Category Archives: Core Competencies

Music Monday “LAND” Map Assignment: Self- Assessment 

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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.

Physical Geography Core Competency Self-Assessment

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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

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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.

social justice core competency self reflection

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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

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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.

Favorite Recipe

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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

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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.

Favorite Recipe

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waffles

Making and Sharing Reflection

For this lab we had to work collaboratively with our group members; We had two members of the group making crapes while the other two made the waffles. During this lab we had to also collaboratively work together by assigning role, and working together on certain aspects of the food making process. We as a group chose who did what by using the “dibs” style of assigning. Quite simply one group dips the waffles and the other took the crapes. Then we all worked together on the topping.

Core Competency reflection

As an active listener I have noticed that during the demos the day before our teacher usually gives us all the answers for our recipe sheets.

Examples of where I communicate clearly and purposely can be seen, while we prep before the cooking starts. During the cooking process communicating what has gotten done and what still needs to be completed, and if we have followed the instructions correctly.

One way I ensure my group is clear on communication is before we start cooking we have a conversation about whos doing what and when it should all be done.

I know my group members are all working well together when there is silence and everybody knows exactly what to do.