Unfamiliar Text on "Limestone" and "We Are The Tenants"

Choose 1 question for each text. Respond in your blogs.

“Limestone”

• Explain how the structure of the piece relies on the motif of journey (recurring references to journeys). Give details from the text to support your answer.

• Explain how contrasts of ideas are important in the passage. Give details from the text to support your answer.

“We are the tenants”

• With close reference to the text, discuss the poet’s use of imagery to describe the North.

• With close reference to the text, discuss the significance of the different verb tenses in the poem.

  
  

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  • Compare and contrast the ways the writers use pronouns to control viewpoint in each text. Give details from each text to support your answer.

  • Compare and contrast the attitude to departure and arrival presented in each text. Give details from the texts to support your answer.

We are the tenants 

In this poem we can see that the Kapka Kassabova is trying to convey the idea of hopelessness. What Kassabova was trying to portray in this poem is how some people experience extreme poverty and how these people do not have the power to control over their lives. Kassabova had used a group of immigrants who had the expectation of the North Island as being a peaceful and an easy place to live. The director had used a wide range of figurative language features in order for the readers to have that image of how disappointing it was being in their position up in the North. The director had used simile: "The hills are packed like cement." in this line we see how the director had emphasised the image of what the characters expectation to North. In this poem Kassabova had provided a wide range of figurative languages so that the readers would understand what the characters life was like in the poem. He also managed to convey the image of how their life is like compared to others. As he explains how they did not have a permanent house and they always move house that's why he quoted that "Old mails piles up, their lives were temporary". This tells us that their lives were full of disappointment and how they are so hopeless. The ideas in this poem is like what is going on in time places in this world. As more people are living in a poverty and they are hopeless.

Comparing and Contrasting Two Texts

With close reference to the two texts, compare the ways the sea and the things associated with it are important in both texts "Lament" and "Dreamers".

The text Lament indicates the theme of grieving and this was shown by including variety of tones in order to help the readers understand the situation of the character in the poem. Glenn Colquhoun had applied language features such as similes, metaphor, personification, and repetition in order to emphasise the mood setting. Colquhoun had expressed the character in the poem by making the mood melancholic and has used the images and themes of the Sea. Whereas in the text Dreamers by Brian E Turner where it has the similar theme of coastal setting. Turner had also utilised the same language features in order to convey the melancholic tone.

Discussing & Annalysing

Lament

• A lament is an expression of sadness. With close reference to the text, discuss the style used in the non-italicised section of the poem to convey this sadness.

• By close reference to the text, analyse how the writer uses techniques to narrate the poem’s story in the italicised text.

The poem “Lament” conveys an expression of sadness in which Glenn Colquhoun uses different kinds of aspects to support his main purpose and idea. Colquhoun utilizes a variety of techniques to provide the readers some ideas in which helps them have a better understanding of what the poem is about. An example where Colquhoun uses a feature such as assonance and simile in the part where it says “The sea hides beneath his boat”. In this part of the poem it conveyed the idea of depression and loneliness of a person. The way that this was applied is to help the viewers feel what the character in that poem was going through. The intended audience for this poem is for those who have been going through melancholy and sadness. This is so people could relate and realise that it is not only them who are experiencing this kind of stuff.

 

PBL

                                               First action plan

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
Contact Couplands and ask them if they can donate chocolate muffins to sell around the area to make money to get baskets full of food for the homeless.	They won’t let us go in the property we will have to think of another place to go.	Teacher won’t let us go we will have to think of another idea. Parents won’t let us go we will just have to stay on school grounds.	Ethan Sahil Moses sh	When we it is due.

                                       Second action plan

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
Get a raffle basket students can pay $2 to win a raffle baskets with prizes in them.	Do a survey of cheap things to get and get year 10s to do the survey so we can buy the prizes. Letting year 10s out of class to pay the money	Teacher’s not letting students out of class to pay to win the raffle baskets. So we could do it at dean's assembly. Students not doing the survey. Just grab a bunch of cheap stuff and put it in the raffle Baskets and whatever they get they get.	Ethan Shikane Moses Sahil	When it is due.

                                                 Third action plan

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
Earn the money and start buying baskets and food from Pak N Save and putting them into baskets to give to the homeless.	Letting us out of school grounds to go to Pak N Save Have enough money to buy baskets and food	Not letting us of school Not enough money to buy supplies so we will have to buy the supplies with our own money or come up with another idea to fundraise.	Moses Ethan Shikane Sahil	When it is due.

Fourth and final action plan!

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
Going out and handing out the baskets with food	Letting us out of school grounds Gather all the baskets with food from the safe place.	Not letting us out of school. Not finding any homeless people The baskets get lost.	Shikane Moses Ethan Sahil	When it is due

Make it happen, put your second plan into action!

Remember to take videos and pictures for your blog.

Photo of action	nothing
Date	Novenmer 27 - 29
ACTION TAKEN?	We contact couplands and pak n’ save to ask for sausages and bread
OUTCOME?	They said that we have to pay $40 for the sausages and bread. We didn’t have enough money.
ENABLERS?	No money
dISABLERS?	So we did not have enough money so we just gave up.
reflection	So we were still stuck on what we should do.

 

Photo of action
Date	December 5 2017
ACTION TAKEN?	So volunteer to pick rubbish around school with my group
OUTCOME?	So we took pictures of the places, before  and after then we manage to fill the plastic bag.
ENABLERS?	We had plastic bags and gloves
dISABLERS?	Nothing really
reflection	We managed to cleaned some places around the school

these are the pictures!

PBL

Group name and who is in your group?  Moses, Sahil, Ethan and Shikane

Topic you chose? Homeless

Describe the issue that you chosen? we chose this topic so we could help homeless people by fundraising.




What sites you have chosen?

Website Name	Link	Date we accessed site
CentrePoint	https://centrepoint.org.uk/	13/11/2017
Crisis	https://www.crisis.org.uk/	13/11/2017
HomeLess Link	http://www.homeless.org.uk/	13/11/2017
Naming New Zealand	http://www.naming.nz/homeless	13/11/2017
The People’s Project	https://www.thepeoplesproject.org.nz/homelessness	13/11/2017
Joy Junction	http://www.joyjunction.org/issues-facing-people-experiencing-homelessness/	14/11/2017
Homelessness	http://depts.washington.edu/triolive/quest/2007/TTQ07033/solutions.html	14/11/2017

Who is affected?

More than 150,000 young people ask for help with homelessness every year. Causes of homelessness are family arguments, Relationship arguments, Or being told or kicked out of their home, family violence. Children that have nowhere to go or express their feelings are having problems with depression and anxiety. High rates of people that are homeless lost their job or have no one to go to. They can’t afford food, clean Water or a nice place to stay. they have to stay and they have to sleep on bridges, streets and dangerous alleyways.

What are the issue?

Food and shelter Insecurity:  The lack of shelter, coupled with food insecurity (not knowing where the next meal is coming from), only makes it more difficult for those experiencing homelessness to get back on their feet.

Health Care Insecurity :  Many people who are experiencing homelessness do have some sort of income. Since many people experiencing homelessness do not have a regular income, health care is more difficult to obtain. People who are spending their nights in homeless shelters, the streets, abandoned buildings, or even on the couch at a friend or family member’s home.

The homeless is going to have a hard time to get a job since they don’t have a proper place to stay with food clean water and  sleep.

When did it start?

The problem of homelessness at that period was a result of the King Philip’ War Of 1675-1676 against he native people. But as the war continued between the French and Indians, the securities of some families were threatened and forced many families to become refugees across the frontier areas like New England and New York. Many war veterans remained unemployed and others lost their properties to war and natural catastrophes, they spent most of their times in the streets.

How has it progressed?

The Progression of homelessness has slowly decreased and increased. Decreased because of all the company’s helping these there are in need for a cozy nonviolent house with fresh food and water

Increased because all the war and conflict in the world and people being involved in violent ways and treated differently to others and with bills and rates and wages for houses have gone up a lot of people can’t afford it and or have lost their job.

Creative Writing

                  Creative Writing

Moses Velano

English 10HL

7 - 09 - 2017

I was walking home one evening, just as the sun began to set behind the distant hills, I saw this strange village from a distance. Wearing my gucci sneakers and supreme jacket, I sprinted down the road. Breathing heavily, eager to explore this isolated town. Running, skipping, steps and a few more steps. I made it. As I was walking through the spooky village i saw a peculiar house. Reluctantly, I approached the house as my curiosity is killing me….

“The box. The door. The crumbling brick. It begged me to enter.”

So I entered…

Unexpectedly, the house was pretty inside with lots of colorful things. As dead as the outside was, the inside was alive. There was a boombox playing a whimsical tune,  a rainbow colored cake, assorted candies, glow in the dark objects and there were even toys! But my excitement stopped when i saw a red balloon. It made me think of creepy clowns that have white foundations on their faces, bulbous red nose, excessively applied red lipstick on their lips, sharp teeth, rainbow curly hairs and ugly costume. Yep, just exactly as Stephen King describes them. I thought to myself …

“Pennywise could be coming out behind my back any minute now”.

I scared myself to death. So i picked up one bag of sour patches lying on the floor and just started chewing some. The sour patches did not last long, but my fear of seeing a ghastly clown appearing out of

nowhere ready to stab me, did. I started wandering inside the house to stop myself from entertaining the horror in my head. I run around the dining,  ate more candies on the kitchen and played with the toys. Im exhausted. I lay down on a comfy looking couch.

It suddenly got cold...

I was planning to nap but the chilling air just brought the horror thoughts back in my head. I then heard soft cracks on the floor and distant creaks from the roof. I, once again, was dead scared.

I need to distract myself. I started walking and noticed that the room was getting darker. Shadows were creeping in, and the sound of the night can be heard.  Its past midnight. I remembered that I wandered off during sunset.

Darkness is my biggest fear. So I quickly tried to find something bright.

I walked towards the boombox. It was bright, colorful, filled with LED’s of different colors. It was playing a childish almost nursery-rhyme-ish music just minutes ago but it stopped. I have no idea how to play the music in it so I did not bother. I turned to my back, leaving the boombox, looking for something else to do. Two steps in…  I heard a sound....

“Cash me ousside how bow dah”

What the hell...

*trap beats play*

“How bow dah, How bow dah. Suede the remix god!”

This is  my jam. My mood completely changed as the lit music hyped me up. Next thing i know, i was dabbing and dancing with the boombox and completely forgot that I’m alone, past midnight, in a weird creepy house. What a night.

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