Review: 24/09/13

English

• Continuing short story “Destruction”
• Main characters are Blackie, Trevor “T”, Summers, etc.
• talking about shifts in power.
• Trevor is from a family of status , gains power as he has an idea about breaking into a house, loses power when things get out of hand
• Blackie regains power once again

Math

• sec x = 1/ cos x
• csc x = 1/sin x
• cot x = 1/ tan x
• sin^2x + cos^2x = 1
• tan x = sin x / cos x

Economics

• Writing up notes on causes of inflation
• monetary, cost-push, demand-pull

Biology

• Conducting experiment on rate of photosynthesis.

Review: 20/09/13

French

• irregular verbs in the present tense in the form for ils/elles
• in the present tense, verbs in the ils/elles form end in -ent
  • e.g. arrivent, écoutent, parlent
  • don’t pronounce the -ent. for example, écoutent would be pronounced “écoute”
• there are exceptions. for example; vont, font, sont, ont.

Chemistry

• At room temperature and pressure, 1 mole of any gas would be equivalent to 24 litres
• V=24n

Global Perspectives

• Group project RQ: Does western tourism in culturally religious communities create conflict?
  • Focus area: Bali

English

• Beginning to structure a model essay for George.
• What his role is as an avenger for his father, to what extent is he actually hoping for justice to be served, Ann and Chris’ reactions

Review: 19/09/13

English

• Continuing  discussion on George’s confrontation with Chris and Ann.
• Chris and Ann have found relief in each other because they are both being overshadowed, Chris by the death of his brother Larry, and Ann by her father. Ann had just lost Larry and immediately became overshadowed by her father’s conviction.
• Is Chris beginning to accept the fact that he knows his father is guilty?
• Why is Ann suppressing the truth?
• Chris gets emotional while George remains stable because Chris represents lies, and lies are built upon manipulation while George represents the truth which always remains the same whether you recognise if it’s the truth or not.

Biology

• Design an experiment to measure the rate of photosynthesis
• Limiting factors of photosynthesis.
  • Carbon Dioxide Concentration
  • Sunlight
  • Temperature
  • Chlorophyll

History

• The Wansee Conference
• Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich
• Main aim was to plan “The Final Solution” to eradicate the Jews not only in Germany, but practically the whole of Europe/ wherever it was within their reach.
• It was based in a Villa overlooking Lake Wansee on the outskirts of Berlin
• No pictures of the conference were taken, but there are minutes
• Hitler was not present during this conference

Economics

•  Causes of Inflation
• Cost-Push Inflation
  • When inflation occurs due to a rise in price as a result of rising business costs
• Demand-Push Inflation
  • When inflation occurs as a result of a rise in price due to an increase in demand.
• Cost-Push/Demand-Push Inflation are both Keynesian Theories.
• There is also monetary inflation
  • Inflation due to the overprinting of money.

Physics

• A marathon runner might wrap him/herself in an aluminum blanket after a run because:
  • Aluminum has a shiny surface so it would reflect light
  • It helps radiation

Review: 18/09/13

PSHE

• Discussion on refugees
• How balanced we are as people
• Global awareness of different cultures
• Discrimination

French

• Reviewing Speaking Assessment Questions
• ça dépend – it depends
• describing pictures

Art 

History

• Further insight into life at a concentration camp (particularly Auschwitz) and how inhumane the living standards were
• Esther -last name– was forced to be in the Concentration Camp’s Orchestra.
  • She mentions that being in the orchestra saved her life and allowed her to survive through the camp
  • The Orchestra was present at the gates when new prisoners would come in and when important people were entering.
  • It was common for the orchestra to have concerts particularly for the Nazi Generals
  • They would follow those who were sent to the gas chambers while playing music. Those sent to the gas chambers didn’t know what was happening but the orchestra players understood that those people were going to die
    • They couldn’t refuse to play since there were SS soldiers behind them, ready with a gun.
  • The workers didn’t like the orchestra players since the orchestra players were allowed to sit in comfortable chairs while they worked.

Chemistry 

• Sodium Bicarbonate + Hydrochloric Acid
• Concentration = moles/volume per dm^3
• mass= moles x Mr

Physics

• Test on Energy and Energy Transfer

Review: 17/09/13

Biology

• Review of Test on Excretion in animals
  • The chain of reactions in the reflex arc may slow down because oof chemical diffusions that need to take place in order to pass the message (lol wat?)
• Testing for starch in a leaf

English

• Discussion of George Deever and his intentions.
  • When he first arrives and talks to Ann and Chris, he still feels unsure even though he tries to put on a brave front.
  • He comes as a symbol of justice in order to avenge his father. He knows that his father is innocent and that Joe committed the crime.
  • He wears his father’s hat symbolizing he identifies with his father and that
  • He very bluntly tells Ann to not marry Chris because “his father destroyed your family”. That phrase is incredibly powerful in the sense that the message doesn’t linger. At that moment George is in a more superior position than Chris since he’s

Math

• Identities (e.g. sinx=sin(180-x), sinx=cos(90-x))
• unit circle
• quadrants
• bleh

History

• The Impact of the War on Germany
• 2 minute video on a jewish family living in Germany during the Nazi Era
  • 2 kids, had a rabbi neighbour
  • were well off and owned a family business
  • when the nazi regime was enforced, their family business got shut down.
  • 3 days before outbreak of war, a catholic friend of theirs helped them escape to the dutch border
• Impact of war on daily life
  • Rationing
  • Food
  • Bombing
  • Less doctors/more illnesses
• People
  • Women had double standards
  • even though at the beginning, the nazi regime encouraged families, during the war they began encouraged single mothers and for soldiers on leave to father as many children as they could. Even married men were told to father children outside of their family.
• Infrastructure
• Economy
  • Four Year Plan

Review: 16/09/13

Economics

• Started Chapter 32 on Inflation from section C of the Government and the Economy.
• What is inflation?
  • Inflation is the general and sustained increase in the price of goods and services during a given period of time. The target inflation for most countries is a rate of 0%-2% in order to keep things relatively stable.
• How is inflation measured?
  • It is measured either through CPI (consumer price index) or RPI (retail price index) which records the prices of a bunch of basic goods that an average family would use and  sees how it changes through time(?)
  • RPI also takes into account the costs of housing while CPI does not.
• What is deflation?
  • Deflation is basically the opposite of inflation since it is the general and sustained fall/decrease in the price of goods and services during a given period of time.
• What is disinflation?
  • Disinflation is when there is negative inflation of more than 5% and when the inflation rate slows down and when cost of living goes down.
• What is the difference between deflation and disinflation?
  • Disinflation is the slowing down of the rate of inflation while deflation is the actual falling of prices. Disinflation is generally a good thing while deflation is not.
• How does inflation affect different people?
  • Inflation affects those with fixed incomes negatively as their income stays the same but prices rise so their spending/buying power has decreased.
  • Inflation affects borrowers positively as their incomes/wages rise while their debt remains the same so its easier for them to pay off debt.
  • ugh. other stuff i forgot.
• How does deflation affect different people?
  • Deflation affects those with fixed incomes positively as their incomes remain the same but prices decrease so their spending/buying power increases. (deflation is essentially the opposite of inflation)
  • deflation affects borrowers negatively as their debt remains the same but incomes decrease(?)
• What is hyperinflation?
  • Hyperinflation is when a country experiences excessively high rates of inflation (e.g. 10,000,000% inflation)
  • Prices will often rise every hour.
  • basic commodities such as bread, potatoes, etc will become more expensive in terms of how much you need to pay (e.g. during the 3 year period of hyperinflation of 1921-1923 in Germany bread prices skyrocketed. In 1918 the price of bread was 0.5 marks but by 1923 it was 201,000,000,000 marks)
  • It results in money being useless/worthless.

Math

• Started Radians & the unit circle
• refer to post on Quadrants too look at the different quadrants.
• How to convert from radian to degrees
  • For degrees to radian, multiply the degrees by π/180.
  • For radian to degrees, multiply the radian by 180/π
• Started sectors.
  • To find the arc length of a sector, you must multiply θ by the radius (θr)
  • to find the area of a sector, multiply 1/2 by θ by radius squared (1/2 x θ x r²)
• Sin, Cos and tan are all positive in the first quadrant. In the second quadrant only sin is positive, in the third quadrant its only tan and in the fourth quadrant its only cos that is positive.

Physics

• Did a practice test on energy, etc.

French

• Went through question for speaking assessment

Review: 05/09/13

English

• Discussion of Joe Keller’s innocence, integrity and flaws
• How he is trying to put Mr Deever under his control by offering him a job after he gets out of jail
• he’s fronting by trying to put on a flawless act while he is full of flaws himself
• Keller = Killer

Biology 

• Test on Excretion in animals

History 

• Discussion of Nazi Economic policies from 1939-1945(end of war)
• Allied bombing of Germany
• Barbosa
• Since men began enlisting in the army it was against the Nazi regime for women to work but it was required as Men were leaving.
• Propaganda was used to keep morale up
  • Christmas rations were raised so that it would keep people happier

Economics

• Economic growth in the government
• total income=total output=total expenditure
• real GDP is GDP with inflation/raised prices taken into consideration, nominal GDP is GDP before inflation is taken into consideration
• standard of living is measured by GDP per Capita usually
• the higher the GDP per Capita usually means a higher standard of living and a greater carbon footprint
• sector circular flow chart
• benefits and disadvantages of economic growth (NOT FINISHED YET)

Physics

• Different types of energy
• what types of energy are stored in certain foods/objects (e.g. Bread and battery is chemical)

Review: 04/09/13

PSHE

• Study Plans

French

• The perfect tense with être and avoir
• Avoir words don’t change despite plural or gender (e.g. Elles sont mangé but not Elles son mangées)
• Irregular words (e.g. Descendre, ascendre, comprendre, naitre –> descendu, ascendu, compris, né(e))

 Art 

• Mock exam explanation
• Theme : Delicate

History 

• Review of Nazi Economic policies between 1933-36, 1936-39, 1942-44 and beginning of the war in the East (WW2)
• 1933-36 : The New Plan
  • introduced by Hjalmar Schacht and main aspects of it were Trade Agreements, Job Creation, Government Spending.
  • Trade agreements were set up by Germany with individual countries who were less developed such as Hungary. they traded manufactured goods including butter and fodder for cheaper raw materials
  • Job creation was achieved by firing Jews and political opponents and then replacing them with the unemployed. Trade unions were banned so that the workers wouldn’t have as much power or a say in what they did. Jobs were also created by having the unemployed rebuild autobahns (highways) and old buildings but jobs like that we’re temporary and had low pay. Conscription/enlistment to the army was mandatory.
  • Government Spending was channelled into private firms as subsidies so that they would be encouraged to produce more. On the other hand, Department stores struggled. Trade was regulated as what was imported and how much of it was limited.

Chemistry

• -Weighing the lead that was produced from last lesson’s experiment and figuring out the number of moles.

Physics

• Discussing different types of energy (gravitational, elastic/strain, kinetic, thermal, nuclear, electrical, light, chemical, sound)
• Transducers convert one type of energy to another
• Degrading is when the energy reduces to a less readily available form