English 10 Core Competency Self-Assessment

Creative Thinking

In this project, I had to use a lot of creative thinking to write poems. Reading poems about a similar topic helped inspire me while coming up with ideas for my own. Sometimes I took inspiration from things around me and in nature to write my poems. My poems included the 5 senses in them to appeal to the reader and make the connect with the poem more. Researching poems and literary devices really helped me create my own poems. Doing this inspired me and also made me a better poet. When I was writing a poem it didn’t go the way I planned it to because it didn’t rhyme, but that inspired me to change it into something completely different and better. Learning about things that interest me often inspires me. For example, while doing this project I was learning about different literary devices this inspired me to write some of my poems. In conclusion, I use poems to express my creative thinking by getting inspiration.

English 10 Core Competency Self-Assessment

Communication through a group project

Atticus Body Biography from To Kill a Mockingbird

My partner and I effectively communicated in order to finish our project. In order to communicate while we weren’t at school we would text each other while working on our project. We each took two pages home to work on so our rolls would be even. We had in detail discussions about how to colour our project so it would look cohesive and there would be no misunderstandings. We were friends before the project, so I knew that we work together well. The only time we disagreed was over the colours. It was a small disagreement and we were able to solve it quickly. Overall, we were able to communicate to finish the project and make it successful.