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The theme for this year’s gr. 11 ELA at ACI is heroism and facing adversity.
The students have read various forms of literature and extracted the themes from
several works (The Hunger Games, 1984, independent novels, short stories,
music/presentations, and poetry), and have had several opportunities to exercise
their writing skills and abilities. One of these projects was to create their own
superhero! Students were asked to brainstorm the characteristics of a
superhero, and then compare these traits to what they personally deemed to be
heroic traits.
Every Monday for five weeks the students were given the title to a story, and
had to write the epic saga, featuring their own created superhero in action of
course! Titles included, “The Great Escape…,” “It’s Not Easy Being a Superhero,”
and “My Greatest Weakness.” Once the stories were completed, students put their
editing skills to work and polished up their final drafts. They also took their
favourite story and, using Comic Life software on the school computers, made
their own comic books!
Not only did their superhero
creations come to life on
print, but students also
completed the final step of
the project – biographical
posters! These posters
(featured below) are
currently on display in the
classroom. They are all very
unique, representing multiple
interpretations of heroism.
Feel free to pop-in and check
out the work next time you’re
visiting the school
Next door, in Mr. Nickerson’s room, we spent a lot of
the month of May working on the MultiGenre Project.
Each student chose a topic that related to the
theme of heroism and facing adversity. Some people
focused on their own heroes, while others focused
on situations where people face adversity. Each
topic was researched, and that research was the
basis for a variety of writing tasks that we did. All
of these different writing pieces were collected to
tell the “story” of the research in a different way
than the boring old research essay we’re used to.
The pieces were collected, placed in an interesting
package, and then handed in.
The hand in basket was interesting on the due date,
filled with motorcycle helmets, comic books and cd
cases