June 15 2023

Core Competency Self Assessment #2 – Computer Programming 11

Reflection:

This assignment is called “Turtle Game”, and for it, we made a game using the Turtle module. After watching and copying the videos to make this assignment, I wanted to take it a bit further. But first I’ll explain what the basic part of it does.

You use the arrow keys to control the little blue triangle, your spaceship, the left and right to change the angle, and the up and down to change the speed. As you move around your spaceship, you’re trying to hit the pink circles. Those are “space anomalies” (because I had no idea what to name them). While you are doing this, a black hole floats around. If you hit a space anomaly, you get 10 points. If the black hole hits you, you lose 10 points. Those are displayed at the top corners of the screen (the overall total of things hit is at the bottom). Oh, and whenever you hit something, it bounces to another random spot on the screen and then continues to float in a random direction.

Right, then there’s the modifications I added. So the black hole is actually something I thought of, I though it should be a bit more interesting than just floating around. Also, after an amount of time, the screen changes and shows a percentage. This is based on how many space anomalies you hit out of the total number of things hit.

During this assignment, we worked with “classes”, new things that are a bit confusing. Instead of naming a turtle (I’ve been naming mine after Doctor Who characters, trying to see how long it’ll take the teacher to notice. Rose, Mickey, Donna, Martha, Amy, Vincent, Rory, River, Melody, and Clara so far), we just call it “self” and that means that turtle within that class. Anyways, that was new and was a slight problem when I was playing around with stuff and changing some things.

“I Can Statements”:

I can develop a body of creative work over time in an area I’m interested in or passionate about
(Creative Thinking)
I can usually make my ideas work…
(Creative Thinking)
I can monitor my progress and adjust my actions to make sure I achieve what I want
(Critical Thinking)
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April 18 2023

Core Competency Self Assessment – Computer Programming 11

Flowers. In a flower pot. Made with Turtle, coded in Python.

Reflection:

One of the assignments, the “flower field, wasn’t working. For this assignment, we had to copy some of the teacher’s code, and then write some of our own to make the turtle draw flowers at random positions. At first, the flowers were being drawn outside the screen, which didn’t make sense. So I played around with the buffer sizes until it looked ok to me. Another problem I ran into was when I asked the computer to make 4 flowers, it made 16. For some reason, it squared the number of how many flowers I wanted. So I compared the teacher’s code and mine, and it turns out I added a random line that she didn’t have. That’s fixed now. I think I did pretty good on this assignment overall. 1) it works. 2) I added flower stems and a flower pot to be a bit more creative.

“I Can” Statements:

I can experiment with different ways of doing things
(Critical Thinking)
I can develop a body of creative work over time in an area I’m interested in or passionate about
(Creative Thinking)
I build the skills I need to make my ideas work, and usually succeed, even if it takes a few tries
(Creative Thinking)
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January 20 2023

Conics Project Desmos Self-Portrait

A picture of me I made on desmos, using different equations of parabolas, circles, hyperbolas…
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/bakcdyocze

How I Made This:

For my self portrait, I started with an elipse for the face. I put the elipse over the y=6, so I had a center line that I could use (with some math) to make a symmetrical self portrait. Why 6? because I didn’t like the thick 0 lines. Anyways, then I made the eyes. I used 2 parabolas for the eye shape, 2 circles for the iris and the pupil, and 1 more circle with a ton of restrictions for the glare on the eye. Next I made the nose, which is made out of 1 hyperbola, 4 circles, and a parabola. Since we need at least 1 hyperbola, I decided to make that the main part of the nose. Then I did the ears. The ears are 2 ellipses, nothing too complecated. Both ears have 2 earrings each which I added in later. You can only see the first pair of circles in the picture, but if you zoom in in the desmos graph, you can see a square paired with a line (what I usually wear). For some reason, I didn’t spend a lot of time on the mouth. The mouth is a parabola with the line thickness set at 8 instead of 2. I played around with some parabolas to create the hair. The darker part is 2 overlapping parabolas, except to the power of 100, not 2, so the area would be wide enough and a mostly square shape. The lighter lines are part of a sin wave. I didn’t want to make a bunch of x= somethings, so I made a really squished sin wave by multiplying the x in the equation by 40. After that, I made the body. The neck is another hyperbola, and the sweatshirt is made of parabolas and lines. When I was writing the equations for the sweatshirt, instead of y=, I used E= with E having a different subscript number each time. This helped simplify things when I used inequalities (<>) to fill in the area with colour. The only problem was that none of the restrictions could have y. The eyebrows I made next are a total of 4 parabolas, 2 circles, and 2 lines. I tried to get the the same width apart, but you might notice that the left is slightly higher than the right. This is because I couldn’t flip a parabola to a mirror image, I could only make it move left or right. Then there is the hat, mostly made of parabolas. Because I couldn’t figure out how to fill in the hat, I cheated a bit. I made a table with points on the graph. Then I made a polygon from that table. I was then able to drag the points wherever, and then fill in the area inbetween. Overall, the only thing I traced was the maple leaf and the outline of the hat. The End.
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January 4 2023

Core Competency Self Assesment – Pre-Cal

Collaberation

*whiteboard filled with notes. the green pen died so we stole a black one temporarily*
During class me and my partner will look over each other‘s notes and make sure that we have all the notes for the from the video for the class. While doing the questions we both contribute for the answers. I usually do the writing and we both like go over the questions together like how to solve them so we are both able to do the questions independently on the test.
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November 18 2022

Core Competency Self Assesment – Chemistry 12

this is a picture of different amounts of Pb(NO3)2, KI, and distilled H2O (water) mixed together to form precipitates. PbI2.

Collaberating

Me and my partner were able to successfully work together to complete this lab. We were able to communicate and collaberate during this lab and others. For this lab, my partner poured the KI into the Pb(NO3)2 and H2O, and I took the pictures.
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November 10 2022

English First Peoples 11 Reflection

My Artifact

This is a picture of the Imagery Write In Class Assignment. For this, we looked at a picture, then had to write as if we were there. The goal was to paint a picture with words, of a place we haven’t been.

Curricular Competencies Reflection

Despite missing the class this was taught, I was able to create and communicate my ideas to complete the assignment pretty decent-ly. To help me with this assignment, I pictured what it was like at a beach i’ve been to. I wrote about that beach and added some trees. I was able to write in all 5 senses, which helped better describe the scene.

Core Compitencies Reflection

The core compitency for this assignment was “thinking.” During this assignment, I was thinking on how to describe the scene the way the teacher wanted. I was able to fix this problem by imagining that I’m in the picture, narrating stuff in first-person.

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October 28 2022

Core Competency Self Assesment – Law 12

Critical and Reflective Thinking:

Should our criminal justice system be more punitive or rehabilitative? Why? I think it should be more rehabilitative, or at least less punitive. I think that some of the sentences are than they should be for a small offence. It’s also expensive to supply prisons, so if we rehabilitate people, then there’ll be less money spent on prisons. I know that the money would go to the rehabilitating, but to me, that’s better than making harsher sentences, making there be more people in prison.

I can analyze evidence to make judgements. During the Unit Test and the “How The Grinch Stole Law Class” assignment, we had to read something and then find the evidence within the paragraph, in order to figure out and decide what someone was guilty of.
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September 18 2022

Core Competency Goals

I have no idea what type of picture to put here, so here’s a LEGO me that I use for stop motion animation.

I am so curious about ___, that I am excited to learn more about how I could use ___ to make it even better:

I am so curious about creating stop motion animation movies, that I am excited to learn more about how I could use different filming techniques to make it even better. I like to make stop motion animation mini movies with LEGO. something I’m working on is copying a movie trailer, but also trying to get different camera angles. My goal is to create two videos of the same trailer, one with matching shots, and the other with my own camera angles.

Goal 2:

I’m not sure what core competency this falls under. Anyways, my second goal is to turn in homework on time. More specifically, I am trying to get work done before the day it’s due. I need to work on this because this assignment here is due today at 3pm, and it is currently 2:13pm.

My strategies for collecting relevant information for specific tasks include:

My strategies for collecting relevant information for specific tasks include searching on the internet for information, reading books that involve similar topics, and looking through past projects and assignments. My goal is to remember these resources, and use them more often to complete future assignments.
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