Our Own Treaty Class

In the last few weeks, in Social Study, we've been working on our class treaty. It's like how Treaty of Waitangi was made but our is making good reasonable rule for the class. By doing that, we had to have an agreement whether everyone agrees or not agree on the three rules. It is quite interesting or not, for me to hear them arguing about someone's idea of telling a reasonable rule. One of us pointed out that we should be allowed to eat in class, but in one condition, once you litter in class, you can never allowed to eat in class ever again. Later on I think few of us disagree and others agreed that it's a good idea. So far that's all I had to say about the treaty of our own class.

Road to the Treaty

This blog is about how Treaty of Waitangi was signed, what happened before it was signed. Most of the information here are missing but it kind of make sense....

 1814 - First Mission - Three lay missionaries, William Hall, Thomas Kendall, and John King, helped Samuel Marsden set up the first mission in New Zealand, at Rangihoua.

1831 - Maori petition the British government - Disorder among Europeans in New Zealand and fears of a French seizure of the country led 13 northern chiefs to ask King William IV for his protection. Missionary William Yate gave aid to the chiefs draft the letter to the King and accepted.

1833 - British Resident arrives - To protect Maori, the British settlers and its own trade interests, the British government determined James Busby as its official British Resident. He arrived in May 1833 and built a house on land he bought at Waitangi.

1835 - Declaration of Independence - Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was drawn up by British Resident James Busby without authorisation from his superiors. It declared the independence of New Zealand. By 1839 the declaration had been signed by 52 Maori chiefs. 

1837 - British decided to establish a colony - In December 1837, the British government decided in principle to take place in New Zealand to make sure that colonisation was controlled and that land transactions to deceive Maori were stopped.

1839 - Tory set sails - Tory ( the first of the New Zealand Company ships ) set sail for New Zealand in May 1839. The company had an ambitious plan to settle New Zealand, and the agents on the Tory we’re to buy land at Port Nicholson ( Wellington Harbour ).

1839 - Consul appointed - William Hobson got appointed by the British Government as consul to New Zealand in 1893.

1840 - Land purchases prohibited - Governor Gipps disallowed further private land purchases from Maori, and needed to be recognised by the authorities before buying a private land from Maori.

1840 - Treaty of Waitangi signed - Treaty of Waitangi was signed on Feb 6 1840. About 40 chiefs signed on the first day, by September 1840 another 500 chiefs around the country had signed.

Tangarroa - God of the Sea

Tangaroa  God of the Sea ( also known as Poseidon ) Tangaroa is the God of the sea, lakes, rivers, and the creatures that live within them, especially fishes. His parents were Ranginui the sky father and Papatuanuku the earth mother. According to some traditions, however, Tangaroa is the husband of Papatuanuku and a rival of Ranginui.  Tangaroa can also be destructive. He can control the tides of the sea.

Know My Place

This is my work using the prezi website, using it was like learning a new skill to present something that is different from others. I also learned a few things about some places in NZ, the most interesting I found in my research is probably the history of Hornby High School.

 Here's the link, click it to see the work iv'e done, it's not much but I learned few new things from it:

 Know My Place

Industrial Revolution - Steam Engine ( Lawyer Paragraph )

 

This paragraph is about one of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution of how they evolved, the purpose of them, and the impact they gave us. According to the internet,  the Industrial Revolution started in 1760 and ended in 1840, it’s the time when machines were made such as weaving machines, steam engines, spinning frames, and cotton gin etc. I will show you how one of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution made a big impact on us. 

During the time of the Industrial Revolution, many inventions were made by hand or work by hand. Steam engines are one of the inventions made, it was made in the 1690s. The creation of steam engines helped us before but the steam engine now has evolved and made a big impact on our era. The steam engine nowadays helps us more than the old one. The old steam engine helped to power the first trains, ships, factories, and even cars. 

While the steam engine nowadays changed steam trains to bullet trains, a train faster than a traditional train using magnetic process to move. It was made in Japan in 1964, without the old steam train the bullet train probably doesn’t exist in our time right now. Steam engines also evolved to steam turbines, a power generating plants and ships. They are particularly useful for nuclear power plants. Steam engines evolved into steam turbines and have a big impact on our era. Steam turbines generate electricity using rotary motion and about 85% of all electricity generation in the United States in the year 2014 was by use of steam turbines. As we know, steam  turbines generate large amounts of electricity helping us do our work easily, making our lives simple, and it gives us benefits which is a good thing for us to go continue on living.  There are a lot more inventions from the time of the Industrial Revolution and were evolved in this time for the better.

Are Students Addicted To Their Cellphones? If So, Is That A Problem?

Some students may be addicted to their cellphones, probably because it makes them feel sociable to others which is fun to them, it makes them distracted in their school work, meaning it's a bad thing to do. If this continues, they might get in trouble in some way, for example, getting no pass in a test, getting no school lesson learned, and missing school homework etc. Banning use of cellphone in school will surely stop students getting addicted to their cell phones.

How Has Technology Changed People's Lives

Technology has made us live easily than before. Having technology improving will make our life easier. For example, humans created cars so we can easily travel far away possible and not travel with foot. Another example are electricity lights, they are made for letting us see clearly in the dark and can last longer than candles. Another example are factories, most of the things we're using right now are probably made by factories, they can make products easily rather than having many people making a product at the same time. Without factories, we probably don't have the things we have right now. These examples will keep improving in the future, maybe, so our lives will be more better, some will make us worse only if you don't used it in the right way.

Matariki Inquiry

What went well and why?

I think the research went well because I got some information about the Matariki and the holidays.

What didn't go so well?

I didn't finished the poster in time.

If you were to do this again what would you do differently and why?

Make the poster look more fine.

Migration

Here's my work about migration, just to let you know, this video has no sound... Thanks

My Migration Pattern

Here's example of my migration pattern!

Child Soldier

Here are my research about child soldiers....
This research is important because many of us didn't know this was happening.

Iqbal

 Iqbal lost his human rights when he died by assassination at the age of 12. Iqbal was born a slave and became a symbol of abusive child labour in the developing world. Iqbal was targeted or was assassinated and got shot by the carpet mafia while cycling with his cousin in a village. Iqbal was assassinated and lost his human rights.

Research Project - Hariett Tubman

Spiritual Song

Today we watched a spiritual video from old days, what I learnt about it is they are singing about how slaves feel when they are getting forced to do things.
The Video

Slave Trade Triangle

Human Rights