Honeschooled Ver. 2.1

The big tree seems to be a major landmark for 200 years in My Place. What landmark do you think will still be in our local area in 200 years and why?

Parvana has a lot of responsibilities to her family for such a young girl. Have you ever felt that you had a lot of responsibility? Describe when.

Here’s the list of people we are investigating this term -

•  Peter Lalor - Emily and Saskia
• Matthew Flinders - James & Julian
• Burke and Wills - Steph W & Lauren
• Banjo Patterson - Rena & Cassandra
• Ned Kelly - Charlie and Ben
• Captain Thunderbolt - Anthony
• Caroline Chisholm - Aditi and Steph M
• Tom Wills - Sam & Jordan
• Sir John Monash - Tyler & Daniel
• Simpson and his donkey - Zac & Joel
• Captain Cook - Nat & Zoe
• William Buckley - Nikayla and Mandi

Do you have a nick name?

Finish the book. Who COULD the Jap be? Think creatively!

tourniguet
strenuous
demonstration
groceries
government
awkwardly
negligence
rigidly
producers
kattabul
deliberatly
bloodhound
rationing
telegrams
anxiously

Afghanistan, burqas, literature, bombing, protesting, several,
especially, uncluttered, responsibility, taliban, expected, dangerous,
overwhelming, repression, military.

monopoly multicultria
monorail multilingual
monotonous polygon
monosyllabic polyphonic
multiple omnivore
multipurpose omnipotent
multimedia omniscient

interesting
identify
attraction
arguing
chattering
memory
ultimate
absolutely
probably
argument
desperately
seeking
interests
asthma
especially

Has anyone from the Bookie monsters group know what the question is?

Where is the question we have to answer?

Read to page 45.Why do you think the Taliban hate women so much? 

WHO DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO WIN? VIC OR ALL STARS!

What is your favourite year from the book and why?

posting is easy

Here’s a list of some of the people we have discovered when we researched Australian history. We each need to choose 1 to focus on.They are -

•  Albert Namatjira - Aboriginal artist
• Truganini - Last full blooded Tasmanian aborigine
• Peter Lalor - leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade
• Ned Kelly - famous/infamous bushranger
• David Unaipon - Aboriginal inventor and on the $50 note
• Captain Thunderbolt - bushranger who escaped from prison
• Dame Edith Cowan - first female politician and woman’s right activist
• Sir Douglas Mawson - explorer of the Antarctic
• Dame Nellie Melba - famous opera singer
• Captain Cook - leader of the British expedition to Australia
• Burke and Wills - two leaders of the expedition through the middle of Australia
• Matthew Flinders - first person to sail all the way around Australia (and he took his cat with him too)
• John Simpson Kilpatrick - with his donkey helped wounded soldiers during the Great War
• Banjo Patterson - famous poet, writer and journalist
• William Buckley - escaped convict who spent 32 years living with the Aborigines near Melbourne
• John Batman - created Melbourne
• Caroline Chisholm - leader of female rights 
• Sir John Monash - leader of Australian troops during the Great War
•  Henry Parkes - called the “father” of Australian federation
• Edmund Barton - first prime minister

Bulldust
Movement
Wallaby
Conversations
Community
Raspberries
Embarressed
Poisonous
Ignoring
Subbie
Evaporate
Willy-Willy
Council
Excursion
Corroborees

unbreakable
resistance
syringes
marmalade
rummaging
translates
responsibility
permission
exhausted
suspision
indignant
doubting
mountainside
reoganised

historical
peculiar
hesitated
secretary
clambered
surprisingly
nonsense
patriotic
quantities
operation
denominations
camouflage
opportunity
fellowship
sergeant

Did everyone enjoy cross country? Did you do well in it?