WEDNESDAY
On Wednesday, we were assigned to make an argument about the most important thing humanity has ever achieved or created. I thought that language was quite important, so I wrote an argument about that and I also drew a piece of art about it. enjoy!
I’d argue that the most important thing that humanity has created is language. Throughout history, language has been one of the main priorities of surviving. Imagine if you couldn’t speak or write to other people. Imagine how hard communicating between humans could be.
Communicating with language has driven the human race forwards greatly.
When two people can talk the same language, it opens a gate of possibilities, including sharing ideas like religion, disease cures, child-raising methods, other languages, important days, and many, many more. Altogether, we wouldn't have made it very far without language.
Here's the art piece!
I'm very happy about the art piece. I used a porcelain bowl to make the round shape, and I did some research on how to say hello in 12 languages. then I put all the hello's around the circle and drew Europe inside of it! it was lots of fun drawing it.
THURSDAY
Thursday was my favorite day out of the week. we did two things that day, researching bureaucracy and Irony. I really enjoyed irony, and I made 2 paragraphs of an ironic story. Just to notify you, there are three types of irony: verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. Verbal irony is where a speaker's intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying. imagine a character stepping out of his house into a thunderstorm. then he says "what lovely weather we're having!" situational irony is where the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you’d expect the result to be. Dramatic irony is where the audience knows a key part of the story that a character doesn't. anyways, here's my situationally ironic story!
My Example/Scene:
Today was my nan’s 101st birthday. She doesn’t know how to facetime, so I was going over to her house to see her. It’s a milestone for her, and I bet she couldn’t wait to see me as well, to celebrate. I was at her door, and I rang it. A feeble old lady approached the door and opened it. She grinned at me. “Welcome, my dear!” she kindly said. “I was just doing some knitting. Come in.” she was surprisingly fit for a 101 - year old grandma, and she could open the door with some ease. She was in a great mood, and she loved seeing her grandkids, so that made her even happier. I followed her into the living room, and she told me to sit down and asked me if I’d like some tea. I said I’m ok, and she says: “Come with me, I have something to show you.”
I said, “don’t you want to open presents first? And she replied with, “no, this is much more important.” I wondered what it could be. She took me into the garage and what I saw made me question what was in my breakfast. She had 3 monitors set up with a tangle of wire, and also a large tv screen with hundreds of strings of numbers. “I’ve been trying to hack into the CIA for some time now, and I think I’m nearly there. I have large amounts of information about them stored at my fingertips. Don’t tell anyone else.” I couldn’t believe myself.
it's an elaborate story, isn't it? well, I have another thing for Thursday. it's what I think about bureaucracy. I made a small comic about it.
you might need to zoom in to see it.
FRIDAY
on Friday we have special activities, and we can make cool things. in the morning, we did tech from home, which was making one of eight activities from fabrics to wood. I chose to make some stained glass with paper and grapeseed oil. first, I got the paper and drew out a circle. then, I divided it into 8 pieces and colored all of them in. then, I got a paper towel and dabbed some grapeseed oil on it, the put it on the opposite side of the paper. it gives it a transparent look, and I think it was pretty cool.
And finally, I made some non - existent creatures. hope you like them!
Well, that concludes it. I really hope you like the work I have done over the past few days. it was really fun. see you another time!
Wow Hamish, this really is an extravaganza of work display!! Amazing work. Very clever to think of language as an important thing mankind has created, I completely agree! You raised so many awesome points. I'm so glad you enjoyed your Thursday tasks so much. Irony can be quite a hard thing to understand, but you have nailed it. Your stained glass window is really clever, where did you get the idea for that? I love your creatures you created as well, have you thought of names for them? Keep up the amazing work and enjoy your weekend! Caitlin :)
ReplyDeleteGreat work H! Have you sent some of those drawings to your cousins? They would love to see them.
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