私はあかるくしゃこうてきです。でも、おとなしくもまじめでもありません。おしゃれだという人もいます。かぞくは私をあたまがいいとよんでいますが、おとなしいはありません。私は時々シャイになることができます。人は私をへんだといいますが、ほかの人は私をおもしろいといいます。
私はながいちゃいろのかみをしていてへいきんよりせがたかいです。私はメガネをきる。足がながくてどうがみじかい。
私はひまなときにスポーツをします。私もひまなときはねてます。ひまなときにおんがくをきくのが好きです。
私ははやく食べることができます。私ははやくはしれるし、はやく食べられる。私はかがくを行うことができます。
When researching what animal 星占い I am in Japan, I discovered that I am a sheep. The description of the sheep was, for the most part, correct. However, the definition also mentioned that anyone who is a sheep is creative and is good at expressing themselves via creativity. I strongly disagree with this, as I never once considered myself creative. As for 血液型, I completely agree with the videos and information I have seen about the stereotypes of different blood types. I am O-, which is known in Japan to be generally optimistic, born leaders, realistic, and not afraid to take charge in a situation to set the tone. Other sources say that people with blood type O are generous and curious, but stubborn. Again, I agree with these remarks because my family and some friends and teachers consider me curious but stubborn. I have been judged by my horoscope for being a virgo both online and in real life. Because I was born in September, people automatically think that I am fussy, critical, picky and a perfectionist. Although this is all true, I don’t believe that everyone who was born in September acts like the stereotypes say they do. I have a neutral feeling to being judged based on my horoscope because I don’t think too deeply about the meaning behind the fortunes, nor do I believe in them. I think fortunes like these are still popular today because people need a sense of belonging and reason. As humans, our brains like organisation and simple answers By having stereotypes that rule out personalities of people just based off what month and year they were born in, what blood type they are, or what fortune you draw from a fortune cookie, our brains can organize people into the “correct” groups. For the most part, I don’t believe many superstitions that give “大吉” or “凶 .” I believe that everything in life is what you make it; with one exception: unless the fortune means good things for me. If the fortune I receive is in favour of my future, I will be more inclined to believe it. This does not mean that I would pay fifty dollars to get my palm read, though. 🙂
Others find my feedback useful because along with giving feedback, I give possible plans or solutions on how to improve an area I have given feedback on. My peers can take my feedback into consideration and hopefully grow with a perspective from an outside source. Throughout the rest of this semester, I will continue with providing my peers with feedback that can help build skills and improve certain areas in their academic careers. My goal is to help as many people reach their potential as possible.
As an active listener, I notice that I ask a broad range of questions, often regarding topics that my teacher may have to think critically to answer. Many times my teachers have said how I ask uncommon questions that demonstrate a higher level of thinking and responding when it comes to lessons in class. This semester, I would like to continue asking such questions to continue demonstrating avid listening skills. My goal for this semester is to learn how to improve my articulation skills and ask questions that are relevant and that make sense.
The ways I communicate at school differ from how I communicate at work in these ways:
-being sophisticated at work vs. casual at school
-using more Eq potential at work rather than Iq potential at school
-at work I must articulate and think about what I am going to say next, as what I say will reflect how well I work and communicate in both school and work
I would like to have a more effective way of communicating both in and out of school and work. This will help with job searches in my future and overall performance.
Before P.E., I usually feel unenergetic. I feel this way today as well.
When I am sad, angry or frustrated, lifting heavy weights helps me be more productive and calm. Working out releases hormones like endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine neurotransmitters that correspond with feeling of sadness, anger, pain and anxiety. These effects help with sleep, mood, senses, appetite and overall well-being. Some of the things I do to stay mentally and physically healthy include eating healthy, no processed foods or foods with high sugar contents, and working out 4+ times a week. Eating healthy and staying fit makes me feel better and improves my appetite. I feel accomplished after a healthy meal or a hard workout. Some of my preferred strategies for maintaining a healthy, balanced lifestyle include no diets – most of them don’t last and people end up binge eating – cutting meal sizes, eating more vegetables and clean proteins like chicken and fish with Omega 3 fatty acids, drinking lots of water, and supplementing pure fibre for digestion and feeding good stomach bugs.
I can tell the difference between facts and opinions. I can decipher between the two by doing my own research.
I give, receive, and act on feedback to progress in my goals. I appreciate every time I get feedback from coaches or teacher about how to improve my techniques. I utilize the opinions and suggestions to accomplish my goals.
I demonstrate respectful, inclusive behaviour by including people who appear to be left out and always speak to people with the same level of respect I believe I deserve.
I take action to support diversity and defend human rights. I am more than willing to stick up for a classmate when I hear judgements being made about their personal beliefs, looks, ideas or opinions while still remaining respectful. Everybody has the right to be treated equally.
This unit helped me learn about irony, allusion, and satire by experiencing it through the TV show, The Simpsons. Subconsciously, I reacted to the ironic situations in the show. For example, Homer in one scene says, “Everyone is stupid except for me”. This is ironic because while he said that, he was drinking alcohol and reading “Playdude” -allusion to Playboy- magazines. This show was also very satirical with its references to reality and the problems of today’s society. With the incorporation of dark humour in every episode, the real meaning behind some of society’s problems are revealed. Many references have been made throughout the course of the series that refer to things we have in reality. For example, the reference of Scooby Doo was made in an episode where a police officer says “Meddling kids”. This is an example of alliteration. I expressed my ideas about the series in a well-structured paragraph. I used tactics like removing extra words to make my essay less but more. I also used underlining when it came to the title of the show and quotations for the episode titles. I used my notes from each episode we watched to provide examples straight from the show to further express my ideas.
I can contribute to and work with criteria to improve my own work; evidence of that is by using specific examples and quotes straight from the book to explain my ideas thoroughly. With help from Mr. Cook’s feedback, I have learned what his expectations are and how to improve my writing according to his specific criteria.
I remain open minded as I explore viable options or alternative approaches, like when I learned new words in Mr. Cook’s class, I incorporate them into every piece of work I hand in to appropriately describe my thoughts. I am always looking for feedback to improve my writing and I am also always open to learning new approaches presented by Mr. Cook to make my writing more grammatically correct.
I have valuable ideas to share about like how irony, satire, and allusion are all incorporated into The Simpsons and do so by using examples and text from the show to relate my ideas.
A titration is a technique used in chemistry to determine the concentration of certain substances. This is done by adding to the measured sample an exact known molarity to a solution with an unknown concentration. An indicator, in this case phenolphthalein, is used to signal the completion of the reaction. The concentration can then be quantitatively determined. During any acid-base titration, the reaction will always include the neutralization between aqueous hydrogen and hydroxide ions. These ions come together to for neutral water molecules.
The titration process in this lab was used to figure out when the number of moles of acid equals the number of moles of base, the equivalence point. In this lab, we figured out that the equivalence point was when the acid, HCl, turned the lightest shade of pink possible and sustained the colour for thirty seconds when base, NaOH, was added. This light shade of pink that had to linger for at least thirty seconds also marked when the end point of the titration was reached.
The results of our lab are as follows:
Moles of NaOH: 0.00145
Moles of HCl: 0.00145
Concentration of [HCl]: 0.145
Some strategies my partner and I concocted to solve and overcome a problem were to ask those around us. By asking other students who were comfortable with the lab procedure, we did not waste our given three questions. Another strategy we used was critical thinking. If something did not make sense and seemed like it did not line up, we thought through our steps and referred back to our notes and the lab procedure to guide us through our mistakes. We measured everything to best of our ability including accuracy, recording and analyzing. By thorough examination of our results, our conclusions were as accurate as possible. We made the decision to keep everything precise and start at 0.00 mL when we added our base into the buret to make the end calculations as easy as possible. The feedback we received from our teacher, Ms. Borges, was helpful when it came to minor confusions. From her advice, we changed the way we went through our procedure and everything ran smoothly in the end. For next time, I would have like to get more comfortable with half-dropping the base into the acid in the E. flask. I thought the colour was perfect in the end, as it stayed a light shade of pink for thirty seconds.
Overall, I think this lab was successful for both my partner and I.
The Japanese Canadians should not be put into internment camps. The Japanese Canadians who live in Canada are not to blame for Japan’s attacks against Canada and their neighbour, America. One reason why the Japanese residents of Canada should not be put into internment camps is the cost. The cost of the camps will put a major dent in the government’s pocket that we cannot afford in the current state of the economy with the threat of an increasingly dangerous and expensive World War Two emerging. Think about all the accommodation costs, price of manpower to guard, and possible lawsuits that will result from putting the Japanese in the internment camps. Along with the cost of the camps, they will violate many human rights such as “innocent until proven guilty”. Most Japanese Canadians have done nothing to acquire a “guilty” title, in fact, the R.C.M.P has found no evidence of Japanese Canadians being disloyal or untrustworthy. Furthermore, nobody has proof that there are spies among the Japanese Canadian residents, and they should be treated fairly and equally, as they have done no wrong to Canada.
Core Competency Reflection Checklist:
✅ I did ask and respond to questions to be an active and supportive listener.
✅ I now understand and can appreciate diverse perspectives on issues and can resolve problems effectively and responsibly.
✅ I did analyze evidence from the research I did and made judgements.
Curricular Competency Reflection Checklist:
✅ I did assess, understood, and explained the significance of the threat of the Japanese army and its treatment of people it conquered, in British Columbia, in my research handout and paragraph.
✅ I did assess and explained the justification for different views of Japanese Canadian internment in my research handout and paragraph.
✅ I made an ethical judgement about the action of internment the Japanese Canadians in my paragraph.
My book was You by Caroline Kepnes, Chelsea’s book was Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan, and Liam’s book was Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. We all enjoyed them but I think we all could have done without reading them in the end. We had lots to reflect on and we could all think in depth about the storyline and how our authors came up with the ideas for our books. They were all really good books overall.
2. How did you feel about working with a group? Did you make the work equal? Was it more trouble than a benefit?
I usually do not like working in a group because I always end up doing all the work but this time I didn’t mind working with a group because we split the work equally more or less and it was overall a fun project. I knew Chelsea from previous classes and Liam was fun to work with. We made the work equal with me doing the recording and summary, Chelsea doing the editing, and Liam doing the opening.
3. What was your takeaway from the project?
My takeaway from the project was learning how to create a proper podcast and how to talk to people in a way that flows and that doesn’t sound awkward. I think I understand why Mr. Purdy assigned this project. It was for us to work with others and practice reviewing books and other people’s opinions in a discussion. He also made this assignment to make us get comfortable with each other in the class and have fun with a more entertaining and active assignment.
4. How was the use of technology in this project? Who did what when it came to the tech elements?
I liked the technology in this project. I have always been familiar with the voice recording app on Apple products so this assignment was not hard for me on the technology side of things. I’d say the only challenging part of this project was editing the recording and having trouble sending it and saving it as a video. Chelsea did most of the tech, but when I tried to help, I made it more complicated. Overall, the technology wasn’t hard to use and we all got the hang of it sooner or later.
Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, uses the fight scene between Edward and Jim in order to show that Edward’s life is not all guns and roses. This scene was also a foreshadowing to the second to last scene where Edward and Jim fight again, Edward winning. When Tim Burton used the low angles and close-ups, along with the shot-reverse-shots, it made the scene much more suspenseful. For example, when Jim was on top of Edward, punching him, the camera was close up on Jim, showing his anger and hate. The shot-reverse-shot back to Edward showed us that he was frightened and had to do something before Jim killed him. The low key lighting in this scene was emphasizing the sad or scared mood one might feel while watching this scene. The theme of this scene and the whole movie overall was that life is not always perfect, but don’t judge things or people on first appearances.
My rendition of Edward Scissorhands shows the low key lighting and the camera angles along with close-ups of the characters to show us what they are feeling or trying to portray a message onto those of us watching. This was in order to get us to connect to the movie and make us feel certain emotions.
The use of camera angles, framing, lighting, cinematic and non-cinematic music made it so that you could see characters from different perspectives. The low key lighting fit very well into this movie to show the different aspects of different scenes. It made certain scenes darker which also impacted all the other techniques that come into making a movie. In essence, you can really tell that Edward was misunderstood and he was afraid of people not liking him. His whole life he never had a sense of love which made him awkward around others until Kim came along and started loving him.
I enjoyed using Storyboard That for the reason of being able to input creativity into your projects. Quite often, the website glitched and I could not move certain people or objects on the screen. Regardless of the glitches, this website was easy to use and to figure out different techniques to make your projects better.
This is my Digital Footprint Article. Made on word.
I know that my digital footprint can have both positive and negative consequences, including sharing of personal information, ruined relationships, getting in trouble with work, school and family, rumors, bullying, missed job opportunities and self-insecurities. So, I adjust my actions to keep away from trouble and possibly damaging my future.
Some of my preferred strategies for maintaining a healthy, balanced online presence include not being online for too long, thinking before I post something, having limits and keeping busy offline.
By helping my friends online with homework, due dates, personal issues and posting funny and lighthearted videos on my social media, I make a positive difference to my peers.