8.14

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Welcome to 8.14's wikispace. It has been an eventful year so far, and we are sure Semester Two will bring many new challenges with it. Each subject area will regularly update it's assignments due and events occurring. Watch this space.

During Term 2 and 3 the boys will be looking at the Middle Ages and the Crusades. They will be looking at the Norman invasion of England, the Battle of Hastings and William the Conqueror. They will be looking at the lifestyles of the people and looking at heroes and myths surrounding these times .They will be viewing A Knights Tale and making comparisons between the information they have gathered about The Middle Ages and Knights and the accuracies/ or lack of accuracy in the film as their first major assignment.They will be comparing fact and Fiction in their second assignment. . We have started this term looking at visual text 'Remember the Titans'. The boys looked at text through film and responded analytically to guided questions. We are currently reading 'Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne. The text is set during World War II and told through the eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp. As the boys read the text during class, we are responding to the text in a number of ways, through guided questions and class discussions. The assessment tasks appear below.
 * SOSE - Mrs Jenny Johnson**
 * __ENGLISH__**




 * __RELIGION__**

Congratulations to those boys who have completed and handed up their weather assignments!
 * __MATHS__**

The boys are currently working on area and circumference of circles. There will be a test in Week 8 on the content thus far. The boys will also be provided with a new investigative assignment on length, area and perimeter. Watch this space for the assignment criteria task.

For those who are uncertain as to how to tackle a problem at home try one of the following sites to revise.
 * Maths Teacher - []
 * Mathsonline - [|http://www.mathsonline.com.au]
 * Maths is Fun - []

__Week 8__ This week the boys will be sitting a test on the work we have done on cells up until this point. The topics in the test will be: 1. Parts of a microscope 2. Preparing a slide 3. Organelle definitions 4. Labelling a cell diagram 5. Labelling an onion cell 6. Single celled organisms A pretest will be on Wednesday of Week 8 and the final test on Thursday of Week 8.
 * __SCIENCE__**

From Weeks 9-11 the boys will be learning about tissues, vital organs and how these differ in land based and aquatic lifeforms.