In the unit New Beginnings, I learned about the history of New France and advertising skills, and I made an ad for the fur trade. The driving question is “What did the establishment of New France mean for all people involved?” My answer for the driving question is that the French established fur trade relations with the First Nations. The French got benefit from this, but many First Nations died because of trade with the French (because of disease). This is my answer, because the topic I chose is the fur trade. 

Revised Seycove Ad Challenge:

     It is the first project I did in New Beginning. I didn’t really learn anything about New France in it, but I reviewed the advertising because the final project in New Beginnings is about making an ad for New France. I made an ad about propaganda seycove together with my teammates, we have two drafts of the ad. I write about the many advantages in seycove and the address and contact information of seycove. I don’t have the first one on my iPad, but this is our final draft

Nature Photography Practice:

     I take photographs in the woods for the base of my visuals. I take many pictures, but I think this is the best one.

Learning Reflections

    A reflection of what people have learned in a week, like knowledge about advertising and New France. I have written 3 of them.

Trade Simulation

    The students were divided into three groups: the English group, the French group and two Indian groups. I was in one of the Indian groups. We simulated the new French fur trade and wrote tables about our group. The simulation is really fun, and it is my favorite project in new beginnings.

Visuals pitch

   In the first draft of the visuals, I made two pictures about the fur trade. First is trading, another is after trade.

New Beginnings Two Visuals

It is a thing that explains the evidence of the visuals.

Final images

It is a final draft of the visuals.

In the unit New Beginnings, I learned a lot of knowledge about Canadian history, they will be useful in the future .

The Learning Portfolio Post for The Renaissance: A Change Engine

     In this project we learned the Renaissance, Renaissance is a European ideological and cultural movement that happened between the 14th and 17th. It started in Italy and its causes are still unclear to this day. 

     There are Three famous people in The Renaissance. They are Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. They are called The Three Renaissance Outstanding. I chose Da Vinci as the topic of my thesis for three reasons.

     Da Vinci is known as the person who is the best represents the Renaissance. He is not only a painter, but also knows science, architecture, anatomy, weather, geology… Leonardo is the leader of the Ninja Turtles.

The first thing need to hand in Showbie: Beautiful Paragraphs

     Before Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa smiled at the world, medieval painting was mostly strange: a lot of painters painted with no proportion. For example, the eyes of the Virgin Mary in the left picture has drawn on the forehead, the blue creature in the right picture is a dog.

     If you look at Renaissance paintings, the proportions of the human body are more scientific.

This is big change of art, Da Vinci helped a lot, the painter, medical scientist, architectural engineer, poet, inventor and geographer. Everyone knows Leonardo is the person who created the Mona Lisa, he also is the person who carry forward anatomy. (I believe Andreas Vesalius invented anatomy

During the Renaissance, the the human body became a source of inspiration for artists. To show what human bodies really look like, artists were delving them.

     I chose Leonardo for topic, and I should wrote paragraphs about him. So, I wrote Vitruvius Man and the importance of anatomy.

My homework and Mr. Harris’s comments

The second edition

     Second, NAME Chart.

     NAME means Novelty, Applicability, Memory and Effect. I need to answered four question based on the words. They are:  

Novelty, what did people in the past think was important about the person, event or idea? What did this person, event or idea achieve which had not been done before? 

Applicability, In what way can the person, event or idea relate to modern events? In what ways is the person, event or idea similar to contemporary concerns?

Memory, Why has this person, event or idea been discussed since the Renaissance? What single element of this person, event or idea has been the focus of commemorations?

Effect,  In what ways have people been affected by this person, event, or idea? What changed as a direct result of this person, even or idea?

Third, Topic + 3Reasons

     My homework didn’t seem very good, but I fix the mistake in the Final Paragraph. (Is the Final Paragraphs add other papers and fix mistakes? If not, I’ll write a new one.)

Fourth, triptych

     A triptych is a picture divided into three parts. Teacher asked us to put ancient things in the left and right pictures (using SuperimposeX) and modern things in the middle

At last, Final Paragraphs

Add up all the other papers and fix the mistake.

Simile poem

A simile poem is a poem that connects two different things that have some common feature. I describe my worldview with simile.

Life is like a house, there is a time to tear it down and a time to build it up.

Life is like a plant, there is a time to sow and a time to gather;

Life is like a war, there is a time to win and a time to lose;

A time to cry and a time to laugh.

A time to love and a time to hate.

There is war and there is peace; 

There is birth and death;

Haiku

Haiku is a type of short poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku is made up of three phrases

Spring is here at last 

Buds opening up pinkish 

I got new black shoes

colored carps swim by 

a dim memory in mind 

blossom on the pond

The sad end of Spring

Lingers in the peach blossoms

Your birthday is near 

Found poem

Found poem is a type of poem that is derived from other texts and reconstructed by changing the spacing and lines, or by adding or removing text.

I STEPPED OUT the movie house,

I had things on my mind

Paul Newman and ride home.

I wishing I looked like Paul Newman

He looks tough and I don’t

My looks aren’t bad. 

I have brown hair and green eyes.

I wish they are gray

I hate most guys with green eyes,

I have to be who I am. 

My hair is long  

I am a greaser 

I look better with long hair.

Extended metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

The world is a work of art.

The curved moon is a boat.

The round moon is a plate

The summer sun is a fire ball

The white clouds are white marshmallows.

The fallen leaves are dancing butterflies.

Imagery poem

A poem that evokes the five senses to create a set of mental images. Figurative language is used to represent ideas, objects, or actions.

Black clouds covered the sky and the moonlight was weak. 

The north wind drove away the wild geese and brought heavy snow.

The snow on the mountain by the lake seemed to connect with the clouds in the sky

An old man in a raincoat fished alone from his wooden boat on the dark, calm lake.

I turned back from the window. 

In the evening, the house became colder.

I added wood to the dying fire.

A newly cooked dish smelled good. 

The little stove burned red.

The yellow dog barked outside the door.

Some people were going home in the snow

Sound poem

I used all kinds of animal sounds in this poem because I like animals

The farm

Baa baa baa baa baa baa

Moo moo moo moo moo moo 

Quack quack quack quack quack quack

 

Croak croak croak croak croak croak

Woof woof woof woof woof woof

Meow meow meow meow meow meow

Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck

Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep

Squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak

Bray bray bray bray bray bray

Experience poem

Me:

We have not seen each other for many years. 

It is as warm as spring when we meet.

I am very unhappy

that night I set out,

The clouds covered the moonlight. 

As see me off

Don’t be so sad. 

Life is a hard journey, 

you and I are just passing by. 

Like stay and leave from station to station.

My friend:

We say goodbye to each other 

The boat disappeared to the end of the sky, 

only can see the river running by.

I give my missing mind to the moon, 

Hope it can company you with the wind.

When the grass is green again next year. 

My friend, will you come back?

Personification poem

A worldview personification poem that my team and I created

World view walks in

Beaming with borders

It prances around the room 

Looking at all the different people

It smells like morning air

It listens to the pouring rain

That is falling outside

Self portrait poem

A poem about my worldview 

I want to write a song for myself

Adorn the joys and sorrows of life

In this song

A courage to move forward

A memory that will never die

An experience with a long aftertaste

I want to write a pome for myself

In this poem

The sunlight 

Take me in its arm

And only now

My heart will be so bright

Life is full of ups and downs 

It’s all too common

Step over 

A few low walls 

In front of me

There are many wild flowers