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  • 10 Year Old Girl Hacks the Pentagon

    Today the C.I.A. Announced that the network problems with the Pentagon’s database was caused by a “Hacker” that is aged ten. The C.I.A. managed to find a Trojan type virus which disguises itself something else, searching through confidential documents and then within five minutes they traced it back to the Shetland Islands, Scotland and to find that…

  • Primary Source Practice

    Question : Why was the Pentagon built ? I wanted to know why the U.S built one of the largest military office in the world so I went searching and I came across this website http://pentagontours.osd.mil/index.html and found out that in the summer of 1941 in Washington D.C that the work force was at 24,000  …

  • Romeo and Juliet Project: Assessment

    Over-All grade: INCOMPLETE: 6C Film: Not yet submitted Timeline: Not yet submitted Presentation to class: 7C – Very confident and well-prepared presentation and very strong fluency with subject material Essay: Reading Grade: 6A – Very sophisticated appreciation of the lingustic, stylistic, generic and historical context of the play Writing Grade: 5A – Well structured, with…

  • Need ideas for Class Activity

    Please could you help me mr Waugh with some ideas I could teach to the class about the Language. Thanks

  • Analytic Essay Romeo + Juliet.

    Romeo + Juliet In this essay I will answering the question How does Baz Luhrmann keep the spirit of Elizabethan theater alive in his Film Interpretation, Romeo + Juliet and i’m going to go about this in four stages (not including the conclusion). The main points of Elizabethan play that I will be talking about is how Luhrmann brings…

  • Romeo and Juliet Essay Plan

    The Question I will be doing is: How does Baz Luhrmann keep the spirit of Elizabethan theater alive in his Film Interpretation, Romeo + Juliet The Introduction. In the Introduction I will be stating the question that I will be hopefully answering and a summary of how i’m going to go about this. Paragraph 1.…

  • Metaphor Analysis

    Romeo:From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here’s to…

  • Metaphor Analysis

    Your task is to identify the metaphor present in the following excerpt and then write a paragraph that explains the metaphor and its effect on the meaning of the passage it is embedded in.   From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of…

  • EBA Awards

    To follow are the official results of the EBA Awards for December 2012. Invented by Gabriel, these awards are designed to celebrate excellence, creativity and innovation in Year 8 Blogging.   Voted for by the students themselves, everyone gets one watchmark for every vote they receive, and the winners of each category get 5 watchmarks.…

  • Romeo + Juliet project

    Film a scene from Romeo + Juliet   Design and build a prop for a scene Run a class activity

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