What's going on in this picture? Go to the New York Times page to discuss what in the world you think is going on here. We'll reveal the answer at the end of the week.
How are you all doing this week? Here are some ideas of where to go to check in. Remember, you can email me if you need to talk about anything. htabma@educbe.ca https://bethere.org/Home “When you don’t know what to say to a friend who doesn’t seem okay, we’ve got you.” If someone has approached you for help and you need some tips of how to help them better, check out, Be There. It is full of tips to help you. https://kidshelpphone.ca/get-info/worry-rockets/ One of the things Kids Help Phone created was Worry Rockets, where you type out your worry and then launch it into space. https://kidshelpphone.ca/ If you need to talk to someone and you don’t know where to turn or none of your friends are available, Kids Help Phone has many different options for you to connect to them.
Todays writing challenge is to write from the perspective of an inanimate object. Listen to an episode of the Everything Is Alive Podcast. In it, the host interviews someone who improvises their responses as if they are the object. Choose a specific object from your house, think about where it's been, what it's used for and how it might see the world. Be descriptive in it's experiences. Your writing can be a story from the object's perspective, or it can be a conversation with the object. Find lots of good episodes here: Everything Is Alive Podcast or on spotify Writing Wednesday is an optional activity. I would be more than happy to take a look at your work if you share it with me. Here is a silly video the podcast reminded me of:
What's Going on in this Picture?(WGOITP?) Reveal For those of you who did the New York Times picture challenge, here is the reveal of the caption attached to this picture. This week’s image comes from a May 20, 2013 At War blog article " R.O.T.C. Returns to New York’s City College More Than Four Decades After Removal. " The original caption read: Commune and Yippy forces at the City College of New York gathered to watch military trainees crawling on the ground during R.O.T.C training in 1968. The photographer is Eddie Hausner Poetry Corner Here are a few poems along the theme of, "Masks." Masks by G. Boston ...
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