John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both wrote short passages describing large flocks of birds using vivid imagery and descriptive diction to convey the effect that the flocks had on them as an observer. Both passages have an awed and laudatory tone since the writers seem to be enchanted by the beauty o the birds. While Audubon gives a literal description of what he saw, Dillard describes the birds through the extensive use of figurative language. The descriptive diction in both passages serves to give the reader a mental image of what the writer saw as the birds flew by. Audubon uses phrases like “countless multitudes” and “immense legions” to describe the large amount of birds that he watched fill the sky.
Symbolism of the Moths in In the Time of the Butterflies Moths have always been famous for congregating around light. They are always found to be blindly swarming around a patio light or street lamb, drawn by the artificial warmth. In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, moths are mentioned many times in relation to different sources of light. The light of Trujillo is an artificial light, one that kills if you get to close. While the light of the Mirabal sisters and the revolution is a true light, one that radiates warmth and draws the people of the Dominican Republic to them.
The bright colours and matching of costumes to those seen in Bryan’s novel also make it good for analysing the Mise en Scene used in my chosen sequence. Comic/graphic novel iconography can be seen, in the opening of the sequence characters Kim, Scott, and Stephen are shown playing their instruments in a comic strip, each of them in individual panels. This is useful as it shows a close up of each of their reactions, providing the audience with insight into how the characters are feeling when Evil Ex #1 blasts through the wall. Here is a cut to Evil Ex #1 (Matthew Patel) flying through the air saying “Mr Pilgrim!” The speed he is travelling exaggerated by the use of ‘speed lines’. The ‘speed lines’ will have been created using special and visual effects such as CGI (elements of mise en scene).
Lucas’ vision of this painting defined his interests in the human body. The painting displayed humanism, realism, and complimented the artwork by flattering Venus in a beautiful necklace completed with stones or a heavy velvet hat. Also, accentuating her figure with her almond-shaped eyes. Lucas proposed the lighting in the frame of artwork to draw the eye to the painting instead of keeping away attraction of nudity. He displayed winged Cupid holding a bee hive he stole as a source of pain with the dark, blackened background behind him, along with the tree he took the hive
To reinforce this point, the following free verse poetry shows how the people were taken in by the magic of a Ck’o’yo medicine man. They thought “this magic could give life to plants and animals” (44). In retaliation mother Nau’ts’ity’i took the plant, grass, and rainclouds away. Throughout this story the journey of Tayo, told in prose, is paralleled with the journey of the Hummingbird which is told in free verse. Hummingbird’s assignment is to restore to the people that which was taken away by Nau’ts’ity’i, while Tayo’s is the merging of old and new traditions.
The book uses a selection of printed numbers and pictures to represent different numbers. I enjoyed how the pages were cut in half; the top half being printed numbers and the second half being colourful fruits. I chose this book as I love that it encourages the children to join in and teaches them how to correspond printed numbers with objects, it also provides children with a fun activity. The illustrations are brightly coloured and bold to entice the children and I can appreciate that there are many activities that can extend the main focus of this book; therefore it is a practical book to use within settings. The only main implications I have with this book is the format; you have to flip between the pages to match the numbers up with.
Leo Tanguma “In Peace and Harmony with Nature” contains two murals “The Present State of the Environment” and “A Hopeful Future in which Humanity Rehabilitates the Environment” these murals surround and captures related ideal of multi-racial children and humanity. The viewer can observe the process of realistic tradition of imagination and freedom in the paintings. The murals express religious views while also providing the viewer with endless topics for discussion and analysis, making it true conversation pieces. “In Peace and Harmony with Nature” portrays scenes of passionate issues around the world. In both murals represent a group of different racial children, In “The Present State of the Environment” show the racial children with saddened faces, “A Hopeful Future in which Humanity Rehabilitates the Environment” then shows the children smiling.
The storytime presentation was held outside in the courtyard of the library. There were red and yellow balloons all around the courtyard, and the children all sat around on blankets as the firefighter read aloud a fire safety book called “No Dragons for Tea.” This children fiction picture book is an informative story about a little girl who invites an adorable dragon to her house for tea. The dragon sneezes, and of course starts a fire. The story was told by firefighter Cameron, I felt his volume projection was good considering we were outside. Cameron held the book up so the children could see the colored pictures, and he did well with the different voices of the little girl and the dragon.
To nobody’s surprise, they all drew happy faces on their stick people. The same group of children was also given paper and crayons on a rainy day; they all drew rain drops and frowning faces on their stick people. When we are subject to light, whether it be sunlight or artificial light, a gland in our brain, called the pineal, releases serotonin. Serotonin is compared to an elixir for happiness. The serotonin takes over and releases energy.
Discuss rounding and down scaling to produce consistent measurements for all class to work with. In groups, paint the forest (to scale). Give children infomation about the different types of plant