Writing

Welcome to World Art Day: Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Goals

  • generate, gather and organize ideas to write a well-constructed paragraph

The Learning Task

Take a deep breath and immerse yourself in this Chinese painted scroll – ‘Reading in the Autumn Mountains’, made in 1623 by artist Xiang Shengmo. The composition depicts the forest near Mount Baiyue (now Mount Qiyun) in Anhui province in the east of China.

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If you could step into any painting, which would you choose?

Explore Google Arts and Culture: 2500 museums and galleries to find an artwork that you connect with. Write a well constructed paragraph that explains the reasons behind your choice; or, write a paragraph to describe your chosen artwork.

Daily task! Don’t forget to engage with your Writer’s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection

Note: please see the information in this lesson for guidance. But, fill out today’s form with your response! (Wednesday March 25, 2020 form is no longer accepting responses.)

We don’t have any Writer’s Notebook entries to share with you today! Please complete your journal entry and share with us; your words might be what someone needs to read.

If you would like to share your thinking, thoughts and wonderings with other students in the Waterloo Region District School Board as above, please share your journal entry using this form. Your entry may be chosen to share within our system. This is NOT a requirement and it is your personal choice to share.

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

by Jason Reynolds, Alexander Nabaum (Illustrator)

From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions a walk home can take.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy: talking about boogers, stealing pocket change, skateboarding, wiping out, braving up, executing complicated handshakes, planning an escape, making jokes, lotioning up, finding comfort, but mostly too busy walking home.

Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.