Term 3 Week 3

Monday:  As usual, Mr Chua arrived on time when the bell rang. He hurriedly settled down and began his lesson to prevent any wastage of time. He then continued his lesson on Elvis Presley play,"Are you lonesome tonight". He went through scene 1 text, explaining every detail of it. But before that, he randomly picked a few register numbers of the classmates and answer his questions without giving us time to think. Mr Chua then made us read scene 1, but not many people were reading, and he was disappointed. After reading through the text, he asked the class if anyone did not understand any words in that scene. Mr Chua was hoping that someone would speak up and ask questions, and a few classmates did. One of the students asked, "What is the meaning of crony?" Nobody answered, and Mr Chua called my name. I have to stand up and answer his question. I did not know the meaning, and he was disappointed of course. Mr Chua asked my if I read the text at home, and yes i did, but i did not thoroughly went through the text. He shook his head in disappointment then continued his lesson. He told us the meaning of crony - a person that befriend another and boot-licks him/her to gain benefits. But in the scene, Elvis former cronies were only after his money. Mr Chua also explained what is the meaning of Cadillac and chandeliers. I think that Elvis became very upset and depressed as everyone that he loves had left him. Thus, he turned into drugs to ease his pain, but it was only temporary. Reflecting on what today's Literature lesson was, I think that I have to put in more effort in revising the Literature text. I should not have just read and flipped through the text, but to get ahead of Mr Chua and thoroughly revise through the text. 

Just like Elvis, he placed his best efforts in his performance, to the people that loves him, his fans. I think that we should learn from him, placing our full efforts in learning Literature and analyzing what we had learnt, and willing to do more research on what we don't know and the background of the text.

Cadillac 1970s

Chandelier

Thursday: Mr Chua came in on time, as usual, never missing one Literature lesson. His main point for today's Literature lesson is that he want to make us THINK. Before that, he reminded us about the play and End-of year examinations again, 30% from the exam papers itself, the work that we've done and 70% on our play. So, he spent today's lesson on asking us questions, which is like a quiz. He told us to keep our files. He asked us some basic questions first, which most of us knew the answer and did not have to spend alot of time to think. After randomly picking out a few classmates to answer he went on to ask a much more challenging question,"Why was Redhead not given a proper name? Why was she called RedHead?" That required some time for us to think about it. He gave us around 3 minutes to think. I thought that she was called redhead as it might describe her features like having red hair. Mr Chua picked out a student, and the student answered, " I think that she was called Redhead as she was hot tempered." Mr Chua then picked another few students to share their thoughts. Some had not thought up of an answer, others were still thinking hard, while some are not. So Mr Chua picked out another few classmates who were not thinking hard enough to answer the question. He went through the text with us again, and we found out that she was not hot tempered at all. In fact, she cared alot about Elvis, but Elvis did not care about her feelings and thought that she was another crony and wanted his money. Mr Chua went on to explain and he told us that he wanted us to think more and jot down what we thought on our learning logs, instead of just re-capping on what we had learnt. So, what I think of today's lesson was, I think that Elvis should not treat Redhead this way, even if he was depressed. Redhead was just being caring compared to his other cronies, and prevented Elvis from taking the pills and to continue to deteriorate his health any further. He kept thinking that everyone wanted his money, and he is wrong.