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My expectations for this project is to complete all my set work, not let my group down by helping them if they need help and I can also assign roles to people in the group.

1. How is the research going?

The research is going well as every person in the group is contributing to the group and is researching different things and in the end it will become convenient as we can put it in the encyclopedia.

2. What do you know about imovie? What other multimedia possibilities have you considered for your presentation?

Imovie is a format where you can take clips, audio, pictures and different files and transfer it into a movie. We have also considered microsoft powerpoint and movie maker but most possibly will use imovie as it is the best resource.

1. How will you organise your multimedia sales pitch? List ideas, think about how the entry document was presented.

I will advertise it on the radio so people can be aware of this encyclopedia and I will also write a script for when it is to be presented and I will also edit an advertisement on the computer to also try and advertise it on the tv.  

REPRESENTATIONAL- The participants in DPS 5 is the rabbits as the rabbits symbolise white men. In the bottom corner of the page there is a rat eating a lizard. This symbolises that the white people are bringing in animals from over seas and that they are taking over as the rat a foreign animal is eating the lizard an australian animal. There is also rabbits on the top of the white towers who are the convicts that were brang in from over seas and they are building all the technology. The first thing the reader usually sees when he looks at the picture is the white path and then the path makes the readers eyes move up to the photo in the middle and then spread their gazes across the DPS. The illustrations also shows the conflict between the rabbits and the numbats as the rabbits wearing red and black symbolising evilness are ruining the country and numbats are on the top of the where two of the numbats are looking at each other and signalling to each other that they are confused. Some of the symbols on the page is that the rabbits are numbered which means there are heaps of them. Another one of the symbols is the rabbits flag which symbolises that they are spreadin everywhere. One of the rabbits also has arrows on its uniform to show that they are taking over and that they are the powerful ones. The aboriginals are losing there culture in this page and there is also a dead lizard on the page. 

Interactive: In the double page spread 5 the rabbits are offering us there plans as they are on an angle and are using there hands to act as if they are showing us there plans of what they are going to do to the land. The numbats have their backs to the reader as they are confused and look so small as the rabbits have already started building a new society and the numbats are sitting on one the trees unable to do anything. The rabbits are obviously demanding the land as they have already started to build and they are offering us (the readers) their plans. The book uses high modality as it is trying to be as authentic as possible and the colours in the page are bright like the blue sky and then against the rabbits which are in dark colours make them stick out. The page is also specific as it shows a lot of details with meanings from the convicts building the towers to the lizard eating the rat. 

Compositional: In the double page spread of the rabbits the informational value in the rabbits is the fact of how powerful the rabbits look and how in control they are compared to the numbats isolated in the trees. The rabbits look in control because there are luetianants on the page about five times bigger than the numbats who have fancy equipment and wheels on their legs planning and bossing around the convicts. The salient feature in this double page spread is the large frame of the rabbits plans as it is in the middle of the double page spread and is completely a different colour than the rest of the background and the colour is also in a dull yellow which is a bright colour also attracting the eyes to the frame first. When the reader looks at the frame their eyes will then follow onto the white footpath under the frame and slowly move around the page. It also shows the rabbits plans and how it should turn and that they are on their way of building what they want as their plans link to the white tower. The framing in this double page spread around the text is in the white footpath where after the reader reads the text their eyes will go from the framed plans and see how organised it looks and then when peering out of the frames seeing how many items, symbols there are and how busy and lively it is outside of the photo frame to produce the plans. After the reader sees this they will notice the poor numbats sitting in the trees lonley and confused. As you can see the framing was important in this page as it traced all the illustrations attracting the reader to read more.

1. In groups (or as a class) read The Rabbits

2. Discuss what the meaning of the book is

- What is the message

In the story the rabbits the author symbolises the white people as rabbits because rabbits breed fast and spread and also destroy things just like the white people have did in the story. The aboriginals are symbolised as numbats as they are a small animal who are helpless when coming up against huge ruthless rabbits. The story is about basically the whole story of how the aboriginals took over the land when the aboriginals were living there and killed all the aboriginals even though the aboriginals did nothing. The message in the story is that not to trust anyone and the author is showing us the story in deeper visual text making it more understandable as he wants to show us how the white people took over the aboriginals. He is also saying once again not to trust anyone like the aboriginals trusted the white where the story says ‘ they came many grandparents ago’ and it is also good to listen to your elder as it says ‘ But our old people warned us. Be careful. They wont understand the right ways. They only know their own country.’

3. Make a list of some visual techniques that you think help creat these meanings.

Eg: Colour, participants, setting

-shapes

-sizes

-colour

-font

-outlines

-texture

-smoothness

-line

-shadow

4. Discuss what you think colours represent in this book. 

The colours in the book represent

red- action, confidence

pink- love, beauty

brown- earth, order, convention

orange- vitality with endurance

gold- Wealth, prosperity, wisdom

yellow- wisdom, joy, happiness

green- life, nature, fertility

blue- youth, spirituality, truth, peace

purple- Royalty, magic, mystery

indigo- intuition, meditation

white- Purity, Cleanliness

black- Death, earth, stability

grey- Sorrow, security, maturity

The Unhappy Race  White fellow, you are the unhappy raceYou alone have left nature and made civilized laws.You have enslaved yourselves as you enslaved the horse and     other wild things.Why, white man?Your police lock up your tribe in houses with bars,We see poor women scrubbing floors of richer women. Why, white man, why?You laugh at the poor blackfellow’, you say we must be like you. You say we must leave the old freedom and leisure,We must be civilized and work for you.Why, white fellow?Leave us alone, we don’t want your collars and ties,We don’t need your routines and compulsions.   We want the old freedom and joy that all things have but you,Poor white man of the unhappy race.                                                             Analyses Line1: white people are responsible for actors, word choice- aligns with Aboriginal culture Line2: repletion of ‘w’ and ‘y’ in line 1 and 2, accusatory tone- captured no freedomLine 5: effect- urges reader to question the behavior of white man; she seeks answers, repetition of rhetorical question in line 5 and 8. Line6: (tribe) writes this word choice because it’s what she uses in everyday life, (houses with bars) Aboriginal language- jail. Line8: repetition of rhetorical question and same effect of line 5.   Line 9: – 2^nd person, ‘You laugh at poor black fellow’- effect- directly addressing audience for emotional response ;black fellow;- punctuation to label stereo typeLine 10: you in line 9 and 10- repetition, (old freedom and leisure)- writes this word choice cause its what she uses in everyday life

Line13: (leave us alone)- plea, (collars and ties)- symbolism: restrictions

Answers to Questions of Poem ‘We are Going’ 1. They are subdued and silent because the aboriginals didn’t want to attract the white people as they were trying to hide and didn’t want to be seen.  2. The white men are represented as ants by the aboriginals because the aboriginals are angry and they think that the white people have polluted Australia and the aboriginals are stating where it says ‘We are as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers’, that it’s their land because they have been there much longer. Basically the aboriginals use a simile to describe how small the white people are because they are strangers to the land and the aboriginals have been there longer.  3. The bora ring is the land and everything the aboriginals own and it is essential to the poem because the aboriginals lose their bora ring in the end and the whole poem is about the white people coming to take their bora ring or in other words the aboriginals land. The bora ring is also the aboriginals connection between the land and is the centre of the poem because it is the main reason the white people have attacked the aboriginals not just in the poem but in today’s society. 4. The aboriginals reaction in line 8 is that they are basically saying that the white people are strangers to land as they have just met it and that it’s the aboriginals land as they are way less strangers to land then the white people because they have lived on the land a lot longer.  5. The purpose of the litany is to enforce that the aboriginals are the real owners and generation and that they make readers also feel confident about aboriginals and it also reassures the reader that the aboriginals are right.  6. The metaphors in this poem is to spice up the poem and make the reader want to read more and to also make the poem sound more interesting and more lively and make the aboriginals look stronger and the white people look more venerable. It also compares and makes the person sound like something else.  7. The beginning of the poems word choice aligns with aboriginal culture and during the poem there is a lot of repetition of the first letters like the word ‘we’. The poem is also in 3rd person.  8. Thunder is in a capital because it is language choice because it showing that the sky is huge and mad and that there is no difference wanting the word to stand out.  9. Basically the mood in this poem is sorrow and sympathy as the aboriginals talk sadly about how they lost their land.  10. The title ‘we are going’ basically means that the aboriginals are losing and that their generation is going. It is also made to capture the reader. The theme is sorrow and losses and the aboriginals are losing but are still fighting. The conclusion ends in tragedy as in the end it gloomy states everything is lost and they are going and this effect shocks the reader making him think more about the poem.      This is an important piece of supplementary material because it is on the subject we are learning about and it is also teaching us more about how hurt the aboriginals are and why Kevin Rudd apologized.                                           

1. Evaluate your contribution to the group and your own work ethic?

I am the time manager and I am allocate how much time my group  members have for each task I also helpt some group members when there wasnt much time left.

2. What did you find your strengths and weaknesses were?

My strengths are that I can allocate good time for each set task that we have for the lesson but my weakness is that I need to abide by the time I have allocated and when the time is up move on and make the rest of my group members finish it for homework.

1. Journal which part of the exposition are you responsible for?

I am responsible for the third argument in the exposition.

2. What supplementary material are you using to back up your thesis points. 

I will use the internet and books  to research information.

1. What is an exposition? 

A text type arguing one side of the argument to persuade the reader.

2. What is a thesis point?

A statement that centralises your argument and is the main point.

3. How is an expositon text type structured?

First an exposition has an introduction then there are about three or four points for or against the argument and then ends with a conclusion summarising what was basically said in the points.

1. Are you satisified with your groups progress so far?

 We are working quite well though we still need to work more as a group.

 2. Who is not pulling their weight?

I think Elias is not pulling his weight as he has presented nothing to contribute to the group so far.