Wednesday 18 December 2013

Monday 2 December 2013

Dialogue and Non Verbal Body Language

"Yo bro," said Jeff while fist bumping his buddy.

"Your tattoos look hella tight," said Phil while feeling Jeffs arms.

"Ya! Can you believe I got these swag tattoos?" He asked. 

"Hell naw man, it's so swag! I want one too," Said Phil.

"You should totally get a tribal tattoo like mine dude!" Demanded Jeff.

While motioning to his arm "You really think so bro?" Wondered Phil.

Putting both hands in the air "Hell ya dude!" Jeff screamed.

"Well where should i get it done?" Phil said skeptically.

"I got mine done at yolo swag ink, so we could go there my bro could hook it up," while  referring to his tattoos, Jeff said.

"Then let's roll bro!" Yelled Phil pointing at the door.

Dialogue
Non Verbal Language


Thursday 21 November 2013

TMNT

A fitting throwback to when me and the boys dressed up as TMNT for Halloween. 

Thinking about dialogue.

1. Me and Colby went to the gym, followed a few people around up stairs and listened to some people in the power mech hallway. We listened the gym people for about 5 minutes, the people we followed upstairs for about 5 minutes also and the people in power mech hallway for a brief minute. The conversations were between 3 groups of different people we didn't know. It felt like we we shouldn't have been listening but at the same time it was funny. 
2. Some people like to use sound effects while talking, example "just whip the ball at him like whoosh" and when regarding a sock conversation you can see how boys who normally wouldn't care about it they would love to hear it from a girl. 
3. Creeping on people and hearing them talk helps expand your dialogue because not all people talk the same as you. 
4. Personality and character are revealed through conversation because most of the time you can judge how someone will speak by the way they look, but in some cases that is not true at all. 
5. The conversation becomes less intimate and becomes people trying to be more funny or show of rather than showing their feelings through a personal one on one conversation.
6. There tends to be a leader/leaders in the conversation and everybody else seems to talk about what the leader is saying.
7. Texting people tend to let there feelings out more, maybe this is because they don't have to see the persons facial expression which could lead to them getting hurt. 

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Huskies lacrosse.

Pretty depressing photo, that game we lost in the provincial finals. It was the last quarter of the game and it was tied. There was about 10-15 seconds left on the clock when the ball comes rolling to me and I put it in the net and we were sure that we won.. The other team West K calls a stick check where they look at the stick that scored the goal and see if it's legal, I knew my pocket was fine but the only thing I didn't have was a butt end. Something covering the end of my shaft.. The goal was disallowed, them we lose in the 3rd overtime. One of the most devastating things that's happened to me for sure. I will always hear butt end jokes from the guys I know on the other team and the occasional from my own team.  

Huskies

Team photo of the hockey team

Imagery paragraphs

1. Why did you select this passage?
I picked it because it immediately made me imagine what it would look, feel and sound like. 
2. What type of imagery is most common? 
For the quotes I picked I think kinesthetic  was the most common although I see it as the most challenging to write about, I can feel exactly what they were describing. 
3. what is the best snippet of imagery within this passage? Why is it so effective?
I think the kinesthetic imagery when it says how Noah's arm was probably numb and I knew exactly what it meant and I could relate to it right away. 
4. Is the imagery positive or negative? How do you know? Give some words as examples to support this. 
I think most of the text is neutral because I couldn't find any words that support a negative or positive effect. 
5. What mood/emotion is being created by the author? How do you know? 
The author is trying to make us feel bad for Sadie (Plath) because in the full quote she was having a bad dream about her dead family. 
6. What is the purpose of this piece of imagery? The purpae of this piece of imagery is to give more detail to Sadie's dream and give the reader a better understating of it. 

Quickwrite - alien stick up.

"Don't tell them where you are" whispered the blue man. I had no say in what to do because he was pointing a gun straight at me. I was talking to my family on the phone and the only thing they wanted to know was my location, I simply told them to not worry and that I'll be home soon. I couldn't figure out why the blue man had kidnapped me and what he and his monkey wanted with me. The monkey smelled horrendous, like it was bathed in dirty water and wiped down with dirty clothes. This blue man and his gun was nothing like I've ever seen before, and whenever he talked it's like the movement of his mouth didn't correspond with what I heard. "Let's go now" he demanded. I didnt know where we were or where we were going but we all left the crowded phone booth, I wasn't sure if it smelled worse than the monkey or not. So we started walking, it was a rainy night and we seemed to go on forever. We were in the middle of nowhere, and finally the man yelled "STOP, now start digging". This was it I thought I'll never get home to my family. Well I knew I was gonna die, I decided to try and go out with a fight. I swung my shovel at the monkey and struck him in the face, it hit the ground hard and wasn't moving. Now I had to try take out the towering blue man, but he was already gone. I was sitting in the middle of the desert alone, I look over to the monkey and it was also gone, I made my way home and me and my family moved towns and I tried to forget what happened. 

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Reading Assignment #6

Book: BZRK Page (226) Tweets from Keats (Noah), Plath (Sadie), Nijinsky, Ophelia, Caligula and Vincent.

@Keats: Seeing through my biots eyes #disgusting
replied by: @Plath: I know I haven't gotten used to mine either!
replied by: @Nijinksy: You two shouldn't publicize the ways of BZRK or I will get @Caligula.
replied by: @Caligula: I've already been looking at this, refrain from this.

@Nijinsky: #RIP Renfield, you were a great fighter down in the nano.

@Plath: Reading poems from #SylviaPlath
replied by: @Keats: I was also checking out my poets poems #VeryGood

@Keats:   @Plath, you should tell me your real name..
replied by: @Plath: you know we can't share that information, its against BZRK rules.
replied by: @Keats: well I won't stop till I find out! #Determined

@Nijinsky: I'm the brain and the heart of the New York BZRK organization #Blessed
replied by: @Ophelia: If your the brain and the hear that makes me the soul.
replied by:@Vincent: The brain?? I'm the smartest one around here!

@Plath: Finally figured out why @Nijinsky dresses so well!
replied by: @Nijinsky: Keep to yourself Plath.

@Keats: So no one has met our leader named Lear but we all follow his orders? #Questionable
replied by: @Plath: I was thinking the same thing ! But I wouldn't question it or @Caligula will visit.
replied by: @Caligula: You know I will be visiting if you wonder anymore Keats..
replied by: @Ophelia: Now let's not be intimidating the new recruits Caligula..

@Vincent: Not being able to feel pleasure is something I love and hate. #NotCool

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Quickwrite - Island


It was a beautiful island! We never got to meet the people who sold it to us and me and my friends Ashton, Dirty Dan, Colin and Colby all decided to chip in only a dollar each to buy the place! It was weird they only sold it to us for 5 bucks but who can complain? It's a freaking island I mean that's pretty neat. We were finally all heading out there in order to check it out and have a little vacation, It was pretty far out in the middle of no where with no cell service. We were finally getting there and it cost us 00 times more to get there than it did to buy it so we were ready to party. At first the island seemed pretty nice, lots of trees and some creepy caves for exploring, then we started notice some strange things a lot of our stuff was going missing.. No matter we were having fun! Then while we were all just walking around when we notice a cute little monkey! Colin stepped up and tried to feed it a banana, then without all of us thinking it would happen the monkey ate Colin's hand. Soon more monkeys come from smelling the blood, the next thing we know he's dead. Didn't matter though the rest of us got away safe in my helicopter.#784
five-dollar island

Quickwrite -Minions

If I had a set of minions for a week I would try and live that week up to the fullest, I would live like a king! I would make them do the basic things in life for me, feed me, bathe me, and maybe even do my homework. I don't know if they would be very smart, based on the movie I would say they aren't too intelligent but that doesn't matter as long as my homework's done. On day 1 we would all go out and have fun on the beach. On day 2 we would go to an amusement park for the whole day! On day 3 we would just have a loaf day and just watch movies. On day 4 we can clean the whole house. On day 5 we would go to a big sporting game. On day 6 I would let the minions do whatever they wanted. On day 7 I would throw a HUGE going away party for the little minions, they would realize they love me so much and stay forever. The end.

Wednesday 6 November 2013

Six Word Memoirs Debrief.

What did I learn about storytelling?
I learned a few things about storytelling through six word memoirs, I learnt its actually really hard to think of a solid story in only 6 words. I usually had over 6 words and it had me thinking of coming up with the same sentence but shorter and still getting my point across. I also learned that instead of  coming up with a 6 word story then matching it with a photo, I  found a photo I wanted to use and then just tried to think of a six word memoir that worked. It was a very long process making 8 different ones but it made me a better storyteller.
Where did i show my knowledge about using storytelling skills?
I used my knowledge of storytelling skills through my punctuation and when I had to use a comma or a period to make it more powerful. The power of the punctuation and how it can alter the sentence and how you interpret it. I used it really good on my 7th memoir "If your not first, your last." it controls the way it separates being first and last.
What did i learn as a reader, writer, thinker and storyteller? 
As a reader I learned that 6 words can be the difference between a good story and a bad story, it can show many different ways of telling a story. I learned as a thinker that it literally takes a lot of thinking in order to making a decent story. I learned as a writer that I can't half ass it and to take some time to actually think about what I'm trying to say.

A lax photo from last month, we didn't do entirely well but it was a solid tournament towards a really good cause. The tournament was in Minneapolis and me and Colin went it was fun.

Wednesday 16 October 2013

Quickwrite Detached.

It was my third and final trip to space. It was 1 day before we were set to return to earth, I was doing the usual business of taking photos of the large red planet that we have been orbiting. The red planet seemed to be very dead and was really boring, nothing exciting ever happened, but the next day I won't forget. We were almost ready to leave and I was out there again busily taking photos when I noticed a small dot that looked like it was leaving the planet, it came closer and zoomed passed us, I  was detached. As i was floating away slowly getting further and further from my spaceship utterly helpless. The small dot that went by so fast I couldn't make out what it was I assumed it was a ship from the planet because it flashed as it went by. Before I knew it I couldn't see my ship at all, immediately thought I was done for then boom. I was aboard the ship that I expected to have doomed me in the first place. Abducted. Then I awake in my home, no recollection of what happened on the ship what happened?



Reading assignment #5.

1. Wondering what my brother Alex is up to? #TheBrick
2. The rushing, sickening feeling I got when I fest saw my Biot #Awful
3. Crazy to think if my Biot is destroyed I literally go #Crazy
4. Still thinking about Plath #Subtweet 
5. So confused for the test set for me #WhatToExpect?
6. I guess you can call me Keats #FakeName 
7. I wonder where Nijinsky gets his clothes #Stylish 
8. The view at the nano level will take getting used too #MindBlowing
9. Never got to know you that well... #RipVincent
10. Can't be sure to trust Caligula #Frenemies
11. Scary. Never mess with Caligula #LessonLearned
12. Will it always be a bloodbath with BZRK? #Scared
13. Will I love up to the challenge of keepin Plath alive? #IHope
14. Plath and I are becoming closer in the short amount of time I've known her 
15. What is with Wilkes? Why is she so agitating #DamnIt

Quickwrite Robot.

My robot would be like a ninja and he would have ninja abilities. It would be able to help me out with all daily activities that are easy and hard. It could carry me around, feed me, and even brush my teeth because I'm that lazy. It would look like Jackie Chan because he is just like a ninja and he will  also talk like Mr.Chan. He can also play every sport possible so when I'm bored my robot Chan can get rid of my boredom. But because of the way I mistreat robot Chan he will rise up and rebel so that makes me have to use the self destruct button that I built, when that happens I simply create a new one.

Thursday 10 October 2013

Characters iPhone

The brick app is used so Noah can keep tab on his brother in the insane asylum called "the brick".
The biot app is for Noah's personal biots so he can control them through his phone. 
His peoms app is so he can look up poems by "Keats" his fake name that he had to take up in order to be in BZRK. 
The games app he has is just so he can keep his mind fresh because he needs to keep his mind  sharp and to think on many different levels at a time when using his biot. 
The football app is just so he can keep track of the recent scores of his favorite football team in London where he's from. 

Thursday 3 October 2013

Six word memoir #8.

I chose this quote to go with this movie because Colby has proven to be one of my best friends over the years and the photo is just so cute am I right? The effect of sepia is just adding to the affectionate views of the photo. The quote also directly relates to the quote because were both smiling with joy. 

Wednesday 2 October 2013

Six word memoir #7.

I chose this photo to go with my quote because it was one of the most heart breaking and memorable loses of my sports career. The black and white of the photo shows the sadness it brought too me. I wrote the quote in white just go go with the black and white background. Also just the quote it self is one of my favorites from a comedic movie which is ironic for it to express such a serious event. That's the way it made me feel when we lost that we were last. 

Six word memoir #6.

I chose this picture of all my siblings because  we all never really getting along and the variation in age between all of us is pretty large and that caused a little bit of problems causing us to fight. Another reason I chose it because it's pretty nicely collaged, starting from oldest to youngest from top left, top right, middle, bottom left and bottom right. The way I positioned the quote from the top is so it is easily seen and the same with the bottom part of the quote. I changed he filter of the photo to simply enhance it. 

Six word memoir #5.

I chose this photo because it's of my youngest nephew, he unlike my other nephews will play lacrosse and he has no other choice. It relates to my future because hopefully when he's older I will have enough experience in order for him to be a future lax star. The photo is almost picture perfect to me because when I first showed him the lacrosse sick I saw him smile and that's exactly what he doing in the photo. I put the apostrophe after "smiling" so the reader can stop and notice his smile. I used the black font so it's clear on the black background. 

Six word memoir #4.

I chose this photo because for the the school year last year near the end this is one of the most iconic photos I can think of. It was taken of a fellow hockey mate after we lost the championship game and it was just the funniest photos that I even had on my lockscreen it half a year. The "nobody forgets!" part refers to that game because the picture was taken right after we lost and it just reminded me of the game. I used the apostrophe and exclamation point to cause a pause and a to make a point. 

Six word memoir #3.

The image and the quote fit together in a way because it's one of my favorite pictures of me playing lacrosse which I fully believe to be an actually lifestyle and most players would agree.  I didn't put any affects on the photo because I liked the way it already looked. I also chose this picture because it was in one of the biggest tournaments I've ever played in. I put the hearts just to how my love for the sport itself. I added the question mark as I would ask my self "just a game?" when someone tells me it's just a game. 

Six word memoir #2.

The way I connect my quote with the photo is when I was in Montana for a lacrosse tournament we went into cabelas. 3 of my buddies decided to dress up as you can see an it was all for fun. The fact that our trainer on the right is in it because he's a very serious guy, shows everyone can have some fun. I put a question mark on the end of it just to add the feeling that you should ask yourself that question. I was adding the brighter and bigger text for excitement and the font for more fun. 

Six word memoir #1.

I used this picture to fit with the words because I just came across the photo in my camera roll and because of the horse mask I could not figure out what was going on, I couldn't explain it. I also cropped out a friend because his face was a little messed up. I put the words onto the side of the photo to add to the quote that you can't explain it.  I added more periods to the end of the quote for more a more mysterious mood. I used a bolder and darker font for it to show up on the side of the white border of the photo. 

Wednesday 11 September 2013

Reading survey

When I'm deciding what book I want to read I usually check the cover and the cover of a book can make or break a book for me. Which is ironic because I believe in the saying "don't judge a book by its cover" in regards to a person or anything along those lines. I also read what it has to say for a short description on the book, I also like a book with an eye catching title. When I pick a book I look for fiction booked because fiction isn't as boing as fact or anything else. Basically how I choose books. 

In grade 9, 10 and a bit of 11 I felt pretty strongly about reading. In grade 9 I just read smaller books and nothing really all that challenging for grade 9. In grade 10 I decided to step up my game and read longer books and even some fact based books. I got into a series written by Darren Shan and I read about 10 of them, they were pretty good. In grade 11 I only read books that I had to read because I lost interest and never had that much time but I read this book called "house of the scorpion" and it's one of my favorite books now. 

When I'm reading I usually try and picture what's happening to the characters like what's happening in the background or what's surrounding them. I also picture what the characters look like or if the book was a movie and which actor would portray them. I try and key work try go into the detail of the book, sometimes having to re reads some pages in order to understand.