Tommorow has math test~~~
Homework/project:
IH
We need to mark our own script (inference of Gr Goh) and post it in http://www.2o2ih2011.wiki.hci.edu.sg/
Motto:" 有志者事竟成 " by Mr Colin Toh
Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka
The price seemed reasonable, location
Indifferent. The landlady swore she lived
Off premises. Nothing remained
But self-confession. "Madam," I warned,
"I hate a wasted journey—I am African."
Silence. Silenced transmission of
Pressurized good-breeding. Voice, when it came,
Lipstick coated, long gold rolled
Cigarette-holder pipped. Caught I was foully.
"HOW DARK?" . . . I had not misheard . . . "ARE YOU LIGHT
OR VERY DARK?" Button B, Button A.* Stench
Of rancid breath of public hide-and-speak.
Red booth. Red pillar box. Red double-tiered
Omnibus squelching tar. It was real! Shamed
By ill-mannered silence, surrender
Pushed dumbfounded to beg simplification.
Considerate she was, varying the emphasis--
"ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT?" Revelation came.
"You mean--like plain or milk chocolate?"
Her assent was clinical, crushing in its light
Impersonality. Rapidly, wave-length adjusted,
I chose. "West African sepia"--and as afterthought,
"Down in my passport." Silence for spectroscopic
Flight of fancy, till truthfulness clanged her accent
Hard on the mouthpiece. "WHAT'S THAT?" conceding
"DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS." "Like brunette."
"THAT'S DARK, ISN'T IT?" "Not altogether.
Facially, I am brunette, but, madam, you should see
The rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles of my feet
Are a peroxide blond. Friction, caused--
Foolishly, madam--by sitting down, has turned
My bottom raven black--One moment, madam!"--sensing
Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap
About my ears--"Madam," I pleaded, "wouldn't you rather
See for yourself?"
Q1. This poem is full of colours not just that of skin, what you think these colours signify?
The "colour" probably signifies discrimination of Black and White in the modern country. The landlady keep asking persona for his skin colour after persona told her that he's an African, probably shows that the landlady is a racist. Also the colour Red in the poem also shows the anger of persona which 'Red booth, Red pillar box and Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar'.
Q2. What does their dialogue reveal about these two characters?
Firstly, it reveal that the landlady was a racist as she keep asking the skin colour of the persona after persona told her that he's an African. The landlady probably scared to let 'Black' rent her house as she's discriminating the Blacks. However, the persona probably has known that many people still discriminating the Blacks although in modern world. The persona has said that "I hate a wasted journey -- I am African" shows that the persona probably knew that people will reject him because of his skin colour.
Q3. The poet dramatises a battle, who wins finally and why?
The 'battle' starts when the persona said that "I hate a wasted journey -- I am African", shows that the persona probably has prepared for a battle by knowing that people always discriminating Africans. The landlady began to 'Fight back' by questioning the persona "Are you Light or Very Dark?" The persona seems to have knew that the landlady is a racist by the time, however, the speaker speak like an educated people although he's very angry that the landlady was discriminating him. The speaker pretends politeness the entire time. The landlady seems to have won the battle by concluding that "That's Dark, Isn't It?" But the persona quickly tells her that "the rest of him" and ask the landlady "wouldn't you rather see for yourself". The landlady has won the battle by concluding the persona is black but the true winner is actually the persona as he has stay polite although he was discriminated by the landlady.
Thursday&Friday:
Probably we have our Chinese New Year Class decoration competition this friday.
Homework/project:
IH
Mindmap on "Challenges Singapore Faced", use https://bubbl.us to create your own mindmap
English
Questions based on poem "Telephone Conversation" by Wole Soyinka.
Motto: -
I hated the IS lesson today!!! Mr Koh *run* away and leave our class to complete Assignment2 in Computer Lab during our recess time, some of the *genius* copy&paste the whole assignment that others done make me so angry, Some of us do the assignment till 2:00 p.m. also haven't complete it.
Homework/project:
Chinese
ACE- 灯笼制作感想
Math
Assignment2
English
Research on Slavery, The Civil War and Jim Crow's Laws
Today's motto: -
"After You, My Dear Alphonse" By Shirley Jackson
Question: Would you have treated Boyd or someone who is not of the same race as you differently? Why or why not?
No no no no no, we should never treated someone differently by looking at their skin coulour. It would be unfair to certain races. The are only one kind of human in the world, no matter what coulour their skin colour are, the one and only kind of human is human, so we should share the same rights no matter what race we are. Only retards, scums, degenerate, and son of a bitch will treated different races differently, one of the example is Mrs.Wilson, although she comes from a piece of kindness, however shows that she's *one of the examples above* as she ASSUME that ALL NEGROS ARE POOR, and she thinks that Boyd is no exeption. I am still angry about Mrs.Wilson now although she's just in the story. Her character symbolize ...... many of us, right?
However, I must added that not only races, we should treated everyone, no matter their age, background, classes, races, equally, as WE SHARE THE SAME EARTH, no people are 'special' and there should be no discrimination, prejudice, bias, stereotyoe at all. These words should not be inside the dictionary, can't we just get along?
We should never treated someone who in different races differently.
We should never treated someone who different from you unfairly.
We should treated everyone equally.
We share the same earth!!!
Question: Would you have treated Boyd or someone who is not of the same race as you differently? Why or why not?
No no no no no, we should never treated someone differently by looking at their skin coulour. It would be unfair to certain races. The are only one kind of human in the world, no matter what coulour their skin colour are, the one and only kind of human is human, so we should share the same rights no matter what race we are. Only retards, scums, degenerate, and son of a bitch will treated different races differently, one of the example is Mrs.Wilson, although she comes from a piece of kindness, however shows that she's *one of the examples above* as she ASSUME that ALL NEGROS ARE POOR, and she thinks that Boyd is no exeption. I am still angry about Mrs.Wilson now although she's just in the story. Her character symbolize ...... many of us, right?
However, I must added that not only races, we should treated everyone, no matter their age, background, classes, races, equally, as WE SHARE THE SAME EARTH, no people are 'special' and there should be no discrimination, prejudice, bias, stereotyoe at all. These words should not be inside the dictionary, can't we just get along?
We should never treated someone who in different races differently.
We should never treated someone who different from you unfairly.
We should treated everyone equally.
We share the same earth!!!
Title: Not Me
(click on the picture to have a better view of it)
This comic shows that people always throw the responsible to other people when there are mistakes. The two picture of which children and adults pointing at each other for the responsible share the same plot which when a window broken. Children pointing at others to show that it's not his mistake while adults pointing at others to show that it's not his responsibility to repair the window.
(click on the picture to have a better view of it)This comic shows that people always throw the responsible to other people when there are mistakes. The two picture of which children and adults pointing at each other for the responsible share the same plot which when a window broken. Children pointing at others to show that it's not his mistake while adults pointing at others to show that it's not his responsibility to repair the window.
I used the same picture of children and adults that pointing at each other to shows that everybody no matter how old are them, they try to throw the responsibility to other people as they unwilling to take the responsibility.
Seems like the ACE points are hard to get in sec2, the whole copybook for calligraphy (47 pages) only worth 1 ACE point!
Homework/project:
English
6 questions based on 'All Summer in A Day' by Ray Bradbury (need to use SEE format for all 6)
Math
Assignment 2 pg 1~5
IH
Inference on economy
Today's motto: ' Expansion is like unwrap a present, Factorization is like wrapping a present' by Mr Collin Toh
Types of Discrimination
Physical Condition
External Appearance:People who are good-looking would often be treated better than those who are otherwise.
Obesity:People tend to underestimate the ability to do ordinary things of those who are obese.
Medical Condition:AIDS patients feel isolated by the society as healthy people fear they might get infected too.
Disability:During the Paralympics, the stadium was not half as crowded as it is when the actual Olympics were held.
Pregnancy:She was asked to leave the firm when she was pregnant because the firm thought that she would not be able to concentrate on business while she had a child and family as a priority to care for.
Race
Ideology:The politician was not allowed into his democratic country because he was a communist.
Nationality:Citizens of certain countries are not permitted to enter the territories of other countries.
Skin Tone:White people were often contemptuous of people whose skin are black and even once in history enslaved them.
Language:The company rejected him because he was not proficient in English but they did not know that they could use him as advantage as he could speak five other languages well.
Accent:The middle-eastern who spoke English in a western accent was not well-received in his country despite that it was his nature of speaking like that.
Religion:Middle Eastern Muslims travelling abroad are often seen as a possible threat to the security in western countries and due to the many terrorism activities that are related to the religion.
Social Status
Marital Status:A female candidate was refused to be employed because she is single and the manager thinks she will attract the attention of other worker.
Publicity/Reputation:The rhetorical politician enjoyed a more hearty welcome by the people than his superior colleague who only appears in the media to announce implementations for the countries.
Salary:People would have high opinion of people of wealth.
Family connection:He got offered the scholarship because he was the son of the defense minister while many others who did much better than him got their application rejected.
Education level:The government requires teachers to at least to have acquired an A in the Malaysian Education Certificate to be eligible to teach the Malay language.
Family Background:People feared that the newly-elected president would plunge the country with the recent revolution he was formulating for the country as his father was a militant leader.
Hold of power and rights:People flattered the king to gain benefits for themselves in the old times.
Personal Criminal Records:Even though he was no longer in prison, he faced difficulties in finding jobs because employers are not willing to risk a convict in their companies.
Career achievement:The Noble Laureate’s every single fund request was answered but the scientist who has worked so hard and still did not achieve anything was treated coldly when he asked for more fund.
Nature
Age:The fourteen-year old computer addict who murdered his parents was sentenced to 6 years in reform school while a man who smuggled a kilogram of drugs was hanged.
Sex:Men are always given higher posts than women.
Personal habits:He was not allowed to join the organizing committee due to his farting conspicuously in public habits.
First Impression:During the interview for the job application, the boss had a good impression of Tom and since then he has been promoted rapidly even though his job was sloppy and unsystematic.
Ability
Intelligence:People who do not perform academically well when they were in school find it hard to get employed as the requirements are high.
Group member: Lee Jia Yu (19)
Lim Yuet Tung (24)
Ng Jia Neng (27)
Teo Zhi Charles (32)
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein
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!
My thoughts on this poem
I think that this poem is a masterpiece as Shel Silverstein manage to use simple language to convey a deep, profound meaning about human character through this poem, which also called as 'tongue-in-cheek' humour.
This poem is rather humorous as the poet is just scolding and blaming himself at all, which he doesn't realize at first. The poet starts from blaming others for making their room so messy that there are even lizard on the bed, shows that the room is almost not a human habitation. However, in fact that the room was his and he is the one who make this room this messy, shows that the room is too messy that he doesn't think that the room belong to him. This poem is humorous by showing how clumsy and irresponsible the poet is.
This poem highlighted that human always take no responsible of their things and when they see mistakes, their finger will always point at other people first instead of think carefully, ' is it my fault?' The poem show these two aspects of human character by showing that the poet makes his home too messy that he cannot even remember that the room is his, and he started blaming others when he saw how messy the room was, but actually he is blaming himself instead.
All Shel Silverstein's poems
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/shel_silverstein/poems
More About Shel Silverstein
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html
Lessons Review
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MS
-Malaysian Scholar could slack during Malay Study Class~
-Poor Singaporeans, who forced to learn "Awak apa khabar, Khabar Baik saya" and "Terima Kasih, Sama-sama"
-Singaporeans required to revise their notes at home.
Science
- We have our lesson today at Com Lab 1
- We have to hand in our ACE on atoms tonight!!!
- Remember to check website: http://2011sec2lss-sylim.wiki.hci.edu.sg/ as the online lesson on periodic table will be update soon.
English
- Types of Discrimination (in blog)
Mdm Wong Siew May was absent today again, and we got both period slack and many people opened their computer and start playing games/ blogging etc.
Homework/project:
MS
No Homework for Malaysian Scholars~ And Singaporeans need to revise their notes~
Science
Ace activity topic : The Changing Model of the Atom (max 3 ace)
Atomic Structure Online Lesson / Periodic Table Online Lesson
website: http://2011sec2lss-sylim.wiki.hci.edu.sg/
Science E-portfolio
English
Types of discrimination (in blog)
Today's motto: "Awak apa khabar, khabar baik saya" by Cikgu Mastura.
"Terima Kasih, Sama Sama" by Cikgu Mastura
Lessons Review
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IH
- Seems that Ms Sunita *heard* that we were a good class, so she's quite kind to us in the 1st day, but actually she's quite scary......
Chinese Drama
- We are splited into 6 group instead of 5.
- Look like Mr Yang will be our Chinese Drama teacher this year instead of Mdm/Ms Zhou Li Tong.
- I think that we give Mr Yang a good impression on our class.
AAT
- After a long-boring lessons, we are given 2 mind maps to do and a journal as homework.
- We will gather at the ping-pong tables there for our next lesson.
Math
- Mr Colin Toh said that we will be learning what we learnt in sec1 for term1&2 this year.
- Today's our first proper math lesson.
- We learn about "Expansion and Factorization of Algebra" today and we are given an assignment as homework.
Lessons Review
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English
- We are given a piece of paper with three poems on it, we have discussed the answer of the questions based on the poem. Ms Anu asked us to give our thoughts on any one of the three poems written by Shel Silverstein - "The Little Boy and the Old Man", "Messy Room" or "Cloony The Clown".
PE
- We measured our height and weight during our PE lesson
- We do a total of 31 push-ups and 31 sit-ups in our PE lesson (7-5-3-1-3-5-7)
- Mr Toh ask us to do the push-ups and sit-ups everyday before sleep.
Science
- We have a 2 hour Science Online-Lesson today with doing our Ace activity - "The Changing Model of the Atom". We must do it in a group of 3, and we can get a max ace point of 3 for this activity. We can choose to do it as a A3 poster or A4 pamphlet. Submission is compulsory!!!
- Also, we have an online lesson on Atomic Structure
Math
- A pop quiz was given to us this math lesson, we could get extra marks for tests if we done well in the pop quiz.
-Mr Colin Toh has impossibly remembered all of the students name in our class!!!!!
During the Math class today, we are given a math pop quiz to do, Mr Colin Toh said that we will be given bonus marks for test if we done well in the quiz.
Homework/project:
Science
Ace activity topic : The Changing Model of the Atom (max 3 ace)
Atomic Structure Online Lesson
website: http://2011sec2lss-sylim.wiki.hci.edu.sg/
English
Poem Analyse: Poems by Shel Silverstein Worksheet (choose any one poem and answer the questions below from the three poems) (write your answer in your blog)
Today's motto: -
Lessons Review
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English
- Ms Anu said that we must still update our blog for term1 ace
-There will be less language but more literature in this year.
-We have watched the first seven minute of the movie "Big Fish" & completed a worksheet based on the movie.
-We have to write a 100~150 words short story - an unbelievable story that your parents told you
Math
-Mr Colin Toh ask everyone in the class to introduce our self by speak in front of the class about any of these topics - 1) A lame joke 2) The most embarrassing moment in your life 3) A secret about yourself.
-Wei Sean has been chosen to be the Math rep. Jia Yu's the vice.
Inforcom Study
-Mr Koh has teach us about fstream today, which could input and output data in files.
-We have done an assignment using fstream
-We could choose to do the Project 1 in the com lab anytime or during our next lesson, Mr Koh will give us 10 minute to complete it.
Homework/project:
Science
Notes/assignment/worksheet on atomic structure & periodic table (all 6)
English
Write a short story on an unbelievable story that your parents told you. (extra work:finish watching the movie 'BIG FISH' that Ms Anu let us to watch this morning.)
Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLZ9ryme4A
Today's motto: "My Math Rep always get an A1 in the EOY exam" by Mr Colin Toh.
Our Chinese teacher, Mdm Wong Siew Mei, seems very happy today, she smiled for 1~2 hour in our class.
Homework/project:
Others
-Add mdm黄秀媚 as friend in facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1362895169&ref=ts
-Join the group hci 2o2'11
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_117448004993184&ap=1#!/home.php?sk=group_117448004993184&ap=1
Today's Motto: "敏于事而慎于言"
(taken from Mdm Wong Siew May's Facebook Wall)
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