Basic Introduction

Basic Introduction

QR: Quote, from the text.
Rhetorical Question, a question you don't have to answer.
T=Title, 'The Merchant of Venice'
A=Author, William Shakespeare
K=Key Argument,  use words from the question, what you are arguing,
A key moment that surprised was when Shylock doesn't get his pound of flesh.
A key moment that shocked the reader was when Antonio agreed to pay a pound of his flesh to Shylock if he didn't repay his bond.
O=Outline, The three things you are going to write about, Red, White and Blue sentence.
He was willing to die for money to give Bassanio.
Shylock and Antonio hate each other.
Shylock doesn't show mercy.

"If you wrong us, shall we not revenge" Shakespeare, have you ever felt like taking revenge? In William Shakespeare's 'A Merchant of Venice' a key moment that shocked the reader was when Antonio agreed to pay a pound of his flesh to Shylock if he didn't repay his bond. This moment was shocking, outrageous and fascinating. This moment was important to the text as a whole because Antonio and Shylock didn't like each other but still agreed on the the bond, Antonio was willing to risk his life for Bassanio, and Shylock did not show mercy in claiming his bond.

Adverbs and W-Starts

Sentences

Adverb Sentence
We use it to add interest and intrigue.
Adverb (commer) sentence
Quickly, Curiously, Importantly, Firstly, Interestingly, Often, Almost, Remarkably, Similarly, Significantly, Surprisingly, Readily, Happily, Consequently.
Sentence: Surprisingly, everyone was on time at school on time.
Curiously, the cat crept around the object.
Unsurprisingly, my cousins and I sung the songs from the musical line for line.

W-Start Sentence
We use it to sound thoughtful and knowledgeable
Who, while, whist, when, where, what, whereas.
Sentence: While the teacher was talking, Alesha was watching YouTube.
Whist we were walking to the park we sung, unsurprisingly it felt like a shorter walk than normal.
When my friend told me about what she had found over the weekend, she was bounding up and down.

Unsurprisingly, I broke, whist they teased and bullied me.
Whist I tried to talk, unsurprisingly everyone else desied to talk over me.

Finaly, once my cousins found the musical we could share our views on it.
Whist we listened to music late into the night, unsurprisingly we were tired in the morning.

Begin With a Preposition
Preposition a word that indicates location or movement
In, On, At, Between, Against, Over, Under, Before, After, Behind, Within, For, Through, Near, About
Sentence: Though out the class, the students worked on their writing.
On the first Sunday of every month, there is a market.
In the weekend, I go to the library.

Red, White and Blue Sentance
Use this when you need to give more than one idea on a topic.
Example: The idea of racism is memorable in The Merchant of Venice because of Shylock, Judaism and conflict.
The essential of ruby are kicking, passing and tacking.
Sentence: The first impression of a book is it's cover, spine and title

The End...

Act Five, Scene One

1. Why do Lorenzo and Jessica remind each of the stories of classical lovers?
2. What are Portia’s feelings as she approaches the house?
3. What is the first argument to break out?
4. How do Gratiano and Bassanio try to justify parting with the rings, are they successful?
5. Was Bassanio right to give away the ring, give reasons for your thinking.
6. What effect do these arguments have on Antonio?
7. Portia and Nerissa have the rings. What does this prove to Antonio, Gratiano and each a  Bassanio?
8. How do Antonio, Lorenzo and Jessica benefit from news that Portia brings?

1. To show that, even though their stories may have some parallels they are not like them, and that they unlike the other couples, they will have a happy ending.
2. She is happy to be home after a job well done.
3. Nerissa notices that Gratiano’s ring is no longer on his finger.
4. They say it was to repay the judge and his clerk for a job well done and for saving Antonio's life, and of course their argument doesn't work.
5. Bassanio had no right to give away the ring, he had sworn to only to take off the ring when he no longer loves Portia. It was stupid of him to do that, he shouldn’t have even considered doing that, giving the ring away to anyone under any circumstance.
6. Antonio feels terrible because he is the cause for the arguments and is willing to put his life on the line again for their happiness.
7. They prove that they were the doctor and the clerk, and in a way they prove their loyalty to their husbands, their cunningness and their intelligence.
8. Portia revealed that Antonio’s ships have not sunk and they are in port and Lorenzo and Jessica will receive all of Shylock’s money and land once he dies.

Line Study

Act Four, Scene One- Line Study
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
What are they?
What do they tell us about one of Shakespeare's interests
Do you think this is an effective way of demonstrating the problem.
Each example is an extreme and impossible, what influence does this have on how you expect the rest of the scene to develop.

I pray you question the Jew. You may as well go stand upon the beach and bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may use question with the wolf why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines to wag their high tops and to make no noise when they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;

The first is, in the second Antonio asks Bassonio if he would ask the wolf why it killed the lamb and made it mother cry, in the last Anotnio asks Bassnio

A4S1 L90-100 (Black Pg. 88-, Blue Pg.151-152) , Shylock uses vivid comparisons when he wants to make a point.
What example does he use to illustrate the fact that the pound of flesh is his: ‘tis mine and I will have it’
It is much longer comparison than the three used by Antonio  but do you think it is more striking/effective/convincing?

What judgement shall I dread, doing no wrong? You have among you many a purchased slave, Which like your assas, and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you brought them, shall I say to you. Let them be free, marry them to your heirs? Why sweat they under burthens? Let their beds be made as soft as yours, and let the palates be seasoned with such viands. You will answer, ‘the slaves are ours’; so do I answer you. The pound of flesh which I demand of him is dearly bought, ‘tis mine and I will have it.

He uses their slaves and how horribly they treat them, that they are treated like the animals that they also have brought.
Yes

Goverment: Dictators

In Social Studies this term we are looking at different types of government. For this activity we wrote a paragraph about the main characteristics that we think Dictators have.

I think that the characteristics dictators mostly have are controlling, power-hungry, manipulative, ambitious, unemphatic, dishonest and greedy.

Dictators are the sole rulers of a lot of people, that gives them a lot of power, in time that power can go to their head causing them to become corrupt leading them to become controlling, power-hungry, manipulative, ambitious, unemphatic, dishonest and greedy.

In WWII Hitler controlled the people of Germany with lies enabling to have full control of them, turning people against others like Jews.

These are a few characteristics the I think Dictators have.

Court Scene

Act Four, Scene One

1. What does the Duke believe Shylock intends to do? (Black Pg. 147, Blue Pg.85) 
2. What does Shylock intend to do?
3. Finish this quote that tells us why, ‘You’ll ask me why I r------- choose to have a w------ of carrion f-----, than to receive three thousand d-----. I’ll not answer that, but to say it is my h------, is it answered?’ (Black Pg. 149, Blue Pg.86) 
4. What two loopholes does Portia find in the wording of the contract? (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 l---- before thou ask it, For h---- thy w------, it is A------, the other h--- comes to the g------- state’ (Black Pg. 169, Blue Pg.97) 
6. Are the penalties fair? Why/why not.
7. How do Lorenzo and Jessica gain by the result?
8. What reward has Portia claimed and why is this significant?
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 ((Black Pg. 157-159, Blue Pg.91-92) )

1. The Duke thinks that Shylock will let Antonio go.
2. Shylock intenes to get his pound of flesh.
3. ‘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, is it answered?’
4. There is no blood meached in the bond so Shylock can not spill a drop of his blood, Shylock will have exactly what was written in the bond. In the bond it says that he has to cut exactly one pound of flesh from Antonio.
5. ‘I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it, For half thy wealth, it is Antonio, the other half comes to the general state’
6. It’s not fair that Antonio makes Shylock become a Chistain
7. The money that was meant to go to Antonio will instead go to Lorenzo and Jessica.
8. Bassanio's ring, which she made him swear he would never take off, give away or lose.
9. Portia tries using Shylock's religion, mercy and more money to convince Shylock to change his mind but he still insists on having his pound of flesh, she shows him a lot of mercy before she turns around and uses it against him

Act Four, Scene Two

1. What invitation does Portia refuse and why?
2. What does Nerissa plan to get, why do you think this is important?
3. Do you admire Portia after these scenes, or do you find her actions cruel. Use examples to support your thinking. 

1. To have dinner with Antonio, Gratiano and Bassanio
2. Nerissa plans on getting her husbands ring as well also making his swear not to take it off, give it away or lose it, she like Portia is testing her husband loyalty to her.
3. I admire her loyalty to her husband and how she lets nothing stop her even being a woman and how they are supposed to act. I admire her intelligence that she shows in the court especially since she’s a woman and is often described as pretty and rich, and often women aren’t porterated as being very bright and often pushovers, even in today's society.

Homemade Bottle Openers

So far this term we made bottle openers. First we had to measure 10 mm from the top and the sides. next we used the beat sander, to sand off the sharp edges and to create the handle. After that we drilled the two holes with a hand drill then I added details on the back with a poker machine and screwed in the screws.  Here is a few photos of it finished.