My strategies for collecting relevant information for this project included mainly going onto the web, finding a good source and looking into details. I prioritized the information I was getting overall and how I could format and translate it into a way I know in French.
I selected words and images that would impact my audience through color coding, with the two different sides for the song being symbolized via the specific colours. I also tried to connect the words through ones that sounded similar, such as cognates.
If I could work on anything, it’d likely be my speech and pronunciation. I’d set more time into perhaps my practice for the script, and truly find what I wanted to say and how I could describe it. I hope to work on this goal through future work and prioritization.
When reading The Only Good Indians, I enjoyed the themes of disruption to calm scenes, how they escalated and ended dramatically. I enjoyed the moments of dread, and how the characters portrayed it. I did not like the complicatedness of the book, as some scenes became hard to follow with what was happening, and I ended p having to skip over a few lines. I was fine with the graphic nature of the book, although it was abrupt with little to no warning and I understand that many people could accidentally stumble upon it if they hadn’t realized it were that kind of horror book. that being said, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Core Competency Self Reflection
I talked cooperatively with my group and was willing to help with any task. I took up my roles and helped to collaborate with the group through speaking in front of the class, aswell as offering feedback, ideas and emotional support. when presenting to the class, I tried to ease each of our individual speeches into one idea. Although I contributed to group discussions, I struggled with focusing on the script for my part of the speech required, and ended up improvising most of it through bullet points. It wasn’t horrible, although I found my ideas to be short and less expanded on.
During the lab, I expressed critical thinking through examination and analyzation to perceive parts of the organizing I would be dissecting. My partner and I were given details to examine the diagram in our booklets, which we both utilized greatly. Through examination, I was able to use my critical thinking skills to identify, label and match the explicit organs and their characteristics. While dissecting and cutting, we were precise with our accuracy enough to prevent any form of deterioration amongst the worm’s tissue unintended.
Collaboration
I was quickly able to establish collaboration with my partner. Splitting our roles, me and them switched between doing the prodding, poking and pulling whilst the other would write. cleaning up, she was the one who would wash our materials. I tended to cleaning up and putting away the worm. we were effectively able to label, criticize and identify our ideas and thoughts of the worm. I helped my partner when it came to identifying the parts, and she helped to placement and cutting of the fragile worm parts.
I believe that i’ve demonstrated my creative thinking. I can take two things such as a song and a prompt and use the threads and hints given to needle the two together in a way that inspires me.
I’ve demonstrated criticality as I analyzed the evidence given to show how it might fit together, unravelling what might have been intended in the artist’s mind. I am able to show what they were thinking.
in turn, I can show social and personal awareness through understanding of the disorder itself, and how key elements and symptoms may relate and be intertwined with the song. a great example would be the overall tune of the singer’s depressive state, which can be accompanied with one of the stages of Bipolar Disorder.
Core Competency: What core competencies did you demonstrate with the Monopoly Assignment?
some of the core competencies I demonstrated with my Monopoly assignment may consist of the following:
Creative thinking – I show this ability through my innovative thinking when adding color and getting to specifically choose each chance card. it was a lot of fun, and I found it as a good way to exercise my creativity.
Critical Thinking- I showed this ability when making judgements on where each row should go and how, being efficiently innovative when fitting the last two larger rows, Group Influence and Attribution Errors Side by side. they turned out good, with each slot being fairly explanatory with wording and appearance.
Social Awareness – I was able to demonstrate my social awareness through the questions themselves. I was able to recognize when a person may be mistreated due to looks or stereotype, shown with the Cognition Prejudice card. I can show the opposite effects with the Proximity Attraction card, which reveals close contact with not many people around easily leading to better affection with a person.
I believe I will be able to Communicate by thinking better this year via getting to know my accomplices in my classes. I believe we can get along better through working together as a team and finding things that can help us click together better as friends.
I will be able to use Self-Determination by reading over assignments and studies when needed, making sure I have everything in place for either an upcoming test or project. I can also utilize this when working with peers as we can both put our minds together on a collective goal.
I can regulate myself and wellbeing through consistent moderation. I can achieve this by setting times and schedules for when I’ll study or do homework. when I do not have any homework OR studying to do, I can find peace in going for long walks and taking my time easy. this way, I may clear my mind better than always staring at a screen.
A great example of how my learning influenced my work would be through sole creation of the dish itself. For example, when me and my partner began our work on our cookies, we were quick to reread all the steps over as much as possible. I was quick to get our items together, and made sure to remain enthusiastic. Being energetic provides an example of being full of motivation, both to yourself and your peers. We were able to stay strictly on task, not doubting our work which could provide as another fundamental for why it turned out the way it did. Mixing our ingredients together, we made sure to reserve our extra care for balance and measurement. This can be shown with how evenly we softly rolled our dough to even shape. After adding a pinch of flour on top and placing them in the oven, the crumble cookies looked and tasted to our likings.
The recipe turned out successfully, with each bite being enjoyable at very worst. It is best to try these treats with your immediate family, however sharing it amongst friends wouldn’t hurt. As long as someone is there to enjoy the made dish, that is all that matters.
Core competencies
I find that the ways I communicate while cooking differ from how I communicate in my food studies class are shown to differentiate heavily when I am in another group, such as Track & Field. I find that when I’m in my foods class, it is less of a physical exercise on your body and more of a mental one. While with Track, you must put focus into skill for running, it is almost night and day with how much effort you need to put into focusing your accuracy between each ingredient. One thing that I’ll say I find similar though, is how both may allow teamwork to help you reach your goal better.
Whenever me and my groupmates are unsure of what steps to take, I make sure to provide them with the information needed, allowing them to prevail while also giving them tips to make it possibly turn out more.
My main strategies for collecting important information may include highlighting the required text. It allows my eye to catch it immediately if i ever need to go back, and it almost burns a hole into my mind in a way that embeds it. Another strategy I might use is listening intently BEFORE writing the criteria down in my own words. This allows my mind to not only gather but translate given information, shuffling it in a way my brain can understand.
My main focus is communication. When the group isn’t working well together, it’s best to mold ideas to their liking as to provide an environment all of us can be sustained in. With our minds pitched together we usually end up making some of the most delectable treats in my opinion. It aways makes me proud to see the improvement we can make as a group when we take these steps.
My Goal
I would like to work more on my active listening. I find that I already do fine in this field, however lately i believe that I get carried away easily in my own thoughts. A prime goal I have is to stay on track more. A way that I believe this could be done is through a more active and repetitive sleep schedule. Other than that, I am quite confident in my abilities.
“CPR Manikin & AED Training Kit, Basic.” MCR Medical Supply, https://www.mcrmedical.com/product/K100-ULM-Basic-CPR-Manikin-AED-Training-Kit.html. Accessed 21 Apr. 2024.
CPR reflection
If there was anything new in particular that I hadn’t any knowledge about prior to taking the CPR Unit, it would be the signs to “Recognize” from out of the four Rs, or the specific health factors that could come into play. I was completely unaware of the concept of Angina, a condition that functions similar to a heart attack, however goes away shortly after. I also was not aware of the heart’s ability to “fibrillate”, where it loses its rhythmic pumping that allows it to flow blood and starts violently squirming.
Definitely a key takeaway from this unit would be the big main ideas. You may be aware of CPR or an AED, but wouldn’t fully understand and/or get the motion or idea down correctly in your head. I may not have known where to place my lower palm on the breastbone, or how to apply the shock pads from an AED to the victim’s chest. This unit was a good way to learn something new, and refresh the older assumptions we had in our minds prior.
Another part in detail from this unit that intrigued me was how it directly connects back to the Nutrition unit we had prior, taking the “Risk” factors into account and how to avoid suffering from illness before it has a chance of striking. The Nutrition unit went over the many ways to build immunity against fatal illnesses, such as dieting, which the CPR unit was able to build and expand upon just as greatly.
Core Competency Reflection
Communication
I was incredibly strong in my communication throughout this unit. I find that one of the best ways to work is with a companion or someone that you might know. The group I was with helped each other substantially, and I was able to contribute a sufficient amount. When we were doing the physical CPR, one of the ways I was able to ensure that we were all clear on what to do was through answering their questions, as well as asking my own as we exchanged knowledge and understanding on how to do it properly.
Thinking
I was incredibly critical in my own thinking, wanting to write down as much about the CPR as I could to stay prepared. One thing, however, I would have liked to spend more time learning about in the unit was the textbook. As we were given a slideshow to watched, it would very briefly cover topics in it, so we were more or less forced to skim through the book. I would have liked to learn more about Angina and whether or not there were other variants off illness that could be mistaken for a heart attack/stroke.
Personal Social
I enjoyed this unit substantially in comparison to many of the other ones. In this unit, I am proud to have accomplished my fullest understanding and learning from it, thanks to my collaboration and attentive nature, and I do hope to maybe learn more in the future if the time comes.
When I first started reading the book, I exercised my creative writing by how I observed and interpreted some scenes with how the children would react to the world around them. They would see things in one way, but as the reader I’d try to adapt and see what was really happening in some scenes.
Throughout the story, I believe I also utilized my critical thinking in how I used to think one thing about the characters, such as how I thought the father may have been too neglectful, to changing my view to fit the worldbuilding as I learned more about him.
Finally, my reflective thinking came into play during the second half of the book. I could recognize the differences between our world now compared to then, and I could recognize the similarities, such as with the heavy themes of racial discrimination.
Overall, I definitely recommend the book. Although the pacing may be slow at times, it quickly changes and becomes an engaging experience. Looking forward, I hope to find more informative and eye-opening books as they help to navigate the world around me.
A project that we have done that I am incredibly proud of would have to be the project that was done on Solar Power. This group project was to make a presentation on a selected type of power generated through everyday sources. Having chosen solar power, I believe that the four of us in the group did a remarkable job on our scripts and writing down details.
Communication
I believe that I have used the Communication Core Competency, which was exercised when I helped to bring the group together to work on our project. Our group talked a excessively together, and we all pitched in ideas for what we could add to our project on solar power, combining our knowledge to into something more useful. When the project was finally coming to an end, me and one of my other work partners even exercised some of our Creative Thinking on putting the slides together with colorful and eye-catching designs.
