Term 2 Week 3 Learning Log

~ Monday ~

Miss Marly came into our class for our literature lesson and taught us about ‘Romeo and Juliet’. And so we are still learning about that play. She then gave us a piece of handout about sonnet. It was about some phrase that Romeo had described Juliet. Miss Marly then explained those phrases to us and we were supposed to write down what it meant. But as usual, our class is very noisy and so the lesson had to be paused for a while for the class to resume. And so, this leads us to not being able to finish that piece of handout. Miss Marly said that the piece of handout is important and she had to explain it clearly to us. Miss Marly told us to bring it next lesson so that she can finish explaining it to us.

~ Friday ~

Same as the last lesson, Miss Marly came into our class and we continued on that handout. After we were done with it, we passed the handout back to Miss Marly for marking. Miss Marly then gave us a new worksheet that was something related to ‘Love’. Then Miss Marly gave us instructions to fold the paper into 3 parts so that we would know which was the front page and the last page. Then we had a short activity that was to find 5 girls and 5 boys. And for that activity, we had to ask each girl and boy what qualities they wanted to have in their future partners. So, we went around and asked lots of students. :] Each of them had different qualities and it was interesting to know what every one wanted in their future partner. ^^
After we had completed, all of us went back to our seats and Miss Marly called students and asked them those qualities, which one they thought was their favourite. So not all of us were called, just a few students so we would not waste our time on questioning every one of us. One of the students was Regine (Sorry again Regine… I have to do my homework). Regine stood up and looked through her list and suddenly shouted out, “Zhi Xin, trustworthy.” Then everybody turned their heads and looked at me. I was really shy and quite scared, so I looked at Miss Marly and hoped that she would give some other instructions so that my classmates would stop looking at me. But luckily, Miss Marly had something else to explain to us. It was about the words and meaning of ‘Love’ for the Greeks. There are ‘Eros’, ‘Philia’ and ‘Agape’. ‘Eros' is the lowest level for love which means, ‘Passionate love or longing’, ‘Philia’ is the second level for love which means, ‘Brotherhood and friendship. Involves loyalty to friends, family and community’ and ‘Agape’ is the highest level for love, and it means, ‘A divine, unconditional and self – sacrificing affection. The highest and purest form of love’. After we had filled in everything about the meaning of ‘Love’ for the Greeks, Miss Marly told us to finish the other question as our March holiday homework. The bell rang. Literature lesson ended.