Reflection Section

 Text Title: Man wins court battle against son over his deceased wife will 

 Text Type: News Artical 

 Text Creator: Marine Lourens

 Critcal Literacy Question: What is the text about and how do we know

 Date: 28th september 2021

 

 A man has won a legal battle to have his deceased wife’s will declared valid after a judge previously refused Grace Li-Fang Tang and her husband Billy Yuen-Kuen Sun migrated from Taiwan to New Zealand in 1993 and had two children together Michelle Chin-Jou Sun and Michael Chin-Chen Sun.Tang, 58, was discovered dead in her home in January 2018. It was later determined she died from a brain haemorrhage.

The text is about a dad who won a court case over his son for his deaceased wife will I know this because in the text it states that a man has won a leagal battle to have his deceased wifes will over his son.

Reflection Section: Stuff

Text Title: Mother who laced young son's milk with toxins sentenced to 11 months' home detention

Text Type: Article 

Text Creator: Catrin Owen

Text Purpose: To inform people about the mother her laced her own child's milk

Date: Aug 13, 2021

Summary:A woman who researched “drugs that can kill toddlers” before she laced milk with a toxic concoction and gave it to her young child while he was in hospital has been sentenced to 11 months’ home detention.On Friday, Justice Christine Gordon continued the woman’s interim name suppression and sentenced her to 11 months’ home detention, subject to a number of special conditions, including not to associate or contact the victims without approval.The woman is also not allowed to be alone with children under the age of 16 without a suitable adult.

 Text Title: Students feel violated after school installs camera in female bathroom

Text Type: Article 

Text Creator: SInead Gill

Text Purpose: To inform us about the students at Queen Elizabeth College Feeling violated.

Date: Aug 05, 2021

Summary: The school Queen Elizabeth College are putting cameras in a school bathroom and students feel uncomfortable in bathrooms and now would rather hold in then go to bathrooms and the parents were confused on why they put a camera in the girls bathroom the school said it was because of the vandalism problem within the toilets but the students and parents both said they didn't know of any vandalism in the toilets just a few mold spots on the roof that was already there and they said that they would delete the footage of the students in there from the first weeks and students are worried for other students because what if they dont know there a camera in there and they start getting dressed either way the school said they would put up a sign and that would be the end of and if there were no more vandalism in the toilets they would take the camera out of the toilets 

Reflection Section Term 2 Week 5

  Text Title: Romeo And Juliet

   Text Type: Play

   Text Creator: William Shakespeare

   Text Purpose: To Entertain 

   Date: 4/6/21

   Critical Literacy Question: What is the text about how do we know

In class recently we were reading romeo and Juliet and I was reading the play as the Chorus in the story      Bravillio was going at romeo and he was talking about showing romeo a beautiful girl and he said that he would fall in love with another girl but romeo said that he wouldn't because he fell in love with Juliet. This part of the text is about Romeo and his love for Juliet and Bravillio tryna prove that he is truly not in love even doe he knows it might not work.

Reflection Section Week 4 Term 2

  Text Title: Romeo And Juliet

   Text Type: Play

   Text Creator: William Shakespeare

   Text Purpose: To Entertain 

   Date: 28/5/21

   Critical Literacy Question: What is the text about how do we know

The text is about a young couple in love in a era where love is not real and there gangs that there family raised them into hating each other but they just clicked when they meet and yea. How we know that the text is about that well if you look at the text they literally say that and thats also so how we know that.

Reflection Section Denzel Washington

 Denzel Washington Life Advice 

Source: Motivational Madness 

21st May 2021 

Purpose: to motivate his fans and tell his life story

In this video that we watched a today is Denzel Washington giving motivational speech and telling his life story in this motivational speech he is talking about falling forward instead of falling backward so at least when you fall forward you can see where your landing and what you are hitting and how he tried to go to an audition and didn't get the part and kept on trying and then he 30 years later went to the same theatre to perform and got a Oscar for it.

In whose interest is the texts
The text or video clip interest would be for some one whose feeling a bit down in life right now and is not happy where they are in life right now.

What kind of language is used in the text?
the type of language that is uplifting and will make you feel motivated to do something with your life they type of language to make you feel better about.

Reflection Section (The Freedom Writers)

 Text Title: Freedom Writers

 Text Type: Film 

 Text Creator: Stanly Nelson JR

 Critical Literacy Questions: What do the photos suggest

What was the Freedom Writers about.Well it was about a group of kids and a teacher named Erin Gruwell at first she was started at a school and started teaching a class who didn't care or want to care about anything she had to say or do but then as the movie progressed the students started to like her even more as she was actually trying to help them be better in life with everything so she went to this museum about the holocaust and that was what I think made them realise just how hard dangerous life can be but you just got to keep on moving forward and never letting the past get to you other wise its just gonna turn out bad for you and then they read the book about Anne Frank and thats when they started to make a real bond with the teacher and they fund raised enough money to get Anne Frank to come speak with the class and during that time Eva was going to court about her boyfriend killed and she was crying up there because she wanted to tell the truth but she couldn't but she did anyway and the teacher Erin was also going through a divorce and yea then the class realised that they wont be with the teacher or junior  year and senior year but they went to the school board or something to let them teach the kids and they were aloud to

The Freedom Writers

What was the Freedom Writers about.Well it was about a group of kids and a teacher named Erin Gruwell. At first she was started at a school and started teaching a class who didn't  care or want to care about anything she had to say or do but then as the movie progressed the students started to like her even more as she was actually trying to help them be better in life with everything so she went to this museum about the holocaust and that was what I think made them realise just how hard dangerous life can be but you just got to keep on moving forward and never letting the past get to you other wise its just gonna turn out bad for you and then they read the book about Anne Frank and thats when they started to make a real bond with the teacher and they fund raised enough money to get Anne Frank to come speak with the class and during that time Eva was going to court about her boyfriend killed and she was crying up there because she wanted to tell the truth but she couldn't but she did anyway and the teacher Erin was also going through a divorce and yea then the class realised that they wont be with the teacher or junior year and senior year but they went to the school board or something to let them teach the kids and they were aloud to.

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Critical Literacy

 The film 'Treaty of Waitangi': What really happened directed by Pete Burger is about the signing of one of our founding documents. It is a dramatisation of the days leading up to the including the signing. We know this through the chiefs arguing and discussing and eventually signing the Treaty. We also know through the films title and voiceover.