Music Monday “LAND” Map Assignment: Self- Assessment 

Curricular Response

For this assignment I chose the quotation “From California to the New York islands” because of the map I chose. I felt like it was appropriate since it was a physical map so I could put it crossing those two states in my map. I felt like it was fitting for the assignment because this didn’t just happen in one area of the United States of America. It happened everywhere. To support my quotation I chose to draw out a map with directions from California to New York. I felt like this drawing was the most accurate way to represent the quote.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

How did you select images and words to create meaning?  What this easy for you? Why or why not? 

When I was finishing this assignment I have a very hard time putting in drawings that would effectively and accurately support and create meaning for these extremely powerful quotations. I really tried to pick simple yet meaningful images to attempt to draw to help shed light of the quotations. Because these quotes have a extremely deep meaning that you have to really encode and thing about to get the true meaning of what the artist was trying to get across. I found I had a pretty difficult time doing this because I found my self constantly second guessing myself and thinking I wasn’t choosing the right image for it. When choosing quotations I chose quotes that I found stuck out to me and I thought would fit good on my map.

Favourite Recipe

Pasta Carbonara

Making and Sharing Reflection

Making – Identify appropriate tools, technologies, food sources, processes, and time needed for production

In this lab we used a number of different tools to complete it efficiently. We started off with a knife and cutting board, Then moved to a grader and micro plan; and lastly I used a pan and stove top. I used the pan and stove top to cooking the food carefully and well. The only technologies we used to complete it was the stove top. I used Mrs. Boils so it was electric. For this lab we used a number of different processes including, boiling water and cooking our pasta. checking for doneness or ” Al Dente”. Ensuring our meat was correctly and fully cooked. We also tempered the eggs with some boiling pasta water to make sure that the eggs where way less likely to fry, when we added them into the hot pan with pasta. The time needed for this project would definitely ideally 1 hour. 20 minutes for prep. and 40 for cooking all final dish.

Making- Use food materials in ways that minimize waste

To ensure we minimized waste we always used and ate all the food we where given. Not to mentioned ensured we used the most of the food as possible. That was we where putting less in the food waste. Another way we reduced our waste was putting our food scraps in the food waste and not the garbage. That was it is less likely to end up in the landfill and more likely to be positively recycled; And lastly we only took as much as we could eat. We didn’t take too much or too little we ensured before hand we discussed how hungry we where and what foods we liked/wanted in our dish. Having that conversation makes sure the dish is tailored to both people making the dish and both people will enjoy all ingredients in the dish.

Sharing- Decide how and with whom to share finished product Assess their ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaborative

In our class I shared this dish with the person I made it with ( my partner). After we finished our dish we sat down at our table together and ate our food together. Personally I think we worked pretty well together. We made sure we where communicating constantly, and we made sure we told each other when and what we where doing. That way everything we needed to do was done and we where aware of all of it. Individually I did fairly well. I ensured all the tasks I was given were done efficiently and correctly that way we would have the best success for the dish as possible.

Core Competency Reflection

Examples of where I communicated clearly and purposefully can be see in…..

When Doing the lab I ensured before we started we communicated who likes what food, what food we wanted in our dish and what way/ways we would cut up the foods. We also discussed how to cook each food. Next after that we communicated who was going to do what task and when that task was to be done. After that when we started cooking we made sure where where communicating what we where doing, and when we where doing. And what we have finished. That way we where both aware of what was done and what still needed to be done.

If the group is not being productive, we can …… in order to make sure we get things moving in the right direction.

If things are taking longer then anticipated we can start helping each other out. For example, if someone is taking longer doing the cutting you can either help them out with any other they have left, or start the cleaning prep. What I mean by this is, if they are cutting peppers and have 1 left you can always jump in and help them cut that last pepper to move things on. Or start pre rinsing the dishing’s, wiping down the counter top, or even take the food waste to the food waste bin.

Physical Geography Core Competency Self-Assessment

Communication

For my Core Competency I have chosen “communication” because I feel that this project was all about communication. During this project I felt that using communication was key; when working on my project I had to communicate to Ms. Razzell when I was unclear on a question or if my information was useful in that sub category. This project was also a group project so my partner and I had to communicate throughout the who process. When we where researching if one where to find the particularly good video or website we would make sure to tell each other just encase the page had information the other needed. If we where to find information that we thought would benefit the other we would ensure to share it with each other a and post the website just to make sure we are sharing and developing ideas. I think that this core competency was a key aspect of this project because we had to pick a country for move4manna then communicate to the class why we think our country should receive these food packages. My partner and I also worked together to educate the class on why DRC was in desperate needs of the food packages and how we needed to communicate to the move4mann committee that even through Canada has helped then they still need help and we could help them.

Ethical judgement

My partner and I both developed our ethical judgment skills during this project because we had to used ethical judgment throughout our whole project. We had to comb through information on the biggest and latest natural disasters and use our judgment to determine what was the most detrimental and what the class needed to hear about. We couldn’t choose lightly we had to ensure all our information was correct and that it would help the country. To ensure all information was helpful and relevant we used ethical judgment to edit our project. In the future I would zoon more in on the ethical impact of the kids. During our project we really focused on natural hazards, food, government and war aspects and just brushed off the the children’s aspect. I feel if we focused in on the children’s aspect we DRC would have received the move4manna food packets. In our project we didn’t really consider the social economic aspect for the DRC.I feel like in the future this is the area we could most definitely improve on. For the most part I believe we included all the other aspects.

Physical Geography Core Competency Self-Assessment

Creative Thinking

During the project “Island Trip Project” I was able to actively display the core competency of creative thinking. For this project we had to creatively make our own topographic map of an island and make creative places on it. I harnessed my creativity when I drew out my island and while I took the time to name out all aspects of my city and all the peaks of my mountains. During this project I developed my creativity skills by looking up topographic maps online and critically think how I could improve my map from a creative stand point.

Core competencies Book

communication

I asked and responded to questions to be an active supportive listener when my partner and I where discussing what to do and how to do it

I can understand and share my information about the topic of interest in a clear, organized way. When you read my story it is organized and you know exactly what its about.

I inquire into and present on the topics on interest and topics related to my studies. I showed this when I elaborated into my story and added more information into the topic.

collaborating

I work with others to achieve this goal. I worked with my partner effetely while completing this project.

I take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share. During my project we assigned who did what and I completed my share in a timely fashion.

I encourage others to share their voices and value diverse prospective. I encouraged my partner to voice her opinions and concerns during the whole project.

positive personal and cultural identity

I can identify my strengths and identify my potential. I understood the fact that I cannot draw for the life of me so i asked my partner to draw and I took on extra work to compensate for that.

personal awareness and responsibility

I can show a sense of accomplishment and joy. I take pride in my work and myself. I was super proud of my work and showed pride when handing it in.

I work to inform myself about issues surrounding me. I took on this project to learn more about an mental illness I found interesting.

creative thinking

I can form new ideas to create new things. I can also build on ideas of others. My partner and I built ideas off of each other and I formed ideas on my own to create our story.

I can preserve over time to develop my ideas, and expect setbacks and failures, but use that to develop my ideas. If my idea in the book didn’t work out I would try to build off of it and find another new idea to make the story even better.

critical and reflective thinking

I can analyze evidence to make judgments. I used the information on the internet to make it into an interesting story.

I can reflect on my thinking. What I’m currently doing.

I can ask open-ended questions to gather information. I asked the teacher questions to better my understanding in what we where doing.

social justice core competency self reflection

Collaborating

during the project “60s scoop gallery walk focus” I used collaboration to complete the assignment. During the duration of this assignment my partner I collaborated on many things, after we assigned who would do what and how we should show the class our work. After we establish that we collaborated again on how we should showcase our findings and after we came to the conclusions to use a pamphlet layout and we began to fill it out. As we went on we solved problems together and figured everything out as one. This is a significant core competency because it shows people how to collaboratively work together and give you skill you could use in the work place later in life.

Research Assignment Reflection

During the research assignment I used communication while

I asked and responded to questions to be an active and supportive listener during the beginning stages of our projects. During the start my partner and I would bounce ideas off each other till we found our end idea.

in Collaboration I

I worked to achieve our goal, during the start of this project I worked hard to do my share of the work and work hard on it to get us a good grade. I take on roles and responsibility’s in our group, I do my share, at the start we looked through our assignment and assigned ourselves equal roles in the project to give the most amount of success. I encouraged others to share their voices and value diverse perspectives, I always asked my partners opinion and we had a collaborative conversation to talk about what to use and do.

in personal awareness and responsibility I

advocated for myself, during the completion process I advocated for what I wanted to do.

Core Competency Goals

I show that I value feedback from others in my group by while they speak listening engaging and giving eye contact then engaging in the conversation.

An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is when we are given a project and the teacher shows us examples and shows us what others have done in the past then asking around seeing what others have decided to do to complete the task.

An example of something I have spent a lot of time learning about is psychology because it is a very difficult course to navigate through.

Favorite Recipe

Lemon Arugula Spaghetti Casio e Pepe

Making and Sharing Reflection

During this lab we 2 separate tools to create this flavorful dish. We started off by cooking our noodles in lightly salted water, and then started the other cooking processes in a large cast iron skillet. For this dish little goes a long way. A little bit of a good quality food truly goes miles. to really enhance the dish use real parm and fancy bacon. Just adding those two ingredients make the dish that much better. For this dish time is a critical aspect of the cooking process. You really need to be causes of the time so you don’t over cook anything. this dish takes very little to mess up. personally i would share this dish with a family friend. I chose this person because she’s Italian and really enjoys food and experimenting. she also find so much joy in watching me cook and explore the culinary world.

Core Competency Reflection

Examples of where I communicate clearly and purposefully can be seen in… When I ask my peers questions when i am unsure of what to do. I also actively ask the teacher questions when I’m unsure of a task or step during or before a lab.

While working in the kitchen, I help to build and extend understanding by… watching the suggested videos before beginning the lab. as well as asking questions as needed and reading and re reading the recipe to make sure i fully understand the recipe before I start the prep and cooking.

One of the ways I ensure my group is clear on the common purpose is to… before the lab begins reviewing the recipe as a group . Then asking questions to insure everyone is clear on what the task at hand is; Shortly followed by the assigning of tasks. Then after we establish who does what we make sure everyone is prepped and ready to begin.

English 11 Poetry Reflection

My Poem ” strawberry ”

This is a poem about my favorite fruit, strawberry’s named “strawberry”

Curricular Competencies Reflection

The purpose of my poem was to try and display my love for strawberries, by making them come to life and give them a story. I wrote this poem with Ms. Khokhar in mind, as she assigned this project for us to complete. I chose Strawberries because it’s one of my favorite summer fruits, and I grew up eating them, and going to farms to buy them all through the 2000s. I planned this poem with one thing in mind, I really liked the idea of having the words ” A strawberry” at the beginning of every sentence in my poem. From there I used that to develop my poem and fraise the sentences. Next, I used imagery senses to help bring the strawberries to life. I used it describe the berry itself and what famers do to the berries.

Creative Thinking Core Competency Reflection

I choose the topic of my poem after Ms. Khokhar mentioned favorite fruit or veggie, right after she said fruit I knew exactly what I was going to do. I formed my ideas after getting a general idea of what I wanted my poem look like, for example the ” A strawberry” then I developed my ideas off of that. I utilized strategies by trying my best to go in depth with the descriptions and trying my best to build off of other ideas I had.