Crowns of Glory Project

May 11, 2018 How do we make sure that our biographies are beautiful?   This is the question that we asked in our class today, as we prepared to create a cover for the biographies that we are writing.  After all, we want the residents that we are writing about to feel honoured by the stories we've written. Our guest speaker today came in to walk us through the in's and out's of a program called CANVA to create a cover for our published books. The program is exactly what its name suggests...it's like having a blank canvas in front of us on which we can create a piece of art. Miriam has a great deal of experience with the process of taking thoughts, feelings, experiences, etc. and expressing them on a blank canvas. She had the students reflect on the person they have been writing about, and to be mindful of the things that might honour their stories in a visual way.  As the students quickly discovered, it's more difficult to create a beautiful cover that

Thursday, May 3  Today was an exciting day for our class, and for the residents of Village Manor. Not only was it the final day for interviewing before we begin putting our biographies together, but we also had a professional photographer come to take photos of the residents. This is an important part of sharing their stories, because it captures who they are and honours their lives as they are living them right now. So often our culture decides that the elderly are no longer valuable, and simple things like taking a lovely photograph are overlooked. We are so excited about how the photographs turned out, and the students can't wait to highlight them in their biographies, along with the amazing stories that have been shared about the lives of their new friends at Village Manor!