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.

Neutralisation 101

In Science, we have been learning about the topic Acids and Bases. When an acid and a base get mixed together, a chemical reaction can occur. A base cancels out the effects of the acid, and when this happens it is called a neutralisation as when you add just  the right amount of acid and base together, you get a neutral solution.


Aim: To observe a neutralisation reaction
Equipment:

• A test tube
• Test tube rack
• 1 mol L-1 Na2CO3 (Sodium carbonate)
• 1 mol L-1 HCI (Hydrochloric acid)
• Dropper or Dropper Bottle 
• Universal Indicator Solution 

Method:

1. Place approximately 1-2ml  of sodium carbonate to a test tube and place the test tube in the test tube rack. Then, add 3-5 drops of the Universal Indicator solution. 
2. Using the dropper bottle, add HCI drop by drop, slowly. You need to be very careful with how much you add in as even a little bit extra, you may miss the neutralisation point. 

Observations/Results

It's very hard to get it to neutral especially when you add just the smallest bit over. Getting the colour to a nice green colour took us a while, with it going between to colours the most; red and indigo. But after a while, we managed, as a group to get it to green. Well, Jess, Nadia and Molly did. The closest that I got to a green colour was a very off yellowish green. After we played around a bit, had a competition to see who could get it to green the fastest and actually got it to green, we got told we could make a rainbow. A good rainbow. Which we managed to do. Not with all of the fourteen colours but with five, which covered the length of the pH scale. The colours that we made into a rainbow were red, then to orange and yellow.Green, Blue and a purple-ly indigo colour to finish. 

Red is the strongest acidity of all the acids and then indigo is the strongest base. Red, orange and yellow are all acid, while the blues and indigo's are all bases. The green, as you may have realised by now, is the neutral colour, at pH seven. This was a very interesting experiment as you got completely different results from another team. It may have been easier for another team to get to the pH seven, or the may not have been able to get it green at all. 

Just to the side is the rainbow that we made. It also features the tips of someones finger? Okay. As it turns out, it's my finger. :)

Overall, this was a very exciting experiment and I can't wait until we get another chance to do an experiment like this. 

SEXXY Paragraph Writing

For the last week, we have been focusing on writing SEXXY paragraphs based around the film, The Power of One. The paragraph below is one that I wrote in a group with Nadia and Molly. The picture that we used is the scene where you see Sergeant Bormann and Geel Piet. 

The long shot is common throughout the film. Including this shot of Sergeant Borman's legs while in the prison. In the foreground, we see the guards legs and baton while in the background we see PK and Geel Piet talking. The director, John Avildsen, used a long shot for this scene showcasing Sergeant Borman's baton to make you believe that something may happen to Geel Piet. It is also to show the guard is in a high position of power. The audience also feels a sense of worry for Geel Piet, as we believe that something may happen, based on the stance of Sergeant Boram. The audience is made to feel worried and empathetic for all of the characters in this shot. Where Geel Piet gets beaten to death, there is a strong similarity to this scene that we have mentioned. This can be contrasted to another scene were you see Sergeant Borman's legs and the baton with Geel Piet at the Sergeant's feet, almost foreshadowing the scene that came before it. 

Floor Hockey

1. On a scale of 1-10, rate how well you think you did in yesterdays floor hockey lesson

I think that I participated well and that I was throughly involved with what my team mates and the teachers were saying to improve on.  I feel like I would have been a 10.

2. What skill do you think you did well? 

The skills that I used particularly well we're passing it through the cones to my teammates and the dribbling that I used when we had a mini game of multi sport. I also tried my best when we were doing all the activities.

3. What skills did you used to pass/dribble the ball?

I made sure that the ball was always in contact with the stick, and just like I try to do in football, have control of where the ball is going and where the ball is. 

SoSt Creative Writing

I sigh, staring at the bills in front of me. Even sharing a house with three other families doesn’t cut down the money that I spend each week.  Myself and my three year old daughter, that’s who I have to provide for. By myself. Clementine stares at me, sorrow in her eyes. While I think that I have hard, she has it worse. Seven kids and a recently dead husband. Killed in a fishing accident down at the wharf. Can’t say that I miss him though. Neither do the others who live here. We all know that he hit all of the family, yet acted like an angel in front of the rest of us. Clementine says she misses him, but every time we bring it up, she brushes it off. Giving her a smile back, I look over at Elizabeth. Sitting at the table drawing with Clem’s kids, she looks so happy and peaceful, like nothing in the world could hurt her. Why couldn’t my life be like that?

“Clem. I have to take a few extra shifts down at the Reed’s. Can you please look after Eliza for a few hours?”  My eyes dart towards the petite lady that sits in front of me, on the rundown trundler bed. Her eyes shine a pale green, a stark contrast to her dark, ebony hair. She gives a curt nod before going back to what she was doing; mending one of Nora’s dresses, which knowing the way that Clem sows, will take all night. Pulling my jacket over my worn, dress and apron, I give Eliza a kiss on the forehead before turning and dashing out the door, handbag in tow. Men stare at me as I pass them, faces black with soot. Women stand with children clutching their legs, hiding their small faces in the folds of the skirt. Soon, the lines and lines of brick stop, making way for the nicer part of town. Actual houses with gaps for privacy, and the people that live in not covered in soot and grime. The Upper Class.

The merchants call out, the market in full swing by the time I make it to the town centre. The smell of fresh bread hits my nose, making me smile.

Making a Model Atom

Aim: To make a model atom

Equipment
•Paper
•Bluetack
•String
•Beads
•Tape

Method- This method is to make a model atom for a Carbon atom. If you wish to make any other atom, then you may increase or decrease either the electrons, protons or neutrons

1. Take the piece of paper, fold in half and sketch out 2 half circles on the side of the paper.
2. Cut the two half circles out, making sure that one is bigger than the other.
3. On the smaller of the two rings, draw two black dots grouped together. Then on the bigger ring, draw two black dots at the top and then another group of two at the bottom. These six dots will make up the six electrons of the Carbon atom
4. Next, take your blue tack and your beads. You will need 6 protons (silver beads) and 6 neutrons (gold beads). Stick all twelve of the beads together in sort of a blobby shape. This is your atom center.
5. Take your length of string and attach it to the atom. You then have to take two pieces of tape, and tape the string to both rings that you have cut out.
6. Get a small square of paper and write on it the symbol of the element, the name and the atomic number.

Drama 10/5/19

Today in Drama, we we're leaving about not talking to much and using space.

The theatre sports game that we played was that you were only able to use three word sentences. Jess and I had the setting ''the zoo". In our improv, we were at the zoo and Jess somehow found her way into the cage, I called the fire fighters then we got stuck and stopped.

Another one of the groups did that they killed a dog then revived him. Jakita and Megan went to Disneyland, then crashed and killed a child.

Later on in the term, we will be doing a musical piece from the musical 'Carrie'. The song is called 'In' and I'm very excited to be doing it in the musical theatre showcase at the end of the term