We had a bake sale and then we used math to figure out the costs for everything and for the recipes conversion from U.S system to metric system. And we cooked our food.
I learned how markups work and markup prices and how to use markups and how profits effect the cost of a product. And I learned a lot about baking with samuel.
What did we do?
Analyzed Author’s Point of View in a personal essay, focusing on important aspects of the author’s social identity and their sense of belonging in specific communities.
What have we been learning?
Author’s Point of View
– How an author’s opinions, assumptions, beliefs, values, and biases affect writing
– Using detailed text evidence to determine Author’s Point of View
Social Identity
– How societies categorize individual people into larger groups, such as;
Ethnic Identity
Languages Spoken
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Age
Socioeconomic Status
Physical Ability
– These social identity categories can change people’s point of view because their experiences over the life can change the perspective of the world because they could be treated differently because one of these social identity categories.
What’s Working:
Something that is working is identifying what the author social identity is and finding out how it shapes the authors point of view and how it effects the story and how the author views the topic she is writing on.
Areas for Growth:
Some areas for growth are probably using the text evidence and referencing to the text while explaining the author’s point of view.
Personal Relevance:
This is skill can be used in your life to analyze texts and understand the information without any biases and can get the raw information.
The TTG’s are the trans-displancery transfer goals which you work towards durring the year.
There are 5 TTG’s: Critical Thinker, Creative Learner,
Ethical Global Citizen, Effective Collaborator, and Skillful Communicator. TTG’s support my academic learning because they help you get better academically.
Critical Thinker: To be a critical thinker means to develop ideas and construct arguments by synthesising information and thinking of creative ideas.
Creative Learner: To be a creative learner means learn creatively and think of different ways to learn information and listen properly.
Ethical Global Citizen: An ethical global citizen is someone who is a good citizen and gives back to the community and is good person.
Effective Collaborator: To be an effective collaborator means to collaborate with others effectively and be able to share your ideas with others.
Skillful Communicator: A skillful communicator is someone who can share your ideas and information with others in different ways.
I would like to focus on critical thinker because it is good be a critical thinker because you learn a lot of skills and I can improve my learning skills.
I am going to focus on listening and paying attention in class a bit more I will measure my goal by seeing how much my grade has improved by me focusing more. Some actions I will take to help achieve my goals is by reminding myself to focus and watch the teacher when speaking and having a focused mindset. This goal is realistic because it is simple and not difficult to accomplish. I will track my goal every week and I will to reach my goal in 2 months from now.
During semester goal I developed a SMART goal of managing my time so I have less overdue homework. This goal was specific and easy to measure using the overdue tracker on schoology. I believed that by monitoring my data I could realistically decrease the amount of overdue work by the end of the semester.
During this process I learned that I have more overdue work than I expected. Most of the overdue work was forgetting my assignment . I learned that consistently monitoring the overdue work and reminding myself what work I need to do I will also write reminders.
I was tired sometimes and it made it extremely difficult to follow my routine because I was tired and unable to focus so I need to figure out a better way to focus on those days I have sport training.
This can help me in my life because I will have a routine to follow after work school collage and etc. This can help me learn structure and organization in my life and the future.
We made a nonfiction essay describing and analyzing differences between the original novel and the film adaptation of “The Giver” by Lois Lowery
We learned about academic essay organization, and how to write a strong a strong introduction paragraph with a interesting hook. We also learned how to write strong thesis statements and how to write strong body paragraphs with clear transitions like; however, whereas. We were taught how to write a strong conclusion paragraph and closing thoughts.
Some things that are working are the body paragraphs because I can compare the differences between the novel and the book and really show how it takes away from the overall story. Also the Magic School AI chatbot helped me improve my writing by pointing out some mistakes and giving me some suggestions on how to start the opening hook which is usually the most difficult part of the writing process. Also working with a peer in this case Morpheus really showed me how I can improve my writing because his writing was very well structured and he gave me some very good suggestions.
I think a area for growth is my transitions because I used one of my transitions incorrectly and I think I can really improve on that by using it in a more advanced way. dealled with this by asking magic school and my peers for help on how to use it correctly. The least favorite part of my essay is probably my closing statement because it just bothers me because I feel I could have done better but I could not think of any way to improve it.
This essay really opened my eyes to the various ways artificial intelligence can improve our work in daily life and writing. This taught me how to write. proper nonfiction essay with all the components needed and I can use this for multiple things later on in life and in collage.
I did well in math and chinese because I was very serious about those classes but I can improve in language arts and social studies by listening more. I chose language arts because I know I can improve in language arts. I can improve by listening and being a critical thinker by really focusing to what the teacher is saying. I will in class focus on what the teacher is saying and use critical thinking to apply it in class.
I am going to focus on listening and paying attention in class a bit more I will measure my goal by seeing how much my grade has improved by me focusing more. Some actions I will take to help achieve my goals is by reminding myself to focus and watch the teacher when speaking and having a focused mindset. This goal is realistic because it is simple and not difficult to accomplish. I will track my goal every week and I am to reach my goal in 2 months from now.
A piece of new information which really shocked me was people where using animal parts and bones to create medicine which I haven’t really thought of a threat because its not as common as something like habitat loss. And speaking of habitat loss I did not expect wild fires to be a threat to amur leopards all the way in frigid east russia. I found out that amur leopards forests and territory are burned down by farmers to clear out land for agriculture.
I learned how to be very resourceful and look deeper, I had to use these skills when searching for my graph of the amur leopards because there were few graphs and they where in websites and difficult to find and I had to ask ai for sources and and had to find the reliable sources and fact check them with their dates and numbers.
In this unit we trained basic skills and played small sided games and improved our in game thinking and reactions and we learned to play as a team.
We got to play a lot and actually train our skills in matches and would have a lot of free will to play in the matches and learned how to switch sides with the ball to change the tempo of the match.
We did a lot of swimming from one side to another trained our form a lot by making is every single class swim from one side to another.
We also learned ot do snorkling with snorkel masks and flippers and learned how not to choke and we did paddle boarding and learned how to control it and make as fast as possible.
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