Sec 2: Internal vs. External Conflicts

In-class:
- Students given Spelling List 5
-Recap on narrative structure, tension/suspense, and advantages and disadvantages of first and third person POV
- Watched Scream video clip
- Played conflict card game
- Watched video clips on internal vs. external conflicts
- Students taught explicitly what are internal and external conflicts

Sec 2: Different Points of Views

In-class:
- Fiction 55: individual work based on a picture (old man)
- Video clips are shown for the discussion of advantages and disadvantages of different POVs


Homework:
- Continue writing a story in a different POV (either Ah Kum or the aunt)

Sec 2: Narrative Struction and Tension & Suspense

In-class:
- Students brainstormed creative interpretations of the word 'Flight'
- Introduced Narrative Structure
- Recap on Tension & Suspense
- Fiction 55: students to write a complete narrative strictly in 55 words

Sec 2: Practice Compre

In-class:
- Spelling test #4
- Went through Passage B questions
- Time given in class to complete Summary question

Sec 2: Term 3 Week 1

In-class:
- Katrina Compre Review
- Katrina Summary Review
- Preview of Term 3's schedule (narrative writing & letter writing)
- Preview of EL 'O' level paper 1 & paper 2

Homework:
- Comprehension Passage A questions (due Fri, Jul 2)
- Comprehension Passage B questions (due Tue, Jul 6)
- Summary (due Tue, Jul 6)
- Study for Spelling Test 4

SPELLING TEST 4 on TUESDAY JULY 6th

Sec 2 Justice LJ groups

Sec 2 Justice girls, here are your group numbers -

Group 1: BC (5), VL (15), PW (22), RW (26), TF (34)

Group 2: KL (14), YL (16), ML (21), HE (23)

Group 3: AK (3), ML (20), KW (24), RT (28)

Group 4: DT (7), YY (13), TL (19), SY (29)

Group 5: RY (1), EL (8), KY (12), WS (16), KK (27)

Group 6: AA (2), CT (4), JH (9), CT (33)

Group 7: NL (18), JY (30), SY (31), G (32), BW (35)

Group 8: KW (10), JQ (11), LV (17), CP (25)

Sec 2: LJ Descriptive Writing Storyboard

Dear Sec 2 girls:

Instructions for your holiday assignment should be on edulearn. Should you have problems finding it on edulearn, below contains the most basic instructions. Please email me if you want a copy of the Powerpoint document, and also the Word document showing the sample paragraph.

My email address is mselizabethyeo@yahoo.com.sg

Have a great holiday!

Cheers,
Ms. Yeo.

Sec 2: Descriptive Writing

In-class:
- Group work (describing a character)

Homework:
- E-learning (descriptive writing and comment on forum)
- Bring phrase book on Friday for Library lesson

Sec 2: Summary Review & Descriptive Writing

In-class:
- Titanic summary review and correction
- Went through DW pages 9 - 12
- Group work (describing a character)

Sec 2: Compre Review & Descriptive Writing

In-class:
- Titanic Comprehension Review

Homework:
- Descriptive writing package pages 9 - 12

Sec 2: Descriptive Writing

In-class:
- Spelling #3
- Went through answers in Descriptive Writing package (pages 6 & 7)
- Students worked in pairs or groups to complete page 8 (metaphors and similes)
- Students shared with their classmates the metaphors and similes that came up with

Sec 2: Descriptive Writing

In-class:
- Students introduced to adjectives
- Students given time in class to write a short description about a friend and the class had to guess who they were referring to
- Points in Descriptive Writing Handouts were discussed (pages 1 - 3)

Homework:
- Descriptive Writing Handouts page 4: underline adjectives, and circle the nouns
- Descriptive Writing Handouts page 4: change the adjectives to describe the woods as an eerie and mysterious place
Descriptive Writing Handouts page 4: highlight or underline adjectives in the descriptive passages
- Vocabulary book (at least 10 spelling words should be written for Tuesday's class)

NOTE: Please change the 15th word to CHOROGRAPHY instead.

Sec 2: Summary and Use Your Own Words

In-class:
- Students were given time in class to complete and hand in Turtle summary
- Students given practice peice for Use Your Own Words (Eyes of a Tourist)

Answers from Eyes of a Tourist:
1) It was first introduced when Singapore got its independence.
2) It was because the investment in sculpting the Merlionat $165000 was worthwhile [1] and it will probably generate more money [1] in the future than the original sum [1].
3) It was because the Merlion icon cannot be used for many other purposes unless there was approval from STB [1] and this limited the growth of the Merlion icon [1]
4) The reason was to allow enough space for visitors to take photographs of the baby Merlion and the giant Merlion. [2] OR The reason was that the giant Merlion was too tall to be fully captured, hence a smaller one was built for the purpose of photo-taking [2]

Sec 2: Own Words exercise

Here are the answers for the extra (optional) Use Your Own Words Exercise

1) Parents falsely believe that a child will learn a language naturally by himself
Clue: language acquistion is an automatic process. This, however, is not true.

2) Babies who have been read in the womb are likely to be smart [1], happy [1] and able to understand language songs [1].

3) A very pretty flower
Clue: visually pleasant flower

4) Sunbathers are addicted to the pleasuable feelings that they get when they tan.
Clue: This endorphin buzz may be what sun bathers are really chasing

5) "Tanorexic" means people who are obsessed with getting a tan.

6) This is because many nurses were from poor / lowly background [1] and nursing was not seen as a proper job.

Sec 2: Summary (Jigsaw)

In-class:
- Went through the points in the organizer for the Jigsaw passage
Homework:
- Complete an organizer for the Turtle passage (you may type it if you want)
- If time permits: write out the summary in a paragraph

On Friday, I'll be going through the organizer for the Turtle passage. You should have your's completed so you can check your own points.

2 Charity girls:
I understand most of you would be absent from school on Friday for various competitions, therefore, you will miss English lesson. I still expect all of you to complete the organizer and email it to me (if hand-written, scan it) by SATURDAY NIGHT 10pm (April 10, 2010).

You'll be sitting for your comprehension and summary test next week (Tues April 13 & Fri April 16), so I want all of you to practice and show me that you've done your work.

My email address is mselizabethyeo@yahoo.com.sg

Sec 2: Summary (Jigsaw)

In-class:
- Went through answers for Use Your Own Words & Language Use worksheet
- Went through Distinction in EL pages 129 - 132 on how to complete summary questions
- Compre test & Summary test changed to 4th Week: April 13th (Tue) & April 16th (Fri)

Homework:
- Complete Distinction in EL pages 124 - 125 (all four questions)
- Complete Jigsaw summary

I noticed that the model answers for the Jigsaw summar that I showed in class today was not very good. Please see the example below of how you should complete your homework:

1) Take 1 - 2 minutes to decide what the question is asking for >>> TWO things: (1) CHARACTERISTIC of jigsaw puzzle & (2) ADVANTAGES of fixing them

2) Focus on the relevant paragraphs

3) Underline or highlight key points you should include in your summary
CLICK on picture to view!



4) Write your draft (Example of answers from paragraph 2 shown in picture below)
CLICK on picture to view!


Please at least finish up the ORGANIZER! You may type it out if you wish.

Sec 2: Use Your Own Words & Summary

In-class:
- Went through answers for 'Job' comprehension passage
- Students taught explicitly the steps to answer Summary Questions (Distinction in EL pages 118 - 123)

click on the pictures to enlarge
(credits to Ms. Wendy Ng for the ppt slides)

Homework:
- Complete Distinction in EL pages 124 - 125 (questions #1 & #2)
- Complete handout on Use Your Own Words and Language Use questions

Sec 2: Use Your Own Words

In-class:
- Went through answers for Insect Comprehension


Homework:
- Job Comprehension due Monday 29 March, 2010
- Please complete the FOUR steps for Use Your Own Words questions


Example

Step One - Finding the answer from the passage and write it out

Step Two - Underline or circle the key ideas or words

Step Three - Brainstorm words, phrases or expressions to replace the key words/ideas

Step Four - Refine and rewrite your answer in a complete sentence

Sec 2: Use Your Own Words & Language Use

In-class:
- Students practiced Use Your Own Words question (tiger question)
- Students taught explictly how to answer Language Use Questions from Distinction in EL book (pages 29 - 30)

Homework:
- Distinction in EL (pages 37 - 39)
- 'Insect' Comprehension handout
- Phrase book (510 words)

DUE: Friday, March 26, 2010.

Sec 2: Use Your Own Words

In-class:
- Students taught explicitly the steps to answer Use Your Own Words Questions from Distinction in EL book (pages 23 - 27)
- Students worked on Exercise 4 (pages 27 - 28), and answers were discussed