Tag: english

Gifted

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What does it mean to be “Gifted”? To have such raw talent that others watching would stare speechless, in awe of your brilliance. This is what we’re studying in health & career and it’s very thought-provoking. We read the piece of writing above and were told to write a 100-150 word “plan of action” to become gifted at whatever we pleased. Here’s my paragraph: 

gifted writing

The word count may be a little over the limit, but I’ve just got a lot to say. This piece of writing can from my heart and presenting in front of others while having confidence is something I’ve desired for longer than I can remember. I’m working towards this goal and I hope I can become more accustomed to sharing my opinions and thoughts in front of other people. 
Toodles!

Morris the Moose Goes to School

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Hello, welcome to my blog! Today I’ll be sharing with you a long lost tale about a Frankenstuffie. This little guy was a creation part of the “Who’s in Control: People or the Environment?” unit we’ve done in PLP. We’ve worked on this unit for a huge chunk of the year and we’ve been very busy bees. To start it off, we read Andy Weir’s ‘The Martian’ and filled out sheets that asked questions like, “Who is in control in this section of the novel: the humans or the environment? Justify your answer with at least two examples from the book.” We would read a handful of chapters every week and fill out these sheets as a reflection to the section we read. Here’s an example of one of the sheets we filled out.

 

 

This reflects on the very last few chapters in the book (Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD!) where Mark makes his way to return to his team on the Ares 2 mission. He gets there safely and everyone is happy. But as you can see on the sheets, there are still a few unanswered questions that are driving me crazy. This book had an interesting style because it would include different perspectives from different characters/groups of people. We were introduced to that style of writing so that incase we wanted to include something like it in our epistolary story, we’d have the option.

To give you a better understanding of the epistolary stories, it was basically entries we wrote about the whole story arc of our creature and its adaptation to this new change to its physiographic region. Meaning, the environment changed and so the animal had to change in order to adapt to it. We were first given a place with a certain climate around Canada and my group was assigned the Prairies. I chose to do the SouthEast Prairies and brainstormed what I could put into my story. Here’s a picture of the storyboard I came up with:

After making the storyboard for the epistolary story, it was time to get writing! We did drafts of our epistolary stories and after finishing them had our peers critique them, giving us feedback.

For my epistolary story, I wrote it in a way that Morris the Moose would be writing letters to a friend who’d gone traveling. I went for an older style of writing and was inspired by the language and expressions included in the letters sent in the time period during WW2. I got my inspiration from the letters on this website and found it to be quite easy to adapt to that writing style. Here’s my final epistolary story:

If you read my epistolary story that i’m so proud of, you’ll notice the antagonist. This was a monster we made as a part of a math project and it was really fun to put together.

The final part of this project was the video. Our videos were based off of our epistolary story but we were allowed to change a few things. Here’s a picture of the storyboard for my video:

In the end, I didn’t include the antagonist because I just thought it would be a simpler and easier to comprehend if there weren’t any complications with the characters. In its place, I took the environment struggles to a new level and they went on for a long time. Here’s my video:

https://youtu.be/1FRejfJZvdg

New Year New Me

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Welcome to my very first blog post of 2017! I sometimes look back at my older posts and just cringe. A lot. I think that says quite a bit about how I learned about how blog posts can be different from a regular write up that you make for your teacher. I’ve learned to add links to certain things which make writing these so much easier because I don’t have to do a lot of explaining. I’ve learned how to add gifs which add humour and they make my blog posts more enjoyable for people to read. These posts have also gotten more entertaining to write just because I can make these and have my writing reflect my personality by using humour, sarcasm and many puns. 

A little while ago in the flight 9 class, we did a project called “The Harry Potter Project” This was another Blue Sky project where we had to come up with an inquiry question related to Harry Potter that we could answer with our project. Myquestion was, *drumroll* “How can I recreate the Marauder’s Map to work at Seycove?” This question was inspired by an 11th grader named Chloe on a presentation night when I realized that the two previous questions I came up with sucked. After I had seen that my question had been approved, I began to worry a little bit about what I was going to do to answer this question. I don’t know a thing about coding and I’m just bad in general with technology. So, I spoke to ms Willemse and found out that in order for this project to work, I’d need to use beacons and place them around the school in the chosen areas and they’d send an alert to people’s iPhone as long as they’d already installed the app called “Locly“. Within this app, I made a Treasure Hunt. I first had a google docs document where I put in all the places that I thought had a deep meaning or that was a big part of Seycove. I researched and took pictures of these places that I would later insert into my treasure hunt. I made an account within the locly website and I got to know it a little by exploring the site. I then came across some really helpful tutorial videos for the locly app. These taught me how to put together the treasure hunt and how to bring in other apps. At times this could be very frustrating because I would want to make something one way but the app wouldn’t let me or nothing was explained about it in the tutorial videos. Other than that, this project was pretty fun to make and I loved making the clues for the treasure hunt. You won’t guess what I brought in for the treasure, peppermint candy canes! They were so cute and small and I was obsessed with them! Unfortunately, there wasn’t any treasure hunt because I couldn’t get my peppermint hands on the beacons but not to worry! I served them as our group’s food at the exhibition night and it went really well.
Now, for what you’ve all been waiting for, the clues! My first clue had been placed in ________ and I put it there because sports are a huge part of seycove. The second clue was an animated scratch kinda thing, like where you buy a 1 million dollar lottery ticket and you scratch to reveal whether you’ve lost or you’ve lost. This clue reveals a clue leading to the ___ room because so much incredible learning happens in that very room. The next clue was a trivia! The answer to this quiz was _____, because that’s what I brought in! And finally, you are told to head to a big pile of _____. 
As I explained before, I brought in a few more apps outside of Locly. The one I probably spent the most time and effort on was Paper by 53. This app allows you to draw just about anything and it’s very easy to use once you get the hang of it. I used this app to draw a clue for the treasure hunt and to draw the “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good” art and I used it to draw “Mischief managed” art. All of these took quite a bit of time to do. Now, I’m not the best at art and Ms Willemse and Mr Hughes could tell you that so when I found out that I had to do shading, I froze in fear and despair. It didn’t end up being too bad though, right? I think I deserve an A for effort in that piece because out of almost everything, I think that the shading was probably the most difficult part of this project. It took a lot of valuable time and had me fuming the whole way through. I guess that in the end my hard work shows but the thing is, it doesn’t. Because long ago, in a land far, far away, my dad jammed the printer. And so now, my project pays the price.
Another app I used as part of the treasure hunt is Bookry. This app allows me to make fun interactive clues to put in my treasure hunt. It allowed me to bring in photos and use them for the clues with some animation added on to the discovery of the clue. Once again, there was no coding that was required to make any of these animations.
In summary, this project had its ups and downs but it was all around a fun project to make. I loved how my poster board turned out and I loved how the clues worked. At the beginning, I was worried that the project wouldn’t work out but I was happy in the end when it all came together. 
Here’s a picture of my poster board: