This is America: 

Who wrote this song? Childish Gambino

What is the song about? It's about racism in america

Your opinion of the song. I think the song has done really well and has spreaded some awareness about racism.

A dream: 

Who wrote this song? Common

What is this song about? It's about racism.

Your opinion of the song. I haven't heard the song so I dont know.

Changes:

Who wrote this song? Tupac Shakir

What is the song about? It's about racism in america.

Your opinion of the song. Well it's Tupac so of course im gonna like it. The song has good melody and was really popular back when it came out and still is. 

Prezi presentation

Here is the link of my presentation that I made over the past week with a bit of information about Canterbury and its history answering all of the questions that Ms Handley gave us to work on. .  https://prezi.com/p/edit/a8lwtm-qx-wc/ 

The most interesting thing I found out was that the Maori name for our school: Te Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka means without feathers a bird cannot fly. Our school probably chose this name because they're meaning without the school the students cannot prosper.

Part four destinations questions

 1. This tells us that he is continously moving around suburbs in america and has found a new friend to go along with and survive with. And that he is on his own journey now and isn't with the help of Connor and Risa anymore.

2. I reckon it would be better to be unwound rather than a death penalty but of course it would be better to die of natural causes than to be unwound. It would be better to be unwound than die between the age of 13-18 because all of your body parts and organs are still usually healthy at a young age and you can give them to other people that are in need. I wouldn't agree with unwinding but in my opinion its better than dying. Other people might rather just die than to be unwound because then you stay as one once your dead and I can understand that.

3. I think that if your heart stops then your soul leaves your body and goes elswhere never to be seen again. For example if your hand got transplanted to one person and your lungs got transplanted to another person how would you still be concious? I think it's a stupid thought.

4. He starts to steal things because the parts of a brain that he had had come from a kleptomaniac which is a person that gets a rush when they steal things so basically a stealing addiction. He didn't used to like stealing but when he got the transplant then he did 

5. He hides expensive jewlery like diamonds, gold etc.

6. This shows that lev is a kind and caring individual that cares and worries about the friends he makes and how he can help them through their friendship.

Part three transit questions.

1. Neal shusterman let them go their own ways to have two seperate parts in the book it's hard to explain. This effects the evolution of the characters by letting them go their own pathways and adapting to their new society.

2. I think it's stayed the same in this novel because everyone has their own opinions about same sex relationships in the book and in real life.

3. if it's an important implant that they need and they don't hve enough money for a proper working one it can make the kid not function the same way. As sci fi said you can put all the peices of a broken mug backk together but it will never work the same. Sci fi says this because he's had bits of a kleptomaniacs brain in him so he conciously likes to steal things whereas before he never used to like stealing.

4. Sci fi needed to get to Joplin to find his real birth mother.

5. It made sure Roland didn't get his way because Connor didn't give him a reaction. 

6. I usually don't get angry but If I was to get angry at someone I'd tell them to stop. And if I got angry at a game i'd stop playing it. I usually don't have impulses aswell (outrages) 

part two - storked questions

 1.  It's a story called humphrey dumphrey. It's basically the same as humpty dumpty fell off the wall etc but except its about unwinding instead of humpty dumpty falling off the wall humphrey dumphrey got all of his body parts taken away from him to give to other people that need them.

2. Human nature is more important than the law because in this book the law is stupid and doesn't fit with all people and plus it's not natural to kill kids and say they're still alive but in divided states they're dead because there brain doesn't function and they're not concious in their own state of mind.

3/4. yes it takes the value of the child away because they'll grow up without their mothers and might feel abandoned or betrayed.

5. The role of a mother is to look after and raise their child that they give birth to and help him/her through their rough times. I think the title of mother should be earned because my answer above tell you why a mother is what a mother is. Your not a mother if you abandon your child. 

6. Connor saved risa from the bus so Risa has always secretely liked him as a friend but doesn't trust him straight away. This tells us that Risa is catious of the people she sorrounds herself with. Whereas Connor already trusts her because he saved her life so she probably wouldn't do anything to him or turn on him. They make a good duo becuase they know they need eachother to survive and Risa also has some good survival skills because she grew up in a state home. 

7. Lev has had more experience with storked children in a sad way. Levs family got storked but they passed the baby onto another house in their neighbourhood even though it was illegall. The law was 'if you got storked than you have to keep the baby'. But no one in levs community abided by that law becuase they kept passing the baby along and then the baby soon died of hunger. Connor had a slightly different expreience though. He went past a house that had a baby on the doorstep and then the mother came out and accused him of storking. He had to take the baby otherwise she would of called the cops on him and he as already a runaway unwind. But eventually he had to let go of the baby that he and Risa got slightly attatched to.

8. This shows that connor is a kind and caring individual that cares about other people and how he can help them. For example he saved Lev and risa from the middle of the road.

9. All his life he was brainwashed that being unwound was a tithe to the church but then when pastor dan told him to run he soon realised that it wasn't a good thing to be unwound.

10. Hayden was unwound because his family split up and fought over who has custody over him and they couldn't decide so they took the easy and sad option and decided to get him unwound. Roland got unwound because his stepdad abused his mother so he abused his stepdad. Mai got unwound because her parents kept having girls and wanted a boy so she got unwound alongside some of her siblings aswell. The most tragic backstory in my opinion is Haydens unwind story becuase her parents are fighting over Hayden like little kids fighting over a toy car and they decided to both unwind him. like little kids would rather none of them get the car than the other.

11. Roland has a tattoo of a shark on his forearm. 

Wind Racer

our wind racers got 10 meters at the end in the time of 7 seconds so our wind racer went at the speed of 1.4 meters per second. I was in a group of three. Zapa, Campbell and me.

Sam Cooke

1. What is the song about? His expreience and overview on racism and how he expresses those feelings.

2. Who is Sam Cooke? He was an african american singer/songwriter that was born in Clarksdale Mississippi U.S.

3. What do you think of the story? I think that it's sad.

Wind Racers

Aim: To make your wind racer go the furthest.

Equipment: Newspaper, Cardboard, tape, bamboo stick, metal rod, string

Method: tape the newspaper or cardboard (whatever material your using) to the base trolley and the metal rod with string and tape.  

Common, john legend, glory

Who wrote the song? Common and John legend.

\What is the songs purpose? Legend and John Legend sang this song to close out the grammy awards in 2015. I wanted something that tied the spirit of Selma with what was happening in the streets at the time we were writing," he concluded, "which was people protesting in Missouri and eventually New York about injustice and police brutality."

What did you take from the song? I learnt a new singer called common and foud out hes a good artist.