Category: Grade 9

Musical Performance Reflection

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Solo & Ensemble Performance

This is a video from the year end concert

Curricular Competencies Reflection

What are some instrumental or performance techniques and musical skills you have shown success with through this chosen experience? I showed

What are some skills and techniques you would like to improve on and how will you do that? I would like to improve my hand technique and work on using more wrist with my left hand. I will start with some slow rudiments and then work on some scores with more wrist control.

What are your plans for continuing with your music in the future? Right now, outside of school I am the drum sergeant of a really good grade 4 band and will keep playing in that band until I age out at 18. Then I will join a higher grade band and play in either grade 3, 2, or 1.

Core Competencies Reflections

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 video. I took different rudiments and notes from different grades and levels of playing, and augmented it with the original sheet music. I used my knowledge of notes and pieces to make the music sound a little more interesting on the drumming aspect of things.

When I need to boost my mood or re-focus, I won’t think about something off topic, or something that I played previously because it won’t help me and it may distract me from what I currently playing. I think about what part comes next and anticipate what I am going to play to make it work with the song.

I know that my playing can have both positive and negative consequences, including not making the band or the song we are playing sound as good as it can be, so I adjust my actions and playing to fir the song and not go over the top and I only play what the song needs.

Others find my feedback useful because I give them useful information like what they did well and what they need to improve on. I will tell them good things they did like how well they played and how they can improve.

DRAFTING 9 2022

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My favourite project in Drafting

Chief Architect House

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This was my best and favourite project in drafting 9 because I like doing architecture ion my spare time and use similar software and websites to make my designs. I enjoyed learning how to use the chief architect software because it had a nice UI and was easy to navigate and create projects.

PHE 9 AH Reflection

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My Feeling Emoji

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“Health and Wellness Core Competency Reflection

When I need to boost my mood or re-focus, I take a short break from my work to have a snack, read a book, build or design something, or play a video game. Then, I will turn everything distracting off and get back to work. Other times I will take a step back and look at where I am on my work, then get started on the next piece.

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My Goal For Next Year

My goal for health next is to go to bed at better and earlier times because now I am going to bed at 10 and 11 pm. I am hoping to go to bed at about 8 or 9 pm. I can start doing my work earlier in the day and go ready for bed earlier and get more hours of sleep.

About Me – BIO

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Hi my name is Malcolm. This year I am in grad 9 (My first year of high school). Last year I was a Citadel middle school in Port Coquitlam. The reason why I was in Port Coquitlam, was that my sisters was in a specific program and it was easier to put m in the same school so that we didn’t have to do a lot of driving. Now I am back in Coquitlam for high school. It is much easier to drive to one school (Because my sister is a grade above me and was already at the high school.) Some interesting words that describe me are hardworking because I will always do my part in a project and put in a much knowledge as I can. Some of my hobbies include photography. My two favourite camera brands are Nikon and Fujifilm because they have high-end and quality Mirrorless and DLSR cameras. My current camera is a Nikon D5000. I have used other cameras like a D7200 D80 and a D70. They are older cameras, but My dad and I use the D80 for astronomy photography. We have gotten grate pictures and some of them are really good. A person like, Jack Newton is a great astro-photographer and he takes some of the best pictures in amateur astronomy., I use a 50mm, 70-300mm, and a 500mm lens. I also love astronomy. My dad has a 14″ Meade LX200 telescope in our back yard. It is huge and amazing. I like to build things like desks / speakers / houses (I make floor plans and designs and I am building a deck for my house.), I like music (I play the snare drum in the Gr. 4 White Spot Pipe Band) I like architecture, I also like to make 3D models of houses (In CAD programs or with LEGO). My favourite courses that I have had (Before grade 9) have been science and math. My most challenging course this year so far is French because it has been 5 months since we have taken a French class spoken French.

Pictures

My two favourite images are ones that I have taken. They are pictures of a heron that I took in the summer time on a beach in Nanaimo. I like these pictures because it was a really fun experience watch the heron.

Links, Quotes, and Websites:

My favourite websites are Klipsch and Floor planner because Klipsch is a good brand for high quality speakers that I use for designs and ideas. I use floor planner for designing houses, cabins, rooms, and other buildings.

https://floorplanner.com

https://www.klipsch.ca/

My favourite quote is…

– “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” – Carl Sagan

My favourite video is a video of me playing with the white spot pipe band doing our March Medley, (Which has a March, Strathspey, Real, Slow-Air, Jig, and Hornpipe) in the summer of Covid. I like this video because it was a fun experience to play with the band after a year of practising by ourselves in quarantine. I was on the left playing with the black sticks in the yellow and white shirt on the snare drum.

– .W.S.P.B. 2020 Medley –

Works Cited:

Fuller, Malcolm. “Heron Wide Angel” Wildlife and Astronomy Photographer. Nikon D5000 DX 12.3 MPX, AF-P 70-300mm F/5.6. Taken July 2021. Accessed from my PC, 2021-09-21

– Fuller, Malcolm. “Heron Portrit Angel” Wildlife and Astronomy Photographer. Nikon D5000 DX 12.3 MPX, AF-P 70-300mm F/5.6. Taken July 2021. Accessed from my PC, 2021-09-21

– “If You Wish to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, You Must First Invent the Universe.” Science from Scientists, https://www.sciencefromscientists.org/classroom-post/if-you-wish-to-make-an-apple-pie-from-scratch you-must-first-invent-the-universe. Accessed 21 Sept. 2021.

– D5000 from Nikon. https://en.nikon.ca/nikon-products/product-archive/dslr-cameras/d5000.html. Accessed 21 Sept. 2021.

– Nikon AF-P NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR Lens | Interchangeable Lens from Nikon. https://en.nikon.ca/nikon-products/product/camera-lenses/af-p-nikkor-70-300mm-f%252f4.5-5.6e-ed-vr.html. Accessed 21 Sept. 2021.

– WSPB 2020 Medley – Covid 19 – Hawaiian Shirt Edition. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKo4iyNnV4. Accessed 7 Oct. 2021.