My convict diary!

Our First Contacts Australian History Unit

In Term 2, we had to take on the persona of a First Fleet convict. We reseached what life was like back then and wrote an historical narrative based on their life and experience coming to Australia as part of the First Fleet. Read one of my journal entries below.

I’m a convict

May

25th 1784

“Please it just be a little thing!”

“NO! You  ain’t be  stealing anything on my watch. I won’t allow it you’ll get caught by the Bow Street Runners!”

She don’t know nothing I won’t get caught I can’t get caught! She being a brat I tell you brat!

I thought to myself. That night I ran out of the ‘ouse I took all me anger out from what my wife said on this little lady, then I jumped a fence and took linen that was probably worth bout, 20 shillings all a sudden I heard

“STOP THIEF!!!!!”

 DAM IT I OTTA GO!! I thought, but before I knew it they out ran me trapping me in a corner. The next day I was in court! “John Anderson Age 24 Crime Assault and stealing linen worth 20 shillings punishment TRANSPORTATION! “Oh no.”

Signed  J.A

May

26th 1784

“TO THE HULKS WITH YOU!!!” yelled one guard. “What’s transportation?” No body answered. That made me even more nervous

that no body even knew where we were going

Maybe transportation is when you get hanged in a different place. I didn’t know what it was

but either way I was nervous. When I got to the hulks they put shackles on me ankles, wrists, and neck they  scraped my skin away and it was rather painful over the time of an hour it started to stink of privy I had to leave me mate and me family behind it was hard

“LIGHS OUT!!”screeched a guard with a croaky throat. 

Signed   J.A

May

12th 1787

Today we started to board the ship I was on the Scarborough we could see

all the ships the Charlotte and the Friendship. There’s no friendship on that ship seams like there’s a match ever day and night they never at peace.

May 

13th 1787

The hatch closed by the first hour me neck was already throbbing in pain 

wish down under would be just a little bit taller the rashens were only limited there be only bout 12 little boy

Oh well. Smelt like raw human faeces couldn’t  see nothing pitch black all me ears could hear was screams of terror.

We made a stop at Cape Town we just picked up some fresh food and water than we left.

Singed J.A

January 

14 1788

Today we sailed the mini boats to Botany Bay when we got there

we saw sand, big rabbits, brown Indians, and some trees that grew upwards! Now that’s something new

but what I  be most curios bout was we were told it was New Holland a land with no people and why would people live in the end of the world

Any way it was not fun living there.

On the first day 12 convicts were killed either by the guards or the Indians something that the Indians had and did were they had sticks that

Looked like curves and they had no clothes on? This confused me.

Singed J.A

January 

15 1788

It’s the second day at Botany Bay

It okay but today me new mate got in a fight with an Indian but now me mate is diseased oh well. 

January

18 1793

Just a few more months before I go but I really like it it here at Botany Bay it calm I have grown to like the Indians there kind but they might be making us go oh well.

Signed J.A

 

Did you know Australia used to be called new holland?

Matilda

 

MY PLAY

A PLAY?!?!

hello,

Hi there, a couple days ago me and my class wrote a play for the Nativity story it consisted of the characters Joseph, Mary, Gabriel, Elizabeth,three Shepards, the three Wisemen, inn keepers, Jesus,Guards , Augustus Cesar, Narrators, and King Herod, those where all the rolls you could get. We spent about a week or two on it. I got the rolls of Shepard 2, Cesar’s Guards and Herod’s Guards can you believe it I got two rolls.   It was a bit annoying because when we were going through the whole play some people, weren’t on their very best behaviour.

When we performed for the elderly home buddies we were good but, we did make a couple of mistakes, when that happened we kept going as if nothing happened and, the elderly home people didn’t notice any of the mistakes so we accomplished a lot that day, like if it isn’t going as planed just act as if nothing happened and they won’t know ,or if you forget your lines you still roughly know what they are anyway that was all about our play.

                          What do you know about the

                                      Nativity

                                        Story?

-Matilda

My AVATAR!

Hi fellow bloggers,

 Today I have made my avatar for my blog. An avatar is a cartoon version of you for online profiles

they also look like you but not identical.

I choose this because they didn’t have my identical eye or skin colour but I put the most similar to me and it didn’t have artsy top the reason why I said that is because I really like art. The similarities are my hair is that colour so is my lips and my favourite colour is blue and I have violet glasses. And that’s my avatar

 

 

 

 

-Matilda