Group+30+-+Pre-Project

=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=

My name is Emma **__http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?user_id=108026&blogger_id=112872__**, and I am a grade 8 student at Deer Park Jr and Sr Public School. This a not our school logo, but is as close as I could get. The real thing is the head of a deer, in navy blue.
 * Emma's Section**

Hi my name is Isabella. My blog URL is: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=112906. I'm a Grade 8 student at Deer Park Jr. and Sr. Public School. Some of my favorite subjects are math, science, and design technology. I am an active participant in many school clubs/groups such as Me to We, singing, and acting. I am an avid tennis player and enjoy sports such as football and volleyball. I have a kitten named Roffco (after the artist) and I have recently lost my cat, Putty, due to an unforchanate event with pesticides. I am currently reading a book by Kevin Trudeau called "Natural Cures //THEY// Don't Want You To Know About". It is basically about the cospiracy in the U.S between the FDA, FTC, pharmacutical companies, the goventment and polititians. It also explains why we get sick, how to prevent and treat sickness without drugs or surgery and blows the whistle on one of the largest profit conspiracies (the american health care system). It seems unreal and unlikely but after you read this book you will see the truth and I highly reccomend it! I hope you enjoyed this intrductory and hopefully with the supplied infromation you can gather what kind of person I am. This is a picture of the book that I am currently reading and to the right is the national logo for Me to We, a grup deticated to helping underdevelpoed countries, poverty, chid labour and more founded by Craig Klienburger when he was a 13 year old boy. By, Isabella
 * Isabella's Section**

Canada
This is a little infromation about Canada that i found off wikipedia. If you would like more detailed and extensive infromation search Canada in google and click on the first option on the results. Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area, and shares land borders with the United States to the south and northwest. The lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada became a federal dominion. A gradual process of independence from the United Kingdom moved Canada towards statehood and culminated in the Canada Act 1982, severing the last vestiges of dependence on the British parliament. A federation now comprising ten provinces and three territories, Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual and multicultural country, with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. Technologically advanced and industrialized, Canada maintains a diversified economy that is heavily reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade—particularly with the United States, with which Canada has had a long and complex relationship. By, Isabella This is a picture of a map of canada, showing the location of the provinces and territories. You can see the U.S to the south of Canada as well as Alska (U.S) to the north-west corner. To the right is the canadian flag, showing a maple leaf, one of the most common leafs in Canada. By, Isabella
 * Isabella's Section**

My School
I also attend Deer Park Public School. I have been to 2 other schools but Deer Park has proven to be one of the best Public Schools in the Toronto area! Emma has pretty much said it all when it comes to a description, but I would like to add the lunch programs. A t Deer Park you have two main lunch time choices. You can either bring your lunch and eat it in the cafeteria, where they have a selection of beverages to buy, or you can leave the school for lunch. When you choose to leave the school for lunch, you either purchase your lunch or eat with someone who buys their lunch, so you can eat in the restraunts/fast food places. Also Emma frogot to add in the science program which is very advanced. Some of the main eating areas that people like to go to around the school are Tim Hortons (terrible for your health, but addicting), Pizza Pizza ( I question what their health practices are, or aren't ), Second Cup (their italian sanwich is GROSS), Mc Donalds (all I can saw is eww), Druxys (hmmm never been their), and a ew other places. And usualy after lunch almost everyone stops by Mothers, a candy store (it's sort of a rip off, but they have a great variety of candy!). Well that paragraph was a little bit of my school and the community around the school! I hope you enjoyed!
 * Isabella's Section**

By Isabella

=Emma's= I go to Deer Park Public School. Deer Park is a school with many different cultures. It is a large, with over 300 students going there. There are grade from Jk all the way up to grade 8. We have a principle named Mr. Thather and and vice principle Mr. G. There lots of fun. Deer Park has many different subjects. We have the basics such as math, history/geography, english and french. We also have MDD, which stands for Music Dance and Drama, in this class we get to express different emotions with instuments, voices and other cool, but weird things. Deer Park also has a design technology, and art class. A Science class where we learn about amembas and many other cool things. And last but not least gym/health. The best part about going to Deer Park, is all of it's extra curiculars. We have many sports from basketball to ultimate frisbee and my favourite the theatre program. Every year our MDD teacher Mrs. Beale puts together a musical and all students in grade 7 adn 8 are able to audition. It's lots of fun! Over all Deer Park is an amazing school filed with amazing students.

This is a picture of the front of the school. This is not the whole school but just the main doors. We do not enter the school by thease doors, but use the doors at the back of the school, off from the turf. This is a picture of what our very cool soccer turf is made out of. On this type of feild Deer Park sports teams practise and play against other teams as well as where the grade 7 and 8's hang out juring lunch, just before class starts. The turf is also used after school hours for people to practise sports on. Even though the picture dosn't show the actual turf it gives you a rough idea of what we plat on, this picture shows you what it's made out of.

My Community
I live in a community called the Republic of Rathnelly, in the area of South Hill. It is west of Avenue Road, north of a railway line that lies north of Dupont street, south of Poplar Plains Road and east of Davenport Road. It got it's name from a old Rathnelly house built in 1830 by Senator Willaim McMaster (McMaster is also a street in my community) which was named after his place of birth in Rathnelly, Ireland. During Canada's centennail celebration in 1967, my neighbourhood declared itself an independent republic and organized a parade. Every year The Republic of Rathnelly has a annual street party to celebrate that day in 1967 when we were considered an independant republic!

This is a picture gives you a sense of what my neighbourhood looks like, be aware that the map is a little old. The white space usally has streets there, but it gives you a rough idea. If you head a little more Southern, to Bloor St, thats where my family and I usally are. We live to be out in the nice weather (when it's not snowing) window shopping. We always go to this little cafe behind the Pottery Barn store to get sandwiches! I always have fun down on Bloor St. This is one of the hotels we have stayed at when our home was being painted. It gives you a sense where I like to hang out. == This is the dance school in my community where I take dance classes.

I live in the rosedale area on Cluny Drive. The section of Cluny Drive that I live on is situated across from the ravine. My neighbor is Jerry Shwartz (I think that is the correct spelling) and his wife, the owner of chapters Indigo, Heather Riesmen. My location is extreamly convinient as the subway (my transportation to and from school most of the time) is right down the street and around the corner and many other easily acssessable locations are close to my house, enabling my family and I to walk there. As well as having things nearby, my house is privatiezed, so you do not have your neighbors looking through your windows or anything. The ravine has a path that takes you to a park, which many people rely on to have space to walk their dogs, or to escape the craziness and have a breath of fresh air. Starbucks is close to our house and although I don't really go there, my parents like to enjoy a hot tea or coffe on the go. There is also a neat little sort of market place down the street, where we ocasionally go to purchase some groceries when a full flege grocerie shopping is not in need. Grocerie shopping is done in the mass because I have a large family, with guests and family friends over all the time, so food goes quickly.The Toronto Lawn and Tennis club is a five minute walk from my house so I walk there almost everyday to enjoy a game of tennis, squash, and many other facilities. Cluny Drive is a charming little area in total, with many beifits! This house had lanscaping/gardening done recently. These are some images of the Rosedale Subway Station
 * Isabella's Section**


 * My City**

=Emma's=

TORONTO: This is the official flag of the city Toronto. Toronto is the cultural and entertainment capital of Canada. This city is home to over 2.7 million people and is the largest city in Canada. Toronto is located in the northwestern part of Ontario. Toronto, as I said is filled with many different cultures. We have little towns in different areas of Toronto, that represent different cultures and religons. Theres China Town, Little Italy and much more. Toronto is filled with uge buildings and skyscrapers, including the CN Tower, the worlds tallest free standing structure! Every year, around the middle of November, we have this parade called the Santa Claus Parade. It is filled with over 25 different floats sponsered by different brands and marketers. The parade gets 1,000's of kids and adults to come partisipate in the parade. In 2005 I was in the parade. I was on the foodland fariy float and my coustume was sparkaly brown with leaves and I had wings! It was a lot of fun, but very cold. Every year Toronto has over 30 different festivals each year inclluding the Santa Claus Parade. Toronto is also a great place to come to for a summer vacation! We have many attractions that are worth seeing! There's the ROM which stands for the Royal Ontario Museum where they have the coolest variety of dinosaurs big and small. The CN Tower, when you come to Toronto the CN Tower is a must see. And there's more! We have a really cool science centre called The Ontario Science Centre, The Hockey Hall of Fame, Casa Loma, Ontario Place, The Toronto Zoo and my favourite one Paramount Canada's Wonderland! At Wonderland there are over thirty different roller coasters! It's a great way to spend a day.

This is a picture of the CN Tower, with the city Toronto in the backround.

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This is a picture of the newly renovated Royal Ontario Museum, sometimes it is called the "Crystal" because of its shape!

Emma has given a very good description of Toronto, so I will try to address the things she did not mention instead of repeating the smae infromation.As well as all of the attractions in Toronto therer are also many different institutions, universities and colledges deticated to the education of yonge students. Their are seven main universities, four colleges, and all together over twenty-five educational universities, colleges, and institutions in toronto all with a wide variety of courses and programs to take. You can even apply for a student loan to help you pay your tuition! As well as student loans, many shopping centers and stores offer a stundent discount. You can litrally pursue any career of your choice in Toronto, while being supported by the government system. You can even take night school or part time classes if you wish to hold down a job in the meantime. All of the educational facilities in Toronto are in exellent shape, providing a suitable learing enviroment.In Toronto many fundraisers are held for many different medical, enviromental and other important issues. You can easily take part in these organized events to help raise money for cancer research, child labour, enviromental status and countless more. Toronto also has a handful of unique shops and unusuall musems to visit, ensuring your weekends are never dull! One of the main things in Toronto is the Public Transport System. With a network of buses, subways and railcars traveling has never been so inexpensive, enviromentlay friendly or easy! This is the main entrance to York Univesity, one of the most popular univesities in Toronto. This is a picture of the Beta Shoe Museum, one of the many interseting and unique museums!
 * Isabella's Section**

This is one of the TTC buses.

By, Isabella

My Country
=Emma's= Canada This is the official flag of Canada! Is the worlds second largest country. Canada was first lived in by the Aboriginal Peoples and then founded as a country in 1867 when four provinces where joined to make Canada. It is a country made up of ten provinces and three territories. The ten provinces are British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, which are located in western Canada and Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland which are all located in Eastern, Central Canada. Canada also has three territories: Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon. All of this makes up Canada. Canada is just like any other country. Our capital is Ottawa, and for a good reason too. When Canada became a country, it needed a capital. In 1857, the choice turned into a huge crisis. The assembly had met many times in Kingston, Toronto, Quebec City and Montreal but the decision was left for Queen Victoria. She choose Ottawa for many reasons. The first was because if Canada was attacked, it was far from the border and would be safe in am emergency, there could be good water supply in cause of war and it was located write on the border of East Canada and Weat Canada, so Queen Victoria thought it would be a good choice.

Canada occupies most of the northern part of North America. This means that we share land borders with the US. Canada has also two main languages, English and French. There are only 67.5% citizens of Canada who only speak English, 13.3% who only speak French and 17.7% who speak both French and English. There are aproxometly 33,390,141 people in Canada. That's including the many different religions and background beliefs. Therefore, Canada is filled with many ethnic groups. Here is a list of the different groups: British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%. One last thing, is just a fun fact about Canada! Canada's leaf is the maple leaf and our animal is the beaver!

In this beavers hand is Canada's official flag. This is not the real Canadian beaver. This one is.

See under heading "Canada" for **Isabella's Section**

My School
Hello, this is uijeongbu. My shool is Uijeongbu Science Highschool.

My Country
My country is Korea.^^

My School
Padre Alberto Neto Secondary high school is in Queluz. Our school is a normal school like the other school. I descript my school in three words. Nice, friendly, sympathic. We have a greenhouse city.

My Community
The community of queluz is a quiet community without much stress, without much confusion .... Let's say a community is not to dream, but that many people would like to live ....

My City
The City of Queluz has about 111,424 habitants. The city includes three parishes: Queluz; Massamá; Monte Abrãao. The city of Queluz remains a dais most populous of Portugal, is the eighth most populous city in Portugal and considered a satellite city of Lisbon.

My Country
Portugal, Portugal officially, is a continental country and located in the southwest Atlantic from Europe, in the area west of the Iberian Peninsula and in the North Atlantic. It has a total area of 92,391 km ² and is the nation's most western Europe, bounded to the north and the east by the kingdom of Spain and the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean. The territory of Portugal comprises the mainland and the autonomous regions: the Azores and Madeira.

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Portugal was a power economic, social and cultural relevance, is itself the first and most enduring colonial empire of global scale.

It is now a developed country, economically prosperous, socially and politically stable and developed humanely.

State of the European Union since 1986, is one of the founding countries of the euro zone, NATO (or NATO) and the OECD.



My School
Hi this is Sabrina and I go to Aorere College http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=295273&mode=comment&blogger_id=90484 This is our handsom principal!!! Mr Williams... as you can see this is his working office...

My Community
I live in the Papatoetoe community....(sabrina) This is some of our locals in Papatoetoe....



My City
I live in Manukau city

I chose this particular picture because it shows a clear version of manukau....

My Country
My Beautiful Country is New Zealand!!!!!!(sabrina) I've stayed in New Zealand for about 13 and a half years now, and i'm still loving New Zealand because it is a beautiful safe place!

In the left top this picture represents the elegance of our beautiful sea's, on the top right this picture shows some ofour cultural kids doing the hongi... at the bottom left it shows our cool city AUCKALND... and last but not least on the right this is one of our beautiful mountains..... Here are some of our beautiful native stuff that New Zealand is proud of!!! In the first picture above you can see a different type of looking house, well its actually called a Marae, and that where special events happen, the next picture beside is my beautiful country New Zealand! The next picture must be one of our natural National Parks which we just finished learning in social studies, I think the next picture has to do with sailing, or maybe one of our commenwealth sports, i have no clue.. On the next picture here is one of our Native Plants which is the Pohutakawa! Then i think the next picture is a bottle brush or another picture of a Pohutakawa, the next picture beside it is a light house which i dont have any clue in what it does with New Zealand, in the next picture is another native plant from New Zealand which is called a Silver Fern, the next picture is a moutain, the next picture beside it is our New Zealand flag! On the bottom row is Peguins, then the next is a sacred piece of maori carving which is very special, next to that is one of New Zealand beaches i hope then next is a brown kiwi founded in mainly national parks i assure then the last picture must be a cathedral....

=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** ||
 * * -Education is very important in canada -School is usually represtented by books-most kids days are spent at school-books are of high value in canada-most people in canada are educated By, Isabella || * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here ||

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** ||
 * * -harsh winters -hot summers -mostly forested/plains -canadian sheild -geographical landmarks -fairly large -not overcrowded -lots of buildings -developed counrty || * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here ||

- Our counrty would be located in a new area on the map, the area would have cold winters but not too extreme and hot summers (+20-+40 deg.) -It would also have exellent soil for planting as well as farming and some poor soil for building things on top of (malls ect) It would have groundwater beneath it as well as many lakes and rivers. -It would be fairly large to avoid overcrowding and to allow new settelers to come -it would be a developed country with a medium econmy scale, mostly wealthy/well off communities, nice landscapes, clean enviroment, organic foods job oppertunities (reasons to visit) - It would be in a sort of obselte and random shape, with many forested areas, developed cities would be clear as well as lesser towns and villages, historic sites, parks, wildlife preserves, museums ect. (view from a hot air ballon)
 * Our new Country...**

By, Isabella

=Creators=

Sabrina From New Zealand A Lee hongsoo ( Korea) Isabella Romano (Toronto, CA) (I think im the only one who did Task A and B)
 * Senior Editors**

English (Toronto, ON)
 * Language**

=Blogs= http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=112906 (Isabella Romano)

=References=

Wikipedia Google Parents Museums Pictures