We started on Unit 1 today with the reading of the story, Heartbeats in the Dark. What we did today was to get you to think deeply, posing almost everyone of you a question on the story. We talk about understanding the story through the title first and getting you to predict about the title, 'Heartbeats in the Dark'. Following that, we did silent reading in which you read independently. Then, we paused at certain sections to ask key questions and make meaning of certain key words to support your answers. I am modeling to you how real life reading of books or comprehension passages should be done. You do not just read on and on. You must pause and ask yourself key questions like:
- Who are the characters?
- What is happening?
- Why are certain events happening?
- Where is the story?
- When is the story?
- How are the events happening?
We call it '5W and 1H'.
Today, we talked about Darren, the main character in the story, conquering his fear of being the dark. As such, the moral of today's story focuses on how we can overcome our fears. It is a terrifying process but we can overcome with resilience and with little steps of faith along the way.
Today's grammar items which I taught you:
- Practice --> Noun
- We are going for our football practice later on.
- Practise --> Verb
- We are going to practise our football later.
- Everybody, Everyone, Each are all in the singular form.
- Each of us has to buy a pen by today.
- Everybody likes to do well in life.
- Everyone here is a pupil.
- You need to also know about the importance of singular/plural words and words in the past tense or present tense.
- There are grammar rules which I will go through and they are highly important to help you in your writing and grammar. Make it a point to remember them. I will be very naggy about it but I hope that you will remember in time to come with all my constant repetition of these grammar rules.
Homework:
- Comprehension Worksheet 1.1
- Grammar Worksheet 1.2
Sincerely,
Mr Nelson Ong
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