budwe al-chalouhi

         They came in to the little town

A semi-naked band subdued and silent

All that remained of their tribe.

They came here to the place of their old bora ground

Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.

Notice of the estate agent reads: ‘Rubbish May Be Tipped Here’.

Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring.

‘We are as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers.

We belong here, we are of the old ways.

We are the corroboree and the bora ground,

We are the old ceremonies, the laws of the elders.

We are the wonder tales of Dream Time, the tribal legends told.

We are the past, the hunts and the laughing games, the wandering camp fires.

We are the lightening bolt over Gaphembah Hill

Quick and terrible,

And the Thunderer after him, that loud fellow.

We are the quiet daybreak paling the dark lagoon.

We are the shadow-ghosts creeping back as the camp fires burn low.

We are nature and the past, all the old ways

Gone now and scattered.

The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter.

The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place.

The bora ring is gone.

The corroboree is gone.

And we are going.’

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Appreciating “We are Going” by Oodgerooo Noonuccal

Read Oodgeroo’s “We are going” (p. 32) and answer these questions on it:

1. Explain why they are “silent and subdued”.
The aboriginies are silent and subdued because they are entering almost like a new world to them and most of their tribe are dead.

2. How are white men represented? Why?
The white men are represented as ants hurrying along doing their work.

3. What is a bora ring and explain why it is so central to this poem.
A bora ring is a religious cultural symbol for the aboriginal culture.

4. Explain their reaction in line 8.
There are angry and feel left out to their land.

5. Lines 9-17 begin a ‘litany’. What is the effect produced?
The effect produced of litany is repeating what they are saying to make sure we understand.

6. Comment on the significance of metaphors used in the poem.
The significance of metaphors in this peom is to exagerise different parts of it.

7. Comment on the structure and form of this poem.

The structure of this peom are found as making lines short and long for different purposes when the line is short and simple it might mean loss and no hope, for eg.

8. Why does Thunder have a capital letter?
To enphisise the intensment and to help create the atmosphere

9. Comment on the mood and atmosphere created here.
The mood in this peom might creat anger for some Aboriginals, it sets the atmosphere of the whites destroying the Aboriginals homes.

10. Combine comments on its theme, title and conclusion.

 I think this peom whas cleverly writen, with many metaphors. I like how it realy creates an atmosphere and it sets a different mood fr everyone reading it. 

Evaluate your contribution to the group and your own work ethic?
My contribution to the group was to justify all the information that was given to me and to re arrange the work format. Some work i also did was doing research for our website and preamble.

What did you find your strengths and weaknesses were?
Some of my strengths were : -Researching information.
-Structoring paragraphs.
-Going through information and fixing it up.
-Providing proof of information through hyperlinks.

Some of my weakneses were: -Workin in the groups and agreeing on something.
-Getting al the work done.
-Having to be bothered to do the work.

Which part of the exposition are you responsible for?
I am responsible for going through different parts of the exposition and fixing up a paragraph and adding facts and proof of the information my group had supplied.

What suplementary material are you using to back up your thesis points?
Some suplementary material i am using is youtube videos and links to other websites on the internet .

What is an exposition?
An esposition is a writen discourse discusing an event or recounting something that happened before.

What is a thesis point?
A thesis point is the main points of an exposition?

How is an exposition text type structured?
An exposition text type structure starts with an introduction , why you are doin it, then there are three arguments, body, topic sentence, then the concluding sentence and then the conclusion.

1. Are you satisfied with the groups progress so far?
Yes, i am satisfied with the groups progress so far we are working really hard andmaking some good progress.

Who is not pulling their weight?
I think that everyone in our group is working as hard as eachother. No-one is slacking off and everyone is making sure they finish there work requirements. I am happy with what our group has done and their efforts so far.  

1. Outline the frustrations you have felt over the last week.
Some frustrations i felt last week were:

-having patients for people to finish work to and to send it.
-Alot of work to keep up to date with and to finish it on time.
-Not bothered sometimes to do any of the work and i knew the group was counting on it

2. What has been the cause of these frustraions?
The cause of these frustrations have been:
-Not being bothered to do work.
-Confusion between the group and people having information everywhere.
-Not keeping track of the groups working progress.

3.Why do u think its necessary to deal with your frustrations? How will you deal with them in your groups?
I think its necessary to deal with my frustrations because:
-Its like working in real world conditions you must get along with whoever you have to work with.
-Getting along with your group will help get the job done quicker.
-We must trust each other more to know who can do what jobs.
-help out people who might be lacking or might have a realy big job to do.

4.Have you felt the desire to work alone so far?
Yes, i have felt the desire to work alone so far. It might be because i can trust myself and i knoe i can do the job knowing where i put all my information and i can work at my own pace.

What significant moment in indigenous history occurs this week?

The significant moment that occurs in indigenous history is Kevin Rudd apologising to the indigenous peoples of australia and all the terror that they have been through. He will appologise to the stolen generation and the current aborignial people of australia, he will also ensure that it will never happen again.

We can use this as supplementary material by using it in our information and uploading it up with vidoes and hyperlinks.

 Our aim for this lesson is to finish off what we were working on last lesson and picking up where we left off last time we need to expand on the information that we already have and improve our website, wich includes; uploading more of the information that we were working on for homework.