Chapter Two- TWTWB

1. How did the group of teenagers ascend Tailors Stitch?
2. What are the two special events happening the day after the teenagers leave for the bush?
3. How many days were they planning on staying? How much food do you think is reasonable to bring, split between 7 teenagers?
4. Who is the Hermit and what is he supposed to have done? 
5. Do you think the Hermit will be significant to this story? Why/Why not?
6. Is their decent down Satan’s Steps into Hell dangerous? Discuss what are the dangers, how could they have made it safer, what would you have done?
7. Predict what the bridge signifies

1. With the use of the land rover until they got to the point when they could no longer drive. After that, they packed their packs and walked down Satan’s steps.
2. The Wirrawee Show and Commemoration Day land on the day they leave.
3. They were planning to stay for five days. The food that they take should be enough, and in saying that I mean that as long as each person is carrying at least five items each, then they should have enough food for the five day journey
4. The Hermit is a man that is said to live in Hell. The teenagers made up stories when they were younger about him, he was said to have murdered his wife and baby
5. I do think that he will be significant to the story as the bridge that they cross in Chapter 2-3 could be a relation to the Hermit. Since they are descending to hell where the Hermit is said to live, they have a high chance of encountering him and him being apart of this story
6. The descent of the steps is a very dangerous one and they could have done a number of things that would have made it safer for everyone. The dangers involved are people falling. Breaking bones in their body and getting trapped. I personally would have tied a rope at the top, and then tied it around each member of the group, just so they were safe. They also could have made sure that there was someone camping at the Landie, in case of an emergency. 
7. I would say that the bridge represents the crossover from Earth to Hell. In a sense that is. It could signify them crossing over from “Earth” to “Hell”.

Chapter One- Tomorrow when the War Began

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of first person narration?
2. Why do you think Ellie needs to tell the story in chronological order?
3. Pick one interesting word from the chapter, find its meaning, and explain why it is interesting.
4. John Marsden foreshadows several events and characters in this chapter. Make three predictions based on the evidence in the text about what may occur later in the story.
5. What kind of story do you think Ellie is going to tell? Uses evidence from the text to support your answers.
6. What set of skills do these characters have that convince their parents that they can ‘go bush’ independently. Find examples for three characters. 

1. There are many pros and cons to first person narration. Some cons are that you don’t get to hear other people’s perspectives, you can find it a bit boring (or maybe that’s just me). But there are some good things about it. For some people it can make it a lot easier to follow and read and it gives a side of the story that you may not hear if it was in the third person. 
2. Telling the story in chronological order may be the way that she has control of the situation or because Ellie may have a disorder where she has to have it in chronological order or it feels wrong
3. Ex-Murderer
   I’m not actually sure what this means as no one can be an ex-murderer. You either are a murderer or you aren’t. You can’t retire from being a murderer.
4. 1. Page 3, paragraph 1. It makes you think that something that could change history or an event that could help history. When Ellie started talking about the Hermit from Hell, it made me think that they may encounter him (or her.)
5. I think that Ellie may tell as story where everything is in a sort of order and tell everything as it happened; both information that is relevant and irrelevant to the story as a whole.
6. Homer didn’t convince his parents. They didn’t seem to care whether he went bush or not. Fi also didn’t convince her parents, Ellie’s mother did so instead and Robyn had help from Ellie to convince her father.

Boomerangs in Social Studies.

Explain the purpose of the activity

Since the last week of term two, we have been learning about aboriginal art, symbols and boomerangs. The first task that we had to do was research. The research involved finding out information about the symbols that were used, and the types of boomerangs. The purpose of the activity was to find out about a different culture and to explain the way that some people express themselves through the art and designs that they do. 

The story of my boomerang

I didn't really have a story, I just went straight in and painted as I wasn't here the first two days and didn't have time to plan it. But after I started painting and hoping for the best, I found a story within the paint that I had strewn across it. I decided that it was about how the earth water and sun all relate to one another and help each other thrive. I not as happy with my boomerang as I hoped to be, but with only one day to decide on a story and what the story was going to be about, I think that the boomerang turned out as good as expected. The green, black and brown all represent the earth while the different shade of blue show the oceans, lakes and rivers. Then finally, the orangey-browns, oranges and the yellows are the sun/sunlight, touching all the land around them. 

What went well while painting your boomerang?

Everything went well, I think. While I didn't have a plan at all and just guessed, the colours all seem to fit together, like a puzzle. If I could change some things about the design, it would be that I had a plan that was detailed and that I didn't have to rush the painting part of the boomerang. Using tape to create a nice, crisp (well, sort of crisp) edge was the best thing that went well. It helped me sort of see where my design was going and where each colour was going to go. I believe that people tried their best while painting their boomerang and that people enjoyed this activity.

Test for Carbon Dioxide Gas

Aim: To show that carbon dioxide gas is produced when a metal carbonate reacts with acid
Equipment

• Two boiling tubes
• Delivery tube and bung
• Bunsen Burner
• Test tube rack 
• Wooden splint
• Bottle of acid
• Small amount of Metal Carbonate
• Test tube tongs
• Safety glasses

Method

1. Light your bunsen burner

2. Add a pea-sized amount of the metal carbonate into one of the boiling tubes.

3. Place this boiling tube into a test tube rack. Ensure you have the bung and delivery tube

 ready. 

4. Add 5ml of acid to the boiling tube and quickly insert the bung and delivery tube into the mouth 

of the boiling tube.

5. Holding the other boiling tube with your tongs, capture the gas produced. 

6. When you think that the tube is full, light a wooden splint. 

7. Carefully remove the boiling tube from under the delivery tube, taking care to keep

 it facing upward. 

8. Insert the burning splint into the mouth of the test tube. 

Observations:

If you weren't quick into when you shoved the splint in the test tube, then there is a chance that the
splint won't go out. But other than that, the test was a good way to test for the carbon dioxide gas. 

Making a Metal Oxide

Aim: To make a metal oxide and observe the difference in the properties of the product compared to the reactants
Equipment:

• Magnesium strip
• Bunsen Burner
• Safety glasses
• Metal scissor tongs

Method:

1. Light your Bunsen burner
2. Hold the piece of the magnesium in the scissor tongs. Ensure that you are holding onto the very tip of the magnesium
3. Place the other end of the magnesium into the flame. (At the top of the blue flame.)
4. When the magnesium starts to bun, do not look directly at it as the light that it emits can cause permanent  damage to your eyes

Observations:

It takes a wee while for the magnesium to catch, but when it does it looks amazing. Its a white light that, when looked at through a pair of tinted safety glasses, sparkles. The burnt magnesium looks like an orb of pure white light. Once the magnesium is burnt out, you should be left with  a white, crumbly powder. That's the metal oxide powder that we needed to make. While it was an easy experiment to accomplish, it is still quite dangerous to do as you could get seriously injured. S we had to make sure that we took the right safety precautions so we don't get hurt.

Making Salts II

Aim:To produce copper sulfate salt by reacting copper oxide with acid

Equipment

• Copper Oxide powder
• Dilute sulfuric acid
• Measuring Cylinder
• Two Beakers
• Bunsen Burner
• Tripod
• Gauze Mat
• funnel 
• filter paper
• thermometer
• Spatula
• Evaporating basin
• Stirring Rod     

1.Add 20ml of sulfuric acid to a beacker, heat the acid until it reaches 70 degrees. Turn your Bunsen Burner off.

2.Once heated, use your spatula to add small amounts of copper oxide powder to the beaker, mix for 30 seconds

3.Repeat step 2 until no more oxide will dissolve. Allow the beaker to cool

4.Fold the filter paper and place it in the funnel. \

5.Place the filtered funnel in the second beaker

6.Make sure that the beaker is cool enough to hold at the top, gently swirl the contents in the beaker, then pour it into the funnel

7.Rinse the previously used beaker and place it back on the tripod with 50-60ml of water. 

8.Place the evaporating basin on top of the backer and carefully pour some of the solution into the basin. 

9.Gently heat the beaker until the mixture is reduced in half

10.Leave it to cool. Once cool remove from the beaker and place somewhere it won't be disturbed. Leave for a few days and observe. If done correctly, blue copper sulfate crystals should form.

Results:

We were able to somewhat create the desired salt, except that it isn't ours. Our experiment was destroyed by another classes student, this is the results of their experiment. 

However, on Monday this should be redone with the experiment that is being recreated. 

Discussion:

During the experiment, we were able to recreate the original. The acid in the sulfuric acid was combined with the copper oxide powder and triggered a chemical reaction which created the copper sulfate salt. While in the earlier parts in the experiment, if you did it yourself, you would have noticed that it was a complete liquid until when you next checked up on it after some time. By when you looked at it, it would have crystallised. This is simply because after evaporating the water molecules only the copper sulfate salt was left.

Conclusion:

We don't currently have a conclusion of whether the experiment worked or not. However, we can report that we followed all the instructions to a tee. This post and my other classmates will be later on updated with the results of the experiments.

Introduction to Essays...

Sample introduction

During the harrowing time of Apartheid, a lot of injustices were served to the black population of South Africa. In the film The Power of One, directed by John Avildsen, the scene where Sergeant Borman forces Geel Piet to eat donkey excrement paints the picture of the ill treatment towards black people. The following techniques are used in this scene: dietetic sound, camera angles and shots, and dialogue. These film techniques helped convey this important idea and caused the scene to have a strong impact on the audience.

Highlight the different elements of TAKO (Title, Author, Keywords from the Question, Outline of Ideas) using four different colours. Create a key to indicate which colour goes with which part of TAKO.

Orange-Title 
Yellow- Author/Director
Green- Keywords from the question
Blue- Outline of IdeasWhat is this person’s ARGUMENT going to be in their essay?
I think that their argument will be that during the apartheid in Africa, the native black people were treated very unfairly by the whites. The whites being the ones who thought that they had more rights than the black did, who, by the way, were there in Africa way before the whites...

What do you think this person’s three body paragraphs are going to be about?
1. Black Africans were segregated from the whites, and were put into their own villages away from everyone else.
2.People (the blacks) were treated unfairly just based on the colour of their skin, and because no one would stand up for them or their rights. 
3. The ill treatment and the injustice that the black people of South Africa endured during the reign of the apartheid.


Now it’s your turn to write a conclusion. You just need to re-state the same ideas in a different way! Here is an example.

In conclusion, The Power of One by John Avildsen is a film that shows the unacceptable treatment of the Black Africans in South Africa. Throughout the scene, Avildsen uses assorted file techniques to portray what is happening; which is Sergeant Borman making Geel Piet eat poo off his shoe. Dialogue, camera angles, sound and the camera shots help show that the treatment of not only Geel Piet, but all the Black Africans endured just because of the Whites and becasue of what the Apartheid was doing to them as well.