Blog prompt No. 1
/*I am a member of the SPCA and want to raise awareness of the cruelty of whaling in Japan, and have prepared a speech to be made at a public forum.*/
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to make a speech to you today about the cruelty of whaling in Japan.
As many of you might know, the Japanese enjoy eating seafood of all kind. Unfortunately, whales also fall under this category of "seafood", and are now being hunted constantly by the Japanese, so much so that many species of whales are now endangered.
I would like to emphasise the cruelty of whaling using hand-held harpoons, introduced in 1606 or using whale nets and pulling them off the water like fish. It is not like the story "Moby Dick" where it is so difficult to catch a whale. The above makes it so much safer and easier for humans to "whale", that whales are getting scarcer and scarcer, making even Australia worry that its whale tourism might get affected.
Ladies and gentlemen, think of what the world would be like without whales. Whales can be beautiful animals and we must work together to protect them and thus save them from extinction.
Thank you.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sorry about the lack of posts
Sorry about my lack of postings for the past few days. I had hardly any time to blog. School has just started and the CCA trials are on. Anyway, today, my Language Arts teacher asked us to find out about "Socratic Questions".
"Socratic Questioning is disciplined questioning that can be used to pursue thought in many directions and for many purposes, including: to explore complex ideas, to get to the truth of things, to open up issues and problems, to uncover assumptions, to analyze concepts, to distinguish what we know from what we don’t know, and to follow out logical implications of thought."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning)
As you can see from the quote above (I hope I'm not plagiarising), Socratic questioning is pretty useful and is therefore used widely around the world in education. Socratic Questions are also named after Socrates (obviously), and he used to ask these questions to his pupils.
"Socratic Questioning is disciplined questioning that can be used to pursue thought in many directions and for many purposes, including: to explore complex ideas, to get to the truth of things, to open up issues and problems, to uncover assumptions, to analyze concepts, to distinguish what we know from what we don’t know, and to follow out logical implications of thought."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning)
As you can see from the quote above (I hope I'm not plagiarising), Socratic questioning is pretty useful and is therefore used widely around the world in education. Socratic Questions are also named after Socrates (obviously), and he used to ask these questions to his pupils.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Hello out there
Hello, whoever is reading this. This is my first blog post in like... 2 years, so forgive me if you find anything wrong.
Today, we started off with P.E. lessons. The cruel teachers made us run a gruelling 1.6km run first thing in the morning. All for the sake of pulling out good runners for the Cross-Country/Track and Field CCA, most of whom would not join them anyway. Afterwards, when we headed back to class, we had a period of Chinese lesson in which everyone would have to do a self-introduction. I wouldn't have complained if it was to be in English, but it was to be said in Chinese, my worst subject. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I was chosen to be the first person up for that day. As many people might know, this would either seriously increase or decrease the amount of points you can get. Also unfortunately, I could hardly stand up thanks to the 1.6km run, let alone remember what I had practised so hard on at home.
Bad day
Today, we started off with P.E. lessons. The cruel teachers made us run a gruelling 1.6km run first thing in the morning. All for the sake of pulling out good runners for the Cross-Country/Track and Field CCA, most of whom would not join them anyway. Afterwards, when we headed back to class, we had a period of Chinese lesson in which everyone would have to do a self-introduction. I wouldn't have complained if it was to be in English, but it was to be said in Chinese, my worst subject. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I was chosen to be the first person up for that day. As many people might know, this would either seriously increase or decrease the amount of points you can get. Also unfortunately, I could hardly stand up thanks to the 1.6km run, let alone remember what I had practised so hard on at home.
Bad day
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