My cultural identity contributes to who I am as an artist, in that I was able too create my lino art using the concept of a tiger. In Malaysian culture the tiger is a symbol of courage, strength, and pride for culture, something’s I want to improve more of in the future. Curating this composition was a new way of learning, for this piece we were instructed to carefully carve out of a lino block being sure not to cut ourselves. I enjoyed learning this art technique because it was therapeutic and calming as you needed to be slow and careful. As an artist I can create anything my mind comes up with and my culture always contributes to my art.
My artifact: Photo of most recent laboratory experiment
I can take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share
During this lab experiment we needed to combine different chemicals to watch the different ways they would react to each other and creating new substances, I demonstrated “I can take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share”. In my partnership we were able to find an agreement to split up different roles, making the lab work even between the two of us. We can work responsibly and respectfully as a group and achieve the common goal. If one person needed help the other was there for support. My group was able to use each others strengths to succeed.
Some things I think about before dividing task amount group members include. What are everyone’s strengths and weaknesses and how can we use these to our advantage.
I know the group is working well together when I hear/ see. Everyone contributing ideas to the group project. Further expanding the outlooks of the project and bringing everybody together as a group.
I show others that I truly value their contributions by being able to add their ideas to the project and adding to their idea further.
One of the ways I ensure my group is clear in the common purpose is to discuss ideas about the common purpose before starting the project.
My partner and I created a mock-up of a cupcake print ad for our fake business named Berries & Batter. We promoted cupcakes with flavourful fruit. Our cleaver logo represents the cupcakes toped with a berries. For our promotion in the print ad we had a 50% discount to our original price which was $2.50 – 50% = $1.25 for each cupcake.
Core Competency
“I work with others to achieve a goal.” My partner and I shared and adjusted our ideas to get to the common goal.
“I give, receive and act on feedback to progress in my goals.” When working on a group project I was able to give and take feedback from my partner to finish the project.
“I think about what I am going to convey and to whom I will convey it to” In this project we needed to create a fake brand and make is look believable and real.
Math is difficult for me, because I do better with visual learning I have learnt how to make my math easier using visual ways to think about things or getting a refresh of the formula. In the first photo its polynomials with algebra tiles, I liked using algebra tiles to do polynomials as a visual example of what I needed to do. In the second photo it was a notes page as a reminder of what to do next in equations. My strength is thinking about side of the box when things get difficult. But with doing this it helped me succeed in math and sometimes help my peers by showing them the way I see things because they are also visual learners.
Core Competency Reflection
“I can identify ways in which my strengths can help me meet challenges, and how my challenges can be opportunities for growth.”
I show this by making new ways or examples of learning by thinking outside of the box, this helps me face my challenges and overcome them. This is a opportunity for growth because I am able to finish my work and understand how to do the equations.
An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is when our group wanted to use the switch, I suggested to attach the positive side to one of the sides on the switch and the negative part to the opposite side.
I know the group is working well together when I hear/ see everyone contributing and trying everybody’s ideas and trying to put them together to find the common goal.
Something I am looking forward to in Science 10 is to go more into depth on each subject we learn about. I can contribute to and work with criteria to improve my own work; evidence of that is when I think im finished my work I review it and change it accordingly.
3 Competencies I demonstrated in this story board project were:
“I can develop a body of creative work over time.” I showed this by creating the story board and handing it in on time
“I persevere over time to develop my idea, and I expect setback and failure, but use that to develop my ideas.” I demonstrated this by having a hard time on trying to incorporate the different types of contracts in a smooth way.
“I can identify how my actions affect the community or environment and I can make positive change.” I learnt that my contracts I use day to day affect others and I will continue to use them positively.
For my first year of high school I would have never expected for everything to go so fast. High school is such a jump compared to middle school. I am so happy that I was able to make new friends and even connect with old ones from middle and elementary school, this has made my first high school year so much better. Through all the challenges of my first few weeks I was able to find an even balance between homework and friends. I found attending school events like football games, soccer games, the winter formal and the snowfall serenade have enriched my high school experience. Being apart of these events show the amazing school spirit and made me feel like I was really apart of centennials community. I feel like I’ve feel as I changed greatly from the beginning of the school year till now. I’ve learnt with my new freedom I have so much more responsibilities as in having all your homework done and handed in, getting to all your classes on time and even studying for tests and quizzes far more often. If I needed to tell anyone that’s going into their first year of high school, I would tell them to be ready for much more work, in middle school you think that your can just do all your work at home, but in high school you need to use all available times, use flex and do your work in class.
One useful website that I used a frequently this year was Zbib. I used Zbib in most of my assignments this year.
Useful educational video
Starting my second semester with math I completely forgot how to do exponents. Rewatching this video from grade 8 gave me a clear refresher on how to do exponents.
Useful educational photo
When doing my math homework I took notes as I was doing my work. I used these notes a tool when trying to do my work to help me understand the equations better.
An Inspirational quote
This quote is by one of my favourite artist. The quote “Don’t wait for the tide just to dip both feet in” is telling you to take action (dip both feet in) and stop waiting for the perfect time or circumstance (tide).
Competency #1: I can gather, select, evaluate and synthesize information. One example of this is shown in my ADL Social Studies – Ethical Judgement project. I was able to find and take information, put it into my own words and turn it into a project.
Competency #2: I can explore and engage with materials and sources. I am able to incorporate the given resources into my work an example of this is while writing my Coffin Ship Letter I could remember reading about how people in the Coffin Ships lived, and pretending that I was living through that too.
