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We learnt about the Shearers strike in 1891 and the story of what happened and why they protested.

Summary
In 1891, a large group of workers known as shearers, were responsible for gathering wool from sheep, so they decided to stop working. They did this because they wanted higher paies and good working conditions and justice overall. They thought that this would help the pastoralists realise that they needed fair pay and needed better working conditions.

Perspective A
Shearers were not earning enough money so they decided to go on a strike to demand for more stuff to help them. They stopped working for more money, they started protesting against pastoralists and fighting back the shearers were attacking or reasoning with people who go past the “line” which just means people that go to work are people who cross the line.

Perspective B
The pastoralists were losing money due to paying the shearers to much money because the demand of wool went down so they decreased the shearers pay which made them want to strike against the pastoralists, so if the shearer past the line the protesters would threaten or reason with each other to join the protest against the pastoralists and threatening the pastoralists. This made the land owners bring in the police to hopefully to stop the strike.

Overall
Over all at the end of the day the Shearers would have lost money if they left their job so they just started working again but some stopped working overall since they didn’t want to be paid very little from this job and because the pastoralists wouldn’t raise the pay and they called the police so they were forced to stop, but this still shows that as a union people are still strong.

In reading we had a challenge to create a dot to dot connection about the kuaka bird, we were tasked to map out 7 words that connect to the Kuaka bird, we connected 2 words together for every word, we made a sentence about how its related to the kuaka bird linking to 2 words that we choose to link together, the ones highlighted yellow are the ones we did last week and the green ones are the ones we did recently.

We learnt what reorganisation is and means.

First we learnt what reorganisation is and the meaning. reorgnaisations is changing the way something is organsied to help find an answer.

Next we got into pairs and guessed the first 6 questions as a practise.

Lastly we did the last 4 individual tasks, they had questions to answer under the text.

I enjoyed the 4 individual tasks. I need to improve on my answers on the individual tasks because i didn`t know where the questions where. I did well on the practise slides in pairs.