The slave trade

In the 16th century, a slave trade triangle was in use, there were a lot of goods trades for black African men e.x Tobacco, cotton, sugar, weapons, ammo and a lot more!

The Human Rights

Critical Literacy - Reflection

What do you think Critical Literacy is?

When you pull apart a text or video and try to find any hidden messages the author has put behind it

What did you learn during Critical Literacy?

That ads, books or anything that we watch or read, normally has a meaning behind it

What did you find challenging during Critical Literacy?

Actually having to find out what the hidden messages were

How will you use Critical Literacy skills in real life?

Being able to understand someone by the things they write or film

What are you looking forward to in English this year?

Novel study

Maths

What were the main mathematical concepts or ideas that you learned or that we discussed in class?
Doesn't matter how fast you do it, just play around with it

Critical literacy

Lift plus
How are characters constructed in this text? 
That they don't think properly and aren't that smart and if they drink lift plus they will get smarter.

What genre does this text belong too?
Comedy, Advertisement 

What is the video about?How do we know?
That if you drink lift plus, it will make you smarter, because in the video they do something that isn't that smart and then at the end, it always say's sharpen up

How does the video depict age, gender and cultural group?
That adult males (20-30) who are islander/Pacific aren't that smart


NZ anti-drink driving commercial - legend 
How are characters constructed in this text?
New Zealander's drink drive

What genre does this text belong to?
Advertisement, Comedy

What is this video about?
People who drink drive, and that if your mate is trying to drink drive, tell them to stay the night and go home the next day

How does this video depict age, gender and cultural group?
That teenage Maori's like to drink drive and that they listen to there mates if they tell you something

Butterflies - Patricia Grace

What king of language is used in this text?
Uneducated language, there aren't long sentences, there just short and sharp and doesn't really make sense. "Your teacher, she buy all her cabbages from the supermarket and that's why"

What is this text about? How do you know?
Butterflies, the tittle.

What does the author want us to know?
That butterflies kill your food. They eat the cabbage and then lay babies, which turn into caterpillars and you don't really want to eat that food.

How are characters constructed in this text?
Grandfather - He really likes his granddaughter and thinks highly of her.
Grandmother - Likes gardening
Granddaughter - Is very smart and knows whats good.

What kinds of social realities does the text portray?

Critical Literacy

The Onion

What does the website look like?
Real

What photos is it using
NBA, photos of people

What headlines are they sharing?
"Family are unsure why Grandmothers caregiver seems like he actually enjoys spending time with her"

Do you think it is a factual website, or a satirical website?
Satirical

The New York Times

What does the website look like?
Real

What photos is it using?
People that are protesting

What headlines are they sharing?
"Spirited acts of resistance on the border"

Do you think it is a factual website, or a satirical website?
Factual

The Civilian

What does the website look like?
Real

What photos is it using?
Fortnite, people

What headlines are they sharing?

"Just how much of the $2 billion Kiwibuild fund has Phil Twyford spent on Fortnite?"

Do you think it is a factual website, or a satirical website?
Factual

The Daily Mail

What does the website look like?
Fake

What photos is it using?
People over seas, couples

What headlines are they sharing?
"Now that's whirlwind romance! Woman buys a house with her teenage crush a fortnight after their first date - and then has THREE babies in Nine months"

Do you think it is a factual website, or a satirical website?
Satirical

Word definition

Bias        The person, place or thing that something comes from                 

Source       Hating on a person/group of people for no reason

Credible     The power and right over something

Authority      Trustworthy, if given a job to do, you are relied on to do it

Reliable        Something/s to be discussed at a meeting?

Perspective    Take someone or something out

Agenda        The way you look at something e.g Argument

Manipulate     Convincing, believed in

Art

In Art we have been working on how to to shade and draw with structures, we started with circles, boxes and triangles, we have also been working on tone as well

I started off with drawing a old English B, Miss Clemence taught me how to do the shading thing on it

Creating critical thinkers through media literacy

What aspects of stories was she interested in?
Hidden messages

What did the ad imply with the big diamond ring?
The only way to make someone fall in love is to buy them bid expensive things

What is subtext?
Message behind something

With CL, can each student have their own answer?
yes

What does Andrea compare CL to?
Wonder woman's lasso of truth

How can CL be applied to your life outside school?
So you can see subliminal text in all sorts of media

English 2019 critical literacy

-What makes the video convincing?

That they made a news video for it

-Who published this video?

The onion

- How are teenagers portrayed in this clip?

Like they are stuck to there phones and social media

-Why has the director cast them this way?

To make the teenagers think that this might happen to them, or just as a joke

-In whose interest is the text?

Teenagers and adults

-Who is real in this text?

Everyone

-What social realities does this video portray?