Skip to main content

Second Term | Blog 2.1 AEP 11 | Shasmeen

    During the summer, I had been bracing myself for the transition from tenth grade to senior high, expecting it to feel like being pushed into a freezing-cold pool - jarring, overwhelming, and utterly disorienting. In reality, it felt more like turning on Do Not Disturb on your phone before bed, only to wake up and realize that the world had been moving on quietly without you. I'm not trying to state that this new chapter has been without challenges - AEP itself proves that there is still so much to learn - it's just that life feels so bland nowadays, but in an exceptionally refreshing way. 

    On November 6th, we began our first session of the second term with a recap of the previous one. I quite enjoyed the first term's lessons, which were about terms in the business and political sphere. It's both intriguing and entertaining to see things like "lame-duck" and "banana republic" in the same test as "bipartisan" and "fascism". Despite that, it was still perplexing, concepts often requiring us to expand the limits of our typical understanding of certain words in creative ways.

    Anywho, after that short recap and test of our progress so far, we played a game of Scrabble. Scrabble is typically the bane of my existence - the essence of why I dread the fourth floor - but that day the words came out quite nicely. 

    By the time the next session had rolled around, on November 13th, we were back to business. I arrived fashionably late (just an hour!) so I don't know what they did for the first period. According to my sources, the played Hurdle. So heartbreaking that I missed that. By the time I had gotten there, Miss had distributed our worksheets on the new unit: Medicine and Heatlh. I quite like the topic so far, but maybe that's just because I like vocabulary in general.

    Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend AEP today due to a migraine. I'm looking forward attending to the next session though!

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Aleena Imran - BLOG #3.2 - Grade 9

  I honestly cannot believe we are already halfway through the third term, it feels like we started it yesterday. This will be one of the last blogs we’ll be writing for the school year, which seems so crazy. As much as I’m not fond of writing blogs, it’s still a reminder that we shared our moments together in AEP.   March 5, 2025 -  An Off-Board Warmup? This warmup was unlike our other ones. We usually have our warmups on the board, such as Wordle, Hurdle or waffle. But this time, all we had on the board was a map. Everyone had to state one sentence about the two maps shown on the screen, but there was a plot twist, you had to remember what the previous person stated and add on to it. As more people stated their sentences, it only got difficult, it meant you had to remember more sentences, but in the correct order. I wasn’t able to remember the sentences in order, but I still enjoyed watching other students struggling to remember the sentences.  Later on, we g...
Post a Comment
Read more

Abracadabra — Leo Blog 3.2

 This term, we've begun with a list of terms related to environment, ranging from the devastating crises happening around the globe to the lovely descriptions of catastrophes caused by man. While it's a very fun and a not-so content-heavy topic, it reminds us that we can't say ' abracadabra ' to felled trees and watch as they rise from the ashes of our ancestors. Well, it's a shame, really. Would've loved to see some of the forests and wildlife that existed before the world began pumping steam and breathing coal. The first thing we did when we got to the third term was pairing words to form collocations. There were a variety of them, 42 collocations to be exact, and we had to figure them out. Most were easy, words we knew were things like 'climate change' or 'heat wave', but some were new. 'Paddy farming', 'septic tanks' and other words were quite interesting. Unfortunately, I wasn't there for the AEP period the week after...
Post a Comment
Read more

End and the start of term!

Helloooo everyone! Welcome with another blast! See, your favorite blogger is not late this time!!! And that is because it's just the start of another term, and the workload from school is quite light. Can you believe it's the last term already?? I am still in disbelief—only 2/3 of grade 11 is left, and then our final year of high school... I don't even want to think about it! We have learned a lot of things in AEP last term, including discovering new games and learning a lot more of Miss Disa's fun anecdotes. AEP this year has taught me a lot of technical terms as we have been getting lessons on very niche and specific topics. You know how a word appears a lot when you newly learn it? Now, due to my expansion of vocabulary, I started seeing the words I am learning everywhere, and that brings a bit of peace in me, as I think, well, I am learning something. We had worksheets on Healthcare, Crime and Punishment, Business, and Politics. My favorite among them was the health...
Post a Comment
Read more