Over this past month my class has been working on a project about the Canada, post World War II. We learned a lot about the changes the war brought to the world, from innovations to the economy. We started by making a poster in small groups of what we already know about the war. Then we moved into writing notes, and if I could go back, I would’ve spent my time at home better and worked on them a little more to make them more simple and understandable.. and finished writing them. The notes were about big events that happened after WWII like communists and how the economy severely went down. Here are my notes: 

Next we moved into learning about what our final project would be; (if you couldn’t tell by the photo at the top of the page) a radio play! We watched a clip of people doing one and practicing to see what it would look like, they have a couple microphones and a table of items to make sound effects. Our table had all sorts of weird items, a bag of cornstarch, a bucket of water, a squished soda can, and all sorts of objects. The sounds ended up sounding pretty good, though.

Next we learned about what types of satirity there is and how to tell if something is satire or not. Here’s a photo of the different types of satirity: 

Next we watched Pleasantville, a movie about a sister and a brother who somehow get transported to a 1950s TV show, Pleasantville. In this world everything is black and white and nobody feels strong emotions or has much “colour” in their life. Our job was to take this movie and turn it into a radio play about a post World War II Canada, but instead of everyone becoming more expressive and colourful, everyone becomes more informed. We split into groups where we were assigned a certain scene to work on, I was scene 3 act 2. In my scene the main character, Wanda, and her friends meet up in a coffee shop to talk about the new events occurring on the news, mentioning Lester B Pearson and Viola Desmond. Here’s a copy of our script:

In the end women start to get jobs, which was a very important part of our history! 

I had so much fun working on this project, you can listen to the full radio play at (insert link), thanks for reading!