Activity 2: Fighting for Freedom

Issue I would protest over: For me I would nonviolently protest over how some people talk about Muslim cultures/communities. This is important to me, because some people have been racist towards our Muslim culture. For example they talk about our culture in a bad way and they also talk about our hijabs and some people try and get a way to remove them from us. This is why I would nonviolently protest for the Muslim community/culture. 

This week for day 4, activity 2 of teaser week for SLJ, we wrote down what we would protest over nonviolently and why its important to us, like how Mahatma Ghandi protested, so that British could stop ruling over India and so India could have freedom. My issue I would protest nonviolently over is how some people have been racist about the Muslim community/culture.

Literacy Weaving | Protests

This week in reading, for the book, protests in NZ, we created a literacy weave. We chose 2 words from the book, to retell it. On the top and bottom, we added the pictures and in the 3rd and 5th boxes, we added the words. The words I decided to choose was Environmental and 2003 GE ( Genetic Engineering ). After making the literacy weave digitally, we printed it out, than weaved it together. To me, I think that the literacy weaving was fun to make.

Summarising | Protests In NZ

Our summary- The history of New Zealand protesting started years ago. What were they protesting? One of the first New Zealand protests were between the Maori and Pakeha in 1881. Government were taking land for settlers - destroying fences to make way for new roads. The people of Parihaka used passive resistance to peacefully protest. The Women's Suffrage was a significant protest to New Zealand. Countries from all around the world in 1893, were discriminating and giving titles to women. It wasn’t an equal argument between men and women. Kate Sheppard was a brave woman who stood for her right and opinion. The petition had more than 500 pages and was signed by over 25,000 women.

Depression Riots 1932, A lot of people were unemployed and struggling. That's what made people think that the government wasn’t providing them with enough help and that's what started the protest. As Marches became Riots, messages became violence. A few months passing ahead, unemployed men fought with policies and smashed shop windows.


This week in reading, we read a book called "Protests in New Zealand". While reading the book, we did reciprocal reading as a group. This book is about all the protests that have happened in New Zealand, in the recent events, like women suffrage and the great strike. To understand more about the protests, we created a summary of it as a group, using the vocabulary we wrote while doing reciprocal reading.