This week, the class focused throughly on Never Let Me Go. This week, we reread Never Let Me Go, which I found pretty useful especially paired with discussion groups. I felt this was an effective learning tool to help refresh our memory on Never Let Me Go as well as gain some deeper insight upon the matter. Miss Abena was telling us that highlighting was crucial in helping us not lose track on the question, but for some reason I always forget to highlight, preferring to jot down some points and create points along the way. I'm not sure if this is very advisable in the exam. Comments on this procedure would be appreciated.
The next day, we did a practice question which after the memory refresher of reading the book, proved easier than I thought but I suppose i didn't feel the pressure of the clock enough and points were waffled on a bit too long, causing me to write my last two points overtime. Next time, analysis should be straight to the point, short and sweet without unnecessary waffle, don't want a repeat of what happened in the mocks.
During these final week before exams. I defiantly feel that the class's focus should be on Never Let Me Go. It's characters, themes, ideas and concepts should be analysed through and through. By doing 2 lit paper practices a week, I think it should suffice before exam month but i feel that careful attention needs to be paid to the comments given, as I haven't really been reflecting on these properly.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Who Am I Like?
Who Am I Like In Never Let Me Go?
Out of all the characters in Never Let Me Go, I feel a strong connection with Kathy. It is her sense of unshakable patience and the ability to keep a cool head that drives me to think that me and Kathy are not so different. Kathy and Ruth's fights throughout the story remind me of of the fights and quarrels that I have with my own friends. Ruth usually lashes out insults or puts down Kathy, like how Ruth mocked her for being so unsociable in the Cottages and dislikes that she "isn't getting played with so often." Like every fight between Kathy and Ruth, Kathy always puts asides the lashings Ruth gives her, buries it deep within her and walks away perhaps to avoid further conflict or blow off some steam. This trait of Kathy really connects with me, as I have this personality of extreme patience, trying my best to ignore or put aside harsh words and avoid conflict as soon as possible.
Another connectable trait is that although Kathy fights with Ruth all the time, Kathy still finds it within her heart to forget or forgive the spats she has with Ruth, as said, 'we were quarreling over all kinds of different things, but at the same time we were confiding in each other more than ever." Kathy's quick forgiving and forgetting nature really reaches out to me, as I share the same personality trait with her. Even though I have fights or arguments with my friends, the situation is usually at worst, patched up within a couple of hours due to my overly gentle nature. Perhaps this is why Ruth is able to take advantage of Kathy all the time, due to her gentle, patient, quick forgiving nature, allow her to walk all over her.
Out of all the characters in Never Let Me Go, I feel a strong connection with Kathy. It is her sense of unshakable patience and the ability to keep a cool head that drives me to think that me and Kathy are not so different. Kathy and Ruth's fights throughout the story remind me of of the fights and quarrels that I have with my own friends. Ruth usually lashes out insults or puts down Kathy, like how Ruth mocked her for being so unsociable in the Cottages and dislikes that she "isn't getting played with so often." Like every fight between Kathy and Ruth, Kathy always puts asides the lashings Ruth gives her, buries it deep within her and walks away perhaps to avoid further conflict or blow off some steam. This trait of Kathy really connects with me, as I have this personality of extreme patience, trying my best to ignore or put aside harsh words and avoid conflict as soon as possible.
Another connectable trait is that although Kathy fights with Ruth all the time, Kathy still finds it within her heart to forget or forgive the spats she has with Ruth, as said, 'we were quarreling over all kinds of different things, but at the same time we were confiding in each other more than ever." Kathy's quick forgiving and forgetting nature really reaches out to me, as I share the same personality trait with her. Even though I have fights or arguments with my friends, the situation is usually at worst, patched up within a couple of hours due to my overly gentle nature. Perhaps this is why Ruth is able to take advantage of Kathy all the time, due to her gentle, patient, quick forgiving nature, allow her to walk all over her.
Weekly Reflections (15/4-21/4)
Exams are quickly looming around the corner, so we are basically focusing on exam question practice in class. This week, we looked over the exam questions that we were assigned to for the easter holidays. Below are my thoughts towards them:
Language
The language paper was fairly simple. I finished the paper on time with not much difficulty for both the comprehension and creative writing sections. We did go over the paper but I would be more satisfied if we went through the paper with Miss Abena, maybe giving out several tips on how to answer questions quickly and effectively without waffle and gain top marks. Overall, no quarrel with this paper, hopefully I can replicate the results in the real exam.
Literature
This paper proved to be a problem with the challenging poem, Morning Song. Spending too much time with the poem was my downfall and I ended up in the same situation during the mocks, only have 25-30 minutes on my Never Let Me Go section. I seriously need to improve my time management skills within this section. Perhaps following Miss Abena's idea of writing 2 analysis per week would be a good starting point :P Reading over Never Let Me Go to refresh my memory on the events and reading the ZigZag study guide before the exams has proved quite useful and I'll continue doing so.
We also did more analysis, this time with the poem Refugee Mother And Child, which was much easier thankfully, but I should make a habit of giving my analysis to Miss Abena for marking to see what mistakes I've made and improve on them.
Language
The language paper was fairly simple. I finished the paper on time with not much difficulty for both the comprehension and creative writing sections. We did go over the paper but I would be more satisfied if we went through the paper with Miss Abena, maybe giving out several tips on how to answer questions quickly and effectively without waffle and gain top marks. Overall, no quarrel with this paper, hopefully I can replicate the results in the real exam.
Literature
This paper proved to be a problem with the challenging poem, Morning Song. Spending too much time with the poem was my downfall and I ended up in the same situation during the mocks, only have 25-30 minutes on my Never Let Me Go section. I seriously need to improve my time management skills within this section. Perhaps following Miss Abena's idea of writing 2 analysis per week would be a good starting point :P Reading over Never Let Me Go to refresh my memory on the events and reading the ZigZag study guide before the exams has proved quite useful and I'll continue doing so.
We also did more analysis, this time with the poem Refugee Mother And Child, which was much easier thankfully, but I should make a habit of giving my analysis to Miss Abena for marking to see what mistakes I've made and improve on them.
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