For the past week we have been learning about how to do a reading response at level 1 and also trying to understand short text. We had two forms of short text to choose from and I chose the NZ Herald News Article, I hope you enjoy it :)
Date - 24.9.2020
Title of the text - Whangarei lawn mowing Good Samaritan found
Author - Jodi Bryant
Summary of the text (4-6 sentences)
Nikau Munroe Rawiri is known as a Good Samaritan after mowing Cynthia Browns. He had claimed to have been going to his mothers after mowing the cemetery lawn, to mow hers. He then passed an old lady mowing her own lawn. “I got up the road and was having conflict with myself: my head was saying to go but my heart was saying to go and help her out”. Keep in mind it was a hot day. Brown had told her daughter and she urgently sent out a search for who this man is in giving him a prize for a role at pest control. He ‘graciously declined’ and instead got given a hamper of pest control products.
The key idea in the text - SEXY paragraph
I think that the key message in the text is you should always help people in need no matter what. By this I mean if you see that someone is in need of help then to man up and help them out. Example of this was when Nikau claimed that his mind was saying no and to carry on, but his heart was telling him to help her, so then he manned up and helped her out. In my own life, I come across times where I see people struggling. I do all that I can to help out, and make it easier for them.
What can we learn from the text?
We can learn that if you know it is the right thing don’t just observe, be in action and do whatever you can to help. You don’t have to sacrifice your lovely skin getting burnt to help people, helping people could even be just lifting a heavy box.
