Bellwork: Hobbit's LA Premiere Still A Winner For NZ

English

Search and Think

1. What does the phrase 'specifically adorned' mean?

For instance in this case, the plane was specifically adorned and decorated just for this event. Adorned means to decorate and make it beautiful.

Bellwork: Bargaining On Making a Difference

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1. What does the line 'well sung jingle by many a pre-schooler' suggest?

That it has a catchy jingle that everyone knows, even little children.

2. How many times is the word 'community' used in this article? Why is it used so often?

Six. To emphasize the fact that the warehouse is community based.

3. How does buying hybrid cars link to one of The Warehouse's key focuses?

It helps because its 'Another step in its measures to reduce its carbon footprint' When they say the word 'it' its more about the bigger picture here. The world. The Warehouse wants to take a positive step forward in helping the environment for the future generations.  

Setting of Power of One

English

The story first takes place in rural South Africa, then an Afrikaan school. This goes down in about 1940 - 1950. 

• Socially, at schools, there were different types of schools based on race. There would be a white Afrikaan school, Bantu schools, English schools, etc.
• At the time, Apartheid took place.
• Bantu's were given a district and couldn't travel to other areas that were inhibited by the whites.
• There was a lot of economic inequality during the time frame it took place
• Land acts or laws gave over 80% of the land to the white south Africans 
• To try and limit contact between the races each had their own public facilities
• Their national party tried to delay off bankruptcy by raising taxes on imports
• By 1950 the government had banned between whites and people of other races
• There was a line drawn to separate the blacks and whites
• The government had divided neighborhoods
•  Afrikaans would bully English because they blamed them for the English taking their land.
• The English and black were hated by the Afrikaans. 
• The government put the Afrikaans before the Africans 
• The toilets were divided to white and blacks.
• The blacks were treated badly because they were hated on all sides.

Bellowork: Tawera

English

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3. Which line divides the time of the poem between the past and present?

4. What do you think the poet is referring to in the following stanza?
"I used to dream of those country roads
tongue and eyes ecstatic
barefoot in the mud
while the city had boots... "

• That there is a vast difference between the city life and and county life and that he is missing the country ways.

5. What do you think the poet means when he says 'one day soon I will return/ to see the smallness of things/where once everything was large'?

That he will visit is home town and notice the hotspots of his childhood where he used to think the world was massive compared to his size.

6. Explain in two sentences what you think the poem is about.

The poem is about him being sick of city life and noticing that the city life has changed the once country boy. He's reminiscing about his country days.

Bellwork: Fractures and dislocations

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Search and Think

1. What is the difference between 'i.e.' and 'e.g.' as used in this place?

I.e. stands for pretty much in other words. Whereas e.g stands for, for example.

2. Think about the sentence structure of this piece. What do you notice about it?

There more of a note than a sentence, hence the bullet points.

3. How can you tell there is further information to read on this topic?

Because the last bullet point leads to further information. "Specific immobilization techniques for various injuries are outlined on the following pages." 

4. Why have diagrams been included in this piece? 

To give a more detailed understanding about what they are trying to explain.

Bellwork: From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

English

Discovering techniques

1. Find an example of personification in the passage.

"Until the rain interfered, running its icy fingers down my back, forcing me to life."

2. Find an example of onomatopoeia.

"His mother went back into the bakery, grumbling, but

Reported speech: Suddenly a voice was screaming at me and I looked up to see the bakers wife, telling me to move on and did I want her to call the Peacekeepers and how sick she was of having those brats from the Seam pawing through her rubbish.

3. Find one example of direct speech (where the exact words that were spoken are given)

"His mother was yelling, "Feed it to the pig, you stupid creature! Why not? No one decent will buy burned bread!"

4. Why has the author chosen to use Italics for certain sentences?

Because it shows that the character is directly thinking this in their head.

German Expressionism

Art

When: German expressionism started in 1905. It hit its peak a bit before WW1.

Where: It happened across Germany.

Why: It was a response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's relationship with the world and lost feelings of spirituality.

Who: Kathe Kollwitz, Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, are a few German expressionists.