Spiritual - Music through time

 Hello everyone, we are learning about the slaves since 16th centuries ago. We are looking at the music and how they have to be traded in America. The slaves would make music to lift their selves and give them hope that they could escape. Our task is to find spirituals and the hidden message behind it.  

The spirituals are a type of religious songs. They were sung in informal gatherings of slaves in praises house and bush meetings. The spirituals are used to give them hope, communicate, uplift their selves, and relay in the hidden message so they can escape.  

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman - Harriet Tubman is an ex-slave that helps the slaves to escape their owners. Harriet Tubman uses music to communicate with others and help them to escape. She created an underground railroad which is an idea of how they can escape their owners.

 

The spiritual music that I choose was...'Sweet Chariot' 

Swing low, sweet chariot,

Coming for to carry me home, 

Swing low, sweet chariot, 

Coming for to carry me home. 

I looked over Jordan and what did I see 

Coming for to carry me home, 

A band of angels coming after me, 

Coming for to carry me home. 

I you get there before I do, 

Coming for to carry me home, 

Tell all my friends that I’m coming, too, 

Coming for to carry me home.

Why did I choose this song? well, the song is really catchy and the lyrics are really nice. The song meaning is if the slave heard this song it's letting them know that a band of angels are coming to them and give them freedom. the meaning is 'the underground railroad (sweet chariot) is coming south (swing low)  to take the slaves to the north or freedom (carry me home)' 

How are these events still significant today? Well, this still affects till now because of how people not making this serious that it turns into fights. Like now, there is a  protest about the Black live matter.

Here is the song:  "Sweet chariot"

Here is the map I made for the slave trade triangle. 

Name Acronym - 10 ESOL

 Hello everyone, in ESOL we are doing a acronym with our names. We did this activity so we can get to know each other more and also give our classroom with colours. Here is the acronym that I made with my name. 

I put these words in my names because it’s how they describe me.

I have to pick 2 letters that describe me. I pick artistic and imaginative.

Imaginative - I pick this because I love to imagine things so I can get out of the real world. This also helps me to do some work.

Artistic - I pick this because I like to do art and be creative with art. This helps me visual stuff and that’s why I like it.

Cyber safety

In this ICT we are learning about cyber safety. we played some games about it and these games us about keeping us safe from the internet. 

Cybersafety tells us to be careful in the virtual world and never share any private pieces of information about your life.

Examples of dangerous things on the internet are

• Cyberbullying
• hackers
• kidnappers 
• pedophiles 
• theft of identity/catfishing 
• scammers 
• offensive images
• invasion of  privacy

How will you know you're secure? You can make a more secure password like, make uppercase letters, put numbers in it, and put 8 special characters. 

 

 

321 RIQ - 10 ESOL

 Hello everyone, today in ESOL we are learning about 321 RIQ. First I have to explain the meaning behind about 321 RIQ. 321 RIQ meaning is 3 Recalls, 2 Insight, 1 Question. The 321 RIQ helps our learning by remembering 3 things about the lessons that the teacher have taught, learning 2 new things that we haven't learned, and 1 question that we haven't ask the teacher. The strategy is that we will have much better literacy and we can always ask the teacher if we are to shy to ask in front of the class. This also can help our teacher to understand what we are up to, or what type of learner we are.

 321 RIQ reflection:

In ESOL, the 3 things that I remember about our lessons is introducing ourselves, we also learned more about our teacher and classmates, and also we learned the 321 RIQ. 2 things that I learnt about it is that I know my classmates more and also get to know my teacher Mrs Truter. I also learned more about the 321 RIQ, about the meaning behind it and how this will help our learning. 1 question I want or I want to know more about is, our teacher Mrs Truter, I want to learn more about her since she's still new in Hornby High school, and I want to get to know her more. 

In conclusion is that 321 RIQ will help our studies more because we can improve our writing and also our literature. This can also help our classmates to understand the lessons we had and this can also give information about what level of learning we are in.

Hurumanu 3 - Chaos - Black death

 Hello everyone, this chemical and chaos we are learning about The Black death, but right now we are learning about Fleas and rats. We are asked to make a Basic paragraph about the subject of black death, we have to get a topic about it. Here is the paragraph I made about it.

Basic Body Paragraph. 

Fleas and Rats. The fleas and rats were the problems to have the pandemic about the black death, it

causes a lot of problems around the city that had been hit by the black death. The black death started in

China and pass it through the ships trading routes westward to the Mediterranean. It then reached Rome,

the centre of an elaborate web of trading routes, Florence, Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and London.

The fleas were very dangerous at that time because the fleas pass the bacteria from the rat to a human. Rats

were a pest and they would always eat human foods. Rats would always eat something they think it’s edible.

Rats go to places that they shouldn’t and that’s how the fleas go to rats and fleas would jump to another rat

or person to get rid of the blood and get another blood from someone or something.

Timeline

Hello everyone, this Hurumanu 3 we have been working on a timeline about the black death. We have to make the timeline and pick what or when was the chaos. There's no much information about it and it's more like the time and pictures.  Here is the timeline I made. 

Evaporation Experiment

Hello everyone today we are doing evaporation while doing the experiment we are looking at the changes in the water and also see the evaporating basin. The experiment was fun because we used bunsen burner, I had to lit a fire by a lighter. The water was condensing, steaming, boiling and evaporating. At the bottom are the aim, hypothesis and the equipment used. 

Separating a Mixture using Evaporation:

Aim: why you are doing the experiment

To separate a solution into a solvent and solute using evaporation.

Hypothesis: what you think will happen, and why….

I think it will heat up and the copper sulfate will leave some crystal at the sides.

Equipment: Copper sulfate solution, 250mL Beaker, heatproof mat, evaporating basin, element. 

Method: 

1. Set up element

2. Add 100mL of hot water to the beaker and place on the element.

3. Add copper sulfate to the evaporating basin until it is quarter full.

4. Carefully, place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker. 

5. Turn on the element to 3

6. Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated and crystals of solute are forming. 

7. Turn off the element- be careful not to touch, as it will be hot for a long time.

Observations: What did you see, hear etc when doing the experiment.

The boiling was loud so you could hear the boil of the water and also you can hear the gas.

Conclusion: Was your hypothesis correct?

yes, the crystal stayed and it has some a little bit of kinda glitter.

Discussion: What happened and why… using your scientific keywords (Evaporating, Solvent, solute, solution, mixture, heat, boil) The water started boiling because of the heat and while it was boiling the steam started coming out of the beaker. When it

Evaluation: Did you enjoy the experiment? Why? What would you do differently next time? 

I enjoyed it because I'm learning something new and I had fun with my group but some people in our group sometimes don't really do anything so I would like to change it.

Copper sulfate is poisonous

KEYWORDS:

-Evaporating

-Solvent

-Solute

-Solution

-Mixture

-Heat

-Boil

Here are the pictures that we took.