Learning Log 3

Last week, we had a group assignment on predictions of something that will befall on ourselves. I was grouped with Diana, Jia Yi and Anirwin. But before we were grouped, we were given some time to brainstorm about ideas and stories of predictions that happened in our daily lives. At first, I did not had any idea as these kind of things rarely, or should I say don't happen to me as my family does not believe in such things, like fortune telling and horoscopes and so on. But I recalled that I had this friend who told me about an incident that her father told her. It was about this old lady who was blinded by lightning when she was 12 and she could then predict the future.

After that, we were grouped together by Mrs Woo and we started our sharing of the ideas we had and my idea was chosen for the group work. So, we started to write out on the piece of worksheet provided. I had a lot of fun as I interacted with my group members and I also got to know more about other's true story of predictions of something that will befall on themselves. As I was picked by Mrs Woo's famous "number selector", I had to present my story to the class

During the presentation, it was funny how the boys read out the stories of their groups. Soon, it was my turn to present. At first, I felt very nervous and anxious as I was not very fluent in English and screwed up when I "freezed" the visualizer with my hand blocking the view of the paper. But it was still alright as I managed to read in front of the whole class without any major errors.

Overall, I believe that this lesson was enjoyable and fun, and I managed to learn more many fascinating things. I have no further suggestions to improve this lesson and I look forward to the acting out of Macbeth scene 1 act 2.

Ps. Was I loud enough for the class when I spoke?

Learning Log 2

During the lesson on superstition and presentation of Macbeth (act 1, scene 1), I've learnt a lot about superstitions that I had never heard before. They are, for example, do not wash your hair before a test or you will forget everything you had studied. I do believe that superstitions are not true, but it is alway better to be safe than sorry. I did not think of why superstition and Macbeth are related. But after the lesson, I learnt that perhaps Shakespeare wrote Macbeth with 3 witches is because they believed that there were witches all around them. It was also fun when 3 of our classmates were chosen to portray the witches as it was hilarious to see them pitch their voice really high. I had also managed to recite a few lines of those witches like " Fair is foul and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air". I think that this lesson can be improved if everyone can research on more numbers of superstitions and we can learn more about it, especially ones that are around Shakespeare's era to understand his plays we are learning

Learning Log 1

After the lesson on Cinquains, I had learnt another method to write literature. Cinquains are special to me as it is very interesting to write a Cinquain, like for example, "cinq" means 5 in French, but in those 5 lines, there are only less than 5 words in each line and in each line there are some rules to follow. During literature lesson, I enjoyed it very much as I got to see other group's Cinquains and interact with my group members in order to create a good Cinquain. I had fun during the lesson as my group members and I thought of ridiculous ideas and themes for the poem. I liked the number selector especially as it creates a lot of suspense. As for improvements, I suggest that everyone should do different Cinquains so that there are more varieties.