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Advertisement Persuasion Project

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My Advertisement

Persuasion and Advertisement Unit Reflection

Provide a brief explanation of what the Hunger Games Advertisement Project is

The advertisement unit is where we made a product and an advertisement on it. For our presentation we presented the techniques we used in the advertisement to convince or persuade our audience to buy our product.

Why is it important to remember who benefits from the advertisement when you view an advertisement?

Knowing who benefits from the advertisement is important because it allows you to direct your advertisement towards your intended audience. You can make statements and claims that your audience may find interesting or useful.

Choose one form of persuasion and explain why it is effective in persuading you/an audience: logical, ethical, emotional on an audience

Using logical appeal is useful because it lets your audience learn facts about your product. When you give your audience a lot of facts, they are able to share your visions of the product clearly. The evidence you give makes it easier for the audience to understand and make decisions.

Choose an advertising technique and explain why it is effective in selling a product.

Card stacking is a technique used commonly in advertisements. It is a technique where the company only focuses on the positives about their product in an advertisement. This makes it seem that your product has no downsides and tricks the audience into not considering the flaws your product may have.

Core Competency Reflection

One strategy or activity that stimulated my imagination on this project was…

One strategy or activity that stimulated my imagination on this project was by getting inspiration from seeing what bigger companies do online. Seeing how others do it makes it easier for me to formulate ideas on my own advertisement, especially because the advertisements I look at are from bigger companies who have more experience then me.

My 2022/2023 Year

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Personal/social Reflection

My Grade 9 year was an amazing experience. The daily routine was very different from the ones in middle school, there are more people, and most importantly we have more freedom with our time. When I started this year I was nervous. I wanted to take a bunch of classes and meet tons of new people. I was able to do this and made a lot of friends.

This year I learnt many things from my teachers. I ended up trying and liking things I would have never expected myself to like. An example is science. When I decided to do science honors, I did not know what to expect. I did not think I would like the course very much since I had little interest in science when I was in middle school. The more learnt from the class and the more time I spent with my fellow peers, the more I enjoyed the course. This was only one of the many courses I got the privilege to enjoy in my grade 9 year.

I also enjoyed joining volleyball this year because it was my first club while coming to high-school. The experience was very well worth it and it is an event I will not forget.

“Volleyball Québec.” volleyball.qc.ca, https://www.volleyball.qc.ca/. Accessed 2 June 2023.

Areas to improve

Goals

For next year I hope to be able to maintain my grades for all classes over 90. I want to be able have more control over my grade and not constantly chasing after an “at least an A”.

Action plans

To achieve this I hope in using my notebook more often and schedule myself to do all my work on time and be done my homework early rather then finishing things last minute or the night before the assignments are due.

Reflecting on My First Year

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Alec Chang

My Grade 9 year

My Grade 9 year was an amazing experience. The daily routine was very different from the ones in middle school, there are more people, and most importantly we have more freedom with our time. When I started this year I was nervous. I wanted to take a bunch of classes and meet tons of new people. I was able to do this and made a lot of friends.

This year I learnt many things from my teachers. I ended up trying and liking things I would have never expected myself to like. An example is science. When I decided to do science honors, I did not know what to expect. I did not think I would like the course very much since I had little interest in science when I was in middle school. The more learnt from the class and the more time I spent with my fellow peers, the more I enjoyed the course. This was only one of the many courses I got the privilege to enjoy in my grade 9 year.

My Favorite Website

https://squaredle.app

I chose the app/website Squardle because it helped me expand my vocabulary and it killed time. This website allowed me to learn the definitions of new words that I did not know existed. I was able to use some of the new words I learnt in my writing in English, this helped me write using more sophisticated words and be able to choose a word that fits what I wanted to express best.

My Favorite Video

Japanese Prison break

The Japanese Prison break is one of my favorite videos and I have watched it many times. It is a video on a man who breaks out of four different prisons in japan for a crime he did not commit. Each time he breaks out a prison, and gets caught, it seems more difficult to escape, yet he does it every time. The different ways he breaks out of prison are always interesting to watch even if I have already seen it many times.

My Favorite Image

I chose this image because it was a joke I posted as a meme into our short English meme assignment. We had recently read the Hunger Games and I thought it would be funny if I had edited Peeta Mellark’s face onto a piece of pita bread. I thought it was pretty funny and got a good laugh out of it. Unfortunately the class did not find this as funny as I did.

My Favorite Quote

“There are no accidents” – Master Oogway

This is a quote I like because I like the idea where everything has its own reasoning for happening and nothing are accidents. If something happens it is at worst only a learning experience where you can avoid the same thing happening again. I especially like this quote because it is from the first movie of Kung Fu Panda that I watched as a kid and I still kept that quote close to me after all this time.

Work cited

The Incredible Japanese Prison Break. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI8trlbCbU8. Accessed 17 May 2023.

“Squaredle.” Squaredle.App, https://squaredle.app. Accessed 17 May 2023.

“Peeta Bread! :-D.” Imgflip, https://i.imgflip.com/2b6r3p.jpg. Accessed 17 May 2023.

Rube Goldberg Project Reflection

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The very difficult equation we are attempting to solve for.
The second part of our machine
our machine at work.( unfortunately did not zoom in on the answer)

I get ideas when I use my senses to explore. My play ideas are fun for me and make me happy. I make my ideas work or I change what I am doing.

In this project, our group had a difficult start because we had no idea what we were going to do with our Rube Goldberg machine or what task it would accomplish. As we explored the material we had, we slowly started to get an idea of what we wanted, and slowly worked towards that goal. We had several challenges along the way and had to adjust our machine several times. After playing with our materials and eventually coming up with something, we needed to make sure it worked. This was difficult and we had to continue adjusting our Rube Goldberg machine. In the end, we were successful in making our device work even just for a couple of times. This made our group feel happy and accomplished, because it had taken a lot of effort to make it accomplish a simple task.

Life Of Pi : The Book

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Alec Chang

My Movie

Plot, Character, Setting, and Mood

· Explain how you figured out what your Avatar would look like.

There was a movie on what my book. I also had imagined what he looked like while I was reading the book. I do not remember if the book mentions what he looked like.

· How did you choose the plot points?

I chose the plot points by finding the points in the story that were significant and then all I did was write a summary on the significant moments.

· Explain how you figured out the setting in your story. Why is the setting significant to

the story?

In the story the narrator describes the setting. The setting is significant because it can influence how one may feel when being in that setting.

· Explain what the word mood means and how/why you picked the song that you picked?

I think the word mood is how the story makes you feel when you read it. I picked the song I picked because I wanted a song that was not too dramatic but not sad and calm either.

Core Competency Reflection

I use evidence to make judgements or decisions as demonstrated in this…

I use evidence to make judgements or decisions as demonstrated in this project. I did this by using evidence from the book to make the judgements I did for my “Life of Pi” Edublog.

In discussions and conversations, I help to build and extend understanding by…

In discussions and conversations, I help to build and extend understanding by asking lots of questions. I ask questions to gain a better understanding of what we are doing in class. I seek help if I need it.

I appreciate feedback on… and prefer it comes in the form of…

I appreciate feedback on what I did and prefer it comes in written from, such as comments on paper or comments online, or I would be fine if the feedback was verbal.