The story of Edna, the joy of Edna and the grief of Edna

Edna keeps pulling me back into her life every year.  Each time I want to let her go, her clutches seem stronger.
Readers, help me out here...... show me why I have made the right decision in including the awakening as  permanent menu for LHE 3251.  What are the interesting issues you have discovered in the Awakening?

The Curse, Catch Me If You Can and Step By Wicked Step

Hi,
As today is our last meeting for this semester, i would like you to look at the 3 novels prescribed for form 5 students. Please compare and contrast the values of these 3 novels.

Youth and Old Age in Dylan Thomas' Fern Hill

Dylan Thomas shared with us his childhood days in Fern Hill.
How does he describe his childhood
and why does he end the poem with the following lines?

And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Among School Children by William Butler Yeats

Among School Children by William Butler Yeats has once been prescribed
as one of the poems in Literature in English Programme.
Imagine, those 17 year old kids have to study this poem for their SPM examination.
I'm sure as you are older and more experience than those kids,
you would have better insights into this poem.
Please write here in this space your thoughts on Among School Children.

Sonnet 2, Sonnet 116 and Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare

We studied 3 sonnets by William Shakespeare this semester.
To understand Shakespeare's sonnets requires several close readings
as the imageries used are quite challenging especially for ESL learners.
I would like you to share with me your understanding of these 3 sonnets.
Which of these sonnets closely portray your idea of love?

Among School Children among us, the ESL learners

Among School Children by William Butler Yeats has once been prescribed as one of the poems in Literature in English Programme. Imagine, those 17 year old kids have to study this poem for their SPM examination. I'm sure as you are older and more experience than those kids, you would have better insights into this poem. Please write here in this space your thoughts on Among School Children.

DISAPPOINTMENT

Evaluation for the course is not 100% based on the final performance.
What did most of you do in the language lab?
Update status on your fb?
Sorry I didn't award any points for updating status in fb!
I really hope that you would focus on the learning experiences rather than banging on the quarrels.
I so wanted everyone to soar way up in the sky. But, I guess you are more interested in soaring way up elsewhere.
Apologies. You are so very much still in my B.Ed TESL world!!!!
WAKE UP!!!!!!
I think I'm just wasting my time.

I know The River by Valerie Bloom

Hi,

I'm not sure whether I would have any students for this course this semester. Since first face to face is in second week of February, i have to plan earlier for you people. Read carefully the instructions.

This semester in LHE 3211, we are going to look at all the texts prescribed for Literature Component in English Language syllabus.
Please remember in this class we are going to plan activities for secondary school students from various levels of English language proficiency.

Before you plan for classroom activities you need to understand the text from A to Z and beyond. The first text we are going to read, understand, and love is one of the poems prescribed for form 1 students - The River by Valerie Bloom.

You should have no problem in understanding this poem. I forbid you from looking at what other netizens have said about The River. If you discover the meaning of the river through your own interactions with the text, you will be able to plan for many interesting classroom activities - activities that will work in real classroom environment.

2 things I want you to do here.
i) share with us your discovery of The River.
(do you experience difficulties in understanding this poem? if you do then i fear for those
students in form 1)
ii) please commune with nature - to the rivers- and bring along your phones, digital cameras or
whatever relevant gadgets-
Take as many pictures of the rivers and post it along your analysis.

I know The River by Valerie Bloom

TESL 6, I officially announce that your vacation is over.
I am going to start semester 2 2011 very much earlier.
This semester in LHE 3211, we are going to look at all the texts prescribed for Literature Component in English Language syllabus.
Please remember in this class we are going to plan activities for secondary school students from various levels of English language proficiency.

Before you plan for classroom activities you need to understand the text from A to Z and beyond. The first text we are going to read, understand, and love is one of the poems prescribed for form 1 students - The River by Valerie Bloom.

You should have no problem in understanding this poem. I forbid you from looking at what other netizens have said about The River. If you discover the meaning of the river through your own interactions with the text, you will be able to plan for many interesting classroom activities - activities that will work in real classroom environment.

2 things I want you to do here.
i) share with us your discovery of The River.
(do you experience difficulties in understanding this poem? if you do then i fear for all those
students in form 1)
ii) please commune with nature - to the rivers- and bring along your phones, digital cameras or
whatever relevant gadgets-
Take as many pictures of the rivers and post it along your analysis.

Due date for this entry: 26 February 2012