Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Cause and Effect

I hope you guys enjoyed the drama lesson. You guys did a great job! I was really impressed with some of your acting. Good job :-) ....

So nothing difficult for this week. It's a relatively easy poem so we are not going to be anaylsing it. I just want to know what you guys thought of the poem and the lesson. Keep it short. Just a few line will do.

12 comments:

Ong Hong Zhang- said...

I AM THWE FIRST TO POST FOR ONCE!

okayy the poem was obviously telling us about how bullying is due to the child being in someway abused by their parents, and have this pyscological problem, they 'pass it down' to others that they pick on. Since the instruction was to keep it short, i shall be a good boy and supress my urge to post a 10000 word essay. Anyway, the lesson was much better than the first, maybe because bullying is something we're all familiar with huh? More of skits and such should be done instead of doing suprise tests and london and chimmney sweepers poems. No offence! Seriously.

Brawns! said...

Refering to previous comment: LMAO

i kind of do agree with Hong Zhang though. I personally had lots of fun in the lesson- acting out the poem and such. I connected a bit more with this poem rather than the previous poems by William Blake because bullyi is something we are all so familiar with. As much as we try to deny it, everyone of us has been a bully or has been bullied at one point or another.

-Shreya

Unknown said...

the poem is about bullying. it seems that the bullies are bullied by their parents and so it is a chain effect, parents->children->peers. the bullies eventually had something wrong in the end(haha to the bullies). i agrre with HZ for the rest. the lesson was fun. it is also better thatn analysing blake's boring poems. acting is better tahn sweepers poems.


pls also give us less boring poems that we can't act out, it is limiting our potential.hehe

kelliejaneshy said...

To HongZhang: WOW. how amazing.. -.-

The lesson was really fun. Acting out the poem shows us how different bullies behave and that everyone, both bullies and victims, is easily influenced by the people around us. This poem is so much nicer and easier than William Blake's poems. Being the bully was fun too!

Kellie((:

akshaya said...

Lesson was exuberating, especially as the poem is easier to swallow, we don't need to fry our brains as much into attempting to figure the in-depth meaning of the poem while acting. And I needed a stress-relief class. The poems(especially the second given) were very fun for practice in tone and speech.

Adinda Dj.

Yijun said...

Okay, let's see. This poem just reflects on how bullies actually want to exercise authority over others, because they are unable to fight back when their parents scold them. And it shows how most bullies are self-centered, cruel, and mean. They are unable to feel for the victims at all. And they might also have two sides, where they act in front of others as goody-two-shoes, while being like devils, when they are in front of their victims.
I think dramatizing is fun! (:
It gives us deeper understanding then normal lessons.

Priscilla said...

uhm.haha this is like my FIRST time to post &see this website man:D but anyw,the poem was like telling us about how the bullying of one generation is able to pass to the next generation,without the parents nor adults noticing it.This tends to occur in families that has parents bullying their children which leads to their children bullying other kids,which you can see is a case of insecurities as those children might have a need to feel that they're more powerful than the rest.This,too,will lead into another cycle of bullying in families which only happen and happen yet another time again.okayy.yupp.thats it:D

Phua said...

THAT LESSON ROCKED. super fun! :D Well, the poem clearly showed the cycle of influencing someone in doing something, and in this case, is the influence of bullying. This can relate to the real-life too! Which makes it even more interesting because it is in a POETIC FORM! :D COOL MAN. Yes and the acting part was really enjoyable since we were able to see the other side of our classmates :D In all, i enjoyed the lesson and hopefully there would be more of such type in the future! :D YAY! CIAO!

Phua Zhi Ting (18) :D
3E2'08! :D

Li Ying said...

Acting out the poem was interesting, we get to understand the poem better.
Anyway, the poem is not very hard to understand as well. Actually, the children are all "acting" in front of their peers as well. They do this to hide their fear.

Ruth said...

I didn't know people still wrote poems that rhymed. Still, the theme of "bullying"/ cause and effect was brought across nicely enough. The idea of a form of justification for people society normally considers the 'villains' was interesting, but not startlingly new.

Chanel. said...

i like the poem. why? because i can understand. Hardly is there much poems that i can really comprehend. The whole poem is about bullies and why they became like that. Blame parents for delinquent children, what can we expect of the parent of one is a bully. Overall the lesson was good. ONE FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE- you must also perform a skit too.

Chanel

jeaa★♪ said...

Hey! I’m betting I am not the last one… haha...
Wow..! I’m hyper now...-_-^

Okay... like shreya, I really agree with Hongzhang about his comments.. =_ =^
Haha… the lesson was much much better than the previous one!!!!!
I think I like the idea of having skit...can show the potential of students haha…
I’m pro towards the poem as it’s rather easy and understandable..

Kim Ji A (Jeaa)
3E2’08 #11

P.S. PLEASE CALL ME AMY.. HAHA