Summer Learning Journey 2019-20 | Week 2, Day 2 |A Long Walk to Freedom

Hi, guys, today is the second week of the SLG. That stands for the summer learning journey. The purpose of it is for when you back to school from the big holiday your reading and writing does not drop in level. If you do not do the SLJ in the summer the stuff that you did through the year you will need to do all of it again. 

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.

On my blog,  I need to write a journal entry imagining that I am Mr Mandela. What do you think he did each day? How did he feel? Include as much detail as you can in the journal entry.

                                                    February 1962 

Thursday 1  I meet Kenneth Kaunda, leader of unip and Simon kepwepwe At the meeting of the Heade of delegation, it is agreed that op and I should attend.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/1960s-diaries-nelson-mandela-his-trip-through-africa

SLJ week 1, day 4 activity 1: INDIVIDUAL PURSUITS

Hi guys today is the fouth day of the SLG. That stands for the summer learning journey. The purpose of it is for when you back to school from the big holiday your reading and writing does not drop in level. If you do not do the SLJ in the summer the stuff that you did through the year you will need to do all of it again. 

DAY 4: INDIVIDUAL PURSUITS

Activity 1: Making a Racket [4 points]

Billie Jean King, Venus Williams, and Serena Williams are three exceptional, female tennis players. They are not only outstanding athletes and some of the best tennis players in the world, but they have fought for women to be recognised as equals to men in the game of tennis. Billie Jean King famously beat a male tennis player, Bobby Riggs, in 1973, to prove to the public that women could compete at any level in tennis.

Billie Jean King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was recently awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award.

Serena

 and Venus Williams.

My blog, I need to tell you three things that I learned from watching these videos, as well as one thing I would still like to know. Here is my presentation.