2. Find your own poem and analyse, place it in your supplementary page on your wordpress.

Black Land Whiteman’s Land

We gave you everything?

Alcohol
Disease
Racial abuse
Half casts
Homelessness
Sadness
Stolen children
Broken families
Poverty

You gave us all we could take

Land

Are you not our wealth givers?
Everywhere a black footprint
Everywhere a block in Toorak
Everywhere a white millionaire
On black land

This poem called “Black Land Whiteman’s Land” is about the Aboriginals not getting enough as the white people are, who’s lands is it realy? Why can the white people walk on our land?What did you realy give us? Was it land? You gave us all we can take. I can understand now how you gave us everything. Thanks for sadness, piverty and disease.(This all coming from an Aboriginal point of view)

This is supported by a nuber of techniques throughout the poem. 

The poet sets this out purposely to show that he/she is speaking from both Aboriginals and white Australians point of view. Also the poet uses retorical questions throughout the poem, which allows the reader to think and question themselves. For example, in the opening line the poet states the retorical question ”We gave you everything?” sycastically as an Aboriginal, but cleary shows the way he/she feels on how Australians would approach or their attitudes about the Aboriginal cultures. The poet is trying to send a message to the white Australians saying ” you gave us everything, but realy the only thing you gave are thing that made our lives more frustrating, difficult and it destroyed us”.  This will be good for my supplemantry material to show how the white people treated the Aborigonals by giving the them diseases, poverty, alcahol and sadness.

Another technique the poet uses is that she speaks for all Aborigonals, using words like, us and we which allows the reader to experience a deeper and personal understanding. The writer speaks on behalf of her community and the way they feel about this situation, cleary showing the reader a broader example of their thoughts and the way the Australian society comes across to them. This material can be used as a supplementary material as the poet speaks on behalf of the Aborigonals and gives the poem a depper meaning and understanding of whats going on.

Inconclusion some Aborigonals died from what the white Australians gave them, such as disease and poverty, but only very few died. The white people had no way to take over this land and until this year no one has said sorry the the Aborigonals for what theyve done in the past. The writer speaks on behalf of her community and the way they feel about this situation, cleary showing the reader a broader example of their thoughts and the way the australian society comes across to them.

1. What is meant by the 10 – 20 – 30 rule.

Must have 10 slides because it gets boring and must only take 20 minutes, the smallest font should be 30, because it looks small to people, plus it forces youto put the core on the slide, it forces you to read from the slide.
2. Explain why it is important to make sure that you are effective in the presentation of your nominee.

It is important because you need to have the people focused and listening and wanting to learn about your nominee, so the only way to do this is to keep the presentation short, simple, effective and fun.

1. Complete the following poetry analysis and discuss why it is an important piece of supplementary material. Submit your analysis online. This poem cannot be used as part of your submitted supplementary material on your wordpress.We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal

WE ARE GOING

The poem ‘We Are Going’ is about the forced disconnection between the Aboriginals and the white Australians.  The white people have taken away the Aboriginals land and their bora ring, (The bora ring is a religious and a cultural symbol in the Aboriginal society) which as a result has the Aboriginal traditions and cultural cermonies have been taken away. The poet states they that were part of the dreamtime, signifying that they are a piece of the past and feel as though their real selves dont exist in the present time, as though their beliefs and customs are not worthy of appreciation or acknowledgment.

This poem mainly talks about the disconnection the the white Australians and Aboriginals. Certain sections of this poem hold significant information which could most definitely be used as an important piece of supplementary material. This is supported by a number of techniques shown throughout the poem, ‘We Are Going’.

The whole poem is set out as a metaphor because it gives us a deeper perspective of the aboriginals, and by writing a metaphor as the whole poem gives us a deeper meaning. For example “we are of the old days”. The poet also gives us a detailed description of what they were going through. They were very angry, upset, frustrated and annoyed because there religion, culture, animals, home and life were taken away from them. It can be used as an important piece of supplementary material as it broadens the aboriginal culture in experience.

This poem proves to be an important piece of supplementary piece of material as it explains the emotions of Aboriginals and the way they felt. This is evident in the simile “white man hurry about like ants”. I can use this as additional material to show evidence of the feelings of the aboriginal tribes.

Another reason why this poem is an important piece of supplementary piece of material is that it shows the deep feelings of Aboriginals were going through. Aboriginals were trying to make a clear statement on how they felt on the situation. This is shown through the technique of repetition, “The eagle is gone/The bora ring is gone/The corroboree is gone”. This clearly shows that bit by bit a piece of their land and soul metaphorically was taken away from them and now must leave themselves.

Inconclusion, the Aboriginals had no choice but to leave their old life (past) and start are new life (future) which they were not familiar with or were not sure of what to do and how to live.

2. Find your own poem and analyse, place it in your supplementary page on your wordpress.

Black Land Whiteman’s Land

We gave you everything?

Alcohol
Disease
Racial abuse
Half casts
Homelessness
Sadness
Stolen children
Broken families
Poverty

You gave us all we could take

Land

Are you not our wealth givers?
Everywhere a black footprint
Everywhere a block in Toorak
Everywhere a white millionaire
On black land

This poem called “Black Land Whiteman’s Land” is about the Aboriginals not getting enough as the white people are, who’s lands is it realy? Why can the white people walk on our land?What did you realy give us? Was it land? You gave us all we can take. I can understand now how you gave us everything. Thanks for sadness, piverty and disease.(This all coming from an Aboriginal point of view)

This is supported by a nuber of techniques throughout the poem. 

The poet sets this out purposely to show that he/she is speaking from both Aboriginals and white Australians point of view. Also the poet uses retorical questions throughout the poem, which allows the reader to think and question themselves. For example, in the opening line the poet states the retorical question ”We gave you everything?” sycastically as an Aboriginal, but cleary shows the way he/she feels on how Australians would approach or their attitudes about the Aboriginal cultures. The poet is trying to send a message to the white Australians saying ” you gave us everything, but realy the only thing you gave are thing that made our lives more frustrating, difficult and it destroyed us”.  This will be good for my supplemantry material to show how the white people treated the Aborigonals by giving the them diseases, poverty, alcahol and sadness.

Another technique the poet uses is that she speaks for all Aborigonals, using words like, us and we which allows the reader to experience a deeper and personal understanding. The writer speaks on behalf of her community and the way they feel about this situation, cleary showing the reader a broader example of their thoughts and the way the Australian society comes across to them. This material can be used as a supplementary material as the poet speaks on behalf of the Aborigonals and gives the poem a depper meaning and understanding of whats going on.

Inconclusion some Aborigonals died from what the white Australians gave them, such as disease and poverty, but only very few died. The white people had no way to take over this land and until this year no one has said sorry the the Aborigonals for what theyve done in the past. The writer speaks on behalf of her community and the way they feel about this situation, cleary showing the reader a broader example of their thoughts and the way the australian society comes across to them.

26th Feburary

Present:

Jason Chammas
Charles Coorey
George Thomas
Peter Diana

Absent:

Justin Nacua      

We accomplished everything from last meeting.

Our group are discussing and preparing on the aboriginal pass, present, and the future, WHY? It is because Darryl Melham is coming to our school and asking questions about aboriginals, we got to be prepared.

• Jesus is trying to forgive those who sin against us, an example is The Parable of the unmerciful servant, The master canceled the debt the poor servent owed him, But later on he got tortued by the jailers.

22th Feburary.

Present:
Jason Chammas
Charles Coorey
George Thomas
Peter Diana

Absent: Justin Nacua

We accomplished everything from last meeting.

Our group meeting today went for 3 minutes and we were discussing about what we need to finish such as:
We hope to finish off our coverletter and check if theirs any mistakes or spelling errors by next thursday, also hope to send in the preamble final draft by thursday. Each student in the group must complete their individual assesment on poetry over the weekened.

Evaluate your contribution to the group and your own work ethic?

My contribution for the team has been great, i have been a bit lazy when i finished my 300 words on the stolen generation, I’ve completed my journals and up to date, I also completed and uploaded the minutes for when our group has a meeting. I think i have been working hard but not hard enough, I’ve got to push myself harder and harder to complete my social studies assessment and have no further stress or worry about it.

What did you find your strengths and weaknesses were?

 My strengths are writing documents on the aboriginal people, i was the person who did the second most words on it, and my topic was the “stolen generation”, also i love doping journals for social studies because its very esasy, and im very good at it. My weaknesses are uploaded the group minutes after a meeting, it is hard when the group doesnt co-operate and dont talk about the topic, but they arnt the only thing, i have trouble remembering want we talked about, and its hard to get a laptop to write in before i forget the words. i sometinmes forget to even write the minutes and remember the next day, so its harder for me to remember over 2 days.

which part of the exposition are you responsible for?

My part for the exposition is to complete a 200 word document on the stolen gheneration, who,what,when, and how this happened.

What supplementary material are you using to back up your thesis points (your argument)?

The supplementary material i have been using is the videos from youtube, i have put on 3 girls who were taken away by officers, i know understand more about what they do to them when in the process of taking them.

Task 3:

Our group considers Catherine Hamlin inspiring for all her great things she has done for the needy. She built a free hospital for poor woman who cant afford to pay money if they get ill after giving birth, and also for building a school in Ethiopia of midwifery.

But why is this inpiring?

She fits the criteriua of being inspiring.

What is the criteria for being inspiring?

• look up to her
• loving
• caring
• honorable
• admiring

18th Feburary.

Present:

• Justin Nacua
• Jason Chammas
• Charles Coorey
• George Thomas
• Peter Diana

Absent:

No one

We accomplished everything from last meeting.

Today everyone needs to complete their individual work, they need to finish off the 200 words and put it on Justin Nacua’s USB. Tomorrow the group must complete the draft for the cover letter.

An expostion is set as:

• Introduction
• Body
• Conclusion