Word Vomit Week 2

This week's words are - Computer, Hungry Bear, Book, Lollipop, Zoo.

It's the end of the day. Typing away on my computer, I can hear the clacking of keys around me. We're all doing research on how Zoos are run. "Alright class, start packing up, I'll be collecting the spare permission slips for tomorrow's trip."  I totally forgot about that. Tomorrow we're going to the national zoo. We head home and get ready for the trip. Waking up the next day, I stumble to get ready and head to school.

Again, I didn't finish this week's story. I've written 79 words today so I need to aim for more next week.

That Time A Jewish Man Might Actually Get The Pound Of Flesh

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Distillation

Aim:

To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation

Equipment: 

Coke
Two test tubes
Heatproof mat
A delivery tube and bung
Bunsen burner
Tripod
Gause mat
Retort stand
Boss head and clamp
Boiling tube

Method:

1. Set up the equipment as shown in the diagram
2. Add approximately 50 mL of coke to one of your test tubes
3. Light your bunsen burner, open the air hole and gently push the bunsen burner under the tripod
4. Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated. Turn off your bunsen burner.

Results/Discussion

Well... hmm.. I forgot to mention that you don't want to boil the liquid... My group accidentally did that and messed up our experiment...  What was supposed to happen is clear liquid would leave the first test tube and enter the other tube. What ours did was boil over... basically, the liquid didn't evaporate it just moved test tubes. 
I mean, it looked cool.

Conclusion: 

Distillation is a process that can be used to separate a pure liquid from a mixture of liquids. We were trying to separate the solute from the solvent in a solution. Some people's worked while ours didn't. Next time, if there is a next time, we need to remember to not overheat the solution!

Musical Theatre Reflection

Musical Theatre!

First up, our group performance! As one class, SP and HH have got together to do Your Welcome from Moana.

What is the song about?
The entire song is basically just Māui boasting about everything he's done for the environment.

What is difficult about singing this song?
People not paying attention or singing

How are you feeling about your performance?

Nervous that we're going to mess up or embarrass ourselves

Who is Māui?

Māui is a Polynesian god/demigod/divine. He is mainly known for his tricks.

Story one This story, Māui and the giant fish, is about when Māui hooked up the North Island
Story two This story, How Māui brought fire to the world, is about... just that, how Māui brought fire to the world.

Musical Research

Heathers - Beautiful - Heathers is the story of Veronica Sawyer, a senior at the fictional Westerberg High. Veronica longs to be cool like the clique of it-girls that runs Westerberg "The Heathers." Unfortunately, in addition to awesome levels of popularity, the Heathers are also cruel, choosing to mock and bully the rest of the school into submission. When Veronica uses her skills as a forger to get the Heathers out of detention, she impresses their leader Heather Chandler so much so that they agree to let her into their exclusive club. At first, Veronica is thrilled until she finds out that being one of the Heathers means bullying the same kids she used to call friends. Meanwhile, Veronica finds herself attracted to a mysterious newcomer at school named JD. When a drink mixup results in the accidental poisoning of Heather Chandler, JD convinces Veronica to stage Heather’s suicide. The results are so successful that Veronica and JD, exhilarated with their newfound power, resolve to rid Westerberg of the cruelly popular elite forever.

Dear Evan Hansen - Reqium - Evan Hansen – A high school senior who struggles with social anxiety disorder. He is assigned by his therapist to write letters to himself about why each day will be good, which becomes the catalyst for the plot of the story. He also has never had any friends and has had a crush on Zoe Murphy for a very long time.

Mean Girls - I couldn't find an actual song clip, so here's a trailer (Yes, this was turned into an actual musical) -  Teenage Cady Heron was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly knit cliques. She unwittingly finds herself in the good graces of an elite group of cool students dubbed "the Plastics," but Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname.

Frozen - Monster - When their kingdom becomes trapped in perpetual winter, fearless Anna joins forces with mountaineer Kristoff and his reindeer sidekick to find Anna's sister, Snow Queen Elsa, and break her icy spell. Although their epic journey leads them to encounters with mystical trolls, a comedic snowman, harsh conditions, and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff bravely push onward in a race to save their kingdom from winter's cold grip.

Spongebob Squarepants -Bikini Bottom Day - Stakes are higher than ever before as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes centre stage. Get ready to dive to all-new depths of theatrical innovation at SpongeBob SquarePants, where the power of optimism really can save the world!

A Musical You Might Not Have Heard Of  

The Mikado -

The Mikado is an opera by Arthur Sullivan

Synopsis -  A year before the action of this opera begins, Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan, fled his father's imperial court to escape marriage with Katisha, an elderly lady. Disguised as a travelling musician, he met and fell in love with Yum-Yum, the young ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor in the town of Titipu.

A song from the musical is I've Got a Little List

The Importance Of The Crew

a definition of what the jobs involve, what learning is needed and where you would get a job...

Stage manager - Is a key assistant to the director, helps with the auditions as required by the director and director of theatre, an assistant to the designers, technical director, costume shop supervisor, director of the theatre, conductor, and all other staff positions. maintain the Production Call Board, posting notices for cast and crews. The call board must be kept neat so that information is not lost in a clutter of useless postings. You'd need to have excellent planning, organisational and leadership skills, confidence and decision making ability, the ability to multi-task and 'think on your feet', calmness under pressure, a high level of attention to detail, good IT and budget management skills. You'd be anywhere and everywhere. You'd go with the cast and crew when they'd travel so you're there if something goes wrong.

Props - 

Sound crew

Lighting crew

Dressers

Conductor

Fight director/

choreographer

Flyman

Prompt

Wigs - 

Stage electrician - 

Word Vomit Week 1

For the first 10 minutes of two English lessons a week, we are given the task to write a short story with specific words that we have to use. This week's words/items were apple, rabbit, crayon, math textbook and an oar

Here is this weeks writing;

I stare down at my maths textbook, the words and numbers a blur.  All that really sticks out is a blurry image of a crayon, how intriguing. I rub my eyes to try and get rid of the sudden blur. While I have my eyes close, I feel a strange difference around me. "What the-" I try to open my eyes. I'm sitting in a boat on a lake, an oar sitting across my lap. "How the hell?" I try to stand up, I wobble and end up falling into the deep, murky water. I hold my breath and open my eyes. What the…

I’m amazed at what I see. It’s… an underwater… city? There are houses and apartments made out of gold tinted metal, parks and playgrounds galore. How could such a small seeming lake hold such wondrous treasures? I slowly begin to swim to the bottom of the “lake” when something brightly coloured catches my eye. An… Apple? Everything else here is so… monotone but here is some out of place apple!? It’s not floating, nor is it sinking. It’s just… there. I reach down for the apple but something else distracts me. Whatever it was, it flew past my face. I look around, trying to find the answer. “Hello?” I widen my eyes. Did… Did I just speak perfectly normal… underwater? What is this place?


“Hello!?” I try again, no response. At least not until I see something else move...

There Is Always Room To Improve!

My Goals in Sections of My Writing

Ideas - 
For my ideas, I need to make my idea more original, so that the reader of my work can connect to it more. I also need to elaborate my idea.

Structure  - 
I need to work on using words I know to link up my writing to what I'm learning to do in class and structure my work in a way I know the reader can understand

Organisation - 
In the organisation section, I need to work on linking the sentences that are related and making headings vivid and noticeable for the readers.

Vocabulary - 
I need to work on my vocab at the same level that I have already been

Sentence Structure -
I need to strengthen the sentence structure I already know

Punctuation - 
With my punctuation, to get to the next level I need to strengthen my use of punctuation. I will need to work on using the correct grammar with little mistakes

I'm learning how I can ensure I know what I need to work on to do my absolute best in English
These goals help my learning by giving me something to work towards and get better at writing.
I'm now wondering what tools can I use and steps I can take to reach my goals.

Super Saturation Experiment

Aim:

To form a crystal from a supersaturated solution

Equipment:

Provided test tubes

Bunsen burner

Heat Mat

Test tube tongs

Method:

1. Gently heat the test tube until it becomes liquid
2. Place in test tube rack for 30 mins
3. Wait for the "magic" ingredient

Results/Discussion:

Today's experiment was a lot more simple than our previous experiments. We didn't really have to do much but we would get an epic result. At the beginning of the experiment, we were given a test tube of saturated sodium acetate that was a solid that we had to then heat up to turn it back into a liquid. For our group, nobody wanted to do it so I was kinda forced to do that. We turned on the bunsen burner and started heating it up. After a while, I was shaking and my arm hurt, I was terrified of dropping the liquid. After we waited 30 minutes for the liquid to cool down, we then needed to drop in a crystal.

Conclusion:

When we drop a crystal into the supersaturated, the solute particles begin to latch onto each other, making the solution crystalize. Ours did this and looked really cool. I consider it successful!

Making a Dilution Series (Concentration)

Aim: 

To make a dilution series to investigate concentration.

Equipment:

A potassium permanganate crystal
Six large test tubes
Tweezers
A plastic transfer pipette
A test tube rack
10 mL measuring cylinder.

Method:

1. Place the six test tubes rack label the rack with numbers 1 - 6
2. Using the measuring cylinder, fill the test tube 1 with 10 ml of water. Fill the remaining tubes with 5 ml of water.
3. Using your tweezers, add a single crystal of potassium permanganate to test tube one
4. Gently has the test tube until the crystal has dissolved
5. Using the transfer pipette, carefully remove exactly 5 ml from test tube one and pour it into test tube two.
6. Rinse the transfer pipette thoroughly to ensure no purple solution remains.
7.  Gently shake test tube two and repeat the transfer process, transferring exactly 5ml of solution from tube two to tube three.
8. Rinse the transfer pipette again and repeat the transfer process for tubes four, five, and six

Results/Discussion:

While my group was doing the experiment, we first put the correct amount of water in the tube. We then took a small amount of potassium permanganate and dissolved it into our water. Next, we needed to transfer the solution. Because we didn't have a pipette that measured exactly 5mL, I thought, "hey, this is a 3 mL pipette, what if we did two sets of 2.5? And it worked! While doing the experiment, we realised that it started out a dark purple but then the colour was getting lighter and lighter. My theory is that the excess water was diluting the purple colour.

 During the experiment, I told Jakita what to do while Ella took photo's

Conclusion:

When we finished the experiment, we were left with six tubes, with the liquid in each getting lighter and lighter. Apparently, this is what was meant to happen, so I'll consider this a success!

After the experiment, Jakita and Ella mixed all the solutions together and put it in the sun.

What Cultures Make Up 9Hh?

Our most recent group project in social studies was to, in groups, create a presentation about our cultures. Brayden, Jacob, Ella, Isaac, Jakita, Brianna, and I were the "European" or the "UK" group.
I learnt about the Welsh language and some things about Jakita's family history. Did you know that s'mae (pronounced Sam-i) is hello in Welsh?

    This is our presentation, some slides aren't completely finished so I apologise.

    

Investigating Solubility

Aim:

To investigate the solubility of baking soda and table salt (sodium hydrogen carbonate and sodium chloride) and copper oxide to see which is most soluble.

Equipment:

100mL beaker, 100mL measuring cylinder, salt, baking soda, copper oxide, stirring rod, spatula.

Method:

1. Fill a beaker with water
2. Add a spatula full of baking soda.
3. Stir the solution until it dissolves.
4. Repeat step 2 and 3 until no more will dissolve.
5. Record how many spatula fulls were added.
6. Repeat the experiment with salt and copper oxide.

Results/Discussion:

Copper oxide is insoluble, it doesn't dissolve.
Salt is soluble, it took 18 spatula fulls to dissolve into 40 ml of water,
Baking soda is soluble, it took 7 spatula fulls to dissolve into 40 ml of water

Conclusion:

When putting our solutes, the salt, soda and copper oxide, into our solvent, the water, we discovered which, out of the three, were soluble and were insoluble. 

Jesus Christ Defying Gravity!? - Musical Theatre Knowledge

Today in music we watched two musical clips and were asked to answer two questions for each of them, "Who wrote the musical?" and "What is it about?" then add a link to one of the songs.

Jesus Christ SuperstarJesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The story entails the story of the last week of Jesus' life through modern rock music and contemporary slang. It is also unusual in its choice to tell most of the story through Judas Iscariot, the apostle who will eventually betray Jesus.
(Synopsis from https://study.com/academy/lesson/jesus-christ-superstar-summary-characters.html)

Superstar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp9G0j_ukAE

Wicked

Wicked is Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman. It is about an unlikely but profound friendship between two young women who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

(Offical Synopsis from www.wickedthemusical.co.uk)

Defying Gravity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g4ekwTd6Ig

Making A Copper Sulfate Salt

Aim: 

To create copper sulfate salt by producing copper oxide with an acid

Equipment:

• Copper oxide powder
• Dilute sulfuric acid 
• Measuring cylinder, 
• 2x 100mL beakers, 
• Bunsen burner, 
• Tripod, 
• Gauze mat, 
• Funnel, 
• Filter paper, 
• Thermometer, 
• Spatula, 
• Evaporating basin, 
• Stirring rod.

Method:

1. Add 20mL of sulfuric acid into a 100mL beaker. Using your bunsen burner, heat to 70degrees. Turn off your bunsen burner.
2. Once heated, use a spatula to add pea-sized portions of copper oxide. Stir for 30 seconds.
3. Repeat step 2 until it will not dissolve anymore.
4. Fold filter paper and place in the funnel. Place the funnel into your second beaker.
5. Make sure your first beaker is cool enough to hold and then pour it into the funnel. Gently swirl and allow to filter through.
6. Rinse the beaker and fill with 50mL of water and place on the tripod. 
7. Place evaporating basin on top of the beaker and pour some solution in.
8. Gently heat until the solution has reduced by half.
9. Take off heat and allow to cool.             

Results/Discussion:

After we let the acid get up to the required temperature, 70 degrees, we then took our solute, the copper oxide, and dissolved numerous amounts of it into our solvent, the acid, until it wouldn't dissolve any more. The solution was a dark, almost black, blue. But after filtering it, it became a lighter blue. Next, we took the solution and an evaporating basin and reduced the solution to half then left it overnight.
After we left it overnight, we came back to many small, blue, crystals!

Conclusion:

Our experiment included dissolving a solute into a solvent and creating a solution. Next, we filtered the solution and evaporated it until it was a solid again. That solid was the crystals. Therefore, we conducted a successful experiment!

Home Ec: Baking And Measuring

Key points.

General:

• When measuring, you don't need fancy things to be accurate. Plastic things will be fine.
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Using Measuring Spoons

• You can use  both dry and wet ingredients 
• When measuring dry ingredients, after scooping: use the back of a knife to smooth it out, levelling it.
• When measuring wet ingredients, hold the spoon over the bowl or container you are using and pour the liquid until the spoon is full.

Using Measuring Cups

• Use measuring *cups* to measure dry ingredients and measuring *jugs* to measure wet ingredients.
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Research Drawings In Art!

This term in art we started learning about different art styles. For the last few weeks, we have been doing research drawings from the Pinterest pages we were given. Below are the different styles we've done.

Manga

Pacifica 

                          

 Art Nouveau

Kowhaiwhai.