I felt so great when it was the first time I had a drama class. It is ‘Teaching the Language of Drama’. I was so excited that day because I thought we were going to perform a drama, but it did not happen. Our lecturer, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Malachi Edwin asked us to complete a task. He gave us worksheets consist of questions on point of view. We have to answer the questions but most of us already forgot the literary terms. Then, we were given a thick set of worksheets, a collection of extracts from short stories! It consists of eleven extracts and we have to identify what type of point of view are they. We were given only less than an hour to complete the task! How panic we were. The activities are to refresh our knowledge about literary terms. It was lucky because I still remember the terms after having a wonderful semester break. However, I think those activities are very useful for us as to recall what we had learnt before.
Oedipus Rex..
My children, generations of the living
In the line of Kadmos, nursed at his ancient hearth:
In supplication, with your boughs and garlands?
The breath of incense rises from the city
With a sound of prayer and lamentation.
- The Origin of Oedipus the King
My children, latest born to Cadmus old,
Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands
Branches of olive filleted with wool?
What means this reek of incense everywhere,
And everywhere laments and litanies?
-has been told in a story-telling fashion
In the line of Kadmos, nursed at his ancient hearth:
In supplication, with your boughs and garlands?
The breath of incense rises from the city
With a sound of prayer and lamentation.
- The Origin of Oedipus the King
My children, latest born to Cadmus old,
Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands
Branches of olive filleted with wool?
What means this reek of incense everywhere,
And everywhere laments and litanies?
-has been told in a story-telling fashion
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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I feel that the activities given by Dr Edwin is very meaningful to us, too because it helps us a lot to recall and know that actually the literary elements should be in our finger tips in order to become a literature teacher in the future. Although it is true, I was quite shock when we received a pile of texts which require us to read and answer questions. Well, we just take it as a practice for us to read fast and answer questions straight to the point since time is only one hour. It is a very good start for us to bring back our minds to literature knowledge after coming back from a long semester break.
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