Logbook

Class 1: 26 October 2016

Today was the first class of our new project. This is the second project of this year. Today Mr Rol explains us something about our new project and he hand out the books. For this project, we had to read a book called Animal Farm written by George Orwell. I like books but the most of the books I read are Dutch. So I think that this is very differnt than the books that I read and I also think that it is more difficult than the book I read because the books are in English. Today I also started reading in the book Animal Farm. Mr Rol also explains us something about a utopia and a dystopia and the differents between them. I already knew something about a utopia because there was on the tv a program called utopia. Mr Rol told us that a utopia was the best imagine world and a dystopia was the worst imagine world. This class I also helped Thorald to make his website better en nicer. He wanted the same theme as my website because with this theme you can organize your website. So today was a interesting lesson because we got a lot of information about our new project.

Class 2: 28 October 2016

Today was the second day of our new project. Today we got new fresh Animal Farm books. Because the other books where dirty and broken. When everyone had the new books we continue reading in the book. When I got the book I thought that it was a very boring book with a boring story. But when I began reading in the book I found it a really nice and interesting book. At the beginning of the book the different characters where introduced. They also told us a story about a pig called Old Major. He had a strange dream about a animal controlled society, a world where al the animals lived free from tiranny of there human masters. From that moment I found the book more interesting but it was also a little bit strange because in the book the animals talk to each other and in the real word the can not talk. Normally I do not like books where happened things which could not happen in the real world. But this book was different and I found the book not boring but I found it just an interesting book. So today was a interesting lesson in which I have got a different impression of the book than I had before reading the book.

Class 3: 3 November 2016

Today everyone got their aspect of the book. Everyone will finger out what has described about their aspect in the book Animal Farm .My classmate Destiny and Mr Rol have devised the aspects and they decided together which person gets which aspect of the book. Some examples of aspects are the structure of the book, of the book a utopia or a dystopia is ,the rules of the book, the songs, the commandments and some characters like Snowball or Napoleon. I got the aspect the rules, the song and the commandments. When I got my aspect I actually did not know what the commandments were so I asked Destiny if  she wanted to explain it. She said that the commandments were actually the rules. This lesson I also search for some information about the songs in the book. In looked in the book and I saw that there was only one song in the book called ”Beasts of England”. I listened to the song on YouTube and it was completely different than I expected. I was expecting a very calm song but it was just the opposite and I did not like the song.

Class 4: 4 November 2016

Today was not really an active lesson. The only thing that I did was read. I had to read because I was not really far in the book, and next week we had already the presentations. So I started to read in the book and the first thing I read was something about the animals of the farm. After the speech of the old pig Major the pigs talked about a revolution. Later in the  book one day when Mr Jones forgots to feed the animals the revolution began. During the revolution Jones and his men where chased out of the farm. They also said what happened after the revolution. After the revolution the animals grab all the power and they changed the name of the farm into Animal Farm. This lesson I also was looking for more information for my presentation. You have to give a presentation of 2:30 – 3:00 minutes and by the presentation you had to make a prezi or a PowerPoint with pictures and information. At the end of this lesson we decided that we are going to eat pizza in the next lesson. So in this lesson I had read a lot but I found it a boring lesson.

Class 5: 17 November 2016

Today was the day that we are going to eat pizza. But when we came in the class some of my classmates looked on the site of Domino’s pizza and they saw that the pizza shop was not open at the time we had English. The pizza store namely open at 4 o’clock and when we came in the class it was 3 o’clock so that was to late. So we arranged to order the pizza tomorrow, because tomorrow the pizza shop was already open at 12 am. So I continued reading in the book animal Farm.

Class 6: 18 November 2016

Today it was the lesson in which we have eaten pizza. In the lunch break some classmates have ordered some pizzas. They has called the pizzaservice and they will bring the pizzas around 14.05 to us. But later when we were watching a program in the biology lesson our janitor and a pizza deliverer were standing in the doorway of our biology local. Our janitor asked Thorald of he had ordered 8 pizzas. Thorald said yes and he went with the janitor and the pizza deliverer outside to get the pizzas. But one minute later Thorald and our janitor came back into the class because  Thorald forgot the money. The pizzas were 8 euros, so everyone had to pay 8 euros. We all gave Thorald the money to pay the pizzas. When they were go away we watched the rest op the program. When the bell rang we walked to our English local. It smelled really good in the classroom because the pizzas were already on the table. We thought we all had our pizza, but Laura and Serena did not. They ordered 8 pizzas but we needed 9 pizzas, so we missed one pizza. So Thorald phoned the pizzaservice another time to ordered the pizza that they forgot to order. Tess, Sanne and I ordered a pizza pepporoni and we shared it together. I found it a delicious pizza. This lesson we also listened to a lot of music and we talked to each other. When also the last pizza was delivered everyone had a pizza. This was the best and tastiest lesson.

Class 7: 23 November 2016

Today it was the first lesson of the presentations. When I walked into the English classroom I was so nervous. When we were all in the classroom we prepared our presentation. So we all grab a IPad and we opened our prezi. Destiny made a prezi account for the whole class. So everyone could put their own pictures and information in the same prezi. But there were also classmates who made their own prezi or PowerPoint. But we discovered that the wifi was not working, because the prezi’s would not opened. So we waited a while and later the wifi did it again. Dorus was the first who did his presentation. His aspect was the writer of the book George Orwell. Dorus his English is perfect and he is a really good speaker. He speaks fluently English. After Dorus his presentation Sverre did his presentation. Also Sverre is a very good speaker and his presentation was very good, he had a lot of information and he had nice pictures in his prezi. Mr Rol and Mrs Romero gave nice feedback to Sverre. I also found that Sverre his presentation was better than Dorus his presentation, because Sverre had a prezi with pictures and Dorus did not had a prezi or powerpoint so it was a little bit boring to listening at him. The last one of today was Peter, but also this time the wifi did not work and Peter could not open his Powerpoint. So he need to do his presentation tommorow. Today only 2 people did their presentations.

Class 8: 24 November 2016

Today Peter, Sanne, Niloufar and I did our presentation. The first one who did their presentation was Peter because yesterday there where problems with the wifi. Peters aspect was the Russian Revolution, but he also talked about the similareties of the animal with real people, for example the similarities between Adolf Hitler and Old Major. Peter is a really good speaker and he always speaks calm, so everyone understood him well. He also made a really nice PowerPoint with a lot of pictures and a lot of information.  After Peter Sanne did her presentation. Sanne her aspect were the caracters Napoleon and Squealer. I liked her aspect and the way how she told it. Now it was my turn to do my presentation and when I stood in the front of the class and everyone was looking at me, I was very nervous. But how more I talked, I became less nervous. Today Mrs Romero was not at school so I only got feedback from Mr Rol. He said only good things and I got an 8. The last one of the day was Niloufar. Niloufar is also a very good speaker, but during her presentation she something forgot her text.

Class 9: 25 November 2016

Today Thorald, Sem and Laura did their presentations. Thorald was first and he had a perfect presentation. His English was good, his information was good, he made a nice PowerPoint with a lot of pictures and he talked fluently. Also Mr Rol and Mrs Romero liked his presentation and he got a 9. Thorald had the best presentation then the other presentations we have had before. After Thorald Laura did her presentation. Her aspect were the caracters  Boxer and Benjamin. Laura is also a really good speaker and she always speaks calm. I found her presentation really good and the pictures in her prezi where funny. Finally Sem did his presentation. His information was good he also used good pictures.

Class 10: 2 December 2016

Today the last people did their presentation. First Tess did her presentation. Her aspects was nounatice structure + novella. First I thought there is not very much information about her aspects. But she had a lot of information and she told really nice about her aspects. After her presentation Teuntje did her presentation. She told us about a utopia and a dystopia and the differents between them. I already know something about a utopia but nothing about a dystopia. Her English was very nice and she told her information very fluently. She also had a nice prezi with a lot of slides and pictures. The next one who did their presentation was Gijsje. Gijsje her aspect was Old Major, one of the most important caracters of the book. Her presentation was good. Finally Serena did her presentation. She had a interesting presentation because she told us about her feelings by the book.