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Reflecting on My First Year

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My Grade 9 Year

This year I enjoyed a lot of my classes. My favorite class was social studies because of all the interesting topics that are discussed in that classroom. I enjoy learning about all the ancient history and about all the kings and queens of different countries. I was most proud of my Top Student Certificate in my social studies course. I was proud of it because I had put plenty of effort into that course and I’m glad I have something to show that it worked. One of my stretches this year was math because lots of the time my brain can’t focus on a bunch of letters and numbers at the same time it gets confusing. I tried to improve this stretch by really focusing on what my teachers was saying and doing the best I could to understand it and this helped me improve my mathematical skills. Overall, I have enjoyed my very first year of high school and I look forward to the ones ahead.

My Favorite Website

My Favorite website this school year was Z-Bib because it made citing all the websites I would use in projects look so much nicer and, it made it all so much easier. In middle school I didn’t know what Z-Bib was or that it even existed. Z-Bib has helped me significantly in citing my websites and I am grateful for it.

https://zbib.org/

My Favorite Video

My favorite movie/video this year was The Last of the Mohicans. In social studies we did a q/a on this movie and I really enjoyed watching it. The movie was a very intense movie that had me actively paying attention at all times. The movie was basically about tribes catching members from other tribes like a big battle. It was very action packed and good to watch. It is also based off a true story so this movie educated us a lot on the history of the Mohicans. Overall I really enjoyed watching this movie in social studies and I hope to watch more movies in Grade 10.

My Favorite Image

I chose this image because it is something I am proud of. For the final English project, we had to do a group book analysis on a children’s book. I had to make the graphic novel in comic form. I was very proud of how my work came out as I had put plenty of effort into making this comic. It took me about 3 hours of class time to do and It helped me develop a lot of my art skills enhancing my creativity.

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My Favorite Quote

A quote I have always liked is ” Don’t Decide You Can’t Before You Discover You Can”. I like and live by this quote because there have been so many times in my life where I have thought that I can’t do something, a big one would be in Math. In math I had plenty of moments where I felt like I could not do work that was assigned to me and I really just wanted to give up. But this quote always reminded me to find a way so that I can do the work and that I can succeed.

Works Cited

ZoteroBib: Fast, Free Bibliography Generator – MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard Citations. https://zbib.org/. Accessed 6 Mar. 2024.

The Last of the Mohicans – Official® Trailer [HD]. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaQeVnN6pUc. Accessed 6 Mar. 2024.

ADL Social Studies- Ethical Judgment

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Voice recordings. 

Pros Script: 

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Pros Rebuttal: 

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Cons script:  

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Cons Rebuttal: 

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Reflection Questions- Is violence justified during a protest?

A) How did the use of AI assist you in developing this project 

It helped me and my partner find good events that fit our arguments. We used these events as examples to represent our arguments.

B) How did you ensure that the work you created was still your own, rather than just a product of the AI 

I would read over the information the AI gave me and then I would create my own argument and support going off of what the AI told me.

C) Did you agree with the position you had to argue? Why or why not?

I agreed with the side I was arguing for as a violent protest does sound more affective to me since it makes officials act way quicker.

Competency Reflection

My strategies for collecting relevant information for specific tasks include… 

Using the provided AI from the teacher to help me gather ideas for my podcast. As well as reflecting on some old social studies units to help give me ideas to use in my podcast.

When I need to work collaboratively with people I don’t know well, I… 

I try to begin a small conversation and plan out how we can do the project as I am a very talkative person so I befriend my partner making the project easier.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Movie featuring: Puck

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Our Movie

Character, Setting and Mood

What did you learn about determining a character’s physical appearance? Explain how you figured out what your Avatar would look like.

I learned that to determine someone’s appearance you need to go off their personality. Puck seemed a lot like a nature boy. He also is known as a trickster in the play so that gave me the thought of a teenager. So we made him a young nature boy who works with the fairy’s and Oberon.

· What did you learn about determining the setting of a story? How did you apply this to choosing the images in your movie?

I learned that to determine the setting of the story you need to read through the lines well and determine the setting through what they say. Like in some of their lines if they are mentioning places like forests or they even say the name of the place they are in it can really help you determine the setting of the play. This helped me choose the right images for our movie by simply just going off of the actors lines and finding the image that best suited them.

· Explain what the word mood means in literature and movies. What mood did you decide on for your movie? Why did you pick the song that you picked?

The mood in movies is determined a lot by the song that is playing in the background. It simply just means the vibe of the movie. Like if the mood in the movie is sad and low it will play sad music and if the mood is angry or intense it might play intense or loud music. For our movie we chose a song for action. Our character had a lot of scenes that had intense action moments. These moments kept you on your toes and that is why we chose this song,

· Don’t forget a conclusion sentence (you can take one from your movie)!

Overall, this book felt very interesting to read. It has so many moments that would leave you completely stunned. As a group we would recommend this book to others and especially those who love stories with big changes in the story. This story shows how fast people’s opinions on things can change. As well as how life would be with things like love potions and other fictional items.​

Core Competency Reflection

When I need to boost my mood or re-focus, I… I would leave the room to go get myself a nice drink of water and take a small walk. Then once I am back in the classroom I am fully refocused and ready to work.

Examples of where I communicate clearly and purposefully can be seen in… When I was communicating my Ideas for the conclusion sentence to my peers and making sure they understood the way I was going to write it so that they knew it would be a good concluding sentence.

I have valuable ideas to share about… and do so by… I tell my group members that I have an idea to help with the project. I make sure I have their full attention and explain my idea thoroughly so that they understand and like what I have in mind.