Making Salts ll

 Aim: To produce copper sulfate salt by reacting copper oxide with an acid.

Equipment: 

• Copper oxide powder
• Dilute (0.5 mol L-1)
• Sulfuric acid
• 50 mL measuring cylinder
• Two 100mL beakers
• Bunsen burner 
• Tripod
• gauze mat
• funnel
• filter paper
• thermometer
• spatula
• evaporating basin
• stirring rod

Method:

1. Add 20 ml of sulfuric acid to a 100 ml beaker. Heat the acid until it reaches 70oc. Turn off you Bunsen burner.
2. Once heated, use a spatula to add pea-sized portions of copper oxide to the beaker, Stir the mixture for 30 seconds.
3. Repeat step 2 until no more will dissolve. allow the beaker to cool.
4. Fold the filter paper and place it in the funnel. Place the filter funnel into the second beaker.
5. Make sure the beaker is cool enough to hold at the top. The content should still be hot. You may need your teacher to complete this step.
6. Gently swirl the content of the beaker to mix, and then pour into the filter paper in the funnel. Allow the filter through.
7. Rinse the beaker you used to heat the mixture previously, and place it back on top of your tripod filled with 50-60 ml of water. 
8. Place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker and carefully pour some of the solution from the beaker into the evaporating basin.
9. Gently heat the beaker until the solution in the evaporating basin has reduced by half.
10. Leave the evaporating basin to cool. Once cool, move the evaporating basin to a warm place where it will not be disturbed (i.e. a window-sill) and observe over the next few days. Blue copper sulfate crystals should form.

Observation:  We heat up the sulfuric acid before adding the copper oxide powder on it. Since the acid is hot it dissolves the powder pretty quickly. We waited for the powder to completely dissolve, after the powder completely dissolved we started to pour the solution into the filter paper. While doing this we saw how the color changes and there is some salt in it, and we put the solution that we made in one place and wait for it to produce a salt.

Word Equation: Copper Oxide + Sulfuric acid --------> Copper sulfate

Name of the reaction happening in method 2? Neutralization

           

Blog a Anti - Vietnam Song

 In social studies, we started our new topic. We will be looking and talking about the war that happened in Vietnam. Many people all over the world are against in it, even New Zealand. I will be looking to those songs that is written about the war and how bad this war happened. 

Tittle of the song: "Vietnam" by Jimmy Cliff

Hey, Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam

Yesterday, I got a letter from my friend fighting in Vietnam
And this is what he had to say
"Tell all my friends that I'll be coming home soon
My time'll be up sometime in June
Don't forget", he said, "To tell my sweet Mary
Her golden lips are sweet as cherry"

And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam

It was just the next day, his mother got a telegram
It was addressed from Vietnam
Now mistress Brown, she lives in the USA
And this is what she wrote and said
"Don't be alarmed", she told me the telegram said
"But mistress Brown, your son is dead"

And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, hey, Vietnam
Somebody please stop that war now

Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, oh
Vietnam, Vietnam, oh
Vietnam, oh oh, oh oh
Somebody please stop it

Vietnam, Vietnam, oh
Vietnam, Vietnam, oh oh, oh oh
Vietnam, hey, Vietnam, aha
Vietnam, oh oh, yeah

I wanna say now somebody stop that war
Vietnam, oh yeah, aha

What is the message of the song? The lyrics of this showing how the people dreaming to stop the war because they are loosing the men on their family. Also it is written to show and give support to those soldiers that are fighting to be able to give the country the peace. 

Making Salts Experiment

 Aim: To produce sodium chloride salt by carrying out a neutralisation reaction. 

Equipment: 

• 50mL and 200mL beakers
• Dilute HCI (hydrochloric acid)
• Dilute NaOH (sodium hydroxide)
• 25mL measuring cylinder
• Glass stirring rod.
• Spotting tile
• Universal indicator solution
• Tripod
• Gauze mat
• Bunsen burner
• Evaporating basin

Method: 

1. Using the measuring cylinder measure 10 ml of HCI and pour it into your 50 ml beaker. Add dilute NaOH a few drops at a time while stirring with the glass road.
2. Every 10-15 drops stop adding the NaOH and use the glass stirring rod to transfer a drop of the solution to a spotting tile. Test its pH using Universal indicator.
3. Keep adding NaOH and testing the solution by repeating step 2. As you get closer to neutral you may need to test the solution after every drop.
4. Pour the neutral solution into an evaporating basin and evaporate the water out of the solution using the equipment set up shown above.  

Observation: During the experiment we made a lot of different colors by trying to make a green. After we put our solution on the heat it turns out like a salt. It took a lot of time for us to get to the point that we already made green. I enjoyed this experiment because I've learned how to maintain the acid and the base to make green.

1. Write a word equation for this reaction.  HCI + NaOH ------> NaCl + H20
2. What is the name of the reaction happening in step 1?  Neutralization
3. What is the name of the process you carried out in step 4? It's called " Evaporation".
   

Wananga Reflection

This week we have been doing some activities about self - esteem. I decided to search up a poetry that I can use for my reflection this week. The poem that I chose is also about confidence and comparing to others.  This poem that I choose is telling that you should't compare yourself to others because they are not you and you are not them. It's also saying that we are all different in our own way, they might be good at something but there is somethings that we can do that they can't. For me, I think this poem is very helpful to give those teenagers a lot of confidence and to help them to have a strong self-esteem. I can tell that this is meaningful because as you read it you can already know that you can learned some lesson from it. 

Narrative Opening - English

 In English, we are still continuing our creative writing: The Narrative. We are doing different tasks for each activity, I just finished the show and didn't tell the task, now I am doing the Narrative opening. Narrative Opening is a technique that you can use to hook your readers attention by making the opening really interesting and make them feel curious about your writing. In this task we need to do 3-5 narrative openings, I decided to do 3 since I still need to do the other tasks. I enjoyed this because it challenged me and I've learned a lot while doing this task but I'm not sure if I did it right. 

This is my work:

                                                      Narrative Opening # 1

Hugging my knees, trying to keep myself warm. Smiling to those people walking passed as I got my phone out to check the time but my smile faded as I saw my background on my phone. I took a deep breath and put my phone back in my pocket. But someone caught my attention, widening my eyes as I realized taking my phone out and yes, it's him.

Narrative Opening # 2

Sneaking and hiding trying my best to avoid those suspicious stares. Sweats starts to drip all over my body as I get closer to the exit. I started to close my eyes and take the last step and leave the store without feeling guilty at all.

                                                     Narrative Opening # 3

Crying, shouting, those are the sounds I can hear around me. Firefighters trying to stop the fire as I stand there comforting my sobbing mother. A tear escaped my eyes as I saw the firefighters bringing someone's body from the burning house. As they get closer, realization hits me, there he is the most important person to me. 

The Beatles tour in NZ - Perspectives Blog

In social studies, we have been learning and talking about The Beatles tour in New Zealand. After our lesson about their music we moved on to our next task. Since we are talking about their in New Zealand, this blogpost is perspectives of their tour here. Perspective is about viewpoint or what someone thinks about an event. The Beatles tour in New Zealand can be good and bad in many different ways, also some people are against it. This blogpost will be showing why some people and against it and why it is good for some of them.

This is the link to my map: My Map

Against (Negative)

• Some people are against in this event because of The Beatles attitude towards some of their fan. They are making some rude comments about sexual of waving fans.
• A lot of fans hurt themselves and risking their lives just to see The Beatles.
• The Beatles disrespecting the Maori culture. 
• Fans climbing on the hotel of the Beatles and not obeying the police rules.
• One girl slashed her wrist because The Beatles refused an introduction from her. 
• The concert didn't go well because of how the fans behaving and it didn't went as they planned.

For (Positive)

• They did their traditional greeting which is the "Haka" they are doing this to greet someone or to those people that is important. 
• A lot of people thinks that their tour is life changing  because of their influence in New Zealand. 

                

The Beatles Song - Social Studies

In social studies, we started our new topic. This blogpost is mostly about "The Beatles", I will be analyzing one of their song. We need to choose 1 one their song that we will be analyzing, we can choose any of their song but since I didn't know any of their song so I just picked the one that our teachers recommend to us. 

What is the title of the song?

                                                     " She Loves You" by The Beatles

Lyrics: She Loves You

What the song about? 

This song was written by two of the members of The Beatles which is John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They said the this song is about the boy who thinks and he thought that he lost the girl who loves him but he found out that the girl is still in love with him. 

How different does it sound to music from the 1940's? 

This group become famous before and even now. They influence a lot of people back then in many different ways. Some people starts to copy some of their look like hairstyles and fashion, they also influenced a lot of people with their dance moves. The Beatles is still one of the most popular band in the world until now and we can still see some people who still got those things that they got from them. 

Respect - ESOL

Respect is one of the most important manners that we need to have. For me being respectful can be shown is many different ways. In our school respect is one of our values, our teachers expected us to be respectful to them, to school property or to our classmates. It is important that we know how to be respectful anywhere and anytime. For me, if you don't know how to respect others then you don't know how to respect yourself. Some people said that you should know how to respect yourself first before the other people. There is a lot of ways that you can be respectful. 

• Talking with right and proper manner, especially if they are older than you.
• Listening or giving attention if someone is talking to you or trying to explain.
• At school, listening to your teacher and also to your classmates. 

As a student, I have my own definition and my own opinion what respect should look like in school. In class, we should know how to show respect to our teacher and to other students. Make sure that once you enter the classroom you know those things that you should't do while learning. Also it is important that we know how to listen to others especially when they are talking or presenting something in class. 

Show Don't Tell - English

In our English class, we started our new creative writing activities matrix. Unlike the first one, the activities this time is harder compare to those activities that we did in our first creative writing matrix. The first activity that we did is the "Show no Tell", for this task we have to rewrite some sentences without telling the actual meaning of it but instead you need to show the meaning but writing the sentences that in your own words or way. This is the sentences that we need to rewrite for this task:

"The buildings were tall

Sarah was really upset

She was so happy to see him

The lake is beautiful."

Significance of WW1 - The last Post

In social studies, we started our new topic about Anzac day. I know some of you didn't know what really happened in that time, so in this post I will be talking about different facts and different things that happened during world war 1. We also add this on the map that we have been doing in this class. We put some detail in our map to show how the war happened and how the New Zealand and Australian Corps get involved. 

What is ANZAC?

ANZAC meaning is Australia and New Zealand Corps. We are celebrating this day as a public holiday as a remembrance for those people who got involved and killed in that war. If you didn't know what war I was talking about, it is the world war 1. Some people called it " The Great War" Australia and New Zealand Armies got involved in to this war. A lot of them lose their lives so it is important to celebrate the ANZAC day to respect their sacrifices. 

Anzac is one of the most important holiday that we have, not just here in New Zealand but also in the countries who have a contribution on the war. One of the thing that is important if we are celebrating it is the song. We used a song in a ceremony in ANZAC day. I will be analyzing this song one song that we have been using to celebrate the ANZAC day.

"THE LAST POST"

When do you hear this song? 

This song can heard in public ceremony as a remembrance of those people who died in war. Australia and New Zealand are using this song on the ceremony of Anzac day. It also can be heard while doing or after the minutes of silence.

Why is this song important/significance in New Zealand?

This song is important in New Zealand because it is representing those soldier's lives, their sacrifices and to end their service for our country. 

What is the History behind the Last Post?

The Last Post song can be heard or used by those countries that are covered by the British Empire. They are using this song to soldiers or military funeral. This song means that those military who got killed finished their duty and they can finally be in the safe and good place. 

Why was it played and when?

This song is used for those soldiers who sacrifice their lives in the war to serve the British Empire and trying to protect their own families. The last post can be heard in funerals or memorials. 

What does this song represents? 

It is representing the war that happened, those people who got involved and the history about what actually happened before and after the World War 1

Parihaka - Tim Finn and The Herbs

After learning about the slave trade triangle we moved on to our next topic. The next topic that we have been learning is the Parihaka. We are spending our social studies class periods exploring more about this topic, we watched some videos and search some facts about Parihaka. Same as we did on the slave trade triangle, we also put the Parihaka work on the same map that we used for the slave trade triangle. In this blog we will be analyzing this music, we will be looking what is the message of the lyrics of this song and how it is connected to the Parihaka.

Map: Music Through Time

                                                                          Parihaka Lyrics

What is the main message of this song?

This song encouraging us to stand for ourselves and never let other people treat us unfairly with other many people. It is telling us to spread awareness and never let other people use violence to us. 

What line explains their passive resistance method?

Te Whiti he used the language of the spirit,

Then stood accused, the madman and his dream

What does "you can't pull out the root?" refer to?

In my opinion, I think this lines means that we can't really erase those thing that happened in the past. This line is also used in the Parihaka music. I think this means that even thought the thing that happened in Parihaka is already done we can't still forget and it will always be pat of our history. 

Give evidence of their determination?

I know Te Whiti will never be defeated,

And even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain.

I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka.

How does this song show the significance of Parihaka?

As we all know that this song is about Parihaka, from the lyrics and the title. This song is really helpful for us so we can still remember what really happened. The song shows how the Parihaka can be really important to us in the past and even now. 

How many people are affected?

1,600 troops are affected and so Te whiti and Tohu got arrested. 

To what extent are people affected?

Those people that are involved in Parihaka got kicked out from their house, some of them got arrested and some women suffer and getting raped.

Creative Writing Reflection

 After 3 weeks of working in our creative writing matrix, I finally finished all of them. We started to do this after we talked about the different type and genres of creative writing. We also brainstorm as a class and in groups what makes a good writing. I can tell that this discussion helped me a lot while I was doing the different types of creative writing.   

What are the different types/genres of creative writing?

• Romance
• Horror
• Fiction and Non - fiction
• Historical
• Fantasy 
• Science fiction

This is just some of the genres that we've been talked about as a class. While doing the different task, I also started to discover and learned different things because of thee activities. I also applied to my work some of the ways that we've discussed how can we make our creative writing good. Out of all the activities that I did, y favourite one is the Haiku poem. I like this one because it challenged me and I found it really fun. But if we are talking about fun then the task that I enjoyed the most is the 5 senses sensory language. It is really fun and enjoyable because you can use your imagination to work on this task.

I enjoyed and I found it really helpful for me if we are doing this type of activity. For me it is very helpful cause even though we went to different school or even university it is important that we know this type of things. Also after I did this I learned a lot of different things like what is haiku poem, what is slam poetry and more. All of the activities are interesting because I don't know or I didn't know some of them, and I would like to do this again. 

Haiku Poem - English

In English, we are finishing our creative writing matrix. I just need to do one task and the refection before I finished the matrix. In this blogpost I will be showing the Haiku poem that I made. Some of you might not know what is haiku poem, it is a type of poem that containing 3 lines each. In this 3 lines you need to have 5 syllable on the first line, 7 on the next one and 5 on the last. Same with the other poem you can make this poem with different topics. But for our task we need to do haiku poem about the 4 different season. It's not perfect because it is really hard to make a 5  to 7 syllable sentence for each of them so I don't think my work will make a lot of sense but I hope you will like it. 

Athletics Day - ESOL

 This week we only have one period in ESOL, it is because one of our esol period got taken by the athletics day. Our athletics day is really fun and I enjoyed it a lot, I am in social group so I don't need to get competitive on the games that I did. Even though I'm social group i still tried my best because every time we are showing or doing effort our kahui will get a point. I am in Riroriro kahui, I like how our kahui sang and shout our chant. For me I think our kahui is the most energetic kahui when we are doing our chant. On the relay competition our kahui gets the first place almost all of it, me and my friends are really loud and we almost lost our voice because we are shouting to much. At the end of the day, our kahui won and we got first place at of all the 3 kahui. It was really fun and I enjoyed it a lot, I can't wait to have another school program like that.

Home Economics

Texture	Flavor	Colour
The way you cooked it. Ingredients that you used. Sauces	The vegetables Herbs and spices Sauces	Food colors Different ingredients The way you cooked it Liquid Ingredients.

This 3 is very important in our food or cooking because as they said we eat with our eyes. The looks of our food is very important because if the people saw that your food looks good they will know that it is worth it if they tasted it. Also if you have this 3 your food will look appetizing and more tasty as it is. It is important to have a very nice texture, delicious flavor and perfect colour in your food because if you didn't have this 3 then it will look like it's not good even though it is taste good.