Descriptive Language

It was a fine summer's day. Milky white clouds plastered the skies. Lush green trees lined the background whereas mountains and hills stood imposingly in the background as well. To the left, golden grains of sand covered the whole area. To the right, an emerald green sea crashed against the sandy brown beach whereas in the far left, white houses lined the side. In the top right corner, light blue sky filled the space. It is a wonderful picture of paradise.

Comic Strip

The pictures and backgrounds I have chosen portray the state of mind the main character was in in that scene. Such as in the second panel, I have chosen a spiral-like background to portray the messy state of mind the character was in. As for the third panel, I chose a blank background to show the clean slate on which Singapore would start on.

The build-up of the scenes of the story shows the theme:"Becoming", as the story is of Singapore's becoming of a full-fledged free nation from a half-independent country.

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Curriculum of Connections

Curriculum of Connections

Why is it necessary to understand the historical and cultural context of the novel?

We should understand the historical and cultural context of the novel because it will give us a general idea of the novel and it will also give us some idea of why it is written, how it is was written, what the writer was going through at the
time, whether he was scared or happy and so on. It can also help us to better understand why certain things in the novel happened, such as why Tom Robinson was convicted even though they had completely no case against him, in this case you would need to know about relations between black and white people then. Although you should know about the historical and cultural context of the novel to understand it fully, it is still possible to enjoy this interesting tale of prejudice.

Prejudice

Prejudice

What I know: Prejudice is when someone or a group of people thinks badly in some way of someone or another group of people who share similar characteristics because some of them are bad but they treat them all the same. For example, white-skinned people think black-skinned people are all sinful just because some of them are notorious. There is also an age-long prejudice in the world of sports, which is why we see that most of the sports have different leagues for men and women.

What I want to know: How prejudice begins, and how we can get rid of it because I think that we, as human beings, should treat each other equally.

Yesterday

Yesterday my school organised its annual cross country day. The Secondary One students had to run 3 km while the Secondary Twos had to run 4 km! It was all so tiring but thankfully there was free flow of milo so we did not run out of energy! It was great fun too because the school played music voted by us students! What fun!

Today

Today was an especially tiring day, as after loads of lessons, I went for Youth Flying Club training! We had quite a fun day today, we did aeromodelling, which is to have an aircraft controlled by lines and is quite exhilarating to do! Although the aircraft was quite small, the tension was quite strong and thus was rather difficult! And also, the plane flew very fast, thus dizziness settled in after the flight! I had a great day today!

Today

Today was a really tiring day! At first, I had to endure several hours of lessons, then I went down to my school's soccer court to partake in an official soccer match. My team went down to an (admittedly) better team. But my team is not discouraged, we definitely will strive to achieve the best that we can!!!