In this project, we were instructed to find poetic devices throughout the stanzas. Doing some extra research on Maya Angelou helped me take my understanding to a further extent. We had many ways to help break down the process and turn it into an easy-going project! In this unit we all learned about poetry and types of poetry, it is efficient when trying to immerse your reader into a deeper understanding. Furthermore, ill be able to use this newfound learning in the future!
Core Competency Reflection
Some skills I have developed to make my creative activities better are…
Looking around the room or just letting your mind wonder. Its an effective way for ideas to just come right at you because you don’t have anything on your mind. Being in a classroom allows you to wonder freely and helps create new ideas even using the simplest object.
One strategy or activity that stimulates my imagination is…
Reading or communicating with people around me. It helps your imagination think of more creative things when you can branch off of others ideas. I really like reading because that helps me attempt to connect that to real life.
What is the difference between a stock and a bond?
a stock is Investments in a company that rise and fall with the profit of the company.
A bond is a loan that you give to the company
Risk
How are risk and return connected?
a risk within the stock market is if a company goes bankrupt, you have to pay the debt first and whatever is left over gets payed to the shared holders. When a companies value drops so does the value of the stocks. So it’s a high risk reward situation if you invest and start up.
What are some steps you could take to mitigate risk while investing in the stock market?
There’s a type of stock that lets you invest in little amounts of the company. If you put alot of money at once because if you put alot of money all at once that’s basically gambling your money. Another way to save your money is to invest in banks, because they never loose.
What does it mean to have a “well balanced portfolio?”
a well balanced portfolio is when you have an equal amount between stocks and bonds. It allows you to help manage risk and maximize the return reward.
core competency self assessment
How much information did you use to help you with answering the above questions?Has investing become a more approachable or attainable concept to you?
i used the videos provided and did some researching myself. I’ve always been interested in how to manage my money, so investments are something I’m always looking forward to learn.
Which security tends to have the best returns?
Money market and cash and government bonds. In addition to the bonds it’s just a saver way to get awards.
What is “rebalancing” a portfolio and why is it important?
its when your able to change the weight of assists. For example if you invest in oil stocks and it falls you are able to switch to an environmental friendly stock wish would have a higher award.
What is something that you have learned which you have changed your mind about?
credit cards. They are such an essential thing to have but also comes with costs. If you aren’t able to properly care for the card, you can loose a lot of money. It can take years just for you to pay off your debt if you aren’t as careful.
Harajuku fashion offers people a unique way to express themselves. I particularly like how they can interpret different bright colours into their outfits in a creative and colourful way. Considering how the weather here is always dull, I don’t think these styles will be popular in Canada. Gyaru styles, especially lolita kei, are appealing to me. I like the cutesy aspect of it and the contrast of the light colours in lolita fashion. Recently, a hand gesture in the gyaru community has caught an internet wide popularity, letting others do an upside-down peace sign whenever taking photos. I really like that in Lolita fashion, you can also incorporate other colours into the mix, not just pastels. Fashion is really important to me. I don’t like to repeat outfits, and that allows me to mix different pieces together. One app that really influences my fashion is Pinterest. I wouldn’t say I have a main fashion style, so Pinterest helps me try to achieve a certain look I’m going for that day. Clothing and fashion is one way I like to compliment other people, and it also shows how we can connect with one another, through our spendings
Throughout this course, I’ve used my work ethic to quickly and effectively finish my work. I am always using the best of my ability during volunteering, so not only I but everyone around me can also stay on task. My work ethic also ties in with my time management. I always prepare weeks ahead asking family if we have anything important so I know what days I’ll be free.
At the end of this course, I want to work on mentorship. I’m still a new student of leadership even though I’m in grade 10. I want to learn a bit more before I can call myself a real mentor.
I can work with others to achieve a goal…
I’ve taken the initiative in many school volunteer opportunities. We all wanted to have fun while also perfecting a professional look. I can achieve many goals by communicating with my peers and creating new fond friendships. For myself to assist my peers, I can always offer help whenever needed. I may not be the best at something but everything in life is a learning opportunity.
Personally speaking, I predict Japan is unique with its creative styles of sandwiches because they want to interpret everyone’s different tastes and preferences. I think Japan’s cuisine is also very aesthetically pleasing, if they had the sandwiches we have here in Canada, it would look drastically out of place. Compared to Japan we have very basic styles of sandwiches. Such as the basic ham with whatever vegetables, or wraps. I wouldn’t say this meal is creative but it’s something people would find disgusting in Canada, which is Isaw or barbequed chicken intestine. It’s a famous dish in Philippines. It doesn’t seem too far off from regular grilled meat so maybe it’ll taste just as similar? After reading all the different types of sandwiches in Japan, I think I’d just want to try the basic strawberry and whipped cream shokupan. It just seems like an easier version to make cake! If Anpanman offered me a piece of him as a present, I’d gladly take it. He may be dirty from all the fighting he’s done, but I’d do anything for some fluffy bread!
I used personal/social in creating the veggie stir fry recipe. This semester we had to have two different groups, in this specific group we worked really well. Learning how to use new forms of equipment such as the wok, and learning to mise en place, we really got the hang of it. I really liked working with my groups because even though we had lots of fun we all still stayed super focused and finished the dish within the hour mark. Our group was one of the only groups that had three people, so we had to try really hard to make sure our table is clean and prepared for block two. Even with one less person we still persevered through and completed all four jobs! With some of the questions on the recipe it could be a little hard. But I had no trouble asking anyone for help, with my group mates or with the teacher. When preparing the dish, two people have designated jobs such as chopping the veggies or preparing the wok, the extra person would always help out whenever needed! This helped us complete the dish enjoy it all together, and it was super delicious!
This year i joined the volleyball team. I was really paranoid that i wouldn’t make the team because i saw the other players. Thankfully i made it on because i made new friends and connected with old ones!
2. I made many new friends and found out who I wanted to spend my next high school years with. I was able to find who made me happy and many memories for just this grade 9 year!
3. I made it onto the badminton team. Badminton was a sport I wouldn’t consider myself good at so when the coach asked me to try out i was super nervous. I’ve learnt many new skills and i’m super exited for the next season!
Areas to Improve
Goals
Action plans
Improve my public speaking skills
I’ll learn how to go out of my way and make new friends. I’ll try my best in the next year to raise my hand more and express my thoughts.
Practice for sports
ill ask some of my friends to help me practice for sports such as volleyball, track, and badminton hoping ill make it in the team. I was going to join some clubs and go for drop-ins to practice with other people.
aim for higher grades
As the school year is about to end i was a little disappointed in my grades. I think i could to much better but Grade 9 was the year to ease into things so i hope in the next years I’ll be able to lift my studying skills higher.
The hunger games project is a presentation that allows us to show our creativity in a way of persuasion. It is a visual project that can be in the form of a brochure, power point, or a poster. This was assigned to us to show our ways of advertising a make believe project to our peers.
it’s important to remember because it gives you a base in who your trying to persuade. It gives the viewer a brief description for who you’re trying to sell it to, and helps them imagine they’re in the moment too.
One form of persuasion that I think is the most important is to have is logical appeal. I picked logical appeal because I only argue through facts. Some way to surely persuade me is to have true facts that I cannot rebut against. Logical appeal is when you have a product that is surely beneficial to whoever you’re selling it to.
Eye appeal is important because it gives the viewer an image in their mind and something they’d enjoy to look at. Personally I can get really bored when only listening to whoever is speaking, a video or image keeps me engaged.
Core Competency Reflection
One strategy or activity that stimulated my imagination on this project was…
having the freedom to showcase our creativity. In my project I added animation on an app called “FlipaClip” because I love drawing! I’m not so good at public speaking so I added a voiceover as if it’s an actual commercial.
I respectfully advocated for my needs on this project by…
spending all the free time I had to work on the project. I was able to complete the project quickly and even allowed my teacher to look through it and tell me what I can fix. I was able to present the project with ease and I was super proud with how it turned out.
This is how I selected images and words to create impact for my planned audience:
I created my whole project, from the logo to all the perks. I selected my images from the voiceover to make it connect more. The rest of my images were all created by me!
I can contribute to and work with criteria to improve my own work; evidence of that is…
I wanted to do this whole entire project by myself to push myself out there. Another reason I also wanted to present by myself was to get some extra marks for being brave and going almost first. I can ask teachers and peers for reviews to help me see what I got wrong.
This year I enjoyed being able to meet new friends in different classes. I have many many close friends that I continuously talk to and go to for advice. This year I realized I learn best by being with others that can lift me up and bring the best out of me. I think I get super stressed during tests because I have no one to help me out and help me remember. If I am ever alone I rely on music as a stress reliever. When I am having difficulty with something, I usually just listen to music or doodle a little on the page. Some of my classes don’t allow us to have AirPods in, instead I use some of my hobbies like art as another source.
I chose Google because it was a cite that could always be depended on for answers. Google is that one source that every person uses on a daily.
My Favourite Video
This video was our very first match for volleyball. We had many mistakes but in the end of the season it was great.
My Favourite Image
this is a picture of our badminton season. I wasn’t really interested in badminton in the first place but tried out and made some new friends!
My Favourite Quote
UwU~ – ms illing
I couldn’t really think of a quote that seemed really deep and portrayed my grade 9 year, so I asked one of my favourite teachers for a little inspiration.
Works cited
Google. https://www.google.ca/?client=safari&channel=iphone_bm. Accessed 6 May 2023.
I used personal/ social learning to create this dish. I was able to use collaboration because we got together very well during this lab asking questions along the way. This lab allowed us to choose our own egg, we figured if we were going to make scrambled egg it would be more flavourful and unique. All of us conjointly wanted to bring our personal ingredients from home to make it to our liking. We all had tons of fun and even with small mistakes we made the best of it and fixed it up right away. One thing id do differently next time is expand our cooking. I think we wanted to keep it safe and Do scrambled eggs. Next time we should try and expand our creative thinking and try new ways to cook eggs.
