The Girl in the River The Girl in the River is a Documentary made in 2015 about a girl called Saba and her story. In this documentary, we learn about how her father and uncle tried to kill her because she secretly married the one she loved and brought shame to her family. When Saba […]
Writers Fortnight Feature Article Final Draft – Christina Lau and Danny Raven Tan
Friday 9th March 2018 Writers Fortnight Feature Article – Christina Lau and Danny Raven Tan By Cara Jackson – 9LTw In my opinion, 14 and 15-year-olds need a bit of motivation. We just want to get school done, check it off the list and be done with it. However, I think we lack the inspiration […]
GPERS – Popular Culture, Filter Bubbles and My Lack of Free Choice
Thursday 1st Feb 2018 Popular Culture, Filter Bubbles and My Lack of Free Choice So far, in this unit, we have looked at what popular culture is, examples of popular culture and what influences popular culture. At the start of the unit, we wrote on our workbooks about what we thought was popular culture. I wrote; […]
GPERS – Popular culture, filter bubbles and my lack of free choice – My Thoughts
Thursday 1st Feb 2018 Popular Culture, Filter Bubbles and My Lack of Free Choice So far, in this unit, we have looked at what popular culture is, examples of popular culture and what influences popular culture. At the start of the unit, we wrote on our workbooks about what we thought was popular culture. I wrote; […]
English – Writers Fortnight – Christina Lau
26.01.18 Writers Fortnight – Christina Lau Before the accident, Christina Lau was a very sporty prison officer. She used to think that disabled people needed help, now after the crash she soon realised that they don’t need as much help as people think. In 2005, she was in a car accident in Malaysia, she was […]
English – Writers Fortnight – Mukul Deva
24.01.18 Mukul Deva – Writers Fortnight Mukul Deva is a successful entrepreneur and has written 16 books. His 1st company is MSD SECURITY PVT LTD, it operates in 70 Indian cities and his 2nd company is INFLUENCE SOLUTIONS PTE LTD, which is a premier learning and development company headquartered in Singapore, it delivers customised solutions to government […]
English – Writers Fortnight – Danny Raven Tan
23.01.18 Danny Raven Tan – Writers Fortnight Danny Raven Tan is a Full-time painter and according to him, art makes him happy. In my opinion, he is very inspiring because he survived pancreatic Cancer in 2010. He hasn’t told his mum yet either because he doesn’t want her to worry. His mum has dementia and […]
English – Writers Fortnight – Danny Raven Tan
23.01.18 Danny Raven Tan – Writers Fortnight Danny Raven Tan is a Full-time painter and according to him, art makes him happy. In my opinion, he is very inspiring because he survived pancreatic Cancer in 2010. He hasn’t told his mum yet either because he doesn’t want her to worry. His mum has dementia and […]
English – Writers Fortnight – Marc Nair
19/01/18 Marc Nair – Writers Fortnight Marc Nair is a poet and photographer from Singapore and he has published around 7 volumes of poetry books. He is also the co-founder and principal photographer of an online magazine called Mackerel. He mentioned that he usually writes against the issue he is writing about, for example, he […]
English – Writers Fortnight – Marc Nair
19.01.18 Writers Fortnight – Marc Nair At the second talk of the writers fortnight, Marc Nair talked to us about ‘Writing Against’. In the poems that he read us, they were about speaking out, for example, plastics and problems on the news. However, they weren’t against plastic, etc. they were for the issue. Marc told […]