3. Why is it important for students to keep up to date with the news? Share some tips on how students can keep up with what is happening around them and around the world.
Students cannot keep up to date with the news when he or she is on MC and requires time to recuperate at home. Because of this, the class is constantly improving whereas the person on MC is lagging behind. The individual is not keeping up with the latest news and thus, he or she would be less knowledge on a certain aspect.
To help the students improve together with the class, here are some tips to help the “lagger”:
Create a website or use a discussion forum to keep in touch with the individual. Everyone that concerns the individual have to be actively participating.
Give phone calls to the individual and provide encouraging words or speeches to cheer him/her up.
Visit him in his home and have dinner with him.
Visit him and help him with his work
Help him collect his homework.
Here are the tips I created to help a friend who is lagging.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Home Learning Because of class suspension. English Question 2
2. What are some tips you would offer fellow students to stay healthy?
With the suspension of classes and even schools nowadays, the need for a increase of awareness is important. What do us aware about? Obviously the health of one individual. How can we keep ourselves healthy? If you ask me, the need for exercise is very important and is the most integral part of the whole healthy “chart”. Exercise that will make you sweat is greatly encouraged. For those who dislike exercise, there is a long but tasty way to get fit. Eat lots of food which are high in calcium etc to build up your anti bodies against virus. A saying from the past says that a natural thermometer is your sweat. So if you are having a fever, TRY and only TRY to exercise to sweat a little.
With the suspension of classes and even schools nowadays, the need for a increase of awareness is important. What do us aware about? Obviously the health of one individual. How can we keep ourselves healthy? If you ask me, the need for exercise is very important and is the most integral part of the whole healthy “chart”. Exercise that will make you sweat is greatly encouraged. For those who dislike exercise, there is a long but tasty way to get fit. Eat lots of food which are high in calcium etc to build up your anti bodies against virus. A saying from the past says that a natural thermometer is your sweat. So if you are having a fever, TRY and only TRY to exercise to sweat a little.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Home Learning Because of class suspension. English Question 1
1. What are your thoughts about home learning? Is it more effective than learning in school?
Home Learning is introduced whenever the school is closing or a class suspension. Teachers can use home learning to teach and assign work for the students to learning and complete, at the comfort of their own home. The home learning project can also allow students to manage their time properly and to train punctuality. Teacher and students alike have to wake up early in the morning to check on each other and complete their given assignments. For teachers, they have to post work and ensure the students complete it. The students on the other hand have to finish the task set. However advance the internet is, the availability of teachers hinders the working progress. Some times, teachers might not be there to check their mail and answer the questions of the students. This will allow the student’s work to cease. I believe the traditional way of teaching, the board and hard copy assignments, are the best way to learn and interact.
Home Learning is introduced whenever the school is closing or a class suspension. Teachers can use home learning to teach and assign work for the students to learning and complete, at the comfort of their own home. The home learning project can also allow students to manage their time properly and to train punctuality. Teacher and students alike have to wake up early in the morning to check on each other and complete their given assignments. For teachers, they have to post work and ensure the students complete it. The students on the other hand have to finish the task set. However advance the internet is, the availability of teachers hinders the working progress. Some times, teachers might not be there to check their mail and answer the questions of the students. This will allow the student’s work to cease. I believe the traditional way of teaching, the board and hard copy assignments, are the best way to learn and interact.
Monday, June 29, 2009
My Favourite Poet
James Mercer Langston Hughes is a well-known and well-respected person in America. He was born on the February 1, 1902. And died on the 22nd of May 1967was an established American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance
“I had been thinking about my father and his strange dislike of his own people. I didn't understand it, because I was a Negro, and I liked Negroes very much.” This was one of the phrases he said during his childhood. He had a bad father who mistreated and did not understand him. This caused him to try and suicide many times. His father also tried to plan his life by asking him to attend university and studying engineering but instead, he did six different odd jobs and after that went to abroad to study in Lincoln University, a renowned school for blacks.
I feel that he has a very strong will to pursue his own interest in poems and not be influenced by others to study other stuff. His determination is also admired by me. He “survived” through his childhood, enduring all the torture.
These are some poems which I adore:
1) I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
Flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I danced in the Nile when I was old
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
Went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
Bosom turns all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
2) The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express
Our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.
If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not,
it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly, too.
The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people
Are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure
Doesn’t matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow,
strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain
Free within ourselves.
3) The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
Adapted from Wikipedia
“I had been thinking about my father and his strange dislike of his own people. I didn't understand it, because I was a Negro, and I liked Negroes very much.” This was one of the phrases he said during his childhood. He had a bad father who mistreated and did not understand him. This caused him to try and suicide many times. His father also tried to plan his life by asking him to attend university and studying engineering but instead, he did six different odd jobs and after that went to abroad to study in Lincoln University, a renowned school for blacks.
I feel that he has a very strong will to pursue his own interest in poems and not be influenced by others to study other stuff. His determination is also admired by me. He “survived” through his childhood, enduring all the torture.
These are some poems which I adore:
1) I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
Flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I danced in the Nile when I was old
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
Went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
Bosom turns all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
2) The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express
Our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.
If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not,
it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly, too.
The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people
Are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure
Doesn’t matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow,
strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain
Free within ourselves.
3) The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
Adapted from Wikipedia
Sunday, June 28, 2009
IT Lesson 1 2009 Poems
My Poem:
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!
The Poem I have picked is Messy Room
1)There are mainly four Figurative language in the poem I have chosen, they are basically, hyperbole,personification and metaphor. The use of hyperbole is shown when the writer uses and rewrites the sentence " Whosever room this is should be ashamed!". The use of personifiction is shown when the writer gives a lizard a humanly name like Ed. This makes the readers of the poem feel more alive while reading it. Last but not least, the uses of metaphor in the poems is seen in almost every sentence. The description of his room is a use of metaphor.
2)This poem makes readers reflect on their own rooms and sympatize on the writer's room. Some might laugh and some might feel bad that the writer has such a room condition. The metaphors used in the poem has significant meaning and gives the readers a picture to portray in their minds. The personifiction makes the room seem more interesting in a way that the room is occupied by Ed, the room mate. I hope you have a good laugh with this poem.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!
The Poem I have picked is Messy Room
1)There are mainly four Figurative language in the poem I have chosen, they are basically, hyperbole,personification and metaphor. The use of hyperbole is shown when the writer uses and rewrites the sentence " Whosever room this is should be ashamed!". The use of personifiction is shown when the writer gives a lizard a humanly name like Ed. This makes the readers of the poem feel more alive while reading it. Last but not least, the uses of metaphor in the poems is seen in almost every sentence. The description of his room is a use of metaphor.
2)This poem makes readers reflect on their own rooms and sympatize on the writer's room. Some might laugh and some might feel bad that the writer has such a room condition. The metaphors used in the poem has significant meaning and gives the readers a picture to portray in their minds. The personifiction makes the room seem more interesting in a way that the room is occupied by Ed, the room mate. I hope you have a good laugh with this poem.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Time Management and Exam Stress
Stress is an overwhelming thing to cope with. No one in the world can sucessfully cope with stress, be it form homework, friends or family. However, instead of thinking of a way to "Destroy it", try and think of a way to supress it.Exam stress can come from many places, parents expections or self expections. Do not worry about those things and learn how to affectively learn some memory techniques from me. First, mindmaps would help a lot as it compiles information that we have learn into a piece of paper. Anyway, for more information, visit my project's day group to speak to them and try and contribute more tips and ways to help you supress stress as comments.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Earth Hour
" It is not which country you are from, it is what planet your from " Earth Hour is a significant event adopted by many different countries every year.This year is the first year Singapore is adopting the Earth Hour event. Citizens are encouraged to save electricity by switching off their lights for an hour between 8:30 to 9:30pm in the night of March 28th. Many countries like America and Australia have pitched in to help in the saving of the earth. The world famous landmarks are also taking a turn for once to save the earth. The Beijing BirdNest Stadium and the Syndey Opera House are one of the few landmarks in the world that are turning of their lights. I hope you have made the choice of switching of your lights as the organziers are aiming for 1 billion votes in the world. Each Vote is one light switch.
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