SEXXY Paragraph Practice

Brief: In English, we started practicing writing SEXXY paragraphs for our film study. We we're given the scene where K arrives home to based it in our own (practice) paragraph. Below is the one I wrote :)

Movie: Blade Runner 2049

Movie Definition
Replicants - Genetically engineered humans that are not a robot but artificial beings used for slave labour and difficult/dangerous jobs.

Statement: In the scene where K comes home to his apartment, we see the aspect of two shot combined with body language effectively.

Evidence: In this scene, Joi receives an 'emanator' as her anniversary gift from K that lets her move freely. With this gift, she is able to go anywhere without the device she's programmed in(a projector-like in K's apartment that lets her move around). To try this out, both K and Joi stepped outside—on their apartment’s rooftop—finally letting Joi outside and feel the rain. We see the use of these two aspects when K and Joi were captured in the same frame while trying to feel each other’s touch. 

Explanation of director’s purpose: The purpose of this was to depict both Joi and K’s emotional reactions in one shot. In this case, the longing feeling of gratitude they felt for each other. To express this, the director purposely combined this aspect(two shot) with body language where K puts his hand on Joi’s head while she digs her head deep in his neck showing affection. 

Explanation of effect on audience: This helps us understand that Joi was more than an object(AI) to K. She was a person and he treated her as such. This also meant that K was beginning to develop emotions and grow as a character.

Link: These aspects also worked effectively with the use of back-lighting where two silhouettes(K and Joi’s) were created to produce a dramatic effect as they stood in the rain.

As a theme, this is also important because we get to learn that artificial beings(they are considered so in the movie) have learned to love and have affection for each other just as how meaningful human interactions are.  

Unfamiliar text ll Text #3

Text 3 - "The Cellist of Sarajevo"

By: Steven Galloway

1. Define 3 words you do not know

Charred - burnt and blackened
Besieged - (a place) surrounded by armed forces aiming to capture it or force surrender
Inviolable - never to be broken, infringed or dishonored  

2. Identify 3 examples of emotive language (words or phrases that evoke some kind of emotion in the reader)

"He would very much like to feel his father's hand on his shoulder again."

"The war will go around him as he sits in the small crater left at the mortar's point of impact. He'll play Albinoni's Adagio. He''ll do this every for twenty-two days, a day for each person killed."

"It wasn't always like this."

3. What is the tone of the excerpt (author’s attitude towards what he is writing about) and what mood does this suggest (overall feeling of the text)?

- a melancholic mood

4. Identify an example of imagery from the passage (when something is described in vivid detail, making it easy to imagine) and explain its effect on the reader. How effective do you find it?

"It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, bought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things at they were. Then the visible world exploded." As a reader, this example of imagery definitely made me feel somewhat hopeless. Just imagining a missile darting from the sky while going on about your day made me realized there are things that sneaks up on us that we would never expect. I find this language feature very effective from its diction to the combinations of words to create a vivid picture.

5. Personal reflections

This excerpt gives a dark flow yet a hear-warming feeling. It's incredibly amazing how the cellist commemorate for the dead during the midst of war. 

Wet & Dry Media - 1.2 Practical Art 90914

In art, I have been currently working on my Wet and Dry media internal. In the slideshow below, I've included all things that I have done as well as a brief explanation about it.

Checklist

Learning Reflection

What was the best lesson and why? According to my memory, I don't think there was any best lesson except for the lessons when we play games. 

What did you enjoy doing and why? When we play games (charades and Kahoot) because it's fun. 

What was one task you were proud of and why? I am proud of all the tasks that I have done especially getting credits from it.

What is something you could do differently / better next term? More motivation!!

Plan: Panel Two

This is a rough layout for my panel two. I'm not quite sure yet about the thumbnail sketch that I drew(except for the big buildings on the side) as well as the layout because my mind might change later. 

Modes of Persuasion

Ethos is a technique for persuading an audience by relying on the authority or credibility of the persuader. An example of this is John Kasich's 2016 Ohio primary victory speech. 

"And you know, ladies and gentlemen, my whole life has been about trying to create a climate of opportunity for people.

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You know, as my father carried that mail on his back and his after was a coal miner, and you know, I was just told by my cousin—I didn't realize this—that my mother, one of four [children], was the only one to graduate from high school. The other three barely made it out of the eighth grade because they were poor.

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And you know, as I've traveled the country and I look into your eyes... You want to believe that your children are going to have ultimately a better America than what we got from our mothers and fathers. That's the great American legacy: that our kids will be better than we are. 

- In this speech, Kasich intends to emphasize that he is "just an ordinary American" and that he will advocate for other hardworking  Americans by stating that he comes from a humble background.

Pathos is a persuasive speech technique that appeals to the audience's emotions. Pathos is a method of persuasion that involves evoking an emotional response from the audience. When trying to persuade an audience, you can use pathos by appealing to their hopes and dreams or appealing to their emotions. An example of this is Ronald Reagan's 1987 "Tear Down This Wall" speech.

"Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe...Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly...Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar...

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

-- By referring to the Wall as a "scar", Reagan evokes outrage from his audience. "Every man is a Berliner", he tells the audience, assuring Germans that the rest of the world is concerned about the city's issues. Finally, he exclaims and rejuvenates the audience by daring Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev to "bring down this wall!".  

Logos is another type of technique that convinces an audience by using logic and reason. Logos is a useful tool of persuasion because your audience is more likely to be persuaded if you can 'prove' your argument through logic and facts. This can be done using statistics, facts, and charts. An example of this is from a speech of Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union Address.

"But tonight, we turn the page. Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. More of our kids are graduating than ever before. More of our people are insured than ever before. And we are as free from the grip of foreign oil as we’ve been in almost 30 years."

- In this example, Obama talks about historical precedent and economic data from previous years to support his claim that the country's economy is in a good shape. 

1) What are we doing? We are learning about Pathos, Ethos, and Logos by finding their definition as well as some of their examples.

2) Why are we doing it? So we have an idea where to use them in our upcoming persuasive writing

3) What questions do I have? Nothing in particular.

School Outing

 A short opinion piece on whether or not a school outing should be educational or enjoyable... or both

A school outing should be educational as well as enjoyable because if it's going to be just educational, the learning can be just done at school. It should be enjoyable since it's outside of school(most learning at school is boring - students have to sit down and listen). Also, if the school outing is educational and enjoyable, the students can actually learn easily while having fun. If it's just educational, it might be hard for the students to learn since it might bore them.