Home-Based Learning.
3rd September.

Geography Workbook Exercise 7.2-7.4 (pg69 to 76)
Literature, context worksheet given in class.
Mother Tongue (Chinese) none.
Mother Tongue (Malay) Worksheet on Unit II (Pakaian Melayu)
English Longman Grammar Book, Exercise 13-16

stranger. (:

September Holiday Homework.
Maths.
To: Mdm Teoh's groups
Holiday homework:
Do 1. Math Tutor 2A and 2B
2. Textbook 2B revision ex 7,8 9, 10
3. quizzes in ace-learning
Class test in term 4 week 1, 1st Math lesson
chap 1 to chap 10.
EOY Exam.sec 2- chap1 to chap 11,sec 1-patterns and sequences
students are to memorise the formulas for chap 8 ( Mensuration)
BRING CALCULATOR.

To: Miss Lim's group
ACE-Learning lesson
Day/Date: 6th Sept to 10th Sept daily
What you need to do: Print the worksheet (available daily from 6th sept in this message board), View the daily lesson and complete the worksheet
What you need to have: printed worksheet and computer
NOTE: ACE-Learning is BEST VIEWED using Internet Explorer 6.0 and above.

Common Test 4 Revision of Reference
With reference to your latest common test 4, complete the respective Maths Tutor pages if you got the topic wrong. In case you have lost your paper, find attached the softcopy of the paper that was given in class. Don't forget to let your parents check on your progress.

Those of you who needs to copy 10 times of your formulae, the formulae can be found in the same RevisionOfReference.pdf.

Supplementary Exercises
Complete the supplementary exercises stated in the worksheets used in class in foolscap paper: Worksheet 8.1, 8.2, 8.3. Please draw all the diagrams.

Long Overdued Homework
Please check with Winnie (2B) or Ziqun (2D) for the homework that you have yet to submit. Do submit on the first day of school reopen. Remember that every piece of HW is worth 1 mark for your actual CA2 marks.

Filing of Maths File
I will be collecting your Maths file for checking. Please make sure you have the following in chronological order, according to the following category:
1. Notes and Worksheets from 1.1 to 9.3
2. Common Test 2 and 4
3. Chapter Tests 1 to 8
4. Past Year School Papers
5. Others

Chinese.
compo (essay)
请同学完成一篇不少过250字的作文。请在稿纸上作答，并在13/9/10（星期一）将作文交给你的华文老师。
作文题目：谈谈课程辅助活动（CCA）的重要性
#1 介绍学校有哪些课程辅助活动。叙述学生参加这些活动的情况。
（如：中小学生是否都必须参加课程辅助活动？）
#2 说明学生参加课程辅助活动的好处。（首先/其次/再次）
#3 没有参加课程辅助活动会带来什么问题。说明鼓励学生参加这些活动的方法。（第一/第二/第三）
#4 总结

Geography.
TASK:
Collect 10 newspaper articles from Straits Times, New Paper,
National Geographic or any other reliable sources and compile them
neatly in a scrap book or a folder. Alternatively, you may come up with a blog or online scrap book.

Write a short summary about the article or your feelings after reading the articles. The summary should be of reasonable length of around 20 words or more.

Topics to look out for include:
1) Earthquakes,
2) Water constraint in Singapore,
3) Air/ Water/ Land pollution in Singapore or any other parts of the world,
4) Global warming,
5) Ozone layer depletion,
6) Topics related to Geography!

The scrapbook/ folder will make up 30% of your CA2 marks.
Deadline : week 1 of term 4

English.
EOY paper.

Passage A
1 For the father, the choice was obvious: An engineer with several jobs yet little money, he saw no future for his daughter and son in their struggling country, Ecuador. Eight years ago, he paid ‘coyotes’ to smuggle him into Texas, then headed to New York, where his wife and children flew in as tourists, and stayed.
2 But the consequences of that clear-cut decision — the immigrant’s perpetual impulse to uproot for the sake of the next generation — have been anything but simple.
3 The daughter excelled in her high school and graduated from college with honors, but at 22 is still living in this country illegally. So while her former accounting classmates hold lucrative corporate jobs and take foreign vacations, she keeps the books for a small immigrant-run business, fears venturing outside the city and cannot get a driver’s license in the country she has come to love.
4 Meanwhile, her 17-year-old brother, American-born, enjoys privileges his family cannot, like summers in Ecuador with his cousins. Feeling bored and alone most afternoons, he declared that he wanted to move back to the old country.
5 His mother was stunned and remarked, “We’re sacrificing ourselves so he can get a better education and a better job. After giving up everything to come here, he — the only one with papers — wants to go back?”
6 These four — who let a reporter trail them only if they were not identified, for fear of being deported — are part of a growing group of what are called mixed-status families. Nearly 2.3 million undocumented families, about three-quarters of those who are here illegally, have at least one child who is a United States citizen, according to statistics.
7 Their ranks are fed by the unending tide of illegal immigration, and by federal laws that deny legal status to foreign-born children — who had no say in moving here — while granting citizenship to their American-born siblings.
8 And as their numbers rise, they are challenging the most stubborn stereotypes of 21st-century immigrants: that they fit neatly into separate groups — legal or illegal, here to stay or bent on returning home, made up of mostly men on their own, making independent choices.
9 In fact, most immigrants live in families, with a blend of legal statuses, opportunities and dreams. To spend time with this family is to see, up close, how the growing disparities within immigrant homes are pulling their members in opposite directions and complicating efforts to plan a common future.
10 The four are now split between two households, and between those who expect to stay and those who would return to Ecuador — a tally that keeps shifting. The daughter, despite tireless efforts to get ahead, feels she is losing ground and worries that her brother takes his citizenship for granted. The son, despite his freedom, carries the weight of his family’s highest hopes.
11 Their status is also mixed in less obvious ways. The mother, 47, who gave up her fledgling career in Ecuador as a computer systems analyst and now baby-sits for a living, has not had anywhere near the same opportunities in this country as the father, also 47, who found rewarding work as a draftsman. Increasingly dissatisfied, she has tried in vain to leverage her son’s citizenship to get a green card granting her permanent residency.
12 Still, they are a loving family, and better off than many illegal immigrants, making a comfortable life in a city that welcomes foreigners, with or without papers.
Adapted from A family divided by 2 words, legal and illegal by David Gonzalez

Passage B
1 One morning, a single police cruiser drove east along the road. National Park Police officer David was on duty with his partner, Steve. David was behind the wheel, and he saw it first. An earlier rain shower had left the ocean swollen with fog. But out to his right, beyond the beach, the darkness was pierced by a single pinprick of faint green illumination: a mast light.
2 The officers pulled over, got out of the car, and scrambled to the top of the dunes separating the road from the beach. In the distance they beheld the ghostly silhouette of a steamer. The vessel was listing ever so slightly to its side. David ran back to the car and got on the radio, alerting the dispatcher that a large ship was dangerously close to shore before climbing the dune for another look.
3 Then, they heard the first screams. Half stifled by the wind, the cries were borne to them across the beach. He had a flashlight with him, and pointed it in the direction of the ship. From a distance, David saw four heads bobbing in the water. The officers turned and sprinted back to the car.
4 "We've got many people in the water!" David shouted into the radio. Steve had grabbed a life ring and was already running back to the beach. They charged into the cold water, guided by the wailing voices, Steve and David strode out until they were waist-deep. As Steve closed the distance to the four people, he hurled the life ring in their direction. But the wind and current carried it away. He reeled it in, walked deeper into the water, and cast the ring again. Again it failed to reach the people as they struggled in the swells.
5 After repeated failed attempts, Steve and David plunged into the water and began swimming, enormous waves twisting their bodies and crashing over their heads. The drowning people writhed in the cold ocean. Eventually Steve and David reached them and shouted over the percussive surf, telling them to take hold of the life ring. Then the officers turned around and dragged the shipwrecked strangers back to shore. There the four collapsed, panting, on the sand. They were Asian men and when David spoke to them, they didn't appear to understand. They just looked up, with terror in their eyes, and pointed in the direction of the ship.
6 From the ocean, the officers heard more screams.
7 Charlie, a seaman apprentice, was on radio duty nearby. He received a call from the dispatcher informing him that help was needed at the beach. Immediately, Charlie drove his truck there, pulled over in a clearing and ran up onto the beach where he was startled by the sight before him.
8 On the beach in front of him, a dozen dark, wiry figures, some of them in ragged business suits, others in just their underwear, were running in every direction with a number of burly police officers were giving chase to the men who had managed to swim to shore.
9 Trying to help, Charlie took off after one of the men, gained on him easily, and rugby-tackled him. He was much smaller than Charlie, skinny, and soaked through. Charlie held the man down and looked up to see more people emerging from the surf. It was a primordial scene — an outtake from a zombie movie — as hordes of men and women, gaunt and hollow-cheeked, walked out of the sea. Some collapsed, exhausted, on the sand. Others dashed immediately into the dunes, trying to evade the cops. Still more thrashed and bobbed and screamed in the crashing waves. Charlie could just make out the outline of the ship in the darkness. There was movement on the deck, some sort of commotion. People were jumping overboard.
11 The officers ventured into the water again and again. They plucked people from the shallows and dragged them onto the shore. The survivors, all Asians, looking half dead, were terrified, eyes wild, teeth chattering, bellies grossly distended from gulping saltwater. They flung their arms around the officers in a tight clench, digging their fingers so deep that in the coming days the men would find discolored gouge marks on the skin of their shoulders and backs.

Adapted from The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe


From Passage A
From Paragraph 1:

1.Quote an expression that shows the father found it easy to make the decision. [1]

2.What was the writer referring to by the ‘coyotes’? [1]

From Paragraph 2:

3.Explain what the writer meant by ‘the immigrant’s perpetual impulse to uproot for the sake of the next generation’ (lines 5-6), paying close attention to the words in italics. [2]

From Paragraph 3:

4.List 2 differences between the daughter’s life and those of her former classmates. [2]


From Paragraph 4:

5.Why do you think the 17-year-old brother spends most afternoons alone? [1]

From Paragraph 6:

6.Why did the writer’s family not want to be identified by the reporter? [1]

From Paragraph 7:

7.What did the writer mean by ‘the ranks’ (line 22)? [1]

From Paragraph 10:

8.‘A tally that keeps shifting’ (line 34) What is happening to the immigrants that is returning home? [1]

9.Why does the daughter feel like she is ‘losing ground’? [1]

From Paragraph 11:

10.Write down one word from this paragraph which shows that the mother had left behind a promising opportunity in Ecuador. [1]


From Passage B

From Paragraph 1:

11.What does ‘a single pinprick of faint green illumination’ (lines 4-5) mean to the police officers? [1]

From Paragraphs 3 to 5

12i.What were the signs that indicated that the officers had to carry out a rescue
mission? [1]

ii.Why did Steve and David eventually have to swim towards the victims? [1]

From paragraph 8

13.What does the word ‘wiry’ tell you about the men’s build? [1]

From paragraph 9

14.Using your own words in your answer, what did Charlie do to bring one of the survivors down? [2]

From paragraph 10

15.Suggest why the survivors held on to the officers tightly? [2]

From Passage A and B:

16.For each of the following words or phrases, given one word or a short phrase (of not more than seven words) which has the same meaning that the word or phrase has in the passage. [5]

From Passage A: From Passage B:
a) venturing (line 10)
b) bent on (line 27)
c) stifled (line 11)
d) startled (line 32)
e) evade (line 42)

From Passage B:

17.Using your own words as far as possible, give an account of how the rescue took place and the reactions of the survivors who were either rescued by the police officers or managed to swim to shore themselves.

USE MATERIAL FROM ONLY LINE 13 TO LINE 51.

a.Write 15 complete sentences, the points of your summary. [15]
b.Write in one paragraph, the points you have identified, using appropriate linking words. Your paragraph must not be longer than 140 words (not counting the words given to help you begin,) [10]


Begin your summary as follows:

Seeing four heads bobbing in the water, David immediately ran…


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& Longman Grammar Assessment Book
* Complete all the exercises in the book

Have fun during your september holidays.

stranger. (: