a) My personal targets for English.
My personal targets for English are to score a B3. This is because i did not do very well for my previous English exam and i scored a B4. I wish to improve little by little so that i could catch up with the work and gradually become a professional in English :D
I hope to improve one grade in my work and my attitude towards achieving my goals. Doing more assessments, reading more books, newspaper articles, speaking frequent English as home could be a source of helping me improve and i look forward to the day when i could speak fluent, appropriate and strong English.
b) Book Review
Author: Judy Blume
Title: Tiger Eyes
Book Review done by: Krystal Kwan Hui Yun (9)
Class: 1E2
Date: 1st June
Brief Summary on Tiger Eyes:
Tiger Eyes is a very interesting story about a girl named Davey. She lived in New York and she is 15 years old living with her younger brother age 7 and her mother. The murder of her father shot in his chest means Davey's life can never be the same again. Her mother too, gets traumatized by the incident that they can never have their father again. Their family couldn't continue to live in haunts and decided to move to their aunt's house in New Mexico. Their aunt and uncle were giving warm welcomes to them. However, there were many rules made by them such as a must to wear helmets when cycling, time limits to go home, going to school on regular basis etc. Davey could not bear with the many rules and had frequent quarrels and shouts with her uncle, one time, her uncle even slapped her.
One day she met a mysterious young man only known as Wolf and they have been meeting each other frequently at the canol talking. Wolf's father was hospitalized and passed away, which Davey was in charge of taking care of him as a nurse and met coincidentally. She also meets her new best friend Jane, who is a alcoholic but does not know it and her widow mother meets a young man whom Davey disliked and named him as 'The Nerd'. They were so close to each other Davey thought they were getting married, but her mother decides to go home and start a life afresh. Their aunt and uncle reluctantly let them go and Davey left letters to Wolf in the canol, hoping he would come back in time to see them.
My 5 items for the book review:
This is the Glowing Rock that Wolf gave Davey before he left to represent her eyes like tiger eyes that shone from brown to orange. Wolf also, did not know Davey's real name and Davey was known to him as Tiger. Wolf sent this Glowing Rock as a parcel on valentine's day.
This is a alcohol drink that Davey's best friend, Jane has been drinking. Jane is a usually shy and timid pretty girl, she doesn't talk that much. She drinks alcohol because she wants to show a brave side of herself and she thinks that that is the only way she could communicate well with people. Drinking alchohol everyday made her an alcoholic and only Davey warned her.
This is a picture of a hospital. This represents the hospital that Wolf's father had passed away in it with joy and with love. Davey and Wolf also met up coincidentally here when Wolf's father presented her the toy bear before he died. Davey went to the clinic a few times too when she vomited in school twice. Davey was working in a hospital too.
These are lizards that Wolf and Davey had seen together in the canol. Before Wolf left, he said 'Los lagartijos Corren' to Davey and Davey did not know what it meant. So she seek her Italian teacher for help and it turned out to be 'When The Lizards Run'. Which means summer. So she came back to the canol to look for Wolf every summer but all she saw was lizards.
This is a picture of a helmet which Davey has been forced to wear whenever she has a chance to go cycling. She thinks that this is a very embarrassing thing to do because people on the streets do not wear helmets except her. To her aunt and uncle, safety always comes first.Reflection:
I personally think that this book is a very interesting book as it contains many facts and thoughts about how the characters in this book felt and how interesting they made it to be with so many things happening in a day. The way they described the characters were very realistic and it always gives me an emotional feeling. I enjoyed most about the part when Davey meets a mysterious young man whom she doesn not even know his real name. They seemed like a couple to me :D In this book, it gave alot of great and rich volcabulary that sometimes secretly encouraged me to look into the dictionary for them. I learnt alot from this book and how people reacted when they are under certain pressure. There are many things happening in one day. :D
Read it! It's interesting! :DDD
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