Eileen's Portfolio

In this unit, we learned about negative impacts when using drugs and how to use decide model to solve a problem.

In our decide model, the problem to solve was when your cousin offers you a nicotine pouch when you are not allowed to have. The decide model can help by organizing the parts to analyze the problem and do it step by step to think thoughtfully about your next move and consider the consequences especially when involving peer pressure.

Different drug substances have varied effects on the body and mind because they interact with the central nervous system in distinct ways, by causing abnormal amounts of dopamine to be released. These effects can be broadly categorized based on how they alter brain function. 

What are you proud of?

I am proud that I made improvements since last class and after unit 1. I did well on stating a claim for my CER but I could be more specific next time. I tried to follow the rubric to improve from the mistakes I made last unit.

What were some challenges for you?

Some challenges for me during the formative assessment is memorizing the format of convention particularly on if the citations should be cited with pages, paragraphs, or years. I struggled on the reasoning too because reasoning are my weakest areas and important areas for me to improve.

If you could redo the assessment, what changes would you make?

I would make my claim more specific and choose a better evidence that could show my deep understanding of the claim and reasoning it. Additionally, I would also memorize the format of the conventions. I would pay more attention on the rubric too as I am writing.

What will you do between now and the summative to ensure you meet standards?

Read back and forth to check if I am flowing with rubric, practice more with various bots, go back to slides that have examples that meet standards and are expectations.

What advice would you give yourself moving forward?

Think deeper in the reasoning part and reflect on why did you choose this evidence to prove your claim.

How well did you explain the influencer's purpose in your analysis? 

I personally think I did well explaining the purpose because WendySkin was trying to promote a brand while building trust by saying positive descriptions and entertaining the audience.

What made your explanation strong, and what could you add to make it even clearer. 

I think it was fine because I provided evidence when I stated my reasoning but I think I could have enhanced the part how she was trying to let other people trust the brand.

Did you use specific examples of language to show influencer's purpose? 📓

I don’t remember but I know that the influencer stated that new nails looked like it was from a nail salon (she was promoting a press on nail brand)

How could you improve the quality or clarity of your examples? 📌

I could give a better explanation of the connotation word or phrase.

How well did you explain the connotation of words or phrases from the video? 💻

I think I did average in explaining the connotations by referencing to the standard format.

what helped you succeed, and what's one way you could go deeper? 🖇️ 

I think both part helped me succeed because and I met the standards for both parts and met expectation for what I should have written.

In this unit, we learned about proportional relationships. Proportional relationships are relationships that has the equivalent ratio or the unit rate. We studied proportional ratios with different examples. For example: volumes and perimeter.

I also developed a thorough understanding of proportional relationships, understanding the concept of the constant of proportionality (CoP), the methods for finding the CoP, the role of reciprocals in the context of CoPs, how to represent a proportional relationship visually through graphing, and the skill of formulating equations effectively to represent proportional relationships.

The final project was fascinating to me. I enjoyed the opportunity to plan a “party” while honing my skills in identifying CoPs, creating graphs, and writing equations to represent my understandings to proportional relationships. The lemonade experiment was also really fun. I loved that we got to get a tasty drink, as well as learning foundational skills in the process.

In this unit, we learned about how does media impact our lives. Media has multiple contents like influencer, commercial, newspaper, comic, posters, crowd funding, and film. Our project was to make a media that has a purpose to persuade, promote a product, entertain, or influence. For my final project, I chose the content influencer with a purpose of persuading, entertaining, and promoting a product. I believe that influencer is the best way to promote a product while entertaining the audience because they are allowed to interact with the audience by having conversations. I chose a way to lead in entertaining to promote this product under the name of sharing a must eat ice cream.

I am proud of myself of able to finish my project/video on time when my weakest ability is time management. Some of my challenges I encounter throughout this project is that I had to change my subject and idea. I would have improved my presentation with louder voice, better eye contact, and brighter attitude. Advice for my next unit is maybe a little more effort in every assignment.

In this unit, we discovered about media having impact on Bias. Bias is a strong word for targeting a group of people in purpose and treating them unfair. A positive effect when people around the world had the same perspective is that there would be less arguments and tangled issues. In the other hand, a negative effect when people around the world had the same perspective is that there would be serious bias that will cause isolation and expulsion if we all think that one group of people should not be belonged.

Unit 1 core concepts

In our first unit in health, we mainly discovered healthy routines and habits. Some examples are maintaining a healthy diet, having a healthy work and rest schedule and not eating macronutrients. We made student profiles, created our own Harvard Plate and made up a Master Chef project. We generally considered choosing a balanced meal referencing the Harvard Plate which contains healthy proteins, grains, fruits, veggies, healthy oils, and water. We are assigned to use the best food choices out of these categories. Connecting to my profile, I chose to put a lot of chicken and fish for protein because they are the best choices stated by the Harvard Plate.

This is the Harvard Plate our class referenced to.

Application of Learning

Our main project and my main focus Master Chef applied to my learning by allowing me to dig deeper into my creativity when figuring the best tasting recipe while maintaining healthiness. It gave us challenges and difficulties like not being able to use sugar and considering the taste which the students should be able to enjoy. After all of the dishes, our group chose Hwachae for our final project. It was easy to make and had lots of flavors to choose because it was basically all fruits. Even though we didn’t win the Master Chef at last, it still was a huge success for us. Our Hwachae was a popular drink and I had confidence in it and it sure taste good. I would believe that ours came second.

Reflection***🐭

According to the amount of reading, my score is not meeting my standards. I did not read much, I only read 1 book during the summer. Even though there is growth in my STAR reading test grades, I know it could have grown more. The goal for me to grow my percentage is that I will read more often and more during break time. I think that I found my problem in my grades not meeting my standards for language arts. I need to improve my amount of reading and vocab. In conclusion, my goal for raising my score is to read more and learn more vocabs for good. I’m still proud of myself for growing.😄👍

Goals🥚🍳📍

• Read more
• Improve vocab 📝✅
• Don’t feel sleepy when reading 📖😅

What are we doing?

We are doing a unit of understanding the ancient silk road. We discovered highly valuable goods from different regions, and how it will be used to trade for more goods later in the activity. We studied about facts and cultural events from each regions, and geographical knowledge from the silk road map. We did all kinds of activities like map discovering, trading, and worksheets.

What are we learning?

We learned about the process of trading, understanding the silk road map, and how valuable goods had advantages. To deeply discover the process of trading, we did an activity of simulation. We simulated the experience of trading across places and getting advantages by helping others. We hand crafted the geographical topography which is the mountain, rivers, sea, and deserts. Then we placed them in the correct places.

What’s working?

We successfully ended the trading simulation and ended the unit by doing an assessment. I believe it was a fun experience for everyone by having fun while learning.

What’s not working?

Ending the simulation was a chaos. It was mostly because of the disease cards that are past out randomly in regions and spread in a huge amount.

The three norms of collaboration are putting ideas on the table, paying attention to myself and other, and pausing.

I am strongest at paying attention at myself and others because I needed to listen and participate in the plan so that I can express my opinion by listening to others ideas in activities.

I need to improve on putting ideas on the table because I was mostly listening to others plan to make our region successful, so I was mostly asking questions but not really putting ideas on the table.

During the silk road economy unit, I liked trading the most because even though it was loud and chaos. It was still a fun activity to do by being sneaky, hiding diseases, getting advantages and collaborating with other regions.