Infallible (Greek Movie Trailer)

Infallible:




In humanities, we were supposed to make a movie trailer on a myth. We could choose from Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, or Aboriginal. So, I decided to do a Greek Myth on the battle between the Gods and Titans. The story originally started out with Cronus eating his sons and daughters. Rhea, his wife, managed to hide one baby before Cronus could swallow him up-like he did with the other children. The baby was Zeus.

When Zeus got older, he returned to Olympus as Cronus' cupholder, and slipped in a drink that would make his father vomit up his other children.

Zeus' siblings, grateful, made him their leader. They declared war, and it became the battle between the Titans and Gods.

Infallible: I chose the name Infallible because it meant incapable of error. Since it was a war between the Titans and Gods, one single mistake might've plunged them to doom.


Hope you enjoy!


Greek Graphic Sources

♫ The End ♫

From August 3rd to June 3rd: The whole school year has been filled with fun, friends, and most of all, work.

Sounds kind of depressing, doesn't it? Work. But so many things happened this year, so it evened out. MS Parties, Spirit Week, Malaysia Week, Bake Sales...to name every single detail of this year would take a while! 

The piece of work that I was most proud of this year was my Ancient Egyptian diary entries. These three diary entries are perhaps the ones I worked hardest on this year, and showcases my best writing. Writing is my passion, and that's why I worked the hardest on the AE diary entries this year. 

The greatest challenge for me this year was probably our first literature circle, when we had to read Call it Courage. Mr. Thomas explained the whole thing to us, but I didn't quite get the whole thing. The connection and vocabulary were easy enough, but the passage and question just plain confused me. So that was my reason for why I thought my very first literature circle was hard.

I think I learnt a lot about myself this year. I think that I could work a lot faster, definitely. And the most is that I get distracted easily. I mean, no matter where I am, I get distracted. Empty room, I find out a way to procrastinate. A noisy room, I space out. A quiet room, I just get distracted. Sure, I'll say that I'm doing my homework, and that it just takes a while, but honestly? I just can't concentrate. I somehow always manage to convince myself that I always have more time; not the best thing. If I try to work on one thing for too long a time, I'd just walk away, and not finish it till the last minute.

a) Behavior: 
Well, personally, I think it's satisfactory. I mean, sometimes I goof off, and sometimes I work. I guess it depends on the day, or my mood, or what we're doing. If I'm bored, I do tend to space-out.

b) Participation: 
Satisfactory, I think. Well, I personally don't like participating in discussions, but I think that I do sometimes. I do think that I need to participate more in discussions, however.

c) Organization: 
I like to think that I'm organized, and that I know where everything is. But sometimes at home, I loose stuff, and I freak, and freak, and freak until I find whatever I was looking for. So, I'd rate myself a 'satisfactory.'

d) Effort:
Personally, I like to think that I always went 'above and beyond what was required' this year. I worked extremely hard on all my projects/homework, and tried my best on everything. 

There are two goals I want to make in grade 7 next year: To work more efficiently, and to participate more in class.

Goal 1: I want to work more efficiently because it would save me so much more time, and leave me free time to do the stuff I want, and not just spend my whole after-school life doing homework. So I just need to think, "If you don't do this now, you'll get a B or below.' That somehow helps...most of the time.

Goal 2: I think that this isn't just a want, it's a need. I need to participate more in class. Participating in class helps me learn better, because when I'm not talking, I'm spacing out.  So sometimes I have no idea what's going on.



Well, if there's something I would like the teachers to know, it would be the fact that I absolutely love writing. But there's one particular genre I like to write: It's not essays, or narratives, but it's imaginative writing. Paranormal, fantasy...I can write those kind of stuff in a matter of minutes, with just one single word as an inspiration. But if you tell me to do an outline to go along, I'll write down the story then do an outline. If making an outline is part of an assignment? I'll probably start on it, but not finish it until I finish the story. Well, the main thing is, I absolutely hate planning my stories. They never seem to work out that way.
Another small thing is that I don't have a particular liking for working with partners, unless it's literature circle, where I can learn something from working with a partner. 

Which activity did I like the most in Humanities? It would be the Tic-Tac-Toe. It definitely helped me study about whatever historical era we were doing, and it's a fun way of learning about Ancient China, or India, or Egypt. I also liked how we could choose the projects we wanted to do, so that it would best match our group's skill. That definitely helped.


I honestly wished that we could've spent more time on our Imaginative narratives. To me, one is too little, and having a word count doesn't exactly help, either. If you really want to write, you should be able to write as much as you want, as many times as you want. When we were doing the project, I could see that a lot of people enjoyed it, shared ideas and all.


A word of wisdom? From me?
Take you time, do your best, and mots of all, enjoy! Don't let your first year of middle school go to waste. Instead, have fun!


Advice?
Do your homework the minute you get it. Finish it at lunch, on the bus, during break, whatever. Makes like much easier ;)

Welcome to the end of 6th grade.

Tiffany