RICHARD PEARSE FACT PROFILE

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

WORDS
SIMILE - A phrase that includes the words as or like. 

METAPHOR - To compare two things that are not alike yet, have something in common.

IDIOM - A Phrase that doesn't mean its actual meaning

ALLITERATION -  A tongue twister

HYPERBOLE - A dramatic expression for emphasis or humour

PERSONIFICATION - When you give and object or an animal qualities that only a Human is able to do.

ONOMATOPOEIA - A word that describes a sound

ASSONANCE - Repeating a vowel sound in a phrase/sentence

CONSONANCE -  Repetition of the same constant/Constance 

Loss of Human Rights - Iqbal Masih

Lawyer paragraph

Iqbal lost his human rights at the age of four when he was in bonded labour. 

His social environment changed negatively when he was no longer with his family.
He couldn't attend school or celebrate special events. At the age of four, Iqbal's father
was no longer able to support his family and so his only choice was to sell Iqbal
into bonded labour. When Iqbal was four, he was already working with only one
break for lunch. This caused him to have a lot of stress at a very young age as
he was mentally and physically abused. His right to education was also sadly
taken away. When Iqbal was already able to pay off the debt he should've been able to
be released, but unfortunately he got played and he was never released.
This is one of many examples on how Iqbal lost
his human rights and changed his life forever.

Economic gain 
Hussain Khan's labourers are mostly younger people or children, because one, they are
easy to maintain, they don't need big portions of food making it cheaper as khans food
products would lessen and they are less mentally strong than adults that basically means
they won't make a big fuss about it but instead they will easily be manipulated into
getting the job done. Khan has many ways to make his economy better.

GIVE IT A GO IN A GROUP

On Friday English, our class was given a task where we watched two video that shows abusive relationships, got in a pair and completed a work sheet where we answered and wrote the questions.

This shows my learning because we were both on task and completed the work sheet in a short amount of time.

 Group work- Critical text analysis

Texts(s):  Music:  Sia - Big Girls Cry

Topic: Violence

How did your group focus the analysis? (Which aspect did you select to critically examine?) Inclusion Exclusion Representation Multiple readings

Which critical literacy questions did your group select to analyse the text(s)? What is the meaning of the video? Abusive relationship  How are women and men portrayed in the video? That the women were getting hurt and the men leaving. How does the text relate to reality? There is a lot of violence in relationships.

Why did your group select those questions? they are relevant to the clip and what we are trying to find out Q.11 shows us about stereotypes, the way that the characters are constructed Q.12 forces us to question stereotypes and why we see things a certain way.  Q.23 gets us to think about who has been included and how we view them Q.27 gets us to think about who the video is aimed at and how they will view it.

What did your group conclude from the critical analysis? (So what?) In conclusion we both thought the video was about the younger Kelly clark trying to stop the older Kelly from making the same mistakes her parents made so she can be a great mother to her future kids.

RICHARD PEARSE TIMELINE - BUSINESS

SPIRITUALS

WHAT ARE SPIRITUALS?

Spirituals is a music genre that originates from the US and created by the African American. It is originally a song that has Christian values in it while describing how much people suffer from slavery.

WHY ARE THEY USED?

Spirituals would help slaves to pass down information about the experience of being enslaved.Spirituals would help slaves to pass down information about the experience of being enslaved.

CRITICAL LITERACY- Putting in to practice #2

SOMEWHERE IS GREEN

As we watched this video we spotted many stereotypes of people in the 70s.

Some of the stereotypes I saw was: The woman had a high pitched voice, wore a puffy and over the top dress while cleaning indoors and the man also dressed over the top but he is doing all the gardening and heavy duty chores. 

LEGALLY BLONDE

The stereotypes that i saw is that a blonde, blue eyed and well dressed girl is dumb while the mans stereotype is him being all smart enough to get accepted and having a successful life 

QUESTIONS

1) How are adults constructed in this text? Females should be second to males in both texts. Woman in the 1st text is ambition less and the 2nd wants to be lawyer, the stereotype that blondes can be smart.

2) What kind of social reality does this text portray? Life wasn't fun, people dont want to do things outside their stereotypes (eg men in the garden & women in the kitchen) In the second clip set 30 yrs later women and men can do the same jobs and have the same opportunities.  

3) How does this text construct a version of reality?  Draws from history, finds examples of props and setting that actually existed in the time period. 

4) What different interpretations of the text are possible? Yes- we can view the shift from men being positive to being put down, we can view the shift in society and cultural values- there is more to life than a house, dog and kids.