Oct 30: Five Frame Stories – Speaking / Representing

Hey Makenzie, here’s a little gift for you! We recently completed a fairly brief formative speaking / representing activity. Each of you had pick out five images that you would then base a short story on; your five pictures had to represent aspects of the beginning, middle, and ending of your future story-to-be. The twist,…

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I am Sam: CC Section B My 4 songs that relate

In this assignment I had to find 4 songs that related to the movie “I am Sam” and I tried choosing  songs that are each related in different ways!   1. Puzzle – Brad Urban   The reason I think this song relates to the film is because this song is talking about autism in general…

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I am Sam: CC Section A Journal Entry of Sam and Lucy Dawson

This activity was to write 2 journal entry’s of two characters from a certain scene from the movie “I am Sam” and identify the characters fears and be able to show how it is there fear in the scene. Journal Entry of Sam and Lucy Dawson   Journal Entry of Sam & Lucy Dawson Sam: Setting;…

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I am Sam CR Responses

1) Music played during the film: How is music used in the film to help develop the mood for the viewer? Examples?  The music in the movie I think played a fair amount on effecting how the viewer’s mood was. I noticed when a lot of background music just when things got sad there would…

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Welcome to blogging, Makenzie!

Hey there! You might be surprised to learn you have a blog. And you’ll soon have some of your work on it already. That’s how simple it is to blog! Crazy, huh? I’ll bet you’re this (image below) excited! You’re starting with me in Grade 9, so over the next four years as you continue to…

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A1 CC Descriptive Writing Practice

After reading “Laying on the Sidewalk Bleeding”, we played around with writing our own descriptive passages. We tried to focus on creating vivid phrases to really give the impression for the reader of what they see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.   Gr 9 Descriptive Writing Makenzie R

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