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.

Wordle on Pandora

This story is about Pandora who was made by Hephaestus. I chose the word 'Pandora' is the biggest word because Pandora is the main character of this story. Next, there are Hephaestus and Zeus. He created the Pandora after receiving Zeus' order. Zeus had the punishment to the human, because human used the fire without his permission. He was very upset. Also, 'curiosity' is big, because from Pandora's curiosity, every evils were come out. And I chose 'disaster' and 'beautiful' into small word because they are not very important. I choose the 'hopeless, hope and despair' are big size words because the end of the story, Pandora opened the box and every evils were come out: despair. Then she shut the cover of the box. Therefore, the evil which symbol is 'Hopeless', was arrested by Pandora. That's why although the person failed something, still we have hope so we can do again.

Book Report Reflection

In 1st trimester, I read a book called 'The Witches' which was written by Roald Dahl. This book was the funniest book that I have read before. Also I prefer fantasy book rather than the other genre book. I thought this book was very difficult and unmatchable to me at first. I was nervous with it. However, I realized that it had a lot of fantastic vocabulary and the story was extremely fun. Of course, it was easy for me!! I could know a lot of information about witches (I am not sure it was true) and also, I learned useful words from this book.

After read 'The Witches', I did 'Book Jacket' project. This activity was about making the cover of my book. Because the real cover of the book was quite boring. I wanted to create new book jacket. Back of the book, I wrote interesting summery. I drew a mouse which is very essential character in book and I drew the witch which is frustrated by the mouse. I wanted to show the mouse that is the main character in the story and the witches. They have their own interesting position. I think it is very creative.

I think I did well on presenting. I tried to demonstrate my project in front of my classmates confidently. I always practiced in front of my parents and I was advised by my parents and sister. For example, eye contact, clear and loud voice and etc. While presenting my project, I was nervous but I tried my best. However, I want to improve on speaking. We have to say the sentence smoothly, but I was not really. Sometimes, my sentences were mistaken. Next time, I will practice harder and I will show my work perfectly.

For SLR, I did well on learning enthusiastically. For my presentation, I was really enthusiasm. I was really working hard and wanted to show useful presentation to my friends and teacher. I am pretty sure I was enthusiasm. Also I learned other thing to do presentation. For my next book report, I will do more creatively and enthusiastically.

If I choose next book for the presentation, I will choose either mystery or fantasy book. I have a lot of curiosity so I want to read the mystery or fantasy book. It will be very interesting and unforgettable to me. I can't wait next book report project!!!

My memories

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

Can you memorize any information easily? Do you have any important memories? May be, everyone has their essential memories in their brains. Something sad or happy, something good or bad. I have a lot of memories in my brain. Those are very important so I cannot forget them.

I would like to talk about my important memory which makes me cry. The sad novel makes me cry. Those are korean books. Especially, the book 'On se mi ro' is the saddest book to me. I have a funny story about that book. When I was living in Korea, I used to go to school too. I was reading 'On se mi ro'. At first, I didn't know how much sad was that. I read the book during the class. It was extremely sad. During the class, I cried about 10 minutes. My friends and teacher asked that what had happened to me. I was embarrassed. But my tear was still falling down on my cheek. There was the another novel which makes me sad also. Whenever I read those books, I cry during the reading time. One day, I read the book with my friend in the bus. Foolishly, my friend and I cried together. At that moment we were just crying even everyone was staring us. Now, my mother scolds me not to read thoes sad novels, because I waste a lot of time to read those books. Also, I knew those books are neither useful nor knowledgeable. Still, I cannot forget that ridiculous happening.

My second memory is something long time ago. Since I was five years old, I used to go to Jeju Island every year. Jeju is very beautiful Island which is situated south of Korea. My family liked to go to Jeju Island with other family because there were a lot of good activities that I could do. We could feel smell of natural and there were a lot of museums which were very valuable. I learned many speices of marine lives. My trip that I had gone to Jeju Island was very eligible to me.

Owning our memories are good for us. We can remain the funny or scary incident and they will make me happy. They are all valuable. Everyone, 'Keep your ESSENTIAL memory in your brain!!!'