Camp Reflection
Time to reflect on your week at camp!
Answer in your JOURNAL Describe, in detail, one day of camp. What did you do? What did you eat? Who did you hang out with? Tell me all about what you liked or disliked. Did you feel the camp was a positive or negative experience? What would you like to change or keep the same? See if you can write for 15 minutes. |
When Is Image Everything?
Discuss with the person next to you what you think the purpose of this video might be
Image:
1. A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
2. The general impression that a person, organisation, or product presents to the public.
1. A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
2. The general impression that a person, organisation, or product presents to the public.
Dove Campaign about image
1) What was the difference between the two images that the artist created for each person?
2) What is the purpose of the Dove video?
We have discussed the various interpretations for the videos above. We can read so much in to them by just analysing what we can (and can't) see. Below is a poster for the 2010 Refugee Week. Analyse that poster using the table below in your exercises book.
1) What was the difference between the two images that the artist created for each person?
2) What is the purpose of the Dove video?
We have discussed the various interpretations for the videos above. We can read so much in to them by just analysing what we can (and can't) see. Below is a poster for the 2010 Refugee Week. Analyse that poster using the table below in your exercises book.
Images & Imagery In Writing
Let's brainstorm our prior knowledge of literary techniques used in writing to create imagery.
Poetic Devices to Remember for Now:
Write the above definitions in your book. Then, you are to work out which example matches which technique. Then, come up with your own examples for each technique.
- Simile: a comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
- Metaphor: compares two unlike things by saying that one thing IS the other.
- Hyperbole: a statement that is exaggerated and that is not supposed to be taken literally.
- Alliteration: the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- Personification: giving nonhuman objects human qualities.
Write the above definitions in your book. Then, you are to work out which example matches which technique. Then, come up with your own examples for each technique.
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Introduction to Ancient Rome
What do you know about Rome?
Where is Rome located?
How big was the Roman Empire?
When was this a thing?
Where is Rome located?
How big was the Roman Empire?
When was this a thing?
Continuing on from our earlier image deconstruction, we are going to look at some PRIMARY sources from Ancient Rome (Pompeii in particular) and work out what they can tell us about their society. You are to do this in your books and set the table up a little something like the one below.
*Hint: there is descriptions of the images below the images!
Ancient Roman Clothing
After visiting the website below, you are to find out the different types of togas and colour them in on the handout provided.
Word of Mouth
What does "By word of mouth" mean?
1) What stories about colonisation are revealed through these stories?
2) Do you think these stories would be true?
3) Do you think these stories would have been recorded or spread by word of mouth?
2) Do you think these stories would be true?
3) Do you think these stories would have been recorded or spread by word of mouth?
Brainstorm:
How do we hear stories? What story telling platforms exist in our society?