Week 2 day 5: Coming to an End

VE day

My imaginary VE day party would be having a barbicue with burgers, sausages, kebabs, chicken drumsticks and walnuts. We would have a big meal and then later we would go for a swim. I would invite all of my close family and some family friends.

Making a fashion statment

Fashion is recyclable. 

These are some fashions from 1940's, now and 65 years from now.

The fashion could go in a loop from the 1900's to the early 2000's and then in the future the fashion could come back to the 1900's. I don't really care to much about fashion as long as the clothes are comtorfable.

                before                                      after                                                  back to before

Sweet tooth

Chelsea Russian Fudge

ingredients

3 1/2 cups Chelsea White Sugar
125g butter
3 Tbsp Chelsea Golden Syrup (tin)
1/2 cup milk
1/2 tsp salt
200g sweetened condensed milk 
2 tsp vanilla essence

Other things

20cm cake tin

2 sheets of baking powder 20cm x 30cm

Medium heavy based saucepan

electric mixer

Directions

Place all the ingredients except the vanilla into a medium, heavy based saucepan and slowly cook for about 10-15 mins.
Put on medium and cook for about 10-15 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla.
Cool for 5 minutes then beat using an electric mixer
Pour into tin and leave to cool, then refrigerate until set.
Once set cut into small squares.

Week 2 Day 4: Another World War

An Eventful experience

I really enjoyed doing this research about WWII.

On the 3rd of September in 1939 Britain, New Zealand and Australia declared war on Germany. Britain declared war on Germany,  2 days before Germany invaded Poland.

On the 14th November 1940 Germany invaded Coventry and destroyed the Coventry Cathedral 10 hours later. The German division 'Luftflotte 3' bombed the Cathedral with bombs and granades from planes.

A call to arms

This is Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, a war hero that earned the Victoria Cross.

Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme of the 23rd Battalion was from Canterbury and Otago.

He was born on the 24th of January 1911 in Dunedin and died on 2nd of September 1982 when he was 71. He killed 30 German snipers and destroyed 2 enemy tanks by himself before he got shot in the shoulder and was sent to the hospital and a year later he was discharged. 

I think the things he did was really cool and brave.

Women at work

One day you are walking along the deck of the ship when you hear a loud bang. You start to run as you see smoke coming from the far end of the ship. You run towards the room where your patients are waiting to receive treatment from the doctor. Just as you arrive at the door to their room you hear another loud bang and you…

Bang! I heard a gun shot on the bow of my ship 'The Somersetshire' I'm lucky i'm on the stern. I start to run to the nearest staircase which is at the port to check on my patient Jack Hilton who was rescued from the Germans yesterday. He was found unconcious when we rescued him. I found the room and I saw that every thing was intact.

Bang! Bang! Bang! The shots grew louder and louder, I hid under Jacks hospital bed spread out like a starfish. The person (who spoke German) pushed the bed over, I looked around and didn't see any of my people except Jack laying helpless on the floor. He took me to the hull of our ship to a room that could fit everyone.. everyone except me. There was no room for me and he thought I wasn't brave, he thought I would be just a scared nurse too scared to do anything so he locked the door where my friends and patients were and walked away.. but I had a key and when he had dissapeared I unlocked the door and everyone ran to safety.

I'm a hero I thought, but that was only the start.

a picture of the Somersetshire

Week 2 Day 3: The Great Depression

 Dealing with stress

It must have been hard to live in the 1930's because you could have a really poor family and not like it because you could get dirty water, unhealthy food and miss out on heaps like school for no uniforms or lunch. 

These are my tips of avoiding stress

1. slowly breathe.

2. do something you like.

3. make sure you don't do something you don't like.

4. exercise.
5. go for a ride on your bike, scooter or skateboard.

Offering a helping hand.

what I would do to help the poor would be giving vegetable seeds and fresh fish and meat packs. I would help build a container house community and put the big shared garden in the middle with a playground

I drew a picture of what i think my container community would look like

Paying it forward.

Gifts and Treats, who doesn't like them? If I had to bring gifts and treats to a 1930's family I would bring Cadbury Milk Chocolate, a bag of Kiwifruit, some lamingtons, clothes, Monopoly here and now New Zealand edition and cookie time cookies.

Week 2 Day 2: The roaring 20's.

The Silent Movies.

I would enjoy watching silent movies because they are really short but funny.  I feel like people should try and get the old films, find sound and make the pictures colourful again so more kids would watch them. Charlie Chaplin was a famous comedian and mime and alot of people still dress up like him because he was funny.

Art Deco.

I rate the portrait 5 out of 5 because it is really good and I quite like how it isn't just a person. It's not very colourful but in a good way and you can see shapes throughout. The artist has put a lot of work into the painting and it looks like it took days to paint.

Crossing the Tasman 

I have created a poem about flying over the Tasman Sea in a plane called the Southern Cross

Fly

The radio just went out

I took of to the sky

All of us were as scared as we could be

T.H Mc Williams has gone to fix our communicator near the side

I knew it was going to rain and snow so the windshield was covered

It took fourteen hours but it was worth it because we had a great big party 

Week 2 Day 1: The early days.

St Josephs Cathedral

I chose to research the Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame de Paris means Our lady of Paris

1163 was when construction began but it wasn't finished until 182 years later in 1345.

You might recognise the Cathedral from a movie called 'The hunchback of Notre Dame' about a hunchback named Quosimoto who is the bell ringer for the cathedral and is just trying to make friends.

The right to vote

It wasn't fair that women weren't allowed to vote until recently. I think its disappointing that they waited for so long to vote and I am happy that they can vote the same as men now because it makes everything fair, also with more people voting the county will be more like a country that everyone wants and not just what the men want.

In Flanders Fields.

I like the Flanders Fields poem because it's really easy to get the tune and the words rhyme perfectly

I feel like it is good to live in a chilled out country and thats why they went to war is so we could live how we do today but it is sad to lose lost ones in the war. Many people would have lost their close family to the war but those that did fight for us fought very well. They sacrificed their lives for others and this is one way that we remember that.

Here I am at the Canterbury museum in the Lives lost Lives changed exhibition