ETERNAL VIGILANCE

These are the questions that are posted by me ( Hui Yu ) and Raihana. Answer at least 10 questions. The more the merrier. Please also comment from each others answer and disscuss on them.

Chapter 1:

1. What does Chapter 1 emphasize on?
2. Which of the characters appeared in Chapter 1?
3. What does “apothecary”(page 3, line 26) means?
4. What had happened before Jem broke his arm?
5.  What acn you say about Jem’s attitude towards football?
6. What happened before Jem’s his attutde towards football?
7. What is the Battle of Hastings?

Chapter 2

1. What does Chapter 2 emphasize on?
2. “I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting to school in a week.”What was the reason that “I” was miserable without him? (page 17 line 2)
3.  What does it mean by “I never deliberately learned to read, but some how I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily news papers.”?
4. Who are/is the new character in this chapter?
5.  Who and what is/are Cunninghams?

Chapter 3

1. He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham.”(from page 27, line 21)
    What does this tell you about Scout character?
2. Why Scout did nto want to go to school? (from page 34, line
3. What is “mutual concessions”?(from page 34, line 1)
4. “Atticus was right.”(from page 35, line 32)
   What did Atticus said that was right?

Chapter 4

1. What does Chapter 4 emphasive on?
2. How did Scout’s and Jem’s relationship changed?(from page 37, line 37)

Chapter 5

1. Why did Scout say that Boo Radley was still alive?
2. What is a Baptist?(from page 49, line 14)
3. How did Boo Radley manage to receive the note from Jem?(from page 53)

Chapter 6

1. Is Boo Radley seeking revenge on them?     yes/no
2. Explain how Atticus saved Dill from immediate dismemberment?      Explain
3. What does this chapter emphasize on most?       State the event
4. What was Jem and Scout doing at the driveway?

Chapter 7

1. What was the something that Jem is goin to tell Scout about? (page 64) Explain
2. What were the figures that scout had carved in soap?
3. Who filled their knot -hole with cement?
4.  What does this chapter emphasize on?

Chapter 8

1.  Why did Jem restrained me from further questions? Please explain. (page 71)
2. Why did “I ” nearly died of fright? (page 71)
3. Which season of the year are they in ?
4. ”Scout, he’s stuck…” breathed Jem. Who was stuck and what had happened? (page 77)

Chapter 9:

1. Despite our compromise….”What is Scout’s compromise with her father? (page 83)
2. What is the name of Uncle Jimmy’s son?
3. Who is Francis?
4. What had happen to Scout and Uncle Jack?

Chapter 10:

1. What is the age of Scout’s and Jem’s father?
2. ”Shoot all the birds bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a  mockingbird.” What does this means and what had it linked with the title of the book? (page 99)
3. Do you think this chapter has link between chapter 1? If yes, which part ?
4. ”Don’t you go near that dog, you uinderstand?” what does this mean? (page 107)

Further Questions:

 Answer at least 5 of the Further Questions

If you have any further questions from the book, you can post as well.

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Currently now we have 86 posts and 52 comments. Please posts more things and comments.Thanks!!!

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We have 82 posts and 40 comments now. We still need to post more things and edit our work regularly to improve on it. Edit and edit till it is good. Do not edit the work just once. Read your post again and again to check for spelling mistake, grammer and if what you post is relavant to the topic or not. Please comment on my post as i do not know if i have any mistake that i need to edit. I hope all can do their part in editing and commenting on other people work. Only comment things that is relavant to the topic. Thanks!!!

Min Wen(20)

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MUST-DO:

1) Reflections: Every student must post at least 3 reflections of at least 150 words ( with at least 3 paragraphs) on the following

- group work and individual contributions to project- include something on preparing for the presentations and what u learned having to teach the class
- problems encountered and attempts to solve these: what have you learned from this?
- research skills,history skills like analysing sources, inferring, mindmapping, organising, questioning sources etc, multiliteracies skills ( english) such as planning movie, shooting, scripting, storyboarding

2) Organising Research done so far in mindmaps, slideshows, toondoo etc, making sure the references for all the sources and research are included ( see example in project wiki on how this is to be written), Especially Important is UPDATED MINDMAPS based on PRESENTATION in class and the SOURCES/QUESTIONS to be posted. EVEN if you have NOT presented, the info MUST also be ON THE BLOG!

3) All drafts and final scripts and storyboards

4) Discussion on photos taken – how to use these in photo journal, words and captions to be included

5) Comments/Feedback and question/answers from members

These are just the BASIC requirement – of course if u have MORE, you will SCORE higher marks and the more CREATIVE you are, the higher the marks will be. NOTE QUALITY IS IMPORTANT, so don’t just focus on quantity

HIGHEST SCORING Group so FAR: RSulis Grp: Reasons for British Defeat and Hui Yu’s Group On propaganda

Others better do the work suggested over the weekend and USE the forms I have uploaded as examples of how to reflect ( not just one para) but must analyse reasons for problems encountered , suggest solutions and don’t just say some people were irresponsible , must explain what responsibility mean and give examples

One paragraph to focus on ONE THING !!!!!PEEL

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The assignment of my propaganda poster work is here:

This is a propaganda showing that these country can merge and defeat the Japanese. They also want the innocent people to know that they are safe with their protection.I know this because, the picture is drawn from a low angle in another hand, we see it from a low angle. The reason of taking it from a low angle can make the canon more powerful. After having a look at this picture makes me feel more protected.

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In order for me  to know if my fellow group menbers had understood the meaning of propaganda, I would like you guy to choose a propaganda poster and work on it. You can also have a look on this Propaganda film. You are also asked to work on it.

Dateline: 3/3/08 (monday)

Anyway, This film is now banned. It tooked me a hard time searching for it after some research.

The link of the film assignment is here:

Brief history:  ( copy paste from Wiki )

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips is a Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, and released to theatres on April 22, 1944 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation.

The cartoon was made during World War II, and reflects the United States‘ attitude towards one of its main enemies at the time, Japan. In the cartoon, Bugs Bunny lands on an island in the Pacific and is pitted against a group of highly stereotyped Japanese soldiers. Bugs shows no mercy against the Japanese soldiers, greeting them with several racial slurs such as “monkey face” and “slant eyes”, making short work of a large sumo wrestler, and bombing most of the Japanese army using various explosives, including grenades hidden in ice cream bars. The cartoon’s title is a play on the verb “nip” as in “bite” and “Nip”, a then-widely used slur for Japanese people.

The Film Daily called the seven minute short “good fun”, and gave the following synopsis:

“Bugs Bunny, castaway on a Pacific isle, thinks the setting is ideal until he finds his paradise infested with Jap soldiers. How he single-handedly exterminates the enemy makes for a laugh-filled few minutes of typical Bugs antics, off-screen remarks and action in this Technicolor cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger.”

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WE are going to writ a post each on the following propaganda, a film and a poster:

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Hello group members, here is a job for all of you. You will be writing a post of a source of propaganda.You are asked to eleborate it.You may use some of these following points to help you through. (Dateline : this coming sunday)

(a) how does it affets our thoughts?

(b) what do you think is the reason of having this propaganda? (why do they publish it?)

(c) What do you think they want to show us?

(d) what can you see from it?

(e) why do they do it in this way?

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The first stage of marking will be on 30 Jan for your Project Work

We will be marking you based on the following:

1) Quantity and Quality of Discussions and Blog Posts

2) Frequency of interaction/discussion at Project Blog

3) Amt of research done and the way it is presented – bonus given to use of online mindmaps /toondoo/comic life and other ONLINE MULTIMEDIA TOOLS( which are done together as a group) , use of GOOD Research questions, questions/comments by group members, editing of work done

4) Posting of work schedule , deadlines , roles of different members of group, description of task they have to complete

5) Post on research materials used – whether online  or book form – with summaries of key points relevant to project

6) Good division of work – with each member contributing actively

7) Clear writing – few grammatical errors or Singlish errors – which shows thinking and analysis of sources – questions posted to show you are trying to understand what u have read

Other resources like videos and images – especially from National Archives – with clear write up of why this evidence is relevant to project and what the image/video tells you

Remember that this is stage 1 of assessment and MARKS are counted and added to overall marks – included in CA for BOTH ENGLISH and HISTORY!

Everything MUST be posted in Project BLOG and the AUTHOR’s NAME MUst appear in the blog entry! No nicknames

You must CHECK this wiki – I have posted links that might be useful to you http://sec2ipw2008.wikispaces.com/

You also have to read up on Fort Siloso and start allocating work like planning of shoot at Fort Siloso for your field trip in March – things like storyboards, scripts, roles like cameraman, videographer, director, narrators/hosts, actors ( if any) etc

Make use of the time given during PW period wisely- Don’t waste time and remember to ASK your English. History and PW teachers if you need HELP early!!!!!

If you have NOT sent me your PROJECT BLOG website or added me as a member, ( use lcordelia@gmail.com to add me) THEN DO IT IMMEDIATELY and ADD your ENGLISH /HISTORY and PW TEACHERS as well – ask them for their email addresses!

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ALL Search for relevent information from what the researches gave us. (Information from books and related websites.) Do a summary after you has found, include main point about the info. To do a summary in the history book, borrow from Jiecheng.

Anyone in the group  Find the exact question and post on blog or reply to my comment.

Jie Cheng  Read the history book and post pages related/relevent to topic.

Eric Search for website relevent to our topic and post it on the blog.

Hui yu Check and comment on the summary the members has posted. For this week(20-25 of feb), hui yu will be the one putting all our research together.

Min Wen Check and comment on the summary the members has posted.

Joranna Check roles of member + researching.

Feng Yi Try to search for related information on topic and not copy and paste. (eg. toontoo or mindmapping form.)

Nissa Take down what MsLee said about what should we do about this project and other things related to our project work and post on blog.

For both researches, come out with 6 question for us to research on. 3 question per researcher.

 Research to be posted like what Ms Lee wanted.

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