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I really enjoyed this project, because I got to use my imagination to create an article about an interesting story we read in class. In this story, descriptive and narrative writing was used, whereas in my article, I used expository writing, by using “Writing that aims to inform its reader” (Lindsay Kramer 2021). I also used persuasive writing, because I was trying to convince my readers that these clones are bad, and no one should buy them. Through this article, I wanted to make changes by trying to explain what is going on, as if this situation is truly happening. Therefore, I tried not to use narrative writing. If I did, it would have been just another version of the story. In doing this article, I adapted from my older one by using bulleted points on my paragraphs. After my first article, when we got to show it to our peers in class, I got a few tips. One of my peers told me to make my paragraphs more separated, thus shorter and easier to read. I did that, and then I incorporated more images in my article, and added hyperlinks under them, leading to other articles. The images I used were created by NightCafe, and it took me a few prompts to get the images I wanted, but I am happy with how they turned out. This project intrigued me, as I have not done any other projects like this before. Hopefully, we have more projects like this coming up in the distant future.
Works Cited
Chang, Jonathan. Chakrabarti, Meghna & Skoog, Tim. “Stories From Canada’s Indigenous Residential School Survivors”. | On Point WBUR.org. https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/07/28/stories-from-survivors-of-canadas-indigenous-residential-schools. Accessed 23 September 2024.
Johnson, Hilliary & Jones, John. “Back to school time can bring back painful memories”. Fnha.ca. https://www.fnha.ca/wellness/sharing-our-stories/back-to-school-time-can-bring-back-painful-memories. Accessed 23 September 2024.
“Pope’s historic apology for residential school abuses draws mixed reaction in B.C”. CBC News. www.cbc.ca. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pope-apology-residential-schools-bc-reaction-1.6532082. Accessed 23 September 2024.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: “Calls to Action”. www2.gov.bc.ca. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf. Accessed 23 September 2024.
This graphic novel, called “Sugar Falls”, made by David Alexander Robertson, is a story based on how Indigenous children were treated and what was done to them in the residential schools. It shows the perspective of a child, having to be taken away from their home and brought to this “school”, where they were stripped of their language, culture and identity. This cloud is based on how I would describe these schools.