Monday, May 26, 2025

Tues May 27

FINAL SLIDESHOWS DUE MON JUNE 16 and Tues JUNE 17 in class no exceptions!!!

Mon/Wed

 Term 4 Writing

  • Conflict: Print and hand in
  • Photo Poem: Print and hand in
  • Object story or poem
  • Theme poem : on a theme 8 lines or longer print and hand in
  • Free write: put in your term 4 photo folder
  • Photoshop: WANTED POSTER, printed and handed in
Term 4 Photo

  • 10 Angle skatepark shots edited
  • 5 Spring shots
  • 6 System shots: 2 phone, 2 auto dslr,  2 Priority manual focus dslr all taken of the same subject
  • Slideshow: 30 shots ongoing, taken this term, only 10 can be assignment shots. Start pulling photos and putting them into this folder
  • 10 Portrait shots
  • 5 videos: walking toward, walking away, opening a door, 2 choice MAKE SURE THESE ARE SHOT HORIZONTALLY, and uploaded to a folder called video

  • Final Slideshow: Slideshow should include your best photos from the class. All photos should be in focus and well composed. There should be 30 shots total.
  • 10 of these photos can be from before this class/assignment photos from the class, but the other 20 need to be recently taken photos by you. 
  • Try to include a variety of different shots. Include: macros, landscape, portrait, and other creative shots.
  • You must include music that works well with your slideshow NO SWEARS!!!
  • Include your name on the first slide "Ms Chase's Slideshow"
  • time your slides 3.5-4 sec each and use a simple transition
  • You must save on the m drive under your folder AND the final slideshow folder for the class

Mon May 26: Last writing assignment

Poetry Assignment

Theme poem: your poem should be on a theme, 8 lines or longer, include poetic devices, edited by the teacher. (10 marks)

poem topics to help you

poetry classics

cool short poems to read

Poetry has often reflected as a voice of time. Meaning, subject matter and language choices may change with everyday concerns in the current society’s expectations. 

Poetry that lasts through the transition of time still connects with the reader in some way. In poetry, poems are written in lines, and groupings of lines called stanzas.

Poetic Devices to use in your poems.

 Alliteration – words begin with the same letter: The wiggly wobbly wagon wheel
 Allusion – reference to something else outside of the subject of the poem: The open window alludes to the woman’s longing for freedom from her current situation.
  Imagery – descriptive, sensory words that create a mental picture.
  Metaphor – comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
 Personification – attributing human qualities to animals or inanimate objects: The willow weeps    Repetition – a recurrence of elements to create unity
 Rhyme – same syllable or word sounds, often occurring at the end of lines of poetry. There is also the possibility of slant rhyme. This is when words do not truly rhyme but have a similar sound or appear to rhyme visually (bridge/grudge, orange/forage, said/paid).
 Rhythm – repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables which create a certain sound and pace.
 Simile – comparison between two objects using like, as, or than.
 Symbolism – using one object to suggest another meaning: A window might symbolize freedom, release, or opportunity.
  Theme – the dominant unifying idea in a poem


In all of the poems try to incorporate poetic devices to try to get your ideas across. Using words that help the reader see images is helpful as is creating a feeling or mood in your poem. Make sure you have something to say in your poem...meaning is most important. 
Poems should all be 8 lines or longer.

Sample poem, one of my favourites!

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold