In my opinion, eventhough this movie is actually classified as an ‘educational movie’, I found it very interesting and I really enjoyed watching it. Well, movies were made as tools to entertain people. I thought this movie would be a boring movie as it involves with black community and I thought it would be streets gangster or whatsoever, apparently I was wrong. This movie has its entertainment value and it actually very fun to watch because it’s about something I am not familiar with; spelling bee. How many people can actually spell words just like chewing gum? Akeelah did it and it bedazzled me with words I never heard of!
Of course, the movie taught me how to be more independent and to be hardworking in our life. Akeelah, who is a girl lives with her mother and she lost her father, decided to enter a competition which is people assume she’s not gonna make it. However, with help from her teacher, Mr. Larabee and the support from her family, she has opened people’s eyes to show that she actually can do it as other people, too. I wouldn’t know how she can actually memorise all the bombastic words and prove the society that with ghetto life, she can be a champion. So, basically, this movie acts as one of my inspiration for me to learn more, and of course, to be a better teacher in the future.
I never entered any spelling bee competition before, so I have no experience in the competition. However, this movie reminds me of my secondary teacher named Pn. Nursehah. She always tell me to be a good person and she helped me a lot with my English. I mean, she taught me how to speak well, the pronunciation and the spelling as well. I know her very well and we have become like mother and son. I thanked her for making me a good person and gave me so much confidence in my life. I remembered all the sweet memories I had with her and I wish she had a great life nowadays.
We have to be hardworking to achieve what we want in our life. Akeelah wants to win the national spelling bee competition and she did it. So, basically what I wanna say here, we have to be positive and be realistic to get what we want. We can’t simply hope that everything will be like we planned. It’s not gonna happen. So, despite of having problems in our life, I told myself to be more positive and do what you wanna do. Greatest luck comes with greatest hardship. This is my axiom of life and it is shown in this movie. When you work hard and be sincere in every effort you did, anything that you venture, you will succeed because you deserve it. We are who we are, and we are the one who decide our future.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
The dog and its shadow
There are a lot of children stories out there. I have read, listened and watched many stories and all of them are very interesting. I like the story called “The Dog and its shadow”. It has many versions and this has been my favourite story since I was a kid.
There is a dog called Dodo. Dodo lives in the bushes near the park. He doesn’t have many friends because Dodo is a one stuck-up dog. Dodo loves to talk a walk in the park. Sometimes, he got foods from the dustbin and from people’s leftovers. But, Dodo loves bone so much.
One day, Dodo feels so hungry. It’s been two days since got his lunch. Then, Dodo decided to talk a walk to find some foods. Then, Dodo found a bone, a big one. Dodo feels so happy and he planned to go back home. During his walk to getting home, Dodo passes a small bridge. Suddenly, Dodo sees another dog with a bigger bone. Dodo feels that he wanted the bone as well, so he barks at the other dog. Then, the bone at Dodo’s mouth fell to the river. Then Dodo realized that the dog that he saw is actually his shadow. Because of his greediness, Dodo lost his bone and he didn’t get any lunch for the day. Poor Dodo.
So, moral of the story is, don’t be greedy because it will make us lose something. Like Dodo, he wanted to have a bigger bone, and finally, he didn’t get anything. So, besides the moral value that is shown in the story, I can tell that the story is actually a simple yet meaningful story.
The story is relevant until now because we live in a society which leads money and fame to be around us. So, don’t be too greedy and wanted to have everything in this world because we’re not going to have everything.
For this story, I think that it suits for most of the children. It has good moral values in it and I think the children will learn something by reading the story. By learning all these good values, the children will be able to be a good person in the future.
There is a dog called Dodo. Dodo lives in the bushes near the park. He doesn’t have many friends because Dodo is a one stuck-up dog. Dodo loves to talk a walk in the park. Sometimes, he got foods from the dustbin and from people’s leftovers. But, Dodo loves bone so much.
One day, Dodo feels so hungry. It’s been two days since got his lunch. Then, Dodo decided to talk a walk to find some foods. Then, Dodo found a bone, a big one. Dodo feels so happy and he planned to go back home. During his walk to getting home, Dodo passes a small bridge. Suddenly, Dodo sees another dog with a bigger bone. Dodo feels that he wanted the bone as well, so he barks at the other dog. Then, the bone at Dodo’s mouth fell to the river. Then Dodo realized that the dog that he saw is actually his shadow. Because of his greediness, Dodo lost his bone and he didn’t get any lunch for the day. Poor Dodo.
So, moral of the story is, don’t be greedy because it will make us lose something. Like Dodo, he wanted to have a bigger bone, and finally, he didn’t get anything. So, besides the moral value that is shown in the story, I can tell that the story is actually a simple yet meaningful story.
The story is relevant until now because we live in a society which leads money and fame to be around us. So, don’t be too greedy and wanted to have everything in this world because we’re not going to have everything.
For this story, I think that it suits for most of the children. It has good moral values in it and I think the children will learn something by reading the story. By learning all these good values, the children will be able to be a good person in the future.
Edwina the Emu
Children should be exposed to the environment where story and tales are lingering around them as they grew up with them. So, one child has said this to me, “when the story begins with ‘once upon a time’, the ending must come with ‘happily ever after’.” So, this shows how much story and tales play a big role in children’s life. Dr. Jaya always has a bright idea to entertain us. So, he came out with children stories. He read two superb stories for all 50 of us. The two stories are “Edwina the Emu” and “The Gruffalo”. Now, here is my personal review of both of the story.
Edwina the Emu is a about a family which they actually got their first eggs after they got married. So, the mother named Edwina, is very worry of her children, decided to get a job in order to make her family’s life better. She asked her husband, Edward to stay at the nest and look for the new eggs. She had gone for many job interviews and she didn’t any jobs at first. She tried her luck by being a ballet dancer and a chimney sweeper. At last, she got a job as a waiter. However, she got mad with the customer because the customer ordered eggs and she thought the customer wanted to eat all her eggs. She quits the job and luckily, all her eggs are safe as well as her husband.
The main character of this story would be Edwina, the mother of the children. She took responsibility to be a breadwinner in her family. She tried so hard to get a job and after a while, she realized that the best job for her is to be a mother. So, she decided to stay at the nest and agree that Edward will get a job.
Sheena Knowles is a genius person. She used a rhythmic way to make sound interesting to attract children to keep their attention. Besides that, the graphic and animation are beautiful and the words choice is simple. This will make the children to comprehend the whole storyline better. I definitely will recommend this book to all parents who have little kids. In addition, Knowles knows that children are very well connected with animals in their life, so, with this kind of story, it’s surely will help kids to read more books in the future.
Yeek Yeek Yeek!
Edwina the Emu is a about a family which they actually got their first eggs after they got married. So, the mother named Edwina, is very worry of her children, decided to get a job in order to make her family’s life better. She asked her husband, Edward to stay at the nest and look for the new eggs. She had gone for many job interviews and she didn’t any jobs at first. She tried her luck by being a ballet dancer and a chimney sweeper. At last, she got a job as a waiter. However, she got mad with the customer because the customer ordered eggs and she thought the customer wanted to eat all her eggs. She quits the job and luckily, all her eggs are safe as well as her husband.
The main character of this story would be Edwina, the mother of the children. She took responsibility to be a breadwinner in her family. She tried so hard to get a job and after a while, she realized that the best job for her is to be a mother. So, she decided to stay at the nest and agree that Edward will get a job.
Sheena Knowles is a genius person. She used a rhythmic way to make sound interesting to attract children to keep their attention. Besides that, the graphic and animation are beautiful and the words choice is simple. This will make the children to comprehend the whole storyline better. I definitely will recommend this book to all parents who have little kids. In addition, Knowles knows that children are very well connected with animals in their life, so, with this kind of story, it’s surely will help kids to read more books in the future.
Yeek Yeek Yeek!
The Gruffalo
When you read the title, you can’t help it but ask yourself what is “The Gruffalo?” Oh dear, it’s a children story! Julia Donaldson has come out with this very interesting story where the title itself will make people wonder, that is actually a Gruffalo? Is it really exists? Well, let me tell you what is “The Gruffalo”
Well, the story is about a clever mouse that had a walk in the jungle. Somewhere (at different points) and somehow during the walk, it came across three preys who were the fox, owl and snake. Afraid of being eaten by these animals, the mouse came out with a story and a creature named the Gruffalo. The mouse said that it wanted to see the Gruffalo and after the mouse described what Gruffalo’s look like, all the animals were scared and they didn’t want to eat the mouse. At the end, the mouse actually meets the creature named The Gruffalo which it taught only in its imagination. The Gruffallo wanted to eat the mouse but the mouse said that it is the scariest animal in the forest. To prove the statement, it brought Gruffallo all along way back and the animals ran away when they saw the Gruffallo. But the Gruffallo doesn’t know that the other animals are afraid of it and not the mouse, so he fled at last.
The main character in this story is the mouse, which can be categorized as tiny, cunning and an intelligent mouse. It told stories to the animals that wanted to eat it and eventually, all those animals didn’t. This tiny little mouse is actually same as the Kancil in the story “Sang Kancil dan Sang Buaya” in Malaysia.
I bet children must like the story because the storyline is simple and easy to understand. A mouse is known as a tiny and helpless creature. So, when the mouse won the ‘battle’ in the jungle so survive, the children will be happy as they imagine that they are same as the mouse, tiny and helpless creature. This masterpiece of Donaldson is very impressing. Her imagination to create The Gruffalo is extraordinary. Not only that, her idea to name as The Gruffalo; a name which never existed is amazing too.
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