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 * TERM 3 - ANIMAL ETHICS

Task 1: What is your heart song? Music can communicate many different things and can mean different things to different people. Music can have a profound effect on people's emotions. Certain songs touch people very strongly. There are various parts to any given song - some songs are meant to express emotions such as happiness, love sadness or anger, while other songs send out a message through their lyrics.

Think about a song that you know is very important to you, a song that makes you feel an emotion very strongly - this could be anything from love to joy to anger. You may find that you have a memory attached to this song.

Your first task is to choose a heart song. Find and copy and paste the lyrics onto your wiki and then write 100 words on the importance of the song; how it makes you feel and what it makes you think about. **

 

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 This term we are studying the novel I am David. //I Am David is a fiction book written by // [|Anne Holm] in 1963. It is the story of a 12 year old boy named David, who escapes a Communist labour camp, with the help of a prison guard. His only possessions given to him by the guard are a compass, a pocket knife, a sealed letter, a bar of soap, half a loaf of bread, and instructions to go to Denmark. For the first time in his life, David is thrust into a world with freedoms he has never known before. He travels across Europe during the cold war. David's journey is one of discovery - during which he loses and gains trust for humanity, learns about true beauty and finds the ability within himself to smile, share, trust and ultimately to love.  I am David explores many themes such as genocide, racism, warfare, and resilience. 

**The farmer, ** a mean-spirited, cruel man, finds David just as winter is starting, and he imprisons David in a stable all winter, forcing him to do work and feeding him very little.  Homework Page  
 * MAJOR CHARACTERS **
 * David **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">is a twelve-year-old boy who has been imprisoned in a concentration camp since infancy. When a guard helps him escape, David is able to get away and to survive, but he has much to learn about himself, other people, and life.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">The prison guard, **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">or “the man,” as David refers to him, is seen by David as very bad and cruel. David hates the man and believes the man hates him, too. He cannot understand why the man helps him escape.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">Johannes **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">is a man who was at the concentration camp for a time and who befriended David. He was the only person David ever got close to, but he died in the camp.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">Carlo **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">is an Italian boy who beats David up for trespassing on his family’s land.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">Maria, **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">Carlo’s younger sister, is a beautiful little girl whom David saves from a fire. David immediately feels love for Maria, and this feeling causes him to smile for the first time in his life.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">The father **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">of Carlo, Maria, and their three other siblings is a decent, fairly wealthy man. Deeply grateful to David for saving Maria’s life, the father shows David kindness and hopes he will live with the family at their home.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">The mother **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">of the children is also grateful to David, but she becomes distant with him after he rejects her attempts at affection and because she finds him strange, mysterious, and difficult to understand.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">Signora Hartmann **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 120%;">is a Danish woman who has David stay at her home overnight, paints his portrait, shows him kindness, and doesn’t ask a lot of questions. Signora Hartmann is the first person David meets who he thinks understands him.