The goal of this game is to create a story with words found randomly in the dictionary. Here, you can read our stories:

 

 

Story 1: 

Story 2:

Story 3:

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To end the project on ekphrastic poetry, we had to select our own painting, photograph or work of art and write an ekphrastic poem based on it.  Visit our online gallery and listen to our poems. By clicking on the picture, you can discover more about the artist.

 

  Proteus, Cy Twombli

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over the Ledge, Jo Bemis

 

 

 

 

 

        Pearl Blossom Highway, David Hockney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Release, Eric Bailey

 

 

 

 

 

         Forest of Secret, Daniel Danger

 

          

 

 

 

Identical Twins, Diane Arbus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       Untitled, Penny Smith

                       

                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Curiosity, Donald Zolan

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

                 House in the sky, Ben Grasso

 

     

 

 

 

Here are our first attemps at writing ekphrastic poetry.  In this case, we had to choose between two paintings by Edward Hopper :

Nighthawks or House by the railroad

You can read our productions here :

Amelia's poem  Aurore's poem Averil's poem  Guusje's poem  Hanna's Poem  Jeanne's poem  Laurie's poem Lou's poem Maëlys's poem Mélanie's poem  Nikita's poem

 

Welcome back!

Here is a short account of our first project this school year :

We studied the different kinds of autobiography which exist : paintings, diaries, novels etc.

An autobiography talks about experiences and the important events which took place in one's life. Sometimes, it's based on real facts and feelings and sometimes, people change reality to promote a part of their lives. 

We saw Lucian Freud's self portraits, and written autobiographies by Maya Angelou, Churchill and Benjamin Franklin.

We studied two extracts of different autobiographies : one by David Gordon Nobbs and one by Stravinsky.

Our project was to write one significant memory we lived with a funny tone. Here are the memories of our class, click on the names !

Jeanne     Averil      Justine      Marie     Sheep       Zapote      Guusje    

Peter        Mélanie    Laurine    Mushroom  Hanna   Maëlys    

Zoé     Anaïs     Amélia

  

Our latest project was all about art and here is the result of our work :

An online art gallery with a selection of art works by different artists. Click on a painting to have access to information about the artist and the work of art or listen to our presentations.

We are also exhibiting ekphrastic poems (inspired from works of art) which we wrote using landscape paintings as a source of inspiration.

Enjoy !

Online art gallery

Online ekphrastic poems and paintings exhibition

This is the next step that kept us busy : studying how to make a good blog before making our own.  Check it out :

Conducting an interview is no easy task.  Well, we tried it !  Read about what we did here :

Ever dreamed of being a journalist?  Well, we gave it a try!  Come and read about it here :

This is our second project this year in the literature class.  We're starting with "The Kite Runner" by Khaleid Hosseini, an American writer of Afghan origin.  We've read the first chapter of his book and watched the beginning of the film adaptation.  Find out what we're doing here :

  It takes place in Mexico and it tells the story of a little boy who can feel no pain... What we did with it?  We changed it into a... comic strip !  Come and find out more... Click here :