A new world calls across the ocean
A new world calls across the sky
A new world whispers in the shadows
Time to fly, time to fly
Lyrics from Opening: The New World
from the musical Songs for a New World
by Jason Robert Brown
A new world calls across the sky
A new world whispers in the shadows
Time to fly, time to fly
Lyrics from Opening: The New World
from the musical Songs for a New World
by Jason Robert Brown
ACE students' Works
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These are the writing assignments of the Advanced Class in English (ACE) Students. The students were given time to write and edit their works before posting these works. Comments were given by the partner and by the teacher.
ACE Student Work 1: Picture prompt ANP
Given the assignment to bring to school a picture of a memorable event, the ACE student wrote an autobiographical narrative paragraph (ANP) of at least 8 sentences that was based on the photo. After writing Version 1.0, the paragraph was shown to a classmate in order for the writer to receive feedback of at least 5 questions from a reader/audience. Version 2.0 is a revision taking into account the questions of the reader/audience.
ACE Student Work 2: ANP Based on a Graphic Organizer/Flow Chart
This time the ACE student wrote an autobiographical narrative paragraph (ANP) of 10-12 sentences that was developed from a flowchart graphic organizer. After writing Version 1.0, the paragraph was shown to a classmate in order for the writer to receive feedback from a reader/audience. Version 2.0 is a revision taking into account the comments of the reader/audience.
ACE Student Work 3: What is my brokenness?
Given the reading assignment on Helen Keller and the research assignment to learn more about one disabled person who is inspiring, the ACE student has to answer the following questions:
a) What is your brokenness? How are you "disabled"? Describe your brokenness or disability in at least 4 sentences. Be sure to explain how you are "broken" or "disabled."
b) What has your brokenness taught you about yourself and/or about others (be specific about who the others are...family, friends, etc)? Explain in at least 2 sentences.
c) How can you, because of your imperfections, inspire others? Explain in at least 2 sentences.
a) What is your brokenness? How are you "disabled"? Describe your brokenness or disability in at least 4 sentences. Be sure to explain how you are "broken" or "disabled."
b) What has your brokenness taught you about yourself and/or about others (be specific about who the others are...family, friends, etc)? Explain in at least 2 sentences.
c) How can you, because of your imperfections, inspire others? Explain in at least 2 sentences.
ACE Student Work 4: Shelfilipino
If a "selfie" is a picture that you take of yourself, and a "shelfie" is a picture you take of yourself and of your shelf of books, then a "shelFilipino" is a picture you take of yourself and of your shelf of Filipino books.
The Advanced Class in English students were asked to create "shelFilipino" pics and then to write a reflection on their reading habits in regards Filipino books. Here are the guide questions for the reflection papers and here are the "shelFilipino" posts of the class.
The Shelfilipino paper is a reflection paper. It is a ten to twelve (10-12) sentence paragraph written by the student which will answer the following guide questions:
i) What are the kinds of Filipiniana books that you have in your home and which of these have you read?
ii) Which Filipiniana books did you read which were required by school? Would you have read them if you were not required to?
iii) What are you looking for in a Filipiniana book that you would want to read?
iv) What do you like about the Filipiniana books you own?
v) What Filipiniana book do you intend to read this year and why are you looking forward to reading it?
The Advanced Class in English students were asked to create "shelFilipino" pics and then to write a reflection on their reading habits in regards Filipino books. Here are the guide questions for the reflection papers and here are the "shelFilipino" posts of the class.
The Shelfilipino paper is a reflection paper. It is a ten to twelve (10-12) sentence paragraph written by the student which will answer the following guide questions:
i) What are the kinds of Filipiniana books that you have in your home and which of these have you read?
ii) Which Filipiniana books did you read which were required by school? Would you have read them if you were not required to?
iii) What are you looking for in a Filipiniana book that you would want to read?
iv) What do you like about the Filipiniana books you own?
v) What Filipiniana book do you intend to read this year and why are you looking forward to reading it?
ACE Student Work 5: Prayer and Matins
Inspired by these two Filipino poems, the ACE gentlemen were asked to write their own Prayer and Matins which we use for our daily prayer.
Prayer
by Francisco Arcellana
Close all open things, Lord.
Open all closed things.
All those who have long received, let them give.
All those who have long given, let them receive.
All those too long apart, let them come together.
All those too long together, sunder them.
Let the wise be fools for once, Lord,
And let the fools speak their minds.
Affirm the long-denied, Lord.
Fulfill the unfulfilled.
Forest Matins
by Bliss Cua-Lim
Trees are best at prayer.
They lift their bough towards Him.
And sing their canticles in green.
They are proud, unbowed.
Their faces upturned, their roots in soil, they live well,
And life, the whole of life, is a prayer.
Children be like to the trees in your prayers.
Prayer
by Francisco Arcellana
Close all open things, Lord.
Open all closed things.
All those who have long received, let them give.
All those who have long given, let them receive.
All those too long apart, let them come together.
All those too long together, sunder them.
Let the wise be fools for once, Lord,
And let the fools speak their minds.
Affirm the long-denied, Lord.
Fulfill the unfulfilled.
Forest Matins
by Bliss Cua-Lim
Trees are best at prayer.
They lift their bough towards Him.
And sing their canticles in green.
They are proud, unbowed.
Their faces upturned, their roots in soil, they live well,
And life, the whole of life, is a prayer.
Children be like to the trees in your prayers.
ACE Student Work 6: Asian Poetry
Japan's Haiku and Tanka
Philippine's Tanaga, Korido, and Ambahan
Philippine's Tanaga, Korido, and Ambahan
ACE Student Work 7: Prepositional Poetry
Since we were taking up prepositional phrases while reading and analyzing narrative poetry, I thought it best to give them work on Prepositional Poetry with the added challenge that it should be a narrative poem.
As a sample, I shared with them my own prepositional poem on how I ended up with 4 stitches. I shared with them my hard copy draft on notepad paper and then walked them through my writing and revising process. After that, the gentlemen worked on their own prepositional poems, then they added a picture to help them imagine what they were doing, and finally, they revised their poems before sending the poems to me.
Here are the ACE 7 Prepositional Narrative Poems!
As a sample, I shared with them my own prepositional poem on how I ended up with 4 stitches. I shared with them my hard copy draft on notepad paper and then walked them through my writing and revising process. After that, the gentlemen worked on their own prepositional poems, then they added a picture to help them imagine what they were doing, and finally, they revised their poems before sending the poems to me.
Here are the ACE 7 Prepositional Narrative Poems!