Category Archives: English 10
Documentary – “Technology, Used or Abused?”
Expository best describes the documentary Lucy, Mel, and Paige created because the narration has a neutral opinion and focuses on other people’s opinions to inform the public about the upsides and dangers of technology. “Technology, Used or Abused?” focuses on the different perspectives of technology from both teachers and students. We go on to explain how technology benefits different generations and how technology has impacted so many people’s lives. We interviewed 3 teachers and 2 students, asked the same questions but got different answers. We filmed B-Roll, voice-overs, and edited the whole documentary with iMovie. We planned everything out on Milanote, including the script, when and where to film certain scenes, as well as introductions and conclusions. We thought this was an important subject for a documentary because technology is a very important factor in our world, especially during times like this. We wanted to show the different opinions between teachers and students as we believe technology is currently the most important thing in our school.
Indigenous Podcast – Figuring it Out
In our Podcast, “Figuring it out”, we discussed a missing and murdered indigenous woman named, Felicia Solomon. Our podcast goes over the details of her case and we talk about how the case did not receive the proper amount of support as it deserved due to discrimination against indigenous people. To record our podcast, we used Blue Snowball microphones provided by Vancity, and all of our audio editings was done in GarageBand. The podcast cover was designed by both of us and we used a platform called Procreate to draw our cover. Writing and recording this podcast has shown both of us how much discrimination there is toward indigenous peoples and their communities as well as how many families have been affected by situations similar to Felicia’s.
Residential School Word Cloud
Short Story to News Article – “Marionettes, Inc.”
Practice News article
Test subject chimpanzee – Sly throws a fit and tries to attack students on a school field trip
Paige Bradley
Sly, a chimpanzee at Albert Mission Testing facility goes savage and tries to attack some innocent students during a school field trip, the chimpanzee is one of the many test subjects in the facility, he is being tested with a digital chip that analyses his brain, despite the major advancements the facility has made the chimp must be kept alone and gets limited privileges.
The third-grade schoolteacher Maria Loise was terrified and devastated about her field trip being ruined by such an unexpected event, “I cannot believe what happened today! The kids and I were terrified… if the glass had broke– I don’t even want to imagine.” Said Miss Loise to a local reporter.
The chimpanzee, according to Miss Loise, was sitting by a small pottery wheel when she and the twenty-seven other children arrived at his cage window, he suddenly became red with rage as he launched his heavy lump of clay toward the thin glass window, the children scurried away as he ran toward the window appearing as if he might break right through.
The supervisors of the chimpanzee unit – Delilah Liam and Vern Smith, were anguished by the attitude and actions of one of the more well-behaved chimpanzees, Sly is a ten-year-old Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee at the Alberta Missions Testing facility, he and five other chimps have received a chip along with thirty others who are in testing and on standby for implants.
At this moment Sly is the only chimp who was responding in a positive way and up until now, he was doing astronomically well for his program projections.
The head supervisor Delilah spoke to us, she said “Sly has had this kind of attitude before, this is not new, but he has never acted out like this before. He receives some simple privileges at the moment, but they will be taken away, we must show him our discipline so he can follow suit, Sly enjoys pottery so we will take this away for a while and continue with the program.”
The program, NCC33, is not going as planned according to an anonymous source the expensive trials are not supplying sufficient results and as of now the facility is unaware of any side effects on the chimpanzees, could this be the end of a two-year-long trial worth over one million dollars?