Text Tiles

Today I finally got to get my cushion done in Text Tiles at Tamaki College. On Week 6, last term was the week we first began Text Tiles. Our Teacher: Mrs. Tuipulotu gave us a few papers to practice sewing. Over the past couple of weeks, we have learned how to thread the sewing machine, learn what each part does and even how to use it.

After a term of threading and sewing, we got into Term 3 knowing exactly what we were gonna do. Today (The Last Week) we got handed our fabric (Which was Ben 10) and we sewed the sides, filled in the cotton and finished our Ben 10 Cushions.

Thank you Mrs. Tuipulotu.

Irony Chart - Lamb to the Slaughter

WALT : Identify and evaluate the use of irony in a text

“At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head”

Mary’s actions before this point in the story:
Mary is very gentle and she takes care of Patrick while he’s tired from a full days of work. She knows that he is tired so she tries to do many things to please him
Mary’s actions now:
Mary’s actions have changed very very much. She has has gone from nice and gentle to angry and violent.
What actions did you expect?:
I expected that Mary would take the news supportively for her husband. But since she is pregnant she could have explained her feelings in a different way.

“Have some more, Charlie?”
“No. Better not finish it”
“She wants us to finish it.

She said so. Be doing her a favor.
Why do the police think Mary wants them to finish the lamb?:
Because 1st of all they feel sorry for her because her husband. 2nd is because they think she took quite a lot of time on this big,heavy and hard leg of ham
Why does she really wants the police to finish the lamb?:
Because they would be eating the evidence that she killed Patrick Maloney. And because since they are eating the lamb that would make Mary a motive not a allaby
What is ironic about the police eating the lamb?:
Dramatic irony is when us readers know something important that the character/s in the story don’t know about. The irony is dramatic irony. It is because we as the readers know that the lamb would be the only way of finding how Patrick died. And if they just go ahead and eat it then all evidence is gone unless they examine where he was hit but that would be still hard. Because when they find that ham prints they will know they ate the evidence.

Character Map - Mary Maloney

WALT : Identify and evaluate the use of irony in a text

Task Description:

In this google drawing I made a character as part of the create task we are doing this week. You will see that it has Mary Maloney's name big,blue and right in the middle. The dark blue arrows take you to a box about the other characters. In the box I have put down three things: Name,Relationship to Mary and Occupation. This is based on a book our group is reading this week it is called : Lamb to the Slaughter. By Roald Dahl.