Monday, 3 November 2014

9 English Spelling - Weeks 5 & 6

Here's your 20 for the fortnight - remember that I will be checking all of your words for the term next Friday (50 in total - definitions and sentences), so be sure to bring them to class.

binoculars
foyer
literature
medicinal
doubted
abyss
neighbouring
peripheral
subdued
rechargeable
deserted
samurai
aeroplanes
obscene
illuminate
Rockefeller
intersection
bitumen
bloated
perimeter

Get it done earlier rather than later - don't set yourself up for a fail of catlike proportions


Sunday, 2 November 2014

Week 4 Spelling

For all those who didn't do it over the weekend (definitions and sentences), here's the list.  Get it done, or I will go full penguin on you.

differentiate
unquenchable
antidote
yearned
speculated
elementary
extinguishing
anxiously
kevlar
normalcy


Wednesday, 15 October 2014

10 English - Historical context

I found this useful video outlining the background of your class novel.


Wednesday, 8 October 2014

9 English Spelling - Term 4 Weeks 1 and 2

Yay! Spelling!

Learn.

Define.

Use.



Manhattan
ouroboros
unfazed
awkward
pageant
graffiti
purposeful
frightened
accident
familiar
illumination
fluorescent
unconscious
hydrant
rhythmical
intersections
acrid
dominoes
ricochet
immersed

Thursday, 28 August 2014

South Sea Islander timeline

Year
Legislation
Purpose
1868
Polynesian Labourers Act
Created to enable people to carry on their operations in tropical and semi-tropical agriculture, to secure proper treatment and protection for labourers, and security for the employer that the immigrant would fulfil their agreement.
To ensure employers notified the government of the number of indentured labourers and guarantee they were returned to their homeland after the term of the indenture (three years). To provide for a government representative on each recruitment vessel to ensure that recruits were aware of the terms of the indenture.
1872
Pacific Islanders Protection Act 1872 and 1875
Created to provide further protection for South Sea Islanders against kidnapping. Labourers and vessels carrying labourers required to have licenses, with fines issued or court action for non-compliance.
1880
Pacific Island Labourers Act
Repealed the Act of 1868.
Created to regulate and control the treatment of labourers, limit the age of recruits and return labourers to their rightful islands. To provide for medical treatments, rations and dress allowance.​
1884
Pacific Island Labourers Act
Amendment to the 1880 Act.
Created to apply further restrictions on labourers so that they could only work in unskilled agricultural work, specifically the cultivation of sugar-cane, cotton, tea, coffee, rice, spices, or other tropical or semi-tropical productions or fruits. To make illegal the supply of fire arms to South Sea Islanders.
1887
Pacific Island Labourers Act 1880 Amendment Act
Amended the definition of Pacific Islanders in the Act.
1901
Immigration Restriction Act 1901
The newly formed government of the Commonwealth of Australia enacted this legislation. Created to place restrictions on immigration by applying a dictation test. The intention of the test was to restrict entry to Australia of all non-European immigrants, such as Asians and South Sea Islanders. The Act provided for the removal of prohibited immigrants, such as South Sea Islanders.
1901
Post and Telegraph Act
Section 15 of the act provided that ships carrying Australian mail, and therefore being subsidised by the Federal government, were to only employ ‘white’ labour.
1901–1906
Pacific Islands Labourers Act
Modelled on the Queensland Pacific Island Labourers Act 1884. Created and enacted by the Commonwealth of Australia. Provided for the regulation, restriction and prohibition of labourers from the Pacific Islands. Provided for the deportation of Pacific Islanders from Australia. Exemptions were Pacific Islanders who were brought to Queensland before 1 September 1879.

Thursday, 14 August 2014

9 English - spelling Week 6

Just 10 words this fortnight to give you the extra time for your feature article (remember, due on Monday).

repetition
assonance
onomatopoeia
personification
alliteration
haiku
limerick
comparative
dappled
rhythm


I hope your week is as good as Cookie Monster's!

9 English - To This Day