Life Saving Measures

when the VGH nurse came in she focused lots on the effects of vaping and alcohol. The main takeaway I have from her presentation was about how we are or getting to the age where you want to try new things and most of us are almost at the legal age. Many people around us at school vape on a daily basis and learning about the effects on what it does to your body and mental health has made me absolutely never want to try it. During her presentation she went in depth about what happens when you drink too much and how your body just shuts down. Being educated on how to take care of people who have drank too much was super insightful and a useful thing to know about.

Critical and Reflective Thinking Competency Reflection

I can analyze my own beliefs and confused views that do not fit with them. I do this by not judging anyone for what they do or try. I am pretty against vaping but I wouldn’t ever not be friends with someone because they do or tried it. My personal beliefs and preferences shouldn’t and don’t reflect on anyone else’s decision making. Obviously if it started to be an issue I would help to try and guide that friend in the right direction.

Reflecting on English Studies 12

My Artifact

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Curricular Competency Reflection

The skills I was developing in my podcast was the skill of reading out loud. Usually I am shy when it comes to reading any text out loud much less my own writing. I exceeded my own expectation with reading my script because I wrote about some tough situations I’ve had to deal with in the past six years. I am extremely proud of how I wrote my script with discussing these important, difficult issues and the flow that my podcast had. During English Studies 12 I have really improved on my ability to write essays or paragraphs incorporating texts from different articles. I’ve drastically improved on my paragraph leads, hooks and conclusions. I will continue to work on my skills of writing essays to prepare me for next year at College!

Core Competency Reflection

In discussions and conversations, I help to build and extend understanding by using quotes from external resources and artifacts to support my argument or topic. I demonstrated this from when we did debates and in many group discussions.

An example of where I took a significant risk in my thinking, or the expected process was when i wrote my poem. It was an extremely personal poem which was hard for me to write which worked out in the end with the grade I received.

My Grandmother’s Love Letters: Poetry in Voice Reflection

My Poem

There are no stars tonight

But those of memory.

Yet how much room for memory there is

In the loose girdle of soft rain.

There is even room enough

For the letters of my mother’s mother,

Elizabeth,

That have been pressed so long

Into a corner of the roof

That they are brown and soft,

And liable to melt as snow.

Over the greatness of such space

Steps must be gentle.

It is all hung by an invisible white hair.

It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air.

And I ask myself:

“Are your fingers long enough to play

Old keys that are but echoes:

Is the silence strong enough

To carry back the music to its source

And back to you again

As though to her?”

Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand

Through much of what she would not understand;

And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof

With such a sound of gently pitying laughter.

Curricular Competency Reflection

I chose the poem “My Grandmother’s Love Letters” by Hart Crane because, I am very close with both of my grandmas. I can really resonate with this poem because I love hearing about my grandma’s stories from when they were young, before I was born. “My Grandmother’s Love Letters” is about Hart Crane finding his grandmothers letters from when she was young and him getting a different view on his grandma’s life before he knew her.

The best-in-class activities that helped me be the most prepared to present was when we got with a partner, read our poems and the partner would create actions to the prompts in the poem.

Other than what we did in class, when I was at home, I would be getting ready for school or about to fall asleep and be listening to the recording of myself reciting the poem to make myself more prepared.

Creating the paragraph write about “My Grandmother’s Love Letters” helped me get a deeper understanding of the poem. When presenting it helped me with my tone of voice because I could understand the type of tone the poem was written in.

Core Competency Reflection

I appreciate feedback on my schoolwork and prefer it comes in the form of a teacher telling me what to work on.

I can contribute to and work with criteria to improve my own work; evidence of that is when we did our first in class write I didn’t have a strong topic sentence, after doing our in-class workshop, working on creating a strong topic sentence i feel much more confident with it.

In discussions and conversations, I help to build and extend understanding by collaborating and having conversations with my table groups around me.

Natural Selection Critical Thinking Self-Assessment

This picture was from the feeding frenzy lab, each group had to rotate between different “Environment” demonstrating survival of the fittest. Each person had a different tool to help them fill their stomachs in the environment. I had a fork which was really good in the noodle environment and very bad in the sugar environment. I was able to pick up all the noodles by twisting them in my fork and filling my stomach. I had to adapt to the sugar environment because the sugar was falling through the holes in the fork. i adapted by scooping up sugar and stabbing my opponents hands with the sharp fork. Stabbing my opponents gave me an advantage because it slowed them down so i was able to get more without them in the way. I demonstrated i can make predictions based on evidence when i would walk up to a new environment i knew who was going to fill their stomach. I was able to strategize my game plan if i knew i was going to succeed in the environment or not. By looking at the sugar environment i knew the chopsticks weren’t going to do well, the spoon would succeed the most so i would stab the person with the spoon.

Positive Learner Identity

Managing My Time

I chose time management because I fee I am very organized. I went on a ski trip for a week and once I got back I made a checklist of everything I needed to get done in my classes. I feel when I’m in class I always take my work out and get started as soon as possible.

Core Competency Reflection

“I can identify ways in which my strengths can help me meet challenges, and how my challenges can be opportunity for growth”. My strength would be being organized, it helps me prevent challenges like being overwhelmed with projects and homework.

Spanish Unit 6 test

Even though I got a low B on the Unit 6 test, I feel that was a great mark. I wasn’t feeling super confident going into the test. I studied a lot, got my homework done and worked with my classmates to achieve that grade. I did my test in the LEC room and I had a couple questions so when I came to see my teacher she gave me really good help to get a better understanding. 

Core Competency Goals

I appreciate feedback on my schoolwork and and prefer it comes from a teacher so I can get the best possible grade on what i am working on.

Because I know not doing my homework will have a negative impact on my schoolwork I make sure I do it to help reduce any problems.

How have you improved this year in? I have improved this year by getting all my homework done, being more prepared, and study days in advance for tests rather than just a night before.

English 10 Core Competency Assessment

Personal Social Core Competency

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This is my Poetry Book we did in English 10. I spent a lot of time doing this project. I chose the competency Personal and Social core competency and the i can statement “i can use strategies to help me find peace and sustain a healthy and balanced lifestyle”. I chose that i can statement because I have been very busy with soccer so I have been chipping away on the project for quite some time now to have a balanced school-sports lifestyle.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

Collaborating in CLE 10

I can confidently interact and build relationships with other group members to further shared goals. I did this buy collaborating with other people in the class, by asking them questions about how to make my zine better. Some people said it needed more colour, so I made the pages purple and white. Other people said it needed more pictures so I drew a picture on every page. I also got a couple people to proof read it. This is an important competency and can be used in everyday life with interacting with coworkers, bosses, teammates, coaches, teachers and classmates. Building relationships is very important because it makes the task more fun that needs to be competed. For example, on the soccer field being connected with your team creates a higher chance to win the game.

English 10 Core Competency Self-Assessment

Communication through a group project

My Artifact- To kill A Mocking Bird, Atticus Finch

I demonstrated the core competency “Communication” by communicating with my group members throughout the project. We collaborated our ideas together to create one common goal. We discussed and brain stormed ideas to make our project the best it could be. I felt I was a leader in the project. There were times where we had our own ideas and views on what we wanted our project to look like and what we wanted to write down. We persevered our way through the challenges and collaborated our ideas. I can take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share by staying on task and staying focused. I gave my group members different parts of the project we each can work on.