The Life of a Youth

Reflection of “The Life of a Youth” by Emma and Sydney When initially putting the two narratives together, we first decided to try a visual collage. During the time in which we were trying to come up with meaningful symbols for our stories, we realized that we had more options of audio symbols than visual … Continue reading The Life of a Youth

The life of a youth

When initially putting the two narratives together, we first decided to try a visual collage. During the time in which we were trying to come up with meaningful symbols for our stories, we realized that we had more options of audio symbols than visual ones. This led us to the decision to change our course … Continue reading The life of a youth

Is Anyone Out There?

Upon reading both our literacy narratives, we noticed a bit of overlap in our themes. Our first theme we aim to portray is a lack of confidence. In Javareah’s case, lack of confidence in his abilities to write. In mine, interacting with my classmates. To symbolize this in our audio clip we have the song … Continue reading Is Anyone Out There?

The Power of Reading

Literacy works in strange ways, for some it brings out emotion and speaks to people making them feel happy, sad, scared, frustrated ect. For others it brings knowledge, wisdom, and a drive to learn more. We decided to show the very different experiences we have had with literature through our collage using contrast, repetition, alignment, … Continue reading The Power of Reading

Engines of Profit

Head in hand I sit there, hands and face covered in grease and grime as I stare blankly at the mess that is my project car. An iron block resting on the engine crane with a pile parts beside it, when assembled the block and parts will provide me with a complete motor for my … Continue reading Engines of Profit

Facing Adversity

In general our literary narratives differed greatly. One thing we as readers had in common as well as the story characters was, a struggle, which explains our title of “Facing Adversity”. In both stories the main characters are minorities within their societies. We aimed to depict that with the lightning bolt, as it really stands … Continue reading Facing Adversity