Human Rights Inquiry Project

Human Rights Inquiry Project

You have worked very hard to create a human rights inquiry project.  I am really impressed with the variety of topics and the depth of your thinking.  This project is worth quite a few marks and I am proud of all your hard work! 

For Monday, please have all your notes ready to hand in to me. 

You will present in small groups of 4 students and one teacher on Monday. Part of your mark will be for the presentation so please practice this weekend.  I want to hear you speak clearly, slowly and without hesitation.  Your classmates and teacher will ask  you questions, so be ready! 

To This Day  by Shane Kocyzan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY

You have the words to this poem.  Please understand the poem.  If there is vocabulary that you don't understand, please review!

We have looked at the theme of bullying in this poem.

Remainder of the semester

Hello,  For the remainder of this semester I will use this blog to post vocabulary, assignments and any important links.

Right now , we have begun looking at poetry and figurative language.

You should be learning and reviewing the following:

diction

metaphor

theme

simile

alliteration

enjambment/ run-on line

sensory description

stanza

rhyme

assonance

punctuation

imagery

personification

onomatopoeia

symbolism

rhythm

Video Examples of UVic Teachers!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6z21E9iuI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLDR1m_bdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s04Of47OYY4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTlLmKqbWuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqmwr3eL7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTkbQFn4pMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh4LKPEl6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RKQfpoKyRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5cz4D08m4k

Assignment - Underground Railway

Please read each link and then tell the story at the end of the links.
I expect at least eight sentences with at least ten adjectives.
You are writing in the year of 1870.

Abolished means to end slavery.  You are writing in a time where a struggle to abolish slavery was happening.


http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/plantation.htm

In the Second World war, a Russian soldier finds a piano. That piano is abandoned, but he was very surprised, he likes pianos very much. He left team to go to the piano, and play it, he was very happy and relaxed. The piano reminded him of home, he wants to go back but his country need soldier to fight in the war. He like peace, We all like peace. I hope no more war on the Earth, I never want see anyone bead in the war.

The boy is crying.he is 12 years old .He is playing the violin at his teacher's funeral .He has not money for his instrument. And teacher gives him new life. He is so love his teacher but his teacher is gone. He is so sad that he is crying on his teacher's funeral. I think if he can he will use his life to save his teacher.

There are so many weak and homeless men.They move around the government officials.They don't have enough money,they need get free food.The government is ruthless.They don't want to save these people's lives,so the government only gives them little food.The food even can't make one person full .everyone use disappointed eyes to look at the government officials.

The only surviving person

  In March 2011 ,there was a big earthquake in northern Japan .Many people and houses were destroyed by the earthquake and lots of people had been dispkaced .There was ragged women called Yui Hatano. cShe losed her family and felt lonely .She sat in the ruins .The tall buildings were collapsed everywhere .She looked everything in sight and leaved tears.I thought she was pitiful and it made us understand this world's fine it'never long enough that only tears rain kept falling.




 

      A devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Natori , northern Japan on March 2011 . Everything there was distoried . There is a homeless girl who is crying very sadly . She sits on the ground among the wreckage of her town . She can't find her beautiful house or her kind family mumbers . She is helpless now.

pic from http://www.lifebuzz.com/powerful-photos/, #5

A young woman wearing black coat with short brown hair is setting by the ruin of her house crying. There was an earthquake last night. When she woke up by a big noise from the chandelier falling on the floor. She was terrified because her son is still in another room. She can hear her son crying. she was running to her son but the house stared disassembling, the roof started falling on the floor and blocked the way to the room where her baby is. She started screaming, but is doesn't work. Her Her neighbour came in and dragged her out of her house. 

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A MISSIONARY HOLDING A STARVING CHILD'S HAND

In this picture demostrates that there are still good people in the world...
There is a  misssionary who gave his help to the malnourished child, because he did not eat and his hand between missionary's hand looks so skinny,  his bones are too close to his skin, so you can know that the child lives in a poor country. It is a reality, so we need to  make a change, what are you waiting for? Join up with the good people in the world. We are all one.

Picture assignment- Friday, September 25

This activity is based on the New York Times learning blog:

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/whats-going-on-in-this-picture/?_r=0

You will find three pictures on the internet. Here are a few useful sites but you may search in different sites.  Make sure that you copy and paste the photos to a new document and save on your desktop.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33682404

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/best-of-photo-of-the-day/

http://www.lifebuzz.com/powerful-photos/

http://www.earthporm.com/most-powerful-photos-ever/

 After looking closely at the images, think about these three questions:

• What is going on in this picture?
• What do you see that makes you say that?
• What more can you find?

Start a new page in your notebook.  Write at least a paragraph for each picture 6-8 sentences. You are welcome to write a longer story than just one paragraph. Please use the thesaurus and do not use any kind of translation device.  After you've done a rough copy in your notebook,  have a teacher check and initial. Then pick your favourite picture and story and post to this blog.  I am looking for descriptive writing, powerful verbs and imagination! 

September 15 - The Hockey Sweater

The Hockey Sweater by Maurice Richard

http://www.nfb.ca/film/sweater/

September 15- descriptive writing

Write the sentences below in your notebook.

Be ready to change your sentences and add at least 1-2 adjectives so that I can "see" the picture.

1. The two men are hugging on the road.

2. The two men are hugging at a game.

3. The child is being moved. 

After you have written one descriptive sentence, write in one or two sentences why you think the event happened. 
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/influential-photographs

September 15- picture #1

September 15- Picture 3

September 15- Picture 3

Canada Mapping assignment

Please use the following links to help you:

http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/mapmenu.html

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/ca.htm

https://www.google.ca/maps/@48.5689,-123.4535007,4z

What is happening in this picture?

What is happening?

Proust's questions

Monday, September 14

Creating Questions- for this assignment, you will be creating questions to better know our community.
Below are some samples from Proust's Questionnaire. It was created by the French writer Marcel Proust as a tool to learn more on the life of the interviewee.
You will be creating 6-8 questions and please include one or two of the samples below.

  What do you most value in your friends?

Who are your favorite writers?

  Who are your heroes in real life?

  What is it that you most dislike?

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

  What is your greatest fear?

    Which living person do you most admire?

  What is your greatest extravagance?

  What or who is the greatest love of your life?

When and where were you happiest?

Which talent would you most like to have?

  If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

What  do you consider your greatest achievement?

 Where would you most like to live?

 

Welcome!

Welcome!  The purpose of this blog is:
1. To keep you updated on class assignments
2. To provide a place to publish your assignments

Please use respectful language and treat your classmates with encouragement and kindness.