In this unit we learned about proportionality and percentages. We learned a lot of things, for example how to convert a number into a percentage, percent change, and how to identify proportional relationships. We did a project involving this. I finished my project nicely, and I thought that I put a lot of work into it, but apparently according to my teacher I didn’t do enough on the explanations and other things so I got an Approaching. This would help me in real life because if I’m an accountant I know what percent of the money that our company spent on whatever.
We are making a model of a certain body system in a human as well as creating a visual presentation of a sickness cell / body systems that are operating in sports fit in a blind box. I did the visual presentation of a sickness cell and a 3D clay model of the digestive system with labels.
What are we learning?
We are learning the differences between animal and plant cells, what each body system specifically does, different types of tissues, different types of muscles, and ordering the tiny systems that work together from smallest to largest.
What went well?
Making the visual presentation (blind box) went well because I used my time effectively and I made a clay model of a leukemia cell as well as making another model in Minecraft and using pictures from a screen recording to add color to a brochure that we had to make. We had to include fun facts and a CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) paragraph.
What could you improve on?
During the making of the body system model, I wasn’t that focused, and I didn’t describe each organ of the digestive system detailedly, so I got an Approaching on the assignment. Next time I will focus on one thing each time and aim to get an Exceeding.
How would this help you in real life?
If I wanted to become a doctor, learning about organelles would help me detect what exactly was defective in an organelle. For example, mitochondria could be missing from muscle cells, leading the muscles to have no power at all, since mitochondria are the “powerhouse” of all organelles.
My task was to create a visual presentation about boats and the impact of them on society. I created a Minecraft with some boats and I talked about the positive impacts of them. I also created a shipwreck with dead coral around it, and in a video that I made I also talked about the negative impacts about it.
One thing I did well
I think I stayed on task the whole time and never tried to actually game in Minecraft and stray from the real purpose, and I effectively built 3 boats and a shipwreck and a dead coral reef under it.
One thing I can work on
Next time I could add more ships, and pay attention to my essay while writing it so that I would add everything, including WHO fixed the negative impacts and HOW they managed to do that.
First, our teacher gave us a research organizer to fill in, and I researched 3 articles about boats, my transportation technology that I was writing about. Second, our teacher gave us another organizer, this time about writing a CER article (claim, evidence, reasoning). Third, we filled in the organizer and started to write a basic essay without the introduction or conclusion. Fourth, we watched a video about how to write an introduction and wrote an introduction and conclusion. Finally, we pasted everything together.
One thing I did well in my essay
One thing I did well was providing evidence for my reasoning. I tried to pick the best evidence possible and managed to connect my evidence and reasoning smoothly.
One thing I still need to learn to do
I could have written a better conclusion and my teacher gave me some constructive feedback on what to do next time to make my conclusion better and more connected to my claim.
My pitch presentation for my dystopian story is about a kid named Timmy Toughknukels, aka Little Timmy, that is a slave in the cyborg homeworld StarForge. All humans are slaves, and only the most loyal humans to the cyborg government who have recited every piece of propaganda can become a government operative. For the sake of his fellow humans, Little Timmy recites every piece of propaganda perfectly and begins his recon mission to free humans from the iron fist of the StarForge dictatorship. On the way he programs a cyborg to be an intelligent friend to humans. Its name is Bosun T – 6767. Bosun is just a simple cyborg at first, but after Little Timmy programs him, he becomes smarter and starts to hunger for power. At the end, when they defeat the Cyborg SuperCommander, Bosun is now itching to betray Little Timmy and kill him to get EVEN MORE POWER, but what will happen next? Will Bosun kill Little Timmy and leave him for the wolves? Or will his conscience win out?
Little Timmy was once self – centered and stubborn. He panicked under pressure and was more likely to run away than fight. As the story progresses, he starts to act as an able leader, putting the group before self, and in crucial moments in battle, he acted brilliantly under pressure and defeated the enemy. He once doubted himself heavily, always thinking that his choices were wrong. Now he is very decisive and is confident that, even if he made the wrong choice, he can make up to it.
CERER Outline
My CERER was about the internal conflict in Barbara in the story Ponies by Kij Johnson. I talked about the conflict between her moral conscience and her desire to fit in with TheOtherGirls. I picked 2 pieces of evidence to show this. One was when Barbara was crying and she kept saying “I won’t, I won’t…” and the other was about Barbara’s mere hesitation and mistake while cutting her pony Sunny’s wing off.
Things I’m proud of
I’m proud of getting all 4’s in the summative, and I’m glad I picked the very best evidence that could be shown, even when I wasn’t sure about it. I’m also proud of delivering my pitch with confidence, although I missed some things on the way.
Some challenges I faced
Some challenges I faced were trying to focus while writing my pitch outline, because some people had finished early and were pitching their stories to each other. I overcame this challenge by focusing a lot on ONLY my pitch, and in a few more minutes, I had it done.
How effectively did I use feedback
I believe I used feedback effectively because after my first pitch, my friend Vincent said that I could make more eye contact with the audience, and in all of the rest of my pitches I maintained eye contact the whole time with my audience. Another example of using feedback effectively was when I thought to myself that I should try to give up using my notecards ASAP. I got free of the notecard in 3 pitch’s time.
If you could redo the summative what would you change?
I could explain more specifically why Barbara’s mistake had much deeper meaning, and I could’ve chosen better evidence.
What advice would you give yourself for Unit 3?
Focus is everything. Even if you’re a bad student, if you focus on only one thing you will get top – quality work, or at least much better work than your average grade.
Set one goal for yourself
Minimize chit – chat, and work harder, faster, and better.
Our DECIDE model was about the dangers of alcohol addiction and how to stop it. We worked very hard to make this, and we tried to make the best decision in the end. This model helps us with deciding with lots of things, such as decisions in life, how to stop addiction, and how to help friends stop being addicted. We made this decide model around a situation where a friend offers you a drink and says one drink is fine. We listed out the situation, the consequences, and we identified our values, The values bit is especially important because values are one of the major parts of life. We thought of a outcome that we would want and traced the decision that led to it. Finally, we predicted what would happen. This plus the presentation that we did really tested our collaboration skills to the max, as four people had to work on one poster.
The maths I learned were how to calculate the scale factor of scaled copies, how to identify scaled copies, using a scale to figure out the distance of A to B on a map, how to identify proportional relationships, etc. Some key words and phrases that were used were units, graph, table, answer sentence, proportional, scale, scaled factor, copy, equivalent, multiply, divide, route, convert, etc. This would help if I was reading a map of a city and I could use the scale to calculate how long the route is and how long it takes to get there. I could also use a scale factor if I’m an engineer and I was designing a building with CAD. If I needed to review this, I would use my notebook, posters that were put up, my brain, review lessons, idk.
In this PE unit we learned about how to strike a soccer ball powerfully and how to aim it into the goal. Some things I improved on were my goalkeeping skills, which I improved by watching soccer vids and executing them, and also my cooperation. I should stop saying slang in chinese and that will improve my grades a lot.
I’m proud of mastering the conventions for quoting the story because I didn’t understand anything at first but now I got a 3 because I practiced myself at home. I followed the rubric for citing the evidence and writing the claim.
What were some challenges?
Some challenges I faced were that I forgot to include the keywords from my claim into my reasoning. Next time I will look at the rubric and include those keywords.
I will review at home about conventions and reasonings to ensure that I will get 3’s in the summative.
