The Merchant Of Venice: Act 4

Act Four, Scene One

1. What does the Duke believe Shylock intends to do? Show no mercy
2. What does Shylock intend to do, and what reasons does he give for his decision? Cut a pound of flesh from Antonio because he just dosent like him
3. Why must the law be allowed to stand (why can’t the judge dismiss this case) He must cut exactly one pound no more or no less
4. Shylock is very clear about the restrictions in the wording of the deed, how does Portia use these loopholes? No blood and Mercy
5. What penalties does Shylock now have to pay? Are they fair? Why/why not. Half his wealth to Antonio and the other half to the general state
6. How do Lorenzo and Jessica gain by the result? Antonio would go along with Shylock punishment if his money was given to Lorenzo and Jessica
7. What reward has Portia claimed and why is this significant? She gets half of Shylock's property when he dies
8. 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 (line 345-362) Portia gives a speech about mercy, she saying No one shows mercy and that's because he has to.

Act Four, Scene Two

1. What invitation does Portia refuse and why? The duke asked her to dinner and she said no because she had to leave to Padua straight away.
2. What does Nerissa plan to get, why do you think this is important? He husbands ring
3. Do you admire Portia after these scenes, or do you find her actions cruel. Use examples to support your thinking. Cruel.

SDL Goals and Reflections

My goals for this week are to finish all my work and maybe even read a few times.
Reflection: I didn't do one last week because was absent but I think I did well the days I was here.

Merchant of Venice Act 2:

Act Two, Scene One

1. We have watched racial and religious tensions at work in A1S3. The Prince of Morocco opens A2S1 with another sensitive issue. What is it? He dosent want people to judge him on his race and wants people to accept him.
2. If Antonio loses his gamble, he must forfeit a pound of flesh. What must Portia’s suitors give up if they fail to win her? Can't talk about marriage to any other women.
3. What is Portia’s opinion of the Prince of Morocco- give examples. Agrees that he is right and people should accept him for who he is and dont judge him because of his race.

Act Two, Scene Two

1. Why does Launcelot want to leave Shylock? Give evidence from the text to support your thinking. Launcelot feels like Shylock does not feed him enough because he can fit his finger in between his ribs.
2. Why is Bassanio worried about taking Gratiano with him to Belmont?

In lines 114-142... He thinks Gratiano will drink too much

3. Launcelot and his father are very anxious to find Launcelot a new job. They both want to impress Bassanio. This leads to

a. frequent interruptions-He hath a great infection sir, as one would say, to serve-

b. contradictions- Here's my son sir, a poorboy- Not a poor boy sir, but the rich Jew's son.

Act Two, Scene Three

1. What does Jessica think of her life at home? Give evidence from the text to support your thinking. She thinks it''s hell.
2. Which of Bassanio’s friends is Jessica planning to marry? Lorenzo

Act Two, Scene Four

1. How does Jessica get a message to her lover? Sends a note
2. How will she be disguised for the elopement? Wear a page (Man's suit)

Act Two, Scene Five

1. Why is Shylock uneasy about going out for the evening? Give evidence from the text to support your thinking. He has a feeling that something bad is going to happen. He says: And they have conspired together, There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, for I did dream of money bags tonight.

Act Two, Scene Six

1. How does Launcelot manage to tell Jessica that Lorenzo will be there that evening? From the note
2. What does Jessica throw down to Lorenzo? A casket
3. Why is Antonio looking for Gratiano? Gratiano said he wants to come with them.

Act Two, Scene Seven

1. Which casket does the Prince of Morocco think is worthy to contain Portia’s portrait. Use evidence of the text to justify your answer. Gold beause he thought that was the richest. "He unlocks the golden casket"
2. How is Portia feeling in A2S7 -at the beginning, -while the Prince is making his choice, at the end. Nervous because she dosent want to marry him and at the end revealed
3. What was Portia's father trying to achieve by the use of the caskets. Does this seem to be working? To try to impress Portia, Not Really working because she dosent like any of them

Act Two, Scene Eight

1. What double disaster has struck Shylock? His daughter ran away with a Christian and She stole his money and jewels.
2. Where did Shylock think Lorenzo & Jessica might be? On Bassanio's ship
3. How did Bassanio and Antonio part? Antonio's ship
4. What is the first suggestion of trouble for Antonio? Find a quote that tells you this. His boats sunk at sea with all of his money on them "I thought upon Antonio when he told me, And wished in silence that it were not his"

Act Two, Scene Nine

1. What is the purpose of the rhymes in the caskets? To teach people a lesson.
2. Why does the Prince of Arragon discard the golden caskets. What does his interpretation of the inscription tell us about his character? Because he wants what he deserves, Greedy.
3. What is Portia’s reaction to Bassanio’s arrival? Surprised, Happy, Excited.

SDL Goals

For this week my goals are to complete all my work for the week and totry and move up in my licensee in English

SDL Reflection & Goals

My Goals for this week are to get my licence moved up.
Last week I believe I did my work well last week.

The Merchant Of Venice Act One

Act One Scene One:

1. Antonio is depressed without knowing why. What two possible reasons do his friends suggest? He worried about his boats and He's sad because hes not happy

2. Do you think Gratiano’s contributions help Antonio’s mood? Not really
   
3. What are your first impressions of Bassanio? He's poor
   
4. Is he in love? Maybe
   
5. Why does he need to borrow money again now? To get Portia

Act One, Scene Two

1. How do Portia’s first words compare with Antonio’s?  One’s depressed ones tired
2. What is the reason for her mood? All of the men chasing them.
3. Do you think Nerissa is a help to her? Not really, I feel like she was just annoying her
4. Sum up, in a word or a short phrase, Portia’s attitude to her suitors so far. Ungrateful.

Act One, Scene Three:

1. Shylock is a moneylender. Does he seem eager to do business with Bassanio? How do you know? Yes because he knows what he gets if he dosent get payed back
2. Which does Shylock think is safe, his business or Antonio’s? Why? Because its a win, win situation for him.
3. Why doesn’t Shylock want to dine with Bassanio and Antonio? Hes a Jew and Jews dont eat pork
4. What strict principal of his is Antonio breaking to help Bassanio? He agreed to get a pound of flesh cut out instead of getting charged interest
5. Shylock tells a bible story to prove that the taking of profit is blessed, as long as thieving is not involved. Does he convince Antonio? Give evidence. No because Antonio never likes charging Interest
6. Shylock accuses Antonio of a whole catalogue of nastiness. How does Antonio answer the charges? He says he may do that stuff again
7. How does Bassanio react to the proposed bond? He dosent want Antonio to do it

Can Do Tasks:

Vocabulary: Find the definition of the following words, Venture, Vessel, Signor, Mortifying, Profound, Exhortation, Virtuous and Squandered.

Venture-Something new which involves the risk of failure or of losing money.

Vessel-Ship or large boat

Signor-Italian for sir

Mortifying-Embarrassing or Humiliating

Profound-Great in degree or intensity

Exhortation- An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.

Virtuous- Behaving with showing moral virtue

Squandered- Waste something especially money or time.

Character Web:

Absurd Warnings

The goal for this task is to, Select 5-10 objects. For each object, write an absurd warning label that could be placed on the object when it is sold.

PG 3's:

Warning. If you are not a sporty person, then these shoes are not for you. Basketball players only, depending on who you are they may be lacking ankle support. User Discretion is advised.

Xbox Controller: Warning, this item may make your fingers cramp up. It makes your hand form into an uncomfortable position. Also this item is very easy to break and you also have to apply batteries about every 3 hours. User discretion is advised.

Air-pods: Warning this item may cause bleeding eardrums. They also might fall out and all that money you wasted on them is just gone. User discretion is advised.

Football: Warning this product may break your feet, when kicked the ball is that solid that your foot shatters into pieces. User discretion is advised.

GSW Jersey: Warning- this item is very dangerous. When worn not only is is very ugly it is the most uncomfortable jersey ever. When worn and out in public you are now known as a bandwagon.

By the way this is all a joke:)

In Santa's Defence

In Santa’s defence the kids list read ‘velociraptor’, not ‘toy velociraptor’ Tell the story (as a story or poem)
The Story:
In Santa's defence this child did not classify. Santa may be smart but he's not a genius. Santa was not supposed to know wheter he wanted a toy or the real thing, and seeing the age of this child he wouldn't have a clue. Before you blame Santa for bringing the population of the velociraptor back to earth you need to know the facts.

King of Excuses

Why your late to class:

I hurt myself,

I didn't hear the bell,

I had to do a job,

I had to get a ball from the back of the field,

My friend got hurt and I needed to help him.

Why your homework isn't done:

The dog ate it,

I lost it,

My parents threw it out,

I wasn't feeling well,

My little brother ate it,

I was absent that day,

My laptop wasn't working.

Questions you hate answering:

I think I need to go,

My Mum's calling me got to go,

Change the topic,

Did you hear about what happened before,

Why you shouldn't do sport:

I'm injured,

It's too hot,

I might hurt myself,

I don't want to get sunburn,

Poem of Excuses:

I shouldn't do sport,

My dog ate my book,

I'm going to cook,

If you let me off this one time,

I might burn from the sunshine.

Horror Camping Trip

This Short Story is about if  You and your three closest friends decide to go camping. You arrive and set up camp nearly three miles away from where you left your car. Late that evening, as you sit around the campfire roasting marshmallows, one of your friends reveals a deep dark secret that turns what was to be a fun weekend into one of the scariest weekends of your life.

This is my Short Story:
So last weekend Myself, Michael, Austin and Logan went camping at a camp site just outside of Christchurch. We arrived but had to park about three miles away from were we set up. About an hour and a half later we were all set up and decided to start a fire and have some Marshmallow's. The out of nowhere Austin tells us that for the past week he has been having nightmares about Pennywise from the IT series. Then he goes and says that the day before he was making a salad and in the corner of the room he saw Pennywise with a red balloon. That freaked us out then out of nowhere a Red Balloon floats out of a bush. We were so scared we fan about a mile but stopped near a tree stump so we could sit down. Then out of nowhere they hear someone say "You'll Float Too, You'll Float Too" over and over. We all quickly turn around and find Pennywise just standing there. We all hit the boost running about two miles to finally finding our car. We all hopped in a I drove the fastest I ever have, I'm surprised I didn't get a speeding ticket.

6 Sentence Story

Once upon a time these was a man named Kevin.
Kevin was born and raised in Boston Massachusetts.
Kevin was amazing at Swimming.
Kevin's only problem is he does not like his job.
Kevin works with his worst enemy.
Kevin solved this problem by getting him fired

Unexpected Wealth

Today in English I have been working on this piece of writing. It is about I'm clearing out a garage and I find a box that is heavier that it should be. He opens it and find 40,000 in cash exactly. He finds out who put it there and why they put it there. This is the story,

The other day I was clearing out the garage like any normal person would and I found this strange looking cardboard box. I lifted it up and this box was heavier than it should of been. This box was taped up so I opened it and found a surprising 40,000 dollars. I was so surprised, then I got to thinking about who put it there.  Then I remembered my Great Granddad. When I was a little lad my Great Granddad gave all my family some money when he got ill. He passed a few weeks later and my theory is that he didn't get to spend much time with me so he gave me more money that the other.

Free Writing:Creative Writing Matrix

In English I chose a task were I had to do Free Writing. I was kind of inspired by Stranger Things but I made up most of the Facts. This is my piece of Free Writing:

One day in the city of Miami there was a lad named Jonathan. He loved to play basketball. He was influenced by his father to play basketball. His father was a very successful ball player in college, but unfortunately one day before the NBA Draft where he was expected to be number one pick he was playing street ball went for a dunk slipped and landed on his neck. Basically he snapped his neck and could never play basketball again. He is fully recovered now days but enough of that. Jonathan is a big Miami Heat fan, it is quite self explanatory. His favourite time being a Heat fan was when they had LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade. Most days he goes down and plays streetball. He also has a day job where he works everyday except Sundays. He works at Subway. He is a great employee except when he gets caught stealing the cookies. He makes a good amount of money and lives a healthy life. But one day that all changed, his brother went missing. He spent about four days looking for him but then there was this guy called Steve. This guy Steve was making fun of how Jonathan’s brother went missing and Jonathan just snapped. Jonathan bet the living life out of Steve and his whole face was pouring with blood. He had to go to the Police Office and got Sentenced for 3 months but his Mom couldn't handle that having no of her kids so she bailed him out. About a Week later his Brother was found ad his life went back to normal. A few months later he got a call from the president of Miami Heat basketball asking him to be a part of the team. Take it the end of his 14 year career, he had 2 MVP’s, 13 All-Star and 5 Championship Rings under his Belt. He is one of the most Successful Miami Heat players in history.

This is my Life:English

For English I have been working on this info about Kevin Durant. The last 3 sentences are not true I just guessed them.

Video Game Gone Rouge: English

In English I have been working on a Slide Show Presentation about a game Character. I chose Steve from Minecraft. This one was quite difficult because in Minecraft you dont really follow a Story line it is more self controlled. Anyways this is my Slide Show,

SDL Weekly Goals: English

Creative Writing Matrix:

My two goals for the Creative Writing Matrix are as followed,

1. To Complete the Video Game Gone Rouge.

2. The other task I would like to complete is the This is my Life

The Workshop I would like to go to is the Fantasy and Game Plot.

Self Directed Learner Matrix

One Area I want to work on:

Catch up on work I miss or fall behind on in my own time.

3 Goals:

Sit by myself so I don't get distracted,

Make sure I manage my time well,

When I pack up check how much work I have done and check if I have Homework to do.

This is my life:Creative Writing Matrix

One day is Africa there was a boy born and his name was Harold. When Harold was a baby everyone in town knew who he was. When he was about 7 he began a trend in Africa. This trend was wearing your pants as high a you nipples. When he was a teenager his favorite thing to do was walk the streets with his pants up high. When he was 22 he got employed for an office job. Every day he wore a pink dress shirt and grey dress pants up high and always had his arms straight. His best friend was and Indian called Disco Time. As he got older he was walking the streets of Africa and saw a swarm of people copying his style. From that day on he was the most popular African ever.

SEXXXY Paragraph

Night
Other world,
Other Wybie,
Cant talk,
Mother & Coraline
going into the house,
Just seen circus,
POV of other Mother,
Wants him to smile,
Unhappy,
Warm Light
High angle makes Wybie vulnerable,
Dark colours but bright because Coraline dosent know what the world is really about,
Facial expression,
Sad because his mouth has gone down and his eyebrows are arched in fear.




In the film Coraline high angle shots are used effectively to establish a characters position of power. This is demonstrated in the scene where Coraline and Wybie return from visiting their neighbors. A high angle shot from from the POV of the other mother looking down the stairs towards Wybie makes him look vulnerable. This makes us understand that the other mother has all the power and might not be as kind as Coraline thinks at this point. The purpose of this is to show a character who is unhappy in the other world and foreshadow the horrific turn of events later in the story. Combined with the use of facial expressions, Wybie's mouth is frowning and his eyebrows are arched in in fear, the idea of being vulnerable is enhanced. This aspect can be compared to Coralines battle with the other mother at the end of the film where we see the true evil nature of the Beldam.

Themes of the Film

I did a Mind Map on Coggle about one of the themes. The theme I chose was her parents Ignoring her. This is my Coggle,

• What am I learning?

Understanding the ideas and Themes in Films

• How does this work show my learning?

It shoes my Ideas on how I think she was ignored by her parents.

• What am I wondering as a result of this learning?

Nothing at this point.