Zaeeda-SLJ-# Week 2 Day 2 (Taking Action)

Week 2: I Have A Dream....
Day 2: Taking Action
Today we are going to be learning about people who did some amazing things all to make prove a point. This was because they had a dream and believed that they could achieve there dream, and change things for the better!

Activity 1: A Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela is an civil rights leader and an activist. He was born and raised in south-Africa. South Africa had a political system called Apartheid, for over 40 years from 1948-1991. This meant that they had different rules and customs, South-Africa had different rules for poeple with white skin, and people who didn't.

Nelson Mandela didn't feel to well about this, and thinks that everybody should be treated equally. Fortunately, Nelson Mandela became president and put an end to Apartheid. He changed the political system for the better, but this wasn't before he went through some hard times. Mandela spent 27 years in jail before this.

Mandela 18 years in Robben Island Prison. As you'd expect life was tough, but he got through it. Mandela spent his days breaking rocks into gravel, he was forced to work in the quarry all day long. At night he would study hard, learning to become a lawyer. He was allowed to have 1 visitor and a letter every 6 months. Life was hard!


This is my letter,  I did have some trouble as I have no idea what jail is like. I have never even seen a jail in real life. So this did take some imaging.


After some time I did manage to right it, I enjoyed this task as it really made me think. I also had fun learning about this topic. It's something I was always interested in from the beginning

Activity 2:School Strike For Climate
For this task, we were asked list three facts (things) that you learned about the School Strike for Climate Australia. We then had to take a picture of something we were doing around the house to save the enviroment.

Climate change is a large problem, and at this rate we may not have a future. We need help, and we need to take action. A lot of people are taking action and wanting to do things, all they need is attention from the people who have power.

School Strike for Climate Australia, are school students who want to save there future from climate change. They are putting there education on hold and are protesting, and wanting politicians to listen to them and make a change for the better.

These students want to change a couple of things. I think that if every country attempts to do this, they might be able to slow down most of the affect of climate change, until they find a solution to stop it completely. 
  
- No new coal, oil and gas projects, including the Adani mine. 
-100% renewable energy generation & exports by 2030. 
-Fund a just transition & job creation for all fossil-fuel workers & communities.

They had 15,000 students in the November 30th will get September 20th with 300,000 strikers. They have 6-7 million strikers around the whole world. A lot of people are interested in this strike and everyday they get more powerful. They will not stop until the politicians listen, and the world changes for the better.

I save the enviroment by saying no to plastic bags. Plastic plays a large role in our world pollution problem too. It kills animals, floats out to sea and pollutes water and is just terrible in general. So I have stopped using plastic bags and my alter-native to that is tote bags and biodegradable bags.



Activity 3: I Have A Dream....

For this task we had to consider the problems that people with different colored skin faced in America back in 1950s and 1960s. We then had to describe the problem and what Rosa Park did about it, the last thing we had to do was share how people reacted the changes.

Back in the 1950's and 60's America had some different rules for people with white skinned and dark skinned people. These rules included things like not being able to go to the same school, being forced to use different toilet. They even had too sit in different parts of the bus.

Martin was a Christian minister in the USA in the 1950s and 60s. He was a fighter for equal right as he didn't like the rules and boarders that differed people with different colored skin. 

A problem that dark skinned people faced back then, was having to sit in different parts of the bus. Every time a dark skinned person would ride on the bus, they go in the normal door, pay and then walk out, and around to the door at the back. Light-skinned people were only allowed to sit at the front. No one argued as that was the law.


https://www.biography.com/activist/rosa-parks

One day a women called Rosa Parks, was riding on the back of the bus. Everything was normal, until the bus driver told Rosa Parks to give up her seat in order for light-skinned person to sit down. Rosa Parks refused and caused a riot, this was a game-changer for many different colored skinned people. Rosa Parks believed that we should all be treated equally, and thinks that laws that separated people into groups were wrong. After she had refused, she was arrested because of the bus driver. 

A lot of people we mad about this. After what happened to Rosa Parks, many people started to boycott, public transport systems. Buses, were no longer used, other people started to protest against segregation is what they called it. So laws like these finally came to an end, dark skinned people finally stood up for themselves and said no. A lot of the public saw what Rosa Parks did, and saw her as a role model. ROSA PARKS February 4th 1913-24 October 2005.

That concludes the second day of week 2. I am really enjoying this week, I have been really interested in learning about these people and how they've stood up for themselves and fought for what they believed. I did enjoy this and hope to continue learning about people like this.