In humanities this week, students took their knowledge of settlers to create a poster and radio ad to persuade others to immigrate to western Canada and of course Alberta! Students did a great job on their posters as they represented the time period well and each contained beautiful scenery & phrases to sell others on moving to the Canadian west. They also crafted a radio announcement which was a longer descriptive written piece explaining about the benefits of Alberta. We discussed how to write an effective advertisement and looked at some samples before students wrote a rough copy, edited it, then wrote their final good copy. Some students took this home on the weekend to finish up as we will be presenting the radio ads in class on Tuesday. We also started working on poetry concepts which will be a focus over the next couple of weeks. Students learned that there are many different forms of poetry and that it expresses the music & emotion of language, teaches us about language, expresses feelings, and is personal and can be about anything & everything. The first type of poetry we looked at this week was acrostic poetry. In an acrostic poem, the letters of the subject are written down (vertically) to form the word of choice. Next to each letter the poetic statement is written horizontally to express the subject in creative ways. Students created some acrostic poems in their visual journals.
Enjoy your long weekend! —Ms. Jagger
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June 2019
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