May 13

Core Competency Self-Reflection: Precalculus 12

ARTIFACT

PROFILE 3

I can ask questions and consider options. I can use my observations, experience, and imagination to draw conclusions and make judgments.

This artifact is from a problem in my workbook, which requires me to prove that the identities are equal to each other; I was able to successfully solve it on my own, given the first try. While learning how to verify identities, I couldn’t quite understand how the process worked, which steps were being taken, and why different things were being manipulated in a certain way. It required me to take a lot of thinking, as well using multiple resources like YouTube videos, my workbook, and math-related apps, to finally grasp how this concept worked. After going back to my notes for this concept, I re-read everything, but this time, understanding much of it. I was able to ask questions to myself, and think of different approaches to how I could solve problems. I used my observations to see what factors were being manipulated first, as well as which side of the equation was changed first. From here, I made judgements on what the first step was, following the next step, and what method I should take to solve the problem. After specifically solving this problem, I felt more successful than when I did a unit in the past which held similar concepts; Algorithms. I had a struggle learning algorithms, because of how much manipulation had to be done with every problem, and I wasn’t able to understand a lot of the work. But since I am starting to understand how these manipulations work with the Trigonometric Equations unit, I think that I will be able to connect what I learned when working with logarithms again on my final exam, or in another math class.

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January 13

CORE COMPETENCY LEARNING – PHYSICS 11

COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION

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I can connect and engage with other peers in my class when doing work, such as whiteboard questions, practice questions, and worksheets. If I don’t understand the work that we are doing, I communicate with others and ask for help with questions so that I can properly understand the work, and not be confused. If someone that I’m working with is confused, I try my best to help them by explaining how we are getting the answer, step by step. I find doing whiteboard work helpful, because by engaging with other people, I can further enhance my learning; it also helps me understand what I can and can’t do, and how I need to progress from there.

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January 13

ENGLISH FIRST PEOPLES 11 REFLECTION

MY ARTIFACT

Curricular Competency Reflection

During this assignment, I learned how to develop a short story based on Indigenous storytelling. I learned how some Indigenous stories can be based off personal experiences of oneself, which is why I chose to write a short story which followed that routine. By understanding how they are told, and what elements they are consisted of, I created a small short story to represent my writing skills. I was able to take my previous knowledge of how I viewed stories to be written, to construct my own. I can take what I learned in this assignment, to learn more about the values of Indigenous Peoples, which can act as a step toward reconciliation. By exploring new perspectives, which I learned in this story, I can reflect on that for future interactions where disagreements occur. I will understand that there can be multiple different viewpoints to the situation, and know how to deal with it in a proper and respectful way.

CORE COMPETENCIES REFLECTION

CRITICAL/REFLECTIVE THINKING

My strategy for this project was to use my personal experiences of a situation, and alter it into a story. By doing this, I would have more original ideas from myself, and it would be a way I’m reflecting on myself, by addressing it to a fictional character. I used my critical thinking skills to create multiple new ideas on how to start my short story, and how I can build off from there to continue writing. I used feedback from my teacher to make sure that my story wasn’t too short or long. In my short story, I used evidence which was of another character describing a similar conflict to the protagonists, to draw up a conclusion which the main character would realize and understand. For next time, I can try to add more characters in the story to make it more interesting (ex. a group of friends of the protagonist). I can also ask for more help and feedback from my teacher, to make the story sound better.

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November 21

English First Peoples 11 Reflection

My Artifact

Curricular Competencies Reflection

Create and Communicate: What did you learn during this assignment or task and how did you grow in your writing, speaking, or representing skills? How will you take what you learned and use it towards working on reconciliation?

During this assignment, I learned how to define a character through a story. I read the story “A Mountain Legend” by Jordan Wheeler, and was able to come up with different personality traits using what I learned about characterization elements in our storytelling unit. This allowed for me to have a better understanding of the story and the characters, and how it shapes the conflict. I had expressed my learning through an infographic, where I represented the character’s traits and how I came to choose those, which is how I grew in my representing skills. From what I leaned in this story, I know that for the future, I won’t try to force someone to do something in order to prove themselves, which is essentially how the conflict arose in this story. I won’t judge someone for their inability in wanting to do something, since I don’t know about the risks that are associated with it. These preventions will be my way of working towards reconciliation.

Core Competencies Reflection

Creative Thinking

When coming up with ideas on how to form my infographic, I decided to choose an aesthetic for my project, to make it look more appealing. I chose to add more visuals to the Infographics, using symbols which were more significant to the story (mountains, birds, eagles, camping sites, and the protagonist). When I was coming up with traits for my characters personality, I thought a lot about different, possible words, and narrowed it down to the ones that I thought were most fitting. This simply acted as my strategy for new ideas on the personality traits. Something I would do to improve next time, is add more detail to the personality trait description, because I think my descriptions didn’t explain as well as they could have. I would also make my synopsis of the conflict more detailed, talking about the protagonists’ background history.

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October 25

Law 12 Core Competency Reflection 

Critical and Reflective Thinking

Should our criminal justice system be more punitive or rehabilitative? Why? 

I believe that our criminal justice system should be more punitive, because when compared to other country’s justice systems, they intend for more harsh punishments and penalties than Canada does. People continue to do crime, even if they know what the consequences will be, since the punishments are not that severe. By creating a more punitive criminal justice system in Canada, it can deter offenders, and possibly act as a factor to reduce crime rates. With harsh punishments, offenders will think once again about whether they want to commit a crime or not.

I can analyze my own beliefs and consider views that do not fit with them – I can analyze my own beliefs and consider views using the information and knowledge that I have about the criminal justice system. For example, a question asked how I would address something in my own opinion. I can form that opinion with what I know of the case. I did this during my Law 12 Unit 1 Exam. I looked at the R vs, Oakes case, and had to decide if the Supreme courts decision of the Canadian Narcotics Act violating Canada’s Charter Rights was right or wrong. Based off the situation of the case, I formed my own opinion that it hadn’t violated the charter, and that the court made a wrong decision. I did so because from what I knew, the decision did not fit with how I viewed the evidence, since I saw it as a different indication than what was portrayed.

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June 12

Socials 10 Core Competency Reflection

World War 1 Project – Newspaper on Steps to War

COMMUNICATION

What are some ways you like to use to show your learning? What makes (a form they identified) work for you?

This was a major project which was about the events leading up to the First World War. To express what we learned about, we needed to create some form of a project to show that we understood everything about the topic. We had options to choose form such as radio podcasts, newspapers, heritage moment videos, or a drawing with an explanation. Out of these four options, I decided to go with the one that I felt was most creative and easiest for me. I also chose this form fr my project because I had previously made a newspaper for my last year’s social class, so by already have making one, I would be able to create another that will be even better.

I like to showcase my understanding of certain topics through projects, such as newspapers. This project that I worked on was about the steps to war during World War 1, and to show what I learned throughout the topic, I created a newspaper, which was designed as if it was created in the early 1900’s. It works because the form of the project was relevant to the unit since newspapers were a source of getting information around. I was able to get creative with what I wanted to put onto my newspaper, which also made it easier for me to do. Other forms like posters and PowerPoints could also work to express my learning, but a newspaper let me do more and be creative, which helped me receive a good mark on the project.

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June 11

Concert Band Year End Reflection

I feel that as a band student, I’ve had some good musical growth this year.I started off the class with the knowledge I had from doing band last year and was at an “intermediate level.” Anytime we received a new song, there would be new, different components to learn such as accents, dynamics, melodies, rhythms, key signatures, etc. Sometimes I would understand them, but other times, I wouldn’t. To learn these components, I would ask a friend, classmate, or even just go onto the internet (e.g., YouTube, Safari) to get the answer. Throughout the year, I’ve also practiced the songs at home so that I’m prepared and ready to play them during class. Without the practice, I would’ve struggled to keep up in class, and would probably not be able to answer a question that the teacher asked me. With all the 4 concerts that I played at; I feel like I progressively got better at comfortably playing in front of large groups of people. It also helped that I played with a group of other students, so when I made a mistake, it wouldn’t be noticeable, and I could continue playing without it affecting the rest of my performance poorly. One thing that I did which helped my musical growth this year was the “Band Technique Research Assignment.” Through that assignment, I was able to find different techniques that could help me improve playing on the flute. It grew my knowledge on the different types of warmups that I could do, how I can play faster, and more things. Overall, my musical growth has grown quite well compared to previous years and has allowed myself to become a better flutist.

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May 18

Core Competencies – Career Life Education 10

Vision Board

I can describe my individual characteristics and explain what interests me.

At the beginning of my second semester, I was creating a vision board in class, as an all about me project. On that vision board, I had displayed many things that interested me, such as my hobbies, favourite people and things, and future goals. When I had to present my project to my peers, I explained why I put the things that I had on my vision board, and what they meant to me. I talked about how my goals as a doctor are important for my future, and how specific hobbies and interests of mine affect my life. I had put words on my vision board, as well as quotes, which were used to describe me as a person. Those words connected and described my characteristics (calm, panic, respect, etc.). The quotes that I had added on my vision board were ones that sounded interesting and stood out to me. I had essentially created a small vision board which visually show what kind of person I am, and captured my characteristics and interests.

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May 3

About Me

My name is Tanisha and I am a grade 10 student at Centennial Secondary. I was born in Surrey, Canada, but moved from Surrey to Coquitlam about 8 years ago, to start attending school here. My ethnicity is Punjabi; I come from a family of very cultured people. I love my family, hanging out with my friends, and many other cool things. Some words to describe me are humorous, organized, nice, interpersonal, and intelligent.

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