Dragonwings (Earthquake)

It was the thirteen days after I had a horriable dream about the earthquake hit on Middle Kingdom. Just a little after A.M. demon time, I had gotten dressed and gone out to the pump to get some water. The morning was filled with that soft, gentle twilight of spring, when everything is filled with soft , dreamy colors and shapes, one of the pictures of the terriable dream was appeared in my brain, I suddenly saw the wood , stone , brick and the very earth became fluidlike. The pail beneath the pump jumped and rattled like a spider dancing on a hot stove. The ground deliberately seemed to slide right out from under me. I landed on my backhard enough to drive the wind ofrom my lungs. The whole world had became unglued. Our stable and Miss Whitlaw's house and the tenements to either side heaved and bobbed up and down, rising the ground like ships on a heavy sea. Down the alley mouth, Icould see the cobblestone street undulate and twist like a red-backed snake. I had almost been stunned , I shout loudly. My father heard my shout, he ran out more faster than before and asked me 'Hey, my son! What is the matter with you , are you okay? ' ' I don't know what happen, I saw many horriable things happen like there is an earhtquake!' I answered with my shaking voice. Then, my father quickly felt and observed the place carefully , he said ' Moon Shadow, it seem like nothing was happened, are you sick?' 'I think it must be my horriable dream', I answered. ' What are you saying?' Father asked curiously. Then I told all the things about the bad dream. Suddenly, Miss Whitlaw came out from her house and said in a horriable voice 'Your country had an earthquake a few days ago!' We all stood there for few minutes, then my father suddenly said in a surprise voice ' Our country had an earthquake, how did you know it Miss Whitlaw?' ' I have heard it from the other friends,' she said. Father and I went to the train station and tried to go on train without the demon saw us. Finally, we successed.

Secondary school class sizes cut

This article talked about the education of Hong Kong. Our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang pledged in his policy address to introduce small-class teaching in secondary and primary school in October last year. The education minister announced long-awaiting reductions in the size of classes in secondary schools will begin next year last Thursday. The maximum size of Form One classes reduced from 40 to 38 next year and to 36 in 2010. Each school must admit enough Form One students to fill three classes, otherwise, the school may need to closure.

After reading this article, I think cutting class into small size is a good idea because there will be more classes to keep schools open, more control leads to acudemic perforance and more equal classes. Teachers also don't need to mark too many books and don't need to take care many students, only takes care of 25 students.

However, there are few problems on it such as schools may need more space and resorces for students, students can only meet very few friends and more ineffective teaches teaching. In the famous schools, they may think breaking the big classes into small classes will make the numbers of students who get top results decrease. Therefore, I think the government may need to arrange this carefully.

Computer Lesson(21/4)

Today, I learnt how to type letters correctly. I also went to the typeonline.co.um to practise typing letters: A ,S , D ,F, G ,H, J ,K ,L for many times. I think my typing habbit was improved. I surprised that I can type letters faster than before!

History Homework(18/4)

Five Concept

1.Imaginative
2.Creative
3.Sensitive to society's needs
4.Breaking from the past, the old ways
5.Prescient/Foresight

Hong Kong don't foster and promote those qualities that we consider paramount in order to be a good inventor. I think Methodist College just foster on Imaginative and Creative in these five concept. It is because we have Art and Music lesson, we need to think and create some special things. Therefore, those can train our creativity and imagination. We also need them in our English and Chinese lesson because we always write many composition. As for the other three concept: Sensitive to society's needs, Breaking from the past, the old ways and Prescient/Foresight, I think Methodist College didn't pay much attention on them.

History Homework(11/4)

1.Which revolution does Hong Kong need ?
Hong Kong needs Political Revolution. There are two reasons:
1. We want to have a general election of the Chief Executive and the legislative. If we have a general election, we can choose one who we think he can represent us to explain our opinions to China and can be a good Chief Executive.
2. We can correct the rule of laws in Hong Kong ourselves such as Election Acts, Environment Acts and Popularity.
2.What are five basic qualities that a good inventor might have?
The five basic qualities that a good inventor might have are:
1. Ability to think
2. Open mind
3. Creativity
4. Hard working
5. Willing to try

Number the stars

There are three main characters in this story.They are Annemarie Johansen, her little sister,Kirsti Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen. They both have different personality, virtues and defects. Annemarie is good at running and she is clam when there were troubles. Ellen is not good at running and she is not brave enough when comparing with Annemarie but she is very kind and nice. Kirsti is a simple, innocent and honest little girl.

The Five History Questions

1. How did the colonists unite America ?
On 4 th July,1776, the 13 colonies proclaimed ' The Declaration of Independence' to unite America.
2.How did the legislature take part in the structure of the federal government ?
The Legislature is one of the structure of the federal government. It is a congress. There are two departments in it. They are the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate stands for the states and the House of Representatives stands for the people's interests in the States. They makes laws and can impeach the President.
3.How did the American revolution happen ?
The American revolution was happened because of two events :

1.On 16 th December,1773, some colonists went on board some British ship into the sea to protest againist the tax on tea. After that, the British government passed the Intolerable Acts to punish those colonists who participated in this event.
2.Britian refused the 13 colonists for end the Intolerable Acts.
4.Why did the people in the Enlightenment object to absolute power ?
It is because they didn't have freedom of speech.
5.Explain one of the British acts that created economic discontent the Amercian colonists.
' No free trade ' is one of the British acts that created economic discontent the American colonists. It created economic discontent because the 13 colonies wanted to have freedom on trade, didn't just had trade trade eith Britain.

the differences and similarities in the economic and political contexts that the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony faced.

Economic
The differences of the economic between the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony were the 13 colonies did not free in trade, however the Hong Kong colony was free in trade. Britain also helped Hong Kong to develop their own development economic but the 13 colonies didn't. There wasn't have the similarity in economic.
Political
The differences of political between the 13 colonies and the Hong Kong colony were Hong Kong no need to pay for tax but the 13 colonies needed to. The rules in Hong Kong were also relatively much fair than the 13 colonies. There were three similarities between them. First, they both had a governor and local council. Second, they both didn't have representation of their own. Finally, no armies were built by colonies.

Ocean Park (7/3)

Last Friday was the moat wonderful day in last week. We went to Ocean Park to have a couse about bamboo eaters and play for a whole day. This is the first time I went to Ocean Park with my classmates. It is very good because I can play whatever I like with my classmates or some games I had never played before and share our experience with each others.

I had learnt more about Giant Panda habitat and the Dolphin skeleton. I was happy that I had a chance for seeing the faeces of Ying Ying/Le Le and the real dolphin skeletion of Deeper. I had also learnt about how to distinguish the animals' eating habits.

This is the first time I can learn things in the Ocean Park. It is a great experience that I have never had before! I think we need to leave some times for eating next time because this time we forgot to have lunch while we were playing.

The three questions

The three questions are:

1.Did you remember which kinds of people you could see the most when you were walking on the street?

2.What do you think about why there is an aging population problem in Hong Kong?

3.Do you know what cause this aging population?

Aging Population

Today, I went to Yau Ma Tei to interview about the problem of aging population. Before interview people, I thought interviewing people was easilier than investigation of the questionnaire to people. However, when we asked someone worked in department store, almost of them refused because of they were working . Luckily, some of them were very kind, they answered our questions and provided many information for us.
In this group work, I have learnt how to invite and talk with a strange people. I think I need to be more initiative for talking with a strange people next time.

Competer Lesson(18/2)

In this competer lesson, I do many about Flash.We make a teacher buy some food for the student to eat and the students are taking Exam.
I think we can deserve B grade because we didn't know some funtions of flash.

History Homework(5/2)

Hello, my name is Christiana Florence. I am an Italian. I lived and was born in Rome on 24th December, 1689. It is a special day because it is also Christmas' Eve.

I had a dream when I was a little child. I want to become a writer and a painter. In fact, I had a talent in in both writing and painting since I got many awards during my childhood. If my dream comes true, I could express my thinking of about art and religious through my words and painting.

When I was twenty, my dream came true, my first book was published. The responese was good The following years, I published many books and pictures such as 'Jesus's twelve disciples' and 'Ninty-nine angels'. I became a famous writer and painter. Nobles and churches always appointed me to paint pictures for their churches or castles. One of the most famous pictures of mine was 'Jesus is back'. People still apprecate and it even after I died.

When I looked back for my life, I felt really greatful and meaningful for all I did. I didn't regret to become a writer and painter during the Middle Age.

Dragonwings

I took this photo on 12th Feburary in the afternoon. In this photo, I was reading Dragonwings Ch. 5-8. This photo was taken by my father.

History Homework(28/1)

Michelangelo,Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci are the famous people in Renaissance. They were painters, poets, music composers, architects, scientists inventors, sculptors or writers . They invented, made, discovered, built, painted and wrote things on that time. At that time , Art became more attach importance to the society.These Renaissance men are different from the typical characters that we find in the Middle Ages because their society was different compare with the Middle Age.

Weekend Homework(19/1)

If I was Moon Shadow, I would feel scary, lonely and worry about what will happen
the next second or minute.

When I was six years old, I had an unforgetable experience. One sunny day, my
parents and I went to the beach. We played happily and made a sand castle.However,when I was enjoying to decorate the castle, I felt the environment around me was very
quiet suddenly. I looked up and found that my parents disappeared. I looked around and tried to find them. I shouted their names loudly but no one answered. At that moment, I felt scary and lonely. I asked myself ' Is Mum and Dad don't like me and decide to leave me here? Will they come back soon? I don't like this place. I don't want to stay here for a long time.' I begined to cry. Suddenly, I heard someone was laughing and they were my parents! Than, my parents told me that they were stay behind the tree which behind me and they had just told me that they were playing hide-and-sike with me before but I didn't listen. After this 'horriable' experience, I learned to pay attention the things around me.

History Homework(17/1)

I think our hierarchy is the same with the Medieval Society.
The most powerful is our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the following is the Administration bureau, the next is the Legislative bureau, after that is the Security bureau and finally is the common people.

In Medieval Society, king was the most powerful one of the empire and every people no matter you were nobles, knights, peasants, craftmen or farmers, they must obey him,otherwise would be killed. They had no chance to express their opinion. However nowadays, the chief executive, Donald Tsang is not the only one who has power because everyone in Hong Kong has their chanceto expresstheir opinion. When we thought Mr. Tsang do not do well, we can protest or write letters to tell Mr. Tsang our opinions.If we break the law, our chief executive will not kill us, just send us to law court to judge us to do somethings can contribute the society or to be sent in prison.

A project about Yau Ma Tei

Script (Part 1)
S: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Yau Ma Tei. I am Sunny.
K: I am Karen. This time we will bring you to Prospeprous Garden.
S: Prospeprous Garden is a middle income residential area. There are five blocks and divided into two sites.
K: The first three blocks are in site 1, another 2 are in site two.Site 1 was built in 15-16 years ago. Site 2 was built in about 10 years ago.
K: It’s a medium-size residential area in Yau Ma Tei. It gave a lot of residential area for Yau Ma Tei.
S: There are less entertainment facilities. There are two parks only. Also there are some facilities for elderly. For commercial...
K: There are one supermarket, two learning centre, one fast food stall, one restaurant and one cinema.
S: As there are less Entertainment facilities near this garden.
K: The Yau Ma Tei Police Office is opposite this garden. Also there is a police library and a community centre.
S: Later on, we will tell you more about the funtre development of Yau Ma Tei that effect to this garden.
K: See you later.
Script (part 2)
K: Welcome back. As we know, the government is planning for the new railway to Hunghom.
S: For now, people here go to Hunghom can travel by bus 212 or 30x, but these buses are usually crowded and it takes time to wait.
K: People need 30 mins to travel from Yau Ma Tei to Hunghom. When the railway is finished. The time will be shorten. This may help the people who lived in Yau Ma Tei.
S: After walking around this garden. Although there are not many facilities here, the facilities are still suitable for the resident. I hope they will build a club house.
K: When I walk around here, there are many trees. Outside is quite hot now but it’s cool inside. Also, the people are friendly. When they see their neighbourly, they will say ‘Good morning’ or ‘How are you?’ I like the environment here.
S: That’s the end for our video. We would like to thank Hilda for the information and our cameraman Stephanie.
K: See you next time!
SK: Bye!