Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Term 1 Week 3 (Tuesday)

Assignment
1) Math AB 2.3 and 2.4
2) Math Fraction Problem Sum - Create a Problem Sum of your own
3) English Synthesis Worksheet
4) Spelling (15 words)

Reminder
1) Situational Writing Booklet $2.50
2) Newspaper Cutting Book due on Thursday
3) PE attire!
4) Math Olympiad Training tomorrow

Question Of the Day:
1) What language is "apartheid" in?
2) Which European countries had ruled South Africa before?
3) Who was the first person to sail to Cape of Good Hope? Where was he from?

12 comments:

  1. The word "aparthied" is in Afrikaans language.
    The English and Dutch had ruled South Africa before.
    The first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, who named it the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). It was later renamed by John II of Portugal as "Cape of Good Hope" (Cabo da Boa Esperança) because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of a sea route to India and the East.

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  2. Apartheid is in Afrikaans language.

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  3. Apartheid is Afrikaan.
    b)Germany, Belgium, England, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal
    c)Bartolomeu Dias, he was from Portugal

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  4. Hi Everyone, here is the link to the energy song all of you heard in class today. Do enjoy it again and allow someone else to hear it too =)

    http://www.kidsknowit.com/educational-songs/play-educational-song.php?song=Kinetic+And+Potential+Energy

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  5. Remember to submit: 1) Science Wkst 1 by Thur (Do it properly!), 2) Bring your photo collage (already done) and glue this Friday. I've your photos ready for pasting. =)

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  6. is it spellled as aparthied or apartheid?

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  7. The first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, who named it the "Cape of Storms". It was later renamed by John II of Portugal as "Cape of Good Hope" because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of a sea route to India and the East.

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  8. here's a website that can answer q2:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Africa#Colonization

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  9. Its language is Afrikaans and it symbolizes white supremacy. It has been heavily influenced by tribal dialects and is widely spoken by South Africans of mixed and black racial origins.

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  10. b)France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and England

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  11. c)Bartolomeu Dias was the first to sail to the Cape of Good Hope. He was from Portugal.

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  12. The Best is Yet To BeJanuary 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM

    Can I suggest that all of you find time to watch this movie, maybe even as P6D to watch "Invictus". It is showing now in the cinemas. On the surface, it is about rugby but it is really about the consequences of apartheid, and how Mandela decided to help the country reconcile through supporting their team -- the Springboks -- and forgetting the colour of their skin. Maybe, we can suggest to Mr Soh? See this scene to get an impression how inspiration gave hope to a country to achieve something that nobody believe they could and to recover from the ill-effects of apartheid.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPhXoOF0DII&feature=channel

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