Group+12

Day one: Thursday, 26 November ​2009 __**Group members:**__
 * Emma Anlezark (team Liaison)
 * Vivian Chirinian
 * James Tawil

Today, as a group we selected Emma Anlezark to be the team leader. She will be monitoring the group and making sure that we are on task and everything goes as planned. during periods three and four, year ten was told that among our group we were to be divided into different seminar sessions for both periods. The seminars provided us with the information we need on each topic. We were to choose and sign up for the following seminars The topic that our group chose was discrimination, not because it was the simple and easy but because discrimination against others is known around the world and people do it everyday without realizing and some do it on purpose. After choosing our topic to base our research upon, our group decided to make a video of the issue and to question people about discrimination, how it would feel, peoples reactions and unfairness. The video will contain images symbolizing discrimination and short samples of videos, etc.
 * Environment
 * Refugees
 * Discrimination
 * Poverty

We picked discrimination because we believe that it is wrong. We believe it is immoral. We also believe that it is happening too much around the world and we should raise awareness in our everyday life!

Before year 10 began researching for their chosen topic. each group member was to choose two seminars to attend and collect information to base our decision regarding our chosen topic.


 * Emma Anlezark attended the Discrimination and Refugee seminar.
 * Vivian Chirinian attended the Environment and Poverty seminar.
 * James Tawil attended the Poverty and Environment seminar.


 * __ Notes/information on Discrimination __**


 * Discrimination is usually fueled by anger which causes people to create riots between others and this sparks violence
 * Media is usually the reason why riots and violence begins with conflicts that are not for citizens to take into their own hands.
 * Media over-exaggerates and makes things worse during riots and conflicts within the public.
 * Media also raises awareness to the public about discrimination.
 * People create protests against discrimination and raise awareness to people that this is a serious issue that needs to be stopped.

A great start people! Some really good notes here, and reflective thoughts as well. What will the actual focus of your presentation be? You all seem keen on discrimination and have some passion around this topic - make sure you don't lose impact for your topic by keeping it too broad - maybe role of media in promoting stereotypes? (Only suggested as several of your dot points above refer to media...) Look forward to seeing more from you - a great start! Mrs L

=DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER =

Today we went to 2 different skills workshops. The leaders had to go to a special leadership workshop. Our leader Emma went to this. In period 3 and 4 she went to Photoshop. James Tawil went to Pod casting and Web page design. Vivian went to Photoshop and Movie maker. We chose these workshops because we thought they would help us improve our skills and help us to maximize the quality of our presentation. During period 5 and 6 we discussed as a group our thoughts on the workshops. We also discussed the skills involved with each one. We also decided on the format we are going to do for our presentation on discussion. As we all feel strongly about discrimination, we wanted to do something that would be of great influence. As we had a lot of trouble logging into the computer, we decided to verbally discuss and come up with ideas.

We are going to incorporate the skills we learnt in the workshops we attended in our presentation. Since James attended podcasting, Vivian attended Moviemaker and myself (Emma) attended photoshop we decided to merge all three. We also allocated roles. The roles are as following: Emma - Research James - Sound Vivian - Images We are going to put it together as a team as we think it could be of higher quality and more effective this way. We also confabulated on the actual focus of our presentation as Mrs Lombardo suggested in her comment. We conferred on the aspect we would take with our presentation and we were swaying for racial and religious discrimination as we think this is more common and more obvious than other forms, even though all are wrong and unjust.

DAY 3: THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER

 

Today we decided on our format after creating an inspiration to sort our ideas (see above). We decided to create a Facebook page. We decided on this as we can fully incorporate the 'delany making a difference '. On a facebook page we can upload videos, type up information, get people to join the cause and make a difference. By getting people to join we can help make a difference. This is why we think a facebook page would be the best way to go with our presentation.

So today, we did our jobs as allocated, discussing with each other as we progressed. James research sound, Vivian worked on images and I (Emma) researched information. During period 6, we put our video together. Vivian was in control of movie maker (with our contributions added) as she went to the movie maker workshop. James also contributed greatly to movie maker. Emma worked on the facebook page and rallying members for our page.

As we are focusing on racial and religious discrimination we are focusing on Hitler and Stalin and the destruction they caused, other racist politicians, the general public, schools and workplaces.

We think that making a facebook page will be effective as most people have been discriminated against in their life and will believe in no discriminating.

Martin Luther king- i have a dream speech. august 28 1963. Washington, D.C. i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

i have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governr, having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, that one day down in albama, little black boys will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and sisters and brothers.

i have a dream today.

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Just notes:

He created concentration work camps to contain all the Jewish people They were starved from food and water, were given little clothing.

From 1916, onwards. racism against the Africian American's was a major issue. If using public transport, they were to sit up the back. They were treated unfairly.

The African Americans were made as slaves. Children and women were made as house slaves Females were usually abused by their 'Masters'. Some were beaten. Some were raped.

All this change when a great and brave man created a speech confronting the issue. This Brave mans name was Martin Luther King Jr. References & Acknowledgments

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