Category: Core Competencies

EFP 11

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Pocahontas synthesis essay

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Curricular Competencies Reflection

I chose this project because it gave me a better understanding of the issues that Indigenous peoples have had to face and continue to face. This project allowed me to look at the Indigenous perspective and colonization in a different light. I inspected articles on the true story of Pocahontas and determined if they were authentic then, if they were, I contrasted them with Disney’s version of Pocahontas.

Core Competencies Reflection

This essay allowed me to grow my ability to creatively come up with conclusions and my own opinions on issues. I was able to look at two pieces of media and critically come up with which one was the more accurate piece. I was also able to help others if they needed input on their ideas.

English First Peoples 11 Reflection

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My Artifact

Pocahontas true story synthesis assignment

Curricular Competencies Reflection

This project has taught me many different lessons. I have learned about how Pocahontas’s story was romanticized by the media and what her true story is. I have learned about the different perspectives that the Indigenous had verses the colonizers that played a role in the portrayal of Pocahontas’s story. Though feedback from my teacher and classmates I wrote an essay that I was proud of. I have learned that I need to be critical of the information that is being fed to me though media. I should learn to be able to look at situations from other people’s perspectives. Better understanding other’s perspectives will help me with reconciliation by being able to empathize with the Indigenous.

Core Competencies Reflection

I feel that I did a good job communicating my ideas through this project. I took the resources that I had and used them and my own ideas to create an essay that was well thought out and addressed the issue clearly. I think that my conclusion on the contrast between Disney’s Pocahontas and her real story was put into words in an organized and clear manner. Next time we have to write an essay I will try to add more examples of my own ideas and make more connections between my experiences and the evidence provided.

Short Story Writing Process

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My Story

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Core Competency Reflection

One strategy or activity that stimulates my imagination is brainstorming. For this project, we started with a brainstorm. We just though of ideas and started writing one idea. We were allowed to change our idea later, but we just started writing whatever came to mind. This was helpful because I got something on the paper, I didn’t just end up staring at the computer trying to come up with the “perfect idea” the whole time.

A skill I have developed to make my creative activities better is rewriting my story. I had to go back to my writing many times to revise it and fix the things that needed to be fixed. The next time I write something I will use this strategy to make my work as good as it can be.

When it seems the good ideas just won’t come to me, I would listen to music to help calm myself or create space in my mind to get myself in the mood of my book. When I couldn’t think of a way to take my story that felt like a good idea, I would listen to music. Usually it was music that was in the same mood as where I wanted to take my story. This way I could get my mood into the same mood as the story and I could put out more words that I felt went in the right direction.

One goal I have for my writing is to take more risks. I do already take some risks in my writing but I want to add more. to achieve this goal I will try to write more short stories that have different writing techniques in them.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

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Thinking

Whenever my group and I couldn’t think of any ideas on what to build, which was often, we would bounce ideas back and forth to find something that we liked and wanted to build. If someone had an idea, unless it was something that we knew would absolutely not work, we would try it to see if we could add it to our machine. If something that we tried didn’t work, we would try to change the idea to work and see if we could incorporate it into our machine.

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This is the video of our completed Rube Goldberg experiment. We tried a lot of different approaches to complete this project. Some of our ideas were scraped, but most of them were added to the machine.

Act III Dialogue Collaborative Project

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Script

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Following Script Format

I constantly compared my work to the model as I was writing the script up. I started writing my script by writing my name, block, and the date in the top right hand corner of my page. I then wrote up my script. after I had written up my script with minimal formatting I finished it up. I made the actions three tabs in and the speeches two tabs in so everything was spaced out. Then I was finished.

Core Competency Reflection – Collaboration

I can work with others to achieve a goal. I chose this because this project was a project where I worked with a partner to complete the script. I helped them and they helped me, and together we worked as a team to hand in our best work.

I can take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share. In the project we split up the work evenly between us and bounced ideas back and forth.

I can apply constructive strategies to navigate misunderstandings and conflicts. When my project partner didn’t understand how to translate something into modern English or how to format something I helped them by explaining it to them so that they would understand how to do it in the future.

PHE 9 AH Reflection

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My Artifact

PHE 9 AH Reflection

Potential stressors Coping strategies that I use
homework

being called on to do everything at home		Do a little bit at a time. Do the hardest tasks first. Take short breaks every so often.
Telling my sister that she has to do something. Take a deep breath.

When I have a belt test for martial arts that I’m really worried about I just have to take a deep breath and tell myself that I’ll be fine and that I won’t fail. Sometimes there will be weekends that all my teachers give me homework but I’m also doing things over the weekend. When this happens I have to be very good at managing time. I do all the hardest things that I have first when I have time and then I do the rest of it when Im not doing things.

Core Competency Reflection

  1. I work with others to achieve a goal. When I have too much work to do, I work with the people in my live to get them done. I get my mom and friends to look over my work so I know I’m not making any mistakes and when I need a break I can play with my dog.
  2. I advocate for myself.  When I have a lot of work to do and I think that its too much for me to handle, I ask my teachers if I can have the due date on one of my projects pushed forward.
  3. I advocate for myself. When at home I’m getting too much work from my Mom, I sometimes have to tell her to stop and give my sister somethings to do instead of piling it all on me.
  4. I imagine and work towards change in myself and in the world.  When I feel like I have no control in the world I just stop and think of the things I can do and work towards them instead I stressing about things I can’t control.

Sometimes I end up advocating for others more than myself and I need to work on advocating for myself more.

Midsummer: The Movie

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My Movie

Character, Setting, and Mood

To choose character markers Emilio and I read through the shortened story and found bits of the story that explained how the characters looked. For example the story takes place in Greece so I think that the characters would have darker skin because it’s warm in Greece and people spend a lot of time outside. For the setting the story mentioned that the characters were in a forest and it also mentioned that the story sets place in Athens. The story mostly sets place in the forest so I imagine that the mood would be quite whimsical so we put in some whimsically music in.

Core Competency Reflection

Working collectively-I can work effectively with Emilio and split up the work so that we each did our fair amount. We also worked out details together like the music and the slide order.

Evaluating and developing-I can personalize the video so that you can recognize that it was me and someone else who did it and we didn’t plagiarize anything.

Connecting and engaging with others-I can connect with other people to understand what their thought process is, to be able to work with them better.

Building relationships-I can build relationships more easily when I have been working with them and