The Captain was furious that the first mate brought me here. After that, he left the room so in the room only the Captain and me. He asked me questions but I am not dared to answer them. He seemed to look nice, unlike the First Mate. I was scared that I couldn’t even speak. After that, the Captain called the first mate to bring me back to the deck.Urgh…Everything in the boat is terrible!! :@

My Slave Diary Entry 2

Dear Diary,

   Today was creepy. My sister and I left to mind the house. Suddenly, two men and a woman came up from nowhere, trying to capture us. We ran and ran, even though we were so tired. We ran until we came into a land where nobody was there, but surrounded by those people that were chasing us.

   We tried to scream for help, but we failed. Those people whipped us and we both felt back. Quickly, they stuffed both of us into a sack each. We were far away apart and I bet that our parents are going to so worried that we’re missing. I was really scared. I have no way but following the road that I am going-to be captured.

Aduor

My Slave Diary Entry 1

peaceful life in Africa

Dear Diary,

    Today was great! Life is peaceful and just…great! Even though our family is poor, we still in a community and help each other. My daily life was just taking care of the animals, especially the goats. That’s how we get our food from-hunting, fishing. We can’t plant vegetables and fruits because of the weather. The weather in Ghana is in December to February is the dry season. The temperature is day temperature is 27-36^oC and in night temperature is 18-26^oC. The hottest dry season is in July and August. The rainy season is from April to June, which shows that this weather is not good for planting plants. We don’t wear clothes like in other countries. We just wear a long piece of calico, wrapped around our body.

     I am really happy that I got a life being simple, even though we are poor.

     Today, my parents sent my sister and me to a teacher that I have to dance for the boys who are becoming men. I think that I have to propose for them for marriage. Oh well, I have not idea but it’s fun.

 

     After practising our dance moves, we went to a land and perform in front the men. After that, my parents show my sister and me to a house that they created for us. I was really happy.

Aduor          

British Empire Group Poster

The Questions :)


1.What was the key focus of this learning opportunity?
The key focus was about the British Empire, showing an example of Australia ( that was my group did :) )


2.How did you work as a group?


(i)Did you allocate specific roles?  Why?  How? 
    Yes, I help to design the poster. Haniza and Zoe did their research and Ubennyah find pictures to go with the poster. 


(ii) Did everyone work well?
    Yes, everyone had contributed.


(iii) Do you think you worked as a team? Why or why not?
      Yes, because we worked together to finish the poster and looked as we expected.


(iv) Did you achieve your group success criteria?
     Not really. 
    


3. What could your group have done to develop your teamwork skills?
 Some of us, like Ubennyah, had finished her work and helped each other and help each other in my group. This shows that helping each other showed some teamwork skills. 


4. What did you learn from this learning opportunity?  This may be about the topic, or about yourself as a learner.
 I learned about how British Empire used the land in Australia, what benefits they get from Australia, and the history of Australia.


5. What value did this learning have?
  I love Australia a lot. Learning about the history of Australia sparks my interest and interests me a lot. 


6. What could you do to improve your learning? 
   To improve my learning, I should do my own study about Australia so that I know about more about the history of Australia.

Actively Listening(Brazil a Land of Contrast) question 3 and 4

3. Answer question 7a, b,c,d as fully as you can.

4. a) How can this task help develop your learning?

    b) What targets could you set to develop you learning?

3) 7. Answer the following questions thinking about what it was like doing the task.

    a) Was your drawing good (accurate)?

        It was good, but it's not accurate because I didn't know that there is a house or building in the middle.

   b) Was your partner drawing good (accurate)?

        It was good, but it's not accurate too because I didn't describe well for her to draw the picture out.

   c) Did you find it easy to describe you picture?

      No, because I didn't further using the descriptive words, like density population. I just use "shallow"  

      words.

   d) Did you find it easier to listen(draw) or describe? Why?

       I find to listen(draw) easier than describing because my partner uses descriptive words that I could

       understand and easier for me to draw it out.

4. a) How can this task help develop your learning?

        This task could help me to learn how to describe a picture using descriptive words. 

    b) What targets could you set to develop you learning?

         The targets that I would set myself are:

         >o< using descriptive words

         >o< looking into further details in the future to be able get descriptive words.

Actively Listening(Brazil a Land of Contrast) question 1 and 2

1. Explain what this task "actively listening is. What did you have to do? What skills did you use? How?

2. Upload a scan of you picture and copy of the original.

1. This task is about drawing a picture that our partner that is describing, then our partner will draw what are we describing. The skills that we have to use are listening and describing because we need to listen what our partner is describing and describing so that our partner could listen and draw the picture. 

<-- the original                  the picture that I drew-->