In Chapter 13 of our textbook, there was one thing that they talked about which caught my attention. It was when they brought up and discussed perceptual qualities. The reason this stood out to me is because often enough I will look at something and think, “that looks like it should be sharp and pointy,
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For my third reflection post, I decided to write about one of our required readings that stood out to me the most; Chapter 1 called The History and Origins of Language Policies in Canada which was written by William F. Mackey One of the sub-readings that was found in this chapter and that stood out
As the leaves start to turn colour and fall off of the trees, there is one thing that starts to become more noticeable in our yard, our tree fort. This tree fort has stood tall and strong in our backyard for about five years now and will go on to stand there for many years
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
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,
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
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
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
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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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