Madam Ain
She is a very funny and loving person. She also loves cats. She always sends some pictures of her cats in the group chat and they are cute! I also love it when she explains things, especially about the short stories. Thank you, madam!
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LITERATURE
LITERATURE
Assignments
Literature Exhibition
LitEx was one of my favourite assignments for Literature since it required us to create a blog for our selected poems. Each group got different themes. For my group, we got to discuss an interesting theme which was gender and sexuality. Besides getting to know more about the history of Gender and Sexuality, I also got to learn about the meaning behind every poem that we chose. Some of us presented how different people have different sexuality despite their gender. People can be a woman and still be attracted to women. I presented about the gender roles that have been normalized until today. Women often viewed as someone who needs to do the chores, cook and takes care of the family members which is not entirely true. Some of us also talked about how women in certain countries are being oppressed and don't get the equality just because they are women.
Group Members
My group members cooperated very well. Everyone got to participate in editing the blog, exchanging ideas, and giving opinions to one another. From the left, Nadzifa, Anis, Aisyah, Izzan, and Fazzerul.
Animal Farm Presentation
We presented through Google Meet instead of creating a video. It went well. My classmates were really active asking questions and made some discussions based on our presentation. By doing presentations, it helps me to memorize things better since it required us to include graphic such as photos and mindmaps. Every group presented different elements of Animal Farm including the plot, conflicts, characters, and settings. Therefore, it will definitely help us to answer the final exam later on. I took notes while every group was presenting so that I wouldn't be missing the important points.
Exercises
My Original Poem
I wasn't really good at writing poems but I got excited since I got the chance to write one. I have a friend who is really good at writing poems and she is one of my motivations to try creating my own poems. This is the poem that I created which is called "When I Become Skinny". It talks about a girl who is fat but has the confidence to make some changes to prove those who insulted her, wrong. I got the idea to write about this topic because I'm fat and people often said that I would be prettier if I was skinnier. I was expressing my feelings by writing down this poem.
Critical Review on Examination Day
Examination Day is a very interesting short story that talks about the totalitarian government where they eliminate those kids whose intelligence quotient is above the Government regulation. I was really into that short story so it wasn't that difficult to write a review on it. The review required us to think outside of the box to. This exercise really helped me with my midterm test. The only thing I did to study Examination Day was reading the review all over again.
Lecture notes
Notes on every short story
I usually take notes for Literature while listening to Madam Ain explaining. However, my handwriting wasn't that neat so I had to rewrite everything right after each class. This is how I do my notes. I always make sure that I really understand each story before I rewrite the notes. I use different colours for every short story so that it would be easier for me to differentiate them.
Midterm Test
I was nervous to sit for the exam. We were required to fill the whole page with our answers for each question. If it was too short, marks will be deducted. However, I managed to answer them pretty well even though I struggled to make the sentences lengthy. My hands were shaking right after I submitted the answers because I was worried that I didn't answer properly or my answers didn't even relate to the questions.
Achievement
Alhamdulillah, I got 23 marks for my midterm test. Though it was average, I was so grateful that I achieved my target to at least get 17 marks for Literature. Madam Ain also gave me personal feedback on my answers to each question. It helped me to figure out what my weaknesses are so that I could improve for final exam.
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