26 January 2016
NARRATIVE CONTINUED . . .
Hello, guys? How have you been today? For me, It seems I have cold because the weather has changed suddenly about 15 degree Celsius so I and my friends put on warm clothes to study in the class.
OK, go back to the lesson, we studied about "NARRATIVE" we read the story which is "SECRET" in part two and did lots of activities in the class together.
Before I tell you about studying in the class of today, I will show you about the purpose of NARRATIVE and let you know about its meaning again,
Well, it means like a story or recount of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious such as a book, literary work etc., contain such a story. The basic purpose of Narrative is to entertain the reader's interest in a story. The author spoke or wrote account of connected events for the reader to understand the emotions and images of the story which the author wants to convey.
First of all, our teacher gave us to do the exercise with completing the summary of the first part of the story by adding three fairly short sentences and discussed our ideas first with the partner or another student.
Here is the summary of the first part of the story "SECRET"
Kylie feels left out from her mother and Philip's activities. She becomes interested in the chickens in the yard. Somehow her secret helps her to feel less lonely. She finds a second egg and then finds out where others are being laid by an unhealthy-looking hen. Later, she finds raggedy hen, another egg and shares her secret with hen. Her step-father tells her that not to open the lid of the bore well but she does. She looks on her photo album, misses her father and wants to live with him.
The sentences that are underlined are the summary which the instruction gives us to identify three sentences according to be previous sentences.
Then, she gave us to read the story in second part. When we finished reading, put these sentences in the right order to produce a summary of the second part of the story.
Here is the summary of the second part
Firstly, Kylie watches the hen sitting on the eggs. Second, she takes the lid of the well. Afterwards, she starts to go down the well with her photo album every day. Later, she watches Philip and her mother and wonders why her father is not with them. Next, Philip discovers her in the well and hits her. After that, she throws the chicks down the well. Furthermore, she hits the hen and throws it down the well. Then, she throws the chicks down the well. Eventually, she cuts off her head from the special photo and throws it away.
When we finished reading, we did the exercise in part D. We needed to choose one of the verbs in order to identify how we feel about each of character of this story.
Here is my feeling of character of this story 
I feel sorry for Kylie because she doesn't live with her father. She's lonely.
I dislike for Kylie's mother because she's only interested with Philip. Moreover, she always leaves Kylie out from their activities.
I disapprove of Philip because He hits and abuses Kylie.
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After that, our teacher read the story again and translated a little bit so I could understand what she said. My friends told me about her thinking that toward to this story to me. It made me more understanding about this story.
Next, we continued to do next exercise in Part E by choosing three themes which we think it is mainstream in this short story. Then, find out which three are chosen most often by the class and talk about the reasons for your choices.
Here are three themes that I had chosen in the class
children's right Conflict between different generations loneliness
The reason that I had chosen there mainstream because the children should have right to do what they want and they should be interested from their parents in order to make them feel better. In case of Kylie, her mother and step-father left her out from their activities. It made her feel lonely and repressed so we shouldn't do like her mother and step father, we should encourage the children, pay more attention to them and love them as they are.
After that, we voted the there themes that were important of this short story. They are as follow:
1. Neglect
2. Loneliness
3. Conflict between different generations
After that, we voted the there themes that were important of this short story. They are as follow:
Here are our there themes that voted by us
1. Neglect 2. Loneliness 3. Conflict between different generations 
After that, we discussed about the story's symbols which are as follow:
The eggs : they liked Kylie's secret when she felt lonely
The well : it liked the special place of Kylie
The photos : they liked Kylie's memories in the past
Kylie's cutting of the photo : It liked a part of her secret that made her offended in her life
Later, I did the Changing Kylie's life part by imaging that I have a magic wand. I can alter one feature of Kylie's life. What would I choose to do? I will show you.
I would change her to be stronger girl. No matter what happens, I want her to look at the bright side and do her duty best.
How do you feel about my idea? you can add your comment on my weblog ^__^
Next, our teacher taught us about language feathers of narrative in text organization which are as follow:
Orientation consists of Who, Where, Variety of verbs/processes 
Variety of verbs 
Linking = v. to be Mental processes are mental, covert kinds of going-on
- Thinking verbs: think, understand, assume, conclude, discover, consider, doubt, believe.
- Feeling verbs: love, enjoy, hate, dislike, regret, fear, like, prefer
- Verbs of sense: see, notice, observe, feel, smell, taste, watch, hear, listen
Action-material Complication consists of linking words to do with time and specific participants Resolution is to result in events
Finally, the teacher told us that next Tuesday we are going to test about Recount and Narrative, so I need to prepare myself best in order to get the better scores in this test.
News of this week
It's not just HK: parts of Thailand, Vietnam & Taiwan are also experiencing unusually cold weather
What did you get from this news? I also knew that the weather in central of Thailand is
16oC to 18oC so we should put on warm clothes and avoid extended exposure to the elements. Also, Taiwanese people have died more than 50 people owing to rapidly falling temperatures.
click here to read more
http://mothership.sg/2016/01/its-not-just-hk-parts-of-thailand-vietnam-taiwan-are-also-experiencing-unusually-cold-weather/
It's time to ask question 
What did you learn today?I read the story which is "SECRET" and did activities in the classroom
What did you find easy?In my opinion, giving some reason or thinking about this story is easy for me.
What did you find difficult?In my opinion, this story is difficult as a result of its vocabularies. Some sentences, I can't understand what they exactly imply.
What did you solve the problem?I tried to pay attention in the classroom, imagine the image of this story that the author wants to let the reader know and share the details of this story with my partner.
What are your attitudes towards the lesson?I think that this story is exciting for me because I feel excited what will happen next. The teacher gave us to do many activities that make me happy to study and understand whole of this matter.
TRY MY BEST FOR NEXT TUESDAY TEST 
