Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Presentation

Nothing has ever happened for the past few weeks. Things were in control mostly because it was presentation week and there was no teaching at all. The only real teaching starts this Thursday and it is going to be something that I hate to teach. One is because it is Text Production and Two is because it is literature and the kids can never seem to be able to grasp the foundation of what literature is all about. Is literature really that hard? I thought literature is a form of an art that doesn't need prior knowledge to understand and literature is always something that can be both right and wrong at the same time coz there are no facts involve in any issues. Is all about how one sees it? If that is the case, then why do the kids find it hard to understand?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I quite like both but i dun quite understand it either. XD

i guess, to science classes, literature jz doesn't make sense. Sometimes i thought, why do i even bother to learn it? itz not like i'm gonna march up to ppl and say 'Thou art....' in daily life.

jz the perspective of diff ppl towards it gua..

Mic. Tham said...

it's a matter of interest. In fact, it's an easy subject if you have the heart to learn it. But it kinda go against the trend of thinking for today's people, we want something real more exciting and challenging, never before we know learning literature can be quite enlightening. And "literature" possesses such a boring impression that definitely scare away potential learners.

KevinG said...

Literature never follows the rules and the issues that are being discussed are usually not the common one. that makes literature fun.

Anonymous said...

To me, Literature is something interesting if the story is interesting. If the plot doesn't capture my attention, then, I would find it difficult. It is like consuming food that you don't like and have got no choice. However, if you can open up to the students about the wonders of it, they might just go with the flow and start to like literature; subsequently, finding it a piece of cake when understanding it.

L.R.~