What did we do? We learned how to serve, set and bump in the classes and played games.
What did I learn? I learned how to do a overhand serve and spiking also being a setter.
What Worked? I was able to save a ball and hit up a serve.
What did not work? My overhand serve didn’t work very well, sometimes it didn’t go over the net.
What did we do? We played with other people in the class and learned techniques that can help us succeed.
What did I learn? I learned how to serve and smash. I learned that when you play badminton with someone, let it drop towards the front or smash it towards the back.
What did I improved？I improved on my serving skills and how to hit after the other person smashes.
What‘s working? My serving when I start the game.
What did I do? My semester 1 smart goal was organization on screen time. It is measurable by looking at the screen time calculator on the laptops’ settings. It is realistic because laptop is more of a “want” not a “need” besides from schoolwork. It is specific because it is just limited to entertainments on my laptop such as social media.
What did I learn? I learned that sometimes when you really want to do something, wait, go do something else, and you might not think about it anymore. Skills that I learned was writing your goal down and recording it every week so you can keep track of it.
What worked? I succeeded on school days when after school except for technology uses, I didn’t use my laptop. On school days, there is school work so I don’t really have time for entertainment which meant I can’t really use my laptop.
What did not work? On weekends or vacation days my goal didn’t work because in the weekends there is not academic things for me to do which means that I have lots of time blank for entertainments.
Personal Relevance It was relevant to me because it developed my self discipline skills by holding my appetence. It is important because it helps me control myself.
What did I learn about Dystopian Fiction? I learned that Dysto[ian Fiction is like when people in a community are like slaves or they don’t know what the outside world is like where everyone is the same.
How does Dystopian Fiction encourage me to think about real life? Sometimes in The Giver, like examples in The Giver, things where you can feel in the real life happens, such as sameness, death, an warfare.
I enjoyed The Giver because as a class when we read this book, we get to discuss things that we don’t usually say in other times, like death and what “love” actually stands for.
How has my ability to write an academic paragraph improved? My ability to write an academic paragraph improved at writing a topic sentence that clearly explains what I am talking about but is not that detailed at the same time.
How have I become better at Literature Discussions? I became better at Literature Discussions when talking notes for preparation and adding on to other people’s ideas.
What did I do? In day 1, we decided our recipe and list our units. In day 2, we calculated the unit rates for each ingredients. In day 3, we created poster for display. In day 4, we baked the bake goods. In day 5 , we sell the items.
What did I learn? I learned how to calculate the unit rates and how to use a model to show the work.
What Worked? We baked the goods successfully, and made our poster successfully.
What did not work? We calculated the wrong prize for the unit rates at first, and we didn’t show our work.
How is it essential for future? It is essential for future because next time if you need to calculate something (find its unit rate), you can use this method to calculate.
Unit 2 Otzi Unit Portfolio Reflection
Unit 2 Otzi Unit Portfolio Reflection
What did I do? The criteria of the egg car is to make a safe and steady car.
What did I learn? We see Newton’s first law in the action when the egg is still moving but the car stopped because of a obstacle. We see Newton’s third law in the action when the car moved back a little after crashing into the bricks.
What worked? The base part of building worked well, we had to cut different pieces and shapes of paper to build the car.
What did not work? The part of rolling down, building the wheels was not successful, because they won’t roll as what we imagined. To solve this problem, we changed the type of wheels.
Personal Renaissance
It is important to know Newton’s laws because the science is used to develop the crumble zone and safety in a vehicle. When a car crush into a obstacle, it will keep the people inside safe.
What did I do? I made a balloon car with my partner, which is a car using the force of the air inside a balloon. Using materials like a balloon, straws, wheels, tape, and a plate like surface. We used this experience to discover Newtons first second and third law.
What did I learn? Newton’s first law: the objects in motion will stay in motion, the objects with no motion is always no motion; until an outside force occurs. Because when the balloon runs out of air, the outside force, which is friction in the case, will make the car stop.
Newton’s second law: F=ma when the mass of the balloon car gets heavier, you will need more “force” now the air in a balloon to make it move in the same speed.
Newton’s third law: The force you use to push something, it will use the same amount of force to push back. When F normal pulls the car up to make sure it doesn’t fall, F gravity pulls the car down, and towards the center.
What worked? I communicated with my partner very well. The design of the car was good, which made it easier to build the car. Also, the car moved in the direction that we thought it would.
What did not work? The balloon car didn’t move really far. At first we couldn’t get to much air into the balloon because we tied the rubber band to hard. Also, we had to adjust the places of the axe because it wasn’t that symmetrical.
Personal Renaissance I think it is important because if people grow up as a engineer, you have to make sure the engine has enough force to let the car actually move. It relates to the real world in many ways. Like because cars that people actually drive could be like that.
What are we doing? Writing a fictional story based on a theme that matters to me.
What are we learning? Theme (my purpose for writing this story, my message to readers)
Character Development (creating believable characters with positive & negative traits)
Plot (the sequence of events in my story; Western and Eastern approaches to storytelling)
Setting (the world that I create for my story)
What’s Working? I think I did really well in plot and theme. I got the idea of the story from the anime: ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba‘ , but there isn’t really a big theme for the whole story, also little them for each character. So based on the original characters made by the anime’s author, I added my characters as well, to add a big theme for the whole story. It was about being kind when you say things to people, I got the idea from where the original anime was kind of about revenge, so I thought of this idea. The setting is also from the original anime’s movie, which is not in Mainland now unfortunately, but you can already watch it in Japan and places like HK and Taiwan.
Areas for More Growth? I think I can still work on my description of actions, like where you battle or attack someone physically. My least favorite part of the story is when the three pillars battle against “琵琶女”, because I think there it a lack or almost none of the description for attacking and also it’s kind of too short.
Personal Relevance
I think this experience might help me in the future, because I have thought of writing a script or anime in the future of my life when I grow up.
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