Term 4-homework (due 23rd Oct.)
Written Task:
Click on 1 of the following links. Read the story and answer the following questions on the blog.Please make sure you mention on the blog what story you watched/read.
http://australianmuseum.net.au/movie/How-the-water-got-to-the-plains
http://australianmuseum.net.au/movie/Emu-and-the-Jabiru
http://australianmuseum.net.au/movie/Min-na-wee-Why-the-crocodile-rolls
Questions: What do you think the story is about? Does it have a moral or meaning? Describe one of the characters in as much detail as possible.
* Remember, only use your initials, not your name.
October 12th, 2009 at 5:13 am
I watched Emu and the Jabiru.
(What do you think the story is about?) (Before i watched the video)
I think it’s about these 2 animals (the emu and jabiru) turned into human because the spirits thought that they deserved it because they did something good to help others. And when they turned to human, they both started to have fun, but too much fun and also started to cause trouble. The spirits were disappointed and turned them back into animals(emu and jabiru)
(Does it have a moral or meaning?) (After I watched the video)
Yes. I think the moral was that to never be selfish and keep all the good thing to yourself or you would be punished.
(Describe one of the characters in as much detail as possible) (The father of the red family)
He is very selfish and aggressive.I also believe that he is quite serious too.
October 12th, 2009 at 5:17 am
I read How Water Got To The Plains!
i think it’s about not being greedy when little of something/ not being greedy at all
same with the moral. The Weeri he got turned into a emu for being greedy, he was mean and a hog meanwhile he should have shared! he wasn’t the youngest but he wasn’t the oldest but he had to make his own choices.
This is my answer miss F i hope it is alright
A.W.
October 13th, 2009 at 1:49 am
I chose the minnawee story.
The story is about a girl named min-na-wee who liked to cause trouble. One day she got into trouble so she got punished and she got spun around in the dirt. Then she was out for revenge so she turned herself into a crocoldile. One day a guy was walking by the river when min-na-wee the crocodile was there so she ate the man up and spun her around like they did to her.
i think it has a moral and it is that whenever a crocodile eats its pray it will spin it around, around and around.
One of the characters is named min-na-wee. She is a girl who likes to cause trouble. She has Long Black hair and two yellow stripes on each of her cheeks.
October 13th, 2009 at 3:54 am
i watched the story called minnawee and why the crocodile rolls.
the main character is Minnawee she has long black hair and two green stripes on each side of her face.i thought this story is interesting because it tells you a moral that is revenge doesn’t solve anything.
Minnawee is a very naughty girl that gets punished for starting arguements inbetween the other tribe members.
J.E
October 14th, 2009 at 2:14 am
I watched how the water got to the plains.
1.The story is about aboriginies that collect water from waterhole to waterhole until one day they realized that the water was running out. 2 greedy men came to steal the water from the last waterhole. In the end, the warriors find the greedy men give them a punishment.
2.I think the moral /meaning of the story is to not be greedy and selfish.
3.One of the greedy men(Wiery) is selfish and greedy. He tried to protect himself only and didn’t think of anyone else. That is why he turned into an emu because he didn’t think of the community and environment.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:09 am
I chose How the water got to the plants.
1) I think the story is basted on sharing and thinking of others before yourself.
2) Yes, the the story does have a morel, Think of others before yourself/ Share with everyone and you will get somthing in retern.
3) In the story there was a man called Weeri and he was a part of the tride, but he and a friend were being greedy and disided to take the water that was left in the tribe waterhole and tryed to run away with it but they got cought and punished and Weeri was turned into an Emu.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:23 am
i watched Minawee why the crocdile rolls.minawee is a girl who likes to cause alot of trouble in her group.she also hates alot of things.she makes aguments in her tribe to.
i thinke the moral is don’t be mean to others or fight and you won’t be punished for anything.
minawee has black dark hair andslits for pupils. she has a hard scaly face which resembles her hatred to things.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:27 am
I watched the MIN-NA-WEE story.
1st question
It is about a trouble making girl who likes to cuase trouble around her camp.
She starts alot of fights and gets people from all around the camp angry at each other.The village elders make a plan and decide to grabe the girl and roll her in the dirt untill they are satisfied that the girl is punished enough.The girl soon runs away and ask’s the evil spirits to change her into a vicous animal.The spirits soon change the girl into a crocodile.The girl waits and waits for someone to come. Suddenly one of the village elders comes and dives into the water.The girl dives onto the elder and takes him under.She soon rolls and rolls the elder until SHE is satisfied that HE was punished enough. So thats why these days the crocodiles roll there pray under water untill it is dead.
2nd question
Yes its treat others the way you want to be treated
3rd question
the person i am explaining is the girl (MINNAWEE)
she is a naughty girl with scaly green stripes across her face and black hair she isnt a very nice girl and whenever the other girls are playing happily together,she is inside her hut thinking about things to make the tribe miserable.
Posted by DS
October 14th, 2009 at 5:42 am
I watched ‘The Emu & The Jabiru.’
What do you think the story is?
I think the story teaches you a lesson, about not to be selfish, or you’ll end up with something bad/punishment/fight/argument.
Does it have a moral or meaning?
Yes, I believe there is a moral/meaning in this story. The moral is to not be selfish/greedy.
Describe on of the characters as much detail as possible.
The Gandji and his family was very selfish and takes more than they need.
Not just that he was selfish, he even blames someone else.
LL
October 14th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I watched How the water got to the plains
1 I think the story was about thinking of others first.
2 I think the moral was don’t be greedy selfish.
3 There was a very powerful man named the Wanamada he was known as the clever man, and performed magic. He turned Weary into the very first emu and Waller Widbik into the very first blue tongue lizard.
SC
October 15th, 2009 at 1:39 am
I did Min-na-wee why-the-crocodile-roles story.
The story was about a girl called Min-na-wee liked to cause trouble. She got punished by getting rolled around. She asked evil spirits to change her into a crocodile and when she catches prey she roles around as she got rolled around.
Moral: you don’t get away with things easily.
Meaning: that’s the reason why crocodiles role around when they catch prey.
Min-na-wee was a girl that liked causing trouble. She didn’t like people and her was full of hatred. She turned into a crocodile when she was a young woman.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:17 am
I watched the emu and the jabiru
The story is about two family’s one of the two family’s go sting ray hunting when they come back to the other family they keep the fresh stingray for them selves and give the old sting ray to the other family. The two family’s argue and the family who got the fresh sting ray turn into jabiru the other family throws spears and kill the jabiru but the family still alive turn into emus
The moral is if you’re selfish bad things will happen to you
The person im explaining is cungi he is the dad of the fresh sting ray family he is selfish and gets turned into a jabiru for being bad then dies from a spear
posted SR
October 15th, 2009 at 5:53 am
I watched the min-a-wee story
1.
In minna wees culture the woman get selected by the elder man to be married when there young women. on several occasions she was the only one not to get a husband so she is angry about this. So now Minna wee is a troubled little girl that likes to cause trouble within her group (tribe) and camp, she starts a lot of fights between her tribe people and they are all annoyed or dislike minna wee she gets warned about her behavior.
So one evening she goes to cause a fight when two of the men sneak up behind her and grab her and pull her to the ground they then roll her and she keeps rolling but then she stops and escapes she then runs to the rivers edge and calls on the evil spirits to change her into something evil so they turn her into a crocodile
2.
I think the moral is to not be selfish or cause trouble
3.
I have chosen one of the men
this man that i have chosen has always disliked minna wee and has chosen to hurt her. He has blonde hair with dreadlock like hair with stripes on his face and stomach
October 16th, 2009 at 1:42 am
I watched the emu and the jabiru
1. Before I watched the movie I thought it was about how the emu and jabiru were created because they did someting bad so the gods punished them.
2.The morale is to not be selfish or you will be punished.
3. I chose the big guy in the yellow. He’s nice and trusted his friend but his friend turned on him and threw dust and a rock at him.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:38 am
I watched the story how the water got to the plains
1. what do you think the story is about?.
I think it is about how there was not much water early in the land and 2 men stole all the water .
2. does it have a moral or meaning?
Yes I think it does have a moral about if you are greedy you will face consequenses.
3. describe 1 character in as much detail as possible?
Weerie was 1 of the men who stole the water from the water hole and his consequence was that he was turned into the first emu
from CP
October 17th, 2009 at 8:01 am
I watched: How the Water Got To the Plains.
1. I think the story is about there not being much water and two greedy men stealing water from a well and they get punished for being so greedy.
2. I think the moral of the story is never be greedy or you will be punished.
3. One of the greedy men in the story was called Wiery and he was turned into an emu for being selfish and mean. He only tried to save himself from being thirsty. He didn’t think about anyone else.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:04 am
I watched the emu and the jabiru. Q1. I think the story is about how the emu and the jabiru were made and also why they dont like each other.
Q2. The moral to this story is to never be greedy and to always share. If you are greedy you will have to face the consequences. I also think its trying to tell you that nothing good is going to happen to you if you do something bad.
Q3. The Gandji family were very selfish and gave the bad meat to the other family. So the father from the other family threw hot ash at him causing him to turn into a jabiru.
Posted By B.D
October 20th, 2009 at 3:22 am
I chose the min-na-wee story
it about a girl called min an wee she lives in a camp with 2 older men the boss’s and she liked to cause troble and as she got olerd in to a yong woman she did not get chosen to be a mun and that made her feel more angey which made her feel stronger and that made more fights and more bad things so the boss’s needed to punish her one day when the 3 women were doing there thing minanwee was going to cause troble but the boss’s caught her and rolled her down the hill that was dirty for her punishment she escaped and got to the ocaen and called to the spirits to tern her in to a crocodile and slided in to the water for a day the camp was happy and one of the boss’s jumped in and minanwee caught him and rolled and rolled and rolled untill minanwee siad enight punishment and that’s why when a crocodile attacs it’s food it rolles till they die thats what i think the moral is
October 21st, 2009 at 6:11 am
i watched the min-na-wee why the crocodiles roll. i think the story is about a girl named min-na-wee who was always getting in trouble so she evil. One day she got punished and got rolled in the dirt and she turned herself evil so she could get revenge and one day one of the men jumped into the water and she did the same thing to him. i think the moral is that you don’t get away with things easily and sometimes you can corse more trouble. Min-na-wee is a girl that liked to corse trouble and she turned herself into a crocodile to get revenge.
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:54 am
STORY:I watched Min-na-wee (Why the crocodile rolls).
WHAT THE STORY IS ABOUT:Min-na-wee was always unhappy and liked to cause trouble. She had a scaly looking face.
Min-na-wee caused fights among the other members of the tribe.
The Elders warned Min-na-wee’s mother that if she doesn’t help to improve Min-na-wee’s behaviour Min-na-wee shall get punished. Min-na-wee grew up and still caused trouble. When it was time for brides to be chosen, she was left out. She felt annoyed and caused more fights.
The Elders of the tribe decided that she must be punished. The Elders rolled her around and around in the dirt. She managed to escape but only made it to the edge of the sea. She then called upon the evil spirits to turn her into a viscious animal. The evil spirits turned her into a crocodile.
One day she got revenge on one of the Elders and rolled him around and around in the water.
That is why, to this day, the crocodile rolls it’s prey around and around in the water.
MORAL:The moral is that if you cause trouble, you will be punished.
CHARACTER: Min-na-wee was filled with hatred and was unkind. She enjoyed causing trouble and loved getting revenge!
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I chose the min-a-wee story.It is about a girl called min-a-wee who loves to cause trouble and fights in her tribe.She has scaly skin that is dark blue, her eyes are yellow with thin black eyes that dart around the place with anger. she is one day told she has to stop causing trouble but does not listen and doesnt stop causing trouble. the elders then capture her but she escapes and turns into a crocodile.Moral, the moral is if you cause trouble there will be concequences
October 25th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
i choose how don’t be greedy or eles that the water got to the plains and i think the moral is you get punlishment and the story is about two greedy men stealig the water from the group.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
I watched the min-a-wee story. Min-a-wee is a evil girl who likes causing fights and trouble. The storie is about Min-a-wee causing trouble and the tribe getting her back. The eldars captures her but she escapes and turns into a crocodile. The moral is if you cause trouble you will get in trouble.