Ed Chatterton.

 

One of his books.




Today Ed Chatterton come to our school.
He has been writing and illustrating children's books

 for twenty five years.

I'm a black fella work

 Over the past few weeks, we have been working on this poem. We had to do all questions then we had to perform it to our teacher and principal

I’m a blackfella - Steven Oliver

VOCABULARY

1. Place each word from the box in a gap to complete one of the six sentences below. See if you can do this without a dictionary.

condone

stereotypes

savage

beseech

noble

formulate

1. We decided not to - formulate- a new mathematical solution - one that no one had ever done before.

2. If you say, “All the people from that country are lazy”, you are only using   -stereotypes- .

3. We do not -condone- such naughty and unnecessary behavior in this school.

4. The soldier was extremely violent and we soon began to see that he was just a savage.

5. I beseech you, please do not misbehave in class. Be sensible and help the teacher!

6. When someone is of high standing and always behaves well, we call them noble.

2. Decide whether each of these words is a verb, adjective or noun. Highlight your choice.

1. condone verb/adjective/noun

2. stereotypes verb/adjective/noun

3. savage verb/adjective/noun

4. beseech verb/adjective/noun

5. noble verb/adjective/noun

6. formulate verb/adjective/noun

LANGUAGE AND LAYOUT

1. Does this poem rhyme?It does. If so, what is the rhyme scheme - that is., is the rhyme in pairs (aa,bb and so on) or is it irregular? Irregular sometimes it rimes aa bb. What effect does the rhyme have on the poem as you read and listen to it?It is like a rap and it is intresting it drows you in. 

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2. Look for examples of internal rhyme - where words on the same line rhyme. What effect does this have on the way you read and listen to the poem?                                                                                               Slake fella and smack fella” It makes the poeme cachy

3. Can you identify any slang words? What effect do they have on this poem? Ain’t and fella they make the story more realistic.

4. Which line is repeated? Why does the poet repeat it?

           I’m a blackfella not a drunk criminal.He repeted this line to make a statement and get it in our brane.

5. This poem has no stanza or verse breaks. What effect does this have when you read through the poem? No the poem has no stanza breaks in it. It makes the poem flow better.

UNDERSTANDING AND EVALUATION

1. What does the poet say he is throughout this poem? Not a blackfella.

2. What does the poet say he is not throughout this poem? a drunk criminal.

3. How would you describe the poet’s emotions throughout this poem? Angry strong.

4. What does the poet say about how other people see him? That he is just a drunk black criminal.

5. Who do you think you are throughout the poem? What does the poet want them to do? Listen to what has to say and not to make fun of him because he is just a person.

6. What do you think the poet is saying with these lines: But the drunk white man who stumbles and falls/Oh, he’s not a reflection of a race at all? 

 That most of the time they don’t pick out the white men and women but they pick out the black men and women.

7. What is the problem the poet refers to in his final line? What is the solution? Think back to your discussion in the warm-up section.

That this world can be very unfear and he is telling us that we need to stand up for each other and face the problem.

8. What two lines do you think sum up the poet’s overall theme? The first and the 4 to last lines.

9. Evaluate this poem in one or two sentences. That is, state if you like the poem or not and why.                                                                  

Yes, I do like this poem it is a very real problem that is not being fixed. 

FOLLOW UP

Practice and perform this poem in small groups.

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road safety

Kayaking

 23/3/2020 

Kayaking

My kayaking adventure from Cloughs Road doublecrossing to our swimming hole, we left home at one-thirty pm expecting to arrive home at three-thirty pm.

 I went kayaking It was me, Bro and Jack. I was in my own kayak and Bro and Jack shared one, we had been paddling for about half an hour we came across the first bridge it was really creepy we had to get out of the kayak to get over all the broken sticks. Once we got onto the other side we kept paddling for about ten minutes we then found the Clough Road water hole, it looked like a scene from a movie it was so pretty the water was see-through.

We paddled for quite a while  dodging sticks and floating logs. It was hard but we did it. It was so pretty.  

The scenery was amazing. I have never seen anything like it before. It was something I would definitely do again. 

 

Deforestation

 Deforestation

Deforestation happens when people are cutting down too many trees. It also happens when trees die because of many other things like diseases and wildfires. Which is causing climate change to get even worse. 

Trees are very important to our health because they store carbon and replace it with oxygen. But a lot of the time it is happening in the Amazon rainforest where people are destroying the rainforest by cutting down trees at the rate of 30 football pitches per minute. And one of the biggest wildfires happened in the Amazon Rainforest. 

You can help stop deforestation by not cutting down trees and help to fundraise money, so the government can buy more trees to plant. You can also help stop deforestation by looking after trees and making sure you're only using fallen trees for firewood. So that you don't have to cut any down. 

Why Plastic Pollution Is A Global Problem

 Why Plastic Pollution Is A Global Problem

Plastic pollution is causing the death of most marine life, like seagulls, turtles, sharks, dolphins, and whales. And without these animals the Ocean will not be able to survive. Like sharks that eat the fish, and this stops the Ocean having too many fish.

Plastic pollution is causing sea life to die so people are killing the fish. And at this rate there are not going to be any fish in the ocean for us to eat.

In 2015 whales started dying because of plastic pollution.  Now over 200,000 whales have died because of this, it is not a nice environment for them to live in. Just imagine, you get up every morning and to get to the other room you had to climb over lots of plastic. Not many people would like to live like that. But this is how a lot of animals are living. That is why we should not litter, because it will reflect badly on us and kill a lot of marine life.    

Plastic pollution is one of the world’s biggest problems and we need to fix it as soon as possible. Or eventually it will kill our planet. 

We could work on reducing the amount of plastic we use daily to help all our animals. Live happy plastic-free lives. And that means that they can live a healthier life.

By Tamzyn