Antarctica Task
This was the very quick task we did in class from your notes so far.
Make a table comparing ten factors.
Compare Antarctica and Australia.
Apocryphal
adjective
Something with doubt about the authorship or authenticity.
Something probably not true.
eg. The story about Indiana landing the flight from Sydney was obviously apocryphal.
Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1
Assign percentages of blame for Duncan’s death and then Banquo’s death.
For example you might say
Duncan’s Death
Lady Macbeth 70%
Macbeth 20%
The Witches 10%
Banquo’s Death
Macbeth 50%
The Witches 25%
The Murderers 25%
Keep in mind that I have just up these percentages and they don’t reflect my sensible opinion.
Volcano Introduction
The same exercise with 10.2
Cause death
Molten rocks come out
Hot
Lava
They erupt
Can destroys a town
Large
Magma
Leave Ash
Some mountains are volcanoes
Rock
Go boom
Woldwide
Triangle shaped
Full of lava
On land and under water
Some dormant for a long time.
Thousands of active
Dormant means that they don’t erupt
Ring of Fire
Very High
Produce ash and smoke
Acn be dormant active or extinct.
What We Know About Volcanoes
From 10.4
they can go off at any time.
They don’t erupt often.
They erupt
A pattern of volcanoes form the Ring of Fire
They form from cracks and hotspots in the tectonic plates
There are two in Italy
Can form whole islands
The liquid that comes out is called lava.
Ash comes out
Magma comes out (what is the difference between magma and lava)
Two [...]
Podcast: Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4
The world is turned upside down and Macbeth is now the King. Macduff shows the first signs of his suspicions.
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Like an Onion
The earth is not just a large ball of identical rock. Beneath our feet are a number of different layers and they behave differently. Once big difference between the surface and the layers below in that inside the earth high pressures and high temperatures are what is normal.
Here is a link to a lot more [...]
Happenstance
This is an old fashioned sounding word but a goody. It means a happy coincidence and is actually a contraction of happy circumstance.
For example. I didn’t have a word for today but by happenstance Mrs Fraser was just thinking of the world happenstance.
Year Nine Geography Assignment
The assignment
Useful links
Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4
Here are the questions for this scene.
1. How old is the old man?
2. What did Duncan’s horses do?
3. What does this mean?
Ironic
Today’s word of the day is a tricky one which is bad luck for you although not actually ironic.
Ironic means poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended.
for example
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It’s a black fly in your Chardonnay
It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn’t [...]
Rush of Blood to the Head
I finally managed to get my Macbeth podcasts up to date today. If there is any luck left in thea quick run down of each scene so far I have it here in Red Space Rocket.
film-list.doc
Podcast: Macbeth: Act 2 Scene Three
In which the porter discusses the equivocation of booze and Macduff finds a dead king.
At the start of this podcast I tell you it is Act 2 Scene Two. Although I say this I do actually talk about scene Three.
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Podcast: Macbeth: Act 2 Scene Two
The murder is done and there is much talk of blood.
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Podcast: Macbeth: Act 2 Scene One
In which Macbeth and Banquo exchange small talk about the witches and then Macbeth sees a dagger before him.
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