June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 by Claire

My Inquiry About Poetry

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Inquiry Reflection

For my inquiry I wrote 24 poems in a collection I titled ‘A poem for every hour I waste a day.’ It was an inquiry dedicated to developing my knowledge of poetry and my overall goal was to fight writers block by holding myself accountable and driven. My final product is something I am extremely proud of. It took a long time to complete, a lot of brain storming, tons of writing and rewriting, and a shocking amount of editing. I found that I have developed much more confidence in my own abilities and got my revised plan accomplished in a satisfying way. I really enjoyed the editing of my poems because it lacked the stress of having to write an entirely new poem but still held the creative aspect. This creative aspect was something I was glad to explore and I enjoyed diving deeper into my interest in the subject. I look forward to rereading my inquiry in a few years and analyzing how my subject matter, views, and poetic devices have changed or stayed the same. It was overall a great way to lay big emotions out to process and share.

Core Competency Reflection

Personal Identity & Communication in Poetry

Poetry is a deeply personal thing but I found that every single poem was also a lesson in communication. It was a fine line between tell vs imply and in my opinion I usually struck the balance in my poems. Some poems would’ve made no sense to a reader because they were deeply personal and vague but others balanced out by being more understandable and simple. Poetry allowed my to look at myself because of the emotions my poems drew from. It was an amazing way to vent some of my issues while practicing my communication of those issues. I needed to read every poem carefully and imagine how the words on the page may be received by someone without my personal experiences. If it seemed confusing without my own context I would edit, unless I wanted the poem to be purposefully extremely confusing, which I did do a few times to stay true to the goal of writing personal poems that meant something to myself. The project was an outlet that allowed me practice in communicating myself to others.

June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 by Claire

Core Competency Self-Assessment

DO NOT read if you DO NOT want to see worm guts – ‘artifact’ at bottom of post

Communication and Collaboration

We did several dissections in the animal unit but the worm dissection was the one that required the most collaboration. It was a partner dissection and needed to have the work divided in a functional way. Me and my partner found it easier if one person solely focused on cutting and the other focused on suction and pinning. We were easily able to complete the lab this way and it allowed for simpler communication when discussing the location of organs while proceeding with the lab. It made less need for movement while completing the lab and also meant that there was less passing of tools all contributing to a safer work space.

Critical Thinking

The worm dissection gave us an opportunity to see a digestion tract with similarities to our own. We observed diagrams and compared them to figure out where things were located inside the worm. This was slightly more difficult than I would’ve thought because every chart is obviously more clear and segmented than an actual worm where everything is slightly similar in color. We learnt most of the functions of each organ in class but when labelling some organs I had to go to the textbook to get an actual understanding of what I was explaining. Next time I would’ve loved to know a trick to dissect the worm in order to preserve the pseudo hearts.

Personal Awareness

I found dissecting the worm slightly sickening but was able to put it aside because I knew it was a great learning opportunity. At first I really hated cutting into the worm but as the lab progressed I felt less uncomfortable with the slight gore. I would say this lab was a good example of taking ownership for my learning because it was optional to participate in the actual dissection. I did not need to if I didn’t want to but I decided that I would fight my slight discomfort in order to get a valuable experience out of it. I also know that I developed this skill because I continued fighting my slight discomfort when we did the squid and mussel dissections because I knew that these were also important.

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January 21, 2024January 23, 2024 by Claire

Pre-Calculus 12 Project Self-Assessment

I compile and synthesize information to draw reasoned conclusions, such as when…

In my project I used what I knew about sinusoidal functions and applied it to a calculated equation. I used evidence I learned in class and from practice to conclude and decipher how each value affected the graph in order to fit my data. For example, the calculated k value shows how much the graph must be moved on the y axis. All the y values in my data averaged out to be about 8.00 so it makes sense that the k value would be about 8.00 to move the sinusoidal graph upward to fit the data. I used similar processes of using information I knew or could calculate to explain the other variables and their relation to my data and graphed function.

My strategies for collecting relevant information for specific tasks include…

In my variable explanations there was of course many ways to prove that each value was correct. Instead of listing all of these I used the simplest evidence and used it as my explanation. Why use every piece of evidence when it will make your presentation confusing. I looked back at classroom notes and was able to simplify every explanation to the necessary information for it to be understood. I also used explanations that made sense to me in simple terms because if my presentation was to be used for something like teaching the concept of transformations in sinusoidal functions, it would need to be understood by people with less understanding of transformations.

This is how I select images and words to create impact for different audiences:

For my PowerPoint presentation I put a lot of thought into it’s arrangement and how to best represent all my information simply. This slide is an example of this because i used images that were reasonably sized and tried to keep the text small to not overpower the actual data being shown. I chose to do this on this slide because the only need for the text is to explain the context of each image. On other slides I changed my approach though and instead used one image and then left the majority of the slide dedicated to text because I needed to explain the image. In all cases I wanted to keep each slide simple and avoid being too wordy.

Examples of where I communicate clearly and purposefully can be seen in…

When I needed to give my opinion of my calculations I had to communicate effectively. I tried to keep my opinion simple and made sure to not repeat similar points. Repeating points in different sections of the text makes it difficult to follow and instead I left the explanations short and arranged in a thought out manner. This helps me elaborate on opinions without overexplaining myself.

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Pre-Calculus 12 Project Self-Assessment

I compile and synthesize information to draw reasoned conclusions, such as when…

My strategies for collecting relevant information for specific tasks include…

This is how I select images and words to create impact for different audiences:

Examples of where I communicate clearly and purposefully can be seen in…