Reflection on Speech Unit

• Which steps of the speech unit did you complete? (You can refer to the tracking sheet here.) communication self reflection, reviewing speech techniques, communication self reflection 2

• Which steps did you not finish? all the other ones

• How well did you manage your time in class and at home? not that good

• What have you learned from this process? to focus more

• For our next unit, which is the NCEA static image/poster assessment, what are your goals in terms of the learning process, managing your time, and achievement? getting better at the work

Reflection on the Night Unit

1. What did you learn about Judaism? That there was lots of people that were racist to the Jews.

2. What did you learn about the Holocaust? That the people there had a very low chance of survivors.

3. Do you think you increased your own empathy, integrity and compassion, and how? I felt bad for the people who had to go through that when they thought they had their own say in life

4. Which activities did you enjoy the most? Watching the movie

5. What recommendations do you have for Mrs Torley to change anything if she is teaching this again next year? make the tasks more around learning what they went through

B. Look at other students' blogs and comment on at least three. 

• Give a positive, be specific "I liked the way you…"

• Give a suggestion for something to work on.

BE RESPECTFUL, BE KIND.

'Night' Essay

Describe at least one important technique used in the text.
Explain how the technique created an emotional response in you.

The book I'm going to be talking about is a true book called Night by Elie Wiesel. The techniques he used in this book that I picked up were first person narration, dialogue, repetition, and negative construction. These techniques had an emotional impact on me, making me feel sad, dejected and terrible. Elie Wiesel's autobiography made me think about how those people died and it wasn't their fault for being their religion. Also, why would the Nazis do that to people that haven't done anything wrong? 

One part of the story which affected me was the part where Elie's family was split up. The technique Elie used was first person narration, using the personal pronouns 'I' and 'my''. This shows the event from Elie's point of view as it actually happened to him. "Tzipora was holding mother's hand. I saw them walking farther and farther away; mother was stroking my sister's blond hair, as if to protect her. And I walked on with my father, with the men. I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever. I kept walking, my father holding my hand." This part of the memoir made me feel very crushed because they had to leave their family. Then he knew his family died before him and his father, they got told that a while before his father died. 

Another part which affected me was just before the selection when no one believed the inmate who told them about the gas chambers. The techniques Elie Wiesel used were dialogue and repetition. Elie records the words the inmate said to them, repeating the words 'over there'. This shows us that he is trying to let them know that they might be going to die, but they are not believing him. However, they soon found out they should have believed him, "We didn't know. Nobody had told us. He couldn't believe his ears. His tone became even harsher, 'Over there. Do you see the chimney over there? Do you see it?' " I felt that it was sad that they didn't know about the gas chambers. Luckily, they didn't go into the gas chambers, but sadly so many more did. 

Another part that affected me was at the end of the book when his father died. They didn't have any type of funeral for his family or his cousins. The technique he used was a negative construction of the first two sentences, "No..." emphasising that nothing happened like a normal death. The final sentence starts with a positive phrase and ends with a negative phrase which shows us that he feels bad that he didn't respond to his dad. "No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered." I feel bad for him because he couldn't talk to his father again after that night because they took him away before he woke up. 

World War II was a really bad time for Jewish people because most of them got transported to a concentration camp for something that they couldn't control. Some of the people made it out alive. But a large portion of the Jewish population in Europe died. 89,846 thousand Jewish people were living in Europe when World War II was in progress.

        

Studying 'Night' by Elie Wiesel

Empathy Map 2 - Elie aged 16, at the end of the war

We completed a second Empathy Map looking at what Elie was like at the end of the war. Elie was a Jew who was locked up in world war 2. He was in world war 2 locked up in Poland for 4 years before he was let out by them when the United States Of America was coming close to the camp site. He was with his dad when he died but the rest of his family left them because they were hiding in a bunker before they had to get onto the rain way trains where they took them to Auschwitz. It was sad when he had to leave his family behind to stay alive even though he knew all of his family was already dead. It was nice to know that he still believed in the god after the war that he was raised up to believe. We aren't all the same but we can all be kind to one another. The most important thing about the book is that you have to be kind to people if they're going through tough times.

dora art work

 this is my get creative Dora art, I drew it because i wanted to draw Dora. Its vary easy to draw so that is why i drew it.go try to draw it yourself and have you drawn Dora before?

inspirational quotes

 These are some inspirational quotes that i found for a task from my teacher. do you read quotes and whats you favourite quote?

research project about Glow Worms

 

 

this is my research project that i did for what i saw at camp this year 

it is about Glow Worms that live in damp dark caves. The purpose was to write the information we read in our own words. Have you seen Glow Worms before?