Personal Response - Painting the Town by Renata Hopkins
Directions
During or after reading record your personal thoughts and questions under each heading.
Headings | Personal Response |

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QUESTION | - Why did they do murals on buildings?
- How do people still keep their hopes up even though they’ve lost so much?
- What causes the earthquakes in Christchurch?
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WAS SURPRISED ABOUT | - That there was a lot of earthquakes in Christchurch.
- That people still keep others hope up.
- How creative people are with murals.
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LIKED | - I liked that people tried lifting people’s spirits, tried to give them hope after all they lost.
- People use a variety of colours in their art.
- They use different shapes and creatures in their murals.
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DIDN’T LIKE | - That people lost a lot of stuff in an earthquake.
- That the gallery shut down.
- Lots of people lost a lot of things in earthquakes.
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WHAT DO WE NEED TO CHANGE.
| - That there isn’t much earthquakes in Christchurch.
- The gallery didn’t close down.
- People didn’t lose that much during earthquakes.
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MADE ME THINK ABOUT | - How hard it is for those that live in Christchurch.
- How important your family, pets or things that you love until when you lose it you finally miss them.
- How hard it is for those in Christchurch, how sore it feels to lose something they love
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DIDN’T UNDERSTAND | - That there’s so many earthquakes in Christchurch.
- Why people did murals for others even though they don’t know them.
- How they made it without getting arrested.
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