Fantastic Fantasy

 

Hey people, 

I hope you are surviving lockdown. Finding things to do, avoiding boredom, and helping your family are all great things to do during this tough time. Fingers crossed we come out of it soon!

As I have mentioned in my previous post my literacy group is diving deep into different genres doing fun and exciting tasks. So far we have looked at; horror, sci-fi, and now, fantasy. Fantasy is possibly my favourite genre it is so extensive and there are copious different cliches that make it what it is. 

Yesterday we were focusing on the different cliches in fantasy, a video helped us identify the following. They are pretty much displayed in all fantasies, there is/are:

1. The Chosen One
2. The Prophecy
3. The Dark Lord
4. The Wise Old Wizard
5. Mythical Creatures
6. Magical Items
7. Different Races
8. Magic Spells]
9. Old English Accents 
10. Haunted Forests

These are listed from most common to least common, of course, there are other things too like; Strange Spellings & Fictional Languages, A Bumbling Idiot, and so on. Anyway, let's get to the task. Our task was to choose a fantasy series, film, novel, short story, etc, and to write in-depth about how the cliches are shown. Then we had to create our own character and try to fit it into the story. Does it change the whole storyline? If so in a good or bad way?

Here is mine:

Thanks for taking the time to read it, here are a few questions:

What is your favourite fantasy novel, film, etc?

How about your favourite task you've had to do in lockdown?

What did you learn from my post? 

See ya later! 

Soph  :D

The House of a Ghostly Tale

 

Hey people, 

I hope you aren't suffering too badly from this lockdown, remembering to get some fresh air and try to relax as much as possible. But also putting in the effort and letting yourself enjoy the tasks that have been set, and make sure to stay in contact with friends and other family.

Yesterday Toroa students had the day off but today we got into distance learning by starting off with a zoom call with our home group teacher. He/she told us what and where our tasks were for the next couple of days and we started cracking into them. 

I actually really enjoyed my literacy task, we are currently doing Genre Studies, the genre we are focused on is horror. I'm not a huge fan of it but I really like writing horror stories, which was pretty much our task for today. We had to write a ghost short story that was about a page long (mine was 601 words) then we had to make a book cover for it (on something like Canva). I also decided to put the rest of the story on my Canva as well along with the blurb. 

Here it is: 

If that is a bit unclear then HERE is the link to the document!

Hope you enjoyed it here are a few questions; 

1. What is your favourite genre and why?
2. What kind of tasks are you doing, and what is your favourite one and why?
3. How are you entertaining yourself during this lockdown?

Post any feedback in the comments below!

See ya later!

Soph   :D

Capsulating, Creative, Captain Marvel Website

 

Hey people,

Last term (term 2), we focused on Superhero Studies where we looked all over the many ways of how this can be/is presented. As you may have seen in my last post, there was a lot of work; comparing Marvel to DC, creating new heroes/villains and cities, and loads more. But of course, after all of that, we would have had some main project to do.

Aaaaaaaaaa... WEBSITE! We got to pick a hero/villain of our choice (I chose Captain Marvel) and had to study deep into them and their universe. Information had to be gathered for the following things:

• Describe their setting, city, or home
• What are the colours and why?
• Talk about the sounds in the examples
• Talk about the imagery and how it's presented
• Talk about how the character fits into their world, are they symbols of something? 

Once we had done that it is put into TEXAS-formed writing (Topic sentence, Evidence, Example, Analysis, Summary) and onto a website! I also added a couple of my own things like the comparison of DC to Marvel, and a dictionary explaining some more complicated words. 

We have a set time to do all this (around about a term) and once that is done then we will receive a mark. For mine I got a 6B which is 42/44, that  was the best mark I have ever gotten for anything! Anyway this is what you will want to see:

CLICK HERE!

Post any feedback in the comments below! 

See ya later! 

Soph   :D