weekend work week 3-4!

The following statement shows that if Juliet communitcated with her family more then they would have a stronger bond then what they do. She wouldn't have had to take as much drastic action as she did, if she just had a nice talk to her mother and father about it. She wouldn't have been forced to do this if she talked it out with her mother and father. Juliet acts without thinking first. She should take more care before acting.

The Sun, The Stars, The Moon!

His imagery makes the paly a whole lot easier to understand, he explains and expands on things that are easier to relate to when someone makes a use of imagery. Reading the play Shakespeare has related a lot to imagery of the sky and the world in different aspects. The imagery makes the audience have a greater understanding of the play because it makes them have a different aspect of the play rather than just words. Shakespeare has not just created a play full of words but yet he has created a play full of knowledge, imagery, actions and interest. The imagery that Shakespeare has created through out the play keeps the audience/readers interested and to keep on reading. The things we don't know about or never find out during the play are what keep people interested and to keep reading on, but the great thing is that you never find out. Imagery is one of the many great things Shakespeare has in him when he writes.

Homework for long weekend!

This statement means that he is influenced by his emotions, which means that the way he feels about Juliet he acts straight away by going up to her at the party and talking to her. He immediatly fell in love with her at first sight, so he goes and does something about that by talking to her and kissing her on the first night they meet. This shows that his emotions take over his body and make him to things straight away without thinking. His emotions towards things are stronger than any other character and they are the things that make Romeo take action and do something that he feels strongly about.

Respect Your Elders!

The respect for the elders from the Capulet side are extremely high. Every Capulet respects their elders and their lives. They respected their elders just like we respect our grandparents and elders of our society. All Capulet's respect Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet. A lack of respect is shown to Lord Capulet when romeo and the Montague's go to the Capulet's house hold party and lord Capulet tells them to leave and Tybalt wants to immediatly start a fight but Lord Capulet said to them to leave and they left but Tybalt wanted a fight. Tybalt disrepected Lord Capulet when he said no i want to start a fight ect.

Juliet Character Profile!

How would you describe this character's personality?

- bubbly, mature, classy, well spoken, falls in love at first sight

How is this character viewed by other people in the play?

- loved by romeo, cared by her family and the nurse, hated by the montague's because she is a Capulet

What relationship does this person have to others in the play?

- Romeo's lover, lady Capulet and Lord Capulet's Daughter, has the worst relationship with the Montague's besides Romeo

What does this character's main role seem to be?

- Romeo's Lover, be in secret love with Romeo, sneak around for love

Are there any specific themes that you can identify that are linked to this character?

- the balcony scene where she doesn't know Romeo is there and she has just confessed her love for him and thought that no one was listening and all along he was standing right there

Character Profile, Benvolio!

How would you describe this character's personality?

- outgoing, out there, loving towards his family, out spoken, caring, butch

How is this character viewed by other people in the play?

- as a good family member, nice, hated by the Capulet's, a fighter (always wants to pick a fight)

What relationship does this person have to others in the play?

- a strong bond towards everyone (either hated or liked)

What does this character's main role seem to be?

- to stick up for romeo, fight for his rights

Are there any specific themes that you can identify that are linked to this character?

- he can be a soft/wise person every now and again

Character Profile, Romeo!

How would you describe this character's personality?

- sweet, charming, caring, loving, sympathetic, see's what others don't see in their eyes, cares for the person not the looks, falls in and out of love easily.

How is this character viewed by other people in the play?

- as caring, sweet, the kind of person who doesn't want to make peace, the loving type, cares for others

What relationship does this person have to others in the play?

- he has a very strong bond between each character (good and bad), he has his friends backs, always there when someone needed it, he was an all rounder (he had a relationship with all the characters, even if it was good or bad)

What does this character's main role seem to be?

- to fall in love with juliet, if juliet dies he has to die too, enemies with Capulet's

Are there any specific themes that you can identify that are linked to this character?

- he is so in love with juliet at first sight, once he sees her, he cannot live/be without her.

Diary Entry from teenage girl!

Dear Diary,

I am just a teenage girl and I am forbidden to see my boyfriend and suppose to cut all contact with him. This is fair, my parents just can't hide me away from the world, they have been in and out of love. They just don't want me to experience the world of love, they i'm 'too young' i am thirteen. I feel this is right and this is true love because we both love each other the exact same way. Even my friends have turned on me, i thought they were there through everything and were going to help me with anything i needed, but obviously not! they want me to dump my boyfriend, they agree with my parents...no friends agree with your parents. I am so angry, i wish i could just runaway with him and never look back, if i cut all contact with him i wont be able to sleep. He is the reason i smile&laugh, the reason i wake up wake up in the morning with a happy face. My life has turned around to a beautiful meaning because of him, he is the one but unfortunately no one can see that, only me and him can. Just because my friends are not in love like i am, they don't have to make me dump him and cut ALL contact (like thats just silly). I wish i wasn't a teenager, i want to be older and grown up, so i can see him and be with who i want and my parents nor my friends can stop me!!!

well thats all, will write in later...

Discussion Questions!

1. The subject matter of the song is taylor swift has fallen in love with someone at first sight. she refers to the real romeo and juliet a lot through out the song.

'Cause you were Romeo,
I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go

These lyrics represent that she is saying who she is in love with is like romeo and she was scarlet letter, which means that they are suppose to be enemies, her dad says stay away from juliet but he was her everything. This shows that they are in love and would do anything for one another.

2. It is a love story because it shows examples of how it relates to the real romeo and juliet. example:

So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes, escape this town for a little while

This verse relates to the real romeo and juliet because it says "so i sneak out to the garden to see you" this clearly means that they are enemies but they don't care cause they would do anything for love. The real romeo and juliet want to be together so much they fake her death and this verse relates to that because she is sneaking around and lying.

3. The two characters are just teens who fell in love, first love is always the strongest. the relationship between is a very strong bond. Romeo must have fell in love with her at first sight, for them to sneak around and plan a wedding.

4. The lyrics below show that they were both young when they first saw each other and she has flashbacks to that very moment she first saw him. She remembers every detail and small thing about that moment.
"We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air"

5. The themes through out this song is set in old day theme, with the ball gowns, lights and gardens. I think that this theme is the most romantic. The issues are that they can't see each other, so they have to sneak around to see the love of their life.

6. The song ends with taylor swift and her 'romeo' together at college and the film clip its just a flash back to the first day she saw him and fell in love. They see each other at college and they are about to kiss and then it ends. The real romeo and juliet ends with both of them dying because romeo thought that juliet had died but it was just fake and romeo was standing their and shot himself for real. Her death was fake so that they could be together but his was real because he couldnt live without her so he killed himself. Taylor swift ends her song like this because she says we were both young when i first saw you, this obviously means that they were a young love and that it was not as real as romeo and juliet because they were just young. She is writing it this way because she is saying it was just a 'fling' (young love) and there was nothing meant to it untill now (when they met at college).

Shake Spears Life.

Shake Spears Life

Where and Was he born?

William Shakespeare was said to have been born in the Shakespeare family home in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His date of birth cannot be substantiated as that time in England births were not formally recorded and they did not have Birth Certificates. His birth date can be guessed due to the fact there was high mortality rate of infants. The birthday of William Shakespeare has been set as April 23rd 1564.

His Family?

William Shakespeare was the third child of John and Mary - the two previous children, Joan and Margaret, died from the Bubonic Plague (also known as the Black Death). The father of John Shakespeare (Williams Dad’s Dad) was a retailer of farm produce, such as animal hides, and the family were therefore in constant danger of contracting the Bubonic Plague via the farm products. Its not surprising that the nature of the disease resulted in frequent outbreaks of the terrible disease and that the two sisters of Shakespeare died in their infancy, one was eight years old and one of his brothers was 27 years old (all victims of the plague).

When he died and where he died?

Was not surprising that William Shakespeare suffered from a terrible fear of the Plague throughout his life. He was surely enough to get the plague because most of his family died from it. His own son (Hamnet) died at a young age, he was just eleven years old and died from the plague as well. William died on 23 April 1616, this was said to be his fifty-second birthday. William was buried in Stratford at the same church, at the same place he was baptised.

His Wife?

Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. They were married in 1582 and Hathaway was widowed on Shakespeare's death in 1616. Not much is known about her, beyond a few references in legal documents. Anne Hathaway has been led to believe that she had grown up in Shottery, a small village just west of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. She is assumed to have grown up in the farmhouse that was the Hathaway family home. Her father, Richard Hathaway, was a yeoman farmer. He died in September 1581. Hathaway married Shakespeare in November 1582 while she was pregnant with their first child, to whom she gave birth six months later. Hathaway was 26 years of age; Shakespeare was only eighteen. This age difference, together with Hathaway's antenuptial pregnancy, has been employed by some historians as evidence that it was a "shotgun wedding", forced on a reluctant Shakespeare by the Hathaway family.

Reading reflection.

The book that i have chosen to start reading is A million Little Pieces by James Fray. May not have heard of it but James (the auther) says this book was about himself until he went on tv and they exploited him and found out he didnt write the book about himself he wrote about how someone else lived. I have started reading and i am up to page 19, it is a really long and challenging book but i am willing to give it a try because it is interesting and have always wanted to read it. Even though i have only read a little bit i can already tell that it's a heart breaking memoir and it is very inspirational.

"A Million Little Pieces" is about James Frey at just the age of 23 he had destroyed his mind and body almost beyond repair. when he enters the rehabilitation centre to try and restore his life to normal conditions he has to right to determine what his future is going to be. It doesn't help with his lack of self-pity. I am really enjoying this book so far and hope to finish it soon.

Femininity in the Past. Image 3.

Femininity is represented in ways that are despicable, this magazine advertisement says that girls/ladies young or old should try this weight lose supplement because it is filling, quick, easy, and just enough to get you through the day. When you really think about all the negatives by drinking this solution are long term effects (e.g. lack of iron therefore blood shot eyes and black circles under the eyes, liver can shut down if your on this for too long etc.), short term effects (e.g. loss of energy, sleep, brain function, concentration, hydration from fruit and vegetables etc.). What the images are trying to portray are it is easy and quick to make so if your on the run you can just make it and run, it gives a variety (e.g. some people prefer it cold but some don't) which draws peoples attention to it because they know that are people are substituting this for meals so they want to loose weight and give it a try. The attitude that this ad is trying to put across is comn' give it a go and you will loose weight it a click of a finger...but in the long run like i said above their are long term and short term effects. Women these days believe that these types of things work, they might but then there is always side effects. If one society(person or crowd of people) believe that they think this will work then others will try it and they will think its good until they use it for too long.

Empathy Excersise. Number 3. Miranda.

Dear Diary,
It's Miranda here, I have just sent a fax to the New York Post about Andy because she is applying for a job as a writter and i said that if he didn't hire her then he is an idiot. What I meant by this was she is a really good, hard worker who tries to please everyone and anyone. Through out my experience of hiring Andy it has been a pleasent and exciting journey, i say this because she is different to all the other assistants that i have before. I can tell that emily likes her because she stepped up to her standerd basically on the first few days.

Thats All,

Miranda.

How are Women Represented in the Magazine "Cosmopolitan" section "23 Ways to Fake Your Weight.

In Cosmopolitan the article "23 ways to fake your weight" they are saying if you have a special occasion coming up then you have time for a three day panic diet. This sentence shows that women should always look slim and skinny (e.g. size 6 Australian). They say in BIG, BOLD letters that do you want to shave off the kilos pronto? it just takes some clever styling. This clearly draws everbody's attention to the page because every girl wants to be skinny and look like those blonde bimbos on the runway, but obviously that isnt possible without doing all the damage to your body (e.g. not eating for weeks, or barely eating nothing and Excercising like a maniac). It doesn't just take some clever styling it takes more than that...like body punishing things like i said in brackets not eating and excercising. It takes a little more than just some clever styling scheme, it is more like hey try the anoxia or belimic diet it works, Cosmopolitan might as well right how to become anerexic and belimic on the front page and when girls see that they won't want to do this 23 ways to fake your weight because they will know the damage that it is doing to there bodies. Where as if they just do what they did and right 23 ways to fake your weight it just sounds like 23 weighs to drop some weight but it is completley different to that and damages all young and old bodies of women. People always want to look just that little bit skinnier in their dresses even if they don't admit it and step 6 shows what to wear to hide whats underneath, But if people choose to try and look skinny by covering up its a waste of time because people love you for who you are and not who your trying to be.

How are Women Represented in "Gold Digger"?

In the film clip Gold Digger by Kanye West there is parts that are disrepectful towards women for example white women were disrepected in " but when you get on he leases your ass for a white girl" (verse 3). The lyrics represent and expect them without knowing them to be liars , cheaters and prostitutes just because of a few women in the film clip are dressed the way they dressed (with barely any clothing). kanye does not really fit in with the whole scenery because he is wearing a suit for most of it and jeans and a t-shirt and the women are wearing barely nothing.

chapter 1 questions and answers

• What do you learn in this chapter about Maycomb, Atticus Finch and his family?

In this chapter we learnt that Maycomb is a small town filled with

• What do you learn about Dill's character? What we learn about Dills character is that he is very out going, has an imaginative mind, and doesn’t shut up sometimes.
• What, briefly, has happened to Arthur “Boo” Radley?
• Why does the Radley place fascinate Scout, Jem and Dill? It fascinates them because they have never seen Arther “boo” Radley come out of his house before. They think that he had died in house because he never comes out. Everyday after school Sc-out, jem and Dill run past the Radley place because they are scared that he will come out and run after them.
• What do you notice about the narrative voice and viewpoint in the novel?

Show Don't Tell-heros

he was twice as strong and twice has handsome as most superheros, people all new he was handsome and strong because when he use to help the people in need people would admire him because he was tall, muscular and handsome. he once had to save people from a house fire and that showed that he was brave and helped people in need.

Paragraph Description about My Hometown...

My Hometown is full of children and teenagers walking around chatting and having fun and chilling. There are lots of trees, grass and the broad water. There is so many things in my hometown, there is shops close by, parks for children to play in, you can swim at the beach, i live on sovereign island but i am describing paradise point and there is Runaway Bay shopping centre close by as well as harbor town and Helensvale skate park is close by too. It smells like fresh sea salt air but sometimes it smells like smoke and garbage, you can taste the salt in the air, and you can hear the little birds chirping early in the morning and you hear the kids running around and screaming.

By: Tiarnna Cowell

To Kill a Mocking Bird Websearch. Part A - Growing up in the 1930's.

Dear Bella in 2010,

Its Judy Lang here and I am currently 13 years of age and I am here to tell you about my experiences growing in the 1930’s. My father was of the old school, he looked down on those who cheated and stole, especially cheated or stole from the poor, and I remember him talking about one family who did just that and became very well-known later. Every afternoon we were dressed up and taken into town or we could ride to the end of the trolley line and back. Some of my good friends for most of my childhood were black boys, most of the black families lived a couple of streets behind us and my two best friends use to come over to my house from there to play games and sport with me, there names were Jesse and Joe, they were part black, part Indian and a part of them was white. We played everyday after school, one day I met there mum and we all thought she was mean as a snake and never found out who their father was. As a girl being best friends with two black children was really interesting because I got to learn a bit about their culture and how they lived rather than just being best friends with two white people.

Hope to see you soon,

Kind regards,

Judy Lang.

Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2- 10-2-10

1. How does this poem make you feel? What emotions do you feel when you read it?

The types of emotions that i feel when i read this are very sad and there are jsut a lot of emotions that i feel and i cant put them into words. This poem is sad because of how much depth U2 have put into it and i think that anyone who reads this will take notice and realise what it is actually about instead of thinking it is just another song about War.

2. What is the poem about?

This poem is about how the people in the War and how they had to try and push on with this battle and fight for there country. This song was writen on the 11th of March 1983, and it was one of U2's most overtly political songs they had ever writen. The lyrics describe the horror felt by the observer of the Troubles in Northan Island, mainly focusing on the Bloody Sunday incident in Derry.

3. List some of the descriptive words the poet uses and explain why they are effective.

Some of the descriptive words that the poet uses are:

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mother's children, brothers, sisters torn apart
I chose this verse because i thought it was very discriptive and thought it meant a lot and it put the song into play and made the song very meaningful. I also thought that this verse is very sad because it is stating that families are being torn apart and that many soldiers are dead/lost because of the War. Nobody realises it but the War tares apart families so badly that sometimes you can't fix it.

4. Why do you think the poet wrote this poem? What was he/she trying to achieve?

I think that the poet wrote this poem because they wanted to get the message across that War is a very bad thing and like i said above in question three, it tares families apart because they have lost people that are so close to them. They are trying to get the message across by saying War was a very terrible thing.

In this verse below for an example:

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
I'll wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away

because i thought it was good to acknowledge that they are saying the soldiers wiped there tears away and got on with the battle because they knew that they couldnt give up now and that they had to finish this battle.

5. Write down your favourite line/lines from the poem. Explain why you picked them.
My favourtie verse:

The real battle is begun
To claim the victory Jesus won

This is my favourtie verse because it is short but it gets the message across. I like this because it says the battle is begun to claim the victorry jesus won, i chose it because i thought it had a lot of meaning and the REAL battle is begun which means it has begun to claim the victory that Jesus won.

6. Does this poem rhyme?

Yes, this poem does rhyme.

7. If the poem rhymes how do you think this adds to the overall effect of the poem?

i think that if the poem/song rhymes it is good because then people will listen to this song and they will get it stuck in their heads because everyone knows how easy it is to get a song that rhymes stuck in their head.

8. Had you ever seen/heard this poem before? If yes, when/where?

No, i have never seen or heard this poem/song before.

9. Did you like this poem? Explain why.

Yes, because it gets the message accross to people and it is a very good poem.

10.

Where is the Love-Black Eyed Peas. 8/02/10

1. How does this poem make you feel? What emotions do you feel when you read it?

This poem makes me feel very sad because the Black Eyed Peas are singing about how bad the world is today with the terrorism and the gangs that kill innocent people. When I read this I think that its very good that the Black Eyed peas are trying to get the message across and it is working because everybody knows who the Black Eyed Peas are and there music is very popular, so by singing this song people will listen to it and realise how bad racism and terism etc. actually really are.

2. What is the poem about?

They are singing about racism and how some people only love their own race and then they only leave room to discriminate and discrimination only leads to hate and when you hate your only going to get irate. This all means that the world today with racism is very bad and we need to do something to make it stop, if you are white and hate black people, you shouldn’t because when you think about it we are all one race (The Human Race).

3. List some of the descriptive words the poet uses and explain why they are effective.

This bit of the chorus is very strong because they are trying to yell out to god and say

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

They are trying to ask god where is the love for the world and why are so many people being racist and trying to terrise one another's country just because they don't like it. It shouldn't matter if one is black, one is white, one is Mexican or if one is Asian, we should all love each other for who we are because we only have one human race and you can't create another one, and if you were to create another one everybody would still be different is some way.

4. Why do you think the poet wrote this poem? What was he/she trying to achieve?

I think that the poet wrote this because they just want the world to be peaceful without any racism or terrorism, for example this was written in 2003 after the nine eleven, they wrote this poem/song because they just want the terrorism to STOP once and for all. By writing this poem/song they got the message across and it became there first top 10 single.

5. Write down your favourite line/lines from the poem. Explain why you picked them.

My favourite lines from the poem are:

But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah

This is because racism is a terrible thing and this poem gets the message straight across and if you discriminate it just turns to HATE, hate is a very strong word and hate and dislike are very different words.

6. Does this poem rhyme?

Yes, this poem does rhyme for example:

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

This shows that at the end of each line it rhymes.

7. If the poem rhymes how do you think this adds to the overall effect of the poem?

If it rhymes then that is good because then the lyrics will get stuck in peoples heads and they will sing it where ever they go because it is a catchy song.

8. Had you ever seen/heard this poem before? If yes, when/where?

Yes I have heard this poem/song before because it is on the radio sometimes and it is a good song.

9. Did you like this poem? Explain why.

Yes, I like this poem/song because it is a good song and I also like it because the Black Eyed Peas are trying to get the message across because they want world peace that is why I like them and this poem/song.

10. Does the poem create an image in you head? If yes, describe what you see in your mind. You may draw a picture to show what you see if you prefer.

This poem does create a picture in my head because when they sing the bit about terrorism I think of nine eleven because that was a very traumatic time for all Americans and when they sing about racism I have an image in my head about a white person saying I don’t want to be your friend because you are black. This song is very sad and has a lot of emotional sides to it.

By: Tiarnna Cowell

Research on the American Civil War. Friday 5th of Feb

Image: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=Civil+War&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10

Website: http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/civilwar/context.html

• It was the most catastrophic War in American history
• In one battle nearly 50,00 people died
• Nearly every American lost someone in the war, a friend, brother, father etc.
• Abraham Lincon had four brothers-in-law who fought for the South
• This War brang South America and North America closer together
• After the War the United States of America was truly united as one
• Civil War was a significant event in World History because the Norths Victory had proven that democracy worked
• Abraham Lincon regonized the historical significance of the War even before it was over

Reflection:

The people that were in and alive when the American Civil War was happening would have been very sad and devistated for the amount of people that had died and who got wounded.

My Poem about War!

Although War is silent at night

Soldiers still fear the enemies in sight

The screams of unseen soldiers that

Are heard at night but can’t see insight.

Tiarnna Cowell

Writting Task. February 2nd 2010

My name is Tom Lawrence and I am a soldier.

During this time in War it has been very hard for me because I have some very good friends of mine that died and it is very devastating. Each night is getting harder and harder because I see so many people get shot everyday and I just hope it does not happen to me...

I get forced to do a huge amount of work everyday and it is really tough and I am getting weaker because it’s taking its toll. This is like entering a nightmare that you can never wake up from! War is like a struggling nightmare that I just can’t get out of. I see so many people from my country get shot dead, bombed, blown up etc. I am so thankful for the friends that I have made but so devastated that most of them are gone.