The AC Book club has had a couple of reads from his classics,especially THE BOTTLED LEOPARD.
We expected the young minds to be scared baring in mind the content of the book but hey, we were pleasantly surprised, and we thought, what better time is there to know your community better?
Februay 10th was our first book review and club meeting day in 2018 and boy did we enjoy it?
Expo 77 by Chukwuemeka Ike has a winding plot twist involving the work of Detective Mora of Tutuntu Associates in solvin the leakage of examination questions from the National Examination Board. In this elaborate scheme with an unexpected ending, Detective Mora travels around the country unraveling the plot step by step till he discovers the treachery of a herbalist who deceived a young seminarian into stealing question papers for him to sell, leaving the Acting Registrar of the Board relieved that the leak was not from his office, but frantic to make necessary changes to the old system of National exam preparation, says Ms Ufuoma.
With questions like "Is asking questions during examination also cheating?" and "What do I do when the person beside me is cheating?".
We learnt that examination malpractice is not a thing of the past as it is still rampant today, in private schools, better believe it. But we also learnt that though it might seem easier to cheat, the penalties are not worth it.
After agreeing to trust in our abilities to read, absorb and understand our books in order not to cheat during exams, we also learned that we should appreciate our parents for sending us to good schools where National Examination syllabuses are actually covered and the teachers are not too negligent to answer questions, a privilege that many children are not afforded today.
In this vein, we learned from Aunty Ier Jonathan of SESOR AFRICA about children who have been driven from their homes to IDP by both natural and man made disasters and therefore are not as priviledged as us.
Most of the younger childen heard about IDP for the first time and it was intriguing to find out that the children were more vast with natural disasters of the Western world.
Intelligent contributions were made during the interaction as they answered what racism was, enquired about the conditions of the children at the IDP's, explained certain happenings in their areas and ultimately learnt that they should make contributions to IDPs.
We are glad to inform you Aunty Ier that we are puting together our past text books for Ms Shantel to use in teaching her students at the IDP and we would also visit the IDP sometime during the year.
The younger class, 5-7 usually reads short stories out loud to other members. The books showed their different preferences and tastes.
Aunty Didi was behind the cameras this week. Thank you aunty Makcit @purplediva for these pictures too.
