Looking back, the past one year in secondary one life happened in all a blur. In a blink of an eye, the fruitful year is already coming to a close. During the course of taking the language arts and blogging, I have improved my writing skills.
When we first came into school, we were all strangers to one another, as well as the new subjects taught. Gradually, we got to know each other and adapted to the new teaching methods of secondary school.
The first term was the introduction to language arts, whereby we learnt how to write formal letters. The format of how a letter should be written was taught and we learnt how to write letters of complaint. This was different from the type of situational writing we were taught in primary school, whereby we had to write letters to friends.
In the second term, we were introduced to narrative writing and some short stories, for example: Village by the Sea, Zebra, Nothing but the Truth. Practices were given to improve our narrative writing skills and detailed analyses on the short stories were provided. This was a relatively new thing to me as it was a little more complicated than the compositions we were taught during primary school. In narrative writing, we had to write essays with tighter plots and they had to be more realistic.
Then came the third term. Poetry was taught. It was a little difficult at first but we eventually got the hang of it. Poetry could be complicated, but it enhanced our critical and analytical skills. Some poems taught were: Last lesson of the Afternoon by D.H. Lawrence, The Lesson by Roger McGough.
The last term was a hectic one. We were given revision exercises and notes to revise for the End-of-Year examinations. After the examinations, I was relieved that I had studied hard for it and thus received grades that were not bad.
Thus, it concludes my secondary one Language Arts life. It sure was a colourful and fruitful year.
Friday, October 23, 2009
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