Thurs Oct 2

NEW  Writing ASSIGNMENT SETTING: You are going to write about a favourite place using the 5 senses. As you describe the place, I want to you to use words that create visuals, sounds, tastes, and a sense of touch. The idea here is to write creating an atmosphere or feeling. 

You may need to build a fictional story around this place or simply begin describing it. In this assignment students are to focus on the elements of setting ( time, place, description)  using the senses and the concept of show not tell. Be specific instead of saying the red car, try the 1970's red corvette, instead of running shoes try his purple air Jordan's.

  Criteria:

• use show not tell
• use the senses, sight, smell, touch, sound
• 3/4 of a page minimum, typed
• hand in to teacher for editing, then fix up
• use specific language

Example of SHOW VS TELL

“Show, don’t tell” is using descriptive language to allow your reader to experience the story world, rather than explaining it to them with exposition. It allows the reader to visualize what the writer is communicating. For example, saying a room was cold is “telling.” Mentioning the frost on a windowpane or the thick socks your characters wear is “showing” the cold, but without saying it.

LINK to further reading: Setting article: more info

Link: get some help here

Example:

from "The Old House at Home" (1940)

by Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996)

McSorley's bar is short, accommodating approximately ten elbows, and is shored up with iron pipes. To the left is a row of armchairs with their stiff backs against the wainscoting. The chairs are rickety; when a fat man is sitting in one, it squeaks like new shoes every time he takes a breath. The customers believe in sitting down; if there are vacant chairs, no one ever stands at the bar. Down the middle of the room is a row of battered tables. Their tops are always sticky with spilled ale. 

When describing a place in fiction, think about the sounds, smells and other sense details that distinguish it from others. Here is Dickens describing the industrial city of Coketown.

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black … It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.

AND from Harry Potter: The first several chapters of the book take place at the Dursleys' prim house on Privet Drive. The Dursleys' home may look polite and regular, with its "tidy front garden"  and its inhabitants' emphasis on behaving just like everyone else, but that doesn't make it a nice or welcoming place to live. In a way, it has just as much darkness and unhappiness as you might expect from a magical landscape. Nephew Harry is forced to live in a "cupboard under the stairs"  while the son of the house, Dudley, enjoys two bedrooms to himself. The Dursleys' house might look cheerful from the outside, but inside Harry sees only bleakness. 

Mon Sept 23 A Day in the LIfe

Writing Assignment #3: Students are to write a bio telling about themselves including: interests, hobbies, likes/dislikes, favourite foods, fav. books, foods etc. This assignment should be written in third person. Ex. Jane is a shy girl who lives in Comox with her two cats named Goofy and Mittens. Jane enjoys knitting in her free time ……Length 1 paragraph

Criteria: detailed, specific writing ( 10 marks)
When finished, you are to find a partner in the class to read your paragraph to and get them to help you improve  the piece by offering suggestions. Make sure the assignment is typed and has your name on it.

Examples:https://insights.bookbub.com/great-author-bio-examples

 

Friday Sept 19

 

New Assignment: Step Down

Take 5 Step Down Phone Photos: you are to take 5 different photos using this technique. Make sure you have one or two selfie step downs.

10 marks. Put in folder called STEP DOWN

Thurs Sept 18

NEW Writing Assignment: Photo Poem

Plan to take a photo that has some space around it, (or use one you already have) focus on a subject that you think you can write a short poem on. The poem should be a least 6 lines long. Focus your poem on meaning not rhyme. I really do not like poems that have no meaning and meaningless rhyme. 

Your poem needs to be about something.

Think about the concept of simplicity with regard to the poem and the photo. Make sure your text is large enough to read. Below are 3 poems I wrote from  photos to show you as an example. SIZE 8.5 wide x 11 PLEASE PRINT OUT to Library Colour printer and place in your folder.

Thurs Sept 11

 1. Review

2. Intro to Photoshop

NEW Assignment 1: Scavenger Hunt:

1. Something that moves in the wind

2. A texture that looks or feels soft

3. A circle that is in nature

4. A shadow/fire hydrant

5.  An object shot top down

6. A selfie with another person

7. A photo of a sunflower

8. Something that fills the frame of your camera

9. Something orange

10. An Isfeld logo or emblem

Tues Sept 9

 1.  Create a folder on  Mdrive under CHASEphotoandwriting9

What is HEIC? HEIC is the file format name Apple has chosen for the new HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format) Standard. This new file type, however, may not be compatible with all devices. 

To set your Apple devices to take photos in JPEG/JPG instead of HEIC:

1. Go to Settings
2. Tap Camera
3. Tap Formats
4. Tap Most Compatible

2. Rule of Thirds

What is the rule of thirds? The rule of thirds is a composition guideline that places your subject in the left or right third of an image, leaving the other two thirds more open. While there are other forms of composition, the rule of thirds generally leads to compelling and well-composed shots. But, once you know this rule and practice it a bit, you can break the rule.

3. Questions to ask yourself before taking a photo: 10 QUESTIONS

4. Composition : the way in which something is put together or arranged : the combination of parts or elements that make up something.

Photo Assignment 1: Headshot Criteria: 5 shots

• background clean
• good eye contact with camera
• edited head and shoulders
• pleasing to the eye
• in focus
• speaks to subject's personality
• all headshots should be consistent and cropped

These do not have to be uploaded today. If there is a student who does not have a phone have them partner with someone who does and take them on their phone.

Writing Assignment 1

Students can begin brainstorming 20 things they would like to do/experience before they turn 25. They can put this into a word document and call it BUCKET LIST