Friday, February 25, 2011

Micro teaching: the long awaited news

Hello to the hearts
constantly desire
a line or two
the vow given
not so long ago
and unleash these asphyxiation feel



So, here ladies and gentlemen, the topic for your micro teaching. See you on 27 February 2011

Course : LHE 3252 Teaching the Language of Poetry
Semester : Kedua 2010/2011
Topic : Micro Teaching



Matric no Name Topic

1. J34052 Iszaiezham Bin Ismail Dover Beach
2. J36340 Sivasanghari a/p Nadarajan Anthem for Doomed Youth
3. J36470 Norul Faraliza Binti Abdul Gany Wild Swan at Coole
4. J40720 Bong Lee Lee The Man He Killed
5. J40722 Levina Anak Tong Keng To Autumn
6. J40724 Noriah Bt Mohamed Sailing to Byzantium
7. J40727 Rosila Binti Ismail Because I Could Not Stop
for Death
8. J40729 Siti Nor Fazidah Binti Tahir Mending Wall
9. J40730 Subashini A/p Shanmugam Ode to Nightingale
10. J40802 Safiah Bt. Abdul Hamid Sonnet 64
11. J40803 Nachammal a/p Singaradivelu Ode on a Grecian Urn

Monologue: Speech of solitary souls

Hi,

We are meeting on Sunday 27 February 2011 at 3.00 pm. You people have a session with Cik Sharifah before meeting me. Unfortunately we can't meet for monologue in the morning as my morning hours are completely filled up with classes. Is there any way that we could do this on Saturday?

For people in Sibu and Kuching, most probably your performance will be next week. Let me know if it is a no go as I have to make arrangements with the people over here. So Sibu and Kuching you have another week to prepare and to email me your script. I am looking forward to see you people in your roles.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Blue, blue, blue - the sky is blue

Before we move on to the next novel; I would like you to look closely at Great Expectations. In your paper on relationship, you would have analyzed most of the major issues in the narrative.

Previously, in my lecture I have shared with you the descriptions of weather, season, time of day, day and how these descriptions are used as predictors of what you would come across later in the chapter.

Your task is to choose one of these (weather, season, time of day, day)and discuss further how the use of, say for example gray and stormy weather, informs you of what you read next in the chapter. Sorry people descriptions of weather in chapter 39 is mine. You have to look elsewhere.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Micro of a micro of a Micro

Hi again,

I guess I am on a roll. Since I am here I might as well pacify those hearts that are still patty-patter over the micro teaching. Micro teaching is to be done during the second face to face meeting. But if you are willing to come to campus on other dates I would welcome that as on the same weekend I have another round of evaluation. I have to evaluate students performance for EDU 3202 Theatre in TESL. Those who cannot come to Serdang for evaluation please let me know as I have to make arrangements with your tutor for the rubric of the evaluation.

I will try to post topics for micro teaching by tonight. All the best for your mid-semester examination.

Assignment 1 Relationship Paper (Great Expectations)

Hi,

When I gave this assignment I noticed that a number of you were missing. And perhaps because I gave you this assignment too early in the morning several of you were still in your own private world.

The due date for this assignment is 10 February 2011. As I had given this assignment on 27 January 2011, you are given 2 weeks to sit and simmer and produce this task. It is not a task that dark mist will loom all throughout your semester break. It is just something that I would like you to look at and analyze when you look at the characters you encountered in the novel. Choose 1 relationship or 2 relationships(if you plan to do a compare and contrast paper). Look at the chosen relationship(s) and decide the type of relationship those characters have. State your thesis statement (the focus of your paper - in this case you would label the type of relationship the characters have. Elaborate on the relationship those characters have and the impact of that on them. Providing quotations is recommended. Remember people the paper is about 3-5 pages long BUT I strongly recommend you to limit it to a 3 pages paper. Please provide a cover page that has these information: semester, course code, course name, your name, your matric number, and due date for the paper. Please email me the soft copy of this assignment to this address juridah.rashid@gmail.com

Expectations of Great Expectations

Hi,
I have received numerous emails asking me where are those entries I promised previously. Sorry people. Somehow or rather things got caught up in my way. I wasn't sure what it was but here I am. Are you ready?

I have read Great Expectations more than 10 times. Yeah..I know many of you must have thought how morbid I am. I think you must have questioned my sanity when I said I love reading the novel. But each time I read Great Expectations I find something new. I think it is because each time I read the narrative, my focus would be different.

In your readings of Great Expectations, I am sure you would have focused on the elements of LOVE (yeah..love), education, moral, economy, culture and social status. But for your first time sharing here in this space, I would like you to look at the elements of abuse.Remember, abuse can be in the form or physical, emotional, intellectual etc. What are the forms of abuse you have stumbled upon in your readings and what are the effects of those abuse on the individuals you have chosen to focus on.

p.s. the extra vitamin c from the oranges abundance during Chinese New Year would definitely help you out here...