ONLINE TASK 4

1. Think of at least 3 benefits of using speeches by famous figures in the classroom:
a) students can be inspired by the talk and they can practice it in their daily life.
b) students can have an idea and learn the way on how to present an effective speech.
c) speeches by famous figures are normally well prepared, free grammatical errors abd proofread many times before they are finalized. so these speech texts are suitable to be used in the classroom.
d) speeches by famous figures are normally persuasive speech. Therefore, if students read more of this type of speech, they can learn the techniques of persuasive speech and apply this particular skill in their real life.
e) it can sharpen the critical thinking skills of students since speeches by famous figures normally reflect higher level of critical thinking skills.

2. Go to www.youtube.com and find the audio-visual on the speech. In not less than 50 words, state would the audio-visual be of any use in helping understand the speech better? State your reasons.

I have a dream by Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most memorable speeches of all time. It is worthy of lengthy study as we can all learn speechwriting skills from King’s historic masterpiece.

I have a dream comes up a lot and he wants to get the point through peoples mind and so he uses a lot of sentences because he doesn’t want to live like this or have his family and other families all across the world live the way he had to. what he is saying is I don’t want to put up with this anymore, and we people do not want to be judged by our colour, hair, or the way we look but by the way our personality is.

Martin Luther king Jr. uses repetition to get his point across to stop the segregation between white and African Americans. One way he uses repetition is when he says “let freedom ring” four times in a row to give African Americans all the rights that a white man has. the most common use of repetition is when he says “i have a dream” to show what he thinks is right, and what should change which can grab peoples attention

I found this speech very wonderful and effective because of its words and expressions which were very persuasive also the manner which was very amazing because it stems from heart.

3. Who is Martin Luther King ?

Martin Luther King is probably the most famous person associated with the civil rights movement. King was active from the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycot of 1955 to 1956 until his murder in April 1968. To many Martin Luther King epitomised what the civil rights campaign was all about and he brought massive international cover to the movement. 


(Born Jan. 15, 1929, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tenn.) Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement's success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States. King rose to national prominence as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,which promoted nonviolent tactics, such as the massive March on Washington (1963), to achieve civil rights. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.




4. Based on the questions below, analyse the features of the given written speech.
a ) What is the purpose of the speech ?


I have a dream by Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most memorable speeches of all time. It is worthy of lengthy study as we can all learn speechwriting skills from King’s historic masterpiece. The purpose of the speech is to tell everyone about why black people should have rights in the world along with white people and to not be punished in a more brutal way to the white people.


b ) What is the tone of the speech ?


Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech had a positive but strong tone as his voice remains low pitched all the way.


c) What interesting major features can you see from the speech? ( i.e. repitition of phrases, emphasis on certain things said etc ).


Martin Luther king Jr. uses repetition to get his point across to stop the segregation between white and African Americans. One way he uses repetition is when he says “let freedom ring” four times in a row to give African Americans all the rights that a white man has. the most common use of repetition is when he says “i have a dream” to show what he thinks is right, and what should change which can grab peoples attention .


d ) Any interesting facts that you can gather based on the background of the speech ?

1. The "I Have a Dream" speech was only 17-minutes long.
2. The speech was delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the largest march of the Civil Right Movement.
3. The speech was watched by between 200,000–300,000 people and millions more viewed it live from home.
4. “I Have a Dream” has been ranked the top speech of the 20th century and hasn’t budged from that spot since it was delivered on August 28, 1963. Its influence and impact also led to Dr. King becoming the youngest recipient — and the second Black winner — of the Nobel Peace Prize one year later. 

e )  Suggest a while reading activity that can be derived from this particular speech .


    Skimming and scanning activity

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BIO POEM OF NELSON MANDELA

Nelson Mandela

Son of Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe

Brilliant, brave and helpful

The man who despite all odds

Lover to the people, family and South Africa

Who hates violence and inequality

Who wants to see peace, respect,justice, freedom and human right

Nelson Mandela

resident of democracy

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A ) Do we have a canon for Malaysian literary works? Let's say we do, who do you think are in it? Consider the fact that their works are well-known and most importantly included as part of the school syllabus- (both in BM and English)

1. A. Samad Said

2. Ali Majod

3. Shirley Lim Geok Lin

4. M. Shanmughalingam

5. Marzuki Ali




B ) The poems by Erica Jong raises some feminist issues.  What are they?


1. On the First Night

2. Penis Envy

C ) Do you think they are suitable to teach at the secondary school level?  Explain.

In my opinion, Erica Jong’s poems are suitable to be taught at the upper secondary school level (Forms 4 and 5) only for the advanced students. I think it might be a bit challenging for students of average and low levels. To me, if Erica Jong’s poems are to be taught at secondary school levels, Form 6 Literature in English syllabus would be an excellent syllabus to chip them in. In conclusion, I do not think they are suitable to teach at the secondary school level.

 D ) Is Hillary Tham's poem more suitable?


Yes, because the elements in his poems are familiar to our Malaysian students. Being Malaysians, we share almost the same background schemata. For example the poem “When Lilacs Last…for Walt Whitman”. Students can relate to it as many of the ideas are around them.




E ) The short tale from the Native American group is about a girl who is unsatisfied with her life. How is this a universal experience? Can it teach our students anything?


This is a universal experience because human beings are never satisfied with what they have regardless of race. Arrogance, jealousy, envious etc, fuels the urge to feel unsatisfied with many things. The story is a brilliant choice to be taught to our students because it is full of moral values which they can use to reflect.From internet sources find out more about Langston Hughes.




F ) From your findings about his background, tell me about the dilemma he conveys through the poem CROSS.


 Langston Hughes is half white and half black.  In this poem he expresses the frustration and grief that a half black and white person felt post emancipation of slavery in America.  The theme is of a struggle to accept and understand their ethnic identity in a world where black people and white people are considered opposites.




G ) I find "Dinner Guest: Me" laden with irony and sarcasm. Briefly state if you feel the same.


I feel the same about “Dinner Guest: Me”. He talks about how black people are put in the lower class of social hierarchy. Being half white and half black, he is the center of attention at the dinner party at Park Avenue where white people look at him as black.




H ) The experience in the poem Harlem is one that is true for many people. Do you agree?


I agree that the experience in Harlem is true for many people, Racism has caused a lot of people frustration and anger.  This could disrupt the harmony and peace in a community and subsequently would cause a country to collapse if no action is discussed and done fairly to all.


I ) Langston Hughes fights for the voice of his people. What is the movement called?

New Negro Movement

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1. list some of well known folktales from Malaysia.
Below are three well-known folktales from Malaysia, of different themes.

a) outwitting a crocodile ( theme : cleverness )

b) Young Man Shows true Love ( theme : love )

c ) The Story of Coconut Tree ( theme : disobedience )

2. List some of the possible issues found in the Son Of The Turtle Spirit.

Some of the issues I have discovered in ‘The Son of the Turtle Spirit’ are:-

a) true love - which I meant to say that true love always survive, not only survive but they won at the end of their course.Both of the lovers are from different origin, therefore they may as well face dilemma if they declare their love, for the chinese esp the aristocracte were very fussy about status etc, if they manage to tell the father, what chances that they wont be separated? Now that, moral aspects aside(for they commit adultery), their deed is based on pure love that the young lady refuse to forget her lover long after the turtle died, and kept the fruit of their love - the child of the turtle spirit.
b) Disrespectfulness to wards the other kinds.

c ) Underestimating other's capability.

d) Problem in a relationship between partners with different cultural backgrounds.

e)  In the Chinese belief, some spirits are said to commit adultery with human men / women. This normally takes place during the seventh month of the Chinese calendar where it is believed that the gates of hell are opened during this period. There are some claims which I have read in the newspaper stating that a male spirit impregnated a Chinese woman during the seventh month of the Chinese calendar. So this story reinforces my background knowledge of the spirit in accordance with the Chinese belief system.

f.) It is also known in the Chinese culture that some turtles has spirits which manifests at night and disappear at dawn before the sunrise.

3. Are those issues universal in nature or are they only relevant in the Chinese culture ?

Issues e and f are only relevant in the Chinese culture. Meanwhile the a, b, c and d  issues are universal in nature regardless of race and religion.

4. what are the other morals that can be gotten from then other fables by Aesop ? List at least two.

a) The Bundle Of Sticks ( moral : union gives strength )

 (An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some parting advice. He ordered his servants to bring in a faggot of sticks, and said to his eldest son: 

"Break it." 

The son strained and strained, but with all his efforts was unable to break the Bundle. The other sons also tried, but none of them was successful. 

"Untie the faggots," said the father, "and each of you take a stick." 

When they had done so, he called out to them: 

"Now, break," and each stick was easily broken. "You see my meaning," said their father.)

b)The Dove And The Crow ( moral : to enjoy our blessing we must have freedom )

Some Dogs, famished with hunger, saw some cow-hides steeping in a river. Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river; but it fell out that they burst themselves with drinking long before A Dove shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of the young ones which she had hatched. A Crow, hearing her, said: "My good friend, cease from this unreasonable boasting. The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house."

c) The Shepherd's Boy ( moral :  a liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.)

5. One well known literary figure from the Elizabethan aged used Ovid's pyramus and Thisbe as a model to one of his famous plays. Who is she and what is the play ?

She is Juliet Capulet in the play - Romeo and Juliet ( William Shakespeare )

The "Pyramus and Thisbe" plot appears twice in Shakespeare's works. Most famously, the plot of Romeo and Juliet, in which the titular characters, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, fall in love at a party the Capulet family hosts, but they cannot be together because the two families hold "an ancient grudge" (which the young lovers' deaths eventually squash), and because Juliet has been engaged by her parents to a man named Paris. Romeo and Juliet may draw either from Ovid's Latin retelling in the Metamorphoses, or from Arthur Golding's  1567 translation of that work. Most modern tales of "forbidden love" are seen as having been based on Shakespeare's play, rather than "Pyramus and Thisbe."

6. List some of the popular legends we have  in Malaysia.

Prominent natural features--and there are many in Malaysia--were wreathed in legend. Tioman Island is said to have been a dragon princess who decided to make her home where Tioman now rises out of the sea. Tranquil Lake Chini  in the wilds of Pahang is thought to be the site of a magnificent Khmer city now sunk beneath the lotus blossoms. Mount Ophir , in Johor, is said to be the home of 'Puteri Gunung Ledang', a legendary princess once wooed by the Sultan of Malacca. The princess' beauty is still associated with the natural charms of the mountain itself.  Langkawi Island has no such creation story, but the curse laid on the island by a princess falsely accused of adultery is one of the best-known of Malaysia's magical myths.

7. Who is Thomas Malory?

 Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405 - 14 March 1471) was an English author. His prose epic  Le Morte d'Arthur, written during a long imprisonment in Newgate Prison  as a captured partisan of the  Richard Neville, Earl Of Warwick during the War Of The Roses, covers the careers of King Arthur and his knights. It is largely a free translation of various French romances.Malory's most commonly accepted historical identity as a Warwickshire knight is based on the research and advocacy of George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941), an American scholar and noted authority on the English language and literature, who published a monograph "Who Was Sir Thomas Malory?" in 1897.

8. When was Le Morte D'Arthur written ?

year 1470

9. How many books/ parts are there in LMDA ?

21 books

10. What is book 8 about ?

 It is about Sir Tristram's life

11. Who were the two people who had an affair ?

With the relationships between Launcelot and Gwenyvere, and Trystram and Isode, Le Morte D'Arthur provides in-depth examples of devoted, to-the-death love between men and women. But these love affairs are both star-crossed because the woman happens to be the wife of the king and, more importantly, her lover's king, to whom each knight owes absolute loyalty and respect. Men's love for women in LeMorte, then, is a powerful, dangerous emotion. 

12. Book 6 has a strong  connection to apopular modern fiction which is noe a movie. What is the title of the popular modern fiction ?

King Arthur ( 2004 )

13. state three well known facts about King Arthur/ his time as a king .

 1.  Arthur's sword was called Excalibur
2.  Arthur married Guinevere and got the Round table as a wedding present from her father Leodegrance
3.  Arthur was betrayed by his greatest knight, Sir Lancelot

14. Think of 2 ways in which you can use folktales/ fables/ myths or legend in the classroom. Explain briefly.

     1.  Big Book

 Students create a Big Book of a story that they choose.  (Themes, Moral Values, Characteristics, Settings etc)  Teacher provides sample of a Big Book for the students to guide them.

      2.  Graphic / Pictorial 

Teacher provides pictures of the important events in the story and asks students to write suitable dialogues /scripts.

~~` SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT ~~~

 ~~SYMBOLS IN THE ESSAY~~

SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT BY GEORGE ORWELL

 Some of the obvious symbols which are present in this essay by Orwell are:

1. The elephant itself: It is compared to, "a huge and costly piece of machinery." It is symbolic of how the economy of a poor Burmese village functioned under colonial British rule:

It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant – it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery – and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.

2. Orwell himself: Throughout the essay Orwell is a living symbol of all that was bad of the colonial British rule, and he himself is aware of it:

The young Buddhist priests were the worst of all. There were several thousands of them in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans.

3.  The rifle: The rifle is symbolic of the brute force which was at the disposal of the colonial British rulers. In this village in Burma only the British owned and possessed the guns. It was this which enabled them to appear as demi-gods to the natives and rule over them. Orwell symbolically narrates how cruelly he used it to kill a helpless animal not to protect the villagers from harm but only to emphasize his superior status over them:

when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives," and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. I had got to shoot the elephant. I had committed myself to doing it when I sent for the rifle. A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things. To come all that way, rifle in hand, with two thousand people marching at my heels, and then to trail feebly away, having done nothing – no, that was impossible. The crowd would laugh at me. And my whole life, every white man's life in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at.

~~~ THE ESSAY ~~~

~~ SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT BY GEORGE ORWELL ~~~

      The narrator’s mental division points to conscience as one of the underlying themes of “Shooting an Elephant.” The narrator must do his duty as a colonial policeman. He despises the native Burmese for loathing and tormenting him as their foreign oppressor; yet he also perfectly well understands their loathing and tormenting; he even takes their side privately. His official position, rather than his moral disposition, compels the narrator to act in the way that he does, so as to uphold his office precisely by keeping the native Burmese in their subordinate and dependent place. As a colonial official, the narrator must not let himself become a spectacle before the native crowds. Not shooting the elephant would make him seem like a coward, so he shoots the elephant. The narrator’s moral conscience appears in the moment when the corpse of the Burmese crushed by the elephant comes to his attention; the narrator says that the man lay sprawled in a “crucified” posture, invoking all of the poignant and rich symbolism that the term “crucified” offers. The elephant, too, especially in its pain-wracked death, evokes in the narrator feelings of terrible pity, not soothed by his knowledge that he acted within the law. Law, indeed, opposes conscience in “Shooting an Elephant.” The brute fact of Empire, thoroughly institutionalized, is irreconcilable with the individual’s moral 

~~~~ I HAVE A DREAM~~~~

SPEECH BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR..........

     

I have a dream by Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most memorable speeches of all time. It is worthy of lengthy study as we can all learn speechwriting skills from King’s historic masterpiece.

I have a dream comes up a lot and he wants to get the point through peoples mind and so he uses a lot of sentences because he doesn’t want to live like this or have his family and other families all across the world live the way he had to. what he is saying is I don’t want to put up with this anymore, and we people do not want to be judged by our colour, hair, or the way we look but by the way our personality is.

Martin Luther king Jr. uses repetition to get his point across to stop the segregation between white and African Americans. One way he uses repetition is when he says “let freedom ring” four times in a row to give African Americans all the rights that a white man has. the most common use of repetition is when he says “i have a dream” to show what he thinks is right, and what should change which can grab peoples attention

I found this speech very wonderful and effective because of its words and expressions which were very persuasive also the manner which was very amazing because it stems from heart.