Dystopia

For English, we had to look at dystopias and some words around dystopias, we also had to answer questions from the short story the lottery

Dystopia - An imaginary state or community in which there is great suffering or injustice.

Jovial -  Joyful and cheerful

Profusely - to a big degree

Paraphernalia - Miscellaneous items and equipment

Interminably - Endless

Petulantly - Childishly sulky

The lottery questions

1. Describe the setting, using specific details from the story in your answer. The setting is an undistinguished town located in rural America.
2. Explain the feelings of most people in town toward the lottery.  Most of the townspeople seem to be relaxed and happy.
3. What evidence is there that the lottery has been going on for a long time? The lottery box is tattered and old. Old Man Warner claims he has been in the lottery for around 70+ years.
4. What is Old Man Warner’s attitude about those who would like to change things?  His attitude is negative to others for having a different opinion.
5. Explain how the lottery works. A black box full of paper slips is brought to the town square. The townspeople gather around the town square and draw pieces of paper. They then hold another lottery with 5 pieces of paper. The people in the second lottery are stoned to death.
6. In what way is the title, “The Lottery”, misleading?  Why would the author want to trick the reader by having a misleading title? The title of Jacksons' story makes you think of a present-day lottery-type like the ones we have nowadays where you get a prize if you win but in the book if you win the lottery you die. 

Why do you think this is a dystopian story? Because of it being a society with a suffering justice where you die if you win the lottery.

Does it remind you of others? No

Migration Presentation

For Social Studies my class has been working on the topic of migration. We had to create a presentation explaining migration. Here is the link to my video.

Movement of people to a new area to find work or more inhabitable conditions.

Child Trafficking

For social studies we had to choose one of the 3 topics. The topics were Child Slavery, Child Soldiers and Child Trafficking, I choose child trafficking because It piqued my interest. The class had to develop 6 questions and find out tools I could use to get the answers. The sites I used was called Theirworld, I choose this site because it had a lot of helpful information. I chose the information because it was relevant to my questions.

Human Rights SoSt

For social studies my class had to create a lawyer paragraph on how Iqbal masih had lost his rights.

 Iqbal being forced into bonded labour had lost his rights. Due to being selled by his parents for money, Iqbal couldn't see his family and get an education. He also had to work from dawn to dusk. In fact Iqbal had to work 80+ hours a week whereas work nowadays is a minimum of 40 hours.

No children should have to work long hours with no access to human rights.

Breakdown

State your point

 Iqbal being forced into bonded labour had lost his rights

Why it matters

This point matters because everyone has human rights and Iqbal at a young age had most of his rights stripped away.

Evidence 

Iqbal had to work from dawn to dusk. In fact Iqbal had to work 80+ hours a week whereas work nowadays is a minimum of 40 hours.

Sum Up

No children should have to work long hours with no access to human rights.

Music Genre

1. What Genre did you pick and which song are you going to work on?

We are going to work on a song by xxxtentacion called changes. We have also added another part of song as a surprise

2. Who is in your group and what is each person doing?

My Group is Me Zion and Dylan. Zion is playing piano and singing, Dylan is playing piano and singing. I will be singing.

3.What is going to be challenging about this piece?

Learning the Piano pieces for both songs and remembering them.

4. Which part of the song are you going to work on first? The vocals and then piano notes.

Human Rights Poster

In social studies my class had to create a human rights logo. Mine is photo of the world and unity between hands of others in includes 30 human rights

Harriet Tubman SoSt

For social studies my class has been researching Harriet Tubman. This slideshow will show you who she was and what she did.