Wednesday 25 July 2018

Guided Text

We will have met the success criteria when we...


  • Can work out the meaning of new vocabulary.
  • Locate information within a text.
  • Make connections between ideas
  • Synthesize and summarize key ideas
  • Make links between our own lives and the lives of others


We will meet the learning intention when we….


WALT make connections across texts, locating (finding) , retrieving (getting and using),
synthesizing (putting it all together and sifting) and summarising
(identifying the important or key points) information.

Guided Text: “The Nowhere Land Where Children On The Move Are Someone Else’s Problem”
by Sarah Crowe - UNICEF


Pre-read discussion
What is a Peugeot 404?


What is the difference between a migrant, a refugee and an asylum seeker?


An asylum seeker is a child or a adult  who has left there home country as a refugee and is seeking asylum
in another country.  They have applied for asylum in another country but their application has not been
concluded.


A migrant is a person who is moving or moved across an international border.


A Refugee is someone who leaves their country/home as their country is in a harmful situation or the person
is in a harmful situation.


Where is Niger?  Where is the Sahara? How big is the Sahara compared to New Zealand?


Sahara is 9.2 million k㎡ and New Zealand is 268 021 thousand k㎡. Sahara is 8 931 979 million k㎡
bigger than New Zealand.


Sahara is found  in West Africa and has eight states inside of it including Algeria , Libya, Egypt, Sudan,
Chad, Niger, Mali and Mauritania


Niger is a landlocked country  in Western Africa.
Niger is also named as The Republic Of  The Niger.



Read the text to yourself and make notes/highlight/bullet point as you read. You are looking for the main
idea in this article. Be ready to discuss your notes.


Agadez was once the migration capital of Africa, a crossroads for people on the move,
a bustling business hug for smugglers, roadside shops selling masks,
and sunglasses for the daunting journey, traffickers awaiting their human trade.
Now, as Europe and North Africa tighten their borders and closed their port creating drama on the high seas.
Since November last year, more than 8000 West Africans, including 2000 children,
have been turned to Niger from Algeria with another 900 refugees and asylum seekers from East Africa
transferred from Libya.Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world yet is bearing the brunt of the
‘out-of-sight, out-of-mind’ policies by richer countries.


Turkey, Libya, France, Niger and Algeria are making migration someone else’s problem, pushing migrants
from pillar to post, farther south.
When the migrants are brought to Agadez onto a bone-dry open plain with the a few threadbare tents,
local children circled around with plastic begging bowls-begging from the return beggars.
In April alone there was a 14 per cent increase over the previous month in people transiting through Niger
and,
a third of them are children.“We are seeing a huge spike in unaccompanied children,
and those involved are using routes where they cannot be tracked and it's far more dangerous.
120 children drowned at sea between January and May. At least there are coastguards at sea.


No one patrols the vast and deadly sea of sand. It doesn't stop them trying.Hidden in the ghettos,
scattered on the outskirts of this ancient turmeric-coloured city, and milling about in centers are hundreds
of migrants, stranded, with dashed hopes and unfulfilled dreams.
Some have an eye on the ultimate prize of making a cross of the burning sand of the Sahara and onto
what is fast  becoming exclusive eldorado(europe).
For most the true paradise lost is being uprooted from their home and your loved ones-especially children.


The purpose of this text is to tell us about how hard it is for children refugees or migrants to
survive. Children refugees are trying to make it across the bar
ren Sahara desert to make it to the mediterranean sea border to pay to get across to Europe.
The author is biased because she has used clines to make it sound horrible and to make their
journey sound daunting.  


Italy: Rescue at Sea


This story is about how many people risk their life everyday trying to survive and can die doing it.
The Italians navy and coast guards come in helicopters and boats  to help the refugees.


The issues of this text is that many of the refugees arrived sick and needed medical help such like children,
adults and babies. The solution for the refugees is the refugees and others are taken to an accommodation
center where they can rest and recover from their dangerous journey.


This story is a true story about how refugees are risking their life trying to escape war by paying $1000 per
person to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe to survive.


This text made me feel like there is people out there in the world risking their lives to survive




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