A whole new sem.....(sem5)

after a long break (about 3 months), here i am again, starting with my busy life. i thought we will be quit free during the 1st week in this sem, so i were worried if i will become homesick and moral down during the 1st week here. 'unexpectable', we got lots of things to do now. we are creating our dance for our EDU3202 assignment. i was really surprise that i can dance!!!!! not just swaying dance but some dance that is quit hard (something like break dance). suddenly felt that i am quit smart (hahahahahahahahahahaha=p) . keke, just kidding......anyway, all the best to me and my friends out there. this sem is really challenging and fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

Animal or Human?

I think "30 Days in September" is a good drama to read. (I think because it is good, that's why Dr. Edwin chose this drama as one of the dramas for us to read in the EDU3217 course.) This drama shows us one of the ugly side in this world, which is child molestation. Human now are so animalistics (I think we are animal also, as we are also one of the species in this world, which is Homosapiens.) Children are innocent and so angel like, but those "animals" still want to ruin their future by letting them having a bad memory for their whole life. Maybe I should not call them as animal, as animals are better than them too! Dogs will protect their owner if their owners are in danger. Cats will loyal to their owners no matter what happen to them. Hamsters are so cute until we will feel happy after we see them or play with them. Human now had become worser than animals. It is so sarcastic as we are calling ourselves as the special one as we got mind and we know how to think. But! Do people now think before they do anything?! If they do, there won't be Child Molestation happened in this world! There will be no raped cases, robbery, snatch thieves, you named it! As a future teacher, I think I got a big responsible in handling the unfortunate victims of all these crimes. I need to know what are the symptoms of these unfortunate victims. For instance, they will be anti-social, always put themselves in trouble etc. It is time to change our world into a better world. Do change now people, your help and love are needed in order to built a better world.

My Great Experience....

I lost the chance to watch the play entitled "Passion" at the KLPAC with my course mates yesterday. Yet, I did get some new and interesting experiences yesterday. I went to K10 auditorium to help my seniors for their theater ("Tears of Butterfly"). I helped them to set the setting and background during the change of scene. That is really exciting! We have to set all the props in 40 seconds in a very dark stage. We did it quite clumsy, as we drop some of the props on the stage. Believe me, that is quite embarrassed. We were so panic when something fall on the ground, we scare that Pn. Ju will deduct our seniors' performance marks because of this. Luckily our senior came to tell us leave it and move on with our works. I think this is a good experience for me. As I used to sit on the chair and watch a play, I never notice how much works that needed behind a good play. Now, I experienced it already and I will be more appreciate when I watch a good play.

movies!

We have seen 5 movies: Shakespeare Wallah, Macbeth, Pygmalion, Streetcar Named Desire and As You Like It. I think my favorite movie is Pygmalion; not because of the love issue in the movie, but because I could see how the lower class people wanted to learn a proper way of speaking English so that she can become a lady. I am really impress with the heroin as she can totally changed her way of speaking into a really good manner way. I do not think that I can do like her, instead I definitely can’t be like her. That is really too difficult for me.

As for Shakespeare Wallah, what I interested in this movie is plays by William Shakespeare that mentioned in the movie. At least I can know a bit about the setting stage of William Shakespeare’s plays in this movie. The setting of the stage is really a big works; many things have to be considered to do a play. For example, the custom of the actors, the background of the stage and a lot more. All these preparations make me impress!

Macbeth, a violent movie; yet I think it is suitable during that time. It is a war movie, so I think violent must be included in it. In this movie I got a message about the greed of human. The greed of power and wealth can change a person from loyal person to a betrayer. The fear of losing power will lead a person to become cruel until he will kill kids and disrespect to women. So, as a human, we should control our desire, because desire is the main reason of leading us to do improper things.

The other two movies (Streetcar Named Desire and As You Like It), are quit interesting too. If I have a chance, I would go and watch these plays in theatre. I think that will be a very interesting!

How others evaluate my teaching

How others evaluate my simulated teaching? I think they focus more on my pre-reading stage. They will check whether my extract is suitable or not with my selected topic. Some of them focus more on my set induction which is quite violence for them. Yet, for me, violence is what I wanted to convey to them as my selected topic is the characteristics of violent in Stanley. Maybe I should explain more about the set induction and relate it more to the selected topic that I have chose. As for my while-reading stage, there is no people comment about this, but after I refer back to my worksheets and activities, I found out that it is quite boring as most of the people doing the same activities. I think I should think of a better activity next time.

How I evaluate others' teaching

The first thing that I will consider when I evaluate others’ simulated teaching is the type of set induction that they used. I will see whether the set induction that they used is related to what they are going to teach or not. Besides, I am also quite care whether the set induction is interesting or not; as set induction is very important to get the students’ attention. I had an experience where the set induction is really boring as the teacher does not know what type of background knowledge that the students have. The teacher just shows a confusing picture and asked the students what the picture about. This type of set induction is really bad as it would lose the attention of the students.

Second, I will consider about the task that the teacher chose for students to attempt. In this case, I will first relate the task with the proficiency of the students, whether they are advanced, intermediate or beginner. If the target students are beginner, then the task that given to them should have guidance. Teacher also has to guide the students when they are attempting the task. If the students are advanced, the task that is given should be more difficult and more to high level of thinking skills. For example, exercise that involves analysis is suitable for them. Ask the students to analyze the use of language in the abstract is one of the suitable activities for advanced students.

Third, is the way that the teacher teaches. The voice that the teacher used should be appropriate. Be sure that students can listen what the teacher is teaching. Slow voice is definitely not suitable; as the students could not hear what the teacher is teaching and they will feel boring in the class. They will start to do other things and lose attention to what the teacher is teaching. Besides voice, the activities that the teacher used must be interesting. Make the students to move around the class by doing some role play activities. Then the students will feel excited and like to attend to the class.

Teirisias

Teirisias, the famous soothsayer of Greece, was born in Thebes and was the son of Eueres and Chariclo. There are a lot of stories that caused his blindness and his ability of telling prophecies.
The most accepted is when he was seven, God blinded him as he revealed certain things that men should not know.
Another story is he was blind as he saw Goddess Athena taking bath. His mother begged Athena to restore his eyes, but instead of restoring his eyes, Athena gave him a staff so that he can walk like having vision and gave him the knowledge of bird.
Another story is he was in a dispute between Hera and Zeus and he went against her, so Hera blinded him. Zeus gave him a longer life and the gift of Prophecy in order to compensate him.

Palm vs Fate

We did simulated teaching on our last tutorial class, just the set-induction and the pre-reading, and our teaching os focus on the theme os the drama entitled Oedipus Rex. It was really interesting, my theme selection is fate, and i used a palm picture as my set induction. And i conbined the idea of fate and fortune telling. I hope my friends like my teaching. Linda's teaching is the one that I most interested with. She used a video that a father who do not know what his baby want although the baby already hinted him what he wants. He pointed on the milk bottle, the milk powder, the cow and even his mather's bra (indicate breast milk), but his father still do not know what he wants. This shows the ignorance theme. Oedipus ignored what the people said around him. They advised him, but he did not listen for his arogance. And the result is his failure in his life. I think this way of teaching is surely useful for us in our future teaching. Set- induction can attracted our students' attention in the class. So, i think this way of teaching is really useful.

life life life....

The perception of Life, that is what the authors said in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, The Four Ages of Man by William Butler Yeats and As You Like it by William Shakespeare. In the poem (The Four Ages of Man), Yeats divided a man’s age in to 4 stages. Shakespeare divided a man’s age into seven stages in his drama. As for Oedipus Rex, the riddle that mentioned in the play divided man into 3 stages. Yet, in this play, the life of a man is some sort of a tool that God used to fill up their free times. I do not know whether is it proper for me to say that, but I do think that God is playing with Oedipus’ fate. Oedipus is wise, but he could not solve the unfortunate fate that given by the God for him. Man could not run away from their fate and death. These 3 literature works do mention about the stage of becoming old. People will suffer from sickness and one day we will be dead.

another post abut Oedipus....

I got much new information in drama today. I was talking with my friends at café and we started to talk about Oedipus Rex. There was information that is quite interesting for me. One of my friends told me that the Sphinx is actually the metaphor of Oedipus’ mother (also his wife), Iocaste. Oedipus succeeded to solve the riddle that is given by the Sphinx and the Sphinx dashed herself to death. Then, when Oedipus reveals the truth of King Laios’ murder, Iocaste summit suicide. So, you see the connection between these two events? One more information, about the life between King Laios and Iocate. Actually they had been told that they could not be married as their son will kill the father. Yet, they got married also but they do not have sex. Unfortunately, one night when King Laios was drunk, he “raped” Iocaste. (can I say it as “Rape”? They are husband and wife. Well, it is quite complicated.) So, Iocaste pregnant and gave birth to Oedipus. This information made me feel more that the antagonist, the source of conflict in Oedipus, is come from King Laios. He knew these things will happen, but he could not control his lust and all the things that happened in Oedipus’ life are the price that he had to face for the mistake that he did. King Laios is the man that started all the unfortunate things in his family. He can not blame the fate, as the fate already told him what would happen.

My short performance....

The things that I will consider for my short performance are:

1. The audience.
2. The stage for my performance.
3. Costume.
4. The actors that involve in the play.

The audience, the first and most important thing that I will consider for my short play. I will consider who my audiences are. What type of play do they like? Romantic? Comedy? Or tragic? If my audiences are children, then I will put some fairy tale element inside my play. Actually, I would like to present a play for small children long time ago. I think it would be fun and interesting.

Second, the stage. If my stage is big, then I can put more things to decorate the stage, and I got more space for my stage director to show his creative talent. If my stage is small, I will use every single space more carefully to enhance the view of the stage.

The third element is the costume. Is the costume that I needed traditional or modern? I would like to perform a Victorian area’s play. I like their costume so much. If I got a chance to wear it, it will be a great experience for me!

The last thing that I will consider is the actors of the play. Are my actors experienced or are they new actors? Actors are one of the important elements in a play as they are the tool to convey the message in a play. So I would pick some experienced actors to work together with the new actors. This is because the experienced actor can teach the new actors to perform better.

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex, my first reading in drama, it is an interesting story. Oedipus, a wise king, but is he really that wise? Thebes under his control, is having plague, a desease that given by god to make people suffer. Why is God giving this desease to Thebes? Is it because of Oedipus' act that killed his own father and be married with his own mother? Maybe. But for me, it is because of the King Laios. Why am i saying like this? If King Laios did not wanted to kill Oedipus, he would not be given to the shepherd, and passed to Polybus' hand, and Oedipus will definately not becoming a King. Fortune teller is another big reason. As people said, do not belive so much in fortune teller. ya, it might change your life, but it might ruin your life too. It is easier to live on without knowing your future. King Laios knowing that his son, Oedipus, will kill him in the future, so he decided to kill his son rather than letting his son to kill him later. So, this is the starting for Oedipus miserable life. Oedipus' life might be better if his father did not go ask the fortune teller.
Maybe, maybe this is the faith for a wise person. God is testing him for he had such a good brain. He solved the riddle of Sphinx, he gave the light to his people; this show his wiseness. But, there is no human in this world that is wiser than the God. Oedipus could not run from his faith for killing his own father and married with his mother although he tried hard to avoid it. There must be a reason for God to give a wise thinking to Oedipus; as people said, we do not know what God is thinking.

my first class in edu 3217

when i register my subject for my sem 4 classes, i was so scared when there is a subject called "Teaching the LAngauge of Drama". It's drama man! The language is oldish language, can i handle it? that is the first question that came into my mind. but, luckily, after the first class, i was quite relief. as when i study the first drama for the class (entitled "Oedipus Rex"), i found out that it is quit interesting and drama is not really that hard as i think. further more, my lecturer for this class is Dr. Edwin, so as long as im concentrate in the class, i think that is not much problem for me in this class. you knw, Dr. Edwin is really a good lecturer. hehe. anyway, this is an interesting subject and i really enjoy reading drama.