Monday 9 December 2013

Colorado avalanche

This week my avs fell a bit back in the weekly power rankings after only winning 1 of their 3 games. They now sit 9th out of the 30 teams ! 

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Titus the trick shot king

Can't believe I'm just seeing this video now. This kid is going to be a basketball star when he grows up, can't wait to see more from Titus! http://youtu.be/eX0Iy93nqKs

Monday 2 December 2013

Colorado Avalanche

This week the sit 6th out of 30 teams in the nhls power rankings, not a bad week for my team! 

Practicing Dialogue and Non-Verbal Body Language

" Eh yo, lets go take the most swagged out selfie the selfie world has ever seen. " Said Marcel.

" No doubt, let me just get my stupid school uniform off first " John said rolling his eyes.

" Ohhh dats right won't be very swagy with my school uniform on! " Marcel replied.

" Think mom still has all those washable tattoo's ? That would be bad ass. " John whispered and added a smirk.

" That would be bad ass! we may finally get 11 likes yo!! " He said.

" Ok lets take this " John said.

" Yo Marcel that ain't your swag face " John said.

" Oh shit that's right, thanks John " Marcel said and his face went red as if he was embarrassed.

" Lets touch peace signs so people know we bro's " Marcel said.

" Yo 3,2,1 swag !" They Both shouted out.

 Dialogue
 Non-Verbal Body Language





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Thursday 28 November 2013

Not much of a reader !

Im not much of a reader but I had an experience today that was pretty neat. I came into class and started reading my book ( The Catcher In The Rye ) and ended up getting into it and when I looked up at the clock 45mins had past by. I have never been lost in a book like that before and thought I would share that on my blog. 

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Reading assignment #5

The catcher in the rye (54) Holden's tweets 

" can't believe she's not with me .. #Soft #Ratteld " 

" ackley has to be the most annoying person on the planet #frenemies " 

" doing stardlaters paper on a Saturday night #frenemies #sucks " 

" Pencys meals are brutal #garbage #gross " 

" hate everyone at pency #Phonies " 

" wish I could just go work with my brother writing and making big bucks #Bank #HateSchool " 

" and ackley comes walking into my room again...... #getout #noonelikesyouackley " 

" Always rough saying bye to your favourite teacher #Spencer "

" gunna go get a hotel room in New York before going back to see me crazy parents #RelaxThenTrouble .." 

" wish my little bro was still around.. God I miss that kid :( #r.i.p " 

" seems like there are no more authentic people around my life anymore #phonies " 
" normally love riding the train at night but not tonight ... #LateNightThoughts " 

" so much room on the train and of course this lady has to sit right next to me ... #Creep " 

" hopefully never have to see the people at pency again #hatethem #phonies " 

" kinda miss old ackley coming in my room all the time though #Jk #SorryNotSorry " 

Reading assignment #3 pt.2

I had a text to world connection in the catcher in the rye because of Holden's attitude towards everything, but I especially related to Holden's attitude towards school. I know of a bunch of people at my school flunking out like Holden and to me it seems they all act the same, they are all failing but act as if they know everything and that nothing is there fault. In the novel Holden always blames other people and the school as reasons why he is flunking out but really he is the reason. I know lots people in the same situation and they all seem to act the same as Holden, as if it's not their fault and that is the reason for this text to world connection. 

Reading assignment #3 pt.1

The catcher in the rye (50).
I had a text to self connection when Holden would talk about how he hates and thinks so many people are phonies. I would never call someone a phoney because that sounds weird but I feel I have met and know a lot of people that act fake. It's very easy to tell as well like they won't act the same talking to you one on one as when you in a group of people, also when they talk it seems as though their body language doesn't match the way they are talking. I felt that was a way I connected to Holden 

Reading tweets #2

The catcher in the rye (45) " it's weird that Holden has such a liking for Jane when he barley knows her #Romance " 

" why is Holden flunking out of school ? #Conflict "

" seems like Holden is good in school, so why doesn't he try ? #FigureItOut "

" Holden calls everyone a phoney but he kind of is himself #CalledOut " 

" Holden's parents will kick him out of the house when he gets back home for flunking again #Prediction "

Thursday 21 November 2013

Thinking about dialogue (Jared and I).

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 threw 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

Imagery Quick Write


Another one gone, just added to all the others that have vanished since the world went under. There's not much you can do with everyone running out of oxygen. It's not about money, oil, or power anymore, that's just not how it works. It's a constant fight between groups of people to kill each other for that last little bit of oxygen. It's been awful dents we went under... Living in Colorado we were some of the last. My name is Ashton Courchene and for the last five days I've been stuck down here, my hands clammy, feet as well. The wetness is driving me crazy they said we wouldn't even feel it in these suits but they lied, they lied about everything..

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Pirate Alien Shark Pig....

The Pirate Alien Shark Pig is by far the most terrifying thing to ever exist because it is unstopable and can kill anything. It talks like a pirate, well also yelping some oniks here and there .... Thats pretty scary. It has the head of and Alien, like the ones from "Mars Attacks" but on the scary alien head is the most terrifying black pirate eye patch. Then it has the body of a arms/fins of a shark then the rest of its body is that of a super scary pig !! The way it kills things is it stares at them for 2 mins and then the thing it is staring at head will blow up.
 

Minions

If I had all 800 of the minions, I would lay in my bed all day well they did everything for me. also everyone knows it only takes two days for minions 2 days to have their babies so I would take half of them and just get them to repopulate so I could have mimions for the rest of my life so they could do all the hard work and still party with me.

Wednesday 16 October 2013

Quickwrite - Ducks Happy Ending

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It was a nice summer day and ducky the duck decided to take her little ducklings out for a walk around the beautiful city of Brooklyn. but the one thing that no one knew about ducky the duck is she would tourture all the baby ducks, except for the one duck, her favourite of them all Martin Luther Quack. the other ducks knew they had to make their escapce and go on to live their own normal lives so when they were walking over the sewer the sneaky and very intellegent brother Mikey noticed that there was an exaust pipe from a car right above the sewer and that they could pretend as though they had fallen into the sewer and quickly jump up into the exhuast pipe of the car, so Mikey told his brothers and sisters quickly and they acted on their plan! It ended up working!! Mikey and all of his brothers and sister were able to go on living there own live becoming writers, constuction managers and stay at home moms. ducky the duck later killed Martin Luther Quack in anger of her ducklings leaving and then the ducky cops came and arrested her ducky the duck is still in quack prision to this day.

Quickwrite - Robot

If I were to have a robot servant in the future the first thing I would make sure it could do is cook for me as I am the worst cook ever, it would also play lacrosse and love to party. I would also make sure it would have a built in music player so I could bump some tunes at any time. Its voice would be the voice of Morgan Freeman because that would be every neat !

Thursday 10 October 2013

Six word memoirs #8



I chose this photo because ever since I started watching hockey I've always had such a love for the Colorado Avalanche. I find it crazy how a hockey team like the Avs can effect my mood so much so I found it nessesary to add them to my six word memoirs and they have had a great start to the season as they are now 4-0 nobody would have expected that from them to start the season. In this picture I tried a couple different text choices but I found this one and thought it looked amazing I decided to and no punctuation to show that my love for my favourite hockey team is endless and won't ever stop. I also changed avalanche to there nickname the Avs to shorten the text.

Six word memoirs #7



Let's start by saying the picture and words pretty much sum this one up, I had to put a picture with my little sister up. I chose to use the finger paint text because it goes with how young my sister is and I made the letters red because I thought of red as a colour that shows love and like it says she annoys me but I do love her. 

Six word memoirs #6



I had to use this embarrassing picture of myself because in all my years of school I don't think I've ever taken a good school picture. I added the three dots after "pictures" to make the photo more funny. I had some troubles with the picture because I took it and the light in my living room was reflecting in and it made the periods a bit harder to see but I think it turned out alright. 

Six word memoirs #5


This picture shows me and a bunch of my best friends after a bit of a crazy, wet and muddy weekend at the cabin. I chose to use this picture because I wanted to include my best friends in one of my six word memoirs and in this picture we are all making stupid faces which really shows our personalities. I had trouble finding a colour that would stand out for the words but I eventually tried yellow and although it doesn't blend ever well or add to the picture at least you are able to see the words.   

Six word memoirs #4



When it comes to my life, playing lacrosse has been a huge part of it. Although I admit my love for the sport is not exactly at the same level it used to be I will always love the sport because if it wasn't for lacrosse I wouldn't have a bunch of the friends I have today. In this picture I split the words up to add more of an effect and to make the reader visualize the meaning behind it. I also made the letters green to match the jerseys and I used the word "lax" instead of "lacrosse" to save some space every true lacrosse player will still understand what "lax" means. 

Six word memoirs #3



This picture I had to choose for one of my six word memoirs as these guys really are my second family. I made the bottom of the picture darker and then as you start to look at the team it becomes brighter, I thought that added more of a dramatic effect and got my point across well. I also made sure to make the writing blue like the blue in our jerseys so it looked better and connected the team with the writing. 

Six word memoirs #2



In this picture you see a young man by the name of Tyler crying, I thought this picture resembled the six words perfectly. The picture was the best quality as I had to zoom in to cut the two other people out of the picture, doing so made the pictures quality awful but I did some editing and I think I was able to make it turn out alright. 

Thursday 3 October 2013

Six word memoirs


I chose to use this photo because it displays my love for my school, as I took this picture people were walking by saying " ew why would you lay on the floor mat " and all I had to say was " when you love your school as much as I do you will understand". I wanted to have the logo behind me to show my husky pride. I split the the words up so when people would read it, it would add more of a dramatic effect.

Tuesday 24 September 2013

Reading Survey


How have your experiences in elementary, middle and high school affected your views on reading? / Besides books, what other types of material do you read? Why do you enjoy these?

            When I was younger I used to hate every type of reading, and this hatred of reading carried on for quite some time and still somewhat exists when it comes to books anyway. I know for a fact that my hate for books and novels came from my elementary school days, where they would give you a random book and make you take it home and read it. With teachers doing that it lead to me just taking my book to my room and gave me the great habit fake reading which I have to admit I still do today. I found that after elementary school going to middle school I hated reading and I would never pick up a book or read in general but now being in high school I have learned to like reading understanding that it comes in lots of different ways, the reason I feel my feeling towards reading has changed is because of social media and all the different apps on my Iphone. I can’t say I hate reading now because I spend the majority of my day doing it now on my phone I stay update on my favourite sports teams, music, my idols, and everything that is going on around the world. From all these things I probably end up reading about eight different articles a day which is a lot of reading and I have even brought up how much time I spend reading on social media sites like twitter and facebook. So at the end of the day although I'm not reading books I still spend a huge chunk of my day reading.


As a reader, how have you grown/changed since I last taught you?

            As a reader I feel I have changed since you last taught me because I understand that I do like reading now, when I was in your class before as a grade ten student I was still wasn’t a huge fan of reading, but I’m really just not a fan of long novels. A long novel has to be very good and able to really draw me to keep me interested and reading and I have only really had one book that I can think about that has really done that for me before. Now back in your class for my senior year I realize that reading is about way more than just books or novels that is what it used to be, but now there are so many different forms I spend so much time reading and now have a greater appreciation for it.


Q And A !

Do you have a smart phone with internet access? Tell me about it.

Yes I do have a smart phone and it is a huge part of my life as I spend way more time then I probably should on it …                                         

Do you have an e-reader (Kindle, Kobo) or any other device you can e-read on? Tell me about it.

            No I don’t, and I really don’t want one because it would be a big waste of money for me. (It would not get used)

Do you have a Titter feed? Tell me about it.

            Yes I have a twitter feed, not really much to say about it besides that’s where the geniuses thoughts come out and where I share things that appeal to me. @KissColby .. you know what to do

Do you have a blog? Tell me about it

            I do now, let the fun begin.