Final Entry

This is my final entry for this course of EDU3234. I am really grateful to have a lecturer like Miss Dzeelfa because throughout this semester under her teaching, I have learned so many things about literature and techniques that can be used for my teaching practice next year. Therefore, I would like to take the chance to thank Miss and all of my group members for all of the lessons and supports. THANK YOU ALL…

Final Entry

This is my final entry for this course of EDU3234. I am really grateful to have a lecturer like Miss Dzeelfa because throughout this semester under her teaching, I have learned so many things about literature and techniques that can be used for my teaching practice next year. Therefore, I would like to take the chance to thank Miss and all of my group members for all of the lessons and supports. THANK YOU ALL…

Song

This time, we are exposed to an activity that we are familiar with. We are required to find a suitable song that related to any literary text that we want to teach in class. We have to give information about the song such as the author of the song, the background of the song and theme of the song. Then, we need to present it to the class and sing it as a whole with the class. We also need to generate activities based on the song chosen.
My group decided to use ‘You Belong with Me’ by Taylor Swift and relate it with the text of “Cinderella Girl’. For the activities, we generate three activities for while reading and post reading stages. In the while reading activity, students are required to underline differences of the persona in the song. In the post reading, students are asked to create their own ending for the story and make poem based on the text.

Jigsaw Reading

We are introduced to a new activity in class which is jigsaw reading. First of all, Miss exposed to us the benefits of jigsaw reading and then she asked us to it. Some of the benefits are to encourage active learning among students because students have to give ideas among them about texts they discuss, it also combines several important aspects of learning such as comprehension, oral presentation, small project work; and can be used any size of class. For our in class activity, we are divide in groups and were given different sets of text. After that, we are needed to get in a new group of people with the same text. Here, we need to discuss what the text is about as a group and give ideas. Later, we are needed to get in our original groups and combine all of the information with the group members. The text was actually, Malcolm X’s speech about white people treatment to black people. From here on, we need to tell our group members what we have from the discussion before and then we can make sense on what the speech was all about as a whole based on the guided questions from Miss.
In Jigsaw reading, personally I feel really grateful to learn it because in school, my English teachers have never done it and I think that it is really beneficial to students. They will have the whole idea of the text without reading the whole text alone and save time by doing so.

Famous speeches too

We present everything that we have discussed to the class. Mainly, the speech Is about the declaration of war made by US president that time, Roosevelt as a result after an attack to their military base in Pearl Harbor. Other than that, in the speech it shows hoe egoistic and powerful USA can be if they are threatened. For the second part of our task, we have generated two activities of set induction and post reading. In the set induction activity, students are asked to listen to a song of ‘What I’ve Done’ by Linkin Park; and then students need to underline all the destructions made by mankind from the lyric given. In the post reading activity, students have to do some reflection by making a poem or poster about anti-war.
This activity is really beneficial for me and my friends because we can use it in school when we want to do something creative from speeches.

Famous speeches

We were exposed to speeches by many famous politicians all over the world such as J.F Kennedy, Tun Dr Mahathir, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, and many more. Miss explained that these can be used as teaching aids by asking students to find key messages, speaker’s point of view, listen to the original speech if available and compare it with the text. These are some activities that can be generated from the speeches. Then, we were asked to do and focus on one speech per group and my group will focus on Franklin Delano Roosevelt speech in Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation. From the speech we have to find the purpose, key message, POV, the tone of speech, and then present them in class. After that, we also have to generate 2 activities based on the speech. We have to present both in the tutorial class.

Parody too

The day has come for all of us to perform our parody. After 2 days of discussion with my group members, we have decided to perform the parody of ‘Hunchback of the Notre dame’. At first, we would like to do on ‘Three Musketeers’ but we changed it because many of us are not familiar with the text. In this parody, the setting still the same, but we change the gender of the characters to make it funny. As usual, Is and I will be leading actors. In this parody, the hunchback is the girl and the guy is the handsome one. I played as the hunchback girl and Is become the handsome man. Once again, I have to act as a woman because it will be funny to watch. However, it is good for all of us because it was like a practice in building our confidence.