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If They Come For Us – Fatimah Asghar

Confrontation. Confrontational language. Enjambment. Internalised self-hatred. Freaks like me. Asghar seems to recount her childhood experience with adult language – fuck, sacks, tits, yes. My favourite? A poem from the collection A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too, where Asghar despite being dressed in a witch’s costume for halloween – pretending to be someone else – is…

CAS convo 2

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Nqym5QN8YgMBW03htQyuzCQLVdr9Vx9F

Graphing Literature (only because Atonement is whiny)

Are we getting high or barely getting by?

No LSD was consumed in the production of this video (we think) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KLqzT5tfMhPwTby0FtGwMfXVNSDrqslQ/view?usp=sharing

CAS in Cuh-wah-ren-teen

Since the announcement of the Circuit Breaker in Singapore, completing all my usual aspects of CAS has been difficult. I can’t sail anymore, we’re hardly allowed out except for exercising and buying food, and being cramped in my tiny apartment with my rowdy family hasn’t been the easiest of experiences. But I’ve learned how to…

The Gong Show known as Project Week

For Project Week (PW), my group and I decided to take a trip hiking in the mountains of Taiwan, and explore the chinese culture of the land that is not quite China. We put in a lot of preparation: contacting with the activity company, figuring out the hiking routes, possible dangers (bad weather, getting lost,…

Belts and Bombs, The Death of Eamonn Lone

The ending of Home Fire closely, if not literally, follows the ending of Antigone (at least, the ending we know of from Anouilh’s Antigone). Shamsie describes Aneeka and Eamonn as “woman”, “she”, and the “man in the navy-blue shirt”, making the characters seem as if they do not have an identity. Addressing them by pronouns…

Individual Oral for Literature practice feedback thingi

keep referring to the writer!!!! focus on how the writer’s concepts/characters are used as dramatic constructs how would this be influenced by the time and context of the writer? good job on underlining the mean cohesive concepts to help with the flow (or as Ms Markham says, thread) running through my response Personal goals: refer…

Season 3 episode 1

Sailing with school has stopped. Corona has happened, and I feel like I’m turning into a germaphobe with the amount of times I wash and sanitise my hands a day. Project week is cancelled. All assemblies are cancelled. All external school activities are cancelled. But did that get us down? Nope. Not at all. Well,…

The End of Season 2 (episode 3000)

These two seasons have been an absolute whirlwind of activities, sports, friends, service and arts for me. It’s been a very full on half a year, and I’m more than ready to start the next two seasons off with a bang. Seasons 1 & 2 have really been about me learning and growing in new…