My Grade 9 Year!
My first year of High School was a learning experience where I achieved goals and made new friends. At first it was stressful because I had to learn my way around a new school and make new friends. However, after a few weeks I started to enjoy being at High School because I had more freedom and found that it was an enjoyable and fun experience. I have definitely shown that I have the ability to be independent and collaborative, well being very successful. Additionally, I am proud of myself for working hard with school academics and sports, and I continue to push myself and improve. I believe that my grade 9 year was about pushing myself and exploring new things such as picking new electives that I enjoy and joining school athletics. From doing these things, I have learned that I have a passion for different arts such as cooking, baking and photography, and sports such as basketball and running.
A Quote That Inspires Me
“Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.”- Stephen Curry 🏀
This quote is very inspirational for me because it really describes the meaning of success. This is something that really connects to me, as a person who is always pushing myself to be the best that I can be. This is both for academics and sports. When I read this quote, it reminds me that I have the choice to be successful if I really work hard.
Another reason why I chose this quote is because it inspires me to play basketball. This year especially, basketball has become a passion that I really want to improve in. Even though I am not the best at times, this quote tells me that I can be successful if I practice and work hard. This is even more inspiring coming from Steph Curry because he isn’t just an amazing basketball player, but he is so inspiring for everyone because he makes the word “success” seem so real.
My Image!
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This is actually an image that I took while I was in Photography 10 during the first semester. I chose this photo because it is one of my favourites that I took in Photography, and it is something that I am proud of. It demonstrates that I learned how to use the camera and incorporate different techniques that we learned. In this specific photo, I learned how to have a blurry background while focusing on one part of the flower. In this case, it was the center part of the flower because the yellow pops against the white petals and the dark background.
The reason why I used one of my own photos that I took during Photography is because it helps explain my Grade 9 Year. One of my electives that I chose was Photography 10, and I have discovered that Photography is a passion which I enjoy. Photography was a class for me that was enjoyable and kept me relaxed when I had other harder classes such as French and Math in the same semester.
My Useful Educational Website
A website that I found useful this year was “Thesaurus.com”. This website makes it easy to find synonyms and more sophisticated words, rather than using happy, nice, good, etc. This makes you have a larger vocabulary and makes your writing more engaging.
I used “Thesaurus.com” in my Food Studies 10 class when we had to write “Food Folios” about our recipes. By using this website, I was able to find better describing words for my food. An example of a word that I used a lot while describing my food was “delicious”. Instead of repeating this word, I used the Thesaurus to help me find similar words to replace “delicious” . I used words such as “appetizing, delectable, exquisite, and heavenly”.
An Educational Video That Was Helpful
Meiosis- By: The Amoeba Sisters 🧪🔬
This video is by the “Amoeba Sisters” and it explains the different steps of Meiosis. This is important to understand because it is a big part of the Biology unit in Science 9. I found learning about Mitosis and Meiosis very confusing and hard to memorize, but the “Amoeba Sisters” made it easier for me. Their videos are very engaging/fun and they use phrases like “IPMAT-C” which helped me memorize all the steps in Meiosis. All their Science videos are very helpful, but I found this one video specifically helpful as it was a challenging and complicated unit.
Works Cited
Admin. “Steph Curry Quotes: Inspiring Words of Wisdom from the NBA Superstar.” Thatonerule.Com, 24 Dec. 2023, https://thatonerule.com/rule/steph-curry-quotes-finding-inspiration-in-the-words-of-the-nba-superstar/.
Amoeba Sisters. Meiosis (Updated). 2017. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzDMG7ke69g.
“Thesaurus.Com – The World’s Favorite Online Thesaurus!” Thesaurus.Com, https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/happy. Accessed 14 May 2024.