English Literacy always has its own theme for each school term and for this term our theme is about “The Search for Identity”. We are having our assessment which is reading a fictional book to identify the characters and having a discussion with our team about the story every week with different roles such as Inferencer, Summarizer, Symbolizer, Words Detector and Visualizer. For me, I am reading a book by John Green, Looking for Alaska. Like a quote from John Green about looking for Alaska written: “An only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive”. That is why identify characters and author meaning in a book is very important. The way story in Looking for Alaska tell is more like a romance novel, but it’s also about a friendship that suffers together in a boarding school. However, in this class, we also create our own poems that inspire by George Ella Lyon who is a girl from Kentucky, United State. I have my own poem which is about “I am from” that related to our theme. This is my poem:
I am from a tricycle,
from Dumex and gruel
I am from the Lumber smooth
I am from the jujube
The java apple whose long gone limbs I remember as if they were my own.
I’m from red pocket and Caishen,
from Grandmother and Father
I’m from gathering and sharing,
and from remembering.
I’m from spirit told and helping,
and “S’art Jea Nix” that sing along
I’m from Lunar New Year
I’m from the Red Cross sign and Cantonese spiderweb,
family recipe cookies and marine under the river
from a flow of the river from China,
Grandma ends up in Steung Treng
Bracelet of working hard
In my heart, the achieve after Bloodshed
