I feel that the LA lessons so far have been enjoyable and much more enriching than last year. It has exceeded my expectations.
With due respect to my LA teachers last year, they were practically forcing down information, words, literacy terms etc and etc down our throats. Do we understand them at all? Some yes but many a times, not fully.
Much to my pleasant surprise, this year is totally different. We have a new teacher and a wonderful one indeed. Mr. Lum changed my attitude towards LA. I learn and more importantly, I am putting what I have learnt into practice, in my short story writing and the weekly blog post. He honed our writing skills through the blog post and we feel that we are better prepared for the term test.
I particularly enjoyed the lesson on prejudice. Knowing there are so many forms of discrimination but yet there is very little we can do to change it was both eye opening and heartrending.
There is really not much to change but I personally hope to see more opportunities of group presentation. The presentations we had so far were individual. Thank you.
Hi Alastair,
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you. Last year, information was really forced into our minds. The lessons last year were also quite dull. I particularly remember going through "Animal Farm" page by page, even after reading the book at least 5 times!
I also agree that Mr. Lum is very interesting, and makes lessons intriguing and productive. We have all learnt many things to write a much better story.
If you saw my blog post on this topic, I also enjoyed the lessons on prejudice and discrimination, especially "All Summer in a Day". Last year I believe we touched on the topic but we did not go in depth. It was indeed a very interesting topic.
However, I hope you have noticed that using the abbreviation "etc" is rather informal, please do not use that in your essays!
Daryl Ware
Hi alastair,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you regarding the issue of this year's language arts lessons. In comparison, this year's language arts is much more enjoyable as compared to last year's lesson as we are no longer forced to memorise key events and incidents in Animal Farm. With the addition of computer's in our learning process, it did serve its purpose to make lessons much more interesting and engaging for us students. We no longer have to memorise events in books and it has made our workload much lighter as comapred to last year's workload. In conclusion, I am rather satisfied with this year's language arts lessons.