Flag debate - which side are you on?

Between the 3rd and 24th March 2016 there will be a referendum held in New Zealand as to whether we should officially change the flag. A referendum is when the public (over 18) are asked to vote on a question from the government about our nation. The public will be deciding between the current NZ flag and the Silver Fern Flag.

New zealand has an unique flag history. In 1902, New Zealand's flag we have today became official. Did you know that some of the history in the flag is from the blue union jack which is symbolized on the flag itself. A very popular subject related to new zealand's history is the Treaty of Waitangi there was also the White disk which was going to be on one of the 3-4 official flags we have had in the past.f

One side of the referendum is to keep the flag. Also one of the only reasons we should change our flag is because it is similar to australia's. We should also keep it as it could be hard for some, ( mainly older people ) as they have lived with it either their whole lives or have just really liked it in general. Remember, it costs $26 million dollars for a little thing like changing the flag when it’s fine how it is!

John key and the national party would like to change the flag, do you?. It is wayyy too close to Australia’s and what if we copied them in the first place on accident or even on purpose. Come on, we need to be recognisable. Of course the current flag made history but with a new flag we could all have a new beginning, an opportunity to start fresh!

Well, I have made two sides on the flag change, what side are you on? I personally don’t mind either way, as long as we have a flag! Really deep inside of me says that I don’t want to change it for all its history  but both ways work and I will be happy if it does get changed and even if it doesn’t. Now all I have to do is wait for results on what's going to happen next.

Author's purpose

This is my powtoon on the author's purpose. It explains how you find out why an author wrote a piece of text and will help you in situations where you need to find out why they wrote it.

Flag referendum and Search tips

 

1. Don’t use wikipedia!
2. Use site:url to find a specific website!
3. Can’t find a website anymore? use cache:url!
4. Use * for missing/unknown words in a sentence.
5. Searching for particular file type use : file type:pdf
6. Only use key words!
7. Copy and paste an image in google images url for similar images

 8.     To find something that is close to another subject use eg. -fishing

 9.     Needing similar sites/images to what you have? related:url

 10.   Use minus signs to disclude things you don't want  

We then used a table to answer questions and ensure we had three sources of information for each question.  From this we placed the information into our own words.

My questions and answers :

Why does it cost so much to change the flag?

• It costs so much because the people who send out all the voting papers have to play for it to be shipped out to everyone and for them to actually be made

Why are we changing the flag in the first place?

• Because it Needs to be instantly recognisable as it is very close to Australia's

I think we should keep the flag for all the history it has made and is making today. I also don’t really mind if it gets changed or not but that is just my opinion.

• Jazz

Kei te pehea koe?

for the past few days/weeks room 12 have been learning how to greet each other in te reo. Here is my video I created with Billie and Abby. This is our script that we acted out together

NZ Flag Referendum

Between the 3rd and 24th March 2016 there will be a referendum held in New Zealand as to whether we should officially change the flag. A referendum is when the public (over 18) are asked to vote on a question from the government about our nation. The public will be deciding between the current NZ flag and the Silver Fern Flag.

New Zealand has an unique flag history. In 1902, New Zealand's flag we have today became official. Did you know that some of the history in the flag is from the blue union jack which is symbolized on the flag itself. A very popular subject related to N Zealand's history is the Treaty of Waitangi there was also the White disk which was going to be on one of the 3-4 official flags we have had in the past.

One side of the referendum is to keep the flag. Also one of the only reasons we should change our flag is because it is similar to Australia's. We should also keep it as it could be hard for some, ( mainly older people ) as they have lived with it either their whole lives or have just really liked it in general. Remember, it costs $26 million dollars for a little thing like changing the flag when it’s fine how it is!

There is also another side to this referendum. John key and the national party would like to change the flag, do you? It is way too close to Australia’s and what if we copied them in the first place on accident or even on purpose. Come on, we need to be recognisable. Of course the current flag made history but with a new flag we could all have a new beginning, an opportunity to start fresh!

Well, I have made two sides on the flag change, what side are you on? I personally don’t mind either way, as long as we have a flag! Really deep inside of me says that I don’t want to change it for all its history  but both ways work and I will be happy if it does get changed and even if it doesn’t. Now all I have to do is wait for results on what's going to happen next.