Mr Guyan's Blog: 2020

In the beginning there was only chaos. Then out of the void appeared Erebus, the unknowable place where death dwells, and Night. All else was empty, silent, endless darkness. Then somehow Love was born bringing a start of order. From Love came Light and Day. Once there was Light and Day, Gaea, the earth, and Uranus, the sky, appeared.

Uranus became Gaea's husband, covering her on all sides. Together they produced the three Cyclopes, the three 50-headed, 100-armed Hecatoncheires, and twelve Titans.

However, Uranus was a bad father and husband. He hated the Hecatoncheires. He imprisoned them by pushing them into the hidden places of the earth. This angered Gaea and she plotted against Uranus. She made a flint sickle and tried to get her children to attack Uranus. All were too afraid except, the youngest Titan, Cronus.

Gaea and Cronus set up an ambush of Uranus. Cronus grabbed his father and wounded him with the stone sickle. Uranus’s blood fell into the sea, creating the Giants, the Ash Tree Nymphs, and the Furies. From the sea foam where his blood fell came Aphrodite. Uranus departed, but he promised that Cronus and the Titans would be punished.

Cronus became the next ruler. He imprisoned the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires in Tartarus. He married his sister Rhea, and under his rule the Titans had many offspring. He ruled for many ages. However, Gaea and Uranus both had prophesied that he would be overthrown by a son. To avoid this, Cronus swallowed each of his children as they were born. Rhea was angry at the treatment of her children and plotted against Cronus. When it came time to give birth to her sixth child, Rhea hid herself, then she left the child to be raised by nymphs. To conceal her act, she wrapped a stone in swaddling rags and passed it off as the baby to Cronus, who swallowed it.

This child was Zeus. He grew into a handsome youth on Crete. He consulted Metis on how to defeat Cronus. She prepared a drink for Cronus, designed to make him vomit up the other children. Rhea convinced Cronus to accept his son, and Zeus was allowed to return to Mount Olympus as Cronus's cupbearer. This gave Zeus the opportunity to slip Cronus the specially prepared drink. This worked as planned, and the other five children were vomited up. Being gods, they were unharmed. They were thankful to Zeus and made him their leader.

But Cronus was yet to be defeated. He and the Titans, except Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Oceanus, fought to retain their power. Atlas became their leader in battle, and it looked for some time as though they would win and put the young gods down. However, Zeus was cunning. He went down to Tartarus and freed the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires. Prometheus joined Zeus as well, and Zeus returned to battle with his new allies. The Cyclopes provided Zeus with lightning bolts for weapons. The Hecatoncheires were set in ambush, armed with boulders. When the time was right, Zeus retreated, drawing the Titans into the Hecatoncheires's ambush. The Hecatoncheires rained down hundreds of boulders with such a fury that the Titans thought the mountains were falling on them. They broke and ran giving Zeus victory.

Zeus exiled the Titans who had fought against him into Tartarus, except for Atlas, who was singled out for the special punishment of holding the world on his shoulders.

However, even after this victory Zeus was not safe. Gaea angry that her children had been imprisoned gave birth to a last offspring, Typhoeus. Typhoeus was so fearsome that most of the gods fled. However, Zeus faced the monster and, flinging his lightning bolts, was able to kill it. Typhoeus was buried under Mount Etna in Sicily.

Much later a final challenge to Zeus rule was made by the Giants. They went so far as to attempt to invade Mount Olympus, piling mountain upon mountain in an effort to reach the top. But, the gods had grown strong and with the help of Heracles the Giants were subdued or killed.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Human Rights

https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/

Create a timeline that involves the following dates;

3000BC

539BC

27BC

1215AD

1628

1689

1776

1789

1800

1914

1915

1931

1939

1945

1948

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Speech topic help

100 persuasive topics

434 persuasive topics

http://www.myspeechclass.com/

https://www.write-out-loud.com/speech-topics-for-children.html

http://www.k12reader.com/persuasive-essay-and-speech-topics/

Monday, June 8, 2020

Online boggle

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/games/wordshake

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Archibald Baxter Article

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Work for Monday 16th March.

Hello Year 9.

I'm sorry I'm not there again today... I basically have no voice!
Hopefully I'll see you all on Tuesday.
Mr G

Here is the plan for today.

Writing and Social Sciences

If you haven't finished answering the 3 questions about Archibald Baxter from last week, finish that FIRST.

Activity ONE
Go to this site - https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/first-world-war/conscientious-objection

Scroll to the bottom section titled - 'The end of the war'.
Read this section.

1. What happened to the Conscientious Objectors after the war?
2. How many 'named defaulters' were there?
3. What were some of the 'rights' they lost?
4. How does this tie into our discrimination theme?

Activity TWO
Get the Archibald Baxter school journal from the front table.
In pairs or threes, write 6 questions each about the article we read together, with space between each question.
Swap books and answer each others questions.
Mark your friends answers (which will be in your own book).

Activity THREE

If time, head back to this site - https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/first-world-war/conscientious-objection and read more about Conscientious Objectors.

You might like to make some notes in your SS book.

CORE (and Trash shared novel)

Listen to Chapter 10 & 11 of Trash (This will be about 30 mins worth) Paige/Gracie/Reese/Abigail to sort out getting that going.

SRA cards for the remainder of the time from the coloured box at the front.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

'Our Words' for CORE Spelling

Wk 4

apologise

apparently

appreciate

Wk 5

awkward

committee

continuous

Wk 6

criticize

curiosity

definitely

Wk 7

desperate

disastrous

embarrass

Wk 8

environment

excellent

explanation

Wk 9

familiar

fascinated

foreign

Wk 10

immediately

independent

individual

Wk 11

magnificent

maintenance

necessary

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Hurry up. Tim!

SEQUENCING

In at least 8 bullet points, sequence out the events of the story.

REFLECTIONS

Use the yellow cards, select 6 sentence starters to complete.

EXTENSION

Can you write a brief recount of a time when you didn’t want to do something, but you did it anyway?

(If you can’t, see if you can make up a believable recount).

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Shrinkage

Click here for task sheet.

Class of 2020

Monday, November 30, 2020

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Monday, November 23, 2020

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Friday, October 16, 2020

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Friday, September 11, 2020

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Creation of the World