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2007 || Yevgeniy || Today we finished the voki's and added them to our pages and did some touch ups. ||
 * **DATE** || **WHO WROTE THE REFLECTION** || **REFLECTION** ||
 * Friday 26 October 2007 || Jasmin || Today we finished adding in our; title, SPCA Logos, Brainstorm and this reflection graph. ||
 * Friday 26 October 2007 || Stephan || Today I uploaded a YouTube video and helped make everything look neat on our page ||
 * Monday 29 October 2007 || Jasmin || Today we finished uploading our pictures and we wrote this reflection. ||
 * Monday 29 October 2007 || Olivia || Today at home I added 5 questions for Task Six. ||
 * Monday 5 November 2007 || Yevgeniy || We modified Olivia's questions and put them into graph form, along with hypothesis'. ||
 * Monday 12 November 2007 || Olivia || Today I put in the rest of the answers to the questions. ||
 * Tuesday 27 November

Task 1. Brainstorm issues in the community and how these issues impact on the community. Discuss how they can be solved.
__Task 1__: Brainstorming our ideas. This is what we came up with:

Task 2. From this brainstorm, identify one issue that you as a group are going to investigate.
__Task 2:__ We had much discussion about which topic we would choose, but in the end we all agreed on the SPCA (animal cruelty) issue.

Task 3. Choose a group name related to your issues. Modify the navigator link.
__Task 3:__ Next we had to choose a group name. We did another brainstorm on a piece of paper and chose the one which best suited our aim (to help the SPCA and animals which people had been cruel to). The name, as you can probably see, was the Animal Aiders.

Task 4. Make a title of this issue on your home page.
__Task 4:__ After we had made our decision on our group's name, we needed to make a title on our home page, so we did a google image search for "Animal Letters" and we found an image of an animal alphabet. We then cut out the letters we wanted and up-loaded them onto our page to create our animalistic title.

Task 5. Add some pictures to your home page which reflect this issue.
__Task 5:__ For this task we have to show you some devastating pictures of abused animals. These pictures are about what we are planning to try and help stop. They are fairly censored but you may still find them shocking. media type="youtube" key="1QoDxaiO1Vk&rel=1" height="355" width="425"media type="custom" key="322609"

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Here are some documents which you can open and print off if you'd like. They are here to teach you about your pets. __Abandoned Pets__

Task 6. Develop questions that will help you find out more about your chosen area of concern.
__Task 6:__ Here is our graph with our answer to Task 6

Task 7. Hypothesize solutions and answers to your questions
On this graph we have also hypothesized our questions.

2. To retaliate against an animal 3. To retaliate against another person 4.To satisfy a prejudice against a species or breed 5.To express anger through an animal 6.To enhance one's own aggressiveness 7.To shock people for amusement 8.To displace hostility from a person to an animal 9.To perform non-specific sadism ||
 * **No.** || **Questions** || **Hypothesis (What we think the answer is)** || **Answer (What the actual and answer is)** ||
 * 1. || How many animals are abandoned each year in Auckland? || Around 20,000. || An estimated 20,000 animals each year are abandoned in Auckland. ||
 * 2. || What does the SPCA do to prevent cruelty to animals? || By taxing people when they get phoned up about by the persons neighbours. || If ||
 * 3. || How does the SPCA educate the community on how to care for their animals? || They have volunteers who go to schools/work places and talk to them about animals and how to look after them. || They can be organised to come to your work place or to school educate the people there. ||
 * 4. || How many animals are adopted each year in Auckland? || Possibly something like 743. || Over 5000 animals are adopted each year ||
 * 5. || How important are volunteers to the SPCA? || Very important, because if there were no volunteers the SPCA wouldn't be able to be run. || They are very important to the SPCA if they didn't have volunteers they couldn't help animals. ||
 * 6. || how many people complain about abused animals each year? || Over 1000 || 2761 people have complained about the treatment of abused animals in Auckland ||
 * 7. || How many animals have been confiscated each year? || Maybe 400 animals || 429 animals have been confiscated in Auckland ||
 * 8. || How many people are prosecuted each year for doing something serious to an animal? || 1 or 2 people || 5 people have been prosecuted ||
 * 9. || How many warnings have been issued in Auckland each year? || 500 warnings || 636 warnings have been issued this year ||
 * 10. || Why do people abuse abuse animals? || They might be affected in mental ways, so they want to express violence & they do that by abusing animals. || 1. To control an animal

Task 8. Develop an action plan. Your action plan must include the following information:

 * 1) ISSUE
 * 2) WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO
 * 3) HOW YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT
 * 4) WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHICH JOBS
 * 5) TIMELINE
 * 6) A SPACE FOR DAILY REFLECTION
 * 7) A SPACE FOR TEACHER FEEDBACK AND FEEDFORWARD
 * 8) AN EVALUATION OF THE ACTION AND THE EFFECT
 * 9) PEER REFLECTION
 * 10) INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION

1. What is the Issue?
The SPCA is not getting enough publicity and so animals around New Zealand aren't getting the SPCA's help.

2. What are we going to do?
We are going to do loads of research and are then going to write a narrative using the research to then publicise the SPCA more so they can help more animals.

3. How are we going to do it?
We have used the computer and library books for research

This is our narrative and we are going to make it into a podcast, but for now it is just a narrative, and we hope you enjoy reading.
In a street in Howick a boy called Ben was walking along talking to Hannah, his sister. While they were talking they came across a sign put on someone’s fence. “ Hey look at that!” Hannah exclaimed. “ Over 2500 animals are abused each year in Auckland.” Ben said slowly reading off the board. “ That’s really sad, but what are we going to do about it?” Hannah sighed, “ Yeah.” Ben muttered as they started to walk home again. Later that evening as Hannah got into bed she heard a whimper. Must be a possum or something. She thought, starting to fall asleep.

The next day was a blur as Hannah and Ben both had to study for the exams coming up in Year 8 and 9. As they walked home again Hannah heard another whimper, it sounded like a dog this time. She thought. Later that night in their beds, Hannah and Ben both heard the pitiful whimper again. “We have to do something about that noise!” Ben whispered to Hannah “What are we going to do then?” she whispered back. “Lets get dressed and investigate!” Ben exclaimed, thinking about his murder mystery books on his shelf.

Hannah and Ben quickly got dressed and quietly shut the front door and snuck outside. They heard the whine again from the next-door neighbour’s house.

They tiptoed up to the window at the house where the sound was coming from. They peered into the gloom; the house was empty. They then decided to go around the house to the back yard. Hannah gasped, and Ben was shocked at what was lying flat on the floor in front of his eyes. A puppy Cocker Spaniel was lying in its own waste with scars and bleeding sores all over its body. The bones in the little dog’s body stuck out so much as to make it look like a skeleton. There was a chain wrapped around the skinny neck of the puppy; it was chafing its neck and it was bleeding all over. Hannah screamed and Ben groaned as he saw two people pull into the driveway. They sprinted back into their house and grabbed the phone. “Who should we call?” Hannah panted. “Lets call 111.” Ben replied shakily, “But they only reply if it is for humans, lets call the SPCA.” Hannah argued, “Okay lets call them,” Ben picked up the phone and started dialing the number, 5-3-6-8-2-2-3. The phone rang in the silence like a siren. “Hello SPCA speaking,” a voice answered “Help we just saw an abused animal at our neighbours house please come and get it!” Ben said in a rush. “What is the address of the abused dog’s house?” “Um…88 Kurnell Drive, they are our next door neighbours.” Ben replied “Ok just stay inside until we manage to get there.” The person said, as she hung up. “I feel scared!” Hannah whispered to Ben “Me too!” He replied, “Lets go to bed.” So they got into to bed

10 minutes later the sound of a van woke Hannah, so she slid out of bed and shook Ben to wake him. “I think the SPCA van is here, lets go see,” Hannah murmured. “Yeah, lets go.” Ben replied. As they walked outside a person was loading a small cage into a van, the next-door neighbours were standing next to the van while a man wrote in a notebook.

3 WEEKS LATER
The people charged with abusing a dog got fined over 2500 dollars and are not allowed to own any more pets. The Cocker Spaniel puppy Spike sadly died malnourished and bleeding, he was to far gone for the vets to save him. He is now buried under a Pohutukawa tree in Hannah and Ben’s yard.

Spike had no chance. Over 7 out of 10 dogs die from abuse, Spike being one of the 7.

By Yevgeniy, Olivia and Jasin.

__Teacher Comment Graph__

 * **Date** || **Teacher's Comment** ||
 * || Teachers Comment: Wow group you are really working well together, I can see that you are all sharing the load, top effort. Your page is looking great and the pictures you have chosen are really quite heart breaking, very effective for people looking at your page. Remember we are looking at the local community, don't drift away from that. Great start to your questions, keep up the fantastic work. ||