The movie we watched this week entitled Chalk. This is a film written and directed by teachers, from the teachers' perspective on the High School experience. As its premise it uncovers why 50% of teachers quit teaching within the first three years.
Chalk is a 2006 comedy mockumentary about teaching focusing on the lives of three teachers and one assistant principal. It stars Chris Mass as Mr. Stroope and Troy Schremmer as Mr. Lowrey. It is directed by Mike Akel. The movie is based on both Akel's and Mass' real life experiences in the teaching profession.The film takes the course of an entire school year and describes three teachers and one assistant principal. Mr. Stroope is campaigning for Teacher of the Year but many of his students are a little bit smarter than him. Mr. Lowrey is an introverted history teacher struggling to find passion for his profession. Coach Webb (played by Janelle Schremmer) is a female gym teacher who is struggling to get her students to take her class seriously, and becomes interested in Mr. Lowrey. Mrs. Reddell (Shannon Haragan) is the first year assistant principal who is regretting leaving teaching.( wikipedia).
Problems is something we cant hinder although we are involving in other profession then teaching
Although there will be various troubles that teachers have to in their teaching profession, but with the courage and determination by each teacher to face any problems will make them more than able to shape each of their student to be good individuals in the future.
Monday, September 27, 2010
First class after semester break
The first class after the raya breaks was really informative class. I was wondering that time why Mr. Vahid was there because usually Dr.Jaya will conduct Tuesday class and everything seems different that day. I just remain silent because want to know what going to happen later on. Miss. Alicia told us that Mr. Vahid going to give us speech on Effective Argumentation writing and this make everyone pay attention where we have to use this method to come out with our position paper later on. In this session Mr.Vahid gave us explanation about what is Argumentative writing and the purpose of argumentative writing in the beginning. Later he explains the elements of arguments where here he provided few details on it. In the following slide he gave example of good argument which it involve of claim, data warrant, backing, rebuttal and qualifier where most of this term are new to me . I never heard most of the term and these sessions really benefit me by knowing new terms. He also gave explanation on how to argue on the issue effectively, the aspects that needs and so on. We also did few exercises on determining the claim, data, link, backing, rebuttal and qualifier in it where I felt it’s really challenging but with the help of Mr.Vahid finally I managed to do it. We also given explanation on argumentative writing checklist where in this checklist stated clearly the points will give for argumentation, organization, language and overall effectiveness. At the end of the class, each of us gets KFC which was sponsored by Dr.Jaya as a Hari Raya treat.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Finding Forester
This is actually a nice movie where the story is really interesting but weakness of this movie is the movement of this movie is quiet slow and the language assents that used is quiet hard to understand and not able to enjoy the movie. This movie is about Jamal Wallace an inner-city kid from the Bronx who has an aptness at basketball and a genius at writing. Jamal Wallace who scored exceptionally high on a state wide standardized exam and being an exceptionally good basketball player is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan. He soon befriends the reclusive writer, William Forrester. While always a C student, Jamal comes to the attention of a prestigious New York prep school when he scores highly on his standardized tests. While Jamal is given a heavy load at his new school, both he and the school know that the real reason they took him on is for his prowess on the court. Befriended by fellow student Claire and helped along by Pulitzer-prize winning author and recluse William Forrester, Jamal pursues his dreams both on and off the court while overcoming obstacles placed by his bitter literature teacher. As Jamal is shaped by Forrester, he finds that he is changing the old writer as well, forcing him to confront his past...and his future. The friendship leads to William to overcome his reclusiveness and for Jamal to overcome the racial prejudices and pursue his true dream - writing. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/plotsummary)
This movie can be an inspiration for those who have interest in writing but afraid of the comments that other people give on their artistic work, where here their affective filter hinder them to move forward, so they way this story portrayed could change their mind and continue their writing without bothering others comments on them.
This movie can be an inspiration for those who have interest in writing but afraid of the comments that other people give on their artistic work, where here their affective filter hinder them to move forward, so they way this story portrayed could change their mind and continue their writing without bothering others comments on them.
Lean On Me
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the supervision of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. Schools surrounding should be comfort enough for the students to enable them get a proper education and successful in their life. The behavior of the students should be good enough where they should respect their teacher who provides them knowledge and teacher should guide and lead their students to good way. They also should provide adequate knowledge to students so they able to survive and successful in their later life.
Lean On Me is about a school in Paterson, New Jersey, is ridden by many problems like drugs and gang violence. The major problem, however, is the imminent threat lurking on the school, of being overtaken by the New Jersey state government, unless the students improve their score in the basic skills test conducted by the state itself. The movie begins with a sequence where the students go rough with the principal because he tries to intervene to stop a fight. The mayor asks the school superintendent for help, following the brawl. He suggests that they appoint the controversial Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) as the school principal, who had served in the capacity of a teacher at the East side High some 20 years ago.
When Clark arrives, he shakes things up by expelling scores of rogue students and calling the teachers incompetent. He also fires those teachers who disagree with him, with one of his firing orders reversed by the Superintendent himself. A lot of people despise Clark him initially. However, with time, his effective, though a bit extreme efforts of saving the schools gains the respect of some of the teachers and the students. Clark is arrested in the later part of the movie after the mayor and some of his opponents conspire against him. The entire student body, at this juncture, rallies behind him and demand his release. In the end, Clark wins, with the students passing their basic skills exam.
This is one of the best movie where its really shows that the successful of the administration and scoring of the students in exams is all depend on the way how the principal lead the school.
Lean On Me is about a school in Paterson, New Jersey, is ridden by many problems like drugs and gang violence. The major problem, however, is the imminent threat lurking on the school, of being overtaken by the New Jersey state government, unless the students improve their score in the basic skills test conducted by the state itself. The movie begins with a sequence where the students go rough with the principal because he tries to intervene to stop a fight. The mayor asks the school superintendent for help, following the brawl. He suggests that they appoint the controversial Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) as the school principal, who had served in the capacity of a teacher at the East side High some 20 years ago.
When Clark arrives, he shakes things up by expelling scores of rogue students and calling the teachers incompetent. He also fires those teachers who disagree with him, with one of his firing orders reversed by the Superintendent himself. A lot of people despise Clark him initially. However, with time, his effective, though a bit extreme efforts of saving the schools gains the respect of some of the teachers and the students. Clark is arrested in the later part of the movie after the mayor and some of his opponents conspire against him. The entire student body, at this juncture, rallies behind him and demand his release. In the end, Clark wins, with the students passing their basic skills exam.
This is one of the best movie where its really shows that the successful of the administration and scoring of the students in exams is all depend on the way how the principal lead the school.
Akeelah and the bee
Do you ever notice those small kids able to perform better than our expectation towards them? This seems that their thinking had been matured and they able to perform better as their elders and can say even much better than them. This is the thing we usually refer s as special gift that receive by selected people from god. There are also have other factors which could make a person to be intelligent, here are some of the factors where it involve determination, courage and interest also hardworking for sure could lead a person to be a great person one day.
Akeelah and the bee is about a girl who is eleven year-old named Akeelah Anderson's where her life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from an English professor named Dr. Larabee for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of -- but only if she can overcome her insecurities and her distracting home life. She also must get past Dr. Larabee's demons, and a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers. Here the situation is Akeelah, already feeling isolated from many in her school because of being perceived as a "brainiac", feels that participating in such will make her feel even more isolated. But her joy in learning new words at least gets her started in the process. After easily winning the school's spelling bee, she meets and befriends Javier Mendez, a competitor at the Los Angeles district bee where most of the competitors come from primarily white middle class to wealthy families. There, she learns about the nature of spelling bee life in all its good and bad, the latter which includes the cutthroat world of competitor parents. Akeelah learns she needs a coach, hers to be in the form of former spelling bee competitor and UCLA English Department Chair Dr. Joshua Larabee, who teaches Akeelah not only the rote memorization of typical spelling bee words, but how to use English in all its glorious facets. Akeelah progresses further and further into spelling bee life without telling her widowed mother Tanya, who sees the bees as impinging into time in her other school work. Other challenges that Akeelah faces are trying to balance working on her spelling against time with her friends, and handling the hopes and dreams of all of South Los Angeles on her shoulders (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437800/plotsummary)
This movie inspires me a lot where it tells me that every students is equipped with some special talents so it’s actually depend on the teacher how the teacher find out their talents and take the responsibility to brush up the student to be a successful person in the field they are talented in.
Akeelah and the bee is about a girl who is eleven year-old named Akeelah Anderson's where her life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from an English professor named Dr. Larabee for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of -- but only if she can overcome her insecurities and her distracting home life. She also must get past Dr. Larabee's demons, and a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers. Here the situation is Akeelah, already feeling isolated from many in her school because of being perceived as a "brainiac", feels that participating in such will make her feel even more isolated. But her joy in learning new words at least gets her started in the process. After easily winning the school's spelling bee, she meets and befriends Javier Mendez, a competitor at the Los Angeles district bee where most of the competitors come from primarily white middle class to wealthy families. There, she learns about the nature of spelling bee life in all its good and bad, the latter which includes the cutthroat world of competitor parents. Akeelah learns she needs a coach, hers to be in the form of former spelling bee competitor and UCLA English Department Chair Dr. Joshua Larabee, who teaches Akeelah not only the rote memorization of typical spelling bee words, but how to use English in all its glorious facets. Akeelah progresses further and further into spelling bee life without telling her widowed mother Tanya, who sees the bees as impinging into time in her other school work. Other challenges that Akeelah faces are trying to balance working on her spelling against time with her friends, and handling the hopes and dreams of all of South Los Angeles on her shoulders (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437800/plotsummary)
This movie inspires me a lot where it tells me that every students is equipped with some special talents so it’s actually depend on the teacher how the teacher find out their talents and take the responsibility to brush up the student to be a successful person in the field they are talented in.
The Ron Clark Story
This movie tells us the consequences that could happen in school where there are different characters of students with different behavior and how a teacher could manage this situation and educate his or her students. Here i learn something really i learned something worth full in the end of the movie where i concern patience is the main key factor for a teacher successfully handles his classroom situation. The patience that he showed really impressed me where the attitude of the students is really miserable and any other teacher for sure not able be that much patience and be nice to their students all the while
The Ron Clark Story follows the inspiring tale of an energetic, creative and idealistic young teacher who leaves his small North Carolina hometown to teach in a New York City public school. Through his passionate use of special rules for his classroom, highly innovative teaching techniques and an undying devotion to his students and helping them cope with their problems; Clark is able to make a remarkable difference in the lives of his students. For one young girl trying to attend school while helping to raise her siblings, he offers a chance for her to overcome her situation and become the top student of the class. For a young man with a penchant for graffiti, he offers an ideal outlet for artistic expression. Even when he is almost overcome by pneumonia, Clark continues to work with his students, hoping that he can raise their test scores to an acceptable level, or possibly even higher. However, when Mr Clark returns, he finds out his class did not deliver the goods but he remains optimistic about their chances. The kids sit in the state exams and a few days later, Mr Clark takes the kids to see the Phantom of Opera. In the end, Principal Turner reveals that Mr Clark's class got the highest average (they got a higher score than the honor class) in the state and Mr Clark was regarded by his students as their best teacher in the world ( Wikipedia)
This is really a good movie and i felt every teacher should watch this movie where i concern this movie taught us a lot of valuable things to be considered and applied in life. This movie teaches me that whatever kind of students we get as a teacher, the initiative that teacher put is the important factor to make the students success in their life and also in exams by scoring good result. One of the wonderful thing is although the teacher was fall in sick and he make teaching by the pre –recorded and the video able to manage the classroom where the instruction and the way the teacher handle the class were really effective example the way teacher point a students through video to pay attention that make the student sit properly and pay attention. The rapped song he create to make his able to remember all the name of the Presidents is really remarkable. To conclude this movie is a wonderful movie and everybody both teachers and students should watch this movie where its really provide valuable stuffs.
The Ron Clark Story follows the inspiring tale of an energetic, creative and idealistic young teacher who leaves his small North Carolina hometown to teach in a New York City public school. Through his passionate use of special rules for his classroom, highly innovative teaching techniques and an undying devotion to his students and helping them cope with their problems; Clark is able to make a remarkable difference in the lives of his students. For one young girl trying to attend school while helping to raise her siblings, he offers a chance for her to overcome her situation and become the top student of the class. For a young man with a penchant for graffiti, he offers an ideal outlet for artistic expression. Even when he is almost overcome by pneumonia, Clark continues to work with his students, hoping that he can raise their test scores to an acceptable level, or possibly even higher. However, when Mr Clark returns, he finds out his class did not deliver the goods but he remains optimistic about their chances. The kids sit in the state exams and a few days later, Mr Clark takes the kids to see the Phantom of Opera. In the end, Principal Turner reveals that Mr Clark's class got the highest average (they got a higher score than the honor class) in the state and Mr Clark was regarded by his students as their best teacher in the world ( Wikipedia)
This is really a good movie and i felt every teacher should watch this movie where i concern this movie taught us a lot of valuable things to be considered and applied in life. This movie teaches me that whatever kind of students we get as a teacher, the initiative that teacher put is the important factor to make the students success in their life and also in exams by scoring good result. One of the wonderful thing is although the teacher was fall in sick and he make teaching by the pre –recorded and the video able to manage the classroom where the instruction and the way the teacher handle the class were really effective example the way teacher point a students through video to pay attention that make the student sit properly and pay attention. The rapped song he create to make his able to remember all the name of the Presidents is really remarkable. To conclude this movie is a wonderful movie and everybody both teachers and students should watch this movie where its really provide valuable stuffs.
Love marriage or arranged marriage
Lets get to the point what is arranged marriage and love marriage all about. A love marriage is a union of two individuals based upon mutual love, affection, commitment and attraction. Arranged marriage (also called prearranged marriage) is a marriage arranged by someone other than the couple getting wedded, curtailing or avoiding the process of courtship (Wikipedia). Which one is better? Now lets have a look on what people say about this issue. This is the real situation of arranged marriage where usually the parents or some elderly person comes up with a proposal for marriage and then they go through the horoscopes, educational qualifications, physical, chemistry, biology, family backgrounds / history and all kinds of stuffs and then finally the acceptance from the boy and the girl. Some are really forced to get married according to the wish of their parents or elders. In fact they have to sacrifice their life for the sake of keeping their parents happy.
This is the scenario of love marriage, when a boy fall in love with a girl who matches his likes or a girl likes a boy and they becomes friend. The friendship may grow more closer and at one stage if they feel comfortable with each other, they may decide to become life partners. In most of the cases, all these happens without the knowledge of their parents. When the stage comes to get married or if a the girl or the boy is forced to get married to another person, these things come out. Some parents may take it positively and may agree to go ahead with the proposal have will end up with a ceremonial wedding. But in most of the cases, they lose the support from their parents and with the help of their friends, they are forced to go for a registered wedding and end up separating from their family.
There are advantages and disadvantages or both marriages. First we going to have a look on the advantages and disadvantages of arranged marriage. When its an arrange marriage, the parents do support the relationship and they try their best to keep the relationship live as it is their responsibility too. Arranged marriages are good, if you believe in astrology and horoscope In arranged marriage, the boy and girl will be from the same religion and caste, so they have the life style, food and culture. In arranged marriages, the girl is more protected as the parents care for a girl who married according to their wish. There are also few disadvantage that i able to find out first point is they don’t know the person or they may even not like the person if the have go married because their parents and elders decided their marriage. Most of the cases the girl is forced to sacrifice their likes and adjust to the reality. Some may just live their life it goes believing its their fate and their parents are happy, but some break up. Some start their love life after the wedding and really enjoy and are happy.
Here are the information about the advantages and disadvantages of love marriage. Love marriage is a legal right for two individuals who care and love for each other to live together and go ahead with their life. In love marriage, you know each other well, you are not going to be with any stranger or you may not have much problems if you know about the person well before you decide to spend your life together. A love marriage can become un-successful, if you had a very short time time know each other and just decided to get married. If you are knowing each other well and you are sure that you can get along with each other without any problems then you can decide to get married. In short the advantage of going for a love marriage is that you are going to live your life with a person who you know well and you are sure that you can get along well
Its not easy to go for a love marriage. You need to first fall in love with someone and that person should like you as well. It takes time to know each other and both of you should feel comfortable with each other. Decide to get married to a person who loves you more than you love that person. In many cases I have seen that one person is badly in love with the other person, but not vise versa. Never force somebody to love you and get married, you should give sufficient time to the other person whom you love to know you more and you should take sufficient time to learn your partner well before you both come to a decision to live together.( taken from Kishore’s blog)
To conclude whatever marriage it is understanding gives n take, truthful and respect to each other’s opinion is the golden keys to maintain a good relationships
This is the scenario of love marriage, when a boy fall in love with a girl who matches his likes or a girl likes a boy and they becomes friend. The friendship may grow more closer and at one stage if they feel comfortable with each other, they may decide to become life partners. In most of the cases, all these happens without the knowledge of their parents. When the stage comes to get married or if a the girl or the boy is forced to get married to another person, these things come out. Some parents may take it positively and may agree to go ahead with the proposal have will end up with a ceremonial wedding. But in most of the cases, they lose the support from their parents and with the help of their friends, they are forced to go for a registered wedding and end up separating from their family.
There are advantages and disadvantages or both marriages. First we going to have a look on the advantages and disadvantages of arranged marriage. When its an arrange marriage, the parents do support the relationship and they try their best to keep the relationship live as it is their responsibility too. Arranged marriages are good, if you believe in astrology and horoscope In arranged marriage, the boy and girl will be from the same religion and caste, so they have the life style, food and culture. In arranged marriages, the girl is more protected as the parents care for a girl who married according to their wish. There are also few disadvantage that i able to find out first point is they don’t know the person or they may even not like the person if the have go married because their parents and elders decided their marriage. Most of the cases the girl is forced to sacrifice their likes and adjust to the reality. Some may just live their life it goes believing its their fate and their parents are happy, but some break up. Some start their love life after the wedding and really enjoy and are happy.
Here are the information about the advantages and disadvantages of love marriage. Love marriage is a legal right for two individuals who care and love for each other to live together and go ahead with their life. In love marriage, you know each other well, you are not going to be with any stranger or you may not have much problems if you know about the person well before you decide to spend your life together. A love marriage can become un-successful, if you had a very short time time know each other and just decided to get married. If you are knowing each other well and you are sure that you can get along with each other without any problems then you can decide to get married. In short the advantage of going for a love marriage is that you are going to live your life with a person who you know well and you are sure that you can get along well
Its not easy to go for a love marriage. You need to first fall in love with someone and that person should like you as well. It takes time to know each other and both of you should feel comfortable with each other. Decide to get married to a person who loves you more than you love that person. In many cases I have seen that one person is badly in love with the other person, but not vise versa. Never force somebody to love you and get married, you should give sufficient time to the other person whom you love to know you more and you should take sufficient time to learn your partner well before you both come to a decision to live together.( taken from Kishore’s blog)
To conclude whatever marriage it is understanding gives n take, truthful and respect to each other’s opinion is the golden keys to maintain a good relationships
Wonderful tutorial sessions
It was really fun where we have to come out with our own fable. First time trying something new like this and this make all of us full of excitement and worried, where there is a question that running in my mind whether we able to finish the assigned task or not. For this tutorial session we have to bring two mahjong papers because there is one more task that was waiting for us after finishing the first task which is creating a fable. This is a group work so our group is consists of four people who are Tan Soo Kang, David, Jeremy and me. At the beginning there was two inspiration came out where Tan and Jeremy come out with their own thought and finally we decided to do what Soo Kang suggested because it’s quite easy to draw the scene and need write out less words for the explanation. Jeremy took the responsible of drawing the picture and David write out all the information for the picture that had been drawn and finally Soo Kang and i do the painting.
Second task is to write an essay about traditional literature in two hundred words and for our surprise David already done the essay where the essay is more than 200 words where this make all of us smile. What we did was just select the important points and write it out in the mahjong paper. Task was really great where we did something new during this tutorial and the important thing is the co-operation among us makes us succeeded in the task that was given to us.
Second task is to write an essay about traditional literature in two hundred words and for our surprise David already done the essay where the essay is more than 200 words where this make all of us smile. What we did was just select the important points and write it out in the mahjong paper. Task was really great where we did something new during this tutorial and the important thing is the co-operation among us makes us succeeded in the task that was given to us.
Interesting lesson
During this lecture hour Dr. give us all the additional information about practical where this is one of the bothering issue among us where we will be going for practicum next semester. The next issue that was told to us was about the project paper where we are assigned our own supervisor. My supervisor is Dr. Ghazali who is really familiar to me because i previously took subject with Dr. Ghazali. We was also asked to see our supervisor during week six where during this session we will be discussing the topic that we going do with our supervisor and once the propose topic is accepted then we able to do continue with our written work . Later Dr. also mention about position paper where we have to come out with power point slides and do presentation based on it.
Then Dr. taught us about fables. I find out the real defination of fable where it is succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind.Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. ( Wikipedia)
At the end of the class Dr. assign a task to us where he ask us to form a group of four and come up with our own fable during tutorial. Have to do it!
Then Dr. taught us about fables. I find out the real defination of fable where it is succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind.Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. ( Wikipedia)
At the end of the class Dr. assign a task to us where he ask us to form a group of four and come up with our own fable during tutorial. Have to do it!
Drawgames’ knockout
This competition was actually a golden opportunity that was arranged by Dr. for us to grab the prizes that were waiting for us. There are various reasons that lead to this knock out competition first we not able to get internet facilities in our collage that lead us not able to online and play the game. The other reason that leads to this competition is not all the tesalian onlining in the same time which could make them play this game. As we notice this game is only able to play if there are two people so the first condition is if i going to play this game i need a partner, so this is why Dr. arranged knockout competition so everybody will participate and there is no excuses that could be accept for not participating in this game. I played these games with few of my course mates where i really enjoyed this game where the guesses that i made really hit that make me score the game all the while and finally lost to Adnin. This is really a wonderful game and i felt every student should play this game where it teaches vocabulary and verbs to them
Practical!!!!!!!!!
Practical is something not be avoided by all the students who doing degree in education. We as final year students who doing degree in education will be going for our practical next semester where the duration will be for 12 weeks. Which school we will be send to, how the administration of the school will be, who going to be our supervisor, which form we will be appointed to teach, how many students will be in that class, how we are going to find houses to rent are most of the wondering questions that running in our mind. Dr. Jaya is in the panel who going to decide which school we going to do our practical and all the issues that regarding practical so during this class Dr. decided to provide all the necessary information regarding practical. During this briefing Dr. also mention that about few schools in Malacca and about the facilities that can be acquire nearby the schools the information that we get from dr. was really worth full for us to make decision on which district we could choose and so on. I decided to go to Malacca once i get to know which school i will be doing my practical.
Mona Lisa Smile
This was the first time we were asked to watch movie for this course and the first movie that we watched entitled Mona Lisa Smile. The duration of this movie is 1hr and 57 minutes. The movie was directed by Mike Newell and written by Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal. The movie was launched on 19 December 2003. This is the plot of the movie Mona Lisa Smile which tells the story of Katherine Ann Watson (played by Julia Roberts), a teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school who leaves her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States in 1953. Watson encourages her students to study to become career professionals. She wants her students to lead the world and not just to live as the wife of somebody. She uses modern art to suggest that they need not conform to female stereotype, even introducing the students to the work of Jackson Pollock. She feels that women can do more than solely adopt the roles of wives and mothers. Watson's work is contrary to methods deemed acceptable by the school's directors, conservative women who believe firmly that Watson should not use her class to express her points of views or befriend students, and should stick only to teaching traditional art (Picasso and other modern artists of the time are spoken of with great skepticism by the directors). Watson is warned that she could lose her job.
Undaunted, Watson becomes more forceful in her speeches about feminism. She believes she needs to instill a spirit of change among her students. Watson eventually breaks things off with her boyfriend, Paul Moore (John Slattery), after a disastrous wedding proposal. She starts a relationship with Italian teacher Bill Dunbar (Dominic West). Although the relationship is frowned upon by the faculty, the two continue seeing each other. However, Watson ends the relationship after finding out that Dunbar lied about his military service. The film also focuses on the lives of various students of Watson's, chief among them: Elizabeth "Betty" Warren (Jones) (Kirsten Dunst), a rich girl with a conservative, domineering mother (who, as head of the Alumni Association, exerts significant influence) who marries Spencer Jones, a lawyer who is unfaithful to her, and who also clashes repeatedly with Watson; Constance "Connie" Baker (Ginnifer Goodwin) who has insecurities about her body while searching for a boyfriend; Giselle Levy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), one of the few Jewish students at Wellesley at the time, who has an affair with Bill Dunbar, but who is also one of the first students to admire Watson; and Joan Brandwyn (Donegal) (Julia Stiles), who is initially conflicted about whether to pursue law school after graduation or become a housewife to Spencer's best friend, sweet-natured Tommy Donegal (Topher Grace).
Although many are initially put off by Watson's style, as the film progresses, more students begin to admire her, including Betty, despite being her most vehement critic.Watson chooses to leave after one year, but as she is leaving the campus for the last time, her students follow her car, to show their affection. The scene is narrated by Betty who dedicates her last editorial to Watson, explicitly stating that Watson is "an extraordinary woman" and an individual who "seeks truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image. (Source: Wikipedia)
I myself felt this in a wonderfull movie where it really give a wonderful message to womens about marriage. There is a good message where marriage shouldn’t be a boundary for women to futher their education to be a professional and they should give priority to education where this in the only thing that could survive them in whatever situation and wherever they are. To conclude i personally felt this movie is a good start to change the mentality of conservative people who still stand on the traditional belief emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were.
Undaunted, Watson becomes more forceful in her speeches about feminism. She believes she needs to instill a spirit of change among her students. Watson eventually breaks things off with her boyfriend, Paul Moore (John Slattery), after a disastrous wedding proposal. She starts a relationship with Italian teacher Bill Dunbar (Dominic West). Although the relationship is frowned upon by the faculty, the two continue seeing each other. However, Watson ends the relationship after finding out that Dunbar lied about his military service. The film also focuses on the lives of various students of Watson's, chief among them: Elizabeth "Betty" Warren (Jones) (Kirsten Dunst), a rich girl with a conservative, domineering mother (who, as head of the Alumni Association, exerts significant influence) who marries Spencer Jones, a lawyer who is unfaithful to her, and who also clashes repeatedly with Watson; Constance "Connie" Baker (Ginnifer Goodwin) who has insecurities about her body while searching for a boyfriend; Giselle Levy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), one of the few Jewish students at Wellesley at the time, who has an affair with Bill Dunbar, but who is also one of the first students to admire Watson; and Joan Brandwyn (Donegal) (Julia Stiles), who is initially conflicted about whether to pursue law school after graduation or become a housewife to Spencer's best friend, sweet-natured Tommy Donegal (Topher Grace).
Although many are initially put off by Watson's style, as the film progresses, more students begin to admire her, including Betty, despite being her most vehement critic.Watson chooses to leave after one year, but as she is leaving the campus for the last time, her students follow her car, to show their affection. The scene is narrated by Betty who dedicates her last editorial to Watson, explicitly stating that Watson is "an extraordinary woman" and an individual who "seeks truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image. (Source: Wikipedia)
I myself felt this in a wonderfull movie where it really give a wonderful message to womens about marriage. There is a good message where marriage shouldn’t be a boundary for women to futher their education to be a professional and they should give priority to education where this in the only thing that could survive them in whatever situation and wherever they are. To conclude i personally felt this movie is a good start to change the mentality of conservative people who still stand on the traditional belief emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were.
Exhibition day
Once get into class, our instructors told us that today we are going to Dewan Besar to see the “ Pameran Reka Cipta dan Inovasi” which was for three day (20th to 22 July). Even i pass through the Dewan Besar few times but i felt lazy to go to the exhibition and when Dr. Jaya make all of us attend to the exhibition i myself able to felt the pleasure of the information that i gathered from the exhibition itself. Here i able to see various researches that had been carried out by the Professors and graduate students who are doing Masters and PhD. I wonder how they come out with different idea and start to create things which are really useful in our real life and make our life much easier and comfortable. I visited the booths where Dr. Jaya exhibits his innovation where it is about creating questions for students using particular software and i impressed with the creation. I felt it’s really nice to go exhibition like this where we able to get lot of information which is really worth full and this in other hand can boost our interest towards creating or inventing something which is really useful to human beings in the future.
Draw games
For the first tutorial we were asked to go to educational faculty’s library where we were divided into two groups because the amount of tesalian were quite a lot. Therefore, each group had around 21 students. My name was in first session, so, i supposed to attend the session at about 3pm. Due to several inevitable reasons I had to attend the second session. In this exciting session we were instructed to browse the website called http://drowgames.com/ to play an online game. The most interesting part was the announcement that was made by our Prof which sounded nice where he asked us to play the game as much as we can. The announcement seemed great to us because while we were learning we were also motivated by the prizes that were waiting for us depending on how much we play the game and score highest points. At first we had to register in order to play the game and once registered we were able to play the game. The game required a partner. Here our instructors took the responsibility of facilitating us where they appointed one of our partners to start the game and the game began.
There was information that I managed to find out about the game from the home page where drow is word in reverse, and DrowGames is a word games generator with tools (RestfulAPI) which enables game developers to extract words (and their selected elements) from the DROW database and then link them to their games. As a word game developer you don’t need to be a linguistic expert to create great games. You just need to be what you are good at – a creator of great games! With DrowGames, game developers can select or create word lists of their choice based on the DrowGames corpus and generate their very own XML files to incorporate these word lists into their flash games. It’s as easy as that! So please feel free to explore DrowGames and use its facilities to generate the games that only you can dream of. This are the information that i able to find out about this game on the website.This game really suits for lower secondary school students who easily frustrated with the normal classroom activities. The questions which was developed from easy to difficult enable students to determine in which level they are now and this questions enable them widen up their knowledge in language. Last but not least this game really a wonderful game and students for sure will get benefit from playing this game.
First class of the semester
The course which is entitled Reading and project work for teaching literature for ESL students allows all the students to have experience in doing their project paper where all the students will do research on the topic they planned to do with. I feel this is a kind of practice or introduction for us where it would give us a picture how we have to come out with thesis paper when we do our masters later on. First class made me full of excitement and worried where I start to think about how difficult this course would be. As far as i heard about this course from my seniors they said we have to come out with written work then have to went through a lot of editing until finally accepted by supervisor. During the first class we was introduced to two songs where one of the song that was introduced to us as first song was sung by Sain Zahoor Ahmed was really mesmerized me. Although the wording not able to understand by us but the way the artist formed the song make us really enthusiastic towards listen and enjoy the song. The equipment that was used to produce music make me enthralled through the song. Although the song was played around eight minutes but it was really wonderful. When I take incentive to figure out Sain Zahoor Ahmed I able to find out that Saieen Zahoor or Saeen Zahur Ahmad (b. around 1940) is a leading Sufi musician from Pakistan. He spent his life singing in the Sufi shrines, and had not cut a record until 2006, when he was nominated for the BBC World Music awards based on word of mouth. He emerged as the "best BBC voice of the year 2006"[, an award that had earlier recognized other prominent Sufi singers such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Abida Parveen. Sain is not his first name but a Sindhi honorific title and is also spelt Saeen or Saiyan, and Zahoor may be spelt Zahur. Sain Zahoor known for his "Magical" Voice which is known to put his listeners to trance. (Wikipedia)
The second song that was played to us during our class was entitle Alejandro by Lady Gaga. We was asked to listen the song where we was not allowed to watched the video because of the uncensored scenes. The thing that I able to recalled from the song Alejandro is the word Alejandro it self where as far as I concern the music was really nice but I not able to get the meaning of the song and when I browse through internet to find out the meaning of the song there where no specific meaning was given. This are the few issues that make me not able to come out with a conclusion what the intended meaning of the song. I manage to find out some general information about the song. It is the third single from her second studio album, The Fame Monster (2009). Co-written and produced by RedOne, it is composed as a mid-tempo Europop song with an uplifting melody, where Gaga sings about bidding farewell to her lovers. It was inspired by Gaga's "Fear of Sex Monster". Critics noted it to be heavily influenced by ABBA and Ace of Base, and predominantly gave positive reviews for it. A music video for the single, which was directed by photographer Steven Klein, was released on June 8, 2010. It was inspired by Gaga's love for her gay friends and admiration of gay love—"her envy of the courage and bravery they require to be together". The music video portrays Gaga with a group of soldiers in a cabaret, dancing to the song. It is interspersed with scenes of Gaga as a nun swallowing a rosary and near-naked men, holding machine guns. The music video received from mixed to positive reviews, with critics complimenting its idea and dark nature, while the Catholic League attacked Gaga for her use of blasphemy, despite Klein dismissing the idea and claiming the scene in question (the swallowing of the Rosary beads) was Gaga's "desire to take in the Holy". ( Wikipedia).
Both two song come out with some kind of message to us its depend on our understanding and how rational thinkers we are so better appreciate artistic work rather than criticizing it.
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