Month: November 2015

Hey Nate, here’s a little gift for you!

We recently completed a fairly brief formative speaking / representing activity. Each of you had pick out five images that you would then base a short story on; your five pictures had to represent aspects of the beginning, middle, and ending of your future story-to-be. The twist, though, was that I then said I was going to give your Five Frames to someone else randomly for them to develop a short story that matched the pictures you selected. It caught you all off guard, but you had a great time with it.

When you’d finished writing it out, you presented it by reading your written story aloud to the class while we followed along with the five images. After that, you went even one step further and added your audio of you reading with the images in a video file. Here’s your video that you made, then! May it be an example of your early work with speaking, writing, and representing and I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy listening to this years down the road near graduation! 🙂

 

These are some songs that could fit in the movie I am Sam

 

 

 

 

This song relates to the movie because Sam loves Lucy

 

 

 

This song fits in because Sam will see Lucy again

Locked Away

This song matches the movie because Sam loves Lucy and then he is wondering how much she loves him

This is a run through the alphabet but with each letter i had to make a word matching the letter of the alphabet

 

Character alphabet: Sam

A is for Abuse is what Sam suffered

B is for Baby he had to take care of

C is for Crying the baby did while he looked after her

D is for Distress he needed help with the baby

E is for Eventually the baby would grow up

F is for Father he was a good father to her

G is for Gentle is what he had to be with her

H is for Help he needed so he had to ask his neighbour

I is for I am Sam the name of the movie

J is for Job Sam needed a new job

K is for Kid that Lucy turned into

L is for Love which all you need

M is for Mental Capacity is Sam problem

N is for New apartment: Sam moved into a new apartment

O is for Opportunity that Sam can get Lucy back

P is for Pancakes is what Sam loves

Q is for Quantity: he has small quantity of time with her

R is for Rita his lawyer and friend

S is for Sam his name

T is for Trying to fight to get Lucy back

U is for Universal: this problem is universal

V is for Visiting Lucy for only two hours

W is for Worried: Sam was worried that he might lose Lucy

X is for Xylophone is what Lucy played with when she was littler

Y is for Youth: Sam is good with the Youth

Z is for Zero: Sam has Zero time with her

2.) Some comparisons between the book “Stellaluna” and the movie “I am Sam” are that they both teach about being different and yet the same, when the birds saw Stellaluna as one of them their mother taught her like a bird but when her mother found her and taught her how to be a bat and to hang upside down and eat fruit not bugs , Sam was born with a disability so he learned from an institution so he was taught differently from other kids and with his mental capacity being age 7 he only understood up to grade 2 level so when Lucy asked him some questions he tried to change the topic because he doesn’t know the answer. When Lucy reads the book “Stellaluna” and she came across a difficult word and she tried to sound it out and she said she doesn’t know what it was Sam was also clueless and made Lucy sad so she made him read “Green eggs and Ham”.

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3.) Some dynamic characters are Sam, Lucy, Rita and they all grow from knowledge and experience. Sam from being a father with a disability and he doesn’t know what he is doing but he carves out time for Lucy and he eventually becomes a good caring father fighting for Lucy to live with him again. Lucy is dynamic character because she grows in age and size, like when Sam had to work with Lucy in a baby sling and she causes all kinds of trouble, knocking things over, making people spill there coffee. Rita is a dynamic character because she goes from being a selfish person who does nothing but work and tries to spend time with her son but ends up working really late but eventually she learns to cope with Sams disability.

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4.) This movie has three acts one of them, the first one is Sam raising Lucy till she is around 6-7 years old and that’s the end of scene one. Scene two is when Sam and his “Crew” are gonna give Lucy a surprise birthday party but Connor yells out that Lucy is adopted Lucy runs away, the scene ends when Mr.Turner questions Sam if he is capable of taking care of Lucy and when that scene ends it begins the, third scene which has Lucy move to a foster family and then Sam finds out where she lives and then he gets a new job to walk some dogs for money but then he runs across the foster family, and he asks to see Lucy, who runs out angry-like saying he never talks to her anymore, no letters, no nothing, but he has a letter but he ran out of room so he reads the letter out-loud and then he moves closer to Lucy just so he could see her more then usual, and of course it ends with Sam the referee of Lucy’s soccer game and she scores a goal and then he picks her up and runs in circles,then the movie ends

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5.) Sam due to his disability he has the mental capacity of a seven year old but there are times he is smarter then other adults, for example when Lucy had a presentation about butterfly’s and she forgot but he stepped in and helped her, but there was this kid who was doing a presentation on arthropods such as spiders and he was having trouble but his hotshot dad wanted him to look smart but he kept helping him and the son snapped and gave up because he wants to do potato bugs

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6.) Rita is Sam lawyer throughout the movie but their lives may seem different but really their not here are some examples:

• Number one: they are both single parents
• number two: they both have a young child
• Number three: both are carving or trying to carve out time to see them
• Number four: they both have a job that they are working hard to earn money

 

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7.)When the camera rotates around like when Rebecca left Sam with Lucy when she was born the camera rotated around as if he is looking for her it made me understand on how Sam felt about his current situation, he felt scared and lost. the camera angles in the movie help you understand how he feels and has a better emotional effect then just having 2D feel to it like just the camera moving from left to right in a straight line.