The Anatomy Lesson - Does This Reflect Renaissance?

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt (1632)


'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp' shown above was painted in 1632 - the time during the Renaissance. 'This art piece was drawn by master of chiaroscuro, Rembrandt. This art piece was painted with oil pastel on the canvas. The focal point of this picutre is the man digesting the human body. Digesting human body shows that this art piece is a reflection of what was happening during the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, people weren't allowed to digest human body however, people were allowed to digest the human body, only for specific reasons as shown in the picture above. The man with the black hat, Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is digesting human body in the picture, which shows that scientists were allowed anatomy to develop further. Also, this shows that church/pope started to lose the power of people - allowing people to inquire the church and allowing to begin humanism/secularism. 'The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp' - Dr. Nicolaes digesting human body, shows the power losing from church, creating humanism/secularism due to the loss of pope's people, inspiring people to inquire and to have innovative thinking.

Driving Forces of the Renaissance

"A Banking/ Trading Scene" 1541.

"Which one driving force do you think was the most crucial in creating the Renaissance's explosion of ideas? Why?


The Renaissance was a movement during the dark 'period', from 14th century, till the 16th century which first began in Florence, a city states of Italy. Trading was the most crucial in creating the Renaissance's explosion of ideas because when Italy first began to trade with oriental countries, sailors discovered the new knowledgeand the new solutions to govern the city-states without problem, as well as the new educations and realized that other countries were more developed than Italy. After people heard about the oriental countries, scientists, artists and all other people were inspired and started to work harder to gain new knowledge. So, all driving forces were foundation of the trading and banking.

iBelieve...

In Korea, there's an idiom "Genius can't overcome the person who puts efforts but the person who puts efforts can't overcome the person who enjoy themselves.

I believe I can go beyond my capacity if I enjoy myself rather than trying my best effort to achieve something. This thought first came to my mind when I started to become talented and achieve my goal at music. The story began when I was 5th grade student. When I started to play my 2^nd instrument – saxophone, I had put lots of effort to play this complicated, heavy instrument. However, it was hard and complicated than I expected and my efforts were pretty useless.

The time passed on and I still couldn’t play this gigantic instrument but I wanted to play this saxophone well. I tried and tried, but didn’t work. But at least I was better than other sax players who never tried to get better. However, I wasn’t satisfied. Then, I just started to enjoy learning instruments.

Over few days later, I became the best sax player in my whole grade. Then, I started to enjoy music and I started to learn more instruments such as oboe, drum, flute, piano, bass, trombone, etc. Now, I can’t remember how many instruments I learnt over one year. My music skills and the adapting new instruments skills were much better than before because I started to enjoy music, not just putting my effort. Then, I was proud of myself and thought I should learn more music instruments because I enjoy it and it has lots of benefits of learning new instruments.

As I started to enjoy music, music became one of my favorite subjects in the school. As I enjoyed myself, my music grades got better. My music skills improved. So, I thought. If I enjoy myself rather than trying my best effort to achieve something, I can go beyond my capacity.

How about you?

Battle of Hasting Game - Reflection

Briefly explain the game.
What did you enjoy about this game?
What did you learn whilst playing the game?
Explain what happened during the Battle of Hastings. (Use your information from class and any other reading you have done to fully develop this answer).
Why do you think that this type of game is a valuable learning experience?
Any other comments...





I played the games from Mrs. Whiting's blog and it was about the battle of hasting. There were two games and I personally liked the 2nd game. Let me introduce these two games breifely. 1nd game pretty boring - I suggest you not to play. This 2nd game was mostly fighting game where you really get to control the army and attack enemy - really suggest if you are boy or like fighting stuff. The reason I liked this game was that this was actually war game which really attracted me. From this game, I learnt that war isn't easy to do and it's better if we just don't declare a war. I also realized how many people died from the invasion.


This history - battle of hasting begins in 1066 at England. There was a king named Edward who was really sick and old. He needed a successor but he only had one nephew named Egar. However, he was too young to be his successor so instead, he chose Harlord Godwinson. Everyone knew he would be Edward's successor because he had control of army and he was very noble man. Most importantly, his sister was Edward's wife. Therefore, he became a successor of Edward. Soon, Edward died and the day of Edward's burial - Harlord was crowned.

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas Reflection

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas was set in the past. Why should you care about the issues raised in the book? Should we continue to study this book in Grade 7?

The setting of this book was awkward. The setting was during the World War II, time when the holocaust began. Millions of innocents died from this. This book is about an innocent German boy from with his strict father. Because of his dad's job, he moved to a place called "Out-With". Obviously as a reader, we know that this is a foreshadowing because "Out-With" is actually a concentration camp however, this boy doesn't know. Anyway, he was bored to death so secretly, he went to explore outside the house and met a friend named "Shumel". He was Jewish and he was born same date as Bruno was born. By the way, I think Shumel has more knowledge than Bruno because Bruno doesn't know what's happenening around the world and he doesn't know why Shumel is kept inside the "Cage". As the time passes, Bruno started to gain knowledge and had several questions. What's inside that area? How many people are there? And Bruno wanted to see visually, not just by hearing. So obviously, Bruno secretly crawled under the chain and went inside. Then unfortuntely, Bruno and Shumel were forced to go to the gas chamber and their lives were taken by soldiers.

As I read this book, I thought we should talk and care about this history more seriously. We can learn bravery, kindness, etc as you learn about this terrible moment. Also, we should care about this because we have to make sure that there are no more wars and holocaust which will create a disaster throughout the world. Also, I think we should keep this topic for next year too because this will educate the youngs to think "this shouldn't happen again". Educating youngs will eventually create a less percentage of having another holocaust because we are going to be adult and we will know what to do.

The Power of the Void (Int. Band) - Story

The Power of the Void - Story

I would name this story "Miserable Lottery" because usually, if you win a lottery - you should be happy but, it's opposite. If you win a lottery - you become miserable. That's why I named as "Miserable Lottery". As I read the story, I thought serious consequences will happen if you get something unique on the paper because there were lots of hints so, I could easily predict what was going to happen. However, I didn't know the real story but then I was so fraustrated when teacher didn't give me the end of the story. Then, I received the mysterious paper with the sentence written down - "Do not open until 5 p.m and follow the instructions" instead of the end of story and thought there was a mission. So, I actually opened the mysterious paper on about 6:00 o'clock eventhough I was so curious what was inside. As I opened the paper, I thought that there was a long void.

As I read the story, the story was kept mentioning the black box. I thought that that box is connected to the "lottery". Anyway, I got the end of the story and felt, this wasn't right. I thought this ritual should be changed because they can't kill one person because she/ he was unlucky. My prediction was that Tessie would be kicked out from the village and the prediction was almost right. It was something to do with the banning, kicked out and killed. I could have made better prediction if I had carefully understood every sentence.

I think author has left these voids in the story because this makes reader curious, excited, and predictions. First above all, there was no title and the autor information. So, I didn't know the key points of this story because there was no title. Second, there was no ending. This really created the attention. Text clues and foreshadowing made readers predict. Mystery paper and delayed ending also created the "Power of the void" because we weren't allowed open until 5 o'clock.

Overall, I thought this was great example of "the power of the void".

Power of the Void - Int. Band

ISKL Mission Statement

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

Insert the word (silence) in the statement in the place that you think would create the most tension.

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides (silence) an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop the (silence) attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a (silence) highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

Explain in one paragraph why you think your VOID would create tension for the listener.

First above all, my VOID will create a certain tention for the listener because I created the VOID at the climax of this statement and this will create the question and the curiosity. Second, I created the VOID in the random place, but created the VOID in the place where listener gets to hear more about. Third, I created the VOID at the main part of the sentence so that listeners get more attention to it. So, my VOID will create the tension for the listner.