Reflection on things that I have learned so far this year in Language Arts That Have Been Valuable for Me

I have learnt many new things in my LA lessons after 3 terms in school. Among them, I will highlight mainly 2 things that I have improved the most. They are my comprehension skills and my appreciation for poems.

When I first entered Hwa Chong, my comprehension skills were not very good. I usually encountered many problems while doing the comprehension assignments in my primary school. However,after Mr Lundberg taught us some skills to tackle comprehension, I found that I was able to answer the questions more easily and I did not struggle as much as before.

In the past, I also did not enjoy poems at all. I found that they were very boring and that they made no sense. After Mr Lundberg taught us about poems and shared with us some interesting poems in class, I enjoyed poems alot and also started writing my own poems. I also understand that poems have deeper meanings behind them and as I read more poems, I began to feel that I can understand more of the author's emotions and what he is thinking about.

Compulsary Blog Post 11 - 10 Steps Procedure For Snapshot Land

Step 2: Thoughts Of Title -
-Photos
-Fictional World
-Smiles
-People posing for actions
-Smiles
-Place where everything is stationary

Step 4: Words/Phrases which catches my attention-
-happy all the time
-smile and smile and smile
-sun shines all day long
-lovers stay in love forever
-permanenet delight
-no one dies, ever

Step 5: Figurative Language in the Poem-
-Snapshot land is the promised land - Metaphor
-smile and smile and smile - Repitition
-smooth sand , sun shines , sepia on sandboys - Alliteration

Step 6: Groups of Words Which Are Themetically Similar-
-sand, sea,sea-shore,buckets---beach
-lovers,couples ---relationship

Step 8: Intelligent Guesses on the Poem's Meaning-
-Informal
-Happiness
-Fictional

Step 9:Questions-
a)persona
b)public in general
c)happiness
d)neutral
e)free-verse gives the poet more freedom on how he writes the poem
f)understand the poem better

Step 10: Poet's Intent-
Talk about the happiness in snapshot land. Everything is perfect, like a paradise.