You are older now and your room is not as wonderful as it once was.  It is time to try convince your parents to let you re-design your room.

When you go to ask them they reply:

NO!

and give you the following objections:

1. It’s too expensive.
2. You never even clean your room; why re-design?
3. You already spend too much time there.  We only see you at meals as it is now.
4. You never spend any time in your room; why should we bother?
5. Your brother (sister) is going to feel left out.  We can’t start redecorating everyone’s room.
6. Your taste in interior decoration is questionable.  We can’t paint ceilings and walls in school colours or indulge in other such fads.
7. I’ll end up doing all the work.  I don’t have the time or the energy.
8. It’ll cost too much.
9. I said “No!”

Task: Write a persuasion that will convince your parents to change their mind.

The the audience for your persuasion are your parents - an audience opposed to what you have to say. You must use direct speech and powerful words, though respectful and appropriate, to convince them of your side of the issue. This is done by providing arguments against the 9 objections from your parents. You may find it difficult to convince them on all nine objections, just do your best (8 out of 9 objections could still convince your parents to say yes).

Title: I want to re-design my room

Position: (outlines the issue and your point of view)

Arguments: ….. because ……

Conclusion: (restating position and main arguements)

When you have finished create a plan of how your new room will look.

Power Words

Power words are words used to help make a statement stronger. Click below to see a few examples to do with selling.

This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process. Italy are the defending champions.

Green Point Stadium Cape Town, at the foot of  Table Mountain

Everyone in class, including me, will have one of 32 team pin that is randomly pulled from a container, you can swap if you find someone willing. You are then to complete the following tasks.

Task 1

South Africa is the host country and all the teams are staying at a particular host city. Find out the following information about the host city:

1. Name of host city
2. Province of host city
3. Population of host city
4. Climate of host city
5. 3 places a tourist may enjoy visiting in the host city
6. What other teams in the 2010 FIFA World Cup are staying in this host city

Task 2

The countries competing in the 2010 Fifa World Cup are from all over the world. Write an exposition encouraging tourists to come visit your country. Your exposition will need to include at least 7 arguments with supporting evidence.  ( See WritingFun for exposition help)

Time will be given in class to do some of your research and to draft, edit and publish your exposition.

Matthew: Algeria 
Lucy: England 
Phoebe: Korea DPR 
Zoe: Serbia 
Nic: Argentina 
Taylah: France 
Michelle: Korea Republic 
Sean: Slovakia 
Jasmine: Australia 
Lauren: Germany 
James: Mexico 
Adrian: Slovenia 
Mars: Brazil 
OliviaM: Ghana 
Jack: Netherlands 
Tara: South Africa 
MrRees: Cameroon 
Kelly: Greece 
Sophie: New Zealand 
Lily: Spain 
Janani: Chile 
Ewan: Honduras 
Chloe: Nigeria 
Haydyn: Switzerland 
Nathan: Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 
Emily: Italy 
Emma: Paraguay 
Jazmin: Uruguay 
Tom: Denmark 
OliviaD: Japan 
Rebecca: Portugal 
Ryan: USA 

This task will be marked for the talking and listening part of your Half Yearly Report as well the Multicultural Speech Competition.

Speeches Begin: Monday 17th May ( no particular order)

Multicultural Speech Rubric

Time- Limit

• 4 Points: Presentation is 3 minutes long.
• 3 Points: Presentation is under 3 minutes long.
• 2 Points: Presentation is 2 or 4 minutes long.
• 1 Point: Presentation is less than 2 minutes OR more than 4 minutes.

Volume and Speaks Clearly

• 4 Points: Volumes is loud enough to be heard by all audience members throughout the presentation. Speaks clearly and distinctly all (100-95%) of the time, and mispronounces no words.
• 3 Points: Volume is loud enough to be heard by all audience members at least 90% of the time. Speaks clearly and distinctly most (100-95%) of the time, but mispronounces one word.
• 2 Points: Volume is loud enough to be heard by all audience members at least 80% of the time. Speaks clearly and distinctly most (94-85%) of the time. Mispronounces no more than one word.
• 1 Point: Volume often too soft to be heard by all audience members. Often mumbles or can not be understood OR mispronounces more than one word.

Posture and Eye Contact

• 4 Points: Stands up straight, looks relaxed and confident. Establishes eye contact with everyone in the room during the presentation.
• 3 Points: Stands up straight and establishes eye contact with everyone in the room during the presentation.
• 2 Points: Sometimes stands up straight and establishes eye contact.
• 1 Point: Slouches and/or does not look at people during the presentation.

Stays on Topic

• 4 Points: Stays on topic all (100%) of the time.
• 3 Points: Stays on topic most (99-90%) of the time.
• 2 Points: Stays on topic some (89-75%) of the time.
• 1 Point: It was hard to tell what the topic was.

Content

• 4 Points: Shows full understanding of the topic.
• 3 Points: Shows a good understanding of the topic.
• 2 Points: Shows a good understanding of parts of the topic.
• 1 Point: Does not seem to understand the topic very well.

Good luck and remember-

For decades the professor worked on developing the perfect spell to enter other worlds and dimensions. One day in his basement he used the wood from a special ellowberry tree, the only one in the world, to construct three fancy wardrobes. He poured the juice of hodgeberries, frogs’ legs, mystical muir worms and tickle toad eyeballs onto the back of each wardrobe, hoping that at least one of the wardrobes would work. To his surprise all three wardrobes worked, though the last two both went to Narnia. The first one, the best of all, went to …...

Those students who would like to publish their Narnia/Wardrobe narrative on the class blog, can post it in the comments section of this post. It does not need to continue on from the blurb above as this is just an example of how the wardrobes came about. Your narrative is about where another wardrobe in the professors house may lead to.

Chorus
Singing too-ral-li-ooral-li-addity
Singing too-ral-li-ooral-li-ay
Singing too-ral-li-ooral-li-addity
For we’re bound for the Botany Bay

Verse 1
Farewell to old England the beautiful
Farewell to me old pals as well
Farewell to the famous Old Bailey
Where I used to cut such a swell

Verse 2
It’s seven long years I’ve been serving
And seven I’ve got for to stay
For beatin’ a cop down our alley
An’ takin’ his truncheon away

Verse 3
‘Tain’t leaving Old England we cares about
‘Tain’t ’cause we mis-spells what we knows
But because all we light-fingered gentry
Hops around with a log on our toes

Verse 4
There’s the captain what is our commander
There’s the bos’n an’ all the ship’s crew
The married and also the single ones
Knows what we poor convicts go through

Verse 5
It ain’t that they don’t give us grub enough
It ain’t that they don’t give us clothes
It’s all ’cause we light-fingered gentry
Goes about with a chain on our toes

Verse 6
O had the wings of the turtle-dove
I’d spread out my pinions and fly
Into the arms of me Polly love
And on her soft bosom I’d lie

Verse 7
Now all young viscounts and duchesses
Take warning by what I do say
And mind it’s all yours that you touches-es
Or you’ll end up in Botany Bay

What did Sir Isaac Newton do?
He first took the white light apart and then he put it back together again.

The most common example of a spectrum is the rainbow created in nature. The rainbow is caused by sunshine (white light) shining on water droplets that are in the air just after a summer shower. Thousands of these water droplets break up the light, just like Sir Isaac Newton’s prism. Can you make a rainbow? Of course! Make your own rainbow by turning on the garden hose, which has a nozzle that will make a fine mist, or spray. Make sure the sunlight is coming over your shoulder. You have made a rainbow.

If light is white and all we see is light why do things appear different colours?
Objects absorb some of the colours in the white light and then reflects the rest. The colours that are reflected provide the colour of a specific object. Think about these three basic colours (Red, Blue, Green), if an object absorbs green but reflects blue and red then the object will be purple. The mix of blue and red light gives us purple.

Did you know?
The computer screen you are looking at now can only produce three colours – Red, Blue and Green. So how do we see white on the screen? It follows Newton’s experiments on light and puts the three colours all together to create white.

EXPERIMENT TO TRY

Colour Wheel

1. Print out this template (you need a PDF reader like the one from Adobe).
2. Cut out the discs and then put a toothpick, or pencil, through the centre. You may need to fix the disc with a bit of sticky tape.
3. Spin the wheel and have a look at the colours that are created. Look at the outer ring of the first disc shown above and the colour should disappear.
4. Repeat with the other patterns and colours.

Note: You may need to stick the paper on to cardboard if your paper is too thin.

Can you colour your own wheel so that when it spins all the colours disappear? (Bring it to school for $500 reward money)

Fun Facts about Light

We do not know of anything in our universe that travels faster than light. The sunlight we see today left the sun 93 million miles away to reach us about 10 minutes later. Light from stars farther away may have taken billions of years to reach our eyes. How many times can light travel around the world while you are saying your name? ……………..more than four times.

Background:
Due to global warming, tourism, farming, mining and over fishing the Coral Reefs in Australia are being eroded and marine life is being threatened. You have been asked to prepare a report assessing the dangers to this fragile environment and suggest ways of preventing further damage in the future.

Task:
Which would you consider to be the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef  and how do you propose to correct it?

DUE: Monday Week 8 (15th March)

Points to Consider:
What do you know about the Great Barrier Reef?
What are the threats that are affecting the Reef?
What are people doing now to preserve the Reef?

Where to start?

Work through the next three points:

1 What do I know about the Great Barrier Reef?

• What is a Coral Reef?
• How are Coral Reefs built?
• Where is the Great Barrier Reef?
• Name two types of Coral
• What types of sea creatures live there?
• What are three ways people use the Great Barrier Reef?

These sites may help:

• Interactive Way to learn about Coral Reefs
• Coral World
• Most commonly asked questions Reef facts and figures
• Great Barrier Reef Explorer

2 What are the threats that affect the Reef and what is being done to stop these threats?

• Name of Threat
• Effect on Great Barrier Reef
• What is being done to stop the threat?

These sites may help:

• Great Barrier Reef Hot topics
• Reefs in Trouble
• Great Barrier Reef Issues
• Reefs and why they are in Peril

3 What are people doing now to preserve the Reef?

These sites may help you identify what’s being done to stop the threats.

• Conservation, Biodiversity & World Heritage
• Tourism and Recreation
• Water Quality and Coastal Development
• Fisheries

How do I present my Work:

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Poster
• Brochure
• Video Production
• Other (see me before starting)

How will the work be evaluated:

• Accuracy of your information
• Your reasons for selecting the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef
• Your proposal to correct this threat

Where do I find other Information:

• Abourt NOAA’s Coral Reef Information System
• Coral Reefs
• Coral Reef Animal Printouts
• Reefs in Trouble
• Great Barrier Reef at NationalGeographic.com
• The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

[UPDATE]: Some of our completed assignments

Video: Olivia M

Power Point:  Sophie, Haydyn, Jack, OliviaD

Posters:

Welcome back to school everyone. I hope you enjoyed your holidays and had a great Christmas. For class this year you will need to make sure you have the following supplies:

• A4 document folder x2 (plastic)
• A4 homework book (not glued – ring bound)
• pens – blue and red
• pencils
• coloured pencils
• pencil sharpener
• highlighter
• eraser
• ruler (clear plastic)
• glue
• tissues (optional)
• textas (optional)
• paint shirt (optional)
• no liquid paper

You will be taking your books home to cover so contact paper will also be needed, though only at home.

New classes will not be formed until late on Friday, at the latest Monday. You will spend the first two days with your teacher from last year and then there will be school/grade assemblies and you will find out who your new teacher is.

[UPDATE]: You will go to your new class on Thursday 28th, apologies for the late notice. Procedures below will stay the same.

2NR students from 2009 will need to play in the K-6 Assembly area before school and then line up like we normally do.

[UPDATE]: You will need to put your bags on the silver seats outside our old room.