introduction

Basic introduction

Qr:

Q stands for a quote- a quote from the text 

R stands for rhetorical Question- A question that is not meant to have an answer 

TAKO:

T- Title 'The Merchant of Venice'

A-Auther, William Shakespeare 

K- Key Argument, Use words from the question/ what are you arguing- A key moment that shocked was when Antonio agreed to pay a pound of his flesh to shylock if he didn't repay his bond the reader.

O- Outline- When you tell the reader the three things in your argument.

Red: He was willing to die for money for Bassanio

White: Shylock and Antonio hate each other 

Blue: Shylock does not show mercy

"If you wrong us, we shell not revenge?". (Shakespeare-Shylock) Have you ever wanted to seek revenge?. In Williams Shakespeare  'The Merchant of Venice' a key moment that shocked the reader was when Antonio agreed to forfeit the bond a pound of flesh to shylock if he didn't repay his bond. This moment was shocking, outrages and fascinating. this moment was important to this text as a whole because shylock and Antonio didn't like each other but still agreed on the bond, Antonio was willing to risk his life for Bassanio, and Shylock did not show mercy in claiming his bond.

Basic Body paragraph x3
P: Point- The moment when Antonio agreed to the bond was shocking because of shylock and Antonio didn't get along.
E: Evidence- Antonio was a Merchant And Shylock Made a living by lending people money with interest. While Shylock charged interest, Antonio lent money without interest and scorned Sylock was doing so. He also spat and called him a "cut-throat dog".
E: Explain( how the evidence proves the point)- Therefore, the reader is shocked to discover Antonio and Shylock can come to an agreement about money lending. It is also shocking because when Shylock calls Antonio out for the way he treats him, Antonio tells Shylock that he will spit on him and calls him a dog again. This treatment is not usual between people who make agreements
L: Link( Link back to my key argument)- With this treatment like this from Antonio towards Shylock, And to promise to be just as cruel in the future it is Shocking that they both agreed to the bond.
Paragraph 2
P: The reader knew that Antonio and Bassanio were best friends but the reader was shocked when Antonio said he will risk his life to die for friendship and so that Bassanio can get a wife.
E: When They settled the bond he went to shylock to get the money because he didn't have the money at the moment they make a deal about the bond, Antonio was risking his vessels so he can pay off the bond and if he will lose a pound of flesh and with die. He thought it would be a good idea to give him the money so he can find the love of him life.
E: The reader knew that Antonio was being serious and he is a great friend because whenever Bassanio said "no don't do it that is a bad idea" Antonio said something along the lines like "I don't care I want you to be happy with Portia"
L:

Sentence starters

Adver sentence:
We use it to add interesting and intriguings sentences to our story.

Words we can use:  Quickly, curiously, Importantly, interestingly, Firstly, Often, Almost, Remarkably, Similarly, significantly, Surprisingly readily, Sadly, Controlling.  

W-start sentence 
we use it to sound thoughtful and knowledgeable.

Words we can use: Who, While, Whilst, When, Were, What, whereas 

Here are some examples:

 Surprisingly, everyone was at school on time.

Often, I like to eat,

Surprisingly, Mrs handly was not grumpy today, Who made her happy?

Savagely, Sharlisa had a fight with a girl whilst, Sofia was eating her food

begin a preposition;
A word that indicates location or movement.

Words we can use: In, On, Between, Against, Over, Under, Before, After, Behind, Within, For, Throughout, Near, About.

Here are some examples: 
Throughout the class, The students worked on the writing.

Between me and my siblings, I am my dads favorite. 

Before 1968, Hornby hight school was not a thing,

After My rugby game, I ate food.

Within the family, I am my older brothers favorite.

Red, White, and Blue:
Use the red, white and blue sentence style when you have several ideas to convoy about a topic.

Words we can use: 
You can use any words it just means it had three ideas or something of what you are writing about.

Here are some examples:
The idea of racism is memorable in 'Merchant of Venice' because of shylock, Judaism and conflict.

The essentials in rugby are passing, kicking and tackling.

The essentials of fortnite are you need to be good at building, shooting and editing.

When you want to play volleyball you need to know how to pass, spike, and serving 

my sphero got robbed!! (in the hood cops called)

The past couple of weeks we have been learning about coding and sphero, We have been trying to make our own game and see how well it worked out. Before we started to the code we needed to download an app called sphero.edu in the app store on our phones. here is a link of the base of my code. https://edu.sphero.com/cwists/preview/2143x, also here is my plan and my code and evaluation.

 

Sphero Ideas

(This game has to have 2 players)

1. Guess the animal sound,

We thought of an idea where the sphero will play an animal sound, you would then have to finish the lyrics. If you said the lyrics correctly then the sphero would then move 1 step towards your direction. When you get the sphero to take 5 steps into your direction you win.

Song Ideas:

Old Town Road, Just Lose It, Riptide

(Two or more players)

2. Family Feud,

              We could use this idea as a questionnaire type game using questions about our world and how we use technology, basically the same idea as the first but with  questions

Our Game:

  Finish the song lyrics

First, we are going to have to put the blocks in the right place and then using the coding blocks put the function as a random loop to play them in random order. Then we would have to ensure that the sphero moves in the right direction. When and if the player gets it right, We also have to learn how to let the sphero know if the player got the answer wrong or right. We will also have to decide how many questions we will do, an idea is that they could range in difficulty.

Evaluation

When I was learning to code I thought it would be just a couple of clicks but now I know how to do it, it is a little bit harder then I thought. I think taking this class and opportunity was a great choice because now I have learned new things and maybe it will help me later on in life.

Shylock Character Study #1

Shylock Character Study #1-

• Make a list of the insults and names Shylock has been called in the text so far. cut trough dog, usara and stood dido

• Find quotes in the text that show Shylock’s hurt, his rage, his loneliness.
• Do you think he cares more about losing the ducats or his daughter? Why? His money because with out his money he cant live and he went out on the streets with the kids chasing him. (Black Pg. 83, Blue Pg.56)
• Shylock is powerless to get back his daughter or his ducats but Antonio is now in his power. Find the first mention of Shylock taking revenge on Antonio. Do you think his thoughts of revenge are justified?, give reasons. no because he doesn't say what he is going to do to Antonio he just says hes going to get revenge.
• A3S1 lines Black P. 95, L.54-62, Blue P. 63, L. 47-65 What sentiment is Shylock trying to express here, do you find sympathy for him here? He is showing frustration and he is trying to explain what they don't have in common
• Choose one ‘Hath not..’ quote and explain it. Hath not a Jews eyes. I think he means if he was a christian with christian eyes he would seethe devil

3D ID Tag

In this term, we have been making a 3D design on Maori tikis or dog tags/id tags on tinkercad.

 We have been learning about how to use a 3D printer.today was the first day I got to try and make my id tag on a 3D printer. 

When I first started to learn how to use the machine I thought it was going to be easy as but once we started to learn how to use it, It was a little bit hard because we had to learn on how to make it the right high and how big we needed to make our work.

the measurement of the id tag I have made The length of the id tag is 90mm the width is 60mm and the thickness of it is 5mm the color is grey and we sanded the back with emery cloth.

my id tag has created and made for me it is to show my name and when I was born.

Can do task

Act Four: Create Tasks: (select and complete two, post to your blog)

• Research In the Shakespeare court we have a judge. What positions are needed in a modern law court to hold a fair trial and how does each function. Which system do you think is fairer, that in the play, or that of modern day?
• Artistic After the trial, a painting named ‘The Evil Shylock’ has been commissioned by Gratiano to reflect his very extreme and intolerant feelings about Shylock. The picture shows the moment where Shylock is sharpening the knife. Create this artwork.
• Vocabulary Find the meanings of the following words: Rigorous, Remorse, Malice, Abject, Epitaph, Inexecrable, Ravenouse & Impugn.
• Create Shylock gives many reasons throughout the play for his disdain for Antonio. Create a visual of these with Shylock at the center. Were his reasons valid?

I am doing vocabulary and the research task

Rigorous means that your very very careful on what you do.

Remorse means when feel very stupid about something you have done.

Malice means when you really want to hurt someone.

Abject means a prob or something you can hold.

Epitaph means a phrase or a quote in memory to remember someone.

Inexecrable means when you do something bad and you deserve the punishment.

Ravenous means when you are really hungry or haven't ate in a long time.

Impugn means when you tell the truth to someone.

• Judge, Barrister and Court Administrative Office [many more Im just doing the main people]
• Judge is the one who decides of who's side is more to the story and convincing. The Barrister is someone who gives help the victim or suspect. The police who handles like the money in court and other things like belongings.
• I like modern day court because it is more fear because back n the old days they could make something up and the Judge will just go with it.

Act 4 Scene one line study

Act Four, Scene One- Line Study

1. A4S1 Line 70-83 (Black Pg. 151, Blue Pg.87) Antonio gives us three short images of how useless any attempt by Bassanio to save his life will be? I think that Antonio just wants to just fie so he has given up on living and just wants to get it done.

• What are they?(idk)
• What do they tell us about one of Shakespeare's interests. I'm not really into Shakespeare this is the first time knowing what it is.
• Do you think this is an effective way of demonstrating the problem. (I don't know what this means)
• Each example is an extreme and impossible, what influence does this have on how you expect the rest of the scene to develop. I think Antonio is going to get more miserable.

2. A4S1 L90-100 (Black Pg. 88-, Blue Pg.151-152) , Shylock uses vivid comparisons when he wants to make a point. when he compared money to his flesh.

• What example does he use to illustrate the fact that the pound of flesh is his: ‘tis mine and I will have it’ I think he just want's to get the cutting so he doesn't have to worry about it anymore.
• It is much longer comparison than the three used by Antonio  but do you think it is more striking/effective/convincing? I think he thinks hes lost everything and he doesn't want to live anymore. it was pretty effective because u think he was trying to make Shylock feel bad.

Act four, Scene one

Act Four, Scene One

1. What does the Duke believe Shylock intends to do? All of Venice And the duke believes hes doing it for attention and will let him of for not having the money (Black Pg. 147, Blue Pg.85)
2. What does Shylock intend to do? take the pound of flesh rather the money because he thinks its funny and not let him off for not having the money.
3. Finish this quote that tells us why, ‘You’ll ask me why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh than to receive Three thousand ducats. I’ll not answer that,but to say it is my humour’ (Black Pg. 149, Blue Pg.86)
4. What two loopholes does Portia find in the wording of the contract? He didn't say there will be blood shown, Hes not allowed to take less or more flesh(Black Pg. 165-167, Blue Pg.95-96)
5. Shylock now has to pay penalties. Complete this quotes that tell us what the penalties are: ‘I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it. For half thy wealth, it is Antonio’s. The other half comes to the general state' (Black Pg. 169, Blue Pg.97)
6. Are the penalties fair? Why/why not. No because hes loosing everything just because he mucked up his contract and they make him change over to Christianity.
7. How do Lorenzo and Jessica gain by the result? he gets half Shylock wealth and house when he dies
8. What reward has Portia claimed and why is this significant? Bassanios ring.
9. Portia tells Shylock ‘The quality of mercy is not strained’. How does she try to persuade Shylock to show mercy, how much mercy is she willing to show him? She is showing a lot of mercy. by trying o give him more options ((Black Pg. 157-159, Blue Pg.91-92)

Black- Question
Red- Answer

Can do Task 1.

On July the 4th, Me and the crew went to sail the sea to find treasure ducats for our boss so his best friend can sail to his dream girl and try marry her. On the 1st day on the water it was pretty calm we found about 25.5 thousand ducats we raided them on a sucking ship wreck. (day 2) When we were going to this island the water got pretty ruff so we tried to find  the money as fast as we can it took us about an hour to find the money there was 50.35 Thousand ducats.

 We found enough money for out boat because there was another 2 boats out to see to get money. We were on our way back a Venice until all of a sudden the water got crazy. We tried to contain calm and not worry and we tried to get all the water out of the boat, Until we hit an ice burg and the bottom of the boat was destroyed and I have never been so scared in my life I thought I was going to die.

 The boat sunk every one on the boat could not swim apart from me. We were 500 meters away from Venice and I swam until I hit the beach. When I got to the beach I was so happy, But so sad because all my friends on the boat didn't make it. I was disappointed in my self because now I believe I could of helped them and not watched them because I was scared that I could not hold them.

Act 3 Sceane 4

Act Three, Scene Four

1. Finish this quote that shows Lorenzo’s opinion of Antonio? ‘But if you knew to whom you show this honour, How true a gentleman you send relief’ (Black Pg. 131, Blue Pg.78)
2. What does Portia tell Lorenzo she intends to do? She is going to the monitory to pray as a nun.  (Black Pg. 133, Blue Pg.79)
3. What does she ask Lorenzo and Jessica to do for her and why? I commit into your hands, The husbandry and manage of my house Until my lord’s return. 
4. Why do Portia and Nerissa intend to travel dressed as men? so they know what is going on in the court room because woman cant go in the court room.
5. Finish this quote which shows how Portia describes the behaviour and attitudes of young men. ‘Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies, How honorable ladies sought my love, Which I denying, they fell sick and died’ (Black Pg. 13-, Blue Pg.81)
6. Does it seem likely that Portia is going to follow the expected  behaviour of a wife?

Act Three, Scene Five

1. In his jokey conversation with Jessica, why is Launcelot against the conversion of Jews to Christianity? Because they will buy more pork and that he wont be able to buy any because it will be to expensive.
2. What is Jessica’s opinion of Portia? Jessica thinks bassanio is really lucky to marrying portia.

Black = Question

Red = Answer

Act 3 scene two

1. Why does Portia want Bassanio to delay his choice?  Because she loves him and is worried he will make the wrong choice.
2. Complete this quote ‘I pray you _Tarry, pause a _Day or two before you Hazard, for in choosing Wrong I lose your company’ (Black Pg. 105, Blue Pg.66)
3. What makes Bassanio choose lead over the silver and gold caskets? Finish this quote, ‘Thou meagre lead which rather threatenest than dost promise aught, thy paleness moves me more than eloquence, and here choose I’ (Black Pg. 111, Blue Pg.69)
4. Complete Portia’s speech that tells us the expected roles of a woman in marriage. ‘Myself and what is mine, to you and Yours is now converted’ (Black Pg. 113, Blue Pg.71)
5. What does the above quote mean? She had to give her self to him
6. What did Gratiano’s and Nerissa’s wish to marry depend on? (Black Pg. 116-7, Blue Pg.72-3)- Answer= It depended on Bassanio and Portia
7. How does Portia know that the letter contains bad news? (Black Pg. 119, Blue Pg.72-3) - Answer= Bassanio goes pale when he reads the letter
8. What help does Portia offer straightaway? (Black Pg. 123, Blue Pg.76)  She offers to lend money
9. Why do we not expect this help to be successful? Because he wants the pound of flesh
10. Do you think Portia would still be in love with Bassanio if she knew he had lied about his wealth? Yes, Because she already loved him