Our handwriting focus for the week was practising sloped writing: building speed: qu. Our spelling words were queue, frequently, equipped, equipment, question, quarter.

English – Scientific Poster on the Origin of Species topic, collating all of the learning we have achieved so far in Topic and Science (vocabulary will be from whole topic so far, and will include: natural selection, variation, inheritance, species, adaption, generation, advantageous, disadvantageous)

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Eventually, Fitzroy returned with three amenable Fuegians to Walthamstow, where they were taught Victorian manners and the English language, treated kindly and given an audience with the King and Queen. Jemmy's famil iarity with the English seems to have stranded him between absurd pride and abject shame. He became dandyish and vain while in England, and, when he was rediscovered naked and dirty after his return to Tierra del Fuego, his embarrassment at his altered state was, wrote Charles Darwin, "quite painful to behold". students may be able to relate to leaving "home" and having to try and make themselves feel at home somewhere else. They may also be able to relate having new experiences doing things without their parents, or getting something really important to them (like Jemmy's button) Maths – Long multiplication (vocabulary to recap: multiplier, multiplicand, product, carry, place holder zero, place value, decimal. Definitions for this vocabulary can be found here)

Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was called Jemmy Button by the Beagle crew because FitzRoy had given a large mother-of-pearl button to the man who was in the canoe with Orundellico. Neither Orundellico nor his mother thought he was being taken further than a nearby island, but FitzRoy had decided to educate his captives in England and instruct them in religion before returning them to Tierra del Fuego. Orundellico’s mother was distraught at the apparent loss of her son, and the loss was complete for his father, who died before Orundellico’s return. From the cover where he peeks out through lush greenery, to the vast visions of the night sky over the island, illustrations of Orundellico’s home pop with color. The scenes in England, in contrast, feature muted tones, with people who appear only as silhouettes, emphasizing the boy’s sense of displacement. This treatment brings the story home for young readers and provides an excellent discussion-starter. One year later, Captain Fitzroy returned the three surviving Fuegians home. He took with him a young naturalist, Charles Darwin, on what was the second voyage of HMS Beagle.Jemmy Button, called Orundicello by his family, lived happily on a Terra fel Fuego island until the day when he was bought from his parents for the cost of one pearly button. Transported to Victorian England to be transformed from a wild child into an English gentleman, he was educated and introduced to middle-class manners. During his stay, Jemmy even attracted the attention of the King and Queen. In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy, at the command of the first expedition of HMS Beagle, took a group of hostages from the Fuegian people after one of his boats was stolen. [1] Jemmy Button was paid for with a mother of pearl button, hence his name. It is not clear whether his family willingly accepted the sale or he was simply abducted. FitzRoy decided to take four of the young Fuegian hostages all the way to England "to become useful as interpreters, and be the means of establishing a friendly disposition towards Englishmen on the part of their countrymen." [1] He seems to have shown great concern for the four, feeding them before his own officers and crew and intending them to be educated and Christianised so that they could improve the conditions of their kin. In 1815, when Jemmy was born, though Europeans including the Spanish, Dutch and English had sailed through the waters of Tierra del Fuego, none of the colonial powers had staked a defensible claim to this chain of islands that form the southern tip of South America, nor had the newly-independent republics of Chile and Argentina. Yahgashaga remained Yamana territory, and Jemmy was raised in the traditional Yamana way, canoeing with his family from beach to beach. The men made fires, hunted seals and built wigwams on the shore, while the women handled the more water-based tasks: diving to the ocean floor to gather shellfish, mooring the canoes in nearby kelp forests and swimming ashore in the frigid waters to join their families at the fire on the beach. The Yamana people were mostly naked, occasionally wearing a seal skin or guanaco (similar to a llama) hide over their shoulders or covering their skin with blubber to keep warm in the blustery weather of this southernmost landmass before Antarctica. The civilization experience of Jeremy Button by Geraldo Salgado-Neto & Aquilea Salgado (in Portuguese) As other reviewers note, O'run-del'lico's life is an important one and it should be told. His story puts a human face on colonization and imperialistic conquest, but if it's HIS story, why isn't it told from his perspective with the complexity that a story like his deserves? I found the book so poorly executed -- largely because of its text. And I felt that the book did not include the historical note that O'run-del'lico's story deserved.

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Jemmy features prominently in "Notes From the Scientific Record" in James Rollins' tenth Sigma Force novel, The 6th Extinction (2014). a b c Jardine, Nicholas; Secord, James A.; Spary, E. C. (1996). Cultures of natural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.331. ISBN 978-0-521-55894-5. Martin Wittmann, "Nazis raus aus Lummerland" Fokus magazine (9 August 2010). Retrieved 31 July 2011 (in German)

They were dressed in British clothes and became something of a curiosity in high society, even being taken to the palace in London to meet King William IV and Queen Adelaide, who gifted Fuegia Basket one of her royal bonnets. Pomp and circumstance aside, these were human beings, and whether proper or not, York began to take a liking to young Fuegia, which worried Fitzroy, a conservative Christian striving to keep his place in the who’s who of the British royalty. How a romantic relationship between a 26 year old kidnapped “savage” man and an 11 year old kidnapped “savage” girl would play out and be viewed by British society weighed heavily on his conscience, and he began to expedite his plan to return the three Fuegians to Tierra del Fuego. Next week, we will be going over long multiplication in depth and applying this formal written method to solving multiplication problems (3-digits multiplied by 2-digits). Illustrated by Jennifer Uman and Valerio Vidali, with words by Alix Barzelay, the book's first U.S. edition was published in 2013. a b Bridges, E. Lucas (1948). The Uttermost Part of the Earth (2008ed.). Overlook Press. pp.45–48. ISBN 978-1-58567-956-0. We used the story of the Baboon on the Moon as our stimulus for thinking about what “home” is and how it means different things for different people. To some, “home” means the house they live in and the things that fill it. For others, it was the people more than the place that was more prominent. You can see our posters on the windows of Fuji classroom, and here we all are with our work together.Vocabulary that we used for to develop our argument can be found here. The structure was as follows: