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TTS, this reminds me of the inquiry unit, when we learnt about a few trees and how the aboriginal used them. Similarly, both are related to aboriginals and how well they use the environment (they used pretty much everything they take). But unlike the old inquiry unit, the book was about respecting the aboriginals and changing national things to show who was the rightful owner of the land, while the inquiry unit mostly focused on how they used stuff. TTT, this relates to why Anisa was troubled in the book Anisa’s Alphabet. Similarly, both groups had to deal with a war, and both groups were really scared and couldn’t do anything about it. But unlike Anisa’s Alphabet, only the kids left the land, and they were forced to, while in Anisa’s Alphabet, the whole family left the town, intentionally, for their own safety. TTW, this relates to a lot more countries with problems like this (people were in this land before and didn’t want to give it up / didn’t realise the group they were with was against them and support them, and when they finally realised it was too late). For instance, in New Zealand, religious people were already in the area and when powerful people from other countries came here, they attacked and fought back, trying to protect their land.

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TTS

My friend is indigenous.

TTT

Anisas alphabet and Common wealth both want to change the world by making it more equal.

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Common Wealth

Text to self: This text is quite different from my life because I am not aboriginal or Torres Strait islander and was not part of the generation of people that suffered everyday after caption cook arrived and almost got wiped out completely as a generation. They were greatly threatened to go extinct when caption cook arrived in 1788  84% of aboriginal people died many of the aboriginal languages are critically endangered.

Text to text: The text is simlair to anisa’s alphabet because the people both in the book wanted freedom and regained hope at there darkest times and both talked about being treated horribly and sometimes had no hope in the story and they both talked about facing Danger and they wanted there troubles to resolve from different problems which where war and equality they both hoped for something to happen.

Text to world: this text reminded me of convicts and how badly they were treated too and how they were made into slaves and weren’t treated like humans and there living and sleeping conditions were so bad that they mostly got sick and worked until they died and the person who bought the slaves Had no sympathy for their death and there family’s grieved because of there death and then there other family became slaves aswell.

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Common wealth

T-T-T:

Both text talk about the issue of indigenous treated poorly.  In day break it tells about a girl and how her nan is going back to country. Day break also says how indigenous were here first, the British stole their babies, the British building statues everywhere and none of them were an indigenous and much more dreadful stuff the British empire did. In common wealth it talks about the changes that needs to be done to fix what the British empire has done.

T-T-S:

In this text it reminded me of a time when I was walking to game stop to buy my Nintendo, I was half way there when I saw two homeless people about 10 metres away from each other, a kid and a fully grown man. The kid had loads of money in his hat while the man had only $5 to $10 in his hat. The book is related with each other because they both say how some people are untreated in this world. The book says they are treated differently because of their skin colour unlike how younger people get more love while grown ups are assumed to be extremely rich people and working 24/7 with no sleep and no food.

T-T-W:

The book reminds me of the police because the English killed the black for no reason just like some police. If a black person stole something from the police or the English empire they would decapitate them and if the black even looked at the English or the police they would terminate them. The book reminds me of that because it says how the english empire stole everything from the indigenous and if the indigenous tried to get it back, well see you in the after life.

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Reading responses common wealth

TTS: I remember when I went to a festival a few years ago about different types of culture and how Australia should Improve there anthem flag and move the date of Australia Day. This text also reminded me of how unfair a lot of Australians are to Indigenous Australians even though we say are not a racist country and our anthem even says “we are one and free.”

TTT: This book was similar to anisa’s alphabet in the way where they both talked about problems around the world and the main character was a black person. Anisa’s alphabet was unlike common wealth in the way that common wealth talked about Australia but Anisa’s alphabet was about refugees coming from another country (most likely from Asia or Africa.)

TTW: I know that around the world in a lot of countries black people are treated much less fairly than white people especially black women. Even in Australia the rate of kids going to jail is 80% black skinned kids. That’s crazy right. It is easy to tell that black skinned people are not fairly treated and should be treated the same as white people.

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Common wealth

Text to text

I can relate “Australia needs to change or Australia is a bad place so it needs to change” which is what the book is trying to explain. I can relate that to Anisas alphabet. Because the country that Anisa lived in was bad, horrible and terrifying. I have seen a persuasive piece that was a book against another country before.

Text to self

My dad got sent to jail in Thailand because of a book he wrote called “concierge confidential” and he wrote something about Thailand that insured its king. So he was going to be in jail for a few years, but he was in,y in there for around six months. Lots of people loved his book and the Australian government freed him from jail.

Text to world

Wealth is what people are lacking these days because of COVID-19. The aboriginals did take everything they could take which was not that good to the environment and living things, they took everything for their own needs. And lots of them die and get sick so all that stuff they gained or slaughtered went to waste so more than just one soul went up into the clouds (or below).

Written by Laurence B)

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Text to text

When they said soldiers and guns and violence as they said in the book it reminds me of the soldiers and the war in Anissas alphabet they also both relate to each other with the fact that they  both talk about hope and lost culture.

Text to self

I can relate to the author of this book as she feels very strongly about the situation that Australia is in I also think the Australian flag should change and represent indigenous people we should change the anthem so that it reflects that the indigenous culture of Australia is the oldest culture to still exist to this day.

Text to world

This books moral can easily relate to the Black Lives Matter ✊🏾 protests during 2021 as they talked equality and that every one matters they also both talk about how many lives have lost due to this pointless racism that only makes things worse.

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Text-to-text

Common wealth is about Australian aboriginals being invaded and wanting to be the same. which is similar to anisa’s alphabet in the way that anisa was invaded and had guns waving around like they were nothing. Unlike anisa’s alphabet the aboriginals got to stay in there country of home. Both of these story’s were made to give a  moral / to give a life lesson. Something none these books had were bright and happy, heart warming story’s.

Text-to-self

A connection I had with this story is that I believe that all innocent people should be treated the same, because being punished is not healthy and being punished for something not bad is supposed to get you out of that good behaviour. Something I have in common with the story is that nothing works unless we work together for example cleaning a house nothing gets done properly unless teamwork is used to get it done. Something I think is false about the book is that everyone isn’t the same because everyone unique in there own way.

Text-to-world

My text to world connections is Common wealth (the book) is all real and factual nothing from it isn’t true except what the author wants to happen. The common wealth is supposed to mean we are all the same but aboriginals ar still not the same. In this story it shows that British invaded Australia 🇦🇺 but the British didn’t only invaded they invaded 10s of country’s. The story mentions a bird which I think could refer to the famous Aboriginal go Bunjil.

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𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑-

𝙱𝚢 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚐 𝙳𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎

𝙸𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝙳𝚊𝚢 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚗 𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛,  𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚗 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 “𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎“ 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 “𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍“ 𝚒𝚝.-𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝-𝚃𝚘-𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚁𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚒𝚜𝚖, (𝚁𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚒𝚜𝚖 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚊 𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎) 𝚒𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚔, 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚑 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 (𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚗 𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙳𝚊𝚢 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚔) 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍.-𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝-𝚃𝚘-𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚔𝚒𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚐𝚎 𝙽- 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍,̑̈ V̑̈Ȇ̈Ȓ̈Y̑̈ s̑̈ȃ̈d̑̈.-𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝-𝚃𝚘-𝚂𝚎𝚕𝚏

-𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝐸𝑚𝑖♥︎

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Text to self: When he said we should all be equal I immediately thought about when I told my parents I was non-binary, I used that argument over and over again, saying that if they don’t use my proper pronouns that we can’t be equal in the house, in the neighbourhood or in the world. I know that many of my friends who are out are going threw the same thing, wether it is with strangers or there own parents. Diving in closer, I thought about the Black Lives Matter movements ✊🏿 , how  they weren’t treated equally in spaces that clame to be safe or that it is a nightmare to go somewhere or that the must have the constant fear of being harmed, it took them a long time and we still have so much to go, but we will get there soon I hope.

Text to world: When he talked about breaking down the barriers we have on society my mind transferred to the wall trump was trying to build, hoisting himself up on the same barriers that they talk about in this book. Building the bridge to seperate American culture from Mexican culture, they are different in the same ways, building a pedestal up on these differences are not a thing to celebrate and just contribute to more hate and harm placing itself into the future. Culture is never ending but can change and discrepancies will not change that.

Text to text: This book is similar to anisa’s alphabet because I imagine that anisa’s war is based on a problem between two countries and there differences, similarly the book is based on people stacking up blocks of differences and hate to form walls of ignorance and can cause a war. In both books people had to leave the people they loved and there homes, unlike each other , some people where forced and others left because it was too unsafe, like stepping on a field of bombs.

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Text-to-Self:

The book reminds me of art because once when I was doing art at this school, we were supposed to make Aboriginal inspired art work with oil pastels and paint. We first used brown and black paint to make the background. Then, we used dark blue and painted white dots to complete the artwork. The two are similar because the book’s perspective is from an Aboriginal’s perspective and the art that we were doing was also Aboriginal inspired. The two were different though, because the book is is poem calling for action while the artwork we did in art is, well basically art.

Text-to-Text:

The text Common Wealth and the text Anisa’s Alphabet are similar because in Common Wealth, the main character (whose name is not mentioned) talks about the history of Australia and the Aborigines, which after 5 000 years, isn’t that good. Also in Common Wealth, the author is calling for a change and is not happy with the way things are now. Similarly, in Anisa’s Alphabet, Anisa isn’t charmed with what is happening and Anisa also demands a change. Unlike Anisa’s Alphabet though, the main character is Aboriginal and Anisa doesn’t appear to be.

Text-to-World:

In Common Wealth, the story mentions how Captain Cook came to Australia and claimed he discovered it (which is wrong). A lot of sad events happen after Captain Cook comes to Australia which are mentioned in the book. Similarly, all these events happened in real life, which is also very upsetting.

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Anthony cool boi                       Text to text This book is like anisas alphabet cause they are both sad and about people getting kicked out their home for doing basically nothing. The books are also both trying to convince the reader that fighting and war is wrong. But unlike anisas alphabet this book is a rhyme and instead of telling a story about a character common wealth is about everyone in Australia not just one character.Text to world, this book is about Australia and Australia is in the world so it’s really easy to make a ttw. This reminds me of ww2 just like anisas alphabet, in ww2 Jews were treated VERY badly by hitler the Jews couldn’t even walk on the streets. And when they tried to speak back at the nazis they were sent to concentration camps, the woman, children and disabled were put in  gas chambers, and killed the men and fit people were forced to work. This is a lot like Australia. when Australia was ‘found’ by captain cook he call it ‘no mans land’ but there were people and when the British found them the kidnapped the children, shot their parents and sent them to camps where they would work. Unlike the concentration camps in Germany, Australia’s camps were a bit less cruel. I’m not saying the camps in Australia weren’t cruel I’m just saying they aren’t as cruel.Text to self This reminds me a lot of the inquiry unit and how it was focused on the aboriginals and NOT ABOUT the British who ‘discovered’ Australia.Unlike the inquiry unit this book is about how Australia should be changed and how Australia needs a rework. Another thing that sets this book aside from our inquiry unit is that this book strives for a change.

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Anthony cool boi                       Text to text This book is like anisas alphabet cause they are both sad and about people getting kicked out their home for doing basically nothing. The books are also both trying to convince the reader that fighting and war is wrong. But unlike anisas alphabet this book is a rhyme and instead of telling a story about a character common wealth is about everyone in Australia not just one character.Text to world, this book is about Australia and Australia is in the world so it’s really easy to make a ttw. This reminds me of ww2 just like anisas alphabet, in ww2 Jews were treated VERY badly by hitler the Jews couldn’t even walk on the streets. And when they tried to speak back at the nazis they were sent to concentration camps, the woman, children and disabled were put in  gas chambers, and killed the men and fit people were forced to work. This is a lot like Australia. when Australia was ‘found’ by captain cook he call it ‘no mans land’ but there were people and when the British found them the kidnapped the children, shot their parents and sent them to camps where they would work. Unlike the concentration camps in Germany, Australia’s camps were a bit less cruel. I’m not saying the camps in Australia weren’t cruel I’m just saying they aren’t as cruel.Text to self This reminds me a lot of the inquiry unit and how it was focused on the aboriginals and NOT ABOUT the British who ‘discovered’ Australia.Unlike the inquiry unit this book is about how Australia should be changed and how Australia needs a rework. Another thing that sets this book aside from our inquiry unit is that this book strives for a change.

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Common Wealth

TTS

This book reminds me of when i was hearing about the terrorist attack in the city, similarly like in Common Wealth There was allot of violence and grief, but unlike the terrorist attack in Common Wealth there where allot more people then the terrorist attack.

TTT

This book reminds me of Anisa’s Alphabet because they both talk about refuge and that people had to hide, but unlike Anisa’s Alphabet Common Wealth tells about the aboriginal culture.

TTW

I know about the stolen generation because i learnt about it in grade 3

I will tell you about it in a descriptive way

Imagine your child is getting snatched away from you and if you said no the punishment was death and ether way your child will be taken away and forced to learn a different language agents There will.

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Text to Text: I can connect this text to another text called Anisa’s Alphabet. I can connect the two texts because both have a page about people invading their land and their homes. In Anisa’s Alphabet, the book is about people invading and starting a war and Anisa ends up going to a refugee camp. This is similar to this story as the character is an aboriginal and Captain Cook invaded their ancestors land and in the texts both of the characters did not want it to happen. I’ve noticed that In both texts after the people invaded, everything changed. For example, in Anisa’s Alphabet, after the war started they had to move to a refugee camp far away from their homes and in this story Common Wealth, after Captain Cook arrived, Europeans started to invade and aboriginals were locked up.

Text to Self: When I read this book, I can link it to my life because in school we learn about aboriginals and Australia’s history. When I read this book it reminded me of everything I learnt about and also how we sing the national anthem in assembly. It reminded me of that because the purpose is to persuade the government to change the national anthems lyrics because some aboriginals find it offensive as the lyrics were ‘we are young and free’ but the aboriginal culture is one of the oldest cultures.

Text to World: The book can relate to the real world as all the facts were true and every single fact in the book happened in real life. In this text Common Wealth, the character feels strongly about changing the national anthem and in real life and it happened the anthem changed from ‘young and free’ to ‘one and free.’

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Common wealth notes

TEXT TO TEXT

How the writer-Gregg said that he enjoyed the section in the national anthem the said ‘rough plaines to share’ since that very well described the outback which is obviously hot and that intently reminded me of the ‘hot tents’ reflecting heat from ‘Anissa’s alphabet.

TEXT TO SELF

The story of my text to self was one  Friday afternoon I was walking down Collin street with my McDonald’s and I was surprised to see a aboriginal March down the street with pride on there mad faces.

TEXT TO WORLD

My idea of the racism and neglect that Gregg was explaining shot me to the American brain and the fight of George Floyd  followed by the million marchers protesting the deadly cause of more  people dead than ever anticipated.

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Connections

T.T.S

The book reminded me of the time I saw two people in front of me,Getting judged because they looked different.Racism Is a very horrible thing.But sadly lots of people experienced it before.But I have never experienced the pain that the Aboriginals must have went through when the Europeans came and stole the Aboriginals children from them.With a click of their finger.

T.T.W

Common Wealth reminds me of Protests,Wars and Racism.It reminded me of the part in Day Break where the girl was getting taught at her school a FAKE HISTORY.Her teacher taught them that Captain Cook ‘found Australia’.Witch now we all know that is fake.And Aborigines we’re here on this land for Thousands and thousands of years.

T.T

The book Common Wealth and Day Break reminded me of a book that I read earlier(I forgot the name)So there was a refugee girl and she ran away from the refugee camp.She went through many lands trying to find her lost parents in Paris.She experienced bullying and many more things.

Hasini : )

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Common WealthT-T-WThe book reminded me of how lots of people worked together in the COVID lockdown, like the person in the book was asking people to. In the COVID lockdown, many people volunteered to deliver food and supplies and even just posting something nice on social media or putting a sign on a window helped everyone. Whereas the fight for justice for aboriginal rights is very different, everyone can still do something and it shows that if people unite in hard times, we can all pull through and learn a lesson on the way. Though the two circumstances are very different they still have the same core message.T-T-TThe books Common Wealth and Daybreak are similar because, despite their different story lines, both discuss aboriginal connection to Country and how important the land is to them, even though Europeans have treated them very badly.They both have similar ideas and messages, though they have very different writing styles. The books both show that even though aboriginal people have been treated very badly in the past they are still fighting for their rights and justice.T-T-SThe hope that is in the book reminded me of my hope in the lockdown and how everyone shares hope throughout the world. Lots of people were struggling in the book , like in the lockdown, but we all worked together and made it through. It is similar in the book, with the plea to work together and support each other, even though there was a full on pandemic and it was very hard for everyone.

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Common WealthT-T-WThe book reminded me of how lots of people worked together in the COVID lockdown, like the person in the book was asking people to. In the COVID lockdown, many people volunteered to deliver food and supplies and even just posting something nice on social media or putting a sign on a window helped everyone. Whereas the fight for justice for aboriginal rights is very different, everyone can still do something and it shows that if people unite in hard times, we can all pull through and learn a lesson on the way. Though the two circumstances are very different they still have the same core message.T-T-TThe books Common Wealth and Daybreak are similar because, despite their different story lines, both discuss aboriginal connection to Country and how important the land is to them, even though Europeans have treated them very badly.They both have similar ideas and messages, though they have very different writing styles. The books both show that even though aboriginal people have been treated very badly in the past they are still fighting for their rights and justice.T-T-SThe hope that is in the book reminded me of my hope in the lockdown and how everyone shares hope throughout the world. Lots of people were struggling in the book , like in the lockdown, but we all worked together and made it through. It is similar in the book, with the plea to work together and support each other, even though there was a full on pandemic and it was very hard for everyone.

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Text to self:

When it said ‘all that I’m wishing is that u can’t take a break and listen’ when I was in lock down everyone in my family was busy I felt like I was disappearing into thin air. The look on my family’s faces, they look so consecrated and focused. The only sounds I could hear was the wind running past my floppy ear. That part of the story really sucked me in and made me think of when I was in lock down.

Text to text:

When stef read us common wealth the first thing that came on my mind was  Anisa’s Alphabet. Because they Both have a similar background they both had to run away from there homes and  both of there home land where in war. But the difference between Anisa’s alphabet and common wealth is that Anisa was forced to go to this refugee camp thing but the bad thing is it was only for kids and Anisa’s parents weren’t aloud to go with her.

Text to world:

When stef stared reading common wealth it reminded me of the other kids around the world who have been treated bad from there parents. And been really badly abused the story reminded me of it because when it said the line doesn’t include me it made me think of bad parents treating there child really badly or just loving one child.

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Common wealth 🖤👨🏿‍🦳

18.5.2021

T-T-T📖💙

In this book they must have felt lots of fear just like Anisa. But unlike Anisa's alphabet, the people in this book were scared because they were being hurt although Anisa was scared that they would hurt her. I don't think Anisa was aboriginal she was just under attack which common wealth also experienced. But being attacked as a aboriginal is more different then being a refugee like Anisa. Aboriginal were being hurt one by one in common wealth where as the whole country was under attack in Anisa's alphabet. Both if these books included danger, tears and pain.

T-T-S👱🏻‍♀️💕

I have not been in pain and despair unlike this book, common wealth. A troubled aboriginal writing this book or telling the story probably had the opposite life to mine. Maybe a few times I had a lot of hope but not for my life! Never have I ever been starved or threatened of my life unlike these poor very important people! They were in charge of this beautiful land and all I’m in charge of is my books and my toys. Tears have found a way to stream down my face except not because of being beaten up.

T-T-W 🌍💚

The fact that this has been caused in history before is traumatising. This would be caused very often everyday and aboriginal were starved to death.I’m talking about the mental and physical torture. They were in charge of the land which was a hard task and paid with this horrid results. Oils and pollution just like every other country in the world. If the aboriginals never had their land invaded they would live the dream and this nightmare wouldn’t have happened. Yes, it is all true.

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TTS: It is hard for me to relate to this, like many people I am not aboriginal. Something I can connect to though is the national anthem. When I sing it I am constantly confused by the lyrics, do we really need lines like: ‘girt by sea?’ Why can’t we include the aboriginal people? After all, they are the true owners of this land.

TTT: Like Anisa in her Anisa’s Alphabet, the aboriginal people are going through a very tough time, they are being mistreated, and they want it to stop. But, unlike Anisa, aboriginals can’t escape from this. Except we can all stop both of these things, we can help other countries make peace with their enemy’s, and we can slowly but surely stop the fight between black and white.

TTW: This is a big one, it has a lot of meaning for so many people. For ttw I connected to the Black Lives Matter movement, it is meaningful to so many people and I’m sure it will show up in more than one connection. Another link is the First Fleet, personally I think they should’ve just sailed on by, away from Australia and the Aboriginal people. Because they came, many lives and languages were lost.

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Text-world:The book describes how British came and took over,This book shows how the British kidnapped and tried teaching the kids how to act white,Kidnapping shows how messed up our world could be.

Text-text:This book reminds me of another aboriginal book which is when two white men came from a car and kidnapped children and drove away with them,Another book is when some black slaves in America tried to fight back,The end was fatal.

Text-self:We did something in inquiry about the history of aboriginals and how the British have stolen a generation of aboriginals

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Common wealth

18.5.21

Text to text

Like Anisa’s alphabet, this book talks about wars, they both cried this out

till their tears dried, but there was a lot of harsh habitats

And pain. They both want to be proud, But there voice isn’t so loud.

Common wealth wants to forget Australia’s dark history, but anisa wants to Forget the      refugee camp. They need people to listen to them, to listen to their story. I know that this book has many similarities, like the Anzac war or the war anisa was in.

Text to self

You and i want others to listen, but not many people care to glisten.

We all know how bad gas and oil are but we cant let them spoil and rot.

I realised that i have never thought of the things the author has listed apart from war and all, i also have relised alot of aboriginal traditions are still living. This made me rembember about that time when aboriginals made things naturally unlike todays items like, gas, plastic and more.

Text to world

This reminds me about how the World now uses artificial supplies to survive, but every country used to have ancestors who used to own the land like aboriginals that used natural thing to survive too. Unlike the past years and centuries, aboriginals have been more peaceful then now. Everyone knows that.

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T-T-T: I can connect this to Anisa’s alphabet because in both books it had a strong sense of determination and companion. Both books show a strong and deep view on very important topics and explaining them in a way that shows makes you really think about the world and what’s going on. Both text also show the sad but true story of our own earth. We need to change.

T-T-S: As you may know I am Aboriginal and in this book the whole idea of this book is to change for the Aboriginal. This book is really important and close to my heart because I have the same points. I am also trying to change the world (starting at this school). I can also connect the bird on the front to Bunjil the creator of life as we know it in the Aboriginal world. This book is just sooooo important to me.

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Commonwealth connections.

1. T-T-S: it reminded me of my friendship because currently I’m best friends with two people who have  probably experienced or witnessed racism around them. Of course they try not to realise it and continue being hopeful. Racism is all around the world and it is not the good kind. People are forced to do things that they wouldn’t rather do, they would be controlled by rules and laws. The government have toned down the control over they’re lives but it hasn’t ended quite just yet. Very similar to the aboriginal racism, but it is all quite the same.

T-T-T: the book reminds me of ‘Day Break’ because of the topic they both share. They are both about aboriginal and tress strait islander people racism or better then that black racism. In one of the pages in ‘Day Break’ it shows the girls teacher saying “Captain Kook discovered Australia “ while the girl was confused because her father says “we had the land first” and with this information we know that the girl is Aboriginal/Torres strait islander. In Commonwealth it was a poem about a refugee girl that ran away from her refugee camp. It had deep emotion in it and had descriptive sentences and illustrations to make the reader feel something.

1. T-T-W:  it reminded me of protests and people grasping for change. Black Lives Matter protests revolved around different religions (not going to name) but every single one including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a voice that must be heard. There is no such this as ‘colours’ in my opinion but to other there is, but obviously there isn’t. People don’t accept them just because of they’re ‘frightening’ appearance.(they are not frightening)

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TEXT TO SELF

This book reminds me about New Zealand, and my old neighbour hood because over there our community would share lots of things and help each other out. We were all good friends, so we would always say hi and have a chat when we see each other.

TEXT TO WORLD

I can find connections with this book and the real world. The book talks a lot about the world and what should improve

TEXT TO TEXT

This book is similar to Anisa’s alphabet because they are both talking about something not good that happening in the real world. They are both also poems. However, their topics are very different. This book talks about common wealth, and it’s a persuasive while Anisa’s Alphabet is a story of when she escaped her country because it was being attacked

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Commonwealth

T-T-S- When I sing the national anthem I think that the national anthem is definitely unfair and is only about English people. I think that people should make more things fair to all cultures.

T-T-T- commonwealth reminds me of Anisa’s alphabet because the thing Anisa was going through was hard, scary and basically just unfair. The topic of commonwealth is similar because the mean and unfair things that the British were doing to aboriginals must have definitely been scary too. Both Anisa's story and commonwealth are both about things that are not right in the world and trying to make things right. Unlike commonwealth Anisa’s alphabet is about her being a refugee and trying to flee from her country and find somewhere safe but commonwealth is about the author trying to change Australia so it is fair and inclusive to Australia’s rightful owners.

T-T-W- This reminds me that our world still has lots of things that are unfair and that people with lots of power are still making a lot of decisions. Even though most people think that Aboriginals and refugees/migrants should have equal rights and that pollution and global warming should stop.

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Text To Text:

The book “Common Wealth” makes me think of a book called Day Break, because they both have similar meanings and messages, like the sentence in Day Break “This isn’t a celebration.” On page 9, Links to the sentence in Common Wealth “But what would really be great, is If we change that date.” On page 29. I think they link, because they are both trying to say that they should change the date of Australia Day, because it was also the start of them raiding Australia.

Text To Self:

The book “Common Wealth” reminds me of when I went to a protest about the land belongs to the Indigenous Australians and that they should have equal rights. It reminds me of it, because we walked around the city for a while chanting phrases.

Text To World:

The book “Common Wealth” reminds me of the problem in the world, about having the same rights, changing the date, changing the anthem, changing the flag, and much, much more. It reminds me of it, because of the phrase “Just like improving our flag. One small change can’t be a drag.” On page 29, and how it relates to the problems that need to be changed!.:)

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Text to text                        I made a text to text connection to day break because in both of the books they want to change the date of Australia Day. “But what would be really great, is if  we could change the date.” That is a quote from common wealth on page 19. “My teacher says that the 26th of January is when we celebrate the settlement of Australia. She says white men discovered our contrey. But dad says we were already here.” Is a quote from day break on page 7.

Text to world
I made a text to world connection to when they changed  the national anthem from we are young and free to we are one and free. “They say that we are young and free” is on page 7. It connected to the world because some people are trying to change it completely.
Text to self
I made a text to self connection because I think we should change the Australian flag. “Just like improving our flag; one small change can’t be a drag;” on page 26 , was what I thought he wants to change the Australian flag.

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Deep connections - common wealth 

T - T - S : The bit when they say that this should be a shared land made me ashamed. Ashamed to be one of the thousands of people who stole this land from it’s rightful owners. I feel like a bystander. I feel like a bad person. I definitely feel like someone in a unfair community. They are willing to share. We are not. We are to selfish and hold to much self esteem to share. What’s worse we are happier with the idea of claiming stolen land than we are with the thought of sharing

T - T - T : The book “common wealth” reminds me of another book about a ingenious Australian and in the book the author describes how she spends her day off (aka. Her Australia Day) not messing around of having fun, she gets into the car and drives out to the country. She reunites her and her family to the land. To the land that will always be theirs. We need to change things in Australia.

T - T - W : What this book reminds me of is how much effect a action can change the future. Like in this case is we stole this land and now Australia is one of the biggest climate change hot spot. The aboriginal Australians were so ethical in how much resources they took from the land. If they needed food they would kill 2 kangaroos and somehow feed a whole village! They also made sure to use every single piece of said kangaroo to make sure they weren’t wasting anything.

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Deep connections - common wealth 

T - T - S : The bit when they say that this should be a shared land made me ashamed. Ashamed to be one of the thousands of people who stole this land from it’s rightful owners. I feel like a bystander. I feel like a bad person. I definitely feel like someone in a unfair community. They are willing to share. We are not. We are to selfish and hold to much self esteem to share. What’s worse we are happier with the idea of claiming stolen land than we are with the thought of sharing

T - T - T : The book “common wealth” reminds me of another book about a ingenious Australian and in the book the author describes how she spends her day off (aka. Her Australia Day) not messing around of having fun, she gets into the car and drives out to the country. She reunites her and her family to the land. To the land that will always be theirs. We need to change things in Australia.

T - T - W : What this book reminds me of is how much effect a action can change the future. Like in this case is we stole this land and now Australia is one of the biggest climate change hot spot. The aboriginal Australians were so ethical in how much resources they took from the land. If they needed food they would kill 2 kangaroos and somehow feed a whole village! They also made sure to use every single piece of said kangaroo to make sure they weren’t wasting anything.

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Text to text
This text reminds me of a book, Day Break. This is because they both include that people have been taught that Captain Cook discovered Australia. “Captain Cook being taught as our discoverer”, this phrase made me think about Day Break.

Text to self
This text reminds me of Australia’s National Anthem my schools sings at assembly. This is because this text includes some phrases from the National Anthem. The text includes “Golden soil” and “Nature’s
gift”. This made me think of Australia’s National Anthem

Text to world
This text reminds me of all of the other land claimed by the British. The book shows the British flag and I noticed that the British flag is on many different flags. Australia, Cook Island, New Zealand and more all have the British flag on their own flags.

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Common Wealth by Gregg Dreise

Making connections

Text to text

This book reminded me of the book entitled finding our heart because of this picture on page 2. It reminded me of this because they both symbolise Uluru as the heart of Australia.

Text to world

This world has a lot of improving but one of them is inequality between different agriculture’s. The book reminded me of this because of this picture.

Text to self

This page reminded me of watching politicians debate and say things about uniting countries, uniting different cultures into one but if they did get elected they wouldn’t try or it did work.

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Text to self:
The picture of Captain Cook and the quote “Captain Cook being taught as our discoverer...” reminded me of when Hilary became Captain Cook. The whole class were aloud to ask him all the questions we wanted to. It also made me think about an incursion we had about Captain Cook and the arrival of the European Settlers.

Text to text:
The photo of the person hands in shackles and the quote “Australia’s true history made me think about the book “When we say Black Lives Matter” because in that book, it mentioned about how aboriginals and black skinned people don’t get the respect that they deserve. Also because it also had a picture of someone in handcuffs.

Extra:
The quote “Anzac spirit” reminded me of another book called “Anzac’ red Poppies” because it’s about Anzac, the red poppies and Anzac Day’s history.

Text to world:
This book reminds me of fight and war because the book is trying to restore peace and the opposite of peace is war. It also reminds me of the world wars from the past.

All the fighting also makes me think of the bombing and battling between the 2 nations that were mentioned on Squiz Kids. I don’t remember what they were called but there was like a feud or something.

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Text To Text: Common Wealth reminds me about the book Day Break because when they said “Captain Cook being taught as our discoverer makes me mad”, it’s similar to Day Break when the teacher said Captain Cook discovered our land.

Text To World: This book reminds me about the time in inquiry about the time when the Europeans invaded Australia because there was a part in the book that talked about when Captain Cook was said to be the one that discovered Australia.

Text To Self: This book reminds me about when in grade 3 the teacher showed us some videos about when the Europeans invaded Australia

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Connections for common wealth (New one) By Hasini

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Connections for common wealth (New one) By Hasini

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Connections to Common wealth.

By Hasini

T.S

The text to self that reminded me from this book is when we became scientists in term 1 and went on a time travel tour.I really enjoyed time travelling.I liked when we learned about different things that happened before.

T.T

The book common wealth reminded me of rabbits and the young dark emu.The book mainly reminded me of the rabbits more that the other one(young dark emu).The part in the book it mainly reminded me of was ‘And they stole our children’ the sentence was very powerful and tells the horrible time the Indigenous Australians must have had back then.

T.W

The book common wealth reminds me of that Indigenous Australians don’t have as much rights as people who are not.Eg.They don’t get good education. And equality is an important thing in the world .Everyone must be treated fairly wherever their from,Whatever background they have.Everyone must be treated fairly

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Text to Self:
This makes me feel horrid. Extremely horrid when I hear the words “stealing children and killing innocents.” The Europeans “claimed” they discovered the land but the Indigenous Australians found the land 50,000 years ago or more. It makes me feel ashamed to be human for what happens everyday to the world.

Text to text:
This book reminds me of the book “Day Break”. That book was about the story behind Australia Day (26th  of January). Most people would believe it’s a celebration but, from an Indigenous Australia’s perspective, it was the day their land was stolen.

Text to world:
The picture on page 4 reminds me of the European Settlement and stole to Indigenous Australians land and called it Terra Nulus. The day Europeans took over , they took children from parents and killed people just to leave convicts there.

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By sai

Link to the book:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KMUNCdiNfLXnvjcLW6XGqlf6BiCDUezb/view?usp=drivesdk

Link to my connections:https://docs.google.com/document/d/14D1OA99TZezvmwKU4fz51wObTsbuSjBQOiKlk75JL6o/edit

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Text To Self

I made a text to self connection when I read the words "I see more and more schools add, Australia's true history to their pencil and pad." It reminded me of the inquiry unit we did in term one which looked at the arrival of European settlers from the perspective of Indigenous Australians. Reading those words made me feel proud that at NMPS we recognise and acknowledge the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation, as the traditional owners of the land.

Text to Text
The phrase ‘but what would really be great, is if we could change the date’ in Common Wealth made me think about the book Day Break. I made a text-to-text connection to the phrase, “this isn’t a celebration” in reference to Australia Day. I can infer that the authors of Common Wealth and Day Break both believe the date of Australia Day should be moved to allow for “a true common wealth vision”.

Text to World
I made a text to world connection after reading the phrase, “a bird can’t fly with just one feather; they need to work together.” It made me think about Victoria and how we, as a state, have worked together during the covid-19 pandemic.  At the moment, we are all staying home to make our community safe, just like we did last year.

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Text to Text
This book reminded me of ‘Day Break.’ The reason why is because they both are inspirational texts about the Indigenous Australians. They both show how the Indigenous Australians were the first ones to discover Australia. The only difference is that Day Break had a story to go along with it. This book, on the other hand, didn’t.

Text to Self
In this book, it shows a sunset on one of the pages. This reminded me of the term 1 holidays. The reason why is because I saw my first complete sunset on that holiday. It wasn’t up close like it was in this text. Instead, it was a little further away.

Text to World
In this book, it shows how Britain invaded the Indigenous Australians. This reminds me of how the British invaded India. There are only two differences. The first one is that the British didn’t say that they “discovered” India. The other difference is that India fought the British away.

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Text to self
This book reminds me of when I went to the Northern Territory because there were lots of aboriginal and tores straight islander people, more than white people and there were many aboriginal thing like didgeridoos.

Text to text
This book is like Black Lives Matter because they both are about black people getting treated badly and how’s they should be equal to white people. It is a problem around the world not just for people In Australia.

Text to world
I can relate this to other problems in the world like gender equality and homelessness and how it is unfair and needs to be changed.

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Text to self
This makes me feel very calm and nice. The words were very important and makes me feel good. This reminds me of the day that we went to sports and saw all the players working together to win the game. This reminds me of cross country, l have been cheering for my friend to win. This text has some strong words that makes me interested like “I am just a dork of water, but together we can be a strong current that drags us somewhere special.

Text to text
This book can be connected with a other book called Black Lives Matter. People form into protests  and work together to make their land and them seen. This book can also connect to an other book called stand up and speak up. People work together to change the problem of climate change. I felt happy to find some good and nice words that make a change.

Text to world
This is a great inspiration to the the people that work in sports. I have seen and heard and even know that people work together to save something or someone. Sports, COVID 19 and even doctors work together to help the people from Covid-19. The people who work in a army are great sacrifices and they even work together. There are some many things people work together, also animals work together like ants.

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T-T-T
The book day break is similar to this book Common wealth. The similarities are that they both have scenes that have shown baby being stolen. In both texts it reference to Captain Cook. The both reference to indigenous people throwing spears. They talk about in both books about their ancestors.
T-T-S
This book reminds me of all the times when I went Queensland. In Queensland there are more indigenous Australians then Melbourne. It is Likely because Queensland is closer to the bush and closer to country. It sad to think that we have destroyed The country we stand on to this day. But it can be reversible.
T-T-W
I have see, read and Heard that school are teaching kids the Real history of Australia. That indigenous Australians were here before Captain Cook and that The Europeans treated Indigenous Australians terribly. It is good that the truth of Australian history is coming to school. When more people learn about Australians history they will understand how to treat people. With people treating everyone the same it Will be easier to make the World better.

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TTW
This is similar to other problem’s in the world like discrimination and unfairly treating black people and girls.
TTT
This is similar to the when we say black live’s matter book because they are both things that need to be changed.
TTS
This reminds me of black lives matter protesting because one of the reasons aboriginal’s where treated differently is because their skin colour.

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Text to Self:
This reminds me when we did this incursion about aboriginal and British. This taught me a lot. It taught me how aboriginals were treated when the British was claiming the land. The British said that were there first but the aboriginals were. The Incursion told us about the aboriginal traditions too.

Text to Text:
This book reminds me of the book daybreak. In day break they didn’t celebrate any Australian traditions they only celebrated Aboriginal traditions. In the book the didn’t want the girl believing that the British found Australia. They both talked about the  issue of aboriginals being treated poorly. They both talked about how they were here first.

Text to World:
It needs to be changed that is why people are protesting on Australia Day because to them it means invasion day to them. Years ago when the British came to Australia, they babies from aboriginal families. They also kill some aboriginals that is why they didn’t celebrate it. There are tons of protests but some didn’t care. That is why it is a big problem.

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Text to self
This book lets me think Australia people everyday very busy in before.They want to eat they need to kill animal.They kill one animal they are very happy because they have food.
Text to text
That book lets me think another book name is Black lives Metter.They all talking about what happen in the before and white people always dosn’t like them.And they need more heart.
Text to world
I think just the world need heart!And cannot fighting.Because we are people we need stay together

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Callan

The book “Common Wealth” reminds me of the day a black man named George Floyd died. I’m reminded of this because reading the book made me think about racism and not just in Australia, everywhere. One of the pictures also remind me of learning history at school. When I first found out how horrible the past was, I was shocked and then remembered the Black Lives Matter marches. In the book it also mentioned how the national anthem has to change the part where it says “We are young and free” and later, it was eventually changed which made me happy.

This book reminds me of when I went to the Gold Coast and saw lots of old paintings from indigenous Australian culture. I’m reminded of the book because of all the pictures in the book. When I was there, the paintings we saw were unique, each in their own way. Thinking back to it, it was probably the best experience I’ve ever had in Australia. The book had a good meaning and made me wish I could change history, but that’s too bad.

The book also reminds me of another book titled “When we say Black Lives Matter.” They both have strong meanings and both of which are good. I haven’t read a lot of books about indigenous Australians but I still understand most of what happened to them. There was a picture in Common wealth of black footprints and white footprints, it reminded me of a picture in When we say Black Lives Matter of a woman holding her child, trying to keep them safe. I’m reminded of it because the footprints cross paths which make me think of captain cook stealing children by going into the huts indigenous Australians made.

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Text to self
The part where it mentioned bird reminded me of my old pet, Maewyn, my rainbow lorikeet.  As well as that it reminded me of when I learnt about the aborigines culture thoroughly this year in first term. I learnt how harshly they were treated and how their history was lied about.
Text to Text
This reminded me of when I watched an Auslan movie of this guy who was being not fairly treated by his classmates.
Text to world
This reminds me of how the world is still not perfectly fair because the date of Invasion Day has not changed and and this causes great trouble to the indigenous Australians.

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Text to text
This book reminded me of Day break. It reminded me of Day break because both talked about the  aboriginal and torres straight  islender peoples culture. It also talked a lot about austrailia day and how this day was a very sad and dark days to the aboriginal and the torres straight islender people. Bassicaly they were trying to spread the meesage to change the day of austrailia day.

Text to world
This book reminded me of the very big march they had about black lives in the us last year. This book reminded me of the march because they both have something to do with black people. The march was triggered by a man called George Floyd who died because of a police officer chocking him.

Text to self
This reminded me of when I made a black lives matter poster and stuck it all over the house. I had done this when I saw the black livs matter protest on the news. I guess I was inspired by all the young people fighting for change.

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Common wealth

Making connections

Text to self: This sentence ‘ our floral emblem - the green and gold wattle ‘ reminds me y4 when we made personal emblems. Mine was a shield that had a motto and passions. I think the author chose, ‘ floral emblem because most indigenous symbols that represent someone or something are related to a specific type of flower or plant.

Text to text: This book reminds me of Rabbits because they both talk about how the Europeans invaded and how people have forgotten what happened. Like we have forgot what happened and people don’t care about the past.

Text to world: I make a connection when I think of how the indigenous Australians were treated. This reminds me of when an indigenous Australian went to Europe and told there story on behalf of lots of indigenous Australians. This person described to the Europeans how it felt for a colony they didn’t know to just come and take over - invade

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Common wealth

Making connections

Text to self: This sentence ‘ our floral emblem - the green and gold wattle ‘ reminds me y4 when we made personal emblems. Mine was a shield that had a motto and passions. I think the author chose, ‘ floral emblem because most indigenous symbols that represent someone or something are related to a specific type of flower or plant.

Text to text: This book reminds me of Rabbits because they both talk about how the Europeans invaded and how people have forgotten what happened. Like we have forgot what happened and people don’t care about the past.

Text to world: I make a connection when I think of how the indigenous Australians were treated. This reminds me of when an indigenous Australian went to Europe and told there story on behalf of lots of indigenous Australians. This person described to the Europeans how it felt for a colony they didn’t know to just come and take over - invade

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Text to text:

This book reminds me of another book I read that was about aboriginal people’s right’s. I think both the authors thought of the same ideas. This book made me feel passionate to do something about indigenous aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people.

Text to self:

This book reminds me of when I saw aboriginal paintings in an art gallery and it reminded me of aboriginal people and the invasion.

Text to world: this book reminds me of the aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people wanting to change the anthem, flag and date of Australia Day. This makes me want to change all that stuff too!.:)

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This book reminded me about the book day break, they both send a powerful message. They talk about the lives they lost and that we are equal and should be cared equal. They talk about things should change, like, in day break they wanted to change Australia Day because that was the day many aboriginals died.  In common wealth they wanted to change a few words in the Australian anthem to make it fair.

Text to world

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Text-to-self

I made a connection when it said “it takes me 42 steps to walk from a shouting boy” reminded me of when we had a incursion about bullying. The boy reminded me that there are actually bullies, and they are mean, this made me angry.

Text-to-world

I made a connection to when the book said “someone laughs from near by, pointing at Asiya” it made me think about the man that was killed from a police, the man died just because of who he was and what he looked like.

Text-to-text

I made another connection to the quote “someone laughs from near by, pointing at Asiya” it made me think of the book “when we say Black Lives Matter” because there both getting bullied or accused for who they are for who they are.

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T-W

In the book they want to change some national anthem words and mention that we are not young in the we are young and free part. Recently the national anthem has changed from we are young and free to we are one and free.

T-S

In the book it shows a picture of Australia with hands from different backgrounds it reminds me of the essential agreement where you have to cut out a paper copy of your hand and write your name on it to show you agree to the rules.

T-T

In the book it talks about why we should do more about respecting torres strait islander and aboriginal people. This reminds me of day break which is a story about why we should celebrate Australia Day on a different day

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I can make a connection to convicts and how they were shipped to Australia from England because they had done something wrong, Australia was a prison. So they had to work for people.

T-W
I can make a connection to the national anthem and how the government made a change in the anthem from young and free to one and free because Australia is not a young country.

T-T
I can make a connection to a video I watched about a aboriginal girl that watches the government say sorry for the English people coming to Australia and sealing children and taking away their land.

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Text to Self
This book reminds me of when I first heard about the art on the cave walls that the indigenous people did. I remember feeling very impressed because they had found a way to live that was good for them and for the land. I think the British people were a bit jealous about that, so the were horrible to the indigenous.

Text to Text
This book reminds me of daybreak. I think this because in day break the child in the book is a indigenous Australia same in commonwealth. I also think they are similar because they are both books that educate us about the indigenous Australians.

Text to World
This book reminds me of when I heard about a girl who did not stand up for the national anthem at assembly. I think of that because in the book they are saying that the lyrics are not applying to the indigenous.

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Text to text: this book reminds me of the book ‘when we say Black Lives Matter’ Because both books talked about equality and being fair to each other. And in daybreak, the girl learns about captain cook being the one to discover Australia, but she disagrees just like in common wealth. And in the book common Wealth and day break both show the skin difference in their drawings.

Text to world: this book relates to the real world because it’s about aborigines and their land getting stolen. It also relates to the real world because in the olden days teachers used to tell their students that captain cook discovered Australia, but now students are getting to know the truth about things and acknowledging the aborigines.

Text to self: this book reminds me of when I went to the Northern Territory for Australia Day to pay our respects to the aborigines, we were going to go to Uluru last year but because of covid we couldn’t go

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T-W
It’s like how they changed the National anthem from young to 1 because we’re not a young nation because that there’s been indigenous elders on this land since the dawn of time

T-S
This book doesn’t relate to me at all because I have no indigenous culture in my blood but I’ve been in a lot of marches for indigenous rights

T-T
It reminds me of daybreak because of the same like we’ve been there before them so why are they celebrating for stealing when stealing a crime

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Text to self
this book remindes of me going to darwin because  their most of the land was land was  aboriginal terroirtory . Also there was a lot of aboriginal flags there like in the book.This book shows of the austrian map of the other county’s on Auatralia it remindes  me when i was in my old school when we cut out paper hands and wright down our background.

Text to text
this book reminds me of the book “when the aboriginal flag was missing” because they both talk about the aboriginal people that we should respect them.

Text to world
this book just wanted to make every notation to fill equal to the other nation.

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Common wealth

Text to self

This makes me think about the past and how people have wronged people that are different wether it’s gender race or religion and we need that to change and it’s not going to go on it’s own so we need action now!

Text to text

This reminds me of Anisa’s alphabet because they both are related in the fact there both about looking to the past so we don’t don’t repeat history.

Text to world

This reminds me of the colonisation of Australia and America because the British discovered it then killed the natives

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Text-to-self
This book reminds me of term 1. In term 1, when we did the inquiry unit of Captain Cook took over the aboriginals’ lands, John gave us a chance to talk to Captain Cook (which is performed by John). And I understood how and why the aboriginals feel. And this book gave me a better understanding of it.

Text-to-world
This book reminds me of racism. Each time I read a book about racism, I felt sad. And I still wonder why some people still believe in racism. This book is a type of racism. And I was really moved by it.

Text-to-text
This book is really similar to the other books I read. They are all about racism. And they are all about bullying. But I enjoyed and was moved by this book the most. One of the other ones “Day Break”, I enjoyed that one as well.

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Fresh hope in study of critically endangered Sumatran rhinos

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Fresh hope in study of critically endangered Sumatran rhinos

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I made a text to self connection
“ Experts estimate only 80 Sumatran  rhinos remain”
Mum and dad went to Namibia and they saw the rhinos which are also endangered. There are only 200 rhinos left in Namibia.

I made a text to world connection when I read
“ Poaching and habitat destruction by humans have devastated  its population, with its  numbers falling   by about 70 per cent in just two decades.” Rhinos are being targeted by poachers with tranquilliser guns. They tranquilliser  the Rhino and cut the horn off while the Rhino is asleep. When  the rhino wakes up it bleeds  to death and dies.

I made a text to text connection when I read,
“ It’s important to remember that the Sumatran rhino is still on the verge of extinction ”.When I read Animal News, it talked about  Poachers are cutting off Rhino horns and taking their horns to sell for $35,000 per kilogram. It is disgusting to hear,  that there have been 341 Rhinos poached this year in South Africa.

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Text to self
This book reminded me of people not listening to me. At the beginning of the book it was talking about people not listening. Well that happened to me. When I was in kindergarten the teacher never listened to me. There was this guy that kept on bullying me.

Text to text
This book reminds me of Black Lives Matter .  They both are fighting for their lives. They want to be heard.

Text to the world
War is bad. Why do people do war?

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Text to self
This book reminded me of the indigenous people. Because on some of the pages shows indigenous people. Not just the indigenous it also had the anzacs. It made me feel like indigenous people should get more respect because some people just don’t know anything. The book is talking about being fair and I agree because some people get treated differently in a bad way because of their skin colour.
Text to text
This book reminded me of the book day break. Because both books included something to do with aboriginals. Both books are showing that some people believe that captain cook discovered Australia. The book also reminded of the book Anisas alphabet. Both books are poetry and bad things happening.
Text to world
This book reminded me of how unfair the world is. People get treated differently because of skin colour. Black people get accused for crimes more than white people do. This means even police officers treat black people worse than white people. I think that the world should accept black people and not mistreat them.

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Text to self: This book reminds me of my year three genius hour activity. This is because in genius I did an aboriginal styled painting. This relates to the book because the art in the book is clearly aboriginal styled. I found that in the book the art was quite moving, as it was showing a very strong opinion.

Text to text: This book reminds me of the Black Lives Matter book, because they are both strongly showing that the characters (or narrator, in this case) deserved more. The characters believed they should be given and showing more rights, freedoms and that they should just be generally respected more. I can tell that tall these characters just want some change in the way people think and treat them.

Text to world: In this book, the narrator / character clearly wants the national anthem to be altered or changed. I can relate to this because in real life the national anthem was changed slightly to incorporate and respect the traditional owners of the land (the aboriginals). It changed from saying we are young and free, to we are one and free. The reason we are young and free is disrespectful to some people is because the traditional owners of this land have been here for many thousands of years, so they are definitely not young!!

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T-T-T
This text reminded me of "Day break" because they were both about Indengnous Australians. Although "Common Wealth" was different to "Day Break" in the way that it was more of a poem. This text also reminded me of "When we say black lives matter" because it was written in the way of a poem. Also both are different in some ways and the same in others, this makes them very interesting to read!!

T-T-W
This text was about Indegienious Australians, that reminded of the real world. Everyday Indeginous Australians are judged for what they look like. That brought me to... People Are Judged For Looks And Cutltures. Everyday this horrid thing happens around the world. Making people uncomfortable with who they are isn't okay.

T-T-S
This text reminded me of when I wrote a first- person story about nature. This isn't veryyy similar but it can be hard to relate to texts sometimes. The poem basically was talking about you walking through a garden. This garden wasn't normal it was ✨special ✨ it had mythical beings and glowing trees.

Done :)

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Text to world

I made a connection to when it said “on the outside we may be different, but the inside we are the same,” this made me think not just about women’s rights, but it also made me think about all the other bad things the world has done, like child labour.

Text to self

I made a connection to when it said “I see more and more school add, Australia’s true history on pencil and pad”.It reminds me of school Assembly when we acknowledge the Aboriginal and Tara straight Islanders, and all the hours we spent learning about the harsh history about Australia.

Text to text

When the narrator spoke about captain cook it reminded me of the book “Rabbits”. It reminds of the book “Rabbits” because both of the books are about when captain cook took over Australia.

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Text to Self: This book remind of me of the Aboriginal history at my old school.
Text to Text: this book remind me of another that is black lives matter and day break book.
Text to World: this book remind me of the Aboriginal history that the white people came to Australia and take all the Aboriginal kids away from there family.

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TTT

This book reminded me of day break because they were both talking about aborting all and Torres straight islanders who suffered so greatly, but kept going.

It also had resemblance to the “when we say Black Lives Matter” because all three books talk about race and the issues that happen in Australia and America every day.

TTW

It Cleary had a massive connection to all the real world problems with racism and the impact it had on people in the past.

It also was similar to the real world because of it’s multiple references to possible new Anthems and flags.
It was a real world stories of truths and what happened in a impactful slam poem.

TTS

It reminds when we were at school in grade 2 first learning about aboriginal history, I remember that my peanut brain was to small to comprehend the horrific past massacres and the horrible things the British people did to the aboriginal people of this land

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Text to text
This book reminds me of a book I read that was
About Indigenous
Australians about how they lived and survived in the wild, As well
as how the Europeans
took over the land in their perspective as they took over the land and how
they had killed a bunch of their families
And friends, ruined their culture and stuff like that.

Text to Self
The book reminds of when I came to a new school and a new place. Then probably a month later someone else came in....their skin was darker and I wanted
to become friends with them. But then this person came up to me and started to talk 🤬 about that person and really?!
It was just ———. But yeah
i was friends with them for another few months
and then I moved school which is here...but yeah that’s all.

Text to world
The
Is book reminds me of racism in the world. Since the Europeans took over the land and stuff like that. They had completely ignored that the Indigenous Australians were their just because their skin color was different to theirs.

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T-S
This reminds me of the latest change to the national anthem because others wanted to change it.
T-T
This reminds me of the book when we say Black Lives Matter because it is both about people being treated unfairly and wanting change in the world.
T-W
This reminds me of the argument to change the national anthem because it does not acknowledge the indigenous Australians.

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Text To Self

This reminds me of when I went to the invasion day march and my ears hurt so much from the chanting. It also reminds me of when my year 2 class was talking/learning about Aboriginal people.

Text To Text

This book reminds me of a book about black lives matter (BLM) and another book called Anisa’s Alphabet because In the Anisa’s alphabet book they get bombed/get raided by another country and the aboriginal people got raided by England. The BLM book was about black people getting treated badly because of their skin colour.

Text To World

This book reminds me of the Invasion Day march because the IDM (invasion day march) is about respecting all the aboriginal people and this text is about aboriginal people.

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Text to self
It reminds me of the national anthems change.
Text to text
It reminds me of the book Black Lives Matter. Both books tell about the pain in history.
Text to world
It reminds me of all the protests that have been happening.

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T-T-T:
It reminds me of the Black Lives Matter book because they were both very similar poems and they were both talking about how they want to see a change in the way they get treated

T-T-W:
When he said that him/she said that they were  begging for a change in the way they were treated it makes me think about when they were teaching that to us in grade 3 and how captain cook took their land.

T-T-S:
It reminds me of a lot of different thoughts about how they are treated and how we can do better in helping them feel better.

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Why National Indigenous People’s Day is so important | Your Morning

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T-T-T

Common wealth reminds me off “ The Rabbits “ because both this books talk about indigenous Australians and how white people came. In common wealth they talk about how we can work together with the white but in the other book the show the white people as bad people stilling the land kidnapping kids killing some indigenous Aussie to.

T-T-W

The story describe how to work together and no matter how you look everyone is the same on the inside.

T-T-S

This book tells a lot about how we can work together and unite. My opinion is do not be rude if people look different.

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T - T - S

This reminds me of how other people aren’t treated respectfully and there are a lot of people in the world out there who are having a hard time and it just makes me feel angry and sad at the same time which feels weird because it’s not meant to be like that. It just reminds me of people in the world that aren’t treated right.

T - T - T

This reminds me of the book called “day break” because it’s basically the same thing how the Indigenous Australians or Aboriginals land gets stolen from them and they just want everyone to be friends and treated equally.

T - T - W

The sentence “They say that we are Young and Free” reminds me of the Australian national anthem and how there describing that it might not be true because of what happened to them back then. It makes me have mixed emotions when it reminds me of what happened because they are the same as us and they just had to die for nothing. We’re all the same no matter what culture or colour.

- Tiffany

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ᖴᖇOᗰ ᔕᗯIKI Tᕼᗴ ᗯIKI

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Text to self: it makes me feel sad that people don’t care about Australian history. I think we should change the national anthem, I know we did one word already but we can do way more. And I saw their flag, it’s nice.

Text to text: I have read heaps of books about indigenous Australians but none about the anthem. I think it's very creative how this persuasive piece is also rhyming at the same time.

Text to world: I think and feel like the world should do more about respecting and honouring everyone's culture and where they come from because every country is very unique in its way.

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Day break, because their being treated differently and no-one cares.
T- S
This reminds me if how sad and angry i was when nobody cared about what was happening around them homophobia, racism, sexism.
T-W
People are being treated differently. The author wrote this book to ask for help.

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Text to self:This poem makes me feel unfortunate for the indigenous people because they had to deal with this really hard time.And the sentence about the inpcoent people getting killed for no particular reason makes me feel really bad.
Text to text:This reminds me of the book I read, the books about the indeginious people such as the AFL book or the day break.These two books kind of reflect/or has similarity to this text.They all 3 talk about indigenous people are descluded negatively in some kind of way.
Text the world:The devestation Australia(indeginous people) had to face was difficult.There are many commonwealth across the world.An example is Australia.There symbol is called the coat of arms.

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Text-to-Text
This book really reminds me of the movie A Silent Voice because of the sentence '200 years of ears that year but don't listen'. A Silent Voice is about a deaf girl who gets bullied by a group of students when she goes to school, and when the bully grows up he says that "she was the one who was deaf but I was the one that didn't listen".

Text-to-Self
Common Wealth makes me think of the time we learnt about how Captain Cook came and "discovered" Australia, when the truth is the Indigenous people were there before him. The book mentions this too.

Text-to-World
My answer for this connection is similar to the Text-to-Self connection, but Common Wealth reminds me of how the European settlers invaded Australia and did terrible things to the Indigenous people such as killing them and taking their children away. I'm glad that most people treat the Indigenous kindly now.

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Text-to-world basically explaining what would should be in the anthem and what should be nine and someone disrespectful to the aboriginal people and I have one take on this because I think young and free should’ve not been changed because it’s just like a metaphor for like for we are free country or something like that or we feel free
Text to text this book is like black lives matter they both are about how black people are getting treated badly and how they should be equal to white people I still don’t get why black people get disrespected they are just who they are not animals or anything else
Text to self this is also like other situations like sexism and so on and again I’m saying this why in the world would someone discriminate for who they are

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Text to world

A lot of Torres Strait islanders are still fighting for their land and in the world people disrespect them for their culture, their own way of life and especially for their skin tone. Especially the part in the book where it was talking about that we are all the same inside, it relates straight to the skin tone. Because what it really means is that we have different skin tones and all but still we are all the same. So Torres Strait islanders should be treated with basic respect.

Text to text

From a video/ book it was about an explorer who went to see the Torres strait islanders. He made a diary and noted down what happened every step of the way. They treated him like a normal person not putting you straight to prison. Well anyway the man actually wrote that he liked their style of living peacefully and wrote it in his diary. After he came back to America he was going to publish the story,but told the editors to leave out the part where he had said that he liked their style of living. It is related to this book because in this book it said that we are all the same. And in the video they were the same as well they both treated each other with respect.

Text to self

The book kinda relates to me and everybody else, because I may look different and do things differently. Other people look differently and do things their way. And in NMPS, there are people from China who can’t speak English well, Indian, Germany and many many more. And everybody treats each other with respect. They don’t make fun of their looks and how they do things, everyone has the same status level. (It means that slaves work for the owner and blah blah blah)

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Common Wealth

Text to self

This reminds me of the time when I went to the Daintree Rainforest and I saw the same patterns on the trees just like in the book. This relates because they have the same pattern in the book and the Trees. How they don’t relate is because the colours aren’t the same and some different patterns. I felt good while reading since this is a calming book.

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This reminds me of when I watched a video of Aboriginal people making music and telling stuff about their land. This is similar because the book is about aboriginals and the video is also about aboriginals. They are different because the book isn’t about explaining all the details while the video is.

Text to world

This is a Real world thing because the Aboriginal land has lived for thousands of years. Many Aboriginal are still in Australia. Another name for them is Torres strait islanders.

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Text to world

When I read these words”Coming  up”, it reminds me of the news on NMPS has got 2 COVID cases and It keeps coming up in the news.

Text to self
When I read the the words” Rest up”,   this reminds me of when Mum tucks me into bed at night.

Text to text
When I read the words, “Stand up speak up,“ it reminds  me of the book called Save the Rhinos.The rhinos horns are being chopped off by poachers and the rhinos are dying because of this.

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Text to self
This book reminds me of when we learnt about the aboriginal and convicts in history. It makes me think of that because in one of the pages, it has the English flag on a massive ship sailing.
Text to Text
This book reminds me of the book Day Break because it both includes a bit of a mention of the English stealing australia from the aborigines and Torres Strait island people.
Ttw
This reminds me of when cook’s men came to Australia and killed lots and lots of people in the past and it was really brutal. They also took away lots of children from their parents and had lots of slaves. It was a really unfair time.

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Text-to-self
I made a text-to-self connection when I read the word “on the outside we are the same.”This reminded me of the time when I first came to Australia from China.All the teachers and classmates are very friendly and it really made me feel that the world is Unite and my full of love.One of my classmates learned “ni hao”which means “hello”because he is interested in Chinese culture. I love the harmony of this world.

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I made a text-to-self connection when I read the word “on the outside we may be different,but inside we are the same.”This reminded me of the time when I first came to Australia from China.All the teachers and classmates are very friendly and it really made me feel that the world is unite and full of love.One of my classmates learned “ni hao”which means “hello”because he is interested in Chinese culture.I love the harmony of this world.
Text-to-text
The book “common wealth” reminded me of another book “when we say Black Lives Matter “because they both talked about equality of lives.Both black people and aborigines in Australia have had a dark history, and they both want to be treated with respect and love
Text-to-world
I made a text-to-world connection after reading “so let’s unite to make our country great”.It made me think that everyone in Australia should work stay together to fight the pandemic,more love world.