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.