Merchant Of Venice Act 3 Scene 4-5 Reflection

This time questions for scene four and five.

What is Lorenzo’s opinion of Antonio?
Lorenzo thinks Antonio is a really nice guy and a gentleman.

What does Portia tell Lorenzo she intends to do?
Go to the nunnery and wait there for her husband to come back.

What does she ask Lorenzo and Jessica to do for her and why?
She asks them to look after her house while she is away.

Why does Portia think Antonio and Bassanio must be alike?
She said "Which makes me think this Antonio, being the bosom lover of my lord, must needs be like my lord."

Why do Portia and Nerissa intend to travel dressed as men?
So they seem accomplished in something their not.

In A3S4 L 60-78, how does Portia describe the behaviour and attitudes of young men.
She describes them as confident outgoing people that like to brag a lot.

Does it seem likely that Portia is going to follow the expected behaviour of a wife?

No, she is bold and outgoing and likes being the boss of people so she will probably stay that way.

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In his jokey conversation with Jessica, why is Launcelot against the conversion of Jews to Christianity?
Because if all the Jews became christians the price of pork would go up.

What is Jessica’s opinion of Portia?
She thinks of here as a heavenly lady.

Merchant Of Venice Act 3 Scene 2 reflection

The questions for Scene 2

Why does Portia want Bassanio to delay his choice?
She doesn't want Bassanio to leave so soon if he does pick the wrong casket.

What makes Bassanio choose lead over the silver and gold caskets?, find the quotes in the text to support your thinking.
Thou gaudy gold, hard food for Midas, I will none of thee; nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge 'tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead, which rather threat'nest than dost promise aught, thy paleness moves me more than eloquence.

What does Portia’s speech A3S2 L166-174 reveal about the expected roles of a woman in marriage.
They are property to the men.

What did Gratiano’s and Nerissa’s wish to marry depend on?
Bassanio had to marry Portia.

How does Portia know that the letter contains bad news?
Bassanio went really pale when he read the letter.

What help does Portia offer straightaway?
She wants to give him lots of money to save his friend.

Why do we not expect this help to be successful?
Shylock really wants a pound of flesh from Antonio.

Do you think Portia would still be in love with Bassanio if she knew he had lied about his wealth?
Yes, she liked him all ready.

Merchant Of Venice Act 2 - Scene 1 Reflection

Now we have started Act II, here are the questions for scene one. This was a short scene.

We have watched racial and religious tensions at work in A1S3. The Prince of Morocco opens A2S1 with another sensitive issue. What is it?He does not want portia to be racist and dislike him because of his skin color.

If Antonio loses his gamble, he must forfeit a pound of flesh. What must Portia’s suitors give up if they fail to win her?They may never marry another woman.

What is Portia’s opinion of the Prince of Morocco- give examples.

He is ok, She warns him about the punishment for choosing the wrong casket.

The Comprehension Box - Charcoal 6

We are doing the comprehension box, we read a story and answer questions. This time I read 'Isadora's Secret', a girl finds a strange room where time stands still.

Questions:

1. Which word from paragraph 1 is a synonym for maze?

(a) measly

(b) sorrow

(c) labyrinth

2. Isadora was told to borrow the book by:

(a) her English teacher

(b) the librarian

(c) her father

3. Paragraph 4 is mainly about Isadora's:

(a) confusion

(b) discovery

(c) panic

4. Which event occurred first? Isadora:

(a) read the book

(b) discovered the wooden door

(c) ran up the stairs

5. In Paragraph 1, Isadora's feelings about the library could be summarized as:

(a) 'too many books and too much time'

(b) 'not enough books and not enough time'

(c) 'too many books and not enough time'

6. The pronoun it in Paragraph 3 refers to the:

(a) library

(b) corridor

(c) door

7.The word nook in Paragraph 5 means:

(a) a secluded place

(b) a type of chair

(c) a secret

8. Who else already knew about the secret nook?

(a) Mr Barker and the librarian

(b) only Mr Barker

(c) only the librarian

9. While Isadora was sitting on the chair and reading, time:

(a) had moved faster

(b) had moved slower

(c) stood still

10. You can conclude the librarian knew Isadora had read the book because:

(a) she read the books title and knew about the secret nook

(b) Isadora had been missing for such a long time

(c) it was her favorite book also

11. Which statement contains a fact and an opinion

(a) A poem was written on parchment which was hanging on the wall

(b) Old-style language is difficult to read

(c) The chair was covered with green fabric and was very comfortable

12. The next time Isadora visits the library, she will most probably:

(a) tell everyone she encounters her secret

(b) borrow a book and leave immediately

(c) choose a book and head directly to the wooden door

Key:

My answers

Right answers

Reflection & Learning Goal

Last week I managed to read two peoples lines and write two blogs, this week I wish to do three.

Nightmare Adventure

Here is a scary story I wrote for english.

Life’s all happy and fun when you’re a young kid just recently into primary school unless you go
through a cursed adventure full of all the things you’re afraid of. This was the case for Ember who
was only in her second week since starting school. She dresses in warm clothes with pockets that
could house her favorite teddie. It started after a regular day of school, the rain was pouring and her
brother hadn’t arrived to walk her home. She had an umbrella, of course, since the weather report
said there would be rain. She was getting cold and thought she should start walking home, all but one
teacher had gone home and she didn’t want to bother him. When she left the gate the rain started
getting heavier, she put up her hand like she had seen brother do. As the rain hit her hand she
yanked it back, the rain was as hard as hail. Then she was knocked off her feet by a large scary dog
trailing a broken lead. This sent her straight to tears, she had seen this dog on past walk homes with
brother but never talked to it. She ran off leaving the dog confused, it didn’t usually scare people
away. She had dropped the umbrella when she ran away from the dog and it was still raining hard.
Cold and scared Ember ran for the nearest shelter from the rain, a small alley. Whoops bad choice,
as she rounded the corner she saw something that sent her adrenaline into overload. Just ahead of
her she could see two very violent looking men, one wielding a knife. She was afraid of knives and
sharp things after dropping one through her foot that time she got in the cutlery drawer. The men
were yelling at each other using all the swear words they knew. That’s when one of them thrust the
knife through the other’s chest. The dying man locked eyes with Ember, anger, fear and betrayal in
his eyes. This told the other man of her presence, she dashed behind a dumpster. She hoped
against hope she hadn’t been spotted, she didn't want to end up like the man. She was worried that
he would stick his face round the dumpster and stab her before she knew what was happening. That
didn’t happen but she was sure it would. The living man cautiously walked past knife still in hand. He
left the alley. Ember took this as a chance for her to run in the opposite direction, so she ran not
knowing where she was headed. She tripped and fell landing near another exit to the alley. A kind
looking old lady just so happened to be putting her trash out at the time and saw her fall. The lady
rushed to help, after what Ember had just been through she probably looked homeless. Carrying
Ember on her back she took her back to her house. Ember didn’t complain she was really tired and
fell asleep on the journey there. As her eyelids flicked open she was confused for a time not knowing
where she was. She soon remembered that an old lady had taken her home after seeing her fall over
in the alley. As Ember surveyed her surroundings, she could see shelves and shelves full of dolls.
There was a dim flickering lightbulb above where she was lying and a brighter light coming from
behind a curtain covered doorway. The curtain was drawn and the old lady came through, medical kit
in hand, “now let's take a look at that knee” she said in a soft, cooing voice. With all the adrenaline
from fear and exhaustion, she hadn’t even noticed her knee was raw and bleeding. The old lady
washed her bleeding knee and tied a bandage around it. Ember was grateful but the lights stopped
and Ember could no longer see the old lady. The lights came back only a few seconds later and all
the dolls were gone, the old lady too. The hands wrapped around her neck and Ember was thrust
into the air. The dolls were on the ceiling the old lady too, the old lady was missing her head though.
The dolls were covered in blood and some had knives, they were probably going to kill her. As a doll
thrust a knife towards her neck she woke up, it was just a bad dream. Ember was in a hospital bed,
her mother told her she had caught hypothermia and had been asleep for three days. Then she told
her mom of her NIGHTMARE ADVENTURE.

What am I learning?Creative writing, horror.
How does this work show my learning?I made a horror story, that's creative.
What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

If this story could be scarier.

Absurd Warnings

Here are some absurd warnings, its for English.

Warning - this text may cause paranoia if you start to worry close this immediately. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Cell Phones - Warning. Constant use of this product may cause hypnotism including constant talking, idiocy, and brain damage.

Bananas - Warning. This product is very toxic and will KILL you or give you constipation, diarrhea and a poopy mood.

Dogs - Warning. Getting one of these is a big mistake unless you like the smell of dead rabbit, meat and poop all over your face when it shows affection towards you don't get one.

Boredom - Warning. This causes instant and strong effects and will result in nothing to do.

Hats - Warning. This product may make your hair stand on end, creates a new form of bed hair and hides your beautiful beautiful hair. There are ways to avoid it if you are smart enough to understand, if not because you are stupid just don't.

Questions:
What am I learning?
Creative writing still.
How does this work show my learning?
I had to be creative to put down commonly used items.
What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

Why does this worry some people.

My City Is A Person Poem

He's constantly in pain, under piles of rubble

You can get to him and leave but he can't move

Only the construction crews can get him out
The rubbles moving they're getting closer
A place of shakes, broken buildings, My City Is Christchurch
City of Quakes
The End

The Questions:

What am I learning?

Creative writing.
How does this work show my learning?

You'ld have to be creative to describe a place as a person.
What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

How professionals write so many of these poem things.

Six Sentence Story

Once a time there was a really fat dragon named Bob. He lived in one of the houses in the city with his human grandma. Bob was really good at making bonfires since he could sneeze them. One day he sneezed inside his grandmas house and it burned to the ground. He feel really bad and soon became depressed this was very hard on him. Then he remembered they had Tower Insurance so everything was going to be fine. THE END

This short story was written by me and now it's time for the questions:
What am I learning?
Creative writing.
How does this work show my learning?
Um well the name and resolution were hard to come up with.
What am I wondering as a result of this learning?
How is this so fun?

An Alphabet Story

Alright banana consuming dogs eat fruit, gobbling heaps in..... just kidding. Like Macdonald's never open potties, question? Really stupid tall underwear vans without xylophones yell ZEBRA!

Don't question it just read, it wasn't very hard but it was kind of stupid..... The questions, this is an English blog after all:
What am I learning?
Creative writing.
How does this work show my learning?
I had to be creative to come up with all the words.
What am I wondering as a result of this learning?
Why is this a thing?

Videogame Gone Rouge - The Eevees Breakout

After an hour or so of playing non stop pokemon it was time to put down the switch and... you have no idea what's going on do you. Well I just bought myself a Nintendo Switch and was playing the new game Pokemon Let's Go Eevee. I was feeling kind of peckish and went to raid the pantry for something to eat. When I got back there were tons of Eevee in my room, how this came to be is a long story....

So I was playing let's go eevee and I was walking around for a bit and I came across a patch of grass filled with Eevee I think it was a glitch. Now I really like Eevee so I caught 'em all, now the Eevee's weren't happy about this and I got swarmed. I was kind of paranoid that if I came across an Eevee I wouldn't have enough pokeballs to catch it so I had a TON, over 100. I had enough pokeballs to most of them but there were two I hadn't caught, and they were really mad! I ran away from them. They chased me down I managed to get to the pokemon center and bought some more pokeballs. I just managed to catch them before they used swift on me. Crisis averted I stopped playing to go get some food, panic really makes you hungry. Now back to the many many Eevee's in my room.....

The two Eevee were fuming by now and they spoke in english to tell me off, like a angry parent. "HOW DARE YOU!!!!! How dare you take advantage of our family reunion!! You trainers are a great big pain in the *bleep* (The Eevee swore), we all haven't seen each other in ages and you jus--" I cut him off by pressing my face into his super soft, fluffy mane. I looked up and saw the eevee was bright red, I guess it feels weird to have someone touch your fur when you're a wild Eevee. The Eevee was also very much annoyed by this, He used swift and then every other Eevee also used swift. It really hurt but they returned to the screen, no longer caught by me and they all left.

The End.

This story won't ever happen to you, also I haven't played pokemon let's go yet so don't judge if some of the story is different to how the game works. Tell me what you thought of my story.

Figurative Language

In English we did a week long course or activity booklet, there's not a lot more to say.

What am I learning?
Figurative Language.
How does this work show my learning?
I did every task.
What am I wondering as a result of this learning?
Why is it so hard to think of examples?

A 30sec Self Directed Film

In english we have been making our own 30 second films, in five groups we chose topics and started planning. I don't know much about the planning because I was doing something else but I can tell you about other things. I being the main actor had the most important part, if I wasn't there the film would have been a disaster. I had to steal a book and get caught! I know so cool, be amazed. We filmed six different scenes the last one was me being caught, I wanted to hit the librarian with a book though. The editing took a while but we ended up with a great film, it had great music too. Actually never mind the editors failed ha ha ha hee.

hopefully you like it because I did but don't anymore.

Oh questions:

• What am I learning?

About making films.

• How does this work show my learning?

it has the finished product.

• What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

how long it takes to make an hour and a half film, this took three weeks.

Setting in Coraline

We're STILL doing film study in English because topics take a while, which is why we only have five this year. This time I had to make a Digital Poster showing the settings in Coraline.

And the famous Questions:

What am I learning?

About the importance of setting in a film.

How does this work show my learning?

Because I would need a reasonably good understanding of setting if I were to make anything decent.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

Would it ruin the movie if the real world was somewhere warm and tropical.

Coraline kahoot

In English....

We are still doing film study, but I made a Kahoot for one of the tasks and I have no idea how to make it public....

here is the link, go play it.....

and now the QUESTIONS mwahahahaha


What am I learning?

Stuff about film study.

How does this work show my learning?

Because I would have to know the shots and the names of the shots to do this.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

Why is film study so hard? My brain is frying.

Coraline - What I remember

In English we are doing film study, the film we are doing is called Coraline.

It starts off with Coraline moving to a new house called 'The Pink Palace'. After she arrives she goes into the garden and grabs a stick off a bush to use as a dowsing rod. she follows the dowsing rod trying to find a well, when she reaches the well we first meet a character named Wyborn. Wyborn scares Coraline when he enters because he rode down from up above her wearing a strange mask. Wyborn points out the well Coraline was looking for and points out that the dowsing rod Coraline was using was made out of poison oak. Then it starts to rain, and that was the first five minutes of the movie. (that's not all I remember but oh well)

Film Study....

I made a crossword. Please do it......

link to the cross word

and the usual english questions that people don't usually answer:

What am I learning?
Different film terms.

How does this work show my learning?
Because it show I know the definition of the terms.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?
Why are there so many terms???????

Write That Essay - The -ED start & the W- start

The -ED start is when you start a sentence with a word ending with the suffix -ed.

Example -ED words:

• Confused
• Surprised
• Startled
• Confronted
• Triped
• Thrilled
• excited

Example sentences:

• Confused by this sudden turn of events, the boy fell off his bike, sending him skidding across the pavement.
• Surprised by a barking dog, the cat missed the fence it was going to jump on.

The W- start is when you start a sentence with a word beginning with w-.

Example W- words:

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Whereas
• Whilst
• While

Example sentences:

• Why the boy fell off his bike, nobody knows.
• When the door opened, I was surprised to find a bundle of flowers.

Now for a paragraph with the W- start, the -ly start, the -ed start and a preposition start.

Whilst people were doing their work, Rykin talked like there was no tomorrow. Annoyed by his constant talking, people stuffed their ears full of cheese. Unfortunately he didn't shut up, so people threw cheese at him till he ran away. After he was gone, people could get their work done.

Write That Essay - Adverbs & Preposition - & PEEL

Adverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. Adverbs usually end with the suffix ly

Adverbs for starting sentences:

• Quickly
• Significantly
• Cautiously
• Firstly
• Importantly
• Remarkably
• Similarly
• Surprisingly
• Readily
• Curiously
• Concerningly
• Interestingly
• Confusingly
• Consequently
• Shockingly

Example adverb starting sentences:

• Cautiously, the dog sniffed the foreign object.
• Remarkably, the skydiver survived the fall without a parachute.

Preposition are little words indicating movement or position.

Preposition words:

• On
• Off
• In Front
• Behind
• Between
• In
• Against
• Throughout
• Near
• About

Example Preposition beginning sentences:

• Throughout the ages, humans have never been able to prove the existence of supernatural beings.
• Behind the shelf, a book lay gathering dust.

PEEL:

P - Point - State the point you want to make

E - Evidence - Support your point with 2-3 sentences

E - Explain - Link my evidence to my point - 2 sentences

L - Link - Link back to your argument/Link to the next paragraph.

Example of a peel paragraph about Martha from the novel abomination:

Throughout the novel 'Abomination' Martha is bullied. An example of this is the incident with the girls throwing water into the stall soaking Martha. When she came out of the stall they punched her in the stomach and called her a slut. This made Martha feel angry and upset. Unsurprisingly this is a example of physical bullying by students toward Martha. There was a imbalance of power between Martha and her bullies because there was one of her and three of them. Another way Martha experiences suffering is at the hands of her parents and the Church of the Righteous.

Abomination Novel Study Workbook

We have been doing the 'Abomination' novel study workbook in English for a while now. We have been reading the book then doing the activities on this workbook.