Band Blog Posting VOID

PART 1.

ISKL's mission statement:
The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides (silence) an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I think adding the 'silence' after provides, will make the best tension. When I added the 'silence' I thought after 'provide' will give more curious and questions to the listener. The listener might be curious what will be provided for school and what is going to be said. This is because they don't know any information about this statement and they also don't know what will be provided. If the speaker add a void before 'an exceptional education', the audience will wait for the speaker nervously because they want the speaker to complete the sentence.

PART 2.
The composer can create the tension by suddenly adding ritardando in music. If the composer add that, the audience will have questions because they want to know what will be happened. And, if the composer changes the music in normal rhythm, the audience will find the answer for their questions.

PART 3.
Answers of the Story
1) I would call this story 'The Black Box' because it was the most important thing in this story. I'm not so sure but the black box was the void of this story because it attracts the reader's attention and it makes us curious.
2) I thought lottery was always good thing. I thought they would have a really big celebration for the person who won the lottery. but i was wrong, the lottery wasn't a good thing at all. They stoned Tessie(who won the lottery) It was really surprising.
3) I really wanted to open it, I was curious about the ending of the story. Then I started to wonder why teachers are doing this to us. This whole thing was about the void. Not letting us open this paper until 5 pm didn't made any changes, nothing would have gone wrong if somebody opened it earlier, but I knew that teachers wanted to make us question and wonder. I think this part was another void in this assignment.
4) I felt really nervous, and wanted to get a paper with a black dot, because way back then, I thought a paper with a black dot was a good thing. Unfortunately I got a paper without a dot. To be honest, I opened it on bus, since nobody was looking.(sorry) because I was full of curiosity and couldn't handle it anymore.
5) It was interesting, how the author keep saying black, black and black. Cause usually black represents bad things. I think they're voids, really make me curious. like for black paper, I get curious who's going to get it.
6) The end of story was really shocking, gave me all the answers. I was really confused why Mrs.Hutchinson keep saying 'this isn't fair'. but then I realized why.
7) No, my prediction wasn't correct at all. But I think the author wants my prediction to be wrong, because that's how he created this so interesting, by building all the elements and then at the end he had changed it upside down.
8) If there were titles, and less of void it would have been easy for me to predict the ending. but if it was easy to predict the ending, I wouldn't have died to read the story.
9) Because voids always make people question. If people start to question they will think more deeply, maybe the story might get popular then.
10) a) No titles makes me wonder what this story is basically about.
b) No ending makes me wonder what the ending is, even make me guess the ending.
c)Mystery paper makes me wonder what is the lottery, who's going to get it
They all made me question and wonder

Reflection of Mc Curry Photography

Last week, all 7th graders went Islamic Art Museum to see the history of Islam and photoes of Mc Curry. It was really impressive for me. Therefore, I chose one picture which impressed me the most.

The name of this photo is 'Burning Oil Field, Al-Ahmadi Oil Field. It was taken from Kuwait in 1991 during the war. The soldier made this oil field become a barren land. I chose this photo because it really gave me an impression. The thing that we could see from the foreground of this photo were three camels and empty ground. The ground seem to be barren because of fire and three camels are escaping away from scary fire. The color of this photo is black and dark red. I think the focal point is middle. There is red, orange, and yellow fire. It attracts people strongly. The part that I like that most was burning fire. It really attacked my mind.

After looking these photoes, I felt very sad. It was because the valuable oil field was burning. It's because of war. The camels were seemed to run away from scary huge fire. The point was the smokes. It was going up to the sky furiously. It was so dark that it made me very sad.

Reflection of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I have read about the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in ESL class. It was really interesting and impressive. I would like to recommend this book to the readers who enjoy to read the fantasy story.

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Charlie was the only one child who left in the factory until every children had gone. There was a child whose name is Charlie. He is living with poor family. They didn't have enough food to eat so they were always struggling. Near his house, there was a huge chocolate factory. One day, the owner of chocolate factory invited five children to look around his giant chocolate factory. Charlie was the last child who found the golden ticket inside the chocolate. However, every child except Charlie was really repulsive and disgusting. They never listened Mr Wonka’s announcement. Unfortunately, four children had disappeared. Charlie, who left the end of the journey of the chocolate factory, finally was willed the Chocolate Factory by Mr Wonka.

There are a few characters that I would like to explain about. Mr Wonka is the owner of the chocolate factory. He is really odd and extraordinary. He can invent any kind of chocolate that he wants to make. Augustus is a boy who is very obese. He loves to eat chocolate bars so he eats about 20 chocolate bars a day. Veruca is a girl who is spoiled by her parents. Her parents get something to her whatever she wants. She always misunderstands that she can get everything from her parents that she needs. Violet is a great gum chewer. She always chews a gum while she is sleeping. She is very stubborn so she doesn’t obey someone’s rule. Mike is extremely crazy at TV and games. He is very violent. Last character is Charlie. Charlie is very kind and honest. He respects elders and he is very patient.

From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, willing Mr Wonka’s factory to Charlie was my favorite part. This is because while other children got punished, Charlie was obedient and patient. At first, I was concerned if Charlie wouldn’t get any prize from Mr Wonka. When Charlie was awarded and got chocolate factory, I was thankful for Mr Wonka even I was not Charlie.

However, I don’t like ending part. All children except Charlie were punished but they couldn’t become normal children. I hoped that all the children can be normal even they have done something wrong.

I am so glade to read this interesting book. I hope I can read another fantasy book which is written by Roald Dahl.

Five questions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

1.What will happen when five children, eight adults and Willy Wonka enter the Chocolate Room?

2.What is inside the Chocolate Room?

3.Who are the workers of the Chocolate Factory?

4.How is the chocolate made?

5.Why did Willy Wonka invite the five children to his Chocolate Factory? What is his purpose?

Reflection of retelling myth

In ESL class, I have to retell my myth story through the point of view of the character. I am going to retell 'Eros and Psyche' story and my point of view of the character is Eros. The SLR that my project best reflects is Thinking Creatively. When I write this piece of writing, I had to think creatively because I changed my point of view into Eros so I should create some stories. If the point of view of the character is changed, the story is totally different. I added new story creatively. I also searched on the internet so I got information from there. I wanted the story would be creative.

When I wrote this piece of writing, I was proud of it, because I was so enthusiastic when I created this piece of writing. I was trying my best to write this piece. I think I have done well. I think my point of view of character is supported well throughout the text.

However, I have to focus on my grammar such as verbs and word choice. Especially my word choice is little bit weak, so I have to memorize more high level vocabularies. I also should organize some paragraphs because sometimes the sentences are flowing and don’t be connected smoothly. Those are my weakness part of my writing skill.

The most challenging aspect of this assignment was grammar and word choice. It was difficult to choose the correct word. So I kept searching on dictionary and thesaurus. Those dictionaries were very informative and useful. I could know many words from there.

From this assignment, I have learned how to organize each paragraph. If I write next assignment, I can make the writing more clearly and informatively.

Why do we write??

Writing is very important to our lives. Because it remains for us forever unless it isn't burnt or ripped. Diary is very good example. I have been recording about my life on diary since I was six years old. I drew the picture also. It is still remaining in my mind. Sometimes, I read those diaries. Those are quite simple but very funny. I can memorize my childhood. When I was young, I used to live with my grandparent because my parent were going to work. My grandparent were very polite and kind to me. Even though, the year had passed, I can be memorized by reading diary. It was very beautiful. Otherwise, writing is important when I am hard to talk over the phone or conversation. If I want to complain or pleasure to whom, I always write letter to them. It is easy to communicate. Also, we can improve English skill from writing especially me. From now on, I will try to write with different topics and improve my writing skill.

My SLR Progress Today

1. SLR doing well in ESL
I would like to tell something that I am doing very well in ESL. That is Think Creatively, because whenever I was doing project, I tried to make it creatively. Especially, we had to include a lot of images on blog which were matching with the writing piece. I tried to upload creative images when I searched the pictures on the internet. Also, I am interested in drawing so when we were doing drawing activity, I thought about how I could make this drawing very creatively or what stuff that I could use to make this project creatively. I have improved my thinking skill from those activities.

2. SLR need to improve
Yet, I have much that I need to improve on. One of them is Collaborate Constructively. Recently, we had a lot of group activities in ESL. However, I wanted to make the group that the members were friendly with me. I avoided making the group with boys. Sometimes, I thought the boys make me annoying but that was my prejudice. They were helpful and useful to me. They gave creative ideas while we were doing activity. Therefore, I will collaborate constructively with all classmates.