Saturday 3 October 2015
Preparation for Term 4 Week 4
Friday 18 September 2015
Preparation for Term 4 Week 2
1. Which features of Singapore and its citizens make it a major tourist attraction for people from all over the world?
2. Which person has the greatest influence on your life at the present time, and why?
3. 'The best things in life are free.' Write about some of the occasions when you have found this to be true.
Wednesday 16 September 2015
Summary of Brainstorming skills
Saturday 5 September 2015
Preparation for Term 4 Week 1
3) Promises should always be kept. Discuss.
4) What do you consider to be your country's greatest achievement? Why does it mean so much to you?
Sunday 30 August 2015
Prelim Feedback and Situational Writing Practice
2) You should write no more than 500 words. This is in line with the 2014 Cambridge examiner report that students who "...wrote in excess of the suggested word limit...did not necessarily increase the effectiveness of the content and frequently resulted in a rushed or incomplete Section C."
Saturday 22 August 2015
Preparation for Term 3 Week 9
Saturday 1 August 2015
Pre-prelim comprehension package
Friday 24 July 2015
Preparation for Term 3 Week 5 & 6
Thursday 16 July 2015
Preparation for Term 3 Week 4
Wednesday 8 July 2015
Preparation for Term 3 Week 3
Saturday 4 July 2015
Preparation for Term 3 Week 2
Sunday 28 June 2015
Use of Mindmeister for sharing of mindmaps
Saturday 27 June 2015
Preparation for Term 3 Week 1
Saturday 30 May 2015
June Holiday Homework and Project Ace reminder
As instructed in class, you are to make use of the skills learnt in Creative Persuasion this week (see slides here) to improve your essay. You should at least aim to make your introduction and conclusion interesting, and have a 12 word persuasion to end your essay. If you need to revise the basics of writing introduction and conclusion, click here. If you need to revise the creative methods taught just before you mid year exams, click here.
(a) you are not allowed to change the question you wrote for your first submission.
(b) you are to work on the feedback given for your first submission and make improvements. Failure to do so may result in your essay not being marked.
(c) students who did not submit the first time round should choose a question and submit for this submission.
Friday 22 May 2015
Preparation for Term 2 Week 10
Saturday 16 May 2015
Preparation for Term 2 Week 9
Anaylse the questions and do detailed essay plans for Q3 and Q4 of your MYCT Paper 1 following the format taught in class. The planning table can be found here. Upload your preparation on the relevant folder found here.
Lesson 2
I am trying out something new in order to help us learn better and get more practice for Paper 2. It is therefore essential that everyone does the preparation and follow the instructions here carefully.
1) Complete the NCHS MYCT 2014 Paper 2 found here. You may choose to work on the softcopy or print a hardcopy on your own. There is no need to upload your work any where.
2) Mark your own work using the answer scheme found in the same folder above. It is essential that you do your work first and then mark it, and not just simply look at the answer scheme. Otherwise, you will not learn anything
3) Complete the survey found here by 9pm on Mon as prove of completion of your work. I need your inputs to plan the lesson for the following day.
Saturday 9 May 2015
Preparation for Term 2 Week 8
Wednesday 22 April 2015
Organising your personal electronic files
Sunday 19 April 2015
Fwd: Preparation for Term 2 Week 5
Reading Tasks
Those who did not submit Project Ace are to submit your work here. I will only mark these late work after the deadline for the second submission is over.
Saturday 11 April 2015
Preparation for Term 2 Week 4
(b) 'The way we dress reveals who we are.' What are your views? (Cam 2013)
Friday 3 April 2015
Preparation for Term 2 Week 3
Thursday 2 April 2015
Project Beta (Due on 6 Apr, Mon)
Saturday 28 March 2015
Preparation for Term 2 Week 2
(2) What do you consider to be your greatest achievement? Why does it mean so much to you? (Cam 2013)
Wednesday 25 March 2015
Term 2 Week 1 Reading Task
Saturday 21 March 2015
Preparation for Term 2 Week 1
(2) What do you consider to be your greatest achievement? Why does it mean so much to you? (Cam 2013)
Friday 27 February 2015
Preparation for Term 1 Week 9
Lesson Swap for S4-06
2. Preparation for Lesson and Reading Tasks
"Read the feedback for the diagnostic test summary found here. The language grade descriptors for summary can be found here. Complete the summaries for the papers found here. Upload your preparation in the relevant sub-folders under the same folder above by 11pm on the night before the lesson."
Tuesday 17 February 2015
Preparation for Term 1 Week 8
Q2: Given the limited land available in Singapore, is it wise to set aside some areas as nature reserves? (Cam 2006)
Q3: 'Modern technology gives us hope for the future.' What are your views? (Gan Eng Seng School Prelim 2013)
To keep track of your group work in class as well as the assignments you have submitted electronically to me, you should add the same files to your personal electronic file. Google Drive allows a file to exist simultaneously in multiple folders (yes, it's exactly the same file). For example, your weekly reading tasks file can exist simultaneously on the Homework Submission folder as well as your personal electronic folder. For instructions on how to do this, please click here.
Saturday 14 February 2015
Preparation for Term 1 Week 7 and Reading Tasks
Friday 6 February 2015
Preparation for Term 1 Week 6
Sunday 1 February 2015
Compulsory to use Grammarly
2) Enter your name and institutional email (SST email) address; choose a password.
3) Click "Continue", you will receive an email confirming your registration
4) Click on the link in the confirmation email and you will have access to Grammarly@EDU
Friday 30 January 2015
Preparation for Term 1 Week 5
Wednesday 28 January 2015
T1W04 Reading Tasks
Friday 23 January 2015
Preparation for Term 1 Week 4
Tuesday 20 January 2015
Reading Tasks for Term 1 Week 3
Friday 16 January 2015
Preparation for Term 1 Week 3
Wednesday 14 January 2015
Marking rubrics, notations and corrections
Tuesday 13 January 2015
Follow-up for T1W01 Reading Tasks and T1W02 Reading Tasks
Friday 9 January 2015
Preparation for Term 1 Week 2
Dear students,
If you receive more than one email from me for the week, the email to look out for would be the one with the word "Preparation" in the subject line, like this one.
Reading Tasks
Please find the article for this week's reading task here.
You are to submit the reading tasks by the deadline stipulated in the Admin Guide. Please follow closely the guidelines stated. Upload your reading tasks under the folder T1W01. (Some of you submitted the class work "The Case Against Competition" in that folder. I have removed these submissions as this article is not considered homework).
The Reading Tasks for subsequent weeks will be given earlier in the week.
Preparation for Lesson
Here's the schedule for T1W02:
1st lesson with the class:
No preparation needed. Bring your LDs
2nd lesson with the class:
Do a detailed essay plan for the question you did not attempt for the diagnostic test. You are expected to be familiar with the materials in your Dec Holiday Fun Pack Activity 2 for this lesson.
You need to show evidence of your preparation.
100 min lesson:
Refer to the email I sent to the whole cohort or the post on the cohort Facebook group
Marked work
I have given feedback for the sample texts we did not manage to complete in class for the fallacies handout. You can find the file in the "Thinking Skills" folder, under the folder for fallacies.
Things that should be in your personal Electronic file
For this week, you should have the following files in your personal Electronic file:
1) The materials for holiday homework Fun Pack 1.
2) Your copy of the fallacies student handout.
3) The article "The Case Against Competition"
4) The photos of Task 1 to 3 we did in class.
Outstanding work
Some groups have yet to complete the follow-up work for the fallacies lesson which I mentioned in a previous post. Please complete the work by Monday.