Project+Description

Atlantic Canada is a mecca for talent that express the many distinct cultures that help shape our identity as the Eastern gateway into Canada. ?? Study/read Atlantic Canadian literature and express theme, literary reaction, personal reaction through different mediums.

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Study Atlantic Canadian artists and how they use their talent and art to express the unique identity of being from AC.

This project is designed to meet the needs of gifted students at small rural schools who do not have the opportunity to partake in Fine Arts classes due to staffing, numbers, and cost.

Historically, gifted students have been identified by excellence in linguistic or logical-mathematical realms. Students with outstanding abilities in other areas may not have been identified for gifted programming. A broader search for giftedness and a commitment to its development includes all of the intelligences. According to Gardner, performance within each of the intelligences is developmental. Development may or may not occur at the same rate for all of the intelligences. Gifted students will show patterns of development that exceed their peers in one or several of the intelligences. (http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/gifted/whoare.htm)

Atlantic Canada is a Mecca for talent that expresses the many distinct cultures that help shape our identity as the Eastern gateway into Canada. Using contemporary Atlantic Canadian authors as a launching pad for inspiration, gifted students will read and study a piece of literature set in Atlantic Canada. Typically, literature studies gear toward the linguistic realm of intelligence in the form of writing or discussion. This study will offer students a differentiated approach to express their enduring understandings of the literature. Gifted students will be able to meet and work with many famous Atlantic Canadian artists who will act as mentors and inspiration for the students in the manifestation of their analysis.

Students will be able to explore and represent their understandings through the following: Music composition, song writing, drama, culinary art, photography, painting, sculpting, dance.


 * small schools in New Brunswick do not always have the opportunity to offer courses in Fine Arts due to staff numbers and cost.
 * students should be exposed to opportunities to express themselves through art
 * talent goes untapped due to missed opportunity