This is my Bento Box for my novel study, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time written by Mark Haddon. It was created in Genially and the following writing includes, writer style, characters, thematic connect, and inquiry question that relates to the story.
This is my Powtoon Found Poem inspired by the Veldt that is written by Ray Bradbury.
Reflection
For my English and COL assignment I made a podcast with Dane and Alistair exploring the topic of Indigenous Incarceration in Canada. Indigenous incarceration in Canada is an underrated topic of indigenous people that needs to bring awareness to. So, the main focuses of our podcast were the causes of indigenous felony, the statistic of indigenous incarceration, and we also discussed resolutions we believe the government and the society could do to decrease the rate of indigenous overincarceration. Our podcast is called Breaking Barriers.
Overall, it was a very enjoyable and valuable experience since I have been exposed to new knowledge and topics. Such as collaboration, online researching, indigenous knowledge, little bit of human psychology and recording a podcast. Dane and Alistair were also fabulous partners to work with, and they helped me a lot with vocabularies. We also bonded and got to know each other better. Time flew fast doing this assignment, it did not feel like an assignment because I had a lot of fun doing it.
At first, we did our own researching. I focused on researching their motives to commit crimes. And I stumbled upon a documentary on YouTube that gave me a lot of information. It was a DW Documentary called, Why Many Aboriginals Grow Into Crime. For this researching process, I also used websites such as Bing, YouTube, Gale in Context Canada, and a few other search engines. After research, Dane and Alistair wrote the script while I edited my part of the script. Then we did some finishing touches to our script and went to record. Personally, recording was the fun part of this assignment. We had a lot of bloopers and messed around a little bit with Audacity. We managed to get the recording done quick and in high quality. At the end, we re-recorded some mistakes and our final product was ready to be published.
An obstacle that I struggled with was trying to hold my laugh before recordings, sometimes there is this urge that makes you laugh even though nothing is funny. I also had a hard time speaking clearly and pronouncing complex words. However, despite the obstacles I faced, I gained some knowledge on the motives for aboriginals to cause crimes. Due to racism and the environment they grew up in, aboriginals cause crimes because of their ambitions for money. They did not have the right education they needed, that made them believe the only way they can make money, is through dealing drugs and working for a gang. In my point of view, racism is one of the main contributors in leading someone to go corrupt and have no confidence towards themselves in the society. Just like everyone else, aboriginals just wanted to be accepted and live a normal life without doing the wrong thing.
I value their traditional singing and dancing. It gets my attention every time they perform, the footwork, the drumming, the singing, it is all so high energy, and it brings this “we are one” vibe to me. It is very attractive. Like my culture, we do have performances to bless us with good luck. But we do not sing, we dress up as a dragon (dragon is a traditional spirit animal for Chinese) and drum really loud. Both performances are very high energy, makes you feel like you are home, connected to your culture. And the most important connection of all, is that we love our culture, we value it a lot, and we are proud of it. We are not ashamed, our culture is history for everyone to admire.
Title: Why Many Aboriginals Grow Into Crime
DW Documentary
Title: Overincarceration of Indigenous people: a health crisis
Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
Overincarceration of Indigenous people: a health crisis | CMAJ
This is my One-Pager on the Children’s book Pathways to Theme assignment. The assignment was to choose a children’s book and create a One-Pager about it on the Human Condition. The story I chose was Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch.
1. Why did you choose this artifact?
I chose this artifact because I have read “Love You Forever” since I was a child and I have really enjoyed it. This book very clearly illustrates the unconditional love that mothers provide for their children. And the part where the mother passes away, always gets me very emotional. It got me to think deeply and appreciate everything my mom has done for me before it is too late. It is a very interesting story that I suggest children to read, and it is a very addicting book that I could read over and over.
2. What personal strategies did you use to generate ideas?
The inspiration of the song verse for the connection to world, actually came from a song that I was listening to while working on the One-Pager. The song name is: This is what autumn feels like, by jvke. A commonly used strategy for me to generate ideas on this One-Pager was from listening to songs. I listened to mostly love and sad songs, just so I can get a taste of the joy and pain that love brought to the writer or singer of the song.
3. What could you have done differently and why?
I could have definitely worked better on my cursive hand writing, it is not the best hand writing I could have possibly done. And I struggled to write the letter, s. Another one I should have definitely done better would be the spacing of my writings. It is very cramped and the topic of the paragraph I wrote about is not clarified clearly.