National Schools Literature Festival 2015

National Schools
Literature Festival
2015
Date: 22 August 2015(Saturday)
Time: 8.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Venue: National Institute of
Education, Singapore
Word of welcome
Welcome to the National Schools Literature Festival (NSLF) 2015! The NSLF is largest annual literary festival for students in Singapore. This year, NSLF will be held in conjunction
with SG50 celebrations. The NSLF 2015’s theme is “A Sense of Singaporean Belonging” and
the festival will put a special spotlight on Singapore literature in English. We believe NSLF
2015 encapsulates the spirit of SG50 by providing a platform for students to celebrate our
own sense of Singapore-ness, to critically reflect and creatively respond via literature as to
what it means to be part of Singapore and its aim is to celebrate literature.
We hope you will watch and participate in events as well dialogue sessions and will enjoy
the various events that have been put together by Literature teachers in Singapore. These
events include unseen debates, set text debates, literature trailers and book parades. This
year, we have also put together FIVE exciting panels on the different themes related to
literature. Our local writers, playwrights and educators have joined us to educate our students about Literature. Do find out about literature and its connections to films and photography, learn from these local writers and playwrights about the art of creative writing,
and find out more about what makes Singapore literature
special.
Let us all celebrate literature in this SG50 year, as we keep
the flame alive!
Yours sincerely,
Sharon Quek (Chairperson),
Grace Kanai (Vice-Chairperson),
Suzanne Choo (Advisor) &
Rupa Beng Choo (Advisor)
(From left: Beng Choo, Grace,
Suzanne, Sharon)
About the NSLF
The goals of the NSLF are:

To bring Literature teachers together with a shared mission and purpose.

To provide a platform which teachers can use to enthuse and inspire their
students in studying Literature.

To motivate more students to take Literature at the upper secondary level.
The NSLF is a ground-up event that was started in 2005. It is collaboratively
organized by teachers from various schools with support from organizations
including the Ministry of Education, National Institute of Education, and National
Library Board.
Acknowledgements
The organizing committee of the National Schools Literature Festival 2015, would like
The Programme
8:00 am
Registration begins
Festival Events:
to thank the following organizations for sponsoring this year’s festival:
9:00 am—

Unseen Debate
11:30 am

Set Text Debate

Lit Trailer

Book Parade
11:30 am—
Break
12:10 pm
(Refreshments will be served in the NIE
Canteen)
(Outside LT1)
(Please refer to the
map on pg 6 for
room locations)
Panel Discussions:
12:10 pm 12:50 pm
Curriculum Planning & Development Division,
English Language & Literature Unit (Sec)
We thank the following schools for providing student helpers to facilitate the
festival events:

National Institute of Education

Crescent Girls School

Dunman High School

Greenridge Secondary School
We thank the following organisations for coming forward to set up games booths
and book displays, for our students to get to know the Singapore writers and their
work:
Thank you NLB for
supplying texts for the
unseen debate:
1:00 pm—
1:30 pm

LT1: Connecting film, photography and
literature – Marc Nair & Dennis Yeo

LT2: Understanding the art of poetry –
Joshua Ip & Loh Chin Ee

LT12: Key ideas in Singapore literature –
Theophilus Kwek, Ann Ang & Angelia
Poon

LT7: How writers make stories come to life
– Jean Tay, Verena Tay with Angus
Whitehead

LT8: Ideas for creative playwriting – Faith
Ng & Ken Mizusawa
(Please refer to the
map on pg 6 for
locations of LTs)
Prize-giving:

LT1: Literature trailer (Rooms: TR707, 712,
714, 715)

LT 2: Literature trailer (Rooms: TR716, 717,
718)

LT12: Flash fiction and Book Parade
(Please refer to the
map on pg 6 for
locations of LTs)
Dialogue with Singapore writers
National schools literature festival 2015
organisers
Students can choose any one of the following panel sessions:
Panel 1: Connecting film, photography and literature with Marc Nair &
Dennis Yeo* (Venue: LT 1)
– Synopsis: What are the connections between literary and visual texts?
How can we create poetry in moving and static images? How can film
and photography help us appreciate literature and vice versa?
Chairperson: Sharon Quek -MOE
Vice-chairperson: Kanai Kay Grace - Greenridge Secondary School
Advisor: Dr Suzanne Choo - NIE
Advisor: Rupa Beng Choo - Crescent Girls’ School
Dennis Yeo - NIE
Panel 2: Understanding the art of poetry with Joshua Ip & Loh Chin Ee*
(Venue: LT 2)
– Synopsis: What is poetry? How can we better appreciate the art of
poetry? What are key ideas in Singapore poetry? What strategies can be
applied to writing captivating poems?
Loh Chin Ee - NIE
Ken Mizusawa - NIE
Denise Marie Fernandez – St. Andrew’s Secondary School
Asha Kirti Vora – Dunman High School
Gangadharan Sangeetha – Dunman High School
Kathryn Lee – Assumption English School
Panel 3: Key ideas in Singapore literature with Theophilus Kwek, & Ann Ang
& Angelia Poon* (Venue: LT 12)
– Synopsis: Teachers are increasingly introducing Singapore literature in
the classroom. It is also one of the texts assessed in the Unseen section of
the O level paper. What is Singapore literature? What are some key
themes and ideas in Singapore literature? What are some strategies that
help us better appreciate Singapore literature?
Panel 4: Techniques in playwriting with Jean Tay & Ken Mizusawa* (Venue:
LT 7)
– Synopsis: What are key ingredients for a successful play? What are core
themes in Singapore plays? What techniques should we take note of
when studying plays in order to better appreciate their art?
Michelle Lim Xi – Chestnut Drive Secondary School
Reena Kaur – Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School
Maria Ann Vanderstraaten – River Valley High School
Sai Radha K Suppiah – Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School
Junaidah Abdul Wahab – Nan Hua High School
Chin Ying Fen – Nan Hua High School
Leong Hui Ran – Fairfield Methodist Secondary School
Sylvia Ang – Bowen Secondary School
Faith Ong – Greendale Secondary School
Shaline Tan – St. Patrick’s Secondary School
Charissa Ong – First Toa Payoh Secondary School
Pan Ping Rui Perdana– School of Science and Technology
Panel 5: Creative writing 101 with Faith Ng, Verena Tay & Angus Whitehead* (Venue: LT 8)
– Synopsis: Have you dreamt about writing or even publishing your own
stories or plays? Get tips and strategies from established writers. Find out
strategies that can be employed to engage readers/audiences and tips
to overcome writer’s block. Get inspired to start writing!
Surya Subha Banerjee – Jurong West Secondary School
Usha Devi – Jurong West Secondary School
Website: http://nationalschoolslitfest.wikispaces.com
FLASH FICTION WINNERS 2015
Lower Secondary Category
Bio of panelists
Dr Dennis Yeo
Dennis Yeo has taught at primary, secondary, junior college and tertiary levels. His
positions include Subject Head (Literature), Head of Department (Pastoral Care &
Career Guidance) and Vice-Principal of Pioneer Junior College. He is currently with
the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of
Education. His research interests include Gothic film, popular culture and literature
pedagogy. He is the author of Telltale 11 Stories: A Study Companion and the editor
of Ku*lit: Asian Literature for the Language Classroom. He received the NIE
Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013.
Upper Secondary Category
“A Piece of History”
“Familiar”
by Chloe Ng
by Jamie Lau
Secondary Two
Secondary Four
Queensway Secondary School
Junyuan Secondary School
“A Friend”
“Valentina Ng”
by James Makarios
by Nguyen Thuy Khanh Du
Secondary Two
Secondary Three
Serangoon Garden Secondary School
First Toa Payoh Secondary School
Mr Theophilus Kwek
Born in Singapore, Theophilus Kwek has published two volumes of poetry, They
Speak Only Our Mother Tongue(2011) and Circle Line (2013), which was shortlisted
for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2014. He won the Jane Martin Prize in 2015, the
Martin Starkie Prize in 2014, and was also Highly Commended in 2014's PBS
National Student Poetry Competition in the UK. His poetry has previously appeared
in Cake, Spork Press, Cadaverine, and both the Asiatic and Mascara Literary
Reviews. He reads History and Politics at Merton College, Oxford, and is President
of the Oxford University Poetry Society
Mr Ken Mizusawa
“Familiar”
“Home Has Flaws, but It Is Still Perfect”
by Tabassum Nazir
by Shivadarshini Ramachandran
Secondary Two
Secondary Three
Tanjong Katong Girls’ School
Serangoon Garden Secondary School
Ken Mizusawa is a Japanese citizen by birth, a New Zealand playwright by nature
and a Singapore civil servant by way of the teaching profession. He is a Teaching
Fellow at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang Technological
University (NTU) where he teaches in the English Language and Literature
Academic Group. Previously, he was the Subject Head of English at Dunman
High School, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of the
school-based, interdisciplinary Language Arts curriculum. A writer client of
Playmarket, New Zealand,his plays have been staged in both Singapore and
New Zealand. His collection of six plays written primarily for young audiences, The
Boy Who Caused 9/11 and Other Plays, was published in late 2013 by Red
Wheelbarrow Books.
Their winning entries may be accessed at this link:
Ms Jean Tay
http://www.tinyurl.com/nslf15flashfiction
Jean Tay is an award-winning Singaporean playwright, whose plays have been
performed in Singapore, US, UK, and Italy. She has been nominated three times for
Best Original Script for the Life! Theatre Awards, and won for “Everything But the
Brain” in 2006. "Everything but the Brain” is currently being used as an 'O' and 'N'
Level literature text for secondary schools.
Alternatively, simply scan the image below!
Ms Ann Ang
Ann Ang’s poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in publications and
journals such as Eclectica Magazine, theQLRS, Kartika Review, The Common, Balik Kampung 2 and Softblow. Her first collection of short stories, titled Bang My Car, was launched at the Singapore Writers Festival in 2012.
“Scared for What”, from the same collection, was included in The Epigram
Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories.
A: Nan Chiau High
School vs B: St
Anthony’s Canossian Secondary
School (Sec 4)
Bio of panelists
Dr Angelia Poon
Angelia Poon is Associate Professor of Literature at the English Language and
Literature Academic Group of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang
Technological University. Her research interests include postcolonial theory and
contemporary literature with a focus on issues pertaining to globalization,
transnational narratives, and gender, class, and racial subjectivities. She has written
articles on contemporary writers like Kiren Desai, Andrea Levy, and Monica Ali as
well as on Singapore writers and literature education. She is one of the editors of
Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Literature in English (NUS Press, 2009).
Her book, Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period: Colonialism and the Politics
of Performance (Ashgate) was published in 2008 and her co-edited book, Sexuality
and Contemporary Literature (Cambria Press) was published in 2012.
A: Hougang Secondary School vs
B: Jun Yuan Secondary School
(Sec 4)
A: Greenridge
Secondary School
vs B: Fuchun
Secondary School
(Sec 4)
A: Sembawang
Secondary School
vs B: Tanglin
Secondary School
(Sec 4)
A: Dunman High
School vs B: Raffles Institution
(Secondary) (Sec
4)
Text: Poem 4
Angus Whitehead is an Assistant Professor of Literature at NIE. His research
interests include archival recovery of the immediate social historical contexts
within which William and Catherine Blake lived and worked, early nineteenth
century labouring class poetry and roads less/ hitherto never travelled in
Singapore literary studies, most recently one of Singapore’s forgotten treasures,
Wong May. He has recently co-edited 'Re-envisioning Blake', a collection of
essays exploring new directions in Blake scholarship, as well as editing collections
of Arthur Yap's and Gregory Nalpon’s short stories. He has also completed essays
on Arthur Yap’s poetry and prose and a variety of chapters and essays of William
Blake. Angus is currently completing a book on the later years of William and
Catherine Blake. Angus’ pedagogical research interests include fostering learning
journeys in the local Singaporean context, the dynamic learning possibilities
offered by the William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/, and
strategies for ensuring the survival of Literature in English as a GCE subject in the
Singaporean neighbourhood school.
A: Clementi Town
Secondary School
vs B: Presbyterian
High School (Sec
4)
Dr Angus Whitehead
11.00-11.30
Faith Ng is a playwright and an Associate Artist with Checkpoint Theatre. Her plays
include ‘Normal’ (2015), ‘For Better or For Worse’ (2013) and ‘wo(men)’ (2010). The
last two have been nominated for Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre
Awards. She holds a Master of Arts with Distinction in Creative Writing
(Scriptwriting) from the University of East Anglia, under the National Arts Council
Postgraduate Scholarship. She also teaches playwriting at the National University
of Singapore and was the writer-in-residence for the Singapore Creative Writing
Residency 2014.
TEMASEK
by Edwin Thumboo
Deprived of you, history and sense
Appendix A: Event 1 – Unseen Debate Texts
Ms Faith Ng
POEM 4
Turn quicksilver. In my grieving side
Grammars of living break their tense,
Diminish tact, impatience, pride,
Other contraries of soft power
That override or humble fact, debate,
The sea's recession or the faded flower.
I wonder if, again, old fashioned Fate,
Jealously ruminates in secret, rides
Us creatures who celebrate or rue.
I am bare. Unknowing, the world derides
My acts, my silences...deprived of you.
Dr Loh Chin Ee
A: Nan Hua High
School vs B: CHIJ
Katong Convent
(Sec 3)
A: Crescent Girls’
School vs B: Raffles Institution
(Secondary) (Sec
3)
A: CHIJ St Nicholas’ Girls School
vs B: Raffles Girls’
School
(Secondary) (Sec
3)
Text: Poem 3
A: Evergreen
Secondary School
vs B: St Margaret’s Secondary
School (Sec 3)
10.20-10.50AM
Appendix A: Event 1 – Unseen Debate Texts
A: St Anthony’s
Canossian Secondary School vs B:
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School
(Sec 3)
POEM 3:
My City, My Canvas
by Heng Siok Tian
How do I colour my city
with creatures busy in living?
do I walk along as it on an errand
seeking a lotus pond afloat with enlightenment?
Do I go in search of orchid petals
to unfurl whorls for hybrid pollens?
Do I hurry along street plans and measure landuse
to draw lines and shapes for my canvas?
My city has no mountain ranges
to be unscrolled broadened brownness,
neither has she bushfires nor epic tragedies
but her sky can be
as dry and distant as a desert’s.
My city has campaigns, policies and long-term planning,
has a reputation for drivenness
of a small country,
has shopping malls and more …
Is my canvas
a surrealscape of
a slim city slowly coated with melting cheese
where there are clowns with broken legs,
jugglers balancing on shaky stakes,
children spinning on top of whales
growing up to be adults with briefcases
on top of flying clocks?
I want to hiss a snake out of a kettle,
drink it like coffee as the steam scatters,
that I may
frame with passing beatitude and mosaic wisdom,
my city, my canvas.
Formerly a secondary school teacher, Loh Chin Ee is an Assistant Professor in the
English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of
Education, Nanyang Technological University. She is the co-editor of Teaching
Literature in Singapore Secondary Schools (Pearson, 2013), Little Things: an Anthology of Poetry (Ethos, 2013) and Teaching Poetry to Adolescents: a Teachers’ Guide
to Little Things.She is Book Review co-editor of Pedagogies, an international journal,
and founder of enl*ght, a NIE-based student-run publication for Literature teachers.
Mr Joshua Ip
Joshua Ip is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of two volumes of poetry
from Math Paper Press: ‘making love with scrabble tiles’ (2013), and ‘sonnets from
the singlish’ (2012). He won the Golden Point Award for Prose in 2013, and was
runner-up for Poetry in 2011. He has co-edited two poetry anthologies: ‘A Luxury
We Cannot Afford’ (2014) and ‘SingPoWriMo 2014: The Anthology’ (2014). He is
working on his first graphic novel, ‘Ten Stories Below’ (2015). He organized the
inaugural Singapore Poetry Writing Month in 2014, and the first Singapore
Manuscript Bootcamp in 2015. You can find more at www.joshuaip.com.
Mr Marc Nair
Marc Nair is a poet and photographer from Singapore. He has published five
volumes of poetry and has also been featured in a number of anthologies. Marc
has represented Singapore competitively at international poetry slam
competitions. This year, he has toured with his latest collection of spoken word
poems, 'The Poet of Unlove,' in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. He also
performs regularly with his band, Neon and Wonder. He teaches creative writing,
writes satirical podcasts with blogger mrbrown on the mrbrownshow and is the
co-founder of Mackerel, a travel stories site. marcnair.com | mackerel.life.
Ms Verena Tay
As a writer and editor, Verena Tay has published a short story collection, Spectre:
Stories from Dark to Light (2012), and three play collections, and edited seven fiction
anthologies, including the popular Balik Kampung series published by Math Paper
Press. A seasoned storyteller and theatre practitioner, Verena has brought
traditional and her own stories vocally and physically alive in her unique fashion,
delighting audiences in Singapore, Scandinavia, Australia, the US and Malaysia. An
Honorary Fellow at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa
(Aug–Nov 2007), she holds three Masters degrees in English Literature, Voice Studies
and Creative Writing.
Important Rules
1.
Holding rooms for all events are at the first level of the canteen (please refer to the map
in Appendix C pg 18).
2.
All participants must arrive at the designated event venue at least 15 mins before the
start of the event. If participants are late by more than 5 minutes, they will be
disqualified.
3.
Eating and drinking (except for water) are NOT allowed in any of the tutorial rooms or
lecture theatres. Please eat in the canteen area only. Please keep the area clean and
throw all litter in the designated bins.
4.
Refreshments are provided for event participants and teachers. This is at the basement
level of the canteen area.
5.
Please do not touch any of the equipment and do not wander beyond the following
areas: Blocks 5, 7, canteen area and LT 7 & 8. There are security cameras throughout NIE.
Vs B: Ngee Ann
Secondary School
(Sec 3)
S: Anglo-Chinese
School (Barker
Road)
A: Bowen Secondary School vs B:
Presbyterian High
School (Sec 3)
A: Commonwealth
Secondary School
vs B: Nan Chiau
High School (Sec
3)
A: Punggol Secondary School vs B:
Westwood Secondary School (Sec
3)
Text: Poem 2
Appendix A: Event 1 – Unseen Debate Texts
A: Bukit Batok
Secondary School
vs B: Clementi
Town Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Macpherson
Secondary School
vs B: St Anthony’s
Canossian Secondary School (Sec
3)
TR503
Seminar
Room
TR501
TR504
LT 12
Canteen &
Holding area
9.40-10.10AM
TR718
TR716
TR710
TR708
TR712
TR711
LT 2
TR706
TR705
TR506
TR505
(Registration
area)
TR704
TR703
TR507
TR508
LT 1
TR702
TR701
NIE Map of Venues
TR707
TR709
TR713
TR714
TR715
TR717
Block 1
POEM 2
Postcards from Chinatown
by Terence Heng
Racks of clothes along racks of clocks, as
if ticking away the fashion of the eras.
Fortune telling weight machine, I never
stepped on one before. Durian sign sale,
bicycle underneath no-bicycle sign.
Rusty trishaw parked outside renovated
lifts. And an old dental surgery somewhere
next to an older barber in the HDB.
Urn, three joss sticks burnt out sometime ago.
That was in the background where I walked,
background of the closed down emporium,
background of the foreign worker outside
an unopened shophouse. Background wet market,
background unanswered responses to the cajoling
from the hawkers in the background hawker centre.
Background, backstage.
Our performance dictates a different set of scripts.
Souvenir shops selling Chinese hats and fake
pigtails stapled to the end.
Umbrellas for holding water.
Postcards of nothing that we really do.
I’ll sell this as distinctly local. Our whole stage of
rojak culture and the embracement of strolling
down the street back into the tour bus. Shiny shiny
trishaws and fluorescent T-shirts peddle you around
the incorporated country. This is Singapore,
ladies and gentlemen, although you don’t see
the locals anywhere.
A: Siglap Secondary School vs B:
Assumption English School (Sec 3)
A: Admiralty Secondary School
vsB: Serangoon
Garden Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Edgefield Secondary School vs
B: Hua Yi Secondary School (Sec
3)
A: Greenridge
Secondary School
vs B: Pasir Ris
Crest Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Fuchun Secondary School vs B:
St Anthony’s
Canossian Secondary School (Sec
4)
Text: Poem 1
A: Regent Secondary School vs B:
Hillgrove Secondary School (Sec
3)
9.00-9.30AM
Appendix A: Event 1 – Unseen Debate Texts
POEM 1:
Autobiography
by Alfian Sa’at
Like most of us, I can't remember how
I was separated from my first love.
(Did it die, did I break it, was it stolen
Or did it fly out through the open window?)
I didn't have radio-tuning parents
Who filled the house with music
Or instilled in me "a love of the cinema".
I never recalled my mother coming home
From the hairdressers' with a new hairdo
Or father teaching me fishing, or
Staying up to watch football on TV.
He did once bring a kite home but hung it
On my bedroom wall (he turned it into
A portrait, it wasn't his fault the wall
Never became more of a sky). Meanwhile
Cousins came for visits wearing braces
And chattering about comics, bicycle scars,
And camping out, ghost stories (don't tell
That one, tell the one where Daddy used
The torchlight and Mummy screamed and dropped
Her things and laughed like a hyena). We drank
Boiled water in the house, and sometimes
Waking from a nap I would wander the rooms
To find mother copying cross-stitch designs
From a book or father watching a subtitled
Chinese re-run. So I slept again, dreaming
Of playing toys away from the sunlight
That leaked in between hawk-eyed curtains
Gold-plating afternoon dust to shining pollen.
When I awoke I was twenty, being asked
If I had a happy childhood. Yes, the one
We all have: filled to the brim
With the love of absent things.
upper SECONDARY unseen debate
Note: A = Team A and B = Team B
Time/Venue
TR503
TR504
TR505
Teacher I/C
Hui Ran
Sylvia
Yuen De Wei (NIE TG1)
Chairperson
(CGS)
Timekeeper
(CGS)
Yu Han
Laranya
Kathleen
Ellyzsha
Chloe
Anisha
Usher (NIE)
Heather Lee
(TG1)
Judith Lam (TG1)
Kasturi (TG1)
Aaron Lee (TG1)
Lisabelle Tay (TG1)
*Sukhjeet
Kaur (CHIJKC)
*Ong Kheng May
(Hillgrove Sec)
*Ghazali Hussain (TK)
John Praveen
(ACS B)
Jansen Yuen
(QTS)
Mousumi
Saha
(Westwood
Sec)
A: Regent Sec
vs
B: Hillgrove
Sec (Sec 3)
Emily Low
(NHHS)
Jaqueline Lim
(TG1)
Judges
9.00-9.30
Text: Poem 1
9.40-10.10
Text: Poem 2
10.20-10.50
Text: Poem 3
11.00-11.30
Text: Poem 4
A: Macpherson Sec
vs
B: St Anthony’s Canossian Sec
(Sec 3)
A: Evergreen
Sec
vs
B: St Margaret’s Sec(Sec
3)
A: Clementi
Town Sec
vs
B:
Presbyterian
High
(Sec 4)
Clare Low
(Bedok View Sec)
Renuka Devi
(Admiralty Sec)
A: Fuchun Sec
vs
B: St Anthony’s
Canossian Sec
(Sec 4)
A: Bukit Batok Sec
vs
B: Clementi Town
Sec
(Sec 3)
A: Greenridge Sec
vs
B: Pasir Ris Crest Sec
(Sec 3)
A: CHIJ St Nicholas’
Girls
vs
B: Raffles Girls’ (Sec)
(Sec 3)
A: Crescent Girls’
vs
B: Raffles Institution
(Sec)
(Sec 3)
A: Dunman High
vs
B: Raffles Institution
(Sec)
(Sec 4)
A: Sembawang Sec
vs
B: Tanglin Sec
(Sec 4)
A: Punggol Sec
vs
B: Westwood Sec
(Sec 3)
* Please refer to Appendix A on page 20 –23 for the Poems for the debate.
upper SECONDARY unseen debate
LOWER SECONDARY BOOK PARADE
Venue: Seminar Room (5-01-04)
Time/Venue
TR506
TR507
TR508
Teacher I/C
Denise
Faith
Darlene (NIE TG1)
Set-up/Usher (NIE): Daniel Pflug (TG3) and Khorunnisaa (TG3)
Chairperson
(CGS)
Vasunthara
Shrinidhi/Tyler
Divyatharani
Judges:
Nuurassyikin Yusnan (Dunman High)
Timekeeper
(CGS)
Sangari
Rifah
/Jacqueline
Madhu/Tammie
Usher (NIE)
Grace Wang
(TG1)
Clara Ang
CongPing(TG1)
Amanda Loh
(TG1)
Grace Heng (TG1)
*Cao Yu (AES)
*Fu Kaidi (NCHS)
*Nick Chui (Westwood Sec)
Wendy Chen
(Admiralty Sec)
Amelia Gan
(NHHS)
Nor Lizawati (Woodlands Ring
Sec)
17
North View Secondary School
Sec 1 Exp Team - Little Ironies by Catherine Lim
Nur Rakeezah
(Westwood Sec)
Jean Ong
(Punggol Sec)
Alfieana Alphonso (Edgefield
Sec)
18
Outram Secondary School
Sec 2 Express Team - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
A: Edgefield
Secondary
School
vs
B: Hua Yi Sec
(Sec 3)
A: Admiralty Sec
vs
B: Serangoon
Garden Sec
(Sec 3)
A: Siglap Sec
19
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls'
Sec Exp Team - Merchant of Venice
A: Commonwealth Sec
vs
B: Nan Chiau
High School
(Sec 3)
A: Nan Hua High
School
vs
B: CHIJ Katong
Convent
(Sec 3)
A: Bowen Sec
vs
B: Presbyterian
High School
(Sec 3)
S: Anglo-Chinese School
(Barker Road)
Victoria Joan
Ong (TG1)
Judges
9.00-9.30
Text: Poem 1
9.40-10.10
Text: Poem 2
10.20-10.50
Text: Poem 3
11.00-11.30
Text: Poem 4
A: Greenridge
Sec
vs
B: Fuchun Sec
(Sec 4)
A: St Anthony’s
Canossian Sec
vs
B: Paya Lebar
Methodist Girls’
School
(Sec 3)
A: Hougang Sec
vs
B: Jun Yuan Sec
(Sec 4)
Nur Afiqah (TG1)
Teacher I/C: Kathryn
Elson Quek (Sembawang Sec)
14
Hougang Secondary School
Sec 1 Exp Team - The Outsiders
15
Hua Yi Secondary School
Sec 1 Exp Team - The Giver
16
MacPherson Secondary School
Sec 1 EXP/NA Team - Percy Jackson & the Lightning
Thief
School (Sec)
vs
B: Assumption English School
(Sec 3)
vs
B: Ngee Ann Sec
(Sec 3)
20
Peicai Secondary school
Sec 1 Exp Team - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
21
Pei Hwa Secondary School
Sec 1 Exp Team - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
22
Punggol Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp Team - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
23
Serangoon Garden Secondary
Sec 2 Exp Team - To Kill a Mockingbird
School
24
Si Ling Secondary
Sec 1 Exp Team- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
25
St. Margaret's Secondary
Sec 1 Exp Team - Bridge to Terabithia
School
26
St. Patrick's School
Sec 2 Exp Team - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
27
Tanjong Katong Girls' School
Sec 1 Exp Team - Red Sky in the Morning / Poetry
Scrapbook
A: Nan Chiau High School
vs
B: St Anthony’s Canossian Sec
(Sec 4)
28
Westwood Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp Team - Skellig
29
Woodlands Ring Secondary
Sec 2 Mixed Team (Exp + NA) - The Boy In The Striped
School
Pyjamas
30
Yuying Secondary School
Sec 1 NA Team - James and the Giant Peach
31
Zhenghua Secondary
Sec 1 Exp Team - The Giver
32
Anglican High School
Sec 1 Exp Team - Red Sky in the Morning
* Please refer to Appendix A on page 20 –23 for the Poems for the debate.
upper SECONDARY set text debate
LOWER SECONDARY Book parade
TEXT
Venue: TR501
Teacher I/C: Kathryn
Set-up/Usher (NIE): Alyssa Lim (TG3) and Zachary Low (TG3)
Judges:
The
Joy
Luck
Club
*Rani Palaraju (CPDD)
PROPOSITION
Admiralty
Sec (3E)
PLMGS
(3E)
Yang Wei (NHHS)
OPPOSITION
Bowen
Sec
(3E)
SAC Sec
(3E)
Kamisah Yusoff (Pasir Ris Crest)
1
Admiralty Secondary
Admiralty Secondary
Sec 1 Exp Team- Red Sky in the Morning
School
3
Anglo-Chinese School
Sec 1 Exp Team - The Christmas Carol
(Barker Road)
4
Assumption English School
Sec 2 NA Team - Animal Farm
5
Bedok View Secondary
Sec 2 Exp Team - Merchant of Venice
School
(unabridged)
Changkat Changi
Sec 2 Team - To Kill A Mockingbird
6
7
CHIJ St. Theresa's Convent
Sec 1 Exp Team - Emily of Emerald Hill
8
Commonwealth Secondary
Sec 1 Exp Team - Bridge to Terabithia
School
10
11
12
13
Edgefield Secondary
Sec 1 Exp Team - The Boy in the Striped
School
Pyjamas
Evergreen Secondary
Sec 1 Exp Team - Percy Jackson and the
School
Lightning Thief
Greenridge Secondary
Sec 2Exp Team - The Boy in The Striped
School
Pyjamas
Holy Innocents' High
Sec 1 Exp Team – Or Else The Lightning
School
God
Hillgrove Secondary
Sec 2 Exp Team – An Inspector Calls
School
Session 1 (9:00—9:45):
THBT daughters can
never escape the
expectations of their
mothers
TR701
Session 2 (9:50—10:35):
THBT The Joy Luck Club
stereotypes American
Chinese women
TR701
Tr I/C, Facilitators/
Judges
Teacher IC: Ying Fen
Chairperson (DHS): Tan
Xian Tong
Time keeper (DHS): Isabella
Yuki Ho
Usher (NIE): Yuen Wai
(TG1)
Judges: Joy Luck Club –
*Chen Shu Hui (FSS)
Rachel Kwan (TKGS)
Lord
of
the
Flies
Presbyterian High
(3E)
St Patrick’s
(3E)
Session 3 (10:45— 11:30):
THBT a just society
requires strict enforcement
of rules
TR701
Evergreen
Sec
(4NA)
Fuchun
Sec
(4NA)
Session 1 (9:00—9:45):
THBT Piggy represents
the voice of reason on the
island
TR702
St
Gabriel’s
Sec
(4E)
Session 2 (9:50—10:35):
THBT the Beast in ‘The
Lord of the Flies’ is just an
illusion
TR702
Evergreen
Sec
(4E)
Sembawang
Sec
Session 3 (10:45—11:30):
THBT A just society
requires strict enforcement
TR702
Presbyterian High
(4E)
Serangoon
Garden
Sec
(4E)
Session 1 (9:00—9:45):
THBT Piggy represents
the voice of reason on the
island.
TR703
Hillgrove
(3E)
Session 2 (9:50—10:35):
THBT the Beast in ‘The
Lord of the Flies’ is just an
illusion
TR703
Session 3 (10:45—11:30):
THBT A just society
requires strict enforcement
of rules
TR703
Anglican
High
(3E)
Secondary School
9
ROOM
Sec 2 NA Team - Romeo & Juliet (abridged)
School
2
SESSION / MOTION
Evergreen
Sec
(3NA)
St Margaret’s Sec
(3E)
Crescent
Girls’
(3E)
Tan Jie Ying (NCHS)
Judges: LOTF –
*Norani Hassan (PRCS)
Rachel Mo (PHSS)
Teacher IC: Shaline
Chairperson (DHS):
Seraphina Wee Ying Wei
Timekeeper (DHS): Corliss
Lim Zi Hwee
Usher (NIE): Isabelle (TG1)
Judges: LOTF *June Lee (Siglap Sec)
Colin Koh (NTSS)
Chermaine Goh (TSS)
Teacher IC: Michelle
Chairperson (DHS): Lee Yi
Shan
Time keeper (DHS): Chen
Yi Han Amanda
Usher (NIE): Jasmyn
(TG1)
Judges: LOTF *Amutha R. (FSS)
Kuek Shao Zhen (HYSS)
Sharmila Thiruhelvam
(BSS)
upper SECONDARY set text debate
TEXT
Lord
of the
Flies
Death
of a
Sales
man
PROPOSITION
OPPOSITION
SESSION / MOTION
ROOM
ACS
Barker
(3E)
CHIJ
Katong
Convent
(3E)
Session 1 (9:00—9:45):
THBT Piggy represents
the voice of reason on the
island.
TR704
Clementi
Woods
(3E)
Siglap Sec
(3E)
Session 2 (9:50—10:35):
THBT The Beast in ‘The
Lord of the Flies’ is just an
illusion.
TR704
Holy
Innocents’
High (3E)
Kuo
Chuan
Presbyterian (3E)
Session 3 (10:45— 11:30):
THBT a just society
requires strict enforcement
of rules
TR704
Pasir Ris
Crest
(3E)
Pei Hwa
Sec
(3E)
Session 1 (9:00—9:45):
THBT Piggy represents
the voice of reason on the
island
TR705
Tr I/C, Facilitators/
Judges
Teacher IC (NIE):
LOWER SECONDARY LIT TRAILER
Time/Venue
TR716
TR717
TR718
Teacher I/C
Usha
Sook Lian
Jenny Thomas (TG3)
Kezia Soh (TG3)
Perdana/ Nicholas Huang
(TG3)
Aaron Chen (TG3)
Teo Sze Ying (TG3)
Klara (TG3)
Judges
*Nurhayati Rahman
(Chung Cheng High)
Filzah Yahya
(Changkat Changi Sec)
Susheela V. (Fuchun
Sec)
* Samuel Zou En (St
Theresa’s Convent)
Isaac Tan (AES)
Brannan Kwa (Edgefield
Sec)
9.00-9.35 am
CHIJ St. Theresa's
Convent
Sec 2 Exp Team - The
Pearl
Zhenghua Sec
Sec 2 Team - An
Inspector Calls
Tanglin Sec
Sec 1 Exp Team –
Roald Dahl's Ten Short Stories
Clementi Town Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team - A
Midsummer Night's
Dream
Pasir Ris Crest Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team - The
Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Fuchun Sec
Sec 2 Team –
Desmond Sim Student Plays
Greenridge Sec
Sec2 NA Team –
Coraline
Chestnut Drive Sec
Sec 1 Exp Team - Sing to
the Dawn
Hong Kah Sec
Sec 1 Exp Team –
The Umbrella Man
Hillgrove Sec
Sec 1 Exp Team Sing to the Dawn
Evergreen Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team An Inspector Calls
Yuying Sec Team 2
Sec 1 & 2 Exp Team – Matilda
Paya Lebar Methodist
Girls' School (Sec)
Sec 1 Exp Team - Red
Sky in the Morning
Punggol Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Fairfield Methodist (Sec)
Sec 1 Exp Team –
Wonder
Chestnut Drive Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team – The
Merchant of Venice
Fairfield Methodist
(Sec)
Sec 2 Exp Team
Orchid Park Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team –
Merchant of Venice
Nan Hua High School
Sec 1 Exp Team – A
Meteor of Words
Outram Sec team 2
Sec 2 Exp Team – The
Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Nan Hua High School
Sec 2 Exp Team – The Merchant of Venice
Yuying Sec
Sec 1 Exp Team Matilda
Fuchun Sec
Sec 1 Exp Team Matilda
Edgefield Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team –
An inspector calls
Emcee/Time (NIE)
Darryl (TG1)
Chairperson (DHS):
Soh Si Jie
Time keeper (DHS):
Goh Pei Xuan Gracia
Usher (NIE)
Usher (NIE): Amalina
(TG1)
Judges: LOTF *Huang Yu Long
(Serangoon Sec)
(15 mins each team)
Sum Kar Mun ( TSS)
Teacher IC (NIE):
Miao Hanqing (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS):
Kathleen Yip Si Hui
Evergreen
Sec
(3E)
Westwood
Sec
(4E)
Session 2 (9:50—10:35):
THBT the Beast in ‘The
Lord of the Flies’ is just an
illusion
TR705
Fuchun
Sec
(3E)
TanglinSec
(3E)
Session 3 (10:45—11:30):
THBT A just society
requires strict enforcement
of rules
TR705
Hougang
Sec (4E)
Ngee Ann
Sec (3E)
Session 3 (10:45—11:30):
THBT Willy Loman’s
self-absorption results in
his death at the end of the
play.
TR711
Time keeper (DHS):
Chen Jing
9.40-10.15
(15 mins each team)
Usher (NIE): Frida Ho
(TG2)
Judges: LOTF *Josephine Shen (Nan
Chiau High)
Nellie Tan (Holy Innocents High)
10.20-10.55
(15 mins each team)
Teacher I/C: Sangeetha
Chairperson (DHS):
Seetoh Keng Wan
Stacia
Timekeeper (NIE):
Quek Shi Yun (TG2)
11.00-11.30
(15 mins each team)
Usher (NIE): Nazri
Eddy (TG2)
Judges: Death of a
salesman –
*Joel Tan (Dunman
High)
Dawn Quek (TKGS)
Event 4 (Lit Trailer) - Reserve facilitators/judges from NIE (TG3):
Tan Poh Hoon
Siti Adibah Binte Mustafa
(TG3)
*Harvinder Singh
(St Anthony’s)
Lau Quan Han (Clementi
Woods)
Florence Lee (ACS B)
upper SECONDARY set text debate
LOWER SECONDARY LIT TRAILER
Time/Venue
TR707
TR712
TR714
TR715
Teacher I/C
Radha
Junaida
Raffiqah
Charissa
Amal Luqman
(TG3)
Darius Sim (TG3)
Joanne Loo (TG3)
Lyana (TG3)
Syafiq (TG3)
Elfarina (TG3)
Masrurah (TG3)
Sharilyn (TG3)
*Vani Dorairaj
(CPDD)
Lily Koh
(Anglican High)
Dennis Wong
(Nan Chiau
*Marianne Li
(Anglican High)
V. Vanishree
(Junyuan Sec)
Serina Wai
(Greenridge Sec)
*Grace Yeo (GSS)
Stella Tan
(Sembawang Sec)
Chia Yen Har
(CHIJ St Nicholas
Girls)
*Debbie Wong
(CPDD)
Siti Nur’aini (Hillgrove
Sec)
Jocelyn Chua (Hua Yi)
Clementi Woods
Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team Sing to the Dawn
Holy Innocents'
High School
Sec 2 Exp Team Stepping Up Four Short Plays
Hong Kah Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
Serangoon Garden
Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team - To
Kill a Mockingbird
Emcee/Time (NIE)
Usher (NIE)
Judges
9.00-9.35 am
(15 mins each
team)
9.40-10.15
(15 mins each
team)
10.20-10.55
(15 mins each
team)
11.00-11.30
(15 mins each
team)
Admiralty Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team
Commonwealth
Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
Anglo-Chinese
School (Barker)
Sec 1 Exp Team The Christmas
Carol
Admiralty Sec
Sec 1 NA Team
Compassvale Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team -The Jade Pendant
Hougang Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
St Anthony's
Canossian Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team Romeo and Juliet
Crescent Girls'
School
Sec 2 Exp Team Animal Farm
Anglo-Chinese
School (Barker)
Sec 2 Exp Team Lord of the Flies
Hua Yi Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team –
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
Tanglin Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team Stella Kon's 9 Classroom Plays
Assumption
English
Sec 2 Exp Team Animal Farm
Crest Sec
Sec 1 NT Team Romeo and Juliet
Kent Ridge Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team To Kill A Mockingbird (The Play)
TKGS
Sec 2 Exp Team - The
Merchant of Venice
Crest Sec
Sec 2 NT Team Macbeth
Assumption
English
Sec 1 Exp Team –
Oliver Twist
Westwood Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team –
Skellig
Bukit Batok Sec
Sec 1 Exp Team
— Bridge to
Terabithia
Dunearn Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team –
The Merchant of
Venice
Kuo Chuan
Presbyterian
Sec 1 Exp Team The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
Nan Chiau High
School
Sec 2 Exp Team –
Lord of the Flies
Changkat Changi
Sec 2 Team – To
Kill A Mockingbird
Dunman High
Sec 2 Exp Team Roll of Thunder,
Hear My Cry
Outram Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team –
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
TEXT
PROPOSITION
Fasting,
Feasting
Evergreen Sec
(5NA)
Here &
Beyond
Greenridge Sec
Team 1
(3E)
OPPOSITION
Fuchun
Sec
(4E)
Assumption English
School
(3E)
Si Ling Sec
Sec 2 NA Team Matilda
Woodlands Ring Sec
Sec 2 Team - The Boy
In the Striped
Pyjamas
Fuchun Sec
Sec 1 NA Team Matilda
Julius
Caesar
ROOM
Session 1 (9:00—
9:45):
THBT The female
characters in the novel
lead meaningless
lives.
TR706
Session 2 (9:50—
10:35):
THBT Gloria (in
Suchen Christine
Lim’s story) is fully
responsible for her
arrest at the end of the
story.
TR706
Usher (NIE): Andrea Yeo
(TG2)
*Royce Teo
(Compassvale Sec)
Anju Babu (Punggol Sec)
Judges: Here & Beyond -
TR706
CHIJ
Katong
Convent
(3E)
EdgefieldSec
(3E)
Session 1 (9:00—
9:45):
THBT Brutus is a
better leader than
Julius Caesar
TR708
Session 2 (9:50—
10:35):
THBT That Cassius is
the most powerful
character in the play.
TR708
Session 3 (10:45—
11:30):
THBT Close
friendships between
Blacks and Whites are
a cause for trouble in
the novel.
TR708
Nan
Chiau
High
Team 1
(3E)
Teacher IC (NIE): Liang
Wanyu Lavinia (TG2)
Judges: Fasting Feasting
–
Session 3 (10:45—
11:30):
THBT that Tim (in
Simon Tay’s story) is
a character to be
admired rather than
sympathized with.
Chung
Cheng
High
(3E)
TeachrIC(NE):LiangWanyuLavin (TG2)
Chairpeson(DHS):Teo ianC
Timek per(DHS):TanYu En
Usher(NIE):AndreaYo(TG2)
Judges:FatingFeasting–
*RoyceTo(CmpasvleSc)
AnjuBab (PungolSec)
Judges:Hre&Byond*Angeli Sm(ChangktChangiSec)
LauQanH (ClemntiWods)
Timekeeper (DHS): Tan
Yuan En
Greenridge Sec
Team 2
(3E)
Commonwealth
Sec
(3E)
Tr I/C, Facilitators/
Judges
Chairperson (DHS):Teo
Tian Ci
Junyuan
Sec
(3E)
Clementi
Town Sec
(3E)
The
Road to
Memphis
SESSION / MOTION
*Angeline Sim (Changkat
Changi Sec)
Lau Quan Han (Clementi
Woods)
Teacher I/C (NIE): Christopher Raj(TG2)
Chairperson (DHS):
Sarah Lim Si Ting
Timekeeper (DHS): Tan
Jia Wei
Usher (NIE): Cheryl
Chia (TG2)
Judges: Julius Caesar –
*Priyanka Chakraborty
(Westwood Sec)
Megalai Rajandran (Pei
Hwa Sec)
Nicole Kang (RI)
Judges: Road to Memphis –
*Wang Xiang Jun (Orchid
Park sec)
Madeline Wee (KRSS)
upper SECONDARY set text debate
TEXT
PROPOSITION
OPPOSITION
The
Road
to
Memphis
Nan
Chiau
High
Team 2
(3E)
Kent
Ridge
Sec
(3E)
Romeo
and
Juliet
Clementi
Town Sec
(4E)
Dunman
High
Sec
(4E)
Session 2 (9:50—
10:35):
THBT The death of
Mercutio and Tybalt is
unnecessary in ‘Romeo
and Juliet’.
TR709
St
Anthony’s
Canossian
Sec
(4E)
Session 3 (10:45—
11:30):
THBT that there is
poetic justice at the end
of the play.
TR709
Junyua
n Sec
(4E)
Session 1 (9:00—9:45):
THBT ‘Understudies’
reveals how people’s
lives are never meant to
belong to themselves
but to the state.
TR710
St
Patrick’s
Sch
(4E)
Session 2 (9:50—
10:35):
THBT ‘Kenny’s Big
Break’ explicitly
criticizes the idea of
conformity.
TR710
Queen
stown
Sec
(3E)
Session 3 (10:45—
11:30):
THBT intellectual
legacies determine our
life’s worth.
TR710
Edgefield
Sec
(4E)
Telltale:
11
Stories
Greenridge Sec
(4E)
Dunearn
Sec
(4E)
Everything
but the
brain
North
View Sec
(4E)
SESSION / MOTION
ROOM
Session 1 (9:00—9:45):
THBT Jeremy is the
real hero of the story.
TR709
Tr I/C, Facilitators/
Judges
Teacher I/C (NIE):
Daryl Leong (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS):
Amanda Lye Jue yin
upper SECONDARY set text debate
TEXT
Death
of a
Salesman
PROPOSITION
St
Gabriel’s
Sec(3E)
OPPOSITION
Nan
Chiau
High Sch
(4E)
Timekeeper (NIE):
Chen Shu’En (TG2)
Usher (NIE): Cherie
Chong (TG2)
Judges: Road to Memphis –
DunmanHigh
(3E)
TKGS
(3E)
*Wang Xiang Jun
(Orchid Park sec)
SESSION / MOTION
ROOM
Session 1 (9:00—
9:45):
THBT Biff is
responsible for the
Loman family falling
apart.
TR713
Session 2 (9:50—
10:35):
THBT Linda failed in
her responsibilities
towards her family.
TR713
Timekeeper (NIE):
Samuel Chan (TG2)
Evelyn Sim (Tanglin
Sec)
*Ow Yeong Wai Kit
(Bt Batok Sec)
Bedok
View Sec
(3E)
Punggol
Sec
(3E)
Teacher I/C (NIE):
Sheena Kang (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS):
Carine Loh Rui Xuan
Chew Jia Lin Lynn (TG2)
Usher (NIE): Evon
Lim (TG2)
Yeo Tze Qing (TG2)
*Cindy Yeo
(Hougang Sec)
Beverly Ang (Hua Yi
Sec)
Everything but the
brain –
*Izzan Yusoff
(Junyuan Sec)
Ng Sook Lian
(Crescent Girls’ Sch)
Nur Ragiqqa
(Crescent Girls’ Sch)
Session 3 (10:45—
11:30):
THBT Willy Loman’s
self-absorption results
in his death at the end
of the play.
Event (Set Text Debate) - Reserve facilitators and judges from NIE:
Timekeeper (NIE):
Serene Ng (TG2)
Judges: Telltale –
Usher (NIE):
Judges: Death of a
salesman –
Judges: R & J –
Johann Yeo (CPDD
Teacher I/C (NIE):
Elvis Wang (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS):
Yeo Xuan
Madeline Wee (KRSS)
*Meenakshi Palaniappan (CPDD)
Tr I/C, Facilitators/
Judges
Izza Binte Ismail (TG2)
TR713
Lau Bee Juan
(Quuensway Sec)