I was assigned with Dr. Nooreen as my project work supervisor with 7 other course mates.
During the meeting she briefed us with how a project paper suppose to be written, the specification on how our project paper will be given marks and many more. She even asked us about our topic of the paper. As for me, I told her that I want to do women’s position in society using three poems which are Her Kind by Anne Sexton, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne rich, and Dulang Washer by Shirley Geok. She told me that it is a good choice of topic. But, who knows what will happen next, right?
I hope I can proceed to do my project paper on this topic. I was expected to apply all my knowledge through these semesters in UPM in this paper, especially in teaching literature. Plus, I was expected to insert it’s implication towards education.
Luckily, she gave us samples of project papers from our seniors under her supervision from previous semester. We really need a guideline to do this. Hope things goes well as I expected.
Good Luck to me!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
The Fall of Icarus
Date: 24th July 2008 (Thursday)
Hi people!
It is time for me to write another blog. Today, I learn how to appreciate a picture or painting more by looking at Breughel’s “The Fall of Icarus”. It is interesting how one interprets what the message hidden in a painting. To be honest, I never thought that Icarus’ legs in the painting actually represents life must go on. When people like me think it is just an ordinary picture that illustrate Icarus’ incident, things that pops up in mind was “Hmmm, nice colour…” or “Is that Icarus in the lake?”. I never thought what the significance of Icarus legs is, or why the artist chooses certain colour and so on. Don’t be surprise if I say “It’s amaze me. And I want to love arts more!”. Maybe I will spend some time to go to the Museum of Arts.
Hi people!
It is time for me to write another blog. Today, I learn how to appreciate a picture or painting more by looking at Breughel’s “The Fall of Icarus”. It is interesting how one interprets what the message hidden in a painting. To be honest, I never thought that Icarus’ legs in the painting actually represents life must go on. When people like me think it is just an ordinary picture that illustrate Icarus’ incident, things that pops up in mind was “Hmmm, nice colour…” or “Is that Icarus in the lake?”. I never thought what the significance of Icarus legs is, or why the artist chooses certain colour and so on. Don’t be surprise if I say “It’s amaze me. And I want to love arts more!”. Maybe I will spend some time to go to the Museum of Arts.
I can still remember what my lecturer said in class about students. He said that there might be students who do not really know how to play with words but master on drawing. By learning to appreciate someone’s creative arts might help us as the future teacher to interpret their masterpiece. Yeah, I think that’s true. Never underestimate what this people can produce. This reminds me during my school time. We don’t really enjoy reading, but drawing is an interesting and beneficial activity as post reading activity.
Before I end my blog, I want to share what I’ve learn during tutorial classroom with my Iranian tutor. We had discussed about our first assignment, writing a position paper. My tutor gave us a list of prescribed text for this assignment, and I choose a short story by Heah Chwee Sian entitled “A Great Injustice”. He asked us to do a thesis statement for the text we have chosen. I have showed to him my thesis statement for the assignment and he did approve it. Now, I am working on the major points to support my thesis statement. I hope that I can do this excellently. Hope that I am healthy enough to finish the whole semester!
Well, that all for now. See you all next time!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Icarus' Teaching Procedure (PLOT)
Topic : Plot of The Fall of Icarus
Level of Proficiency : Some English Language Proficiency
Form : 4
SET INDUCTION
Procedure:
1. Teacher displays a painting to the class.
2. Teacher asks questions regarding the painting to the class:
What is this?
What can you see in the painting?
What do you think this painting is about?
What are the people in the painting doing?
Why didn’t the people do something to help the drowning person?
3. Students answer the teacher’s questions.
4. Teacher gives explanation about the painting to students.
5. Teacher moves on to pre-reading activity.
Rationale:
To trigger students’ schemata about the lesson.
PRE-READING
Procedure:
1. Teacher gives instruction to students on what they are supposed to do.
2. As the teacher read the text, students are asked to underline the events they can find in the story.
3. Teacher distributes a text of a story entitled The Fall of Icarus.
4. Teacher reads the text.
5. Students attempt the task given.
6. Teacher discusses the answers with students.
Rationale:
To ensure students understand what they are expected to do.
WHILE-READING (I)
Procedure:
1. Teacher asks students to proceed to the next activity.
2. Teacher asks the students to work with pairs.
3. Teacher reads the short story again.
4. As the teacher reads the story, students are instructed to identify the sequence of events(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and conclusion) of the story.
5. Teacher asks students to transfer the information into the diagram given in the activity.
6. Teacher calls students at random to give their answers.
7. Teacher discusses the answers.
Rationale:
To ensure students understanding towards the text.
WHILE-READING (II)
Procedure:
1. Teacher asks students to work in group of 5.
2. Students are instructed to do next activity (APPENDIX 3).
3. Students attempt the task.
4. Teacher discusses the answers.
Rationale:
To ensure students understanding towards the text.
Level of Proficiency : Some English Language Proficiency
Form : 4
SET INDUCTION
Procedure:
1. Teacher displays a painting to the class.
2. Teacher asks questions regarding the painting to the class:
What is this?
What can you see in the painting?
What do you think this painting is about?
What are the people in the painting doing?
Why didn’t the people do something to help the drowning person?
3. Students answer the teacher’s questions.
4. Teacher gives explanation about the painting to students.
5. Teacher moves on to pre-reading activity.
Rationale:
To trigger students’ schemata about the lesson.
PRE-READING
Procedure:
1. Teacher gives instruction to students on what they are supposed to do.
2. As the teacher read the text, students are asked to underline the events they can find in the story.
3. Teacher distributes a text of a story entitled The Fall of Icarus.
4. Teacher reads the text.
5. Students attempt the task given.
6. Teacher discusses the answers with students.
Rationale:
To ensure students understand what they are expected to do.
WHILE-READING (I)
Procedure:
1. Teacher asks students to proceed to the next activity.
2. Teacher asks the students to work with pairs.
3. Teacher reads the short story again.
4. As the teacher reads the story, students are instructed to identify the sequence of events(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and conclusion) of the story.
5. Teacher asks students to transfer the information into the diagram given in the activity.
6. Teacher calls students at random to give their answers.
7. Teacher discusses the answers.
Rationale:
To ensure students understanding towards the text.
WHILE-READING (II)
Procedure:
1. Teacher asks students to work in group of 5.
2. Students are instructed to do next activity (APPENDIX 3).
3. Students attempt the task.
4. Teacher discusses the answers.
Rationale:
To ensure students understanding towards the text.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Icarus' Teaching Text
In pairs, we were assigned to develop a teaching package for a short story entitled The Fall of Icarus.
Our lecturer assigned us to come out with a 200 words passage as a reading text for students with some or high English Language proficiency. We need to leave out extra details that not necessary from the original text entitled Daedalus and Icarus.
This is the 200 words passage that we had done:
“Father! Help me, father!” cries Icarus as the deep blue water swallows him.
“Icarus, my son! Where are you?” Daedalus calls. As he still calling Icarus, he saw feathers on the water. The poor father curses his inventive skill and his longing for his own country. This is the time when he remembers the beginning of this tragedy as he set his mind to sciences never explored before.
He fastened the feathers together in the middle with thread, and at the bottom with wax. As his killer invention is ready, he prepared Icarus, his only son, to fly too.
Daedalus said, “You must fly between the sun and land, if you fly too high, the sun will melt the wax, or the water will make your wings heavy if you go too low.”
As Daedalus flew in front, Icarus, drown by his eagerness for the open sky, left his guide and soared upwards till he came too close to the blazing sun. The wax softened! He moved his bare arms up and down, but without the feathers, they had no purchase on the air.
Daedalus laid his son to rest in a tomb where the land took his name.
(199 words)
Our lecturer assigned us to come out with a 200 words passage as a reading text for students with some or high English Language proficiency. We need to leave out extra details that not necessary from the original text entitled Daedalus and Icarus.
This is the 200 words passage that we had done:
“Father! Help me, father!” cries Icarus as the deep blue water swallows him.
“Icarus, my son! Where are you?” Daedalus calls. As he still calling Icarus, he saw feathers on the water. The poor father curses his inventive skill and his longing for his own country. This is the time when he remembers the beginning of this tragedy as he set his mind to sciences never explored before.
He fastened the feathers together in the middle with thread, and at the bottom with wax. As his killer invention is ready, he prepared Icarus, his only son, to fly too.
Daedalus said, “You must fly between the sun and land, if you fly too high, the sun will melt the wax, or the water will make your wings heavy if you go too low.”
As Daedalus flew in front, Icarus, drown by his eagerness for the open sky, left his guide and soared upwards till he came too close to the blazing sun. The wax softened! He moved his bare arms up and down, but without the feathers, they had no purchase on the air.
Daedalus laid his son to rest in a tomb where the land took his name.
(199 words)
Monday, July 14, 2008
Finally!
Thursday, 10th July 2008 is the first meeting of EDU3234 course. As usual, it is the introduction class. There is nothing much to say in this foreword post. My lecturer assigned me to Dr. Nooreen as my project work supervisor. My first expectation of this class is that it will be a lot of reading needs to be done through out this semester. I am a bit worry because I am not really a fast reader person. I just hope for the best. Well, I think that’s all for now. See you!
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