Hi there!
My name is Arianne Robbins and I am in my fourth year at UBC, majoring in Creative Writing. Story has always been a massive part of my life, and I surround myself with it in many ways. I am a film industry professional script consultant running my own freelance business from home. I spend a lot of time with my clients helping them blossom their ideas into screenplays! This is my only distance course, and I am traveling to England for the month of February to visit family and do research for my nonfiction novel. My website will soon go live and there will be a blog attached to it, so having this course be blog based will help majorly in that department. This format is exciting to me and feels much more interactive than just the discussion threads usually found on Canvas. I hope to engage with the material of the course well this way, along with my fellow classmates and our professor. After recently watching the third season of “Anne With An E” on Netflix, I am eager to learn much more about Canada’s indigenous people through the literature we will be engaging with. In the show’s final season, it acknowledges indigenous residential schools through the eyes of a young girl named Ka’kwet who finds herself imprisoned in one. Fiction is never far from the truth, and is an excellent teaching tool to use in order to understand the past, and what it means for the future. Th heart of this course is in stories about Canada: the good, the bad and the ugly. As students we will be learning about how Canada has been shaped by story, and how Canadians have reacted to them over time. I seek to learn and grow from this experience, and look forward to an informative semester!
Works Cited:
“Anne with an E.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 19 Mar. 2017, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5421602/.
David, Greg. “Anne with an E Expands Its World with Indigenous Characters in Season 3.” TV, Eh?, 19 Sept. 2019, https://www.tv-eh.com/2019/09/19/anne-with-an-e-expands-its-world-with-indigenous-characters-in-season-3/.