Interview With An Artist

Read an interview and make connections and determine important information.

Welcome to Pride Month

June is nationally recognized as pride month in Canada. Many institutions and organizations, including our Nation’s Parliament, fly the pride flag as a celebration of diversity.

Six Word Memoirs

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Opposites Attract

Your turn! Write down as many antonym pairs as you can think of (e.g., refuse/accept, rise/fall, create/destroy, fast/slow).

Rites of Passage Reimagined

Rites of passage are ceremonies that mark important transitions in our life, like a birth or marriage, that recognize and honour significant change.

The Award Goes To... Day Two

Your turn! Write an acceptance speech for the award you created for yourself.

The Award Goes To... Day One

Today you are being asked to create an award for yourself! It needs to be an award that does not already exist.

A Marker of Canadian Speech, eh?

The interjection eh-as in “I know, eh?” is popularly considered to be a marker of Canadian speech. Eh in Canadian usage is a request for repetition or to mark a question.

Snazzy Sentences

Reread your draft piece of writing and ‘level up’ your sentences to include variation in terms of length and type. Varying your sentences makes your writing more interesting.

What do a gaggle, a kaleidoscope and a school have in common?

Did you know that a group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope? A group of fish is a school of fish. And when we see a group of geese it is a gaggle of geese?

The Just ‘Write’ Word

Reread your draft piece of writing and ‘level up’ your word choice to include words that are descriptive and precise. Choose words to convey strong and vivid images through your piece of writing.

RAFTS

The acronym RAFTS represents the decisions that a writer must make before beginning a piece of writing.

Writing Off-the-Page

Idea generation is part of the prewriting phase of the writing process, so too is the practice of writing off the page.

Birdsong: Exploring the writing process

Métis are referred to as the people “of the flower” referencing their traditional beadwork and art that often depicts flowers.

Saree social distancing: A recipe for good spirits

Watch the 2-minute video of women displaying their stunning Sarees as a way to lift their spirits and others during this time of social distancing.

Stepping into Art

Take a deep breath and immerse yourself in this Chinese painted scroll – ‘Reading in the Autumn Mountains’, made in 1623 by artist Xiang Shengmo.

Poetry is everywhere

Found poetry is created by taking words and phrases from a variety of ‘found sources’ and reframing them to create new meaning.

Creating A Place For Reflection

A writer’s notebook might be a new idea for you. It is a place for you to capture your thinking and wonderings about your world.