Music Monday “LAND” Map Assignment: Self-Assessment

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Curricular Response-

One of my images was a fence, which I used to represent segregation or setting boundaries between different people. The fence effectively serves as an object that sets a distinct boundary between two kinds of people. It represents a divided country as it symbolizes the government or society creating distinct boundaries between people. My quotation of, “this land is your land, this land is my land” vividly shows setting boundaries between different types of people, as the quote explains setting a land boundary between two different types of people.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

One challenge I faced was trying to interpret the hidden meanings behind the songs. This is one of my weaknesses, so I specifically looked for keywords that could point me in the right direction towards a general overarching theme. Another challenge I faced, was trying to come up with images to support the quotations or binary opposite I had created. Within my quotations, I attempted to focus on underlying themes that could easily be visualized using some sort of symbol or image. This is how I was able to come to the conclusion of using a fence, private property sign, and peace sign, as they coordinated with the themes within my quotes.

Calculus 12 Core Competency Self- Reflection

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This is one of my online booklets that I used to do questions in preparation for the derivatives test. Before both my first limits test, and this derivatives test i would go back and redo many of the in class questions for that unit on my own, to practice the different techniques. Memorization won’t help, because I need to understand the concept or method in order to be able to replicate it properly. Each day i do my homework for that day, and as my homework session goes on i begin to notice that there’s less of me guessing and more of me understanding what to do. Before testing periods, I get very stressed as I usually tend to think of the worst that could happen, but this is exactly why I study because I use it to ensure that I know exactly what I’m talking about and that I know all the material that is being taught. That is my coping mechanism, and it always works. This is something that I have learned about myself over the years, and obviously studying is something that I plan to do for all my future classes. but one thing that I find very annoying is that I do not have many time management skills and often times try to concentrate all my studying in one session. I would like to grow in this area because I feel like studying it all in one day is not a good idea because I’m more likely to forget everything, rather than remember it for longer. My limits and precal 12 knowledge is pretty much entirely gone, so I think i need to find a better way of studying that inolves continuous revision over several days prior the test so that It stays in my head for longer and that I’m not rushing to cram it in one day, it’s very intensive.

Core Competency Self Assessment

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Should our criminal justice system be more punitive or rehabilitative? Why?

I think our criminal justice system should be more rehabilitative than punitive. Rehabilitation just generally seems like a better route because it can still serve the purpose as a punishment but can allow the offender for a more seamless integration back into society. The offender can be placed in prison as a punishment for their crime, but also be given the chance to prove they are reformed/get access to rehabilitation programs so that they eventually feel remorse for their actions and can be placed back into society, whereas punishment would not allow for such “makeup”. Additionally, if the offender has not been reformed and is still likely to commit crimes after rehabilitation, it is not necessary for those inmates to be let out. They can be deemed as high risk offenders and kept within prisons to protect society from themselves. Punishment does not allow for the flexibility to be offered a second chance, to prove your remorse and guilt while still being held responsible; it jumps straight to the responsibility.

I can analyze evidence to make judgements, as was demonstrated within my OJ. Simpson assignment from the start of the course. In that assignment, I had to interpret multiple pieces of evidence and use them to make an educated judgement as to if Simpson was guilty or innocent. However, I still had to argue for both sides so while I wasn’t set into one judgement after analyzing the evidence, I was able to use evidence to support my arguments which played into my judgements as both a prosecutor and defense attorney for Simpson.

Brain Disorder Story Assignment Reflection

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I demonstrated the communication core competency throughout this assignment as I had to communicate with my partner in many aspects. Specifically, during the assignment we had to come up with a storyline for our character to follow, so while I still came up with ideas on my own, I still encouraged my partner to voice his opinions and I valued his ideas. I also simply worked together with him to finish the goal, which was completing the assignment.

Another core competency I demonstrated was the thinking competency. During the project I was able to form new ideas for how the story should progress and where the character should see, what pieces of information should be in the subtitles or within the speech bubbles. Also, I was able to act on the ideas from my partner when he proposed any new changes to the story lines, speech bubbles,

Research Assignment Reflection

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A core competency I demonstrated within the research assignment project, was the communication competency. Obviously within the group assignment I collaborated with my group members, and encouraged them to share their opinions on what questions we should be asking, as well as agreeing on one that satisfied all of us.

A personal/social core competency for me is that I can identify my strengths as a person, as I was able to easily put together the form and format in a way to separate the responses into categories for easily accessible information, and put the information into excel to present our appendix in an effective manner.

As for the thinking competency, I was able to interpret the data within our google forms and organize some of that data within our excel spreadsheet. The combination of both the results of the forms and the spreadsheet allowed me to read between the lines and analyze the evidence in order to properly write our conclusion.

Electronics 11 Clock Reflection

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Within this project I learned how there are many different types of connections. This particular clock used a connection that simply had a flat metal connector on the board rather than an actual pin I had never seen that before.

a skill that I didn’t necessarily learn, but improved upon was my soldering skills . Due to the close nature of all the pins, especially those of the mini processor, I really had to improve my soldering skills so that I could get the right amount of solder on to make sure it didn’t infuse with the other pins.

something that went well was designing the case. I designed the case right on the first try except I did accidentally assemble it wrong. However it did end up having the right dimensions so it worked out once I figured out how to assemble it.

something I would do different is probably do another case. This case worked well because of the bone but it had weird proportions and I would’ve wanted to try another case that did not have a hinge and instead just h a open top that I could attach the clock to.

English 11 Poetry Reflection

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The overall purpose of my poem was to illustrate how important my water bottle is in my everyday life. With my poem, I was a little bit torn between my audience being simply my teacher marking, or a group of teenagers or adults. I think my poem would still fit for both of the audiences. For most of my poem I sort of talked about how I would handle the water bottle in a game setting, although I did not specifically state it. I generally took inspiration on how’s my teammates felt during our football games, but I also could have related it to previous years when I played soccer. Instead of doing a simple poem that described the bottle like , “blue as a ocean,” I tried to relate it to an experience so that I could describe the sound and how the bottle worked since it was squeeze bottle. The sound and action of squeezing is what’s most important about that bottle, so I tried to create imagery using a scene during a game.

I was looking around my room for an object to write on and I couldn’t find anything, but I looked into my bag to grab my lunch and found my water bottle just underneath my lunch. I started to think of the 5 senses when I started to describe the bottle, but I started to focus more on the sound and squeeze attribute of the bottle. I don’t think there was any strategy in particular that helped, but I find walking around helps formulate ideas. I think something that is innovative about my poem is that I tried to put in a sport situation that illustrated the use and need of the bottle in that situation. I think for next time maybe I could try and emphasize more on the sports part of the imagery, because I never mentioned anything specifically about sports other than a subtle mention of my pads in the first line. Because of this, the reader may get the wrong idea and the poem will cause them to visualize something different.

Core Competency Self Assessment to

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One of my strengths is that I can easily summarize information I might find online or in sources that I use to complete an assignment. In this assignment I searched online and went through my notes to be able to quickly summarize each definition and complete the assignment. I was also able to quickly able to find accurate diagrams or examples of the weathering by searching for Key terms on the internet, and I was also able to collaborate with my neighbour to share ideas and ping pong off each other to be able to get the assignment done in the most efficient matter.

Tech leadership Communication competency self assessment

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Course planning website

The course planning website is an activity that I partook in which made use of the Communication core competency.(I’m not sure how I would present this in this post so heres a picture.)


During the planning process for the course we were bouncing slot of ideas off other people. I was able to listen to other peoples ideas and respond accordingly by giving constructive criticism on why certain aspects of the idea were not best suited for the website. At a point, all that were working on the website were in a call and we were able to delegate tasks through a group chat made for those working on the website. Through the group chat we effectively communicated with each other and posted deadlines and communicated to make sure we were on schedule. I voiced my ideas pretty well, by giving insightful suggestions as to why my idea could be good but also by posing pros and cons.

For next time I think we could maybe be a little more streamlined and meet together every so often to get verbal confirmation because even though we used a group chat, we couldn’t tell if everyone had actually read everything and is up to speed. Also, maybe it would’ve been a good idea to have a few people in charge of leading the whole operation because we sort of just had random people putting things in the group chat.

Core competency self assessment- Geography

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Collaborating

In this project one of my strengths was to separate tasks between my partner and I in order to efficiently get through the assignment while still taking in information. I was also able to recognize my partners different view points on some of the concepts for within the assignment and was able to agree on one point or communicate to take the best of both worlds. We both were able to do our jobs effectively.


I don’t believe within this assignment there were collaborative weaknesses on my part. The project was done in advance of the given time frame, it was done to the best of my ability and throughout the project we were able to collaborate on ideas and principals regarding the project. Perhaps in the future I can work with someone else in order to really put my collaborative skills to the test, as my partner for this project has been someone I have been comfortable working with for years.

In the future I hope to continue to effectively collaborate within group settings by reminding myself of competencies and ensuring that I respond properly to others’ ideas, delegate responsibilities, and make sure everyone does their part,