English 11 Poetry Reflection

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

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

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

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,