Language Arts Online Lesson 1

-Choosing a scene from Lamb to the Slaughter and adapt it for a play. Write the
script for the scene.

SCRIPT
Mary: "Are you tired Darling?"

Patrick: "Yes I am tired."

Patrick: Lift the glass and drink it in one swallow.

Mary: Do not look at Patrick.

Patrick: Lowered his arm, paused a moment, got up and went slowly to get more whisky.

Mary: Look at him,say " I will get it!"

Patrick: Turn around and say, "sit down". Get the whisky and walk back.

Mary: look at the glass and say, "Darling, shall I get your slippers?"

Patrick: "No"

Mary: Watch Patrick as he drink the strong whisky. Say,"I think its a shame that when a policemen gets to be as senior as you, they keep him walking about on his feet all day long."

Patrick: Ignore her and drink the whisky.

Mary: Bent your head and went on sewing. Say,"Darling, would you like to have some cheese? I haven't make any supper because its Thursday."

Patrick:"No"
Mary:"If you are too tired to eat out, its still not to late. There's enough meat and stuff in the freezer and you can have it right here without even moving!"Make an expression as if you are waiting for him to answer. After some time, say,"anyway, I go get some cheese and crackers for you first."

Patrick: I don't want it

Mary: Move uneasyily in your chair watching Patrick's face. Say," But you must have supper. I can do it here. I would like to do it. We can have lamb chops or pork. Anything you want darling."

Patrick: "Forget it"

Mary: Say,"But darling! You must eat! I'll fix it anyway and then you can have it or not, as you like." Make an angry and dissapointed expression while saying. Stand up and place the sewing on the table.

Patrick: Say,"Sit down. Go on, sit down."

Mary: Lower yourself and sit on the chair. Watch Patrick with bewildered eyes.

Similarities & differences between Lamb to the Slaughter and The Way Up To Heaven:

Both stories take place between couples, the female character love their husbands while the male characters show little or no love for them. The female characters didn’t seem to care much about how much their husband loved them. No matter how their husband treats them, they will still love their husband. Both women planned the murder. Both women loved their husband dearly put at the conflict of the story, they changed totally and no longer loved their husband, which is a drastic change in their personality.

In Lamb To The Slaughter, Patrick shows no love for his wife, Mary. In The Way Up To Heaven, Mr Foster tortures his wife by making her late. Normally Mrs Foster is very obsessed on being on time, however her husband always tries to get her to be late intentionally.
Mary kills her husband in one blow, with the lamb leg. Mrs Foster tortures her husband slowly, when her husband is trapped in the lift, she just left him there for six weeks while she was on holiday to die. Mary destroyed the evidence that was used to kill Patrick by feeding it to the policemen, the lamb leg. Mrs Foster did not destroy any evidence as there was no evidence in the first place, her husband suffocated in the lift. In other words Mr Foster died worse than Patrick.
Patrick found a new love and that was the reason of him leaving his wife. Mr Foster just disliked his wife but did not do anything drastic. Patrick was expecting a baby in a few months, whereas Mr Foster’s children were all grown up
Personally i think that Mary Maloney was more "humane" when killing her husband as the husband died immediately on the spot and did not suffer much. For Mrs Foster i think that she made her husband pay for what he did to her.

My first trip out of school,2010 (to SDC)

The world is never fair. How true can this statement be?

I missed a wonderful opportunity to gain precious ACE points yesterday because of a school trip! To gain the 2 points, we were suppose to attend all of the sessions in this program called "ANGLES" but unfortunately, a few classes in my consortium could not. The school had already booked tickets to the Singapore Discovery Centre for us and these tickets could not be refunded. Forgoing the opportunity of the 2 simply attainable ACE points, we set-off on our learning journey!

It was so fun at SDC! When we reached there, we went to the briefing room and learnt about the five defenses and why we does our country need them. After that, it was games time! We had to fill up our game cards to win attractive prices. For answering the questions in the card correcting i won myself a unique hand phone pouch that looks like a fireman uniform! All in all, it was a fun and enriching afternoon despite having to give away the 2 points. =)