Significance of my Chinese name.

陈俊杰

My Chinese name means that Chen Jun Jie. Chen is my surname, Jun means I am brave and a man of his words. Jie means that I remain clean. That is all I know about my Chinese name. My name was given by my parents.

My favourite memory of CNY!

My favourite memory of Chinese New Year was when I was Primary 6. It was a new year and it was also the most anxious year for me. I went to my aunt's house and had dinner there, it was crowded with all my cousins, aunts and uncles. My grandmother cooked food for us and it was simply delicious. It consisted of: Fishballs, chicken wing, bee hoon, vegetables, chicken curry and other fried food, I enjoyed it a lot, especially the chicken curry. After dinner, I heard many sounds, chattering between my parents and aunts and uncles. My cousins laughter too. I played with them a game of hide-and-seek and more. It was a memorable year for me, and a good start for a good year!

IN-CLASS ONLINE LESSON #2

1. Think about how an individual's identity is shaped. What factors have led to the formation of your own identity?

Parents, surrounding environment, living conditions, events that happen to them and the media.
The factors that led to the formation of my own identity is my parents and my surrounding environment. My parents guided my through-out my life, letting me walk the right path and not let me walk astray and into the dark path, my surrounding environments, friends, were very good and inspiring so I did not lost my sense of "direction".

2. Search for three images (that are not a photograph of you) that you feel represent your identity.

I'm friendly in the sense when I'm making friends, but that is only when I'm bored or lonely, but I normally do not get back the response I wanted.

I'm hardworking and intelligent, but I do not really know how to make full use of it, making me look dumb sometimes...

I'm also emotional, being happy and then sad, but the advantage is that I won't be too angry at someone for too long. Another point is that while I'm emo-ing, I might just be VERY angry for even the most minor things, making this more of a disadvantage. =D

2P4 In-Class Online Lessons: Term 1 Lesson 2

*Re-read Ray Bradbury's story "All Summer in a Day." In your blog, identify who should be held responsible for Margot's treatment, and why.

The children in Venus should be held responsible for Margot's treatment. The Venus children had prejudice against Margot, who just came from Earth to Venus and thought that she did not belong together with them. But it was partially Margot's problem for wanting to tell them and compare with them her life in Earth and how the Sun looked like when she know that the children in Venus did not have a chance to see the Sun, only once in seven years.

Then (in the same entry) imagine yourself as one of the schoolchildren; what might you have chosen to do which would have led to a positive outcome? (#LA-ACE)

I would want to be around with Margot and try to mend her ways of being arrogant and teach her something about Venus, their likes or dislikes, or what they might really one. I would also try to protect her from being bullied, so in the end, she could see the Sun, that would only come out in seven years.

Situation in which you collaborated with friends.

During project's day last year, I worked with few of my friends in my class. One of them was hardworking but not up to many ideas, someone had many days for CCA and went for a holiday during the Mid-year holiday, and me as the leader, was in charge of most of the things. What my ability is, was a leader, in charge of things and organizing meetings, we had a tough time, making the project and organizing meetings. In the end, we passed prelims but failed Semi-Finals because of a member who nothing and a busy member, letting me and Ryan do most of the things. We did not co-operate well because of our busy schedules.

Home lesson reflection on the "Comic Strip"

I think that creating a comic strip requires creativity, and a good planning of pictures. Because space is limited, so making a scene requires a box and without good planning, we'll have short of boxes or extra boxes to draw on. I enjoyed the assignment and would like to create more comic strips in the future, provided that it's simple enough.

1) I chose this background because this is where I normally see people, or bullies hanging out here for it's dark and deserted. I chose the characters because their actions and size is like bullies.

2) The images give you the feelings of fear if you're a defenseless teenager. It also depicts the scene of many people turning bad in influence from these bullies.

3) It's about prejudice towards old and poor people. For those mentally in matured, they might feel that old people sitting along the streets are poor and tend to look down or smirk or even bully them, but the reason behind their bankruptcy might be for their children who took their money but did not repay their parents and left them alone. And for those who bully them, might be bullied next time for being old and poor.

In the first scene, there are three teenagers laughing at an old man sitting alone the streets and wanted to bully him. In the second scene, they attacked the old man and the old man tried to defend himself, but being quite illiterate, he can only use he voice and some words he know to get help. Luckily in the last scene, a kind man came to his rescue and during the fight, one of the boys dropped a 50$ note. So the moral of the story is: Prejudice is unfair for both parties AND you might gain happiness but you might lose something else.

Learning goals for this year in Language Arts....

My learning goals for Language Arts this year is to fully understand the poetic devices in poems and know how to write a short story with creative ideas and perfect grammar. Why? Because I feel that understanding a poem is not enough, we need to also know poetic devices to understand the poem deeper and for the creative idea, I would like to write a short story with creative ideas so that it will be more interesting and easier to write.

Most valuable lesson learnt in literature.

The most valuable lesson I learnt in literature is that English is not only about a language, it is about art and appreciation of a language. Literature has thought me must about appreciating art and the part I think is most valuable is the meaning of literature. Although poems and other things in literature is important, I think that what the teacher is going through and all the lessons that he thought was all about appreciating poems, songs and understanding the meaning of the songs or poems and why the poet wrote it that way.

My favourite book...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275600.The_Village_by_the_Sea

My favourite book is "Village by the Sea" because I didn't read a lot of books and these is probably a book that left the deepest impression for me.

This book is about a group of village people wanting to rebel against civilized people for trying to build factories in their small village. But for others, they felt that that might be an opportunity for jobs for them and does not oppose it. There was a main character that went from the village to a cilivised place, in search of jobs to cure his mother and take care of his sibling because his father is jobless. And there, he met a lot of different people, in which one gave the care of a father to him.

2P4 In-Class Online Lessons: Term 1 Q2~

1. Have you ever been in the company of a group of which you were clearly not a member? What was the circumstance? How did you act? How were you treated?

Q1. Yes, I've been in a company or group of people of which I'm clearly not treated like a member of that group. What happened was that they said that I'm one of the members, and there'll be an opportunity for me to present. After that, they let me have a go at the first "round", which I did good and passed the "round" in a race. When I'm suppose to continue to the second "round", they said that I might not have what it takes to win race, asking someone not in this group to take over me, which caused me to disappointed and upset. I didn't do much at that time because what I think was that if they regard me someone who will lose without a doubt, they should have ask me to go away in the first place. Not letting me join and putting high hopes in the first place. I treated it as a lesson and forgot about it, but I did tell a teacher. Next time I shall not bother about them anymore and that's all I did. How I was treated was I was treated unfairly, because they didn't even recognise the achievement I did, and expect me to say "okay" for being replaced by someone who's not even in the group. So this kind of attitute or unfairness should be changed if not people will not co-operate with him/her again.

2P4 In-Class Online Lessons: Term 1

Video~

Lyrics:
Sometimes we fall down and cant get back up
Were hiding behind skin thats too tough
How come we dont say I love you enough
Till its to late, its not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that wont come
We could make a feast from these crumbs
And were all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you
What would you wish you wouldve done

Yeah gotta start
Lookin at the hand of the time weve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock thats tickin
Gotta live like were dying

We only got
86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell em that we love em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like were dying

And if your plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbyes
Should be so careful who we live out our lives
So when we long for absolution
Therell no one on the line

Yeah gotta start
Lookin at the hand of the time weve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock thats tickin
Gotta live like were dying

We only got
86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell em that we love em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like were dying

Like were dying oh - like were dying [x2]

We only got
86 400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell em that we love em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live - like were dying

I learnt a value from this song, saying that whatever we have right now, we should appreciate it, because we'll never now when it'll be gone, or when it'll go away. And while we regret and want it to come back, it's already gone, forever. So we will need to appreciate what we have now.

Shel Silverstein poems

The Little Boy and the Old Man

1. What is the underlying message that is being conveyed in this poem?
The underlying message that is being conveyed is that the old man, being older than the boy, should be a lot wiser, but whatever mistake the little boy made, the old man had encounter. Which mean that the old man has gone through whatever the little boy had, and he want to share his love of little children.

2. Has Shel Silverstein used any particular poetic technique that brings out this message more clearly?
Silverstein would make the last word of each sentence rhyme with the last word of the next sentence.

Messy Room

1. Can you say that the poem is humorous? If so how?

Yes it is, it's humorous because of the writer's irony of the room in the first place, he'll complain about how messy the room is, but finds out it's his in the end, feeling that it is familiar but still doesn't feel ashamed.

2. What aspect of the human character has been highlighted in this poem?

The aspect is that people would criticise actions or words done or said by other people, but when they themselves do or say those words or actions, they'll feel that they'd done nothing wrong and do not like being criticise at, but then realise their mistakes in the end.

Cloony the Clown

1.Explain the irony in this poem.

Cloony the clown wanted to tell jokes and make people laugh, but instead people do the opposite of what he had actually wanted. He felt sad and told them what he felt to be an unfunny clown and he wanted them to feel sympathetic towards him, but instead they started to laugh at his accidental joke, making him feel sad, when he wanted people to laugh in the first place, but now when people are laughing, he cried.

2.Does Shel Silverstein manage to convey some harsh realities in this poem?

He managed to convey some harsh realities, saying that whatever you do might be the opposite of what you had expected, so expect the worst before thinking whether to do it or not. Because it shall never always be the positive result, as a negative result might appear.

3. What poetic devices has the poet used to effectively convey his message?
The poet made the last word of each sentence rhyme with the last word of the next sentence making the poem sound more smooth.

Big Fish

Q1.What does the phrase "a big fish in a small pond" mean to you?

A1.The phrase means that the fish doesn't actually belong to the pond because being a big fish in a small pond, you're easily spotted and you must have something special to allow you to survive in the pond.

Q2. What is the purpose of Edward Bloom's tall tale about the big fish and the wedding ring?

A2.The purpose of Edward Bloom's tall tale is to create a fiction story that people will be interested in, and therefore he could sell books regarding the story, earning money.

Q3. How does William Bloom as a boy feel about his father's telling of the tale? How does this feeling change as he gets older?

A3. William Bloom, as a boy, feel that his father is embarrassing his by telling the tale. But as he grew older, he felt that his father is not trying to embarrass him, but to let himself gain fame and earn money.

Q4. Why does Edward Bloom feel the need to keep repeating the tale throughout his life?

A4. It is so that it will constantly remind him of what happened in the tale so he'll never repeat the same mistake, nor tell something similar to the tale anymore.

Q5. What does the tale reveal about the relationship between Edward and William Bloom?

A5. It revealed that Edward and William Bloom's relationship are very close for strangers but far apart for a father-son relationship.

Q6. Consider the following quote: "In the telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn't always make sense, and most of it never happened, but that's what kind of story this is. " What stories have you been told that match this description? What is the effect of telling a story in this way?

A6. A fairytale. The effect is the exagerrate stories to make it more interesting or more fun to read or listen.

Q7. Does bending or exaggerating the truth for the purpose of conveying an entertaining story undercut the believability of such a story? Is a tall tale less valid than a straight reportage of the facts? Why or why not?

A7. Yes, bending or exaggerating the truth does undercut the believability of such a story. A straight reportage of the facts is more valid than a tall tale, since tall tales are suppose to be exaggerated to make the story more interesting or more fun to listen to, rather than just facts, but tall tales might need the help of evidence to prove the "facts" in it, if not it's most probably fake.