Jez's Blog

04/Oct/2007

Today is the presentation day, I'm a bit nervous because Grace and I did it seperately most of the time, we only dicussed when we met at school, so I'm afraid that our presentation might be 'holly'. In the beginning of class, Mr. Burghuser sid that he's going to let us, the students to charge everything in class, it meant that we'd have to contral the timing of prepering, presenting and questioning. I was a it shocked when he told us that he would not be in charge of the class, I was thinking that if he just sit at the back of the classroom and do his own stuff, then how can he grade on us? But however, we just started to do it, to charge the class by our own. The first group presenting was the group of Connie and Eunice, they were presenting about the Daoism. They told about the believes and the founders in Daoism. The founders were Lauzi and Zhuagzi, and it believed that natural orders will rule the civilization well. Then, we were the next group, our topic was Legalism v.s. Confucianism, we told about some main points of Legalism and Confucianism, how is Confucius, the philosophies of both and the conflict between both. During presenting, Grace and I took turns to read the pages out loud, but because my throw didn't fell very good this morning, so Grace had read the most of them. After that, it's the time of questioning, and I think there were a lot questions of us, maybe we didn't do it very well so that everyone still got a lot of question, but when we'd finished the presentation, Mr. Burghauser said it was brilliant, so, I don't know...Anyway, there were a lot of questions, and I answered most of them, or you could even say that I've answered ALL of them. The next presenting group was the boys. Their topic was Legalism, whcs they had 'won' it in the last class. They talked about the rules of Legalism, Qin Dynasty because it was ruled in Ledalism, the rulers of Qin Dynasty and the Great Wall. Finally, in the end of this class, Mr. Burghauser became a thecher again, he told us that we were doing a great job, and we will do it agin next time. And for me, I hope I or we, if there is a group, could do it better next time.