{"id":73341,"date":"2020-05-28T12:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73341"},"modified":"2020-05-28T12:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:48:55","slug":"the-human-colour-of-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/writing-2\/idea-generation\/the-human-colour-of-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"The human colour of the rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_73342\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73342\" class=\"wp-image-73342\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front.jpg\" alt=\"A package of a variety of skin tone crayons\" width=\"400\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front.jpg 1653w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front-165x215.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front-1140x1485.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front-945x1231.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/COTW_24ct_front-750x977.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/crayola-announces-new-colors-of-the-world-crayons-to-help-advance-inclusion-within-creativity-301063370.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crayola via PR Newswire\/Cision<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Writing: Idea Generation<\/h5>\n<h3>Goals<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>generate, gather and organize ideas inspired by a media prompt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Learning Task<\/h2>\n<p>The Crayola Crayon Company has issued a media release to announce it\u2019s new \u2018Colors of the World\u2019 crayons that attempt to represent 32 different skin tones.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are these skin tones the colours of the world, or are they the colours of your home and neighbourhood?<\/li>\n<li>Is the world more diverse that we now need this product? Or, are some more aware of the diversity among us?<\/li>\n<li>Have you felt represented in your school experience? Why or why not? Would this crayon set have helped you in your school experience?<\/li>\n<li>What other common classroom items require increased representation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your turn! Express yourself by creating a mind map or mind drawing that might inspire <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/writing-2\/idea-generation\/sarah-kay-hands-idea-generation\/\">a spoken word poem<\/a>. Please share your thinking with someone you are close to. How is their thinking the same or different from yours?<\/p>\n<h3>Daily task! Don\u2019t forget to engage with your Writer\u2019s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection<\/h3>\n<p>Note: <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/creating-a-place-for-reflection-day-one\/\">please see the information in this lesson for guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crayola Crayon Company has issued a media release to announce it\u2019s new \u2018Colors of the World\u2019 crayons that attempt to represent 32 different skin tones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72739,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73341","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=73341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73341\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}