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.

My friend is indigenous.

TTT

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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♥︎

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’ 

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 : )

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.

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.  

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.

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.

 

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. 

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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!.:)

Making connections 

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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.

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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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

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

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

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. 

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

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!

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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 

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.

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.

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.

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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) 

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.

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.