The merchant of Venice Act 1 The Jew wants some flesh

Last week we started reading the Merchant of Venice and now we have finished reading act 1. For each scene so far we have been asked some questions. Here are the questions we have done so far. If you are interested try answering them yourself bellow them will be my answers. You can read this online here.

Act 1 scene 1
1: Antonio is depressed without knowing why. What two possible reasons do his friend suggest?
2: Do you think Gratiano's contributions help Antonio's mood?
3: What are your first impressions of Bassanio?
4: Is he in love? (referring to Bassanio)
5: Why does he need to borrow money again now?

Act 1 scene 2 questions

Act 1 scene 2
1: How do Portia's first words compare with Antonio's?
2: What is the reason for her mood?
3: Do you think Nerissa is a help for her?
4: Sum up, in a word or a short phrase, Portia's attitude to her suitors so far.

Act 1 scene 3

1. Shylock is a moneylender. Does he seem eager to do business with Bassanio? How do you know?
2. Witch does Shylock think is safe, his business or Antonio's? Why?
3. Why doesn't Shylock want to dine with Bassanio and Antonio?
4. What strict principal of his is Antonio breaking to help Bassanio?
5. Shylock tells a bible story to prove that the taking of profit is blessed , as long as thieving is not involved. Does he convince Antonio? Give evidence.
6. Shylock accuses Antonio of a whole catalogue of nastiness. How does Antonio answer the charges?
7. How does Bassanio react to the proposed bond?

Act 1 scene 1 answers (in my opinion)
1: His ships are rumoured to have sunk and his best friend is in love but might not be able to get his love.
2: No not in the slightest.
3: Hes a overhaul kind person that wants to find a fair lady to marry.
4: Yes he is. It says that in the book multiple times.
5: He needs to borrow money to impress the lady he wishes to marry he also needs the money to get their in the first place.

Act 1 scene 2 answers in my opinion
1: They both start off talking about their feelings both of them are frustrated with something in life or a bit depressed about something in life.
2: Portia's mood is like that because all her suitors so far are not great men overhaul and she will be forced to marry one.
3: In certain situation yes in other situations no.
4: She dislikes them a lot.

Act 1 scene 3 answers in my opinion
1. No he doesn't. 1. Bassanio beliefs in a different religion and 2. Shylock gains nothing from getting a pound of flesh from Antonio besides satisfaction.
2. He beliefs his business is safe even is he doesn't get the money back. Antonio's business is almost always at risk since his business mostly relies on boats. Boats can easily sink in storms, attacked by pirate and a lot more. Even if they survive that the crewman could die to a disease on the boat making that ship useless or they could just get robbed while at shore.
3. Shylock despises Antonio for what he has done to Shylock in the past. They are both different religions as well and Shylock knows they would dine on some food that is not to be eaten in Jewish religion.
4. That Antonio lends out money with interest. Which he disproves of
5. No he doesn't convince him. Antonio says that the story only happened because god willed it. He said to Shylock "That business venture you’re referring to happened because God made it happen like that. Jacob didn’t have any control over what happened."
6. He admits to doing it and says he will do it again because they are not friends. Its a simple business matter to him nothing else.
7. Bassanio majorly dislikes it. He doesn't want to risk his best friend Antonio losing a pound of his flesh just so Bassanio can impress a woman. 

The merchant of Venice: Shakespeare play

A few days ago we started our merchant of Venice lessons in English class. The merchant of Venice was made by William Shakespeare first shown in 1605. So far we have only been given a brief overview of what happens so we don't have a exact idea of what will go down. The main plot is that the merchant of Venice is loaning some money to help his friends get this certain lady. The deal is that if he doesn't return the money he has to give the Jewish person a pound of his flesh. Unfortunately his ships are believed to have sunk since they have no returned. What happens next? Find out by reading it!

What I think might happen. I think the Jewish person might possibly be jailed right at the end for what he is trying to do! I also think that the merchant of Venice ships will return right at the end. Since it was only a rumour in the first place that his ships sunk.

Something I am interested in after watching these two videos: I am really interested in the exact details of the plot and how everything happens. Why does this Jewish man want a pound of flesh in the first place???? why are his ships rumoured to have sunk????

Here are the two videos we watched:

A quick guide in small detail

The 2004 trailer

Festivel of the arts week 2

This week so far we have finished our story board and are currently getting a few probably for filming witch we will begin on Wednesday if all goes to plan. On Wednesday we will need a few props, 2 cameras or more and a dark room for our film. Now it is the end of the week and we have finished our story board next week is when we will begin filming.

Festival of the arts science research - Making fake blood (currently doing)

Making fake blood

Aim:

My goal is to find out how to make fake blood and some information about fake blood. I will then construct my own fake blood for a film I am making for festival of the arts.

Results of my research on fake blood:

Before fake blood was made and used in films people would use chocolate syrup in black and white films.

How I am going to make fake blood:

Equipment:
250ml beakers
Gauze mat
Tripod
Bunsen burner
Heat mat
Measuring cylinder
200ml sprite
5ml red food colouring
1t (teaspoon) coco powder

Results:

Geological time period

Precambrian Earliest

• This was the time where  the firs single celled beings thrived and they went through extreme conditions. They later became multicelled organismed.

Cambrian 540 mya

• A large amount of organisms with different shapes and sizes.
• The first animals with backbones were present.
• Mostly carbon dioxide in the air in this time period.

Ordovician 490 mya

• There were many animals without skeletons.
• Early shellfis, trlobites, nautilus, starfish and fish.
• First green plants and fungi.
• End of the Ice age period.

Silurian 443 mya

• First advanced plants.
• First Jawed fish with exoskeleton.
• More shellfish.

Devonian 

• First ferns.
• The earliest fir trees with seeds.
• The first insects that were wingless.
• Amphibians.
• Animals from earlier period die out due to moist and cool climate.

Carboniferus 359 mya

• Enviroment has swampy lands.
• First appearance of coal forest.
• Early sharks, large trees larger than the ones we have now.

• First reptiles and vertebrates.
• Trilites dissapearing.
• Glaciers form.
• Appearance of winged insects.

• Oxygen in the air.

Permian 290 mya

• Land masses were formed in to a whole continent called pangaea.
• Glaciers dissapear higher climate.
• Lots of reptiles.
• Cone bearing trees appear.
• Beetles and flies appear.
• Ocean life is in a large amount.
• 251 mya 95% life extinct.

Triassic 248 mya

• Dinosaurs appear
• First mammals and crocodiles appear
• Modern corals and fish

Jurassic 206 mya

• Lots of different dinosaurs
• Ferns and cone bearing plants
• Mammals common but small
• First birds and lizards
• Land mass, Pangaea break up into Gondwanaland and Laurasia
• High Carbon Dioxide levels

Cretaceous 144 mya

• Lots of dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurs
• New types of insects
• Flowering plants appear and become pentiful
• Modern Crocodiles and Sharks
• Early birds appear
• Gondwanaland breaks up 
• Rocky Mountains appear
• Carbon dioxide similar to today

Paleogene 65 - 23 mya

• Modern plants
• Lots of different mammals
• Dinosaurs extinct
• Primitive whales
• First grasses
• Rapid changed in Mammals
• Climate coos
• Ice age begins and ends during this period

Neogene

• Modern climate 
• Modern mammals and birds
• Horses evolve from dof like animal
• Lots of grasses
• First apes 
• Southern Alps of NZ

Quaternary 1.8 mya - present

• Anatomically modern humans
• Human stone age culture 
• Ice age comes and goes
• Sahara forms from grassland
• Humans begin agriculture
• Stone age  Bronze age 3300 BC  1120 BC
• Industrial revoloution leads to rise in carbon dioxide levels

What is bullying?

What is bullying?

Bullying in general: All type of bullying involves hidden bullying, visible bullying, its deliberate, involves a power control, its harmful and is repeated many times. For something to be counted as bullying it needs to be intentional and happen multiple times even when u tell them to stop or show them your upset 

Physical bullying: Physical bullying is bullying in the physical world. It can involve being physically hurt by people over and over again, being called names, being pushed/tripped by people on purpose and passing notes in the physical world. Physical bullying has been the main type of bullying until the internet was introduced.

Cyber bullying: Cyber bullying is where u get bullied online. A few examples are people stealing your accounts and doing stuff on it under your name, sending emails to people to hurt there feelings and making accounts under your name to ruin your identity. Cyber bullying is just as bad as physical bullying if not worse.

Hidden bullying: Hidden bullying is when u are getting bullied by people without you noticing it can be online and in the physical world. For example people talking bad behind you both through emails and talking, people passing notes about you while in places, exclusion or saying something that sounds nice but mean the complete opposite

Visible bullying: Visible bullying is the opposite of hidden bullying it can be in both the physical world and online. Visible bullying can involve people bullying you right in front of you on purpose, physically hurting you or sending you hurtful messages online.

The four dimensions of Hauora

The four dimensions of Hauora

Taha Tinana 

Taha tinana is about your physical well being. This includes the growth of your body, your body health, the ability to move and ways to care for it. If you neglect your physical health you may begin having physical diseases on your body and experience a lot of pain.

Taha Hinengaro

Taha Hinengaro is your mental and emotional well being. Having a good mental health will help you have rational thinking, constructive thinking and many other thinking skills. Having a good emotional health will help you show your emotions, not cry randomly and over react to certain things. Having a bad mental health will normally result in you not thinking as good as normal. Having a bad emotional health can result in you being scared to do stuff, crying over little things and having breakdowns

Taha Whanau

Taha Whanau is your social well being. Having a good social life will normally result in having great family relationships, a lot of friends, hanging out a lot and not being lonely. A bad social life could result in a lack of friend, bad family relationships and being lonely.

Taha Wairua

Taha Wairua is your spiritual health. This includes your culture and values you carry with you, your personal identity and your self awareness. Having a good spiritual health normally means you have a culture you follow, values that you hold, have a good personal identity and you are self aware. Not having a good spiritual health normally means you don't have a culture you follow, you don't have values that you hold, you don't have a good personal identity or none at all and you are not self aware.