Thesis statement three

We are asked to read ‘The Zoo Story’ by Edward Albee and then try to generate the thesis statement and supporting details for the statement. We do it in groups as usual and discuss it in class for clear explanation. ‘The Zoo Story’ is a story about Jerry who is torn between his dignity and self-respect, at least that’s what I can understand from my reading and I hope it is not wrong.
Miss corrected our thesis statement and points where needed for our own good.

Thesis statement too

Today is tutorial, as in previous class, we continue our lesson in the thesis statement thingy. This time around, we were given a few good examples of thesis statements for us to identify the differences. Then, Miss Dzeelfa ordered us to form groups of 6-7 people and try to generate good thesis statement based on the text of….by doing this, only now I got the clear idea on how to do the position paper. In class I help my group members in generating the thesis statement and Miss came to all of the groups to check our thesis whether or not it is correct or relevant to the text. We also have to write down the thesis statement at the whiteboard for correction and suggestion from Miss and the whole class.

Bio& Autobiography

This time, I learned about different genre of texts brought up by Miss to class. For today’s class, Miss taught us about biography and autobiography. These are essential for us in the research paper. Biography is third person narration about someone famous or great or could be anyone special. Meanwhile, autobiography is first person narration of the person. Usually, biography and autobiography will talk about the life or hardship of a person. In class, we got a text on ‘The Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela’. It is a story about Nelson Mandela in dealing with apartheid. Now I know how great he is in fighting for his rights and his people, I admire him for his courage.

Role-play

I just know who Ovid is, this is the first time I heard the name. According to Miss, he is a poet from Rome and born on 43BC. Ovid’s works has inspired many artists from various centuries such as Shakespeare and Anne Rice. His famous work is Metamorphoses which is an epic from derived from Greek mythology. Other than that, his work taken from the epic is ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ a story about true love. After reading the extract of Pyramus and Thisbe, as usual we form into groups and need to act out the scene from the extract. For this short drama, I have to be Pyramus and Iskandar as Thisbe. We try to make it different from the original text by using male for female character. I could see that the whole class was laughing watching our acting. It was fun and good experience to me.