I believe my grade 9 year was really successful because, I got grades that I wasn’t expecting! I put a lot more time into studying and projects this year which really paid off. I am satisfied with my grades because I know I put my best efforts into them.
Goals
I do believe that my work ethic, and ways of studying can improve. I want to also improve my grades could definitely be higher. I also think that I can put more effort into my projects and homework so I can get better marks on them.
Action Plans
I will try to study, and prepare for grade 10 over the summer. I’ll also study more for tests, and put 200% into my projects so I can aim for getting Extending.
This year I enjoyed, learning how different middle school, and high school are from each other. I also liked learning all of these new things that I hadn’t had learned in middle school. I especially enjoyed having all the different teachers, and having them teach me a subject specialized to them.
This is one of my favorite websites because this website that lets me book flex, and flex time has really helped me get school work done, or take a load off of my back when I have a lot of work due.
Favorite Video
I really enjoyed learning about the American Revolution, because I found the topic about two countries at war, really interesting. I also found the 7 Years War also really interesting, this terms social studies was really fun.
My Favourite Image
This image me and my partner made for ADL, we were supposed to make a monster to be used in the Hunger Games. We fused a bear, toucan, humming bird, and a unicorn to make Gringamor.
My Favourite Quote
I think this was a good educational quote because I think that it actually resonates with me. I also decided to choose this one because, it makes more sense to me that some other educational quotes.
Work Citations.
Image:
Education Quotes. https://quotefancy.com/education-quotes. Accessed 17 May 2023
Video: What Caused the American Revolution?www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz1i5ncOVIs. Accessed 17 May 2023.
I can respond meaningfully to communication from peers and adults… — when I was making this mutation, I took my partner’s ideas into consideration.
I can think about what I am going to convey and to whom I will convey it… — I planned to make a mutant animal and convey it to my peers
I can work with others to achieve a goal… — Me and my group members, worked towards a common goal of trying to accomplish the creation and the presentation of this project.
I can take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share… — I took on the role of creating the animal meanwhile my partner made the presentation, because we are weak in both in the areas that we didn’t do.
Why is it important to remember who benefits from the advertisement when you view an advertisement?: It is important because you want to support good businesses, or small businesses instead of monster ones or businesses with a bad reputation.
Choose one form of persuasion and explain why it is effective in persuading you/an audience: logical, ethical, emotional on an audience: I believe that it is effective to persuade people, when using logical. From my perspective I’m usually persuaded when there is data showing that the product is good or bad, and the amount of people who buy the product.
Choose an advertising technique and explain why it is effective in selling a product.: Emotional is good at advertising because, it might help people relate to the product by hitting people with nostalgia, or by saying that people will be happier with the product.
Core Competency Reflection
This is how I selected images and words to create impact for my planned audience: I selected my image because I thought that it would be visually appealing to the viewer, and would make the story behind the advertisement stand out more
One strategy or activity that stimulated my imagination on this project was: I searched up some advertisements and I was inspired by a advertisement and that sparked my imagination to try tmake a nice looking advertisement like that too.
I showed that I valued feedback from others in my group by: When my partner wanted something added onto the poster, I took that idea into consideration when I made the poster.0
Side View of the Egg Drop DeviceEgg Drop Device with egg in it
Artifacts: Golf Tower
On the floor Free standing
Curricular Response:
The build process of the golf tower, was quite different from my build process of the egg drop. The build process of the golf tower was quite disappointing because, it took a long while for the tower to build, but it could not withstand the weight of the golfball. In the end, I took the initiative to make a small cylindrical tube to put the golf ball on, so we could get at least a singular point. The final height was around 1’2 if I recall correctly. The egg drop was equally as disappointing as a result, because my device could not protect the egg from the fall. When it came for my time to drop, I had a microscopic amount of hope when the device was dropping, because from what I saw at the top, the device was falling slower than at the speed of the ones that my peers had made, but in the end the egg cracked.
Both of these experiments have greatly improved my understanding in the scientific method because I learned that experiments are trial and error, and also how to make a proper hypothesis.
Core Competency Self Assessment and Creative Thinking
I’m most proud of my egg drop assignment because, I actually had fun, and hope during the experiment process, and the build process.
A challenge I had to overcome was in the golf tower challenge, where my partner wanted to build it by himself, and due to this we became short on time, and if we didn’t have any structure to hold a golfball by the end of the class we would get no marks. So I took one for the team, and built a structure that would at least get us that mark.
My experience understanding the two Scientific Methods is, since that both of my labs, we mostly failures I understand experiments are trial and error.
Tell me how you did the following:
A) I demonstrated that I can create new things when I have prototypes as ideas that I can build on, and have a good hypothesis to test.
B) I demonstrated that I can build on the ideas of others when I can communicate with my partner and talk to them, to discuss ideas that we both agree on and can improve.
C) When trying new things, I expect setbacks and failure and use them to develop my ideas. An example of this from the Scientific Method labs would be when I write my conclusion, or when I analyze my data.
When I need to boost my mood or re-focus, I will take a break from whatever I’m doing and do something else to get my mind off of whatever is bothering me so I can efficiently work and not waste time procrastinating. This helped me in this project because, I often got distracted while trying to figure out how to scale it down and up.
I seek, develop, and weigh options demonstrated by, my peers who might’ve already finish the assignment. This helped me during the time I was stuck and I was able to ask my classmates/friends for aid in the parts where I did not understand.
I remain open minded as I explore viable options or alternative approaches, like when I am in a scenario such as if I were dwelling on a problem that I didn’t understand or how to figure it out, I could ask for help or research it. This helped me when I was trying to figure out the scaling problem in the project.
