Where the World Began - Questions

1) A place of incredible happenings, splendours and revelations, despairs like multitudinous pits of hell. The tone set at the beginning was dark, bleak, and mysterious.
2) Laurence states that other people describe small prairie towns as bleak and full of despair. She does not totally agree or disagree, but kind of goes off on a tangent about how it doesn’t matter because it’s still part of her history. I, personally, think prairie towns are amazingly awesome.
3) She seems to hate the town and everything about: the weather, the size, the absence of stores, the no sense of privacy, etc.
4) No, I kind of wish I was thirteen and would never age and have to leave and go do stuff and what not.
5) Canadians are PURE AWESOME! What’re you talking aboot, eh? Not a SHRED of modesty!
6) Well personally I see this quote as showing her utter insanity, but I assume you want a better answer than that. Yeah, I don’t really get if she’s using sarcasm or not or whether she means Canadians are wimps or that they are in touch with the Earth. It’s just too ambiguous.
7) Suuuure… I guess that could work as a title… If, of course, you are totally devoid of imagination and lack all skills in the way of putting words together to make them sound good. The title would do it’s job, but I sure wouldn’t want to read something labled You are where you are from – no matter how much you fight it without someone putting a gun up to my head.

Partnered Poetry Analysis Part 2

“The Lake”
By Chase Seargeant And Gregory Maxwell

Sparkling Water
Huge Fish
Snowy Winters
Bright, Sunny Summers
Rugged Pine Trees
Glistening Sand
Squishy Mud Between Your toes
Tubing and Boating and Fishing in Style
Moss-Covered Rocks
Rotting Wood Stumps
Luscious Green Grass, Like a Sea of Emerald Swords
This Lake is My World
My Life
My Home

Partenered Poetry Analysis

1a) I don’t really see how the first poem is supposed to represent a vast and varied land, but it is definitely the best of the poems.

1b) This poem does seem vast indeed. However, it seems to be almost entirely composed of trees with little variety at all except occasional small comments on the sky.

1c) This poem is rather morbid, it’s all about one thing: killing and maiming animals. Then at the end she uses this as an analogy to dog-eat-dog city life.

2a) Yeah, the author is obviously a big-time tree hugger, it seems his entire life revolves around the Canadian lands.

2b) The poet who wrote the second poem is extremely obsessed with trees. He also has respect for the weather. His love for the land seems to be almost a story of romance.

2c) I can’t decide whether the author of this poem is compassionate or heartless. At first she seems to feel love and care for the animals, but then it seems that the childhood experiences toughened and hardened her towards the needs of those who are weaker.

3a)This land is my tongue my eyes my mouth

3b) This smoky cry curled over a black pine like a broken and wind-battered branch

3c) The guilty blood

4a) A platform for my dance

4b) This is the beauty of strength

4c) Things are functional, or die.

5a) Beautiful lands.

5b) Trees and grandly majestic landscape.

5c) Pain and suffering and perseverance

Strange brew, eh?

In the movie which we have currently been watching, Strange Brew, many Canadian stereotypes were displayed. They showed the two main characters, Bob and Doug, saying “eh?” at the end of almost every sentence. Their favourite insult is “Hoser”. They were alcoholics and not very intelligent; clueless would be a good descriptive term. They always wore toques and parkas. And they all played hockey, of course. I agree that a substantial portion of Canadians do use “eh?” after asking a question, I do myself, depending on the circumstance. The most intelligent people I know are Canadian, seeing as 99% of my friends are from here. That’s it, eh?

Canadian, eh?

Being Canadian is being a member of a diverse, amazingly awesome, society. We eat poutine; poutine is an amazing Canadian invention, right up there with Velcro and green garbage bags. Being Canadian sure is great, eh? Other people seem to think we live in igloos; igloos are made of ice. Ice is what we play hockey on. Hockey is our national winter sport. Our national sport is Lacrosse. Lacrosse is played mainly in the summer. Summertime is for ice cream. Ice cream is made well by Canadians. Canadians invented Javascript and Tim Hortons coffee. Tim Hortons makes good donuts. Donuts are often done by Canadian drivers. Canada’s worst driver is a Canadian TV show. Most Canadian programs aren’t very good; There are some exceptions. Exceptional work is done by Canadian athletes. Athletic events are popular in our country. Country music is listened to by some people in our school. The old white house was schooled by us in the war of 1812. 1812 comes 198 years before 2010, the year in which Canadians are currently being awesome. Awesome is what Canadians are. Arrr is what pirates say. The Last Saskatchewan pirate is a Canadian song.

Sept 2 Performance Task 2 - Chase S

It is beneficial for a writer to have a good understanding of different forms of sentence structures and to be able to properly use them in order for the writer to form consistantly high-quality informative/witty/interesting sentences.
A good example of said usage would be the previous sentence, which is compound/complex.