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.
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.
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.
We made a car out of a set of materials that could keep a egg from cracking when hitting a concrete wall from a ramp. Our constraints where :
-only approved construction materials can be used to build your
car
-the car can be no wider than 6.5 cm from the outside of one
wheel to the outside of the opposite wheel
-the car can be no longer than 16.5 cm
-once in the car the egg must be visible
-the car must freely roll down the ramp, no sliding allowed
-1 meter of tape
no parachutes, wings or propellers may be used to slow your car
-the straw can only be used as an axle housing
-the egg must be easily placed in and removed from your car
-once on the track the car is not allowed to be touched
-only colored pencils and markers can be used to decorate your
car
-your safety system must have at least two parts
-no video watching in class to make paper shapes
-all designs must be built in class.
We learned how Newton’s first law of motion was used when the egg car hit the wall it changed in motion because as stated, “A object in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by another external force.” The concrete wall was that external force because if the higher force exerted on to the wall the wall will exert more force. And Newton’s third law was used in this experiment. “for action has an equal and opposite reaction” The car rolling down was the action and hitting the wall was the reaction and when the opposite reaction was the car going backwards after hitting the car and the equal reaction was the will hitting back on the car and causing the egg to crack but with safety devices it did not crack.
Our design of the car was very compact light and worked very well and our mechanism was very successful and our egg did not crack. we had a elephant like nose to it to stop the force.
Our car tipped near the end and when testing the wheels would not roll so I think we can improve by distributing the weight. And the wheels have a smoother roll.
I learned how different safety mechanisms help like how if you have a longer front it will absorb the impact and making the car with airbags air very important.
We built a balloon car that could carry weight and still travel a good distance. The base of the car was made of cardboard to have a surface which the balloon could rest on. And underneath their a straws attached to the cardboard then metal axles to attach the wheels and when you pumped up the balloon it would move. We used this experiment to show newton’s laws of motion
We learned how newton’s laws are used in real life and what they are, and the balloon car was a example of that. When you released the ballon newton’s second law would happen, the second law is “For every action there is a equal and opposite reaction.” and when the you let go the air comes out that’s the equal reaction and when it pushes in the other was that’s the opposite reaction. And Newtons first law happens at the same time, his first law is “A object will not change in direction or motion unless acted on by another force.” And that means a object at rest tends to stay at rest unless something happens. And when the balloon car doesn’t move its at rest then when you release it a force from the ballon moves it.
We successfully built a car that could hold weights using different designs. while traveling after a bit. I also learned newton’s laws of motion and how they work. We also collected data and collaberated together well.
Our car first would not move because the air would all leak. Then Han taped the ballon to hard so no air would come out then the wheels where twisted so they would change direction. Then our car snapped in half because my teammate made the car very thin.
These lessons tought me how newtons laws all worked and how they are used in real life and they happen all around us, you just have to look. A example of one of newtons laws is when you kick a football its sitting their which is newtons first law because its at rest. Then when you kick it thats a force and it changes its state of motion.
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