Making Meaning, thinking critically, connecting texts by margaret a macpherson https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo Building knowledge and creating interpretations of Witi Ihimaera's "His First Ball" and Katherine Mansfield's "Her first Ball" en-us 2019-02-06 04:50:29 UTC 2019-02-06 20:54:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328490648 Both characters , Tuta and Leila are uncertain and wary about attending their first ball because they feel as if they do not entirely belong or fit in  to the crowd. Leila feels like an outcast because she is from the country, shown when she thinks to herself, "How hard it is to be indifferent to the others" and Tuta feels the same because of his social status, for example when he says, " People actually sent an invite to a boy who packs batteries in a factory?".
 ]]> 2019-02-06 20:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328490648 Leila is attending the ball for a social night out and to have fun, where as Tuta is attending because he was forced to and to represent his workplace in a positive manner https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328491806 2019-02-06 20:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328491806 Tuta is reluctant to attend the ball, but Leila is curious and excited. https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328493048 Leila "tried not to smile and not to care, but everything was so new and exciting".

Tuta thinks to himself, "I'm not going. Not me."]]> 2019-02-06 20:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328493048 https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328494053 What was the purpose of two writers conveying the same experience? ]]> 2019-02-06 20:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328494053 Was the writer's aim to give an insight and educational purpose to your viewers? https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328494282 2019-02-06 20:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328494282 Tuta https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328495331 2019-02-06 20:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328495331 Leila’s language in the 1921 was acceptable, the reason why is because it was the era were your manners had to proper, your language had to perfection, your movements had to be overwhelmingly amazing. On the other hand Tuta was from a new era and a new century, everything was colloquial language and slang. Over the years people began to become slack on their english, slack on their movements, especially their manners. It ended up being improper to show up to a government ball with no knowledge at all. https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328495827 2019-02-06 20:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328495827 Both parties are naive and nervous to attend their first ball. https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328496225 2019-02-06 20:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/328496225 A underlying theme relating Leila's role as a young woman in that time period when women did not have much freedom of choice. For example the way the men at the ball would choose who they wanted to dance with by writing on the girl's song lists. However the girls did not have much say. Even if she did not want to dance with the other person, she would have to keep it to herself because she might be seen as impolite and create a negative image of herself. However male dance partners might not receive the same amount of pressure to be polite and courteous for fear of making a bad image. They had more of a say in whether or not they wanted to dance with someone. For example, "A man flew up to Meg and seized her program." https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329030155
Another idea is that the girl's self worth could be dependent on whether their programs were filled with the names of men who found them desirable  enough to dance with. However, because the girls danced with who ever filled their program, the men did not have to worry about rejection.]]> 2019-02-08 00:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329030155 The idea that ihimaera was trying to create was that his character would never be accepted into unification within the bond of what was portrayed as a ‘normal race’. Ihimaera's critical thinking of using cultural problems which we still face in society was a brilliant way to outline the difference between right and wrong https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329030245 2019-02-08 00:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329030245 https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329030255 Leila is so excited about going to her first ball because in this era a ball could be held every night of the week. To not go to a ball at least every week or so would have people worried about you. While Tuta is not in an era were balls are the normal so is reluctant reaction in within tune of the era.]]> 2019-02-08 00:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329030255 https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329030657 What was the purpose of cultural differences? Was it done to make the stereotype of Polynesians/Maoris always getting into trouble with the law or not doing fancy things like going to a ball or was it used to show the time between the two stories occurring? ]]> 2019-02-08 00:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329030657 It was unusual to see a Maori man at the ball but it was a usual sight to see a white female at one https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329031146 2019-02-08 00:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329031146 is the morale of His first ball about how people try to be something they are not? like how tuta was trying to dress and act like everyone else at the ball and not embrace his differences, and because of that people made fun of him trying to be something he isn't? https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329031262 2019-02-08 00:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329031262 https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329031492 Tuta was the centre of attention, whereas Leila went mostly unnoticed]]> 2019-02-08 00:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329031492 colloquial and formal languages are used in each separate piece to show the difference in era. https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329031586 2019-02-08 00:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/329031586 https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/330155202 why was Tuta invited in the first place? is that foreshadowing or symbolic of something? ]]> 2019-02-12 01:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mmac/zqfnw9jp5goo/wish/330155202