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Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Rust 1: Australia's Unwelcome Guest


  1. get rid of  ✓
  2. many species welcomed into Australia are now pests  ✓
  3. rabbit caliciviruse  ✓
  4. are very poisonous  ✓
  5. carefully tested ✓
  6. cares about native fauna ✓
  7. they survive by destroying land and native fauna and flora  ✓
  8. welcome ✓
  9. there were fewer mosquitoes ✓
  10. repulsive ✓
  11. give information ✓
  12. slow down ✓
  13. didn't eat the beetles ✓
  14. cane toads ✓

Monday, 25 November 2019

Fuchsia 1: The Exclusive Scarlet Pimpernel


  1. wealthy land owners ✓
  2. were starving while the aristocrats lived in luxury ✓
  3. used to chop peoples heads off ✓
  4. year ✓
  5. more than 100 years after ✓
  6. off with his head ✓
  7. desperate ✓
  8. felt a loyalty towards them ✓
  9. fiction ✓
  10. executed by guillotine  
  11. brutal ✓
  12. thousands of aristocrats ✓
  13. are in danger ✓
  14. a small red flower ✓

Denim 10:Australia's Standing Stones

  1. delight ✓
  2. late 20th century ✓
  3. were not split from larger rocks ✓
  4. has been recorded for future references ✓
  5. newspaper report ✓
  6. how the money was raised for the project ✓
  7. Gaelic and Brythonic ✓
  8. have Celtic heritage ✓
  9. were split from larger rocks ✓
  10. music, art, song and dance ✓
  11. strong ✓
  12. very important ✓
  13. all Australians ✓
  14. stones ✓

Thursday, 21 November 2019

Denim 1: The Four Legged 'Fuzz'


  1. the police service ✓
  2. paragraph 10 ✓
  3. Senior Constable Kate Trevallier ✓
  4. loud noises ✓
  5. paragraph 4 ✓
  6. police patrol cars ✓
  7. in a parade ✓
  8. violent demonstrations ✓
  9. excellent riding skills ✓
  10. placid ✓
  11. is a mounted police officer ✓
  12. learn crowd control techniques x
  13. they are friendly x
  14. the officers of the mounted police force ✓

Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Maroon 1: The Blue Light

  1. humble ✓
  2. he had been wounded and was unable to preform the duties of a soldier ✓
  3. he only knew how to be a soldier ✓
  4. paragraph 3 ✓
  5. the witch was captured and punished ✓
  6. were in the well ✓
  7. he is clever ✓
  8. a shoe ✓
  9. alarmed ✓
  10. exceedingly well x
  11. the blue light was a remarkable magical item ✓
  12. he would have died ✓
  13. loyalty to an employer and performing duties well should be rewarded ✓
  14. relate a lesser-known fairytale for the readers enjoyment ✓

Thursday, 14 November 2019

Coral 10: Legend Of A Bear Lover


  1. thought about ✓
  2. protect it from predators ✓
  3. smell ✓
  4. securing a bag of sacred leaves around the cubs neck ✓
  5. how little bear received his name ✓
  6. prayed to the great spirit ✓
  7. compassionate ✓
  8. the sun reappeared ✓
  9. where he prayed ✓
  10. bears ✓
  11. animals such as bears possess magical abilities unknown to humans ✓
  12. heal other members of the tribe during Bear Ceremonies ✓
  13. gruesome ✓
  14. provide factual information about a native american tribe x

Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Coral 1: where did the water go


  1. rushing back in ✓
  2. paragraph 8 ✓
  3. they heard a roaring sound ✓
  4. hills x
  5. realised it was dangerous x
  6. give their help ✓
  7. uncomfortable ✓
  8. his personal belongings ✓
  9. an opinion ✓
  10. sensed that something unusual was happening ✓
  11. family holiday ✓
  12. a narrative ✓
  13. Zoe's school class ✓
  14. receding surge of water ✓

Charcoal 1: Venom: killer or saviour


  1. honeybee venom was used in medicine ✓
  2. antibodies ✓
  3. venom attacks specific parts of the body ✓
  4. interested in research ✓
  5. prehistoric life ✓
  6. antivenene ✓
  7. the benefits of venom needs to be closely studied ✓
  8. honeybee ✓
  9. medical treatment ✓
  10. Fry and Seymour ✓
  11. dangerous or lifesaving ✓
  12. paragraph 3 ✓

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Ruby 10: stop felling trees


  1. negatively ✓
  2. all have a responsibility to care for the environment ✓
  3. carbon dioxide from the air and produces oxygen ✓
  4. oxygen to breath ✓
  5. backyard tree fellers are selfish and short-sighted ✓
  6. no oxygen cycle ✓
  7. the unnecessary felling of trees should be banned ✓
  8. essential ✓
  9. a debate x
  10. people will be more aware ✓
  11. essential to life ✓
  12. trees ✓

Ruby 2: Liquid, Gas or Solid?


  1. air ✓
  2. less dense ✓
  3. moon ✓
  4. water x
  5. outline the various forms water can take, and why and how it changes ✓
  6. a chemical substance essential for life ✓
  7. non-living things ✓
  8. compacted ✓
  9. underground supplies of fresh water ✓
  10. ice ✓
  11. its chemical structure needs to change x
  12. water is the only substance which can be found in all three states in nature ✓

Aquamarine 10: Jacques Cousteau-a man and the ocean


  1. well-respected ✓
  2. great films ✓
  3. dedicated to conservation of the worlds oceans ✓
  4. the life of calypso 
  5. harnesses the power of the wind ✓
  6. death of Jacques Cousteau ✓
  7. hadn't had the opportunity to observe the underwater world ✓
  8. there were many arguments over it's ownership ✓
  9. narrative x
  10. significant ✓
  11. identified it many years before most people did ✓
  12. Cousteau's first movie ✓