Our week at EJ School in late October was fantastic! We really enjoyed
learning about the past, present and future. With Sandy VanRiper, we met many
magnificent people and saw many landmarks of Edmonton and historical buildings,
including CKUA in the Alberta hotel and the Hotel MacDonald. We were all
inspired by the interesting people we interviewed! We went all over downtown to
learn about history in our marvelous city. Overall, our week at the Edmonton
Journal was amazing.
New Journalists Head Downtown & Do Some Bench Rubbings
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| Rubbing Holly Newman's Flying Geese bench |
We traveled downtown to some of the poetry benches. We took
a pencil crayon and put our paper down on a rubbing of our choice. Lightly, we
used the side of our pencil to recreate the artwork. When we were at the
benches, we talked about the creator and the creative poetry. Each bench tells
a story about a variety of different things that really shared how the artist
felt. On some of the benches, it showed Canadian geese and faces that were
happy, sad and ones with mixed emotions. Some of the poems made sense while
other were confusing in many ways, but they all were very creative.
Interviewing at EJ School
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| Interviewing Jeff Samsonow |
In class we learned how to interview like a real reporter.
We took notes about everything we saw and the notebook came everywhere we went.
The notebook was a vital part of our journey and it held every bit of
information we collected over the week. Names, dates, nouns, verbs, and actions
all went inside. We learnt that the first question a reporter asks is “What is
your name and can you please spell it?” We wrote down every word that came out
of our subject’s mouth and we tried to look for quotes that they told us. We
had to prepare questions before we came and sometimes to come up with them
while we were interviewing. Some of us wrote 5-6 pages just about one topic.
The subjects also gave us great advice and information about poverty and
homelessness for our United Way project.
CKUA
Livi Palmer
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| Outside CKUA |
During the week at EJ School our class went to CKUA. We learned so much about radio stations and how they work. There we created
station IDs and that every few hours they are required to play identity
tags so listeners know that the station is CKUA. When we finished
listening to our recordings we all realized that our voices sound different
than we think we sound. In the library we learned about all the different
generations of music. We even heard some of the music and saw music players
that were around from the 1880’s. That music was so interesting because they had
no words. Next we had a press conference with Tony King. He had such an
interesting and inspirational story.
Poverty in Edmonton
Livi Palmer
The Grade 6 students from Greenfield School have been
working hard on trying to raise awareness to end poverty. We decided to order
shirts with logos on them and go to High Schools and talk about how we can
raise awareness. At EJ School we also talked more about it and how to get the
audience's attention. We also talked to lots of the people to see what they
felt about homelessness and poverty. They also gave us ways to be more
confident in our work and presenting to a big group of kids that are older than
us. This gave us more things to put into our presentation.
Grade six uses timeline to learn about the history of
Edmonton.
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| Time connections |
During EJ School we met a nice man named Dan
Rose who works at Edmonton Economic Development Corporation. He taught us about the downtown Edmonton history. We learned about the Hotel MacDonald, how
it has been in terrible condition and about to be taken down. Did you
know that McDougall Church was built in 1910 and over 105 years old? Learning with
Dan was an amazing experience. We built a timeline of buildings or moments in Edmonton. We put down facts like the Thistle Rink burning down in 1913 and the
Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1938. We are very happy we had this experience to learn about the history of our city.
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