In Language Art class, we had short time to read our books, and the book that I chose to read was called, The Contender by Robert LIpsyte, which seemed like an action or boxing themed book. The protagonist in this book is called, ‘Alfred Brooks’ lives in a New York City and he is dreaming […]

In Language Art class, we have learned and developed our ideas about human rights. There were many controversial human rights that are not actually correct in our perspectives. So one of the ‘human right’ that I, Cleophee and Abdullah chose is called the ‘freedom of expression’. We didn’t really know what it meant by, ‘freedom […]

In language art class we have read many poems, short stories and a novel to make a point that this literature had. We had many different kinds of tasks about the unit; ‘culture’ and recently we got a one last big assessment which was to write an essay about the culture that the literature had. […]

At the beginning of this semester, we have started to learn about the ‘culture’ then we have chosen a book with several choices, then I chose the book called, ‘the serpent’s children’ by Laurence Yep who was American- Chinese writer. Then after we read this book, we put some notes on specific parts that are […]

In our school, grade 9 and 10 had been to Tibet and it took us 6 hours to get there. First thing that I have realized was the unbelievable weather. The sun was out almost every day and the air was pretty much clean. Unlike Chengdu, Hei Shui had different culture. The thing that Hei […]

What does it mean to be an independent learner? This is the question that we should solve and think about. First, what is an independent learner? I will say is a learner who refuses others help, which means they learn things by themselves. To learn things deeply and specifically, you need to be engaged to […]

In Language Art class, we had to choose a book from the list that Miss.Taynton gave to us. The book that I chose was called ‘the serpent’s children’. This book has a contextual background of 19th century in China. So far I have searched about Laurence Yep, whom wrote this book. He’s nationality is American/Chinese […]

In Language art class we had learned about the Romeo and Juliet story, which was about the romance with Romeo and Juliet. Anyways, we had watched two movies; one was the modern and one was the old version. After watching those movies, we got the assessment to make a presentation about Romeo and Juliet. There […]

Thinking of   I am on roof drinking coke, thinking of my friends and my parents I am on chair drinking water thinking of my trees and nature I am on my bed drinking hot milk thinking of dreams   I am on tree drinking orange juice thinking of TV shows that I watched yesterday […]

One day, my sister was showing her secret jar to her friends, parents and even my teacher! But not me, maybe she is starting to bully me; why? Why? Am I less important to her? Was I being tipsy to her? So one day, I just went to her room and I tried to open the […]