Rain Gardens
The period of time within which most water should drain from your rain garden during an average rainfall.
What is a day (or 24 hours)?
The 53rd latitude has this significance for First Nations hunters.
The name of the program that makes pictures from word prompts.
What is Dall-E?
This 5 - 7 - 5 form of Japanese poetry is easy to learn but difficult to master.
What is the haiku?
This step in the writing process involves throwing out the junk, rearranging and re-writing in order to make it better for the reader.
What is revision or revising?
Your rain garden should be placed at least this far from your home or the water could cause problems. (hint, a bit over 1.6 times Mr. Street's height)
What is 10 feet or just over 3 meters?
Greenpeace apologized to this group in 2014 for the their part in causing the Inuit hardship.
Who are the Inuit?
This famous photograph was taken during the summer of 1990 during this event that put Canada on the world stage for all the wrong reasons.
What is the Oka Crisis?
This type of wording:
Saga Teller, Poem Thief
What is Kenning?
This type of word ends in ...ing.
What is a gerund verb?
When testing for the depth of your rain garden if a hole filled with water drains by 0.5 inches per hour, this is the depth you need for your rain garden to drain in a day.
What is 12 inches?
This post-colonial first nations dish is well loved by many both inside and outside their community, including Mr. Street.
What is the Indian Taco.
This photo of Pope Francis apologizing to the First Nations of Canada may have been considered foolish if given a day after this date that he made the apology.
This type of cinquain is used both to teach and to create limits and thus increase creativity.
What is didactic?
You can almost always identify a simile by looking for these two words.
What are "like" and "as"?
Aster, iris, and sedge are examples of good plants to put in this spot of your rain garden.
What is the centre or wettest areas?
First nations celebrations and ceremonies were banned in Canada for a period measured in this unit of time.
What are decades, or generations?
This is a photo of VE day in Toronto this during this year.
What is 1945?
This poem can read like a secret message if you look at just the first or last letter of each line.
What is an Acrostic poem?
If the Smartboard is questioning, whispering, thinking or waving it might be a form of this literary device.
What is personification?
This is often placed at the entrance to your rain garden to prevent heavy rain from washing out young plants.
What are large decorative rocks?
First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people are all part of this type of culture, which means like language, they evolve and change over time.
What is a living culture?
Known as, "The Other Last Spike" this photo was taken approximately 170 km away from the photo of the dignitaries, the photo depicts this group of people.
Who are railway workers or those who built the railway?
This type of poetry creates literal pictures out of words.
What is concrete?
The equation for a metaphor that was written on the board for about a week and a half.
What is "Concept = Adjective + Object" which is to say this is a fancy form of that?