Learning Log 2

On one of the Literature lesson that we had, our class was given the homework of writing down 5 or more superstitions that we believe in. After i went back home, i went to the Internet to browse what the Chinese had believed about superstitions. I found out that many of them, there were some which also said about ghost or even spirits. I chose to copy down those which were more believable or realistic. Some of them were about Chinese New Year whereby we should avoid sweeping the floor as it might ''Sweep the good luck away''. After a few days or so, we went to discuss in groups about what we wrote. Some of my classmates were chosen to present their answer to the class. I remember clearly that one of them wrote that if you are pregnant, avoid going to the zoo or so, as the baby might look like it. Mrs. Woo had also explained even more deeper about that to the whole class. Another was about cutting fingernails at night and opening an umbrella at home. Those were examples which I hadn’t heard of before. I feel that our lesson and assignments were very interesting and new in me, my having that lesson, I learnt things which were not included in our textbook etc. whereby we also gain knowledge from.  In my opinion, I feel that our lesson could be improved by assigning different people to search on unique superstitions believed by different races. As by doing so, we might also learn to respect what other religions believe in.

After today lesson (24/1/11) about Macbeth, I learnt more about how the three witches would express themselves and the voice they used. Pupils like Lionel, Liang Wei and Jasmine were randomly selected to read the script of Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 1 to the class. I feel that making our voices sound squeaky sounds weird and funny. Although it sounds weird, when they read it aloud to the class, we simply enjoy it as we manage to get alot of laughter out of it. In my opinion, I feel the lessons that we had were simply more and more fun as it seems to be. I feel the lessons that we had were a very 'LOL' lesson has we could just laugh till our heart content. The lessons could be further improved by proceeding further on at a faster speed, as by doing so, i think we could absorb more.