Category Archives: Grade 10

Favorite Recipe

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Making and Sharing Reflection

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 Reflection

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My Learning of CPR

“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.

Novel Study Review

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To Kill A Mockingbird

Core Competency Reflection

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.