Learning Log 7

Firstly, Romeo and Juliet drama is really cool~ because we don't have to keep on writing and writing on 'wood'! The members also bonded well during the long hours of preparation on the play and props! We had to freqeuntly meet up to practice, like everyday during the holidays, so it was an memorable experience! :)

One of the problems faced is that the members gets distracted often and starts to fool around, which was really terrible, looking at the time constraint we are facing. But this is easily solved, just have to shout a little to get their attention back! :)

On the real day, it was really nerve wrecking! All of us was in panic-mode! The clock is ticking~ tick tock tick tock~ all you can hear is screams! "What to do? It's our turn soon!" Now that i think of it, its hillarious! :D

5 mins~ Last rehearsal~ 4 mins~ go into the AVA room~ 3 mins~ shivers down the spine~ 2 mins~ checking the forms~ 1 min~ postioning the props~

3................. 2.................... 1.......... ACTION. everything we've been working for, it's finally here.

Overall i thought our performance was awesome! :)
Actually i kind of miss those days now~ :)

I would totally recommand this play to the sec 2s next year! The play quite easy to understand and through the acting, we would understand the script even clearer and have lots of fun at the same time! I believe the future sec 2s would want drama too~ C'mon, who doesn't want to get away from those long passage and writing for a while? :)

Learning Log 6

The lessons on literacy devices is confusing at first~ All the new words and meanings to memorise~ Feels like we went back to kindergarten and have to learn all the unfamiliar words at one go~ Squeesing all those in our tiny brain! Okay, that's was a bit exaggerated. Also, that's how i understand 'hyperbole'! 'Hyperbole' means exaggeration used to evoked strong feelings or creating a impression which is not meant to be taken literally. Similar isn't it? :)

Through lesson with literacy devices, i have learnt a lot of new and interesting words~ Some were recap for sec 1. Like alliteration, simile, tone, rhyme, rhythm. But I'm more familiar with the word rhythm during band~ *giggles* Some words we learn are really new words, like onomatoepia, complex sentence, simple sentence, kinestethic, gustatory, tactile, symbol and so on, there's just too much! :)

One literacy devices that is most memorable to me is oxymoron! Oxymoron is a single image or idea made up of contradictory. Examples of oxymoron is sweet sorrow, only choice, student teacher, pretty ugly. Words of opposite definition could come together and make up a word which actually make sense! Amazing! It is also often used by we are unaware of it~ It's very cool! :)

Overall, i enjoyed the lessons on literacy devices as it widens our knowledge and will really help us in our literature exams if we memoriesd them at our fingertips! That's all to what i want to say! Bye! :)

Learning Log 5

After reading the notes, oh boy am i confused at first! But i managed to grasp the pointers for unseen poem and unseen essay~ :)

The point for unseen poem is to read the poem at least twice through and understand the poem. If we do, it would be easier for us to answer questions on it. We must first pick out the difficult words or phrases, and come up with the meaning of it. The reading and understand of the poem would be smoother if we knew the meaning to the different words. Underlining keywords and also could try to summarise each paragraph and write it by the side, or make short notes on it, it would come in handy! We must not answer the question in general terms and without explanation, that would cost us to lost alot of marks~ One way to organise answer when answering to the poem is using the PEEL method which consist of Point, Elaboration, Evidence and Link~ :)

For unseen essay, we have to analyies the passage. When reading it for the first time, we have to have an idea of what the passage is about. Read it of the second time, take note of mood and setting etc, for a better understanding of the passage. Next, read the question stated and underline from the passage where the answers and evidence can be found. For good essay, remember that there must always have the introduction, the body which consist of the point, evidence, elaboration and personal response and lastly, the conclusion when answering the questions on the essay. Same as the unseen poem, there should be no general answers and answers must be supported by evidence and elaboration~ :)

Also, i learnt that there are two types of irony. One is the situational irony and the other one is verbal irony, which is sarcasm. Sarcasm is to 'create humor', 'add the sense of tragedy', and lasty 'to critize'~ :)

This is something that i have learn through reading the set of notes~ Hopefully i can do well for this opponent! Wish me luck~ :)
Racheal~ :)

Learning Log 4

Another learning log~
This learing log is for the Macbeth Witch Performance~
As a whole, i can say that i enjoyed it...

My group didn't practice as much as the other group as we were buzy with personal stuff and SYF~
That was definately one of the difficulties faced...
The other difficulties faced is that we couldn't find props that we wanted...
Bcause it is not the Halloween period now~
So most of the witch, scary props was not for sale.
But we tried to get all the main props like the pot...
We bought a cupboard box and i took it home to paint it as scary-looking as possible~
We couldn't find any black cape so we went on with our class tee (black in color) and pe shorts.
We put on fake L.O.N.G nails and paint it dark black and bloody red to give a witch feel.
We also put powder on our hair to have an old lady look!

All the performance by our classmates are fabulous!
Some groups really gace me a deep impression!
I felt that the first group (Kaiyisah, Xuan Yun and Ken) to present was really entertaining!
It was okay at first~ With their witch voices and their disgusting props~
But then, because Kaiyisah played the thunder sound effect in a playlist,
it automatically went on to the next song after it finish and PIKACHU appeared!
It was adorable! Gave us a lot of laughs! :D
Kareem's (Kareem, Mark and Chun Seng) group was also funny! :D
At first it was all amazing, with the scary sound and slides!
But then, the slides was faster than expected,
leaving the group out of tempo~
It is funny how it ended with a twist! :D
Ali's group was also amazing~
I love their make-up, they looked really like witches!
Their performance was special, like holding each other hands and turning in circles when saying the last two lines together.
I totally didn't thought of doing that!
They really think out of the box with that idea! :D

Honestly, i feel that compared to the other groups, their props are certainally better than ours.
What i have learn from the other groups is that we must practice more.
Because my group, Joanne and Kiran, did not practice much, we did not have much chemistry on stage.
The actions of throwing stuff into the pot and stiring was unfamiliar so it looked weird.
Good practices certainly provides with more confidence on stage and more familiar of how the whole process is going to be.
If we could do the performance one more time, i would want to improve on our chemistry and our props making as it was kind of plain.
Maybe we can make slides and put in some eeire music to make the act more convincing.

Hopefully the end-of-year act would be improved and better than this one! :)
*Racheal*

Learning Log 3

I shall go stright to the point here~ :D

Act 1 scene 1 was kind of easy... Just need to memorise what the three witches said...
Actually, i can remeber it while typing all these! :D
1st Witch: "Where shall we three meet again
In thunder, lighting, or in rain?"
2nd Witch: "When the hurlyburly's done
When the battle's lost and won"
3rd Witch: "That will be ere the set of sun."
1st Witch: "Where the place?"
2nd Witch: "Upon the heath."
3rd Witch: "There to meet with Macbeth."
1st Witch: "I come, Graymalkin!"
2nd Witch: "Paddock calls."
3rd Witch: "Anon!"
All: "Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair:
Hover through the fog and filty air."
Even though everyone didn't act out this scene during lesson time but seeing the few that was chosen by Mrs Woo famous "Number selector" and "become witches", they really did a great job, had the creepy, scary voice! :O

For lesson on Act 1 scene 2, the lesson was rather fast as we were falling behind other classes. I couldn't really understand the storyline. But read through it at home, and somehow got the hang of it, with the help of the highlightings and notes. I hope we can have more notes on a particular scene/part/play because it might really aid us in exams. I saw 2 commitment with a list of characters/personality listed out but 2 integrity do not have the piece of paper.

Talking about the group discussion on the comic grid, it was okay. My group members are all obedient children and we discussed on the 5/7 lines we were going to add into the comic. i think i will have difficulties on the comic as my art is not good and the comic requires LOTS of drawings! "OH NO!" i thought when i first recieved the paper! Saw some works from friends of the other classes and it looks really nice! Hopefully mine will be as good! Just pray that it would be~ :)

That's all~ Literature lesson till now is considered fun. Love the news when Mrs Woo said that there will be group work! I LOVE GROUP WORK! ♥

Learning Log 2

Learning Log 2

Can say that I’m enjoying the lessons so far~ And Literature this year is definitely more interesting than last year~ well to me it is~

Now we are learning about MACBETH, we have gone through Act 1 Scene 1. The scene of the three witches. Even though knowing that the dialogue should be said in a creepy, “witchy” way, I don’t want to do it. Cause it would be like SO embarrassing! And I can’t do the high pitch, low pitch sound!

Hope fully I can remember how to rearrange the lines for the common test! Wish me luck!

For the discussion and presentations of the superstitious, I heard some that I’ve never heard before, for example we should close our mouth when we yawn or else spirits would go in etc. After the lesson, I became totally paranoid and was being careful about everything! Looking for black cats, cracks on the floor… Believed all the superstitious for once. Though it felt kind of silly but you would feel safer… Somehow~ Because you know you will be safe if you obey/followed the superstitious! Better to be safe than sorry! :P

~Racheal Signing out~ :)

Learning Log 1

First of all, I want to say I enjoyed the lesson because it was fun, doing in groups to create the Cinquain. Coming to know that this year for Literature, we are going to do drama was kind of surprising. I was happy that it wasn’t like last year, reading the book and more paperwork, because I didn’t do as well on it.

For the lesson, we learned about Cinquain. Cinquain basically means “five-line poem”. It is a French word with the word “cinq” as a meaning of ‘five’. To write a cinquain, even though we can choose whatever topic to write about, we must always follow the rule.

>The rule is:

Line 1 is the Title (One word)

Line 2 is the Descriptions of the topic (Two words)

Line 3 is the Actions that is related to the topic (Three words)

Line 4 is the Feelings related to the topic (Four words)

Line 5, which is the last line, is the Reflection on the title (One word)

>An example of a Cinquain would be:

Knights

Armour ,shields

Fighting, charging, slaughtering

Worried, delighted, brave, fearsome

Crusaders

I have done some research on Cinquain also. The cinquain form was invented by the American poet Adelaide Crapsey, inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka. In her 1915 collection titled Verse, published one year after her death, Crapsey included 28 Cinquains. Lines generally do not rhyme. The Crapsey cinquain has subsequently seen a number of variations by modern poets, including:

Variation	Description
Reverse cinquain	a form with one 5-line stanza in a syllabic pattern of two, eight, six, four, two.
Mirror cinquain	a form with two 5-line stanzas consisting of a cinquain followed by a reverse cinquain.
Butterfly cinquain	a nine-line syllabic form with the pattern two, four, six, eight, two, eight, six, four, two.
Crown cinquain	a sequence of five cinquain stanzas functioning to construct one larger poem.
Garland cinquain	a series of six cinquains in which the last is formed of lines from the preceding five, typically line one from stanza one, line two from stanza two, and so on.
Didactic cinquain (The one we are learning)	The first line is a one-word title, the subject of the poem; the second line is a pair of adjectives describing that title; the third line is a three word phrase that gives more information about the subject; the fourth line consists of four words describing feelings related to that subject; and the fifth line is a single word synonym from line one.

Hopefully in the future, group works will continue during Literature lesson and everything we learn would be as interesting as Cinquain! :)