Learning Log 3

During the last lesson, Mrs Woo used her number selector to select the groups for the witches demonstration. I was quite happy with my group as my group members were people I knew I could work with.  I am quite excited as I have never done something like this before - acting as a witch and I am definitely looking forward to practicing with my group.

The lesson on Act 1, Scene 2 was a bit rushed as our class was behind time. I found the lesson interesting as Act 1 Scene 2 was mainly about when Macbeth was at war. I learnt that Macbeth was very brave. I also found that the weapons they used for the war very interesting as it is very different from what we use nowadays. I found that the original text was really hard to read. It is really different from the language we use today.

The group discussion on the comic grid was interesting as I heard other ways of summarising the story into one sentence. This is going to be quite a task for me as I am not the best in drawing but I hope to do my best as this assignment will be counted in our SA1. 

Learning Log 2

This week, we had our classmates act as the three witches from Macbeth. I thought Faisha totally rocked as her voice was really witchy. As for me, I need to figure out my witch voice and work on it. I think that it's a little nerve-wrecking when you're actually performing as the whole class is watching you and you're afraid that they might laugh but that was definitely NOT the case for me as I was laughing myself at my group's performance as for some strange reason, I found it absolutely hilarious. I definitely need to work on controlling my laughter. As for the other groups that performed, I thought they still weren't too sure of using their witch voice as they were embarrassed. I can't blame them as I felt the same way too. All in all, I think there's still room for improvement.

I thought the discussion on superstitions was really interesting as I heard of suerstitions I never knew existed such as ' step on a crack, break your mother's back '. There are many superstitions from different cultures and I'm really interested in them. When I got home that day, I googled some superstitions and found many new ones.

Today, a few of my classmates presented some of their superstitions and I learnt of many new superstitions. Not many people believe in superstitions but I do. I find them very interesting, especially when they're related to ghosts.