As mentioned, please see the following details – It will tell you what we HOPE to see in your presentations.

Please remember you have 15 min
Aside from CONTENT, we will be grading you on presentation skills. The best groups will be presenting your project to the Lower Secondary Assembly. =)

Basically the presentation must cover the following:

1. All scripts, storyboards, photos etc should be posted with everyone’s comments on how these
answer the project task question you have been assigned (You MAY choose to extract certain quality postings/responses to showcase during your presentation)

2. The actual movie/documentary and photo journal can be displayed.

3. You should also post blog entries discussing the oral presentation and how you would organise it
to make it interesting for the audience. Your oral presentation should address the following
processes:

a) What’s your project question /task and what is your understanding of this question? How have you
managed to answer this project question through the project research and work you have done?

b) What were the roles and responsibilities of each member and what was done to ensure that
everyone contributed? What problems were encountered and how did you solve these as a group?

c) Explain your concept of the documentary and how does this documentary answer the project task
focus or question. Explain clearly why you have chosen to present the dicumentary in this way ,
explain the ideas behind the way you plan the storyboard, the different scenes and why certain
scenes are chosen and what you intend to show with these ( include details abt camera angles/shot
types, music, narration text, sequence of scenes, focus of video and what is the message you wish to
communicate). The same questions can be applied for the photo journal

d) Reflection on Learning – must be specific in terms of what skills esp thinking skills, analysis skills,
planning skills, team management skills, visual skills, history skills, language related like writing
skills, presenting information etc

 Done by:Diana

This picture shows a farm house in Alabama.I chose this pictures as it show me that Alabama is a tired old town.The trees all seem to be dying from the hot weather.The place looks deserted which tells me that Alabama’s population is very small thus everybody knows each other.

This picture shows a grocery store in Alabama.

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I went to search for ’Alabama homes pictures 1930′ as what I had read in chapter one, it says ‘Maycomb was an old town, but it was tired old town..’ and also, ’Somehow, it was hotter than; a black dog suffered on a summer’s day..’ Thus, after interpretating this two sentences, it tells me that Maycomb have not much old houses, very spacious, and the weather is scorching hot during the afternoon. Therefore, I chose this picture as it shows an old house, the grass is very dry and the plants are wiltering soon.

Posted by: Crystal Koh

30.06.08

Vocab Wizard -Crystal Koh
Chapter 4 -To kill a mocking bird

1. Calpurnia’s tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval.
Tyranny : Unfair and strict control over someone
He longed to escape from the tyranny of his aunt.

2. Mrs Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighbourhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived.
Unanimous : of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed.

3. Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson’s cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone’s scuppernongs was a part of our ethical culture, but money was diffferent.
Camellia : any of several shrubs of the genus Camellia, esp. C. japonica, native to Asia, having glossy evergreen leaves and white, pink, red, or variegated roselike flowers.

Scuppernongs :A cultivated variety of the muscadine grape with sweet yellowish fruit.

4. Lemonade in the middle of the morning was a summertime ritual.
Ritual : A ceremony that is always performed in the same way, in order to mark an important religious or social occasion.

5. His worth perfomance was Gothic.
Gothic: Frightening things that happen in mysterious old buildings, and lonely places in film.

6. Jem’s evasion told me our game was a secret, so I kept quiet.
Evasion : The act of avoiding doing something that you should do, or an example of this behaviour.

If there’s any other words you don’t understand the meaning, please kindly post a comment under this post with the full sentence of that particular word.

Thank you.

Posted by: Crystal Koh

Vocab Wizard -Crystal Koh
Chapter 3 -To kill a mocking bird

1. He examined Walter with air of speculation.
Speculation : a single instance or process of consideration.

2. Atticus was expounding upon farm problems when Walter interrupted to ask if there was any molasses bearing the syrup pitcher.
Molasses :a thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar or from sorghum, varying from light to dark brown in color.

4. She was furious, and when she was furious, Calpurnia’s grammar became erratic.
Erratic : having no certain or definite course; wandering; not fixed
Sentence : Her decision is erractic, she can change her decision in the last mintute.

5. When in tranquillity, her grammar was as good as anybody’s in Maycomb.
Tranquillity : quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity

6. Atticus said Calpurnia had more education than most coloured folks.
Coloured folks refered to the ‘Black’ people.

7. Jem and Walter returned to school ahead of me: staying behind to advise Atticus of Calpurnia’s iniquities was worth a solitary sprint past the Radley Place.
Iniquities: The quality of being very unfair or evil, or something that is very unfair.

8. I returned to school and hated Calpurnia steadily until a sudden shriek shattered my resentments.
Resentments: A feeling of anger because of something has happened that you think is unfair.

9. Little Chuck Little, whose patience with all living things was phenomenal, said, ‘Which way did he go, Miss Caroline? Tell us where he went quick! D.C -’..
Phenomenal : very unusual/weird
It is phenomental that he behave in such a manner and yet he get first in class.

10. Miss Caroline watched the process in horrid fascination.
Fascination : The state of being very interesthing by something or someone
I was fascinated by her beautiful voice.
Caroline always have a fasination for stories about solving mysteries.

11. He gave a short contemptuous snort.
contemptuous : Showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful.
He smile in a contemptuous way to the teacher.

12. Burris Ewell was flattered by the recital.
Recital : A performance of music or poetry, usually given by one performer.

13. The boy’s condescension flashed to anger.
Condescension : An act or instance of condescending.

14. He was among the most diminutive of men, but when Burris Ewell turned towards him, Little Chuck’s right hand went to his pocket.
Diminutive : a small thing or person
She is the most diminutive among her friend.

15. My replies were monosyllabic and he did not press me.
Monosyllabic: having a vocabulary composed primarily of monosyllables or short, simple words.
I detest answers whch are monosyllabic.

16. ..Besides, they’d put me in jail if I kept you at hoome – dose of magnesia for you tonight and school tomorrow.’
Magnesia : A white, tasteless substance, magnesium oxide, MgO, used in medicine as an antacid and laxative.

17. In certain circumstances the common folk judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the Ewells’ activities.
Judiciously : using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic

19. In Maycomb country, hunting out of season was a misdemeanour at law, a capital felony in the eyes of the populace.
Misdemeanour : Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.

If there’s any other words you don’t understand the meaning, please kindly post a comment under this post with the full sentence of that particular word.

Thank you.

Posted by: Crystal Koh

Vocab Wizard -Crystal Koh
Chapter 2 -To kill a mocking bird

Here are the meanings of the chapter 2; To kill a mocking bird noval.

1)Hours of wintertime had found me in the tree-house looking over at the school yard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning thier games, following Jem’s red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man’s bluff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.

1. Multitudes of children : ‘Multitudes’ means: A very great number. Hence, multitudes of children means there were many children..
Example: <a href=”http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t229/Eph429/?action=view&current=P1040869.jpg” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t229/Eph429/P1040869.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”The Multitudes”></a>
-There were multitudes of people crowding around Mr Blacksmith to hear his interesthing story.

2. Minor Victories: In dictionar ‘Minor’ means: Small. Hence, the sentence was trying to say Jem and ‘me’ secretly shared small victories.

2) Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usally done by one’s parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.

3. Condescended means: To deal with people in a patronizingly superior manner.
The sentence was trying to say that Jem going to bring ‘me’ to school the first day. (The behavior was behave like one’s parent. )

3) The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbour her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.

4. Peculiarities: a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
5. Indigenous: innate; inherent; natural

4) I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.
6. Illicitly: Not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.

The sentence is trying to say that ‘I’ was not supposed to read newspaper as it was not allowed by the rules but ‘I’ kept wallowing reading it.

5) I turned around and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegaion looking at me.
7. Delegation: A group of people who represent a company/organisation, etc.
In this case, it is neither a company/organisation. It is the white people who looked at ‘me’.

6) With christmas came a crate of smilax and holly.
8. Smilax: A slender vine (Asparagus asparagoides) that has glossy foliage and is popular as a floral decoration.

7) Entaliment (Page 23) was only part of Mr Cunningham’s vexations.
9. Entaliment: to make it necessary to do something
10. Vexations: to make someone feel annoyed or worried.

The acres not entailed were mortgaged to the hilt, and the little cash he made went to interest.
11. Acres: A unit for measuring area
12. Entailed: To make it necessary to do something
Example: Changing the computer system would entail substantial being on on call 24 hours a day.

9) I would saved myself some inconvinience and Miss Caroline subsequent mortification, but it was beyond my ability to explain things as well as Atticus, so I said “You’re shaming him, Miss Caroline. Walter hasn’t got a quater at home to bring you, and you can’t use any stovewood.”
13. Mortification: To feel extremly embarassed or ashamed.

10) My sojourn in the corner was a short one.
14. Sojourn: literacy a short period of time that you stay in a place that is not you home.

If there’s any other vocabulary words, please kindly post comment under this post with the full sentence in that particular word.

Thank you.

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 done by:Diana

  Done by:Diana