Group+18+-+Pre-Project

toc =Task 1: Mini Photo Essays= __Please note:__ 1. Do **not** post individual pictures of students on the internet 2. Do **not** give out your email on this wiki - pass it onto your teacher's spreadsheet to share with others 3. Contribute to the discussion tab above each time you add to the wiki - let others know what you have done and get to know them

=Creators - Tell us about your self and give your blog URL=

Joo-Young Lee (-Ailsa) Shin Dong won - my blog is at http://classblogmeister.com/blog_edit.php?userid=98565&comment= Kim Duck Ju - My blog is at http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=98205 Krishneel my blog is at http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?user_id=76595&blogger_id=77863 Jacinta My blog is at http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?user_id=76595&blogger_id=77861 max blog url:http://classblogmeister.com/blog_edit.php?userid=112940&comment= James Blog URL : http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?user_id=108026&blogger_id=112937. I'm a 13 year old boy who attends Deer Park JR & SR Public School. I am in grade 8 right now and I play serious hockey. I like to listen to music. Chris Blog URL: http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?user_id=108026&blogger_id=112926, I am a 13 year old boy who goes to Deer Park public school. I am in grade 8, I live in Canada, Ontario. I swim, snowboard and I play the violin! Snowboarding is the best by the way, better than skiing.

My School
This is the front of my school, Deer Park senior and junior public school. It's pretty fun there but we get an abundance of work and not many field trips. Although, there are a lot of extra curricular activities like football, track and field etc. and there's a swimming pool! Yes and we can't forget the great teachers at Deer Park. This is mainly what you see if you walked out of our school and turned left. On the left, you see subway (a fast food restuarant that sells sandwiches) and on the far far right of the photograph, you can see in small letters "Sobeys" (which is a supermarket). I love subway's food because it has so many sandwiches to pick from like tuna (I like that the most), meatball (I like that the second most...). At Sobeys, there is this fast food restuarant called Crispy Chicken which sells chicken of course. The reason my friends and I like it so much is because they sell a lot more other foods like noodles and fries. These two fast food places are mainly the only two places we go to eat and I guess "hang out" also.

Okay, so here is the library that's a block away from our school. We go there occasionally because we often don't find stuff to do at school. The library has a computer so we just play these free online games there (nothing that exciting). I don't really thing they like us there because I think they think we just take up space on the computers and we are wasting their time...but anyways it's fun there and I don't really care much haha.

On the left shows our field and it's pretty small actually (even though it looks big) compared to my other school. Although, the activities I see kids do there are play soccer, play on the play ground, play basketball, talk, or just act completely crazy. I don't really do much of anything I just listed though I do act completely crazy sometimes... Below it, shows our swimming pool which is really cool I think. I think we just ended our synchro unit and I don't know what we're doing now. Usually for swimming we do laps or play games like volleyball or water polo.

My Community
I usually take the subway to go to school and back like most of my classmates do and I think this station is Summerhill station. The subway doesn't have much hygene but it's bearable (for me) and I usually see lots of advertisments in the subway but I barely pay much attention to them. The good things about the subway though, it's really good at getting you to the place you want to go in a very short amount of time (which it's suppose to).

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I live in the annex area which is generally considered to be in between Bathurst Street to the West, Avenue Road to the east, Dupont St. to the North, and Bloor Street to the South. It is an great neighbourhood with well-educated people and it borders the University of Toronto. It has been home to many of the university's faculty, as well as housing the university's student body.

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This is Toronto, the city I live in! :D Pretty cool here, around seven million in greater Toronto and only 2 million in the heart of Toronto. I think Toronto is pretty well known for the CN Tower which used to be the 1st free standing Tower until the Burj Dubai, was built in Dubai. Now the CN Tower is the second tallest free standing tower!

This is the CN Tower up close! Look how tall it is!!! it makes all the building look like little toys!! I can't imagine how tall the Burj Dubai is...I wonder if they can add an extension to the CN Tower to make it taller..hmm that's a thought...I think there's a big difference in anything from being 2nd instead of 1st.

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On the right it shows Canada itself like on an atlas. I live Ontario which is west of Quebec and East of Manitoba. The flag of Canada is on the left which has quite a history surprisingly. If you want to learn more about the flag, go to this link! (really it's really quite an interesting history. )([|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada)]

My School JAMES
I attend Deer Park Jr & Sr Public School Which is located at 23 Ferndale Avenue Toronto, ON It has a very nice swimming pool, a big gym, and great teachers! I had a picture of Deer Park Public school, but it is so blurry, it is unrecognizable so I cannot post it. Sorry.

My Community JAMES
I Live in a great neighbourhood! I even have a YMCA (if you don't know what that is, It's basically a gym that you can go to for swimming or exercising) down the street! This is not the YMCA down my Street

This is the YMCA symbol!

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This was a photo taken at about 11 P.M. just outside my house. It shows the road in darkness. If you follow this all the way up, you'll reach the infamous YMCA.

This is the exact same photo as the one above taken on Saturday at around 10 in the morning! You can see everything more clearly. Besides the YMCA, there is a convenience store called "Shorties". My family owned that store for 10 years before we sold it. I was only a little baby when we did that. But now, we have an even better convenience store! It's huge and I get loads of candy. That's why it was unnecessary for me to go trick-or-treating. I love my convenience store. Well, my dad owns it but my mom helps out after she's done her work. She works at the U of T (University of Toronto) as a Students administrator. As an ESL person, that is really a great accomplishment (my mom is korean).

My City JAMES
My City, Toronto, Has a great tower called the CN TOWER! It is 1815 feet high! That's really huge! The Line Going all the way up the middle is the elevator! Imagine riding that all the way up! There is also a very interesting contest going on in the CN TOWER. It's a contest where you're timed how long you can run the stairs all the way up to the top! Imagine doing that? I myself have never done it but after you do get your time, you get a sticker with your time and the phrase : " I conquered the tower in __". My friend conquered it in 10 or 15 minutes. That's incredible!!

We also have another great building. The Sky Dome( A.K.A. Rogers Center). It's right next to the CN TOWER coincidentally! It's Used for baseball games. I've only been here twice. The first time, I was too young to know what it was about but the second time, I came with my baseball team from highpark (the allstar team / rep team) and we got V.I.P. seats since it was a treat for winning the Provincials! I was even on T.V. as the highlights because I made a hit which in turn drove in our runner for a point! I was so proud.

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My Country JAMES
My Country is AMAZING! It's Canada and has 10 provinces and 3 territories. This Is the Flag Of Canada! In the middle is a Maple leaf. It was made the symbol of canada since in the beggining, way before the first European settlers had come, Canada's aboriginal people had discovered the food properties of maple sap from a maple tree. It was said that the Icon (the maple leaf) of Canada was used as early as the 1700s!!!

This is Also the Map of Canada!

Ontario is right here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I live in Toronto which is Ontario's capital city. I live really close to Ottawa, which is the Country's Capital city.

On December 31st, 1857, Queen Victoria was asked to choose the Capital city for Canada. She picked Ottawa for many important reasons: first, it was the only settlement of any significant size located right on the border of Canada East and Canada West (Quebec/Ontario border today), making it a compromise between the two colonies and their French and English populations; second, the War of 1812 had shown how vulnerable the major cities were to American attack, since they were all located very close to the border while Ottawa was (then) surrounded by a dense forest far from the border; third, the government owned a large parcel of land on a spectacular spot overlooking the Ottawa River. Ottawa's position in the back country made it more defensible, while still allowing easy transportation via the Ottawa River to Canada East, and the Rideau Canal to Canada West. Two other considerations were that Ottawa was at a point nearly exactly midway between Toronto and Quebec City (~500 km/310 mi) and that the small size of the town made it less likely that politically motivated mobs could go on a rampage and destroy government buildings, as had been the case in the previous Canadian capitals. The Ottawa River and the Rideau Canal network meant that Ottawa could be maintained by water from Kingston and Montreal without going along the potentially treacherous US-Canada border.


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The top picture is the front side of my schools with some friends that felt silly that day. Deer Park public school has a swimming pool, gym, and a huge turf field. the bottem picture was taken in the DT room. As you can see, this room is well equipped with all the right stuff.


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My community is in the general area of Toronto, Yonge and St.Clair. The top picture was taken near my school; giving it a view of St.Clair. the second picture on the bottom is a photo showing Yonge st. facing south towards the lake Ontario. the little red tent is a hotdog stand the are quite commen in Toronto.


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I the first picture has the best view of downtown Toronto at night. You can see where that top picture was taken by looking at the bottom picture. the large clump of tall buildings beside the CN tower was where the top photo was taken. The bottom photo also shows the Toronto islands and it's beaches. in grade 4 all of the people that came from brown P.S went there to the Island School which is the red building on the left side of the bottom picture.


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If anyone doesn't know where Canada is, it's located just north of the United States. The first picture is a map of Canada and the second is our national flag. The bottom picture is the Canada geese with is also on our coin (Lonnie).

My School
I'm attending Uijeongbu Science High School which located in Uijeongbu. In this school, we mainly study science-physics, chemistry, biology, earth science-and mathematics. We all students live in dormitory room on weekdays. On the weekend, we can go home. But at night, we always eat chicken. we have very fast legs, then we can run from O.P. O.P is our teacher. HaHAHa every night, always we win!!!

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My school is located in Uijeongbu, but my home is in East Ilsan, Goyang. And, my school is Suwon. There is even warmer than our school Uijeongbu. Our school's students from all different country.

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My School
Virtus Caelum Recludit "Character opens the way to the heavens" This is our School logo with our slogan written in Latin and English. Our slogan means for you to explore the heavens of the world you must have the right attitude and character to succeed. The two wings flying over the globe is seen as our school rising over the world and shows we can reach the top of the world

My Community


Our school is located in the border of Mangere and Papatoetoe. There is a small population of 8202 in Mangere while the population of Papatoetoe is 39585. Papatoetoe and Mangere are both in Manakau region and part of the Auckland city.

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This is the beautiful city of Auckland. The biggest city in New zealand with a population of 367734 people. The tower in this picture is knowen as the sky tower and it reaches up to 1200 ft and is the 12th tallest tower in the world. Auckland city has the most population of Polynesians but Auckland is not the capital of New Zealand.

My Country
This is our beautiful country of New Zealand. The first settlers of New Zealand where the Maori's. Our national icons are the silver fern and the Kiwi because they are both indigenous to our country. We are a multi-cultural and a democratic country with Helen Clark as our prime minister. New Zealand was also the first country to let women to vote for their prefered prime minister. New Zealanders are often known as Kiwis.


 * Here is a song that most New Zealanders like!!**

"Kiwis love Hot pools,rugby balls,McDonalds,Snapper Schools, World Peace,Woolly Fleece, Ronald and raising beasts,Chilly bins, Cricket Wins,Fast skis, Golf Tees,Silver ferns, Kauri trees, Kiwi Burger love one please............. Cause We love All blacks, Thermal daks, Egg & Cheese, Walking tracks, Beef Pattie, Marching girls, tomato, lettuce and paua shells, gumboots, ponga shoots, floopy hats , Kiwifruits, beetroot, buzzy bees, moggy cats, cabbage trees, onions , kakapos, kiaoras, cheerios, jandels, sandals, katchup, coromandels, swanndris,butterflies, mustard, fishing flies, hokey pokey, Maori haka, Kiwi burger THAT OUR TUCKER!!!"

=Task 2: Thinking=

Task A:


Brainstorm reasons why this picture could be relevant to your country. Make sure you give a reason for your ideas.


 * **Canada** || **South Korea** || **Portugal** || **New Zealand** ||
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 * || * type your first idea here || * The picture is relevant to our country because the colours of the books symbolises the different ethnicities in our country and the bow represents us as one.
 * Books are used in schools as in Aorere college to educate students and give knowledge ||

Task B:
Brainstorm all the attributes for each of your countries. Combine the attributes of your countries and together create a new country with these new attributes. Be as **creative** as you like, as long as you use the **attributes** of all **four countries**. Tell us...
 * where it would be located and why you have chosen this location
 * how big it would be and why you have chosen this size
 * why we should visit your country
 * and what it would look like if we were to fly over it in a hot air balloon.


 * **Attributes of Canada** || **Attributes of South Korea** || **Attributes of Portugal** || **Attributes of New Zealand** ||
 * * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || * good education
 * beautiful scenery
 * nice people
 * multi-cultural
 * nuclear free
 * good rugby
 * hollywood movies
 * clean waters
 * Pavalova ||


 * Our new Country...**

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