The second exercise asked you to take another series of three photos, focusing at different points in the picture plane. My (unedited) results below were taken at another school I'm working with, SK Sitang Petag. All three were taken at 32mm on the widest available aperture (f.42) at 1/30.
Image 1 focuses on a point at the back of the scene - the blackboard and adjacent poster. This is my least favourite image of the three, for two reasons. First, the subject in focus is too far away to see clearly and not particularly interesting - had there been a teacher at the board, it might have been a different matter entirely. And second, as a viewer you feel very much removed from what the photographer tells you (through selective focus) is the most important part of the scene, and therefore less engaged with the image.
Image 2 focuses on a subject in the centre of the picture plane - Nicol's chair. I prefer this image to the previous one as the subject is closer to you, and also more intriguing in itself (the graffitied name, for example, makes you wonder about the owner of the chair and imagine the classroom full of noisy children). A sharp image in the centre of an otherwise blurred picture is also instinctively 'easy to read', like focusing on the bullseye of a dartboard.
Image 3 is my favourite image. It has the most immediacy as you can easily imagine interacting with the subject (i.e. picking up the eraser). Because of the viewpoint you can also picture yourself as the pupil in the chair, bored with the class and resting your head on the desk, fiddling with stationery instead of paying attention.
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