reflections...

This week's blog assignment requires you to write a 200 word reflection on the LA lessons covered so far. In your reflection, you may include the following points:

• what you have learnt/gained in the LA programme up to this point;
• what you like about the programme;
• the change(s) that you hope to see in the programme; and
• a lesson that you particularly enjoyed and why

from the LA lessons so far, i have basically picked up the skills and the criteria to write a good short story. i have also had a better understanding on too kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. the criteria part has taught me what defines a good short story, and know an incomplete short story when i see one.

i like the LA program a lot because it condenses literature and English into one subject, thus making it very easy to study, and a lot more interesting than just plain English or plain Literature, which requires us to 'mug' more than learn.

yet i hope that the lesson can be more interesting if we get to opt for the book that we want to study on. this will give us the initiative to read the story more on our own than just reading for the sake of reading the book. thus, the book can be completed at faster pace and will be more convenient for the teacher if he/she wants to elaborate on the book.

I particularly enjoyed the lesson when we were expected to write a story. this made me think harder on how to express that particular character and i myself also have to know basically what this character is like and so on. but the bad part is i could not condense all of the characters traits in the same exert.