Reflection

 Text title: Butterflies
Text type: Short study
Text creator: Patricia Grace
Text purpose: To read about a short story
Date:28/9/21

Summary
In the story, the grandmother plaited her grandaughter's hair for school the granddaughter grab her bag and an apple. Her grandfather was waiting at the door to walk her to school but stop to talk to the neighbor about how his granddaughter goes to school and she lives with him and his wife, then the neighbor says how terrific she looks with two plaits in her hair. The grandfather says how she is clever and writes in her book every day. After school, the girl come home and her grandmother was picking beans as the grandfather was hoeing around the cabbages. The grandmother asked if she brought her book home, then ask her to read it. The granddaughter talk about how she killed butterflies and then was asked about what the teacher thought. the granddaughter said" the teacher said butterflies are beautiful creatures. They hatch out and fly in the sun. The butterflies visit pretty flower she said and they lay their eggs and then they die. You don't kill butterflies, that what she said" The grandfather said" because you see, your teacher she buys all her cabbages from the supermarket and that why"

Critical Literary Question: what do the words suggest?
In the short study 'butterflies' the words suggest that the daughter move in with her grandparents and she write in her notebook every day and that she wrote about how she killed a butterfly but her teacher told he that you can't kill butterflies they die after the grandfather say the teacher buys her cabbages from the supermarket and it ends with him saying and that way.

1900s pakeha attitude toward Maori

In the 1900s fashion was like wearing a long dress and suits.

Pearl Button was the main character. Pearl has a blonde curl, blue eyes, and wearing lots of clothes with white bright teeth. Two Maori women and two Maori men and police were also characters

Pearl is swinging on the gate and sang a little small song. Two Maori women are walking on the road barefoot with a big flax basket of ferns. Then pearl stop swinging and the two Maori women stop when they see her and start talking and waving their hands around and pearl laugh. The two Maori women walk over and ask her questions about her then they told her she coming with them to beautiful things to show her. She follows them but after a while, they ask her if she tried and nodded her head no and they continue walking for a bit before they asked if she was sure she was not tired again she shake her head no but she starts crying and her lips start trembling and one of the women gave her a flax blanket and wraps her up, and carry her. They took her to a one-room house with other Maori women and men.

Shadow dance-Joanna Orwin

Text Title: Shadow dance
Text Type: Short story
Text creator: Joanna Orwin
Text purpose: To read about how there are consequences when you take something that doesn't belong to you.
Critical Literary question: In whose interest is this text?
Date:21/9/21

In the short story "Shadow Dance" by Joanna Orwin was about a boy named Scott who spotted movement on the hill near his house and went to take a look he found some flax matting and took a carving. A few days after the pregnant ewes had their baby lamb a week too soon and not one alive. He returns the curving shortly after and his shadow didn't follow him it stay on the hills with the other shadows dancing as the boy went home. 

Critical literary question answer: People who like reading short stories would be interested in this story.

Yellow Brick Road

Witi Ihimaera was born in Gisborne in New Zealand.

Five publish world have been issue into film-like Kawa.

Yellow Brick Road means to me like the "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" in the wizard of oz.

I think the story is about a journey.

The narrative believes they were moving to wellington so his parent could get jobs and get more money.

In Waituhi is very poor while wellington is where the money is.

The dad tells uncle sam that they want to start a new life and to let the kids have a better life.

The narrative was very happy at the start but near the end, he starts to feel scared.

Emerald city, yellow brick road, flying monkey, tinman, scarecrow, cowardly lion is from the famous book and movie The Wizard of Oz the writer made this comparison because when he got closer he realized it not what it seems but what he realized that he has his family.

Music Piano Reflection

 What have you learned on the keyboard? Say Something

What did you find challenging about learning the keyboard? Doing the left hand at the same time as the right hand.

What have you enjoyed about this instrument? I had enjoy the piano/keyboard because I like how you can add the left hand in.

What instruments would you like to learn next and why? The guitar because I think it would be nice to learn more of it.