Hannah's Portfolio

Social Unit 4 Reflection

June 8, 2026 /

In this unit, we researched about a historical event and made a documentary film about it.

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First, we choose a topic and find three article each to research about it. Then we transfer our information onto the graphic organizer. After that we print the graphic organizer and cross off any information that is not related or redundant. Then we write our script for the documentary. Next, we organize the chosen information into a story board and split part of who is reading which part. Finally, we start making the film making process. When we are half way through the film making process, we reviewed our film with a partner group. We also reviewed our film with the red class. After reviews, we made changes and uploaded the final version of our documentary.

One thing I did well in the documentary is working with my partner, because even though I went to Microcampus, we still finished the documentary on time.

One thing I still need to work on is editing the film because our film needs to be more revised.

Chinese End of Year Reflection

June 8, 2026 /

我认为我的听说读写中做的较好的是读，因为上课的文章都可以读懂和理解。

在明年的中文学习里，我觉得我最应该提升的是写的能力，因为我的作文的结尾需要提升。

对我来说有用的学习方法是玩中文游戏。

我要给明年来AM的学生的建议是作业建议上课做完，这样回家就没有作业了。

暑假期间，我会读中文书，用中文交流和写中文游记来提升中文水平。

Language Arts Unit 5 End of Year Reflection

June 2, 2026 /

In this unit, we learnt about different cases of abuse of power, and chose our case of abuse of power to research about.

I chose Purdue Pharma as my case of abuse of power. I learnt that even though Purdue Pharma dissolved into a government ran company, there are still people overusing opioids.

What I did to prepare for the presentation slides and practicing the speech. Something that was challenging in this project was the practice round was very different from the real presentation, so I didn’t do very well. One area that I can continue to work on is maintaining consistent eye contact with the audience.

My ideas and skills developed since the beginning of the year, because I can better identify the main theme of text better. Top 5 boxes I read this year was The Inheritance Game series, Shadow of the Fox trilogy, Six Crimson Cranes duology, and Legend Series. One book that I recommend is Shadow of the Fox trilogy，because I like the Japanese culture blend with the story. One book that was challenging for me was The Inheritance Game Series because the wording was harder than other books, and the plot is thicker, so it takes more time to understand the story.

Science Unit 4 Reflection

May 26, 2026 /

I think what contributes to the Pleasant Pond turning green is mainly fertilizer, and all 4 cycle contributes to the pond turning green. Nitrogen and phosphorous contributes to the Pleasant pond turning green because nitrogen and phosphorous are building blocks of life, and fertilizers are made out of nitrogen and phosphorous. Since nitrogen and phosphorous are building blocks of life, they boost growth, causing algae to bloom. Water cycle also contributes to the Pleasant Pond turning green because the run-off part of the water cycle washes excessive fertilizer into ponds, causing algae to bloom. Carbon oxygen contributes to the Pleasant pond turning green, because when algae are growing because of the fertilizers, they use lots of CO2 from the atmosphere to sustain life. But because most algae are short-lived, they quickly die and sink to the bottom of the pond, and decomposers need to use more oxygen to break down the dead matter. Because the algae are growing at the surface of the pond, sunlight is blocked, so no oxygen is produced under the surface. Then this goes into a loop, and there is less oxygen available for the animals under the water, causing organisms to die.

In our Ecosystem in a Bottle project, we added fertilizer to the bottle, and we think that since fertilizer boosts growth, more plants might grow. But our prediction did not come true, maybe because most of our grass died, so nothing can grow anymore, or because we added too much nitrogen.

If I could change one aspect of my learning, it would be writing my CERs. I could check my CERs for reasoning, and repetition. I would also check my CER so it would be more organized, so the evidence and reasoning would be matching.

Math End Of Year Reflection

May 26, 2026 /

We can use probability to make informed decisions, because we can calculate the likelihood of events happening. For example, we can calculate that flipping a coin and landing on heads is equally as likely as landing on tails. But when rolling a die, it is unlikely to land on 3, but likely to land on any number greater than 2.

Looking at my Unit 5 summative, I think my strengths are calculating volume, and percentage problems. I think I can work on calculating complex equations, and calculating area.

Something that I might share with my grade 8 math teacher maybe I like solving geometry problems, and I might need help on solving algebra word problems.

Some advice I will give to incoming grade 7 might be understanding the first unit will help with other unit.

Art Unit 4 Reflection

May 26, 2026 /

In this unit, we learnt about Islamic art, and tessellation they created. Tessellation is when a pattern repeats continuously. We also explored connections between math and art, and how math can help us calculate tessellation.

Mathematical thinking was used in activities in this unit, like tracing, construction lines and digital tessellations. It was used in construction lines because we had measure exactly, for our digital tessellations to work. Other mathematical skills used in this unit are geometry, because we have to think about what types of shapes will work for tessellation and what types cannot.

I think art and math is connected, especially in geometry, because geometry is shapes, and tessellation is about shapes fitting perfectly together without gaps. Also, calculations help to make perfect tessellations because for example, we can calculate how large should each angle be, and if one angle is too large or too small, it can cause the whole tessellation to be inaccurate.

Math Unit 4 Reflection

April 20, 2026 /
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Something I understood during this unit better than before is flipping the inequality sign. Before, I thought if there is a negative sign, I should flip, but now I understand that only when dividing or multiplying by negative sign I should flip the sign.

Some new information I learnt during this unit is that the volume of a triangular prism is 1/3 of a cube.

Something that is tricky for me in this unit was calculating surface area, because I often miss one side.

We can use prior knowledge because in some questions, like calculating area, but using a scale factor, can connect to what we learnt in unit 2.

Art Clay Artwork Reflection

April 16, 2026 /

In this unit in art, we planned and created 2 different artworks, and the final one connects to my identity. We also learned clay skills and vocabulary, such as slab, score, slip, blend, high relief, low relief etc.

Planning of my clay tiles

I demonstrated persistence while creating my artworks by trying to stick to one design all the time no matter how hard the techniques might be, instead of changing half way through because of facing challenges while creating the artwork. One challenge that I encountered is when making my flower tile, the petals are hard to sculpt, and it is especially hard to sculpt out the curves. Also, the clay tend to dry out often, so kneading the clay is a crucial step in reviving the clay.

My skills grew between the first artwork and second artwork, especially my scoring, slipping and blending skills. In my first artwork, when I tried sticking the petals on the tile, it often falls off the next lesson. And when I am doing my second artwork, I did a good job of score slip and blend, because when I stick the mushroom on my tile, it didn’t fall of as easliy.

My final piece connects to me because I used vivid colors to represent different emotions. I chose emotions because I often feel just indifferent, and identifying my emotions might help me express my myself better.

SLC Reflection

March 16, 2026 /

The SLC went out somewhat like what I planned, because I said what I planned to say. Something that went well was I didn’t have blank silence when I am presenting. Something that was challenging was trying not to stutter. Something I learnt about me as a student and as a communicator is the portfolios that I made throughout of the year helped me build this presentation, and in front of my parents I am not as nervous as I am in front of my peers. Something that I will apply what I learned about my self in the SLC is constantly doing reflections will help me learn better. What I can do better next year is gathering more artifacts for my encore classes, other that grades and comments.

Science Unit 3 Reflection

March 11, 2026 /

I believe that genetic and environmental factors plays a role in the characteristics of the apple. Genetic factor affects the characteristics of the apple because DNA can determine a lot of traits, like skin color, texture and taste. Environmental factors are factors that are acquired later because the environmental they live in, like the soil, amount of water they get etc. We also learnt about different modes of reproduction, asexual and sexual. We learnt in detail of grafting, a mode of asexual reproduction used in farming. It relates to growth and reproduction because asexual reproduction only have one parent, which means only 1 set of genes, so the offspring inherits all of the genes, resulting in genetically identical offspring. Farmers use grafting because they want to create the same kind of apples for selling. For sexual reproduction, we learnt about pollination. Pollination is a kind of sexual reproduction in plants. When pollinators takes pollen from another plant, and travels to another plant, the pollen goes through the style, into the ovary, and fertilizes with a ovule. The fruit will be genetically varied because there are two parents, meaning two sets of genes, so the offspring inherits some of one parents, some of another parent. Then a fruit is formed, and often the fruit carries the seed inside the flesh, so when animals eat the ripe fruit, the seed can travel with them to a new place to repeat the process.

For hands-on activities, the chromosome and rabbit interactivity notes and teacher mini lessons help me learn the best. It helps me learn the best because the rabbit activity lets me think on my own for answers, and the teacher mini lesson can help me understand the knowledge better. It reflects what type of learner I am because the rabbit interactivity notes reflects that I need to write things down to remember them. The teacher mini lessons also reflects that I am an audio learner because I can remember things said to me as well.

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One improvement that I would like to make for this unit is adding all required elements for my models. I would like to improve that because every model I made in this unit misses the scale. I could improve this by checking my work more often with the rubric and instructions to avoid these mistakes.

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