The thing that I was most proud of was my communication skills with my classmates and table group. At the start of the course, I was new to meeting my table group but soon created friendships through interests and humour. I represented my learning from previous years and used it to help not only myself independently but as well as everyone around me. I worked with people around me when they were stuck on a seam sample on an assignment. I helped explain and gave a demonstration of what the assignment was asking for. For my core competency, I communicated in discussions with the class by raising my hand to answer questions and in conversations with my group by listening to them and their questions.
Show and Tell Presentation Reflection and Self-Assessment
Curricular Response
The greatest strength of my presentation was the information that I had presented from the show vs the real world. I talked about the technologies that are now in use or being developed in our real world that is presented in the show’s episodes. I finished my presentation with connections back to fear and stated that Black Mirror isn’t necessarily a horror show but does stop to make you think about mankind and if we take a particular course we will become entrapped and terrorized by our own uses of technology.
Next time, if I could represent my show and tell, I would want to ask more questions in the future, I think that I wasn’t as engaged with the class as I should have been. Another factor in my fear of public speaking, I talked too fast and stumbled over my words when speaking and even forgot to show the trailer to the show. I don’t know what I could have done to have relaxed but I think that when I didn’t face the audience, I felt a little calmer.
Core Competency Self-Assessment
When I first chose my topic, I went from wanting to talk about the Uncanny, but after researching it, I didn’t feel very connected to the topic even though it was interesting. After scrolling on social media, I had seen a black mirror-related video that made me think about what I was doing in the moment, scrolling on my phone mindlessly. I then looked back on the episodes that I had watched way back ago and thought that this would be a perfect topic for my show and tell. After some research, I put together my presentation and presented it to my friends a couple of times days before my presentation.
Well before starting my topic, I watched a couple of videos and even some episodes that I thought related to real life. I collected a few episodes and researched real-world problems that connected with the episode’s premise.
Metalwork Assignment
When in art metal and jewelry 12, I demonstrated critical and creative thinking skills when working on both my flower vase and wall art. I demonstrated creative thinking skills when I worked on my rough drafts for the flower vase and when working on multiple ideas for my wall art. I exhibited critical thinking skills when I was forced to repeat the process of tracing and cutting my petals after not being able to find them in my drawer multiple times. I asked for help from my teacher and he helped me be on track to stay motivated and finish my flower before falling behind. When starting on my vase, I took inspiration from the previous projects that are displayed above the whiteboard but did my own planning with some help from Mr. Peterson. I ran into struggles such as not knowing where to start but looked back at my previous years of metal and used my understanding of how I’ve bent metal in the past, which benefitted me and my progression of my vase. I was successful with both projects, feeling proud of myself and my work. Some thing I would have done differently are making my coffin look more run down since people (COUGHH) didnt to understand what I was trying to do with some of the gaps and hole. I’m overall really proud of my projects and excited to put them in my room.
Brain Disorder Story Assignment Reflection
My partner Keira and I did BPD for our disorder, in our storybook for psych 12. I demonstrated my ability to create new ideas and build off of my partners ideas and questions. When we were creating the story, we brainstormed ideas about names, genders, how things were going to play out and how our main character is going to overcome these obstacles. I found it easy to be in a group with Keira because she was respectful to my ideas and questions. I took the role of doing the editing of the story and illustrating the story.
Social Justice – Core Competency Self-Assessment
Positive personal and cultural identity
I chose positive personal and cultural identity because I have learned much about cultural backgrounds and how settlers should accept their culture and recognize their struggles in Canada’s history—having the ability to make choices and values and being able to recognize skills and qualities. When working with our identity maps, along with others, I was able to discover myself and what I value about my identity. The vlog project made me think about what it means to really be a settler and have the privilege to clean water and being able to stay warm in cold months.
Self-Assessment of core competencies/psyche 12
I take on roles and responsibilities in a group and do my share by doing the work that I was assigned and finishing them on time so that it doesn’t affect our grades or work.
I am kind to others and support others when they need it by building off their ideas and asking questions, if something is unknown I will work with them and we will find out information together and learn what we didn’t know.
I find it easy to be part of a group since I enjoy working with others and collaborating on ideas. I find it nice to have someone who can correct me or build off my ideas.
I encourage others to share their voices and value diverse perspectives because I like to hear other people’s opinions and talk about different perspectives from my own, I believe that everyone’s voices and ideas should be heard. I don’t force, but defiantly encourage others to speak up about something that they believe in or want to say.
English 11 Poetry Reflection
My Poem
Curricular Competencies Reflections
The purpose of this poem was to show how my bed has been there through everything and how comfortable it is and is what makes me feel safe to cry. I didn’t have anyone in mind when writing this poem, but when I think about it, I love having all my friends or the people I care about on my bed since I have so many blankets, pillows and plushies on it to make it comfortable and welcoming. I guess I could say this poem is personal since it talks about crying and finding euphoria in sleeping since I don’t enjoy always having to push myself to go out and having a hard time presenting myself into the world. I didn’t try to plan or develop this poem a whole lot, I had a bunch of rough drafts that were very sad maybe a little too personal, some people won’t relate, some will, everyone’s different with their mental health and where they are in life, this poem just looks back about how I can go to my bed for comfort when life isn’t so good, how my bed will always be there for me and won’t go anywhere until its time for a change.
Creative Thinking Core Competency Reflection
I chose this topic because its something I love in my room, my room is my safe place but there’s nothing more comforting and welcoming as my bed. I thought about what I do in bed rather than just sleeping and how I spend time in bed making myself feel better and how I feel much better in dreams than I do in real life. Finding ways to explain how sleeping and laying bed feels due to the criteria helped a bunch. My poem isn’t very innovative. I like my poem as it is, If I were to have some feedback from others, I probably could find some things I would like to change about it.
My Tribute Costume
Self-discovery
I am very affectionate, I care for others and others wellbeing, I am creative, outgoing, optimistic, positive, adventurous and appreciative. My skills include sewing, listening, strategic thinking, honesty and problem-solving. I like going out and adventuring or sitting at home and staying inside sometimes. I like that I have a good sense of humour, I don’t take things too personally, I also like that I care for others and make others happy.
Reflection
When making my character design I didn’t like the create a character website because I felt like I didn’t have very many options to create something I was happy with so instead of creating something I wasn’t happy with, I decided to use dress up games, since there are so many different options. I played around with different ones and ended up with the result. I was pretty happy with how it had turned out.
While making my character I made a story for her in my head, like how she lived in district one and was wealthy and that she would represent her district with more expensive items.
I like that I came up with something that I was happy with and had more creative freedom with what I wanted to do. I don’t think I would improve on anything because I’m happy with how it turned out. I learned that I’m not restricted to one resource.
Digital footprint assignment
- Luckily I didn’t find anything related to me on google, however, I was surprised to find a lot of mug shots and active warrants.
- You should always be cautious when sharing information like your password, in fact, you shouldn’t do it at all unless its someone in your family or someone you trust. Sharing personal information about yourself can be dangerous, especially your phone number, someone can track you and find out even more information about you than you ever intended.
- If a video or photo of you got out that you didn’t want to be distributed, it could very well affect your life. it could affect your chances of getting a job or into university, it could even upset your grandma, you wouldn’t want to make your grandma disappointed now, would you?
- to keep the digital footprint safe you could, keep your social media private, try to delete old accounts that you don’t use anymore and use strong passwords and maybe update your old passwords once a year.
- I would mention my friends to update their passwords.
History of my birthday
On March 7th 161 the death of Antoninus Pius had died of fever of children. Out of the five great gods, Antoninus Pius was a roman emperor from 138 to 161. Antoninus was 70 and found it difficult to keep himself upright and didn’t have much an appetite, only nibbling on dry bread to give him some energy to stay awake in the mornings. Antoninus was born into a senatorial family and held various offices during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, who also adopted Antoninus as his son shortly before his death. Antoninus Pius was married to Annia Galeria having a happy marriage, having four children, two boys, and two girls. Since Annia Galeria Faustina was involved in assisting charities for the poor and sponsoring and assisting in the education of Roman children, particularly girls when she passed Antonius Pius was devastated. To honour her memory, he had the Senate worship her and dedicated the Temple of Faustina to her in the Roman Forman. Multiple gold and silver statues were made of her, He had ordered various coins with her portrait, he also opened a charity called Puellae Fausrinianae, which translates to girls of Faustina to assist orphaned roman girls and created a new alimenta.