Throughout the English 9 course, humor has been a recurring motif: first, in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; next in various political cartoons and speeches that we studied. In this final unit of the course, students engaged in a culminating study of how language can be used to create a humorous effect […]
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Reflection on Analyzing Visual Texts
Throughout these past weeks, we had been given the task of doing presentations on first propaganda posters and then-recent editorial/political cartoons. The first presentation I made was on a propaganda poster made in Germany during World War II. I feel that I did not present too well on this, I stuttered and looked down as […]
IDU Reflection Post
“Inclusion”, noun, the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure. During ISB’s ninth-grade Interdisciplinary unit, the term inclusion was used continuously. The whole grade was split into teams of 3-5 and was given data from an ISB inclusion survey in order to find an issue to solve. The inclusion issue […]
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Socratic Seminar Reflection
In today’s Socratic Seminar on “Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, our grade nine class split in two for a 30-minute discussion. In these 30 minutes, my group exchanged various ideas and arguments, including a difference of opinion on the meaning behind Rowdy’s name. This dispute was one of the many […]