{"id":70973,"date":"2020-04-20T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=70973"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:43:20","slug":"birdsong-exploring-the-writing-process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/writing-2\/writing\/birdsong-exploring-the-writing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdsong: Exploring the writing process"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Writing<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>review the elements of the writing process<\/li>\n<li>generate, gather and organize ideas inspired by a painting or idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Learning Task<\/h2>\n<p>M\u00e9tis are referred to as the people \u201cof the flower\u201d referencing their traditional beadwork and art that often depicts flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Christi Belcourt is an acclaimed, contemporary M\u00e9tis artist. Watch Christi Belcourt as she paints her latest work \u201cBird Song\u201d when 13 hours of painting are condensed into 30 seconds: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christibelcourt\/status\/1247052958241611776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bird Song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">13 hours painting condensed into 30 seconds. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/quaratineart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#quaratineart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/indigenous?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#indigenous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/michif?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#michif<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O6C95cK8BT\">pic.twitter.com\/O6C95cK8BT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christi Belcourt (@christibelcourt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christibelcourt\/status\/1247052958241611776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Watch Bird Song a second time and this time think about how <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BwnXFxaBg1IVOG5iV0Noc0hheHc\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the writing process<\/a> is similar to the layering required to paint a picture.<\/p>\n<p>Think of an idea or a piece of writing that you would like to take through the writing process to develop a polished piece of writing. We will look at mini-lessons this week and beyond to help you discover ideas to write about, draft and craft your best piece of writing yet!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you are able to and would like, to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christibelcourt\/status\/1248015863258607616\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download and colour your own version of Christi Belcourt\u2019s Bird Song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Daily task! Don\u2019t forget to engage with your Writer\u2019s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/creating-a-place-for-reflection-day-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Note: please see the information in this lesson for guidance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have any Writer\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share your thinking, thoughts and wonderings with other students in the Waterloo Region District School Board as above, <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/wAXwueq2Chg5VsJG7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please share your journal entry using this form<\/a>. Your entry may be chosen to share within our system. This is NOT a requirement and it is your personal choice to share.<\/p>\n<h2>Grace Lin Reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/h2>\n<p>Listen to the author, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AuthorGraceLin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grace Lin read her book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/a>. In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the fields and her nights listening to her father spin fantastic tales about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon. Minli&#8217;s mother, tired of their poor life, chides him for filling her head with nonsense. But Minli believes these enchanting stories and embarks on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man of the Moon and ask him how her family can change their fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v6.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AuthorGraceLin\/posts\/10157502624359227:0\" data-show-text=\"true\" data-width=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/AuthorGraceLin\/posts\/10157502624359227:0\"><p>Honored to announce that I have received the torch from Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson and Kwame Alexander and am&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AuthorGraceLin\/\">Grace Lin<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/AuthorGraceLin\/posts\/10157502624359227:0\">Friday, 17 April 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9tis are referred to as the people \u201cof the flower\u201d referencing their traditional beadwork and art that often depicts flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72722,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70973","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70973\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}