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HCE 9 – English Write

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When I look at the picture, I see a small green bird on the right side and 5 dark birds on the left side of the picture. I also see 3 of the dark birds are holding signs with racist words, probably directed at the small bird. I can also see some emotion from the bird on the far left when he is even able to look which tells me that he has no respect for the small bird or doesn’t care. I think that the sign that is telling the small bird to go back to Africa, is the artist’s way of telling us that he is representing racism through birds because there are different types of birds all over the world.  I  think that through the signs the artist connects the fact that birds migrate to humans immigrating to other places being used as a twist to make the picture more cartoony or interesting. I also think that the author made the background darker and the background brighter where the birds are as a tool to lower the mood and make each side look different. I can also see the artist incorporating the theme of inclusivity using worms as a way to symbolize how racism can prevent the small bird from getting any worms. This makes me feel sad because of what is happening to the small bird. But I also feel happy that artists are finding new and interesting ways to symbolize racism instead of just plain old pictures. After looking at this picture, some lingering feelings I had were of how amazing it was that the artist was able to create a very interesting and cartoony picture while also being able to add in small things to tell the person looking at it a message.

Grammar Video Project – “Run-On Sentences”

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Our topic for English is “run-on sentences”. First, we asked, “what is a run-on sentence”? A run-on sentence is two complete sentences or ideas that are incorrectly joined. An easier way to think about it is to imagine that you go diving underwater. You use sentences to dive further down, and you occasionally need to stop for air. Otherwise, you’ll drown. As you get deeper and deeper into your sentence, you must take a breath, or what’s called “adding punctuation.” So how do you fix your punctuation so you won’t drown? It’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. You can fix your breathing intervals where punctuations should be located by knowing where an idea stops, or when you feel lightheaded. It can be called a “run-on sentence” or just a plain mess of writing, a sentence without any proper punctuation is just confusing. If the reader can’t understand your writing, then your meaning is lost. In our video, we made up a lot of examples to practice just to make sure you understand the concept. Here is an example: “I have to go to the store I need to buy bread.” Here there are two independent clauses with no punctuation. Clause One: I have to go to the store. Clause Two: I have to buy bread. So the correct version would be “I have to go to the store. I need to buy bread.” Now the two sentences function as separate sentences.

Quiz

Chose the sentence that accurately separates two complete sentences 0/3

1. Mark got a brand-new phone for his birthday however he can’t figure out how to set it up.

a. Mark got a brand-new phone for his birthday however, he can’t figure out how to set it up.                                                                                       b. Mark got a brand-new phone for his birthday, however, he can’t figure out how to set it up.

  1. My brother just graduated from high school he will attend university.

a. My brother just graduated from high school, so he will attend university.                                                                                                                        b. My brother just graduated from high school so, he will attend university.

  1. It was a cold day snow was forecasted by the meteorologists.                                                                                                                                        a. It was a cold day. Snow was forecasted by the meteorologists.                                                                                                                                  b.It was a cold day, snow was forecasted by the meteorologists.

Chose the sentence that is a run-on sentence 0/3

4. Which of these sentences is a run-on sentence?

a. Participants could leave the study at any time, but they needed to indicate their preference

b. Bobby likes to eat ice cream he went broke after buying it a lot.                                                                                                                                            c. Jack went to the dentist. But he had a recording scheduled at school the same day

a. Owen wanted tickets for the Spiderman No Way Home movie unfortunately the servers were down.                                                                        b. Jimmy wanted a new pair of shoes. Sadly, they were all sold out.                                                                                                                                        c. Karen wanted her milkshakes right away. But the milkshake machine is broken

Answer Key

  1. B
  2. A
  3. A
  4. B
  5. A

Indigenous Exploration “Inacarceration”

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Reflection

– Your experiences creating this assignment.

My groups entire expiernce was very tedious and tiring because of the many obstacles that we faced such as one of us not taking the work seriously so it created a work environment where some of us had to do more then others

– Your group’s path in researching the topic.

To Research are topic we started using links Ms. Henderson showed us but overtime start mainly focusing on two websites  Gale and CBC news. we used Gale  for more of the statisticle parts like how many of the current prison population is Indigenous  and CBC to get more of the stories and points of view on like a story of the protested getting excecive force used on pipline protesters.

– Obstacles or items you learnt in recording.

During recording we faced many issues such as managing are time during recording which caused us to repeatedly have to add on to are writing and trying to talk slower. We also struggled with trying to get everybody in one place to record because we forgot to get the contact information of one are members. Another Issues we had was trying to get all of are members to cooperate together. After finishing this assignment because of all of these issues I learned to always get contact info of all of my group members ,to remember to manage my time better and to make sure I chose group members that I will actually work well with

– Reflection on one of the below core competency questions.

 1: Critical Thinking … How does your artifact tie in with what you have learned before? How has your thinking changed? What made it change?
This artifact ties in with a past project  where I had to create a powerpoint about a specific places indigenous people and how the have been affected by the non indigenous people. My thinking has changed from thinking that when people talk about indigenous incarceration there only talking about the residential schools to both residential schools and current day incarceration. My thinking changed because of the fact that there is alot of people talking about it and all of the crazy issues that I learned during this project like the fact that

Since 2010, the incarceration of non-Indigenous people went down by 13%, while the incarceration of Indigenous people went up by 43%.

A Mountain Journey Questions

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1. What was Dave Conroy doing out in the wilderness? (motivation)

Dave Conroy was trapping and skinning animals in the wilderness proof of this when it describes actions “On his shoulders, he had lifted
upwards with him at every step his pack of food for another five days on the trail, his blankets, axe and fifty pounds of fur for the
market-the result of six weeks’ trapping on the head of the Jackpine.”
2. At what point does the reader know the protagonist is in serious trouble and not likely to
make it to MacMoran’s cabin? (plot)

The point that the reader knows the protagonist is in serious trouble and is not likely to make it to MacMorans cabin is when he felt like this on page 96 “Unable to light a fire, without warmth or food, he would never make it. His fingers were frozen. Feet probably were frozen too.”
3 . What three critical mistakes did Conroy make? What are some of the things he could
have done to prevent himself from freezing? (plot)

Three critical mistakes he made were not setting up enough camps and just rushing toward his destination, instead of continuing to reach the cabin. He fell and got parts of him wet and in his mind, he thought to keep going to the cabin and make a fire there instead of as soon as that incident in the water happened. When he arrived at the cabin he knew that from falling in the water he had to make a fire but as he went to go light a match he couldn’t because his hands were so cold that it was not possible. he could have prevented these things if he had thought about them and didn’t rush.

4. Determine the elements of plot in this story: exposition, complicating incident, 3 crises,
climax, and the denouement.

Exposition  We meet Dave a trapper freezing on a mountain that is trying to get to a cabin to wait out the night

Complicating incident:  Dave falling into ice and getting really cold

 crises:

1 The blue creek cabin was burned down when he got there

2. His hands and legs freezing unable to make fire and had no food

3. the next cabin getting entirely gutted when he got there

 Climax: He gets to the cabin but it turns out to have been covered in snow and is uninhabitable so he decides to hike to another cabin to spend the night. While he was on the way he gets tired and lays down to take a rest.

 Denouement: Dave started dreaming things and wakes up only to find himself in ice and he dies

5. Describe the setting – how does the setting affect the plot and the theme of the story?
What is the theme – write a theme statement for this story.

The setting is a freezing cold forest and mountain by the Atlantic Ocean with lots of ice a railway track and multiple cabins in the area with lots of wildlife in the 1600s to 1800s. this setting, caused the protagonist to go out and hunt these animals, survive the cold temperature and search for the cabins in the setting.

6. Find one example of a symbolic setting (a concrete place that represents something abstract)
and explain its meaning.

The cabin for David symbolized daves need to be  safe and because he thought he was close to it he imagined that he was close to it in the dream because so far he has been trying to get to safety and this dreamed up place is a symbol of that

7. Quote four images from the story that make effective comparisons (figurative language:
simile, metaphor, and personification)

1. He was beginning to feel like a ghost on an abandoned planet

2. That tree, like a strong and’ lonely woman

3. The moon threw his shadow on the snow

4. They were cold and white and unresponsive as
a dead man’s

A Mountain Journey Vocabulary
1. eternal p.92 Forever or never-ending
2. immobility p.93 inability to move or be moved.
3. opaque p.93 not able to be seen through; not transparent.
4. reverberation p.93 prolongation of a sound; resonance.
5. momentum p.93 The quantity of motion that an object has.
6. cadaverous p.94 resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.
7 .. congregated p.95 gather into a crowd or mass.
8. inundation p.95 an overwhelming abundance of people or things.
9. beggared p.95 reduce (someone) to poverty.
10. filched. P.96 pilfer or steal (something, especially a thing of small value) in a casual way.

The friday Everything Changed

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My The Friday Everything Changed summary

the Friday everything changed questions and summary

  1. the boys are upset that the girls are trying to carry the water because they think that they aren’t strong and it is a tradition special to them
  2. the strategies they use include hateful words beating them up an example of this is “as for alma, who kept getting notes thrown on her desk promising her everything from a broken nose to having her pants pulled down
  3. I think that the story is from a girl maybe the authors perspective the narrator thinks that the situation is really new and weird it shows this with examples like “we girl” and “but it was all too much for us at the moment”
  4. the setting is in an old school of in a remote area which makes the idea about things more confided to them and has no oversite from the main area of nova scotia hints of this include when the narrator said”one of those real city schools”
  5. the protagonist is either the girls as a whole or alma Niles because they fight for a good cause which is gender equality. In the end, get to achieve their goal of showing to the boys that they or strong with ms Ralston’s help. hints of this is “He was getting over the first shock of  finding ms Ralston opposite of his bat”
  6. Everything changed because before only the boys carried the water bucket until alma asks her question and the boys start bullying them because they believe that the girls are powerful and strong until Ms. Ralston goes and wins a homerun with was her way of symbolizing that girl can e strong and power full and are able the same things boy activities wise
  7. Vocabulary
  8. 1. Galvanized: shock or excite (someone) into taking action.
  9. 2. remotest: unknown chance
  10. 3. intoxicated: exhilarated
  11. 4. ominous: mysterious
  12. 5. supplementary: completing or enhancing something.
  13. 7. forlornly: bereft, forsaken left quite
  14. 8 earnistly: with sincere and intense conviction; seriously.
  15. 9 gloating: dwelling on one’s own success or another’s misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure.
  16. 10 transfixed: focused on something
  17. 10, pirouting: a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.

Gender Equality

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1. What is the article about?

This article is talking about a lot of things such as how because of their gender a person can be treated differently in the workplace or be denied future opportunities and fewer benefits. this article also talked about how getting exposed to sexual harassment can affect a woman’s mental state increasing their chance of suicide. they also wrote about how a person subjected to pregnancy discrimination can have a  negative affect on the baby and the mother’s physical or mental health.

2. Who does it involve?

The article involves people in the general workspace working and aspiring for new opportunities. Such as people like this young female doctor they wrote about in this article who felt like she isn’t being seen or is invisible because her male coworkers didn’t acknowledge her presence in a room even when she acknowledged them. Then she went to the department chair they also didn’t seem to care that she felt invisible and told her she was being too sensitive.

3. Why did you choose this article?

I choose this article because I wanted to find out about how gender equality is affecting the workplace so that when I get a job I can accurately identify it at that point in time. I also chose it because I liked how it went more indef into how you can stop gender discrimination with steps to take, unlike another site I looked at.

4.  How does this news article relate to the story we are reading- The Friday Everything Changed?

This news article is also talking about how women are being perceived as not equal to men in the workplace and should get future opportunities in just like in the story where the boy doesn’t think that the girls are as strong as them and shouldn’t be allowed to bring the bucket to the pump. Another way this news article can relate to the story  is how the woman in both story goes to ask for help from there superior and gets different results because one is a woman and the other is a man

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