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Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Summer Learning Journey: Week 2 Day 4

For this activity, read through the seven whakataukī (proverbs or metaphors) presented in this document. Choose one that has meaning for you. Create a poster that features the whakataukī and be sure to include at least one image (a drawing or photograph) on the poster that represents the whakataukī that you chose.

On your blog, share your poster of your whakataukī.
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For this activity we are going to become more familiar with some of these amazing indigenous communities. Please click on the links below to learn more about these fascinating groups.

Ainu People

Australian Aboriginal People

The Inuit People

Papuan People

The Maya People

Once you have finished learning about these groups, please choose the two that interest you the most.

On your blog tell us the names of the two groups that you chose and then tell us at least two interesting facts about each group. To earn full points, you must provide two facts about both groups - 4 facts in total.

Australian Aboriginal People:
- They could be the oldest living population of humans outside of Africa.
- Aboriginal Australians are split into two groups: The Aboriginal Peoples and the Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

The Inuit People: 
- The average age of the Inuit people is 23.
- Values like sharing, respecting elders and co-operation are still very important to the Inuit.

For this activity, please identify someone in your life who is a role model to you. This could be a parent, grandparent, neighbour, minister, imam, rabbi etc. Please ask them to share one piece of wisdom (advice) with you that they think you and your blog readers should hear.

On your blog, share this wisdom with your readers.

When I was working one day, my boss told me something that someone else told them; "Remember to say hello to everyone on your way up, because you never know who'll meet on your way down" I think that means you should be nice to the people you meet when you're moving up in life, because, if you fall back down, you don't know who'll be there to greet you.
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  1. Georgia SLJ22 January 2020 at 11:36

    Kia ora Alex,

    You have really thought about what one whakataukī means to you. I appreciate this thoughtful thinking. I really like the saying ‘wisdom comes from being able to prepare opportunities for the future’. This is incredibly important. I believe that while you should accept your past you should never stay there. Why do you think we shouldn’t stay in the past?

    Wow, I didn’t know these facts about the Australian Aboriginal People and The Inuit People. I didn’t know that the Torres Strait Islanders were a part of the indigenous people of Australia. Originally from Torres Strait Islands, the Torres Strait Islanders are mostly Melanesian (Vanuatu, Fiji, Maluku Islands, New Guinea etc). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_Strait_Islands

    Have you ever visited Australia before? If not, would you and why/why not?

    Remember this is the last week of the Summer Learning Journey, so make sure you keep commenting back to other students! You will be awarded 2 points for your comments. Here is a link that teaches you what a comment should be like https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/cybersmart/commenting

    Blog you later!
    Georgia

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