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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
April Outings
An Artful Trip to the Museum
Last week,
6G and 6B went to the Muse des Beaux Arts
du Quebec. The title of the exhibit was Les Placticiens. The paintings were
made by artists such as Tousignant. They were made in 1950 to 1960. The works
of art were mostly geometric shapes,
strips of different bright concentric circles. There were also other paintings
but with more dark colors and curved lines. There was one with plenty of shapes
but one side was straight sided figures and the other curved lines. We noticed
the primary and secondary colors, complementary colors, and warm and cool
colors. Some paintings created an effect
of optical illusion. After the tour, we made a piece of art with three colours
but only squares.
By: David Dorion
Used Book Sale
NEW HOMES FOR OLD BOOKS
The grade sixes would like to thank the Holland Community for supporting our Used Book Sale held last April 24. Every book found a new home; we definitely accomplished our goals of encouraging reading and promoting the idea of reusing items rather than buying new ones. One grade three shopper exclaimed, ‘ this book sale was a great idea. I love reading and now I have ten new books!’ That’s what it’s all about! We received many donations of a variety of books enabling us to raise $174 for the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Happy reading!
will S Amulet
My Reading
I
will be presenting to you the Amulet Book 2.
There
are 3 main characters: Emily, Nathan, and their Mom. Emily is the most
important character in this story because she got chosen to be the Stone
keeper. A stone keeper is chosen to hold
and protect the amulet. The amulet holds
very powerful powers that can destroy almost anything. She is brave because she
went to the deadliest mountain. She
risked her life to save her mom by taking a bite of a fruit even though she
didn’t know if it was the right one and could of died if it wasn’t the good
one. She was looking for the healing
fruit to save her mon who had been poisoned by a spider. She is also smart because, at one point in
the book, people tell her “get more, get more fruit”. But she knew that if she took too much people
would come and attack her to get the special fruit. As well she knew that one was enough and the
rest was wasteful.
Nathan
is the second most important person in this story because he is the chief of
the Guardians. The Guardians were once
people just like you and me but were transformed into animals over time. He also had the cool job to control and drive
the house. It was the way they travelled
around. He doesn’t give up. He always
wants to be with his sister. He was
scared that his mom would die so he didn’t want to feel the same way for his
sister Emily.
I
liked this book because it is a graphic novel.
It has pictures and is not too hard to read. I like these kinds of
books. Also, I like this book because it
has adventure and action. For example,
one of the speaking trees called Alder says you can only get a special fruit at
the top of the mountain and the characters go there. An other example of the action is when one of
the Stone keepers loses control and becomes a giant beast. The house’s arms get ripped off but then
Emily comes and uses the power of the stone to put them back on again so they
can continue fighting.
There
was suspense also in this story. For
example, when the fight was finished, she put so much power into the fight that
the stone was getting so powerful that it wanted to overpower her. We didn’t know if she would succeed in
regaining control. This is one of the
most suspenseful parts in the book, I felt like if she was going to die so my
heart raced a bit.
There
were lots of different camera angles. My
favorite one was looking up but on a diagonal.
The picture was a thrown fist so it looked like it was moving. I felt that the artist put a lot of time in
these pictures. I couldn’t have done
that myself for all 5 books.
The
strongest character in my opinion is Emily. She never wants to give up. She always wants to use her own force and
will and not the force of the amulet.
This
book teaches us that almost losing someone who is close to you can make you act
bravely. You never want to give up
looking for that person or trying to help them.
For example, in the story, when Emily’s mom got poisoned by a huge
spider, Emily heard that the only medicine that might save her mom was on the
mountain, where dangers lurked. Emily
took her courage and decided to go quickly to the mountain. She thought, “this is my mom and I will save
her”.
In
my real life when my dog died, I didn’t want to lose him so I got really
sad. The next morning, I thought it was
all a dream. I yelled for him and he
wasn’t there. I would have done anything
to have saved him.
I’m
really looking forward to reading the other 3 books.
Thank-you.
Chicken Hare by Julien
Oral language arts reading
presentation
The
title of my book is called “Chicken Hare”. It represents the main character that
is half chicken, half hare. He has ears and tail like a rabbit but his legs and
wings are like a chicken. He is a rare and exotic creature that’s nick-named
“chicken legs”. The journey begins with a mysterious silhouette of a man and 2
small furry animals. It’s not until the second page that you really see the
setting and the characters. The author did a great job of keeping you on the
edge of your seat and making you keep reading. The suspense also rises as you
jump in head first into dialogue. You can tell this book is a fantasy by
looking at the first page. The animals are talking and the man is talking about
some kind of monster with sharp teeth called shromph. The author also
exaggerates with his art by making rich people have big noses, servants have
small ones and he made the bad buys look as hideous and savage. Unshaved beard,
loose jeans, huge smiles with pointy teeth and more. The setting is in a huge
snow storm with mountains of ice. It reminded me of Antarctica.
I think the meaning of the book is being
different doesn’t mean you have different rights and respect. Klaus, the evil
taxidermist, wants to kill and stuff chicken Hare just because he’s weird and different;
I think everybody should have the same rights, the same respect and the same
rules. I also the author wants to tell us that being too controlling doesn’t
help relationships. For example Mr. Klaus stuffs his pets because he doesn’t
want them to run away. In life you need to let your friends have their own air
bubble and you have to give them space to live. When Chicken Hare and his
friends: Banjo the monkey, Meg, and Abe the turtle, Escape Klaus, chicken legs
finds a goat’s ghost and he chooses to follow him. He gets separated from the
group. The goat, (Mr. Buttons) asks him a favour. Mr Buttons wants to get rid
of his old master Klaus because it was his fault he was stuffing animals. He
ran away from his master and then Klaus didn’t want his pets to run away so he
stuffed them instead. I think that Mr. Buttons represents Martin Luther King
because he wants to help the animals who are different. Just like Martin wanted
to help the black citizens. I also think that Klaus represents the old
government that were against the people with different skin colors. In my
opinion, I see Chicken Hare as the strongest character because he is a leader
and the intelligent one of the pack. He’s the one who gets the plans; he’s the
one who keeps the team from breaking down. Like Banjo and Meg the siblings. If
it weren’t be for chicken hare they would have fought each other and not the
enemy. At the end they help each other when in need and even like one another.
My favourite character was banjo because his personality was like mine. He is a
clown and makes jokes all the time. He always looks on the bright side and even
though facing death right in the face he can pull out a joke and cheer everyone
up in a second. The author chose to make a graphic novel instead of a regular
novel because he wanted to express his thoughts in more than just words. For
example; he wanted to say that being different doesn’t mean you are weaker. He
made the shromph small but very strong and powerful. He wouldn’t have been able
to do that in words so that’s why he drew it instead.
Bar Code Tatoo by Malorie
BOOK
TALK ----> The Bar Code Tattoo
A tattoo. What harm could a simple tattoo make? In
this book getting a bar code tattoo can ruin your life for others or improve it
depending if you are different or have a problem. The thing is that no one has
a problem, we’re perfect the way we are, however global 1 (the government or
dictator) has a problem with people that are not like him. That reminds me of
the Nazi party. They would eliminate people because they weren’t like him,
which is really wrong, but what’s worse is that in this book Global 1 doesn’t
just kill people by putting nanobots in the barcode tattoo, they pretend that
it’s not them. The nanobots make the person think of suicidal thoughts and
eventually commit suicide because of Global 1 and they just claim that it was a
coincidence that they had the tattoo. They control the nanobots and if they
decide that they don’t like one person they just press a button and it’s off
their hands. The barcode tattoo is also the only way they can pay, work and
much more, if someone has a tattoo and they have cancer or something, it will
appear on the scanner and they will not take in the money or the identity.
Kayla tries to run away from Global 1 by escaping to Canada. It’s a bit like
the slaves in United States that were trying to escape from slavery. The
population are in some ways slaves. If they have to listen to Global 1 or they
get murdered and there’s no way of escaping except running to Canada. I think
that the barcode is a symbol of dictatorship. Global 1 rules the whole world
even if most of the population hates them. They even made a rule that if you
don’t have a barcode tattoo you can go to jail or be punished by death.
When Kayla Reed runs away from Global 1 I got
suspenseful because I wonder what happened to her friends that she worked with for
Americans rights, Mfumbe her boyfriend, Allyson her friend, Augiel her friend, Amber
her best friend. They
all went in different directions and we didn’t get to see them for a while. We
also can predict that there is something different with Kayla. The author
foreshadowed that she was a clone from her ‘‘Grandmother’’ and that she had
bird DNA by her loving birds, talking telepathically and seeing visions of her
clones.
I think that the ideas are really different in a good
way. For example, the idea that global 1 rules the world, Kayla being a clone
with an animal’s DNA which was surprising and much more... I really liked how
all of that science fiction was also blended with real life to be more
appealing for a younger audience like me. Suzane Weyn added a normal teenage
girl life into her story, like a bit of romance, the urge of fitting in etc...
The plot twisting events that I found were when Zeakel and Nedra were in
Kayla’s group to stop Global 1 but really they were working for tattoo gen
which forces people to get tattoos. Kayla and Zeakel were together but once she
found that he was working against her she broke up. I wasn’t expecting that.
I think Kayla was the strongest character was Kayla
because her father died because of Global 1 and the tattoo. Her mother died in
her burning house trying to burn off her tattoo. Kayla had to run away her
whole life until her and her friends hacked in a computer and shut down the
whole system. However she stood up for herself and the whole world. I think we
should learn by her actions and stand up for ourselves. Suzane made that
message because every day kids and teenagers get bullied and make awful
decisions because they are too afraid to speak up. Everyone has been bullied or
teased at least once in their lives, so don’t let them get to you. I believe
the author used exaggeration to prove herself right, like Global 1killing
people for not having tattoos, which is a big problem. She’s just trying to say
that even in little situation, don’t be scared and defend yourself and
others.
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