Atticus says..

2009-01-16T05:07:00.000-08:00

Okays, Decided To Blog Since It's So Dead! ._.

Okays People, I Am Risking My Life To Do This.

The Writer Will Kill Me If He Know I Did It

Here's A Chimo Poem By Edmund. Enjoy!

They are just some non-coloured people,
Who hates people being coloured.
Being so obessessed with colour,
They might as well be coloured too.

Mentality of a person,
Cannot be determined by anyone.
As forsaken being a ordinary person,
They tend to be more special than others.

-By Edmund Ng

Anyone Understand?

Do Give Your Views In Literature Class!

Signing Off~ Shuo Feng A.K.A WoMeiYouMao =D

2009-01-09T22:08:00.000-08:00

It has been so long! This skin is for temporary, stay tune for a new skin if i can find something better! :D

with love,
the cutest!

So it's been a year!

2008-11-05T17:51:00.000-08:00

The adventures (or lack of?) haha

Lit Class of 2008...

So, finally we've finished a year.

I remember the trepidations and excitement when I first stepped into class.

We started with the reviews of Drama, Prose & Poetry...and then came my nightmare...

To Kill A MockingBird.

An MCQ test, A Common Test, Written Assignments, Mr Laremy Lee's wonderful presence...one of my favourite lesson through the PowerPoint on Discrimination, Klu Klux Clan...and finally...the PIZZA CHALLENGE.

I used to say "We're killing the bird. The Bird is killing us. Sigh..."

Whew.

Next came... POETRY.

Oh yes, what poems!

The Secret Sits

"We dance round in a ring and suppose,

But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."

- Robert Frost.

The Prose intersperse our lessons once in a while...with the ring in the I/C, and many others in our Mining for Meaning...I always enjoy the Eureka! moments we had!

Then came...Off Centre.

I think we all know the power of this text on us in different ways - the choice of words, the language, the actors/actress, the days we were in AVA room for the videos. I really really look forward to us tackling this text deeper next year.

Of course - our learning journeys & outings. Whew, I've never brought a single class to such classy learning journeys in a year! (The perks of a literature literature. haha)

- Black Box @National Library

- Off Centre @Esplanade

- Seminars @CHIJ Toa Payoh

I'm excited about the NUS and IMH outings next year. Let me see if there are more to enrich your learning... perhaps we can go and present at the seminars next year!

On this note, I just really want to thank you for being my students this year - for teaching me patience, for being patient with me, for the fun, the joy, the understandings and of course, challenging me to have "backup plans" all the time and pushing me to "think more out of the box" to get you all engaged. I will try my best to run the race with you next year.

Will you run this literature race yourself, with the class, and with me?

(On a cheeky note: can you please sleep all you want during this holidays, so that we can minimize the sleepyness and "slackness" next year?)

During this holidays, I'll be uploading more links and materials on the blog.

Do re-read MockingBird once again - love it, and come next year - we'll focus on writing more essays for Mocking, OffCentre and Unseen.

Reach for the results, and grow as a literary person!

Love, Ms Denise Chan

Have a most blessed holiday.

Some links (for learning & laughs)

2008-03-31T02:32:00.000-07:00

How on earth can this happen?

A site that teaches you how to kill mockingbirds.

http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam.htm

Long list of sites that helps in your study of Mockingbird

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/lee.html

Well...no prizes for guessing why I added on a picture of Atticus & Scout - since half of you were electrified by Gregory Peck, and the other half, by the actress who was acting as Scout.

Let's conquer the book! :)

Miss Chan.

2008-02-05T06:21:00.000-08:00

READ THE BOOK.

the beginning's a lil boring,
BUT, it gets REAL interesting.
and you'll be wanting more. so, READ IT.
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
:D

loves,
simone.

2008-02-01T22:54:00.000-08:00

SINCE ALL OF YOU ARE SO LAZY! I SHALL POST PICTURES OF HARPER LEE!

she's a pretty old lady :)

-Peisze

What's your first impressions towards the book?

2008-01-17T20:25:00.000-08:00

WELCOME to our literature blog!

It has been 2 weeks since.
Here is what we've covered so far:
- SYLLABUS (Paper 1 & 2)
- OVERVIEW OF GENRES (Prose, Poetry, Drama) & UNSEEN
- MOOD OF THE TEXT: Mood, Atmosphere, Feelings of the speaker.
- Written a piece of work for me to determine where you are at the moment (to be returned)

NOW, we will be starting on the text TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

Here are the main areas that we will cover:
- SETTING (time & place book is set)
- PLOT (storyline and how it changes)
- NARRATION (Point of View and how the writer writes)
- TENSION & SUSPENSE
- CHARACTERISATION (understanding how each character changes over the story, and their relationships between each other)
- TONE & LANGUAGE
- THEMES

So, to start off, continue reading the text, surf around for information about the text and see you next week!

You are also free to post any interesting/relevant information about the text, as well as anything to do with literature on our blog - ENJOY!

A simple question / blog post that you might like to share with us: What are your first impressions on "To kill a mockingbird"?

Ms D. Chan

atticus.

2008-01-13T23:58:00.000-08:00

Testing out the blog so i shall write something.

“Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

I admired Atticus Finch in to kill a mockingbird, because he is unique as a parent and as a lawyer.

-Peisze :)