☆○o。Introduction 。o○☆
Hello Bloggers!
The first couple of weeks this term we have been looking at women’s suffrage in New Zealand and the rest of the World. We learnt lots of things including women’s rights and how unfairly they were being treated by men. That’s when their savior Kate Sheppard comes in! She helped women have the same rights as men and stand up for themselves.
I had chosen titan from the APLT (Ace, Pro, Legend, Titan) learning levels. Titan is work for people who really want to challenge themselves and will have the hardest work (For their year level) and have to try and finish the tasks they were given. The APLT level are suppose to help people to finish every task they have been given to a high standard without it being too easy or hard enough for them. So it’s just challenging enough for people to concentrate and learn more about that subject, topic, or task.
☆○o。A bit about Kate Sheppard 。o○☆
Emigration:
Kate Sheppard was born on the 10th of March 1847, Liverpool, England. Her full given name was “Catherine Wilson Sheppard” but she preferred to be called “Kate” as short. Kate Sheppard was born and lived in England for approximately 21 years before her father died, then moved to Scotland to live with her uncle (Which was a church minister). She lived in the UK until the late 1868, until she sailed with her mother and siblings to New Zealand and arrived at Lyttelton.
The great petition:
Kate Sheppard wanted to convince the parliament to allow women to vote. She really wanted to achieve her goal so after she became the leader of the “Women’s Christian Temperance Union” (WCTU), she travelled all over New Zealand gathering signatures from other women who wanted to vote and have the same rights as men. Finally, she had over 30,000 signatures on a long roll of paper that stretched 270 metres long! She won the vote and proved that hard work really does pay off.
10 dollar note:
Because she was so brave and worked so hard, Kate’s face was printed on New Zealand $10 note so we can remember her and be grateful and thankful for all the amazing achievements she has done.
☆○o。The Camellias 。o○☆
The white camellia is a special flower that became the symbol of the women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand. It represents the historic time when women fought for and won the right to vote.
The red camellia represented opposition to women’s voting right, so the people who opposed women from voting.
☆○o。My poster 。o○☆
I can’t show you my poster which I am really sorry about but my poster had pretty much everything I wrote in this blog but summarised and a bit more detailed. Again my apologies
☆○o。Question 。o○☆
Which New Zealand dollar note is Kate Sheppard’s face printed on?
Can you guess correctly without cheating by searching it up? If not then here is a hint: The colour is blue. Good luck!