Corning? Never heard of it… For my linguistic landscape assignment, I chose to do my hometown named Corning. I chose Corning because it is where my family all grew up and still live to this day. My great-grandparents were one of the first people to settle in Corning, so I got most of my research
Month: September 2021
Reflection Post: StARTing with Markmaking
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art This week’s reading was based on chapter one of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, written by Scott McCloud. The whole reading was shown as a big comic strip which was super neat as I have never actually written one. At the beginning of the story, we had something in common,
The Target
For this week’s blog post I decided to photograph and write about my brothers target that he uses for bow hunting. After just moving home, it was something I had not noticed until I was walking around our yard. It caught my attention right away. The homemade target consists of two square bales stacked one
Reflection Post: Week #3 and #4
For this week’s reflection post, I am going to talk about the chapter, Linguistic Landscape and Language Awareness, as well as chapters six and seven. Out of the nine required readings and videos this week, these were the three that stuck out to me and that I got the most out of! Linguistic Landscape and
The Romanow Chair
Infront of me sits a half of a chair that is completely dead and rotten that has various shades of grey in it and was made from a large tree. It is about four feet in height and about a foot and a half in width. It used to be free standing but now rests
Reflection Post: StARTing with Strategies and Elements
Sequential Art & Graphic Novels: Creating with the Space in-between Pictures Tom Wolfe and Will Eisner shared the understanding that the stories being told before us through imagines and words combined, reflect the different ways that society knows the world. With that being said, they also anticipated that there would be a rise in the
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Reflection Post: StARTing with Place
Take it Outside: A Place-Based Approach to Art Education In this chapter, Hilary Inwood goes on to describe how beneficial plant-based education is and how this program should be implemented and taught in schools. Plant-based education is a way to encourage the teachers to go and explore with their students outside of the tradition classroom
Reflection Post: Week #2
The first week of classes are done and I have already learned that there is so much more to teaching in multilingual classrooms that what I thought there was. We have barely scratched the surface on the topic, and I am blown away with how much I have already learned in which I am going
The Bin Yard
The Bin Yard is a place in which it can look the exact same and seem to never change from afar, but once you look at it closer and pay attention to the details of it all, it soon becomes unrecognizable. When you look at it from a distance you see circular, grey metal objects