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Don’t leave music playing really loudly on your stereo. This can waste electricity and cause your neighbours to come by and try to damage you and your immediate environment.

Here is the template for the task you will be completing this week. You have only two sessions: Monday in the library and Tuesday in the computer room.

Make sure you include the source of each bit of information that you find. And especially make sure that you present information about volcanoes which is genuinely new to you.

10-things-task

You will have two session in the computer lab to work on this assignment.

celebrity-assignment

You can choose anyone famous in the 1920s. If you are looking for some suggestions try this list.

Al Capone
Louis Armstrong
Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Jelly Roll Morton
Al Jolson
Rudolph Valentino
Fatty Arbuckle
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Lon Chaney
Babe Ruth
Jack Dempsey
Red Grange
Bill Tilden
Bobby Jones
Ross and Keith Smith
Bert Hinkler
Charles Kingsford Smith

You might like to check the class notes to help you with this task.

Find one person famous in the 1920s.
Post the following information to the Red Space Rocket forum by Friday September 5.
Name
Date of Birth
What they were famous for.

Don’t burn down your own home because then we’d have to chop down more trees to make a new one. And it would be really expensive. And you’d have nowhere to live. And it would frighten you half of the way to death. So don’t do it.

We are now up to Act III of The Scottish Play. With any luck we will finish Macbeth this term and be able to start on our film text when we return in term 4.

We are starting a new topic in Geography this week. If you have missed class you can catch up on the notes on the wiki. Just click on this link.

Volcanoes introduction – Red Space Rocket Wiki

Here are the rest of the World War One notes.

World War One – Red Space Rocket Wiki

This week we start on our new topic – The Roaring Twenties. We will be studying this period until the end of this term.

Your World War One assignments are due this week. The work I have seen this week has been to a good standard. We are now finishing off our notes before we start on our next topic. Here is a link to the notes in case you have missed any classes.

World War One – Red Space Rocket Wiki

Don’t take your fridge on unnecessary car trips. It might leak CFC gases which are bad for the environment.

Here are the instructions for creating your own quiz.

The twelve – Red Space Rocket Wiki

It’s a noun and means someone’s appearance or the way someone looks.

demeanor – Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

No such thing as privacy: top judge – Technology – theage.com.au

I saw this article and it made me consider just how much of our information we want or expect to be private. Just a little food for thought.

In English today the soundtrack to your Macbeth was Bob Dylan’s recent album Modern Times.

War Cemeteries and Memorials at Gallipoli by canmom ( busy working )

In case you have lost your copy of the assignment you can download a fresh copy from here.

If you have any questions you can ask me in class or on the forum.