The Merchant of Venice || Can Do Task

In English, we have just finished reading Act 1 and no we have to complete 2 tasks from Can do task and I have chosen to do the Vocabulary and Character Map and post it in our blog.

Vocabulary:
Venture:  A business investment with the chance of making more money but the risk of losing the money put in
Vessel: A ship or large boat
Signior: It's Italian word used for gentlemen to call them Mr/ Rich citizens(well-fed and so portly)
Mortifying: Embarrassing or humiliating
Profound: Great in degree or intensity/ Showing great and deep intellectual understanding.
Exhortation: An act or instance of exhorting/ Language intended to incite and encourage.
Virtuous: Having or showing high moral standard.
Squandered: Wasting(something, especially money or time) in a reckless or foolish manner

Character Map

Environmental Susutainability

In Social Study, we have been learning about Sustainability. Today our teacher has asked us to do a matching definition into each of the keywords. The words are about Environmental Sustainability. We also have to colour code them into different groups where green means good, orange means it's balanced(no worse, no better) and lastly red means it's really bad

Green - About improving environmental sustainability.
Orange- About keeping environmental sustainability the same.
Red- ABout environmental sustainability getting worse

Sustainability is about maintaining the environment and providing human needs without destroying the environment. Sustainability is related to the 3 aspects which are economic, social and environmental.
Environmental Sustainability is about not using all of the resources completely where it can end up damaging the planet. In order to get resources, we have to do something which is maintaining it in a good way. We could do this by recycling things, used renewable resources and we also could do conservation.

Environmental Sustainability is important because we rely on the environment and in order to live we need things that the only Environment can provide which are air, food and water and many more things. We should protect because If we didn't do any action to protect or help, the problem will get worse and might be too late to save the environment. The outcome will gonna be more serious and there's a chance that it will affect us.

Comprehension Box

Khaki 1
The legend of Beowulf and Grendell.                                       (/)   (x)

1. Beowulf was similar to Grendel because he:
(a) was a good fighter.

2. Why did the people live in constant fear? They:
(a) couldn't after feasting. (b) feared being attacked and eaten by Grendel

3. What does the word impervious in Paragraph 3 mean?
(c) not affected by

4. What caused Beowulf to travel to Hroyhgar's kingdom?
(a) He heard the tale about Grendel and wanted to help.

5. Beowulf was most probably welcomed warmly because he was a:
(b) great warrior who could possibly get rid of Grendel.

6. As soon as Grendel entered the hall, he:
(c) ate warriors.

7. It is a fact, not an opinion that Beowulf:
(b) cut off Grendel's head.

8. Which word in Paragraph 5 means felt sorrow or grief?
(a) mourned

9. The journey to the home of Grendel's mother was:
(c) long and dangerous

10. Which paragraph describes the fight between Beowulf and Grendel's mother?
(c) Paragraph 7

11. Hrothgar and his men concluded that Beowulf and Grendel's mother/
(b) Beowulf did not emerge from the bloody water.

12. The pronoun he in Paragraph 8 refers to:
(b) Beowulf.

Self Directed Learning

I think I have tried to do my goal last week and I have published my work on time but I think there's always a space to improve.

This week in English, my goal is to focus on what we are currently learning in class which is "The Merchant of Shakespear". My goal is to finish all the task that I am meant to do and publish on my blog. To stay in an expert license is also my goal for this week.

Introducing Shakespeare

It cost a lot to go to the play
There's no any sit most of the people are standing up
The theatre doesn't have any roof because
Women are not allowed to act, all the female roles are played by men.
They have props, costume, makeup to make the men looked like a female

Main Characters:
Antonio- Merchant, Cristian, lends Bassanio money he has borrowed from Shylock.
Bassanio- needs money, wants to marry Portia.
Portia- rich, dresses us as a man to save Antonio.
Shylock- Jew, moneylender, lends money to Antonio for Bassanio to marry Portia
Stereotype: Good with money, usuary- lend money with interest.
Gratiano- Bassanios man, marries Nerissa.
Nerissa- Portia's maid

Act One, Scene One:

1. Antonio is depressed without knowing why. His friends suggest two reasons.

‘And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks, which touching but my gentle vessel's side would scatter all her spices on the stream’ (Black P.5)

‘Why then, you are in love.’ (Black P.5)

2. What do you think of Bassanio? I think he is a loyal friend and he is really keen to get money because he's broke.
3. Is he in love? Yes
4. Why does he need to borrow money? Because Bassanio is in love with Portia and he wants to marry her.

Act One, Scene Two:

1. How do Portia’s first words compare with Antonio’s?

Antonio- In sooth, I know not why I am so sad

Portia- By my troth Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world

Actually, I think Portia's first has no difference with Antonio because she's feeling down or tired. But if there's a difference I think it's the part why Antonio doesn't know why his sad and Portia is tired because she's tired of this great world

2. Why is Portia unhappy?

I think she's unhappy because she has to marry a husband but she can't choose or refuse who she dislikes she's controlled by the wishes of her dead father.

3. Do you think Nerissa talking with Portia about her options is helpful, why?

At some point, it's helpful because she's trying to explain everything to Portia and I think Nerissa is just asking questions about Portia's suitors to hear what Portia think about them.

4. What does Portia’s think of her suitors so far?

She doesn't like her suitors because she will be marrying a guy with a lot of faces, in other words, the guy has a lot of attitudes.

Act One, Scene Three:

1. Shylock is a moneylender. ‘Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound...I think I may take his bond’ (Black P.27) Do you think Shylock is happy to lend Bassanio money? How do you know?
No, because he knows that Bassanio is broke and he thinks that Bassanio may not pay him back. But at the same time, he is maybe happy to lend money to Antonio but not Bassanio and I think Bassanio used Antonio's name that's why he lends money.

2. Which does Shylock think is safer, his money lending business or Antonio’s shipping business? Why?

His money lending business because Shylock thinks that anything could happen during the shipping business.

3. Why doesn’t Shylock want to dine with Bassanio and Antonio? ‘Yes to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into’ (Black P.29)

4. Finish this quote that tells how Antonio is breaking his principle of not taking money lent with interest. ‘Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow upon advantage’ (Black P.31)

5. Shylock accuses Antonio of a whole lot of nastiness. How does Antonio react? (Black P.35)

It looks like he doesn't really care about borrowing money whether they are friends or enemy Antonio just want to get money from Shylock.

6. Why doesn’t Bassanio want Antonio to agree to the bond?
Because of Bassanio heard that Antonio's ship sunk and all of Antonio's money is on that ship

Biological Drawing

In Science, we have also learnt how to draw a proper cell and we use the rules of biological drawings.

Rules for making biological drawings
- Draw what you see, not what you expect to see.
- Use a sharp HB pencil and clean eraser.
- Make the drawing as large as possible.
- Draw the main features. Cells are relatively complicated and there is no need to draw very detail.
- Use clear bold lines Sketches and lines that ae cross over each other unacceptable.
- Don't use shading or cross-hatching. Generally stipping (using dots) is not allowed but permitted by some schools - check with your teacher,
- Plant cells generally don't exist in isolation so you shouldn't have gaps between plant cells
- Add an appropriate title that identifies the biological material used, shows the magnification used and any stain used.
- Label organelles AND features of the cells.

NO doodling on the side of the paper. Make sure just put what the instruction asked for and nothing else.

Microscope Slide

In Science, we have also learnt how to set up a microscope slide to be able to see the different organelles under the lens. In this task, we have look through the onion skin.

Basic Slide Preparation Equipment
Stain - A chemical stain is often used to dye the cell (for particular organelles) so they are more visible.
Tweezers - For manipulating the line specimen and coverslip.
Coverslip - A very hin piece of glass used to hold the specimen flat and keep it in place.
Slide - It's made of glass, this is used to hold the specimen.
Specimen - MUst be transparent and thin.

How to set it up: (Making Slide)
1) Place your specimen in the middle of a clean slide. Ensure that the specimen is laying flat and not folded over on itself.

2) Add 2-3 drops of the stain solution. Plant cells are commonly stained with iodine, whereas animal cells are commonly stained with methylene blue. Both of these solutions stain the nucleus of each cell (and your fingers and clothes, so be careful).

3) Holding a coverslip by its edges in your left hand, manoeuvre it so that the bottom edge of the coverslip makes contact with both the slide and the edge of the stain solutions. With your right hand, support the top edge of the coverslip with a pair of tweezers.

4) Gently lower the coverslip with the tweezers, ensuring that no air bubbles are trapped under the coverslip.

5) Place your slide on the microscope stage and examine it under low-power magnification.