Textiles; Card Making

In Textiles, we were working on a task involving sustaining the environment. A couple of weeks before this one we made paper with ripped newspaper and plain white paper, we added dye to give it color. The last couple of days I have been working on making my four cards using some of the paper that was made 2 weeks ago.

At last, I have finished all four of them. Here are the results of all four of them. The Card you see set aside from the rest has a bit of recycled paper on it.

Shakespeare; The Merchant of Venice

Act One, Scene One; Questions and Answers

1. Antonio is depressed without knowing why. What two possible reasons do his friends suggest?
= He's in love, and he is worried about his ships because the ships have the profits on them.
2. Do you think Gratiano’s contributions help Antonio’s mood?
= Yes.
3. What are your first impressions of Bassanio?
=He owes a lot of money to many people.
4. Is he in love?
= He is not sure with himself.
5. Why does he need to borrow money again now
= To impress Portia.

Act One, Scene Two
6. How do Portia’s first words compare with Antonio’s?
= how miserable they are
7. What is the reason for her mood?
= she has no idea
8. Do you think Nerissa is a help to her?
= yes
9. Sum up, in a word or a short phrase, Portia’s attitude to her suitors so far
= not very impressed and disliked toward their behaviors.


Act 1, Scene Three

1. Shylock is a moneylender. Does he seem eager to do business with Bassanio? How do you know?
=No. Because Bassanio, Going through Antonio, Isn't confident he's able to pay it back in time, or at all.
2. Which does Shylock think is safe, his business or Antonio’s? Why?
= His business, Antonio doesn't have the money on hand and his boats could sink at any second.
Why doesn’t Shylock want to dine with Bassanio and Antonio?
=Because of their religions. Bassanio and Antonio would most likely have food that
Shylock isn't allowed to eat, due to religion.
3. What strict principal of his is Antonio breaking to help Bassanio?
= Never lend or borrow money with interest.
4. 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.
= No. He said it was going by luck
6. Shylock accuses Antonio of a whole cataloge of nastiness. How does Antonio answer the charges?
= Yes I have done it and I'll do it again
7. How does Bassanio react to the proposed bond?
= He disagrees to make Antonio's life in danger for money.

Act Two, Scene One
1. This scene opens with the words ‘Mislike me not for my complexion’ Why does the Prince think Portia will have a problem with his complexion?
= Never marry anyone else ever in their whole life.2. In Act 1 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? A2S1 Line 37-42
= Because he has dark skin and Portia has lighter skin than Morocco.
3. Portia tells the Prince of Morocco- ‘Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair as any comer I have looked on yet for my affection’ What does this mean? (if you’re unsure check sparknotes translation)
= Never marry anyone else ever in their whole life.
4. Shylock practices ‘usury’. Explain this in your own words?
= It is practicing how to lend money with interest.
5. Why do Shylock and Antonio hate each other?
= Because of their different religions and because Antonio spat on shylock, and that shylock believes the devil's spirit is within a pig. 

Act Two, Scene Two
1. Why does Launcelot want to leave Shylock? Copy out 2 quotes from the text to support your thinking. E.g A2S2 Line 26, 102
= He does not think much of him he complains about working for shylock for starving and not feeding him. He does not get fed.
2. Why is Bassanio worried about taking Gratiano with him to Belmont?
In lines 114-142...
= He worried that he would get drunk and make a fool out of him
3. Launcelot and his father are very anxious to find Launcelot a new job. They both want to impress Bassanio. This leads to
a. frequent interruptions. -
      b. contradictions
      c. misuse of words to impress.
      Find examples of each of these in the text.
= C. he uses the wrong words to impress him.

--- Act three, four and five answers and questions were written in my b.ook

1. Complete this quote that tells us what Jessica threw down to Lorenzo. ‘Here, catch this casket, it is worth the pain’ A2S6 (Black Pg. 69, Blue Pg.31)

2. Jessica says ‘I am glad tis night, you do not look on me, For I am much asham’d of my exchange’ A2S6 (Black Pg. 69, Blue Pg.31). Why doesn’t Jessica want Lorenzo to see her?
Because she is dressed as a page boy and she thinks she does not look pretty and she is embarrassed about her appearance.
3. Why is Antonio looking for Gratiano? (Black Pg. 71, Blue Pg.52)
Trying to find Gratonio because the ship is about to leave without him.

Act Two, Scene Seven

Which casket does the Prince of Morocco think is worthy to contain Portia’s portrait?
Complete this quote ‘Is’t like that lead contains her; ‘Twere damnation to think so base a thought’ (Black Pg. 79, Blue Pg.54)
Portia’s father uses the casket test to find her the most suitable husband. Do you think his test is working?
= To test them in their ways as he chose wrong.

Act Two, Scene Eight
What two disasters have happened to Shylock?
= Losing his daughter, and losing his money.2. Complete this quote that tells where Shylock think Lorenzo & Jessica have gone? ‘The villain Jew with outcrises raised the duke, who went with him to search Bassanio's ship’ (Black Pg. 81, Blue Pg.55)
3. How did Bassanio and Antonio leave Venice?
= On his boat.
‘In the narrow seas that part the French and English, there miscarried a vessel of our country richly fraught’ (Black P. 83, Blue P.56) What is the first suggestion of trouble for Antonio? = He thinks that the boat the sunk was Antonio's, full of his profits.

Act Two, Scene Nine
1. What is the purpose of the rhymes in the caskets?
= To make it tricky for them to chose
2. Why does the Prince of Arragon discard the golden casket?
= Because gold was too flashy and the lead was not the right choice so he chose silver.
3. Complete this quote from the golden casket  ‘He who ________ me shall _____ what ____ men desire’ (Black Pg. 87, Blue Pg.58)
4. Finish this quote that shows us Portia’s reaction to Bassanio’s arrival ‘Come, come, Nerissa; for I ____ to see quick _____ post that comes so ________’ (Black Pg. 91, Blue Pg.61

English Task; Descriptive words about a candle and a stone

The Small Stone - Eighteen words describing a small white stone.

solid, strong, tough, concentrated, adamantine, callous, compact, compacted, compressed, consolidated, dense, firm, hardened, impenetrable, stiff, stony, thick, unyielding.

The Smooth Stone Poem

As the whistling white stone sits on the end of the cliff, it shines, it glows, it's tough, its round and firm. It feels like the hard ground.

The golden Candle  - Eighteen words describing a candle.

torch, dip, rushlight, blazing, glossing, beaming, burning, gleaming, lightened, polished, lustrous, alight, ablaze, golden, glittering, yellow, white, twinkling.

The Waxy Candle Poem

A single candle, that is not alight under the bright light. As it sits with golden- yellow stripes, that strip through it. 

Descriptive words about a koosh ball

18 Descriptive words about a koosh ball

Hooks Ball

Weird feeling, Whiffling,

 Stringy, Exquisite, Admiring, Threadlike, 

Wiry, Fibrous, Ropy, Stretchy-adaptable, Fun and exciting

Weird-ominous, Smells fresh, Fluffy,

Buoyant, Amusing,

Puzzling, Unique

School-kit Writing

Cerulean poem

1 Cerulean is a light shade of Blue,
2  as the wind flew through the cerulean sky.
3 The bike was a cerulean blue.

4 It was a quite nice day as we watched the cerulean butterflies fly by,
5 the walls were painted cerulean,
6 the sky was a dull grey until the cerulean skies of midday appeared.
7 I saw some cerulean cars go by,
8  the ocean glistened like the cerulean sky.
9 As you look up at the cerulean sky it changes into an orange-pink.
10 In the end, the cerulean sky had faded as it had turned a pinky orange as the dark night drained the colour away.

DTE Reflection

In DTE, we have been creating infographic's using Piktochart. Creating them about the Manaiakalani Cybersmart site, ergonomics, and about the Digital Bytes site. As well as playing a game called Interland it was pretty enjoyable then game purpose was to give you tip/ideas about what you should do online and the whatnots.

 I have played a game called Interland. The first level was about you are beings chased by hackers and they are trying to take your info in the game and in your run into an object you lose some of you're items, as the hacker take your items.
On the second level I played, I was giving happiness to people along the way up the level and on the way there were people who put hate on the others and you had to trap them and stop them and report them.
On the third level, I played through. you are a grid to go through send a password pas some people and walls, your aim is to get it to the other side.

In the end, I really enjoyed this game it was pretty fun
On the last level. I did not get time to play through this...

Paper Making Step by Step

For textiles, we are learning about sustaining the environment. We are making paper for these next couple of lessons, as I would be posting each step one by one, on the one singular blog post as it would be updated weekly.

Firstly find any old newspapers or reused bits of paper lying around or any tray/container. ANd use it to hold paper shred the paper and shred it up to a half the size of your palm of your hand.

By the way, I did not proofread it properly

Social Studies - Family Crest

In social studies, our task was to create a shield representing stuff about us and our family. Then to make a blog post about it and what the symbol and drawings/things you write mean.

The top left is Vegeta from Dragon ball z, on the opposite, the right is one of my own characters that I made up and drew of since at this time I made this I really didn't hold any value to anything. The lucky last is the dragon, the dragon represents both the Chinese New year/lantern festival. The festivals were a very memorable experience for me as a young child.

Science - Ping Pong Ball test

- On this side, you can see my results of what we did. It shows the Discussion, the Conclusion, and the evaluation.


- Down below Is the graph and the result of our trials of the ping pong ball experiment.

People I worked with blog links
- http://hhswajihah.blogspot.com/ 
- http://hhschanteyp.blogspot.com/

Textiles - Pt 3

In textiles, I have finally completed my bag and now it is ready to hold stuff. Overall, I think I did a great job than at a time I forgot to pull it inside out before sewing but it did not really matter to me that much. I sewed it the right way in the second to last session of creating the t-shirt bags.

Paper Making/Textiles

Papermaking Impact of the environment.
For Textile our task was to research about, papermaking and to watch a couple of videos on how to it is made in a factory. What are the positives, and what are the negatives of it and to create a post about it.

- What does is the positives for us?
Papermaking means the manufacture of paper.
The positives are the paper can decenter-grate into the water as it falls apart and it can be reused.  Mostly paper is chucked into rubbish bins and not recycled. It can be turned into another lot of paper.


- What are the non - positives for the environment?
The non - positives of making paper is pollution because of fewer trees, cutting down trees that filter the air into oxygen so we can breathe and live and if all the tree are cut down it would probably make it harder to breathe from the pollution from cars and many other vehicles and factories, so if there were no more trees there is nothing to filter out the smoke gas and many other things. making paper in a factory can cause pollution. And paper making takes 10 liters of water to make one piece of A4 paper.

I only proofread this once so there may be mistakes that I have made.