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BOring/ 4:33 PM
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Hello, todae was quite boring. We practically had to fold cranes for an hour for the Cranes to Grains project. (juz to get CIP points) We had an English debate. Well er... it was not too bad. The MOTION (looks like I learned a new meaning for that word) was should heritage tours to places such as Little India be made compulsory to all p6 pupils? Woon Wei mentioned that if our parents should bring us there, they would not be abl to tell us EVERYTHING about the place. Well Woon Wei, have you heard of a word that starts with I called internet? You can always surf the net to find out infomation before going. My opinions about this is that I feel that heritage tours should not be made compulsory to all p6 pupils. The word compulsory means something that you have to do no matter wad. Heritage when made compulsry by a teacher means that she is forcing us to go no matter wad. The word forcing is a word that will change people's mindset. That will make students very reluctant to go. Also, the time frame given is short and we haveto visit so many places so it is vey rush, hence making the whole trip meaningless as we spend most of our time moving around. O ya and then still got the worksheets. Most students do the worksheet just to pass social studies. After that the worksheets get stuffed somewhere of ends up in the dustbin. I feel that we should use other methods instead of just focusing on heritage tours. Heritage tours are important but I still think that they should nt be made compulsory.
A person learns better when they are interested or willing. So why don't we take our time to learn each others culture. When you are at a heritage tour, you are usually stumped down by many many many facts. Is it possible to remember everything. the answer is no right? So why try to learn so much at a heritage tour shwn learning about different races culture is an ongoing process? <3 Elaine |
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