The slideshow

In this lesson, you will be exploring the theme of 'war'.

View the slideshow of war photos (the link below). Choose one photo and describe the photo. Your descriptive piece should focus on the mood and atmosphere of the photo chosen. Your objective is to evoke emotions of your reader through the description of the mood and atmosphere of the picture.

Your descriptive piece should be about 250 words long.

I crawled on the ground, trying to escape from the bullets of our enemies. There were bloodstains, dead bodies, debris, and dying people everywhere. The place was very messy and gunshots could be heard every single second. The people were running in every direction and trying to escape. I was shot and injured in the leg and hence, had no other choice but to crawl and also act dead at certain times. I used the debris of the buildings and also the corpses to protect myself from the incoming bullets.

My clothes were torn and tattered and my shoes had many holes in them and were also covered with blood. Even my gun had run out of bullets. Our enemies were all over the place and had totally outnumbered us. I was lucky to have been only hurt in the leg and not killed as almost all of our people was dead and I was one of the only few survivors left.

Slowly crawling, I threw rocks at the enemies from their backs and mot of them hit their heads and knocked them out. The others that missed surprised them, as they did not know where the stones and rocks came from. The stones were good “ bullets” as they were abundant and could be found from everywhere. There were those from fallen buildings, those from the ground, and also those that were from broken machinery. I knew that I would be killed if I kept throwing and hence, I only threw at those who were near to me and had a high possibility of spotting me from the debris.

Does nuclear energy still have a part to play in the world?

Does nuclear energy still have a part to play in the world?

As our society gets more and more advanced, our technology also gets more advanced. Inevitably, what we sometimes create which is meant for the good of ourselves turn out to harm us instead. Take for example, nuclear energy, which whereby we used technology to help us generate electricity. However, nuclear energy has harmed us in the case in Japan after the earthquake.

Nuclear energy, unlike coal, natural gas, or oil, is better in the way that it is renewable. If we depend too much fossil fuel, we will be in trouble as these are non-renewable and are going to run out in a few years time. Also, fossil fuel causes pollution, which is currently a serious problem in this world.

Secondly, nuclear energy is also clean if it is handled with care. However, hydro-electricity and wind energy are also clean. So, what makes nuclear energy different from the other two? It is because of the fact that nuclear energy is cheaper, more efficient, and more cost-effective. Dams will have to be created for hydro-electricity while expensive machines will have to be purchased in the case of wind energy.

Lastly, scientists are now working very hard to build safer nuclear plants. Hence, we will no longer need to worry about the danger of nuclear electricity in years to come. Hence, we can have all the advantages of nuclear energy without having to worry about its biggest problem-safety.

As technology get more and more advanced these days, and appliances require more and more energy to run, nuclear energy is a good substitution for fossil fuels, which are going to run out very soon. Hence, although it is dangerous, nuclear energy still plays are very important part in our world.

Please refer to the screen shots below: 1. Benedict Lee 2. Wong Wei Cong 3. Xavier Neo Click on the picture to enlarge.

Write each character’s experience from a first-person point of view

A new student

I sat at the hall and candles were past among us. Later, the headmaster gave a speech as in one part, he told us,” Gentlemen, 100 years ago, in 1859, 41 students sat here and were asked the same question. What are the pillars?” Immediately, many of the other students stood us and my father also nodded at me, signalling me to stand up too.

They said,” Friendship, honour, discipline, excellence.” Later at the dormitories, while I was getting to know my new friends, my father suddenly came in and told me that I was having too many extra-curricular activities and that he was dropping me out of school. I was shocked and also a little angry with my father. Later, my father slowly explained to me outside the room.

Teacher

I sat at the bench while the headmaster gave his speech. He mentioned some very old school values, and I thought that he was someone who emphasized on values, just like me. I hope that I will be able to co-operate with him well. Later, he introduced me and as I stood up, I could see that I was received enthusiastically as many of the people were clapping for me. I felt quite touch because I thought that the students would only accept old teachers that they were familiar with.

Describe the scene in one of week 4's photos

Describe the scene in one of week 4's photos

This picture shows the place where I treat as my second home as I am there most of the time. Everyday in the afternoon, players can be seen there training and fighting like mad bulls during a match. Also, the coach can be seen shouting instructions like a mad hatter.

We have two coaches, and whenever we do not play well during our matches, one of them will be like a thunder storm ready to explode while the other one will be like a red bull that saw red. Then, both of them will start to scold us although we know that they are just concerned for us and want us to do well for our competitions.

Sometimes, when it is raining cats and dogs, we would have no other choices but to come out of the water and do physical training like push-ups and pull-ups. None of us liked to these but we had to because only be doing these could be have a stronger and more flexible bodies in order to win competitions.

I still remember one of the times when I fell down and my elbow hit the pavement and shredded like cheese in a grater. That was one of the most terrifying things that happened to me there although I think that it is alright to get injuries once in a while.

This place will always be in my heart as it has many sentimental values to me. I have even slept there before.

LA lessons reflection

I think that I have learnt pretty much from the LA lessons. For example, I have learnt how to write a good short story and I also feel that my writing skills have improved tremendously as I now know how to make use of the setting to create the mood, and also characterization to make the reader know more about the character such that the character could be imagined in his mind when the reader is reading the short story. I enjoy the LA lessons as there is a lot of group work involved and also, what I like most is that we sometimes get to see interesting videos like the one on Susan Boyle. I liked the lesson on characterization where we had to describe the physical features of characters like snow white and Cinderella most which make these characters attract so many young children. This was the most interesting lesson as many of us were laughing at the mention of the characters’ bust size. I think that the LA lessons should have more involvement in IT like having the lessons in the computer labs and also maybe using the school ground for assignments. For example, there could be an assignment which asks us to find different settings of the school and write a story where that setting is involved in.

characterisation: story excerpt

Naruto was struggling fighting all six pains, who each had different abilities but were controlled by one of them, which was the real one. He thought: If only i can defeat the real one, then all six of them would then die. But, which is the real one? The only thing of his advantage was that they were each different in look so that if Naruto could spot the real pain, it would not be easy for them to try to confuse him as Naruto could then easily differentiate them.

However, after having defeated one of them, another one took the dead body and revived it with one of his special jutsu. This was what discouraged Naruto the most but he thought: The pain that can do that jutsu is hidden at the back of their formation and protected by the other five pains because he can only do that but cannot fight. How am I supposed to defeat him first to prevent him from reviving any of them again?

Just then, a fantastic idea came to his mind and he grinned. He used his Shadow clone jutsu when they were not noticing and while he was attacking the pains in the front, his clone sneaked up and attack on the pain in the back.

After that he laughed at the pains, saying that they were fools but after a while he was busy fighting again, he did not notice that he was only fighting four of them and that the real pain was holding his dagger right behind him, ready to stab him just like what he did to the pain that could revive a moment ago......