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My First Year:

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My Grade 9 Year:

I believe this was year was a great introduction to my high school experience and i got to explore a lot of things of what i like to do. I think my first semester was my favourite semester as i had already a lot of my friends from middle school but i still got the chance to make many new friends that then got carried over into my second semester classes. This doesn’t mean that my second semester is fun its just started and I’ll have more fun down the road. I think one of the hardest classes i had this year was science class, but i still got to learn lots and passed the class. My easiest class would have to be guitar class this semester, besides P.E. In guitar, I get to just play a guitar and learn about different bands and listen to music.

A Useful Educational Website:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bastille

This website helped me plenty of times especially in Social Studies, when researching about a unit and wanting to know specific details this helped a lot. I also liked the amount of images that they use in their pages and they give you a timeline as well. It also has a easy to understand catalog to tell what unit your in on the left side of the website.

A Useful Educational Website:

This Video was used during the beginning of my cooking class when we were preparing to make oatmeal cookies. I thought of this video as it was very informative and I’ve never really thought about the science behind the baking of cookies until this video. My favourite part was learning about what temperature is needed for the baking to do different things such as caramelization occurs at 356 degrees.

A Useful Educational Image:

This image was shown to me In Social Studies, when we were studying the French Revolution. It was a picture of the Bastille (a french prison) and i still remember loving this picture. I think i like it because of its level of detail showing the French peasants surrounding the prison and watching them get increasingly angrier with their rifles and cannons.

A Useful Educational Quote:

”I have no special talent, I am only passionately curios” -Albert Einstein

I like this quote and how it relates to me by if you want to do something your good at you don’t have talent, you just like doing it a lot. This relates to me playing the guitar, i was terrible at playing and didn’t know and notes, but i just wanted to learn an instrument really badly and so gradually, i got better.

Works Cited:

Image/Webstie: Bastille | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica. 3 Jan. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bastille.

Video: – YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wpNhyreDE. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

Quote：‘The 50 Most Famous Quotes of All Time’. Wavebox Know How, 20 May 2022, https://wavebox.io/knowhow/the-50-most-famous-quotes-of-all-time/.

ADL Persuasion and Advertising Project

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My Advertisement:

Persuasion andAdvertising Learning Reflection:

a. Which advertising technique did you choose and how did you use that technique to create your poster?

I had used a version of the “Plain Folk” advertisement method as the person isn’t a plain normal person, however there is a clear message that the clean well fit man in the suit enjoys the cologne and that if you buy the product you will look just like the nice man in the suit.

b. Explain how and why you chose the colours, words, background, etc. that you used to make your advertisement.

I had tried to make the colours in the ad nice comforting and warm just like the cologne’s smell and feel, and overall look, I had also added two different colognes both coming from the same brand just to make it look nicer as well as promoting the type of cologne in general instead of just focusing on the one cologne.

c. What do you think others who aren’t in your class should know about advertising?

I think the best type of advertisements are the ones who connect to their audience well, and that are colourful and stand out the most. As well as the fact that ads are difficult to make and making them look neat is quite difficult and most importantly is to make the ad appeal to your audience.

Core Competency Reflection:

Some skills I have developed to make my creative activities better are I had figured out how to use the AI image generator on Canva to make the man in the suit on my advertisement. I had also used a clear background website to make the cologne bottles blend into the picture which i found really improved the overall look of my ad. I had also never used Canva before this project and so it was quite the learning experience, but thankfully it was quite simplistic and easy to learn.

I used to think that there was nothing difficult about advertisement and now I know that there are many steps about building an advertisement. When I was making my ad I had gone through about 5 different ideas on what I wanted it to look like and I had originally just had a single white background with the name of the cologne in the dead middle. This didn’t work as i thought it was too vague and should add a picture which took a long time to tweak to make it look nice.

ADL Social Studies- Ethical Judgement

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Is Violence Justified During a Revolution?

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

Me and my partner had used the AI called Copilot, and had thought it was quite helpful in helping us gather information and examples to build our arguments and had given us answers that were very easy to understand and follow. It was also helpful in giving us links to the websites it had used so that we could site them.

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

Firstly, we had asked the AI the questions and read it then we would go to the website where it got the information and we would observe the website and put in our own words what it was trying to say. We had then cited the websites and had done our best to not copy the information and turned it into our own words.

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

I Partially agree with each argument as in some situations revolutions need violence but in others it’s better to do things with peaceful methods. I think i like Nelson Mandela’s method of protest in which he initially tried peaceful protests but when they were ineffective he had switched to violent ways. However there are many people who had successfully protested peacefully such as Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks or Gandhi.

Core Competency Reflection

1.One of the ways i ensure that my group is clear on the common purpose is to…

Go over their work and work with them together to help them understand better and make things more clear.

2.When i need to work collaboratively with people I don’t know well, I…

Try to get to known them better and try to be friends with them and not judge them by the way they do their work and help them as much as i can.