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English final edublog

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In this assignment we had to create a short story, I think this is a good example of my “create and communicate core competencies”. This story relates to indigenous principles because in indigenous culture and teachings greed and dishonesty trigger bad karma. Learning from experiences and getting what your actions deserve is a common theme in indigenous learning. I believe indigenous principles are very important and the way they teach is one of the best ways to teach the up and coming generations. Reconciliation can be worked towards in may ways and awareness is one of the best ways in my opinion. Learning why the culture and teachings are just as important is huge for the preservation of the indigenous culture in Canada. Learning about how there are small elements of indigenous learning in all of life will work towards a greater understanding of there culture.

Creative thinking core competency.

Creating a story is not an easy task, even a short story. It took a bit of thinking at the beginning to get inspired and figure out what I was going to do. Taking all of your ideas and working them into a short story is no small task. I put a lot of effort into taking this story and giving it indigenous principles and teachings, learning through challenges and experiences is something I think is prevalent in indigenous teachings.

Life saving measures

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I have a couple takeaways from the presentations, I felt like they were very informative and I am educated in what to do in the event of emergency. I was interested in naloxone a little more than the other presentations, learning about just how accessible naloxone is to the public was very interesting. You can access naloxone in pharmacies and health centres, there is also a health bus that drives around administrating it. The fact that more people die from overdoes than anything else if you are in-between the ages of 10-60 is crazy to think about. If you don’t even use drugs you are still more likely to die from an overdoes than any other cause. Dying from cancer, car crashes and suicide are all less likely then dying from an overdose. Learning about that was crazy to me and it really made me think about how big of a problem it is. Learning about CPR is something we do every year but this year it was a little more in depth. I didn’t know that CPR was almost ineffective if you don’t break the ribs was very interesting to me because it is not what you see on tv. They never tell you about how breaking the ribs is necessary and ill remember that if I ever need to give CPR.

Critical and Reflective Thinking Competency Reflection

I can analyze evidence to make judgements. 

Learning about the stigma surrounding drug users and male drug users was interesting. Everyone has a life and a story, everyone made decisions or was affected by external conditions that put them in that position. Every person deserves help and there are no right-offs when it comes to mental and physical health.

English first peoples 11 reflection

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Curricular competencies reflection

During this assignment I learned about the perspective of the indigenous peoples when the colonists arrived, and why it is important to be authentic and respectful when retelling stories or events. In the film, the misrepresentation of the indigenous culture was prevalent. By doing a synthesis assignment on this film I widened my writing and reading comprehension skills, reforming my writing was key to showing my understanding about the concepts. The lessons that we took away from the synthesis project are true in everything you might do in life. Being authentic and true to history, especially when it concerns the integrity and pride of a culture, is vital to reconciliation.

Core competencies reflection

I represented my critical and reflective thinking skills/competencies in this assignment my looking at my work critically and objectively. With help I was able to improve my work and elevate it; I got feedback from my peers and teacher that helped me reflect and improve. During this assignment the goal was to take big ideas away from the texts and criticize/think reflectively about the authenticity of the two stories we looked at. Being able to see many points of view and understanding the feelings of the characters was huge when writing my synthesis.

English 9 Final Reflection

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This visual example accurately displays the core competency, thinking in English because even though I’m not a Picses I was still very creative and innovative during most of the projects. Creative group work helped represent that as I did my part to achieve the goals we set as a group. I’m specifically proud of one project where we had to write a short story, the story turned out as planned and everyone in the group contributed.

I decided to symbolize my thoughts as a shape because shapes are creative, we use shapes all the time. whether its to build houses and skyscrapers or even in geometry class. Shapes symbolize creativity, even though I didn’t choose a concrete shape like a square or a rectangle I was still very creative with my choosing of the symbol. I picked the most creative astrology symbol (even if I had to look it up) it was still a pretty good idea.

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