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My First Year

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My Grade 9 Year

This year I enjoyed learning about new topics that had not been taught in middle school. In grade nine, I had picked some courses that had not been taught in middle school such as Spanish 9 and textiles 9. I enjoyed taking these courses, as I had gained new information on these topics that I did not know before. I had particularly enjoyed textiles 9, as it is a brand new course to me. In textiles I had learnt how to make your own clothing, the process of making clothing and how different techniques, fabrics and other aspects can affect your clothing and the planet. I had been taught a variety of things in textiles, ranging from the basics as in threading your sewing machine, to more complex things such as the negative side of the cotton farming industry. I had enjoyed textiles not just because it was an interesting course, but also because it taught me skills that I could need in the future.

A Useful Educational Website

https://www.perplexity.ai/

I had chosen perplexity since it has helped me throughout many different assignments. Whenever I was stuck on a specific question or part of an assignment, I would ask perplexity to help me answer my question and move forward in my work. Perplexity would give me multiple answers to a question with sources included, and I would use perplexity’s answers to build onto my own work.

A Useful Educational Video

I have chosen this video because it had helped me understand a topic in math that I had been struggling with. I had been struggling with simplifying and understanding polynomials, and this video had explained to me what a polynomial is, what like terms are and how to combine them.

A Useful Educational Image

I have chosen this image as it is my first ADL project of the year, and I was very satisfied with how it turned out. I had enjoyed researching about digital footprints and online safety, as it is a topic I have been interested in and something that is important to everyone. The process of gathering information and summarizing it into short, easy to read sections was something I had enjoyed doing. I was proud that I had created a poster that could let everyone know the dangers of social media and digital footprints in short paragraphs.

An Inspiring Quote

“It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you’re too young to trust yourself.” -SZA

I chose this quote because it tells you to always trust yourself. This quote is inspiring because it tells us to believe in ourselves, even if others think we’re too young or inexperienced. It’s about having confidence in our own judgment and abilities, and not letting others’ doubts stop us from pursuing our goals.

Works Cited

Algebra Basics: Simplifying Polynomials – Math Antics. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKC74YKJpNY. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Digital Footprint – Keeping Myself Safe | MoonD.’s Site. https://mycentennial.sd43.bc.ca/moond/2023/09/30/digital-footprint-keeping-myself-safe/. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Perplexity.ai and quote could not be cited.

Advertisement Persuasion Project

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Persuasion Project Advertisement Techniques

Persuasion Project Unit Reflection

It is important to remember who benefits from an advertisement because we need to know what the money is going toward and if the people who are benefited from the ad are trusted. If the company is using the money for a bad cause, and produces their products in bad ways such as child labor, supporting that company isn’t a good decision. On the other hand, if the company produces their products in a way that doesn’t harm anyone and is using their earnings for a good cause, then supporting them would be a good idea.

Logical persuasion is the technique that convinces me to buy products the most. When the ad provides reasons why the product is good, then it helps convince me that the product will be worth it. The logic helps me understand why I should buy that product and why it is an actual effective and useful product.

Core Competency Reflection

One strategy that helped stimulate my imagination for this project was looking at other advertisements, including advertisements for other products. Before creating my own ad, I had searched up ads, so I could get ideas on how I should design my ad and what I should write to persuade people to buy my product. It helped stimulate my imagination by giving me a base idea of what should be on my advertisement, and how other companies design their arvertisements.

How I selected images and words to create impact for my audience is by paying attention during the explanation of the project and looking over the advertisement glossary and the powerpoint. This helped me select what I should write on my advertisement to convince people to buy my product, and how I could catch peoples eye.

I used to think that advertisements would always be truthful about what celebrities and other people have said about their product. After this project, I had learnt how though they may be truthful, most of the time the company pays the celebrity to say it. They use thd testimonial technique to get people to believe the product is good since a celebrity or trusted person said its good.

ADL Social Studies – Ethical Judgement

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Is Violence justified in a Revolution?

A) How did the use of AI assist you in developing this project 

The use of AI has helped me lots in this project. I was struggling to find out reasons on why and why not violence is justified in a revolution, and when I asked perplexity, it instantly gave me results with sources included. AI had also helped me better understand some words and sentences I didn’t understand, and helped me learn new knowledge about revolutions and violence overall.

B) How did you ensure that the work you created was still your own, rather than just a product of the AI 

I made sure that the work was mine by rephrasing it, and adding parts of my own knowledge to it, and making sure I wasn’t taking sentences directly from the AI without changing them.

C) Did you agree with the position you had to argue? Why or why not? 

I agreed with the position I had to argue for. I agreed since I feel like violence can be necessary in revolutions for multiple different reasons, including the reasons I have argued about. Though violence is obviously not a good thing, it can be the last or only resort to citizens with limited resources or other issues that cause them to resort to violence.

Core Competency Reflection

When I need to work with people I don’t know well, I use some techniques to make sure the project gets done efficiently. I try my best to get to know them, and do consistent check ups to make sure both my partner and I are on track for the project. Whenever we have disagreements, I try to sort the problem out peacefully and try to find something that we both agree on.

My techniques for collecting relecant information forspecific tasks include making sure that my information is from a trusted source.Including checking the source, I always read the information on the website and make sure that it relates to my other work and that it actually makes sense, instead of something that isn’t connected to the topic of my other work.