"This week, my Latin teacher made learning Latin fun by getting us to translate and act out a play"

Computer Kid Week 2 Term 1

This week I had Art, Geography, Sport, Latin, Math, English, Science textiles and PD.H.PE.

Once again my Latin teacher was my favourite teacher this week for he was the most engaging.

I hate to be repetitive but my favourite lesson this week was also Latin.. This week, my Latin teacher made learning Latin fun by getting us to translate and act out a play. I liked the idea of translating a play, because we could use the end result of our translation to create a play, it gave us a purpose for doing the translation. 

My least favourite subject this week was Geography. I found Geography really boring and frustrating because I felt like we were being taught useless facts that are never going to be useful in my life.

We studied Antarctica for all three lessons this week. For all three lessons the teacher stood at the front of the classroom and spoke to us. 

All of our learning was listening to the teacher talk and completing worksheets based on the information that the teacher was telling us, we didn’t get our information any other way, not even from a textbook. It was really boring to learn like this for three whole lessons!

I wish that our Geography lessons could be about more interesting things that are more relevant to my life and that the teacher wouldn’t just stand at the front of the room at talk at us. Geography class is nothing like Latin class where we get to have a purpose for what we are doing, like translating and then acting out the play. 

Some people may say that Geography is a much more  useful subject for using in life than Latin, but I would say that I will be able to use Latin if I want to be a scientist or have a job that uses Latin names. 

Geography would be much more interesting to me if I was being taught information that I could actually use in my life!

Computer Kid

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