Core Competency Reflection

Evidence that I can acquire information about complex and specialized topics from various sources, synthesize it, and present it with thoughtful analysis can be found in this piece that I created. This piece that I created is very relevant to today’s popular topic, AI. I demonstrated my understanding of what AI is and performed the topic by drawing my ideas out. I struggle with the composition of this piece a lot, as I do not have a complete image in mind. By reaching out to other artists’ work, I slowly build up my ideas from various artworks. I chose to use the most basic and simple material for this piece. Since the value drawing can perform a strong visual directly to the audience, I am very happy with how my final piece came out.

Comparative Culture Core Competency Reflection

I can persevere with challenging tasks and take ownership of my goals, learning and behaviour. My support network is beneficial to me since it can assist me in locating the resources that I require. This is a difficult course for me because it is project-based. I’m not very good at finding things on the internet and grouping them together. I can feel my progress in my studies from the beginning to the mid-term. I may look for information on many various websites and articles and come up with my own ideas for how to paraphrase the main topic.

I can work with others to achieve a goal. I learned a lot through the project of Egypt vs Mesopotamian. As an active listener, I notice that I lack communication with others. I’m hoping to grow braver and engage in more dialogue with others. During the project, I should share more thoughts with my groupmate. To gather diverse people’s perspectives and advice in order to better my project.

Textiles Core Competency Self-Assessment

First sewing project-Irregular ruffles tiered skirt

I can form new ideas to create new things. I can also build on the ideas of others. For my first sewing project, I choose to make a tiered skirt. I found a basic tiered skirt tutorial on youtube and make changes to it. I use my creative thinking skill to help me find ideas for my project. I added three extra irregular ruffles and made colour blocking at the fabric. Which made the skirt has a richer visual sense than before.

Art Studio 11 Core Competency Self-Assessment


This is the final project and the favourite piece I created in the art course. I use acrylic paint on the canvas to create my work of art. I get my ideas from the concept of protecting the environment and relate it with some traditional culture of my community. I forced creative thinking skills into this piece. I developed my creative thinking skill this semester. I can know where to start and stretch for new ideas. It is a good improvement as creative thinking is a helpful and important skill for creating works of art.

Graphing a Parabola

My Quadratic equation:

Standard parabola in read: y=x ^2

Parabola in blue: y=a(x-h)^2+k

The “a” value: In this equation, the a value is -1/3. If the a value is less than 0 (that means the number is negative) the parabola will face downward. This parabola is wider than the standard parabola because the a value is less than 1, as it is a function.

The “h” value: In this equation, the h value is -5. When the h value has been subtracted in the equation, it makes the parabola shift horizontally to the right.

The “k” value: In this equation, the k value is -4. A negative k value makes the parabola shift vertical down. If the k value is positive, the parabola will shift up.

Significance:a, h and k values give a different forms to the parabola. They can decide the parabola is facing down or facing up; shift left or shift right; shift up or shift down.

Self-Assessment:

1. Give an example from this assignment where you represented the same mathematical idea in three different ways? (for example, as agraph, an equation and in words)

The equation of parabola is written. There is a picture of my parabola and standard parabola graph by using the DESMOS. I explain in word about how the a, h and k values make the different then the standard parabola.

2. Give an example from this assignment where you used mathematical vocabulary to demonstrate your understanding.

I use the mathematical vocabulary like: shifts, parabola, vatical, horizontally to help me better describe in this assignment.

3. Give an example from this assignment where you used formatting to share the information in a clear and organized way.

First, I use two colors to distinguish the standard parabola and my parabola. Second, The explanation is clearly written in sentences and list. I also bold the important words.