Zoya's SAS Blog

For this project in Art we created four simplified SAS Eagles with different designs, including one that was personalized. This was my final piece: This was my personalized eagle. On the inside is the sheet music to one of my favourite songs and on the outside are runes from one of my favourite books series.  It's black and white to contrast the rainbow and color of the other eagles and because the way those two colors play against each other is one of my favourites. I left in pencil because the sheen looked nice and slight smudging gives it an imperfection that I really like about it.  For a while I was stuck on what to do. I knew that I wanted to do a black background and a colored eagle but the problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to do. At first I wanted the inside to be rainbow but at the same time I was doubting the rainbow. Then for some reason Ria and I were talking about fire and I had the idea to do a red, orange and yellow ombre. But thi...

Zoya Burney                                                                                                     Mrs.Mckinnon RLA C/D                                                               ...

1.Why do people move? 2.What does it mean to be American? 3.Why does it matter who wrote history? 4. Was Columbus an important figure in history? Why or why not? -------- 1.Restate the question in order to form a thesis or "claim" with 3 possible answers. 2.For example: What does it mean to be irish? 3.Restate as: Being Irish has different meanings for different people which could include their social, political and economic belief. ---------- Tips for writing Don't write in first person Have a claim Support the claim Some type of concluding sentence Plan ahead

1. They were probably excited and happy that they had made it to America and worried that they may not make it in and be sent back. 2. The hall must have been crowded and loud. It probably had a really bad odor because people had just come off a boat they had been on for two or three weeks. People must have been nervous because they might be deported. 3. I felt cheated because I was quarantined not deported and I was sent to the wrong place. (Mr. Elms!) But at the same time I was upset that I was deemed not worthy and sent back.