Life

Life,
is like a rollercoaster ride.
somtimes you go up,
sometimes you go down.

Life,
is like a piece of paper.
It is filled with many colors,
colours that you decide.

Life,
is like a bowl of soup.
A soup that contains,
salt, sugar, pepper and vinegar.

Life is an adventure, enjoy it.

Sound Poem

I heard the owls hooting in the dark.


I heard the sheep bleating beyond the hill.

I heard the wolves howling in the night.

I heard the sparrows chirping in the dark sky.

I heard the dogs whining right outside the door.

I heard the horses neighing in the stables.

I heard the bulls troting in the open fields.

I heard the bees buzzing round my head.

I heard the frogs croaking at the ponds.

I heard the mice scattering in the kitchen.

I heard the roosters cock-a-doodle-do on the wall.

I heard the turkeys gobble near the wall.

I heard the pigeons cooing over the roof.

I heard the ducks quacking in the pond.

I heard the pigs oinking in the slaughter house.

I heard the cats meowing near the fishbowl.

Reflections on term 3

I feel that i improved quite a lot in term 3. My test jumped from C6 to A2 I do not know how i did that but i realise that Mr. Lundberg's class actually helped me alot.

I realise that LA tests are not hard as long as you listen in class and follow what the teacher teaches. I also feel that Mr. Lundberg helps the class alot in OP. He thought very hard for a way to help students speak up to earn Oral patrticpation marks. He used a method calles "Pass-the-ball". It is a method whereby when he asks a question everybody needs to raise their hand and he will pick one of the student. When the student does not know the answer he wil pass the question on to another student in this way all the students get to answer or at least say "I do not know".

In term 3 we did poetry, I learnt how to analyse a poem using the ten steps Mr. lunberg taught us. I also learnt many figurative languages. I enjoyed my LA lessons.

The poem i am going to do on today is: Snapshotland

Snapshotland

In Snapshotland everyone is happy all the time.


It is the promised land where people sit with flasks of tea


on smooth sand by a flat sea and smile and smile and smile.




The sun shines all day long and every day in Kodachrome


or sepia on sandboys and sandgirls who never


stop smiling from the time they first appear, with buckets,


in crisp, gingham pinafores and bonnets on the sea-shore.





Lovers stay in love forever; married couples never


grow tired of each other; everything is always just right.


The dolphins know exactly when to leap into the air


and stay there for the permanent delight of passengers


aboard the pleasure-boat which never passes out of sight.






Nobody in Snapshotland grows old unless they want to,


judging by the way they go on smiling so, in deck-chairs,


on the beach, or in old-fashioned gardens with lavender


and grandchildren here and there - and no one dies, ever.






Even if they don't appear later, the people are still


always there, smiling through the lavender and dolphins


and the buckets full of pebbles on the same sea-shore.






By Sylvia Kantaris




After reading this poem, I am going to use this 10 steps to analyse it.


1)Forget what the poem may or may not mean, or what it may be about


2)Look at the title and jot down about half a dozen things that it suggest to you.


3)Read the poem once quickly and then several times more slowly. Try to hear the poem aloud in your head.


4)Make a list of all those things which force their attention on you or which catch your interest for one reason or another. You might jot down unusual/odd/striking words, rhymes or repetition/patterns/contrasts,etc.


5)Look at and list any features of language used in the poem, e.g. no capital letters; no full stops at all the line-end; presence/absence of adverbs/adjectives; all verbs are either active/passive; tenses-all past
except the last line, etc


6)Try to find groups of words e.g.
(a) All similes make reference to animals/death/plants etc
(b) All the first words of lines are conjunctions etc


7)Look at your lists, notes and groups. Do you see any pattern taking shape?


8)Read the poem again and try to make intelligent guesses of what the poem may mean.


9)Answer the following questions:
a) Who is 'speaking' the poem? Is it the poet or persona?
b)Who is the poem 'spoken' to? Is it a particular person, to the poet himself or to the public in general?
c)What is the speaker's attitude to that audience? Is it angry,sincere,joking or teasing?
d)What is the poet's attitude to his audience?
e) Why is the poem organized in the way it is?
f)What is the effect of all the things you have noted at Steps 2, 4, 5 and 6?


10)Now if you wish to, or have to , you can write a critical appreciation of that poem.


Answers


Q1) NIL


Q2)  1. Photos
        2. an island
        3. A dream
        4.Camera
        5.Joy
        6.Memories


Q3) NIL


Q4) sepia, gingham pinafores, bonnets,


Q5) "right" and "sight" (assonance)
      "smile and smile and smile" (repetition)


Q6)  These quotes "Lovers stay in love forever", "people sit with flasks of tea",  "couples never grow tired of each other", "Nobody in Snapshotland grows old " involves people inside.


Q7) Each stanza describe different places


Q8) The poem is trying to tell us that pictures are so good that they can freeze time because you will look forever young in a picture and behind every picture there is an interesting story.


Q9)


a) It is the poet.
b) He is speaking to the public in general
c) It is relaxed and cheerful
d) It is cheerful and relaxed
e) He is organise in a way that he gave many examples of how wonderful a picture is.
f) It is relevant to the passage

Dr Goh Keng Swee's contributions

Dr Goh Keng Swee is the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore.


He was also the Minister for Education, 3rd Minister for Defence, 3rd Minister for Finance, 1st Minister for the Interior and Defence and 1st Minister for Finance.


Dr Goh was  a key member of the PAP's Central Executive Committee, and later became its vice-chairman.


He initiated the setting up of the Economic Development Board which was established in August 1961.


The next year, he started the development of the Jurong industrial estate on the western end of the island which was then a swamp, offering incentives to local and foreign business to locate there.


 Goh admitted that the Jurong project was "an act of faith and he himself jokingly said that this could prove to be Goh's folly". Nonetheless, Goh also felt strongly that "the only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that ... will be the ultimate mistake.


There was a clash of fundamental principles, both political and economic, notably on the issue of Malay dominance, communitarian violence in 1964 was inflamed in Singapore by Malay and Chinese activists Dr. Goh played a crucial role in orchestrating the subsequent secession of Singapore from the Federation on 9 August 1965. 


Upon independence in 1965, Dr. Goh became Minister for the Interior and Defence until 16 August 1967, assuming responsibilities for strengthening Singapore's military and domestic security capabilities.


Goh encouraged the establishment of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in 1968, and on 11 August 1970 he was reappointed Minister for Defence. 


In 1971, he put together the Electronic Warfare Study Group, a team of newly graduated engineers who had excelled in their university studies which was headed by Dr. Tay Eng Soon, a university lecturer.


Goh was also responsible for projects that sought to improve Singaporeans' cultural and leisure life, such as the Jurong Bird Park, the Singapore Zoo and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.


 He backed the construction of the Kreta Ayer People's Theatre in his constituency as a venue for Chinese opera performances. He was also instrumental in introducing rugby in the Singapore Armed Forces and later in schools.


Impressed by an oceanarium in the Bahamas, he contacted the Sentosa Development Corporation and convinced them to have one. Underwater World Singapore opened in 1991.


On 12 February 1979, Goh moved on from the Defence Ministry to the Ministry of Education, where his Goh Report greatly influenced the development of Singapore's education system.


He set up the Curriculum Development Institute, and introduced key policies such as religious education (subsequently discontinued) and, in 1980, the channelling of students into different programmes of study according to their learning abilities, known as "streaming".

Poem on my school life

School is fun,
School is knowledge,
School is experience,
School is life.

School can be a nightmare or a place call heaven,
but it comes to the student to choose which they think school is.
The lucky thing is
I chose heaven.

I remembered the days in primary school
when my friends and i were still young.
Boy! We were as innocent as a young puppies
and of course naughty as usual.

Ringgg!!! This was the sound we anticipated.
Balls zoomed past the air,
We would play soccer
And the balls will zoomed past the field like a sprinting cheetah.

Classrooms were the place of knowledge
and also a room that drains your energy.
Piles of works will be on your table
and for a primary school kid, they are buildings that will collaspe anytime.

In secondary school
things changed.
No more fooling, no more joking
and the worse part is the buildings on your tables have became skyscrapers

Hyperbole- exaggerated statement
Metaphor- to describe something as another thing
Personification- give something or an object human characteristic
Symbolism-using a representive figure to carry additional meaning
Simile-"like" or "as"

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


1. "lonely as a cloud"
The poet used symbolism in this phrase.
The poet described his loneliness as the clouds in the sky which means that he/she is very lonely.


2. "A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

The poet used personification in this three lines.

The poet described the daffodils as a host that is everywhere beside the lake, beneath the trees dancing and fluttering like a person in the breeze.

3. "never-ending line", "the margin of a bay", "Ten thousand saw I at a glance"

The poet used hyperbole in this three phrases.

The poet is trying to say that there are so many stars in the sky that when he glance once he can see ten thousand of them and if they are in a line the line will be never-ending.

4. "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance"

The poet used personification here.

The poet is trying to say that the skies in the sky are tossing their head so wildly that cause the sparkling in th e sky.

5. "The waves beside them danced"

The poet used personification here.

The poet says that the high tides have caused the waves to look like they are dancing happily.

6. "And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils"

The poet used personification here.

The poet is trying to say that in a state of loneliness now, trying to imagine that you are accompanied by the natural surrounding will make you feel very happy.

I like this poem because it is easy to understand and it uses many figurative languages. This poem is trying to say that the person is so lonely that he thought of the natural surrounding being his companion the stars, the daffodils, the waves. This poem did not really emphasize on the effects of being lonely instead it emphasize on a person trying to make herself not lonely. The descriptions in the poem were clear and easy to understand. The ending of the poem and the beginning of the poem was completely opposite it begins with loneliness but it ends with happiness so it kind of give a little “twist” at the end which is nice.