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Online lesson Week 5

He could feel no more of his legs, not only legs; he could feel his arms, hands losing control. He slowly shut his eyes, hand still trying to grab the rifle that accompanied him throughout the battle. He could hear his comrades’ voice calling for him; he could feel their hands trying to resurrect him, he could still feel the ground shaking as the explosions continues. The surrounding was already ruined, debris, roofs, pillars, all piled on one other. He knew, the war was still continuing.

Creating a Character

Well, I am not good in writing a good english essay, but I am quite good in writing a chinese essay. So I believe the experience of writhing a chinese essay do helps, especially the plotting part.

Characters are very important. From all the books I read(about 600, though mostly chinese ^^), I could only remember those stories with unique or powerful characters, or those with real great plots. Hence this shows that characters do helps in the story.

A good story must have a good character, described vividly about his/hers personalities. This must be described well, to show the character's way of thinking, way of doing things. Well described characters leave strong impression to readers because readers can feel the character, like a real person, what he thinks, what he wants.

The best is to write the character base on yourself, your own personality, more easy to depict.

Essay Starting

Miss Huang had said before that the starting of our essay is very important, hence she suggested us starting with visual or sensory descriptions

For Example.

Taste, Sight, Smell, Touch, Sound.

My primary school English teacher had told me some other good startings,

1.Start with a question, to question the essay question itself. This type of starting normally is written in First person-narrative, more of the opinion if the narrator itself.

2. Start with a quote. I know this is lame, but it does has a effort in helping to hint the moral of your story. A easy way to start but try to find relevant quotes.

3.Start with a statement. I mean start by agreeing or disagreeing the title. To state your view point, another first person story starting.

I believe these would be helpful to you all, though myself have yet to try out the starting :P

Racisim

This should not be happening in places like Singapore, where racial harmony is emphasized a lot by government. Yet it does, especially against the Indians.

I had seen a lot of times, passengers avoiding seats beside indian men, especially those indian construction workers. I do understand that their smell are not very pleasant, but we should never say or act in front of the person. It is rude and racist, it's their culture to put on the scent, we should not discriminate their culture.

I had to admit that I am racist sometime too, especially toward the malays. I do not know why but i alway refrain from going near the malays when possible. Maybe because of the fierce and gangster look-like face those malay displayed.

Well, at least I had never met anyone who is racist against me. I hope that racism should be kept to the lowest, in order to have a harmonious society.

Mississippi Burning Q2

2.Reflect on the phrase, 'Anyone is guilty who watches this and does nothing'.

Well, for this I disagree. It is true that anyone who watches but does nothing to help are selfish, but sometimes they could do nothing to help, and people are selfish. They are self-centered, everyone is. They wouldn't want to lose themselves helping others, especially lives. However, I believe that we should, no matter how dangerous the situation is, we should at least do simple things we can to help; call or ask for help, or any other helps you could get.

I did see people being discriminated against before, even I myself was discriminated against before, i do understand the feeling of that and hence I always could not control myself when hearing people insulting others due to difference in race, region, or nationalities. I always get very agitated and tend to scold the people who did that.

However, I think what I did does not really help much to the victim. When I was discriminated and given names in the past, I always want someone to comfort me, it is very hurting for someone to discriminate you. I would be friend with the victims and tells them that, not everyone dislike you, not everyone discriminates you.

Perspectives of a Short Story

The difference in perspective:

-First person point of view; focus on narrator's thoughts, impressions of others. Not reliable as this only has one perspective, limited to know one's thought only, difficult to describe others' feeling. Not much descriptive phrases could be used.

-Third-person point of view; many descriptive languages could be used, can sees everyone's thought, more detailed and clear.

Hence, we are recommended to write third person as this allows us to use more descriptive languages and clearly tells out our story with different people's thoughts, not only based on one's judgement like the first person point of view.

Poem: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair;
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, And I-
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Thoughts:

This poem is very meaningful.

People walks different paths, do different jobs, have different hopes. However, the reality does not allow people to do on their wills.

People who became lawyers, doctor or successful businessman are rich, powerful, and considered successful. But people who follows their dream and passion and become their dream jobs, those that are uncommon and earns less are considered less successful. Especially the current situation, people only care about your result, not what you think, what you did, what you went through, and what you want.

Hence we should, or at least try, to let go our dreams and hopes, to do things that many others want to but could not, to do things that are tougher than what other did, to do things that are less done by others. It maybe tougher, but it make a difference.

Poem on atticus

Atticus was feeble;

he was nearly fifty.

There was nothing Jem and I

Could say about him.

He worked in an office, not

A drugstore, he did not drive a

Truck, he was not the sheriff.

He did not do anything that

Could arouse admiration.

The school buzzed with talk about

him defending Tom Robinson,

none of which was complimentary.

“He’s the best chequer player ”Miss Maudie said,

“he can play a Jew’s Harp”

Those accomplishments made me even more ashamed.

One Saturday, Jem and I went exploring.

We were beyond the Radley Place.

“That’s Tim Johnson, ain’t it?”

We raced to the kitchen.

“Gimme Mr Finch’s office!” Calpurnia shouted.

“Mad dog’s coming!” Her message was received by the neighborhood.

A Black Ford sprinted into the driveway.

Atticus and the sheriff got out.

“He’s within range, Heck”

“Take him, Mr Finch”

Jem and I nearly fainted.

Our father took the gun and walked quickly.

Time slowed to a nauseating crawl.

With quick movements, the rifle cracked.

Tim Johnson flopped over.

Miss Maudie said that people in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

One Shot Atticus.

Term one Reflection

I should say. Miss Huang is great!

For the past few years, I never enjoyed learning English. Mostly due to the fact that I am not good in this language, and also I find the teachers boring or buyer.

However, this does not apply to Miss Huang’s lesson, she is so interesting, I had never been so enthusiastic about LA lessons before. I understand my own ability, I know I couldn’t write well, but I tried to. Miss Huang is the only teacher who saw my effort of trying. The others just think that I cannot write, hence I anyhow write.

I also learnt a lot from Miss Huang’s lesson, from elements of story to human values. Miss Huang cares a lot for our moral thinking. She will be very angry if any of us makes fun on things that are wrong, and I appreciate that. Some of our classmates are not very good in their attitudes, I know. Hence this reflection system indeed helps them to stop making wrong statements on something that is sad or serious.

After all, though this term is extremely busy for me, I enjoy every LA lesson taught by Miss Huang. ^^

LA test: Compromise

I realise that many people in our class got the idea of this word wrong, well, I am too. I hope my story is not out of point.

Compromise:

-settlement of differences by mutual concessions;

-an agreement done by both parties with adjustments of claims or loss.

Hence, a compromise needs to be an agreement between two people who not only agree to the compromise, but also lose something in the agreement in order to gain thing he wants and in order to happy the both parties. Thus, both parties have to LOSS something in the agreement, it is a MUTUAL CONCESSIONS. Many of us got this wrong. :)

Mississippi Burning- Q1

1.I do like the movie. It truly displayed the discriminations towards the black in the past, but I also hate this kind of movie. They showed too much cruel and bloody truths that hurt me a lot while watching the movie. It makes people feel so sad and angry at the same time, how could the white do this kind of things? Aren't the blacks lives? Why they don't deserve living?

Beach

It was a hot but refreshing afternoon.Crystal blue sky with scoops of vanilla ice-cream like clouds, jade green waves gently mopping the soft sand bed. The sun was no where to be seen, hidden behind clouds, enjoying its rest. People with colourful outfits patterned the pure white beach with different sizes of foot prints. City was far from here, only tiny buildings could be seen from here. Listening to the soft splashing of the lapping waves, watching the tall, huge tree filled mountains behind the city, what a wonderful place to relax.   

Home Learning

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For background, I chose classrooms because people tend to prejudge people inside classroom as they do not really communicate with each other especially by looks.

They will give them names like nerds when they see them with spectacles and neat attires, and tends to avoid them.

I understand that my plot is too plain, characters are not very unique, pretty normal, but this give the story more real as most students are like them, I set them as students and story takes place in classroom because this is where we spend most of our time and of course I had experienced this before.

Prejudice

Prejudice:

(K)What I know about prejudice: Prejudice is something that prevents or objects over a situation, something that disadvantage the situation before the situation happens, since the word starts with pre.

(W)What I want to know about prejudice: I want to know the correct meaning and use of prejudice, and the second meaning of prejudice.