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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Holiday Assignments 2008

English:
- Cut out and comment on 2 articles from the Straits Times on the following topics
( Euthanasia, Organ Trading, Health related articles).
- Cut out and comment on 2 articles from the Straits Times dealing with the financial crisis (local or foreign) or how to cut down on spending
- Cut out and comment on 2 letters from the forum page of the straits times.

* Each commentary should be 100 words long.
* Staple your chosen article or letter to your commentary.
* If you do not have access to the print version of the Straits Times, you can access the free online version at http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/
* You can print out your chosen articles and attach them to your commentary.
* The holiday homework will make up part of your CA1 mark next year.
Deadline – 1st day of Term 1 2009 (2nd January 2009)


Chinese:
- 请从以下几本书籍中选出一本来完成阅读报告：
1. «小王子»
2. «红楼梦» 少年版
3. «少年文摘» (从中选出两篇作品来完成阅读报告)
- 另外， 学生也必须完成周记一篇， 题目«我的假期»


Mathematics:
Textbook: Discovering Mathematics 3A / 3B
- Topic Factorization, Page 30, Question 1 to 4
- Topic Congruent Triangles, Page 80 to 81, Question 2a to 2d, 4a to 4d (redo)
- Topic Similar Triangles, Page 92, Question 3a to 3d, Question 4 to 9
- Topic Congruent and Similar Triangles, Page 109 to 110, Question 5 to 9
- Topic Arcs and Sectors, Page 97 to 98, Question 1 to 8.

Workbook: Discovering Mathematics 3
- Topic Congruency and Similarity, Page 19, Question 3 and 4.
- Topic Congruency and Similarity, Page 22 to 24, Question 11 to 15.
- Topic Arcs and Sectors, Page 77, Question 1, 2 and 3.


History:
- 5 reflections from 5 articles from newspapers or magazines on political, social or economic issues such as the American Presidential Election, global financial crisis, conflicts between countries etc etc.

* Each reflection must be at least 1 page long.


Sec 2 Express (English, Humanities and Science): PBL assignment.
Problem: Prior to the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games on 8th of August 2008, there was a great concern among the participating countries about the pollution in Beijing, China.
Task:
Do research on the following.
· Brief history about the origin of Marathon.
· Find out who was the world famous marathon runner who refused to run at Beijing Olympics because of pollution.
· Why the participating countries were concerned about pollution in Beijing.
· What measures were taken by the Chinese Government to minimize the problems of pollution.
Put up a long list of recommendations to the Beijing Government to help them minimize pollution in the long run.

* You are to work in groups of 3 to 4.
* Your write-up should be about 300 words. You should also design a poster that encourages people to help stop pollution.
* You are not to copy wholesale from the Internet or other sources. All work done must be in your own words.
* You must include the sources of your information e.g. Websites, reference books etc.
* Hand in on the first week of 2009. Marks awarded will be counted as part of CA1 for next year.