French 12 Core Competency

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Communication and Collaboration

In French, we were told to create a cooking video using our vocab from the section we were learning. Lance and I chose to make cinnamon rolls. Lance and I used communication to be able to create the script correcting mistakes and fixing them together. We collaborated when baking the cinnamon rolls we both split the workloads so neither of us were just sitting around, we also collaborated when doing the speaking part of the video making sure we both had equal lines. In the end, Lance and I worked well together and we finished our assignment with no issue.

Collaboration Core Competency – Chemistry 11

For my core competency I’ve chosen my labs, during labs I had to collaborate with different classmates on how to do our lab together and be able to complete it. We would always discuss who would start with what during the lab so we wouldn’t accidentally overlap steps. If there was ever a mistake made we would try and figure it out together to make sure we all got our calculations right in the end.

Art Metal 12 Core Competency

Currently in my art metal 12 course I’m working on my “garden art”. This project has me working on my creative thinking skills because, I had to create a design for my garden art, cut out the pieces and work around any hardships I may have come across. The biggest issue I’ve come across while making this project is figuring out how to bend my metals and make sure it comes out how I want it to look. I think I’ve done a good job on the bending so far. it just took time mapping out the way I should bend it. I also had to work around the fact that we only have one di-acro bender in the class. A lot of the times I had to improvise when bending my project because my other classmates might’ve been using the bender. I’m proud of how my project is coming out and I’m hoping it looks even better when I’m finished with it. So far, I’m really proud of how cute my wall art has become.

Social Studies 11 Core Competency Self-Assignment

Communication

The core competency I chose to use is communication, most of the assignments we have are through partner work where I communicate with another one of my peers on the topic given. The cultural traits assignment I worked on with Lance had a lot of communication between us where we would talk about our ideas and would set in stone what we wanted to put down as our final answer. We were able to research together and finish the assignment with minimal disputes on anything. We showed evidence with photos for the elements of culture and added explanations that showed how it represents Canadian culture.

Core Competency Goals

The ways I communicate at school differ from how I communicate at – volleyball practice because, I’m afraid to voice my own opinions in fear that I’ll get judged by my peers. It has always been a struggle for me to express what I’m thinking because I overthink situations. I also tend to feel uncomfortable in many social interactions at school. However, when I’m on the court all my thoughts go away, and I feel more myself. This year I’m going to try to speak out more and engage myself in conversations/

I used to think nobody would have the same questions I have and now I know someone in the room could be thinking the same as me because I – have learned that most of us are learning new subjects together so, not everyone will be aware of what the teacher may be saying and by asking the questions I may be helping out others in my class as well. This year I’m going to try and ask the questions I have during lessons because even if it doesn’t help other people in the class at least it will be helpful for me to have my question answered

Some of the things I do to stay mentally and physically healthy include – playing sports, taking walks and listening to music. One of the ways I’m able to get my mind mentally focused is by listening to music, music helps me tune out everything else that may be happening in my life. Playing sports also helps because I get really engaged into my sport since I’m really competitive. This year I plan on working out so when I’m out of sports I have something to keep my mind focused on what I’m doing rather than think about all the stressful components of my life.

Inductive and Deductive Exploration: Is Water Wet?

Questioning and Investigating: Critical and Reflective Thinkning

My conjuncture:

No, due to my opinions water is not wet

Supporting reasons:

Wetness is the ability of a solid having a liquid attach to it. (deductive)

You would have to put an object into water to determine if it’s really wet, you can’t put water inside more water and determine that it’s wet. (deductive)

Counter point:

If you think about it, ice is a product of water and ice is a solid so maybe? You can consider that wet.

Conclusion:

This topic is very controversial due to certain points given from both points of view, while others may believe water isn’t wet as well there are others who beg to differ and they have their own points to prove their view.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

Collaboration

During my Chromatography lab I demonstrated collaboration by working with a partner, despite the few disagreements we came across during this lab we both talked each and every argument out coming to a final decision with measurements and calculations. My partner and I both took responsibility of different jobs during this lab whether it was measuring the solvent to the solute travel distance or setting up the papers for our lab. Through our mistakes during this lab we managed to finish the assignment in time. We would help each other out when and if the other was confused over a question so we could assure our lab was done properly,

Independent Novel Study

Lucky in Love

The Writing Process

When reading this book, It was hard properly understanding the main theme of the book. I thought the theme of the book would be romance but, ended up realizing it was “coming of age” as the protagonist had to figure out all the life changing decisions she would need to make during the book and romance didn’t take much place until the end. It shocked me that this book wasn’t as enjoyable as I thought it would be, normally I would find romance books a good read but, since I was confused on what was happening during the book I personally didn’t enjoy it. Reading the book itself was easy for me, it was just finding time to read was hard due to a busy schedule. A part in the book I did enjoy was when Maddie found reason to gain back trust in the people she loved. it taught me that even if you feel that nobody is by your side, there is always someone standing beside you to support you. The least enjoyable part for me was when she figured out some of her friends had told the press about what she had been spending her money on. It just didn’t seem like their business to tell others what she chose to spend her winnings on.

Core Competency Reflection

I used to think presentations were the hardest thing to do in front of a group of peers and now I know it isn’t as hard as I thought it would be since when I was presenting it did not seem that many if any people were paying attention to the small mistakes I made while reading

The ways I communicate at school differs from how I communicate during sports, I tend to keep to myself when in a classroom setting which makes presenting harder for me but whenever I’m playing volleyball I tend to be the loudest one on the court.

A long term goal I have for myself is managing my time better and planning out my schedule better so I can get the most out of my work. Normally the second semester is the hardest time for me to focus on schooling because I’m always busy with sports and coaching so, I don’t have the time to squeeze my homework in as often and my work reflects that since I know I could do much better if I put more time in-to my work.

Final activity – What Makes Us Who We Are.

Broiled Pork Belly and Rice I really enjoy Broiled pork the tangy flavours of all the sauces and how the pork belly melts in your mouth. It was hard for me to make this dish because I have never cooked pork belly before so I was confused on how to know if it was cooked or not.

Steamed Egg. The steamed egg turned out better than I expected since when I had tried to make it before it didn’t come out silky smooth like I wanted it to. I feel like I could’ve added some sauces to make the egg taste less bland but, at least I know that for next time.

Chocolate cupcakes I really enjoy sweets so I chose to make chocolate cupcakes, my cupcakes were most and bittersweet which I absolutely loved. I had a bit of trouble with the ingredients because I couldn’t find vegetable oil so I had to use canola oil. It didn’t make any difference to the taste of my cupcakes so I was glad of that.