Tag: History

Johnny Pros and Cons

For reading we were learning about Johnny Pohe and his great escape. Johnny Pohe was a pilot that taught people and fought in wars, one day he got caught and was sent to prison camp in Germany. Him and other people that were caught in the prison made up a play to make three tunnels Tom, Dick and Harry. Dick and Tom were exploded and abandoned and Harry was the last standing one, they waited for a moonless night to escape. Once that came they went for the opening and went into the tunnels, due to a delay only 200 people were supposed to make it out but only seventy six escaped, and three escaped safely. For this task we made the pros and cons of being an escapee or staying inside the prison. Check out the DLO my group made.

 

Anne Frank – The Annex

For this week of writing, I have learnt about the terrible story of Anne Frank and her life in the annex.

I first needed to learn about what the annex was, who was Anne Frank, and why was she so important? My teacher had given us a website that gave us a visual website of the annex. It was a small little back house that fit 7 people but was probaly meant for about 2, 3 max. It was behind a business office that was covered in Nazi soilders.

I read the information that was connected to each object. I found out that the water use was limited towards both families in the annex, and that they could probably never shower for their 2 years in the annex. The life was indeed very poor.

It lasted for 2 years until a few months away from the end of WW2, on August 4th 1944 2 Nazi German officers discovered the annex entrance behind a bookcase, they found the 8 Jewish people hidden and all 8 were arrested. 7 died execpt for Otto Frank, (Annes Father).

Paired Reasearch Challenge

LI: Reasearch about your dinosaur you were given with a partner using multiple questions. (Habitat, Diet, Predators, and Protection). This week for Inquiry I made a reasearch project about the Pachycephalosauras dinosaur (Packysauras for short).

First, I found myself a buddy and were given an egg that was hatched, we used the fossil to identify the dinosaur. We discovered that the dinosaur was known as the “Pachycephalasauras”. It was a herbivor dinosaur that stood around 6 ft (200cm). It was known for being the dinosaur with the hardest head, they used their thick 10 inch skull to headbutt predators.

 

Next, we sorted out the other questions, such as their habitat and fun facts about them. They lived and adapted to a lot of lands, grassland, desert, forests, and jungles. They were very adventureus creatures. The fun facts were facts such as the original name, and when it lived and died.

 

For the last part of our task, we blogged and created the dinosaur with origami skills, but that blog is for another day.

 

 

Diary WW1

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there

This week for writing, I created a diary from the view of a person that may have lived through WW1. LS2 has been looking through old artifacts from WW1 left from the ANZAC’s creating basic knowledge to make a diary from the POV of a soilder.

 

First, I had to have some basic knowledge of the ANZAC’s in galipoli, which I didn’t; So I learnt that they had arrived to golipoli in 1915 April 25th, using that to start my diary.

 

Next, from what I had learnt I used it to create a diary that sounded slightly authentic. There was some unrealistic parts like how my character didn’t write in his diary for 3 months, and some realistic parts, like him feeling terrible for his first kill.

 

Lastly, I made a video to speak the diary I wrote to make a visual learning experience, that is for another blog though.

(blue part is a grammaticly correct version)