The Scottish play

So I don't bring down a curse upon my head

Which sometimes seems that way since this has been taking forever

It's okay. Now feeling surprisingly good as I get ready to teach M A C B E T H to my IB student

despite being on my own to to translate into modern english, add notes and analyses

Will not stop my brain from learning and so I will do so, independently

Huzzah!

Idea #whoknowshowmany for plotting compositions

When the students hate to plot their compositions by writing and you're left to think of this method

I was asked, "so now with new compos I have to plan like this?"

Double torture by writing and drawing what's going on

(Don't give me those innocent eyes! See they get all lazy on me now!)

But seriously

I wanted ...nay, NEEDED them to visualize what's going on

I mean they watch cartoons so much and can actually remember idiotic tunes they've listened to on music videos

Let's use this concept

Thank you google and sources for the worksheets

Which are here! https://thewriteelements.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/idea-whoknowshowmany-for-plotting-compositions/

Animal Farm and literary devices Lessons 1-3

Though this would be my second time teaching the spectacular tale that is Animal Farm, it still hasn't dulled the enormity that it took to come up with such a masterpiece. I can see why adults in their 40s-50s I know who studied this in their teens and still remember it

We looked at the characters, those who really impact the story; as well as chapters 1-4

Lesson 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yQN9y7ReMuS4D43pSsVKlY9aWAARDI9k/view?usp=drivesdk

Lesson 2

With an understanding of English literary devices

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXF963P8bz7P4PJziJD_z-aJUH4TEWaU/view?usp=drivesdk

Lesson 3

Same for this too

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h-Q5pu2PYCw84h8nE3458qd5MxV3iSTP/view?usp=drivesdk

He passed his Lit

For the first time

Since he's never had tuition for it since Sec 1

Thought obviously it's not the best

I'm still stoked

He put in effort to understand what we went through

And we discussed A LOT of different poems to get to this point

Woohoo!

PSLE 2018: Teamwork

I was honestly thinking about so many topics, it was a last minute discussion about how I didn't cover group emotions.

Who would have thought it would be out but it DID. 🤯 The few days I had before PSLE and we prepared for this

I'm so happy 😭

"Hi Jade. Teamwork came out for compo !!! 😃"

"The topic for the composition is teamwork & he mention that he remember the story you student wrote about the --"

C6 to B4 ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

In Singapore it's all about the grades. And the grade jumps.

From 50s to 60s is at least a steady increase.

I want him to jump two more by O Levels in a year and a half

Ah to be so ambitious at my age

When oral notes are full and extensive

https://thewriteelements.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/when-oral-notes-are-full-and-extensive/

That it took us both to hold it down to take a photo

I'm just kidding

But those are the kinds of details we need to have so P4s can speak with a good standard of English

I worked so hard

To think of a damn solid script

And in a last ditched attempt I got the words to describe the story of POISON

https://thewriteelements.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/i-worked-so-hard/ It’s a private post, obviously . But if you wanna know, comment on my Wordpress !

The band 1s for an oral dramatisation and spoken interaction

The exam is SO not a normal oral

So I took a unique approach to the script and supplied the best words for possible questions

Voila

My Budding Debaters