Date for Entry: (Tuesday 20 February 2024)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Tuesday 16
May 2024)
[T2, W:08 – WD31:,
(Td:6)*].
Dear Diary,
I was absent
yesterday. I was not feeling good at all but I attended the PAYE webinar. I saw
Shiraz pulling up his maxi and he left. I felt like the time was getting later
as I was getting to the school compound. I had been to the staff room to ask a
teacher what timetable day it was today. After exiting Block C, Tutu said that
today was day 6. I didn't even realize that days 4 and 5 had gone by. She sent
me a message to meet her.
We sat in the
music room and spoke about the schema for term 2 that she had just finished.
The rain was... the air in the room was puffy inside and it made me start to
cough. I remained there for Ms. Roberts's 3L class afterwards. She did a review
with the students and it seems as if they were not studying their work at all.
The work reviewed were Calypso, Soca, Steelpan, Ethnoclassical, Classification
of Instruments, Major Scales including the Formula, Self-Edge versus Sargon,
Indian Classical, and Self-Edge. I left after the end of recess.
During recess
time she had her form 6s there practicing major scales in her office. A lot of
them had problems with playing their scales as if they were not practising. I
could see that they had some issues with their Harmonic Minor and Melodic
Minor. Scales for B Major, B Harmonic Minor, and B Melodic Minor were done
first. Ms. Roberts then asked the students in her group to play F Major, F
Harmonic Minor, and F Melodic Minor. That was the end of recess.
I went back to
Block K to work on my textbook topics on Ostinato, the second portion of
Ostinato. There were some questions needed but I did not bother to work on it
that day. Ms. Odeen informed us that the lunch would be tomorrow. I went back
to the music room for the form 4s class after lunch. Ms. Roberts did a review
of assigning chords to a melody using the first two lines of Amazing Grace.
Once that was
completed, the students moved over to the steel pan instruments to work on
their performance piece. Ms. Roberts was able to get more of her engine room
arrangement completed. I worked with the guitar pan and the double seconds. We
had no guitars today and no bass pans because those were form 6 students. I
rushed off quickly after class because Maria told me that the staff room, that
she had to leave earlier this afternoon once school was over. We left some
minutes after 3 p.m. I went to bed late as usual. Too much work to do and still
less sleep to get.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:50
am – : pm)
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