As I said, I haven't been reading a lot this year at all. Maybe about once a month, and at the 10 mins at the beginning of each English lesson is how much I read. Although I haven't been reading a lot, I have been consistently going on and reading this book called "Sold" by Patricia McCormick. It's an extremely good book to me, this is because I hate it when I open up huge books with a massive amount of writing! I will faint just looking at it. I bought this at a book shop, it caught my eye due to it's massive yellow bright colour. When I opened it, it was well-spaced with a font that I actually like ( I extraodinarily hate so much of the Arial font!)... Also, another was that each Chapter was between 1~4 pages the maximum. It's so short an extremely easy to read. That's why even the book looks likes it's impossible to read with a little amount of time, it took me this whole term with just a few minutes each day at class plus like once a month (weekend hour) read makes me finish the book very quickly.
It's a very heart-wrenching story of a girl called Lakshmi, from Nepal, who is sold into prositution at the age of 3, and kept captive in a place called the 'Happiness House', where she not only survives, against all odds, but is actually triumph and happy. Lakshmi was sold due to the poor-ness of her family and she didn't know that until she arrived at the "Happiness House" for a while. This was because her father lied to her about the truth... It is very sad how such a young girl who only JUST experienced her 1st period and already gets sold off into nightmare. Slowly, she does make more and more friends in the 'Happiness House' until a day she actually finds her own courage to face the world and fight for her own life and reclaim her own life.
It's a wonderful, eloquent and kind of a "shocking" story to read, but it is nice and simple to read (especially to such a lazy reader like me)... It is a very lovely story and therefore I rate it [About 9 out of 10] >_<
Future readers, enjoy it... Relax
Protest Poetry
The Bells of Heaven
'Twould ring the bells of heaven,
The wildest peal for years,
If Parson lost his senses
And people came to theirs.
And he and they together
Knelt down with angry prayers
For tamed and shabby tigers,
And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched, blind pit ponies,
And little hunted hares.
As, I had said before in a few posts before, my poem for my Protest Poetry in my oral assignment was very short! =]
Goals for Next Term (Term 4) ^-^
I have lots and lots of goals I would definitely like to achieve for Term 4!!! In fact, I wanted to achieve it at the beginning of the year too! (But couldn't...) =( I must be successful this time!
Firstly, I want to be able to always get the habit of "planning" and not just that, but also to be able to plan well. This can help me to structure all my essays, writings and everything a lot better. This applies to almost all subjects, especially English and History. Planning has been a great problem for me and so I must (hopefully) fix it so I can learn how to structure any kind of piece of writing well!
Secondly, I really want to improve my grammatical tense errors even though I have no idea how to. It seems that every teacher has been telling me that there's something wrong with my grammatical tense since when I was in Yr 5 and up. I will maybe try to read out my "piece of writing" and listen to whats wrong with it. To be honest, I'm already doing that, but it doesn't really work. Big struggle for me!
Thirdly, I also have huge problems with verbal tense, which of course I must try to improve. It seems, some of my sentences are very weird and not understandable. I will try and fix it. Again, I think I would have to read out aloud my work. =]
Fourthly, I want to improve reading lots and lots more. I read about once a month, not including the ones we read for 5 mins at the beginning of each English Class. I am trying to find time to do that, it is very hard. I know, I just need to read about 10 mins every night, but 10 mins is really really really hard for me to find... I will try and maybe reduce some co-curriculars if possible and attempt to read more. Reading is a good habit as pretty much everyone says! =]
Fifthly, I want to improve my concentrations I put towards in class. I get distracted extremely easily. I will try my best to stay focused on task and understand as much as I can on what has to be done in class. I need to try and do my work with a 100% focus, so I can do well.
Lastly, I really really really want to make an immense huge improvement with my mark for English. I am wishing, dreaming, begging, pleading so much in my mind, brain and heart to get an A for my overall mark for English at the end of the year. This will be very hard for me, because this year my English hasn't been going well for me, and most of my marks have been ranging within the B sections which is quite sad. =(
Anyways, I shall do as much as I can to get an A for English. I will put my best effort and every last strength towards achieving this goal.
Overall, I must stay organised and have good time management (which I am horrible at). I must not be a procrastinater!
Firstly, I want to be able to always get the habit of "planning" and not just that, but also to be able to plan well. This can help me to structure all my essays, writings and everything a lot better. This applies to almost all subjects, especially English and History. Planning has been a great problem for me and so I must (hopefully) fix it so I can learn how to structure any kind of piece of writing well!
Secondly, I really want to improve my grammatical tense errors even though I have no idea how to. It seems that every teacher has been telling me that there's something wrong with my grammatical tense since when I was in Yr 5 and up. I will maybe try to read out my "piece of writing" and listen to whats wrong with it. To be honest, I'm already doing that, but it doesn't really work. Big struggle for me!
Thirdly, I also have huge problems with verbal tense, which of course I must try to improve. It seems, some of my sentences are very weird and not understandable. I will try and fix it. Again, I think I would have to read out aloud my work. =]
Fourthly, I want to improve reading lots and lots more. I read about once a month, not including the ones we read for 5 mins at the beginning of each English Class. I am trying to find time to do that, it is very hard. I know, I just need to read about 10 mins every night, but 10 mins is really really really hard for me to find... I will try and maybe reduce some co-curriculars if possible and attempt to read more. Reading is a good habit as pretty much everyone says! =]
Fifthly, I want to improve my concentrations I put towards in class. I get distracted extremely easily. I will try my best to stay focused on task and understand as much as I can on what has to be done in class. I need to try and do my work with a 100% focus, so I can do well.
Lastly, I really really really want to make an immense huge improvement with my mark for English. I am wishing, dreaming, begging, pleading so much in my mind, brain and heart to get an A for my overall mark for English at the end of the year. This will be very hard for me, because this year my English hasn't been going well for me, and most of my marks have been ranging within the B sections which is quite sad. =(
Anyways, I shall do as much as I can to get an A for English. I will put my best effort and every last strength towards achieving this goal.
Overall, I must stay organised and have good time management (which I am horrible at). I must not be a procrastinater!
Evaluation of Protest Poetry Unit in Term 3
Term 3 was a huge term for English, and as for our "normal" English class, our main topic/theme was Protest Poetry. There was so much to learn, but before we started learning about Protest Poetry, we looked at other poetry or even songs. This is because songs may follow the poetic technique uses for their lyrics and structure throughout the piece of music. Such songs we looked at was "Paved Paradise". There was also another poem we looked at called the "Outsiders"???... It was quite a confusing poem. (Personally ^o^)
What I learnt through studying the unit in terms of poetic techniques was that poetic techniques actually do help and bring a different mood, expression, feeling, movement, action and so on to do the poem / song. I also learnt that there were a lot and a lot of poetic techniques that exist, but it happens so that most poems / songs use only a few techniques. I can see that repetition and rhyming are the most popular. Something else I learnt was that poets express their point of view through their compostition by of course as I said before, using "poetic techniques." But it's not only that, they may also do it by inserting and putting beautiful words or lyrics in the poem or maybe an extraodinarily different kind of structured poem or something that's totally differnet from what a normal poem should be like. That would surprise the reader of the poem... =]
I enjoyed analysing my own poem that I did for my oral assignment in Term 3. It was called "The Bells of Heaven". This was because the poem was extremely meaningful and powerful. Also, I enjoyed it because in when we were still working on this assignment, I was the only student in the class to choose doing a topic on "Animal Cruelty", whereas everyone did things mainly about the war, which I find would be boring. So, I decided to lighten my oral up by doing a different topic to everyone else. Also, I enjoyed analysing this poem, because it's actually quite fun to read it and it is an EXTREMELY SHORT piece of poetry. Almost everyone else in the class did a poetry more than 15 ~ 20 lines, whereas mine was exactly 10 lines. So, it was a lot quicker and easier for me to analyse, therefore I enjoyed it. =] (Good lucky shortcut!)
I would rate this unit in terms of learnt experienes and texts that I enjoyed overall [7.5 out of 10]... Well if I rate it out of five: [About 3.75 out of 5]... I must agree it was a great unit, but poetry isn't for me. I don't really like poetry, but I liked because I already about 95% of the poetry techniques that Mrs Pignier taught the class. It is a pretty good term, it felt like we sped through learning everything. Although, to honestly speak, the learning experiences were quite boring and the songs and poetry we analysed for a start and basic understand for Protest Poetry were quite dragging on and confusing (to me)... Otherwise, everything else was pretty good in English in Term 3. I will be hoping Term 4 turning out great!
What I learnt through studying the unit in terms of poetic techniques was that poetic techniques actually do help and bring a different mood, expression, feeling, movement, action and so on to do the poem / song. I also learnt that there were a lot and a lot of poetic techniques that exist, but it happens so that most poems / songs use only a few techniques. I can see that repetition and rhyming are the most popular. Something else I learnt was that poets express their point of view through their compostition by of course as I said before, using "poetic techniques." But it's not only that, they may also do it by inserting and putting beautiful words or lyrics in the poem or maybe an extraodinarily different kind of structured poem or something that's totally differnet from what a normal poem should be like. That would surprise the reader of the poem... =]
I enjoyed analysing my own poem that I did for my oral assignment in Term 3. It was called "The Bells of Heaven". This was because the poem was extremely meaningful and powerful. Also, I enjoyed it because in when we were still working on this assignment, I was the only student in the class to choose doing a topic on "Animal Cruelty", whereas everyone did things mainly about the war, which I find would be boring. So, I decided to lighten my oral up by doing a different topic to everyone else. Also, I enjoyed analysing this poem, because it's actually quite fun to read it and it is an EXTREMELY SHORT piece of poetry. Almost everyone else in the class did a poetry more than 15 ~ 20 lines, whereas mine was exactly 10 lines. So, it was a lot quicker and easier for me to analyse, therefore I enjoyed it. =] (Good lucky shortcut!)
I would rate this unit in terms of learnt experienes and texts that I enjoyed overall [7.5 out of 10]... Well if I rate it out of five: [About 3.75 out of 5]... I must agree it was a great unit, but poetry isn't for me. I don't really like poetry, but I liked because I already about 95% of the poetry techniques that Mrs Pignier taught the class. It is a pretty good term, it felt like we sped through learning everything. Although, to honestly speak, the learning experiences were quite boring and the songs and poetry we analysed for a start and basic understand for Protest Poetry were quite dragging on and confusing (to me)... Otherwise, everything else was pretty good in English in Term 3. I will be hoping Term 4 turning out great!