Seaside Description

It is a windy sunset, with lots of coconut tree growing sideways with the tree. The sky is like a painting, from the dark blue to purplish-red, and no sun can be seen. Many coconut trees are to be seen along the shore, tall, short, straight, sideways and many various sizes. It was a calm seashore and there is a hut built near the sea, with a long wooden bridge connecting it to the shore. A few more of these hut are also found further away down the seashore.

Home Learning

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The first comic background is a typical place with a busy road, to make it look like reality. The old woman hopeless expression shows that she couldn't cross the road by herself. This creates a suspense to attract readers.
It continous in the second strip when a little passerby kid saw the situation. This extends the story by making the readers wonder the cabability of the kid in helping the old woman.
In the third comic, both of them crossed the road. with difficulty. This is the climax at no one knows what happened to them and this is one of hte interests.
In the last comic, they had finally crossed the road safely and the old woman thanked the little boy. This is the ending and the whole meaning of the comic is to promote helpfulness in helping the needy.

Summary and Rounding up of "Prejudice"

So after brainstorming and every means of understanding this "chim" word is done, i did a summary and concept map with my group:

1，Prejudice defines people being biased and judging others whom they do not know unfairly.

2，Prejudice is caused by the discrimination of people with different status and race. Prejudice causes misunderstanding among people, forming misconceptions of certain people, like the Europeans towards the ‘black people’, which lead to poor treatment of these people by the people who prejudiced against them. Prejudice leads to discrimination.

3，Prejudice may lead to racial tensions and even cause some undesirable events to happen such as civil wars, riots like the one in Singapore in the 1950s.

4，Prejudgment still occurs in current society, but it is not as serious during the 19th and early 20th century in Europe, possibly because there a clear distinction between people with higher status and commoners or with laws implemented like that in the USA against all the discrimination.

5，Examples of historical happenings and dictation of prejudice include speeches given by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., and also books like ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’. These examples have described the prejudgment in the society during their times.



Done by Houyu, Boshen, Jerry and me!

Prejudice

Time flies and here we go with another assignment to post on this blog. The Question: What is prejudice? Oh no. My vocabulary is the my WORST thing in english. Prejudice? heard VAGUELY in 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. Lucky for my helpful friends, i somewhat think i know what is it.

What do you KNOW about prejudice:
unfair judgement?
pre - before , judice - justice, prejudice - justice beforehand?
racism?
bias?

What do you WANT to know about prejudice:
everything?
what forms of prejudice are there
able to understand what is the true meaning and how to idntify it
understand how to use it effectively as the theme for essays

After various of brainstorming and teaching, i finally understood what is prejudice
What have I LEARN about prejudice:
an unfair treatment to others, no matter different or not
racism - a form of prejudice
fight, war are consequences for being prejudice

New Year - 2011!

Wow.... time flies and one year of secondary life is gone. Yeah. GONE D: anyways Sec 2 must be better than before, having almost failed English (Phew!) otherwise OK. Now now, almost everything is new, teachers and homework and learning system and everything else which I'm lazy to point out :P We have a new english teacher, Miss Huang. She's quite strict,but not too much which i like because we won't slack and wouldn't hate those teachers that are TOO strict. Hope my english won't fail this time, and i hope everything will be better than 2010!(btw 2012 is next year)

Cross Country

Lucky not another week of dull school again! There was a cross country held by my school and there was NO SCHOOL that day! How cool was that! Anyway, everyone must go to school to do the running......so there is no much difference than a normal day.
On that day, everyone wore the school PE shirts, so it totally looks like everyone is coming for some fun in school. There was tents on the terraces, so it was comfortable sitting there with some wind blowing at us.
After we did the daily routine, the cross country opening ceremony started by celebrating the Youth Olympics which is held in Singapore this year for the first time. The representatives from the 4 consortiums, Aphelion, iSpark, ProEd and Ortus, which organized this ceremony passed a fire torch just like the Olympics around the field then to the principal, which lighted up the light at the stage(the fire was distinguished once, haha).
Before the "big thing", we did some warm ups. Then, we Sec 1s run first as we are the slowest. We need to run 3km. Not very long, but it's really tiring. There is also 6 pupils from each class to run the competitive run(I was one of them...), while the others run the mass run. After the horn was blown, the pupils in the competitive race run first. I was the front few in the starting, but my low stamina made me got slower than other competitors.
Along the way, there are some Cadet Corps standing there to see if we didn't cheat. There are volunteers who also stand along the road to give out water. Some of us took it, some of us didn't. At the end, I sprinted to overtake the few people ahead of me, but I almost vomited. They told me I was the 20+th place, and they gave me a keychain printing "Top 100 Sec 1".
After the run, me and my friends went to the terraces to rest while watching other people finishing the race. Then, the Sec 2,3,4 and the teachers run after us. We can see how fast they run and how slow some run. Then, we went to the Milo stop to get Milo drinks for FREE. There was lots of students, of course, and queue-cutting is so common if son't cut, you don't get to drink. I was a little greedy and took 3 cups at a go but spilled half of them.
The last, but not least, is the prize giving ceremony. The top 10 of all secondaries get a individual prize and the 6 competitors get a team prize of they fun fast overall. At half past ten, we was dismissed. We went back to the hostel to rest.
Although I didn't get a prize, but the keychain and the Milo was worth it. Now I know my stamina is quite low, I need to train more.....

Total Defence Day

Total Defense Day. Not the dull "First, Second or Third week in school" anymore. What is Total Defense Day? Oh, that is the day when Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in the World War II. What did we do that day.
On the 9th of February, my class (actually the whole consortium) went to this place called Singapore Discovery Center, SDC for short. After lunch, we went to SDC by bus. Although it was a long journey, we didn't mind it as we were looking forward to go to the SDC.
After half an hour in the continuous-rocking and noisy bus, we reached there. It was quite big so we had to walk a long way to reach the center. When all of the classes came, we were brought to a LITTLE auditorium (too small to call a auditorium...). There was a "tour guide" there. She introduced the SDC and told us all about Total Defense Day. Before that, i don't even know what that is, and I bet that almost everyone in my class don't know what is that also. Then, she told us about the 5 Defenses (I forgot). She gave us a worksheet(?)to do and a paper fan. Seriously, but that isn't wierd...
After that "lecture", we went for a break in the canteen. The food was a little pricey, so I didn't buy any food. Then, we went do the activity area beside the SDC to do a quiz. And there was PRIZES! All of us started working after hearing that word. The quiz is just all about the Total Defense Day and there are hints all around the activity area. After finishing the quiz, I went to redeem the prize. I got a file. Then, I did the quiz again and got the same thing. After that, I found out that we can actually do it once. Oops. Nevermind, since they didn't find out.
At 5, we went back and reached the hostel half and hour later. We learn about the Total Defense Day, and what is the meaning and history of it. And i got 2 files!! Hehe...