Term 2 Week 1

  Monday:  Our March holiday had just ended. Today is the first day of term 2. We had litrature lesson. Ms Maly gave us back our results for common test. I obtained a score of 23/25, but Pei Qing got one mark higher than me. I was so envious. I made two mistakes at the Multiple choice questions. Mr Chua then came in to our class. He took over Ms Maly and went through the test paper.

  Mr Chua then told us about the progress of our daily assignment. He announced the results of our daily learning log and the overall of the test results. He left the class after that.

  Ms Maly took over the class again. She told us to shift all our tables aside and assemble in the empty space. We were noisy, so she told us to move back again. She waited for us to  settle down, then told us to assemble again. However, this did not help much. We were noisy, especially the boys, so she punished some of the noisy students.

  She conducted a very interesting activity after that. She instucted us to close our eyes and imagine ourselves walking. She told us to question oursleves on the manner of walking when we are experiencing emotions. After that she told us to walk around the space, ranging from speed one to speed 10. She taught us how to walk with heavy steps and to walk lightly.

  She instructed us to form a cricle, then form groups of three. Each group should have one classmate of different race. Ms Maly distribted a paper. It contains the information of the activity that we did today. Ms Maly brief us about the play that we are going to do. It will be graded for our CA and daily assignment. At the end of the lesson, Ms Maly instructed us to hand up our holiday assignment, about the romance brochure.
  Friday: Ms Maly came in and continue with our acting lesson. She told us to move our tables again. We went out and spread ourslves, but the boys were making alot of noise, so Ms Maly told us to get back our seats. She was furious this time. We were seated quietly.
Ms Maly was so furious that she spent time scolding and disciplining the class.
  Ms Maly intructed the even numbers (index number)to assemble at the empty space, which is our stage. She told us to practise ou walking speed and advised us not to knock into each other. The odd numbers had to come up next. Ms Maly trained them to walk with heavy and light steps. As usual, to put in emotions in our actions. After practising, we went back to our seats. Ms Maly briefed us on the worksheet again before the bell rang.
  My reflection for this week is that we need more self - discipline as we are very noisy and made Ms Maly upset. We should have a fiercer teacher so that the class would be more quiet and deciplined.

Term 1 Week 8

  Monday: March holiday is just around the corner. This is the last week of term 1. We have not recieve our literature exam papers until the start of term 2. Ms Malyanah came into our class and went through the sonnet part 1 with us. She taught us about the unrest and rest in each syllable.  However, she did not went through much that day. Our class was very noisy and Ms Malyanah was really upset on our class as she had to scream to quiet down our class. Thus, time was wasted. Ms Malyanah gave us another worksheet on sonnet(part 2). It is on the words that Romeo used to describe Juliet's beauty, and Ms Malyanah taught us the definition about it. She only managed to went through some questions with us as our class was noisy and she had to pause and give us a scolding. I think that our class should be more discipline and responsible so that we would not waste our precious time. If this continues, we might waste time for make-up lessons to recover the time we wasted on scolding us. This would give other teachers a bad impression on our class.

 

 

 

 Friday:  Our class was quieter on Friday. Ms Malyanah managed to go through all the questions on sonnet(part 2). After that, she gave us a worksheet. It was seperated into three parts on both sides on the paper. I was wondering if it was a brochure. Then, Ms Malyanah instucted us to fold it into three parts, as expected. It was a brochure!

  Ms Malyanah insrtucted us to get 10 different expectations of their partner from 5 girls and 5 guys from our class. My expectation was ridiculous, but i have many, so i picked one that was not common. I wanted my future partner to be handsome, devoted, caring, 'hot', soft, tall, muscular and must be a japanese. Being japanese was not a common expectation in our class, so I picked that expectation. I know it was ridiculous to some people. I want my future partner to look like my idol, but he's just a fictionless character. Ms Malyanah then told us about greek's opinion on love. The lowest level of greek opinion of love is Eros. Eros is passionate love or longing. The second level of love is Philia. Philia is mostly brotherhood and friendship. This invloves loyalty to friends, family and community. The highest level of love is agape. Agape is a divine, unconditional and self-sacrificing affection. This is the highest and purest form of love.

  Our March holiday assignment is to complete the brochure assignment. We have to fill it up. We have to write about what our religion said about love, a love peom to our loved one, the lyrics of a love song, and 5 qualities to maintain a successful marriage. Lastly, I would want to share some songs on what I think about love.

This is a japanese song.

The lyrics (translation): I repeated it for a long time. I made you sad for a long time.
I must have hurt you. Now I still cannot move.
Why is it so painful to touch you?
I think it is because I was afraid of making the same mistake and losing you.

I tried to recover the unforgettable days to stay close to each other.
You hold my hand without asking anything.

Even if you don't love me tomorrow, I must love you as I do now.
Even if you don't see me tomorrow, I must love you as I do now.
I will walk together, the future not promised
It keeps walking together, to the future in which you are…

I love you so much that I forget any suffering.
My heart feels pain every time I count the days we cannot meet.

The loneliness is piling up. Please don’t cry alone.
Even if we are so far away, we can believe each other.

I wish to smile as it is. I don’t want you to hurt yourself.
I don't want to repeat such feelings, which have kept fading each time.
Even if you don't love me tomorrow, I must love you as I do now.
Even if you don't see me tomorrow, I must love you as I do now.
Please, only look at me. Please, don’t let our hands separate.
I will walk together, the future not promised
It keeps walking together, to the future in which you are…

Term 1 Week 7

  Monday: Ms Malyanah (pardon me for spelling mistakes) came to teach us instead of Mr Chua. She teached us a type of poem called sonnet. She teached us a sonnet of William Shakespeare called,"Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" She told us to form groups of four. I teamed up with Karen, Sandy (or was it Kellynn?) and PeiQi. Ms Malyanah then gave us a letter. There was strips of paper of the sonnet inside. Shse instructed us to rearrange the sentences into the proper one. We took a long time to complete it. The other groups was fast. Despite the difficulties we faced, Ms Malyanah gave us a lot of hints on the projector. We finally managed to rearrange the sentences correctly. We jumped for joy. The link to the sonnet: 
http://www.love-poems.me.uk/shakespeare_sonnet_18_shall_i_compare_thee_to_a_summers_day.htm
She gave us a worksheet about sonnet before the lessons ended.


  Wednesday: We had remedial lessons on literature. We went to the NE library and Ms Malyanah grouped 2 Dynamic with 2 Thinking. I was grouped with Zhi Xin, Hakim, Doreen, Timothy and another girl from 2 Thinking. (Can't remember her name, sorry). Ms Malyanah gave us two worksheet. One was on the character traits of Portia, Antonio, Bassanio and Shylock on the Merchant of Venice. The other worksheet is to set our own possible questions that are most likely to appear on our common test. Ms Malyanah let us watch the scene of merchant of Venice after that. We watched attentively and referred to the worksheet. After that Ms Malyanah told us to complete the traits and set the questions. Our remedial ended late as many students were not cooperating. Many students stayed back as they did not completed their learning log. I was lucky that I have completed mine.

  Friday: Our common test had just started, but we still had our literature lesson. Mr Chua came in and told us to take our worksheet on the possible questions that will appear in the common test and told us to get out. We went to fourth floor at the empty space. He punished those who had not completed the questions. He told us to pair up with our friends and test each other. He also told us to grade each other questions. I got As. I was happy. After that we returned to class and Mr Chua told us to exchange our character traits paper with each other with the people in the same row. He told us to mark and grade. The bell rang and it was time for our English common test. I will end my post here.