FACTS vs OPINION!

TUESDAY,8/01/2012

Today our class as usual at U214 (4.00p.m~6.00p.m) Today Miss Zu will check or blog for the first time ever! I am so excited and nervous too because there must be many mistakes with grammar and the sentences structure. That’s why I am nervous. Since, we have to learn another lesson for today so, Miss Zu just randomly picks the name. Nadia Atiqah! She is the lucky student because miss choose her to view her blog. After check it one by one entry, Miss Zu said that her entry is too short and not really detail about the activity that we did in the class. Then, Miss Zu explains the proper way to reflex about what happen in the class and to put it in our blog. Miss Zu hopes that we will not repeat the mistake again next time. For today lesson, we learn about how to differentiate between fact and opinion. Actually, we are already learned it on last semester but still Miss Zu it again to us. After done explain it we do some exercise to prove that we are really understood about the fact and the opinion. Besides that, we also play game. Yes, game. Yeahhhhh…We have to perform six groups and picked the thing in the box that Miss Zu already brings it. For my group we choose Johnson Baby Powder. The task is we have to make fact and opinion about the thing and other students have to guess it how many facts and how many opinions. Our class dismissed at 6 o’clock. Let’s go to the “Pasar Malam”. Bye readers!

CHOOSING TOPIC

Assalamualaikum everyone..Are you still remember that I had mention before which is I need to find an essay topic for the term paper? My partner (Amalina) and I decide to do topic about the Decreasing number of academic performance among the secondary school students. Actually, we have several topics as a backup if Miss Zu does not approve our topic but since she approves it, we really feel glad and carry on with the topic. Before we present it, I already asked Miss Zu about the Obesity topic but she said it too common and many students had done it. Then, we try with the topic I said above and she approves it. Because of we do not enough material, so, Miss Zu asked us find it again. The process of finding the materials is DIFFICULT. I really do not know what to do. My partner and I still keep trying to find the material. The difficult part for us is when we want to find from the database and I think everyone face the same difficulty like us. Maybe. Lastly, we find it. Alhamdulillah. We find the material from online newspaper, online magazine, journal and from the internet itself. So, the result as below:

                                       

                                        BROAD TOPIC

             Problems of decreasing number in academic performance.

                                      

                                        NARROW TOPIC

The problems and solutions of decreasing number in academic performance among students in the school.

                                        

                                          FOCUS TOPIC

The problems and solutions of decreasing number in academic performance among secondary students in the school.

While below is the some of sources of the material:

Type of material and name	Internet		Newspaper (The Star)
Title of article	1)Tips improving academic 2)Academic achievement		New deals prove a big deal.
Author(s)	1)Pam 2)Kellaghan,Sam Redding		Hariati Azizan.
Publisher	---		---
Year of publication	----		12/29/2012
Isbn	---		---
Website address(online sources)	1)http://voices.yahoo.com/making-comeback-tips-improving-aacademic-189797.html?cat=4 2)http://family.jrank.org/pages11/Academic-Achievement-Family-Background-Family-Structure.html		New deals proves a big deal-Nation/The Star Online
Date of retrieval(online sources)	27/12/2012		27/12/2012
Volume number, issue number and page(s)		3

Type of material and name	Magazine(Pacific *Standard, Exceptional Children)
Title of article	1)School uniforms and academic performances. 2)Styles of thinking,abilities and academic performances.
Author(s)	1)Eric Hayden 2)Grigorenko, Elena, Robert
Publisher	1)PSMag.com 2)Council for exceptional children.
Year of publication	1)November 23,2009 2)  3/22/1997
Isbn	-----
Website address(online sources)	1)www.psmag.com/culture-society/no-uniform-solution-5609 2)www.freepatentsonline.com/article/exceptional-children/19200718
Date of retrieval(online sources)	27/12/2012
Volume number, issue number and page(s)	2

Type of material and name	Journal
Title of article	Graduate school of developement studies.
Author(s)	Tadesse Shiferaw
Publisher	Institute of social studies
Year of publication	2009
Isbn
Website address(online sources)
Date of retrieval(online sources)	27/12/2012
Volume number, issue number and page(s)	9