Category Archives: Core Competencies

PHE 9 AH Reflection

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My Stressors

I find that stress appears at quite a random rate at school. At school, there is always the constant stressor of completing assignments and writing tests, but when it nears the end of the semester is when the stress starts to really roll in. Finals and final projects need to be completed along with studying for them. During the last week, it’s hard to focus on anything else and I don’t really get to focus on my personal life. My personal life isn’t too stressful; overall, it’s more calming for me. My friends don’t really cause stress for me, so if anything they are people I can easily go to in a time of need. Therefore, stressors, although they are constantly in the way, there are many ways to deal with the idea of being stressed

Core Competency Reflection

I can reflect on my thinking. With this reflection I was able to reflect back on times I was in stress and how I dealt with the stress.

I can analyze my own beliefs. When thinking back on my times in stress I analyzed my situations and came up with answers on how I overcame them.

I can represent my learning and tell how it connects to my experiences. I reflected on past experiences to represent the idea of overcoming times of stress.

I am still working towards developing a body of creative work over time. I’m not the most creative person, and I find it quite difficult to come up with a creative body of writing.

Ma Famille Reflection

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This year in French I learned a lot through our 4 units, and this project was a culmination of everything I’ve learned through the semester. This project had me writing about each of my family members with the french I developed across the last few months. Although my artistic skills aren’t the greatest, I was able to showcase my french capabilities this year and I look forward to French 10 in the near future.

Thinking Core Competency Catapult

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The use of creative thinking was a vital component of creating the Catapult. There were many ways of creating the catapult, but given the materials we had, we created what can be seen above. When pressed down, the spoon launches the ball. Our base was quite sturdy, and nothing broke, but instead of getting distance, we got height. The competition was for distance and not height, which resulted in our ball getting launched into a light. In the end, we were unable to fix the height issue, but we were still able to create a successful catapult that launched the ball.

Unit Core Competency Self-Assessment

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This project required heavy use of collaboration, as we used our ideas and hands to manufacture a Rube Goldberg Project. I made a Rube Goldberg once in grade 6, but the issue I had was coming up with good ideas and then creating the project itself, but with this collaboration, we could freely share our ideas, and we had the resources to create the project. This photo is from day one when we created an angled glass tube that goes into the car launcher through the track. Our collaboration lead to a successful day one, and for the end project we created a machine that successfully played music.

In the Heat of the Night: My Movie

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My Movie

Character, Setting, and Mood

While doing this project, I had learnt how to use setting and mood to amplify our project. We were able to learn about our characters further in-depth. For our song we picked a sadder, slower song, due to his death in the first chapter. A slower song would also be a lot easier to talk through. Overall, this project taught me a lot about mood, setting, and how I can use it to create better projects in the future.

Core Competency Reflection

I show others that I truly value their contributions by carefully listening to what they have to say and then adding on to their opinions. Even if an opinion isn’t great it’s still good to provide some feedback.

An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas was when Valeria and I were making the character avatars, I was able to built upon a few of her idea’s, and the end product of all the avatars was exciting.

I appreciate feedback on my work and prefer it comes in the form of feedback that shows all my flaws. I’d rather work on all of my flaws than redo what is already good.

If there is disagreement within the group, I find it helpful to think about several more ideas before making a solid conclusion.