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Te Whiti Biography

                              Te Whiti Biography

Te Whiti-o-Rongomai was born in 1830 in Ngamoto, Taranaki. He was born very close to the second siege of Pukerangiora. His father was Tohukakahi and his mother was Rangiawau. Tohukakahi was a minor chief in the Ati Awa tribe. Te Whiti attended Riemenschneiders Mission School at Warea, where he excelled in bible studies. During his time in Mission School he became a very spiritual man. After Te Whiti finished school, he set up a flour mill in Warea. Then many years later, the Europeans burnt down the village where he was born in so Te Whiti moved his settlement the following year to                    

Parihaka. 

By 1870, the biggest village in the country was Parihaka with approximately one thousand and three hundred people. For many years Europeans were living peacefully with the Maori but in 1881 the Europeans started to punish the Maori unfairly and take away their land. Te Whiti and Tohu Kakahi were the leaders of the Parihaka movement and started to protest peacefully.They would not let anyone use arms or fight back because they believed in non-violence. Both men ran monthly meetings and in one of the meetings two European government officials came. An hour later Te Whiti and Tohu were put in jail.

While Te Whiti was in prison the Europeans continued to take what wasn’t theirs. They destroyed all houses and crops. They killed all horses, cattle and pigs and many girls and women got Syphilis because they were raped. Te Whiti was in jail until 1888. Te Whiti’s wife died, days before he was released. When he was released, he wasn’t allowed to return to Parihaka for his wife's funeral. But when Te Whiti did return to Parihaka, everything was over. Nineteen years of punishment had ended.

During 1907 many leaders of Parihaka died. One of them was Te Whiti. He died on the 18th of November but his story will stay around forever.

Te Whiti was a very important man. He changed the future of Parihaka and the power of the Europeans. I think Te Whiti is very inspirational because he didn’t fight back with guns or other weapons. He just stood up for what he thought was right and never gave up.

By Kirrin. 

Goal setting

Goal setting:

Term 1 goals:

Literacy goal: Reading through my work to make sure that there are no mistakes.

Maths goal: Work on my fractions. I need to increase any basic understandings.

General goal: Be more organised for school. I need to pack my bag the night before.

Term 2 goals:

Same as above.

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Cher Lloyd biography

                      Cher Lloyd                       


Cher Lloyd. Singer, songwriter, model and actor. She was one of the many talented people on X Factor. Cher was born on the 28th of July 1993 in Malvern, Worcestershire U.K. She is almost nineteen years old. She has a Mum, Diana and a Dad, Darren. She also has three younger siblings. Josh, Rosie and Sophie. She has a dog, Barbie but she wants a pet turtle too.

Darren and Diana sent Cher to Dyson Perrenis, CE Sports Collage. Where she studied preforming arts which helped her in her later life. Personally, we think that if she did not go  to the Sports Collage, she might not have gotten in to the top twelve in X Factor. 

In 2010, Cher entered X Factor.She made it into the top twelve. But while she was in training at boot camp, she suffered from tonsillitis and was not able to complete her song that she chose (Cooler than me). But her mentor Cheryl Cole, sent her to be in the top twelve anyway.

During her time on X Factor, she sang:

Just be good to me,

Hard knock life,

No diggity/Shout,

Stay,

Empire state of mind,

Sorry seems to be the hardest word/Mocking bird,

Imagine,

Stay (again),

Girlfriend,

Walk this way,

Nothing on you,

Love the way you lie,

Everytime,

The clapping song/Get your freak on,

Where is the love/I gotta feeling.

Sadly in 2010 she got eliminated from X Factor and came fourth due to lack of public votes. But still she continued to sing. She started to make an album called Sticks and stones. Cher released her album on the 7th of November 2011. In the first week of being on sale, it sold 55,668 copies.

Cher likes raps and rappers so she put some into her songs like in With your love and Want you back. In her album Sticks and stones the songs are:

Grow up,

Superhero,

I can’t stand the rain,

Over the moon,

Dub on the track,

End up here,

I don’t want to be a joke,

Swagger jagger.

Right now, she's living with her boyfriend in London. She is living a happy life, not wanting to be a celebrity but just a normal person. When we think of Cher, we think of some of the things we can learn from her like:

1.You can do anything if you try

2.Have a go or you’ll never know what could have been

3.Don’t let the sad things bring you down.

By Kirrin and Emily.