ELA B10 B7 Personal Reflection: Youth Pressure
After watching the film Dead Poet’s Society, I considered whether young people face similar pressures and to the same extent as Neil does in the movie. Here’s my audio reflection:
Letter to a Pal: Week #2
Hi Stella and Jacqueline, (and Jan?) I’m very excited to be finally writing back and forth, this is very cool! To reply to your comment on my previous post to you, we do have quite a few refugees coming into Canada as of late. They are coming from all over the place and there is… Continue reading Letter to a Pal: Week #2
A3 CC: The Wave Personal Response
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS REGARDING THE MOVIE The Wave In class recently, we watched the German movie The Wave, or Die Welle in German. The movie was spoken in German but we watched it with the English subtitles. It was interesting to watch a movie in German since we are currently talking with some pen pals from Germany! After we watched… Continue reading A3 CC: The Wave Personal Response
Letter to a Pal: Week #1
Hello there, whoever you are! This semester in our english class we started talking about the topic of equality and stereotypes with visual and non-visual minorities in our society. We talked about how affirmative action affects people who are a part of a visual minority and how people of both types of minorities are… Continue reading Letter to a Pal: Week #1
A1 CC: Inequalities in Society
I feel like as a white person, I was born with more opportunities than someone of colour or different ethnicity. White people are generally born without a stereotype as opposed to someone of First Nations background. A white person born without stereotypes is almost like a blank slate, nobody has any negative feelings against them.… Continue reading A1 CC: Inequalities in Society
B9 CC: Student Responses About Heroes
In class, we read an article where people reflected on the death of Nelson Mandela. There were student responses at the bottom of the page, and our assignment is to respond to those comments as if we could actually respond to them. Kyle 2015 October 12, 2015, · 10:59 pm Adam Nossiter talks about… Continue reading B9 CC: Student Responses About Heroes
B9 CC: Compose and Create
In class we read a short story called “The Sniper”. We were focusing on the topic of challenges for this section and the story is about a sniper in Ireland experiencing a few different challenges. After we completed the story, we had the opportunity to choose our own CC activity. I chose to summarize the… Continue reading B9 CC: Compose and Create
A5 Imagination Beyond Daily Life: CC
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS Before we watched The Village in class, I had never seen or heard of that movie. I don’t watch too many creepy movies, so it was a bit unsettling watching this type of film. I really liked the style of the film and how they took advantage of all of their camera angles,… Continue reading A5 Imagination Beyond Daily Life: CC
Year End Grade 9 Portfolio Interview
For our final assessment in grade 9, we are answering questions reflecting on our work and improvement over the year. There are six questions that I will be answering, and I will provide evidence. 4.) Give an example of the planning/development of an assignment that you’re most pleased/proud of. I am proud of the… Continue reading Year End Grade 9 Portfolio Interview
A10 CC: Descriptive Instructions to Follow
Our assignment is to pick a picture to describe in as much detail as possible. We had to pick a partner to try then and draw the picture based on our description. This picture is of two people, a man, and a woman. The man is on the right, and he is not wearing a… Continue reading A10 CC: Descriptive Instructions to Follow