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Sunday, 31 December 2017

Summer Learning Journey week 2 day 4 Activity 1

  • 3 September: Britain, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany
In 1939, the Allied Forces of Great Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand responded to Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland by declaring war. Two days before war was declared, German forces had bombed Polish cities and towns, killing and injuring thousands. After the Germans failed to meet a deadline set by The Allies to retreat from Poland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced on radio: "I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and consequently this country is at war with Germany." This marked the beginning of World War II.

 13 December: Battle of the River Plate-New Zealand cruiser HMS Achilles involved in battle with German pocket battleship the Admiral Graf Spee                                         
  • HMNZS Achilles was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Second World War, the second of five in the class. Originally constructed by the Royal Navy, she was loaned to New Zealand in 1936 before formally joining the new Royal New Zealand Navy in 1941. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, alongside HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter and notable for being the first Royal Navy cruiser to have fire control radar, with the installation of the New Zealand-made SS1 fire-control radar in June 1940
Posted by jolie at 20:12
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Jolie
I can really see the all of the hard work that you have put into this activity. I also am doing the summer learning journey on my blog. What was your favrioute part about this activity? Why?

2 January 2018 at 18:48
Cadence said...

Hi Jolie,

Another post complete! Well done Jolie. You are setting a great example for others to follow. As a role model for this programme, it would be great if you could model for others how to properly reference information that you copy from the internet. It can be a bit tricky but it's a really important thing to do. I can also give you full points if you reference information properly and/or put it into your own words. If you would like to copy what a website has said, you need to put the name of the original author and the name of the website where you got the information into your blog.

Let's imagine that you read a story about Bill Kini, the famous NZ boxer, in the newspaper and you wanted to copy and paste some information from the article into your blog. You would first copy the information that you want to use and then, in brackets, after the information you need to tell us where you got it. For example, imagine that you copied this sentence from the article:

Born in Winton, Southland, in 1937, Bill Kini was of Ngai Tahu blood, one of three children.

You need to include the following reference after the sentence: Born in Winton, Southland, in 1937, Bill Kini was of Ngai Tahu blood, one of three children. (Tim Eves, New Zealand Herald, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503448&objectid=11075600

I know that this can be tricky so feel free to send some through and I'll do my best to answer them.

You have some great information in your post telling us lots about the war. Keep up the fantastic blogging Jolie!

Cadence :)

4 January 2018 at 17:07
jolie said...

Kia Ora Harrison

Thank you for your comment, My favourite part was reading, the reason why is because the information was very very interesting. Have a great holiday :)

13 January 2018 at 17:37
jolie said...

Kia Ora Candece

Thank you for your comment. Have a great holiday :)

13 January 2018 at 17:43

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