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Team B Homestudy Term 3 Week 4 Due: Monday 18th August, 2008. Week 5

NOTE: Some tasks will be introduced and discussed in class during the week. Please REMEMBER if you need help with your homework come and see me earlier rather than later. Thanks

**1. Weekly Spelling** - learn your list and prepare for this week's test.
Rule: Add –er to most words (and it often means ‘a person who does something’) But, words ending with t, tt, ll, ss, or ey often have –or added to them

__Find out about the effect of adding the -er word ending. Answer these 2 questions;__ 1. What kind of words can be suffixed with -er? 2. What words can be applied to the second part of the rule? (words ending with t, tt, ll, ss, or ey often have –or added to them) 3. Complete any spelling tasks you did not get finished in class.

2. Social sciences/ Inquiry (complete each task a,b,c,d,e, clearly labelling each task in your homestudy book)
__Head up in your homestudy books: Beijing Olympics/ Human Rights__ a. **Background 1** - Click on the following link and read the article 'Background' http://www.amnesty.org/en/human-rights-china-beijing-olympics/background b. **Background 2** - Click on each of the four bullet points below. Read each article about Human Rights issues in China.
 * [|repression of activists]
 * [|detention without trial]
 * [|censorship]
 * [|the death penalty]

c. **Making sense** - Explain in **your own words** what each of the above terms/ issues mean

d. **Word Study**. Find the following words as they appear in the articles above. Write the sentence they appear in, underlining the word. Underneath the sentence, write the definition of the word.Define the following words:
 * embezzlement
 * fraud
 * embezzling
 * repression
 * activists
 * surveillance
 * arbitrary
 * separatism
 * subversion
 * prosecute
 * vagrancy
 * prohibition
 * detainees
 * punitive
 * censorship

e. **Questioning** - Write 2 open ended questions that you would like answered about each issue (repression of activists, detention without trial, censorship , the death penalty)