DAY 2: TAKING ACTION
Activity 1: A Long Walk to Freedom [4 points]
Nelson Mandela was an activist and civil rights leader who was born and raised in South Africa. For over 40 years (1948-1991), the country of South Africa had a political system called ‘apartheid’. This meant that there were different rules for people who had white skin than for those who didn’t. Nelson Mandela felt that this was very wrong and he fought for many years to change the law. Eventually he became the President of South Africa and ended apartheid, but not before spending 27 years in prison.
In Robben Island prison (where Mandela spent 18 years), life was very tough. Mandela had a tiny, damp, concrete cell, with only a straw mat to sleep on. During the day he was forced to work in a quarry, breaking rocks into gravel. He was only allowed to see one visitor and receive one letter every six months. At night, Nelson read and studied to be a lawyer.
Im just going to say i have seen the film or him when all that was happening the real film i think but anyway i think what he was feeling is something like this its day 1 in robben island prison and i have already been treated like the odd one out in the group and i feel like i am different to others and i really dont like it hair im sure its the same for my inmates but what more can i do i have done enough i wish i come back to more right for my family and country i miss my family
Tēnā Koe Courtney,
ReplyDeleteKa pai on completing today's activity about Nelson Mandela. I personally like this activity because you get the chance to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and write from their perspective, which is a really cool writing activity.
You have written this journal entry with a nice amount of detail, I especially like the line “I miss my family” because he was such a family man!
Did you know that he had six children and twenty grandchildren? What a legacy he left behind for them.
Something for next time: If you are going to add the activity description to your blog post, maybe separate here your journal entry has started it is clear when your readers visit this blog post.
Ka kite ano,
Kueni