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Unit 4 Dystopian Fiction Reflection

December 16, 2025 /

What did I learn about Dystopian Fiction?

I learnt that Dystopian fiction is kind of like a world where everything is like perfect, but at times the “sameness” is not really helpful. Also, sometimes the organized society could be preventing something from being revealed to then citizens.

How does Dystopian Fiction encourage me to think about real life?

Dystopian Fiction make be think that the real world may be imperfect, but at least there are more potential benefits for the citizens, like privacy, and even lying when needed. In a dystopian world, there aren’t really any privacy, including sharing the dreams, the constant surveillance, but then the actual truth of lying was revealed in the end of The Giver.

I enjoyed The Giver…

I enjoyed The Giver because it had a lot of suspense building up and many times I had a lot of opportunities to think critically. When Jonas finally knew about warfare and love, it made me feel like no one else knew about that, and the special assignment as the Receiver of Memories made me feel like it’s more unique for Jonas and the Giver.

How has my ability to write Academic Paragraphs improved?

My ability to write an academic paragraph improved on the effectiveness of that paragraph. I have fully understood how to explain my claim using evidence from the novel, and the paragraph I write now contains more useful and strong evidence, even if they are shorter, but the improvement I gained in writing an Academic paragraph have improved a lot.

How have I become better at literature discussion?

I have become better at literature discussions because I knew how to validate my partner’s point, and I understood their point after confirming their claim. I also improved on adding more evidence and connecting the evidence with the others, and successfully concluding the multiple facts by listing out the benefits and the disadvantages.

Math Bake Sale

December 1, 2025 /

What did I do?

Me and my partners participated in the bake sale, we also finished the parts that we were supposed to finish. On day one, we were to determine both the imperial and metric amounts needed for ingredients. On day two, we provided the unit rates of the ingredients and provided all the batch and respective calculations for each ingredients. On day three, we provided clear mathematical explanation for cost of 1 batch of the recipe, then we determined a percentage markup and sell price. On day four, we wrote a pitch that articulated how we determined our sell price.

What did I learn?

I learnt how to determine the profit of our bake sale, and I also learnt how to make Snowflake Crisp. Moreover, I learnt how to effectively become a sales person, since you cannot traumatize tour customers, but also you can’t be too tolerate to the customers as you need to earn.

What worked?

We sold a lot of our products, and we earned many high schooler’s attention and a lot of 6th graders eventually showed up, so we had a lot of income.

What did not work?

What did not work is that our profit wasn’t really ideal, it was a profit of -554, one reason might be that our prices are too low for each piece, the other reason could be that we put too many discounts on the customers. Wasn’t really a strategy after all.

How is this relevant for me?

I think this is relevant to my life because when the high schoolers wanted to get a discount from us, we added the price and eventually we sold it to them at the original price.

Unit 2 Otzi Unit Portfolio Reflection 

November 27, 2025 /

What did I work on? 

    1. During this unit, ‘Why should we care about the past?’, I worked on  
    1. Making observations, inferences and wonderings 
    1. Using photos and articles as evidence 
    1. Writing a CER paragraph 
    1. Asking and answering open and closed questions 
    1. Taking part in the Otzi Mock Trial, my role was a defensive lawyer. I used hard and strong closed questions to ask the expert witnesses. Lastly, I used my evidence to start the mock trial off by stating the strong and defensive opening statement. 
    1. What did I learn? Why should we care about the past? 
    1. We should care about the past because the past can foster technology and medical development for our economy. Like how Otzi had Lyme disease, and ever since Otzi was found, we prevented many diseases Otzi had. 
    1. What worked well? 
    1. I am proud of the following work about writing strong questions, correctly using evidence, and asking appropriate follow-ups. 
    1. I am proud of the work above because I believe that this could be something important in the future and I think I did pretty good on this, especially when I never actually learnt or heard about his. 
    1. What did not work well? 
    1. I found some of this work challenging, which is relating my questions to our side. 
    1. I found the work above challenging because I was pretty much asking questions that was attacking the opponent’s side. 
    1. Personal Relevance 
    1. Collaboration and communications skills are important in my future because it would be easier for me to collaborate with my teammates or groupmates if we ever had to. 
    1. This is a photo of my work about 

    Egg Car reflection

    November 12, 2025 /

    What did I do?

    We made egg cars out of some paper and use them to experiment the first and third law of Newton.

    What did I learn?

    In the egg car challenge, we used the motion of the egg car to examine the first and third law of Newton. About Newton’s first law, which is an object will stay in rest unless acted on by another force, and the object will stay in motion unless acted on by another force. When the egg car got released, it kept going until it bumped on the concrete brick. Newton’s 3rd law, which is for every action there will be an equal and opposite reaction, this is related to the part where the car bumped onto the wall, then the wall pushes back to the egg car, making the car stop.

    What worked?

    In our design, we pretty much succeeded in the building part, we had enough protection and tested back and forth to make changes. We also added multiple layers of paper to lower the amount of damage caused by the concrete wall.

    What did not work?

    We kind of struggled to protect the ACTUAL egg, since we were always using the plastic eggs, so the protections weren’t exactly stable and strong enough to protect the egg, therefore there was a tiny crack on the real egg. We also struggled a bit to reduce the speed on the car, we had this huge protection in front of the egg, but we totally ignored the fact that the egg can get damaged from the force that pushed back from the wall.

    Personal relevance

    I now know that we need a strong crumple zone to protect the passengers. I also understood the fact that seatbelts and airbags are crucial towards the safety of the passengers since it reduces the crumple and damage. I finally know that with all the things above, we will build an indestructible vehicle😃.

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    Balloon Car Reflection

    November 4, 2025 /

    What did I do?

    We used straws, a tray, some wheels and a balloon to create a balloon car, used to investigate Newton’s law. We used scissors to shape the car as a round headed one and we wanted to see if the surface area would affect anything. We added some washers to increase the weight and see if the distance it travels would be affected.

    What did I learn?

    I learned how the laws are related to the car. Newton’s second law states F=MA, which is force=mass x acceleration. In the experiment, the balloon car had 60g on it, so we blew in more air than usual to see if it could go the same distance with 20g on, however, the more air blew in it, the further and steadier it went. At first, the car went left and right and we can’t really make a far distance, but with the washers pressuring the car while the air pushes the car forward, the car would be moving straight forward.

    What worked?

    It went pretty well when we designed and constructed the car. Me and my partner were collaborating really good and were on the same page. We had similar thoughts on our design and it was pretty smart, since the head was round and it had a smaller surface area, so the wind didn’t really provide any friction to the car.

    What did not work?

    We kind of struggled to collect the datas because there were others who were testing and they would accidentally block our car’s way, so it was hard to find a spot that the car can actually move in. Also, our car without weight was a complete disaster, it went in different directions and would bump on the tables and chairs. So it was kinda hard to collect the accurate datas.

    Personal Relevance

    Learning the balloon car is similar to driving a car. If there is a slope or hill, you need more force to push you up the hill, including the passengers you have on the car. Moreover, the more weight you have on the car, you need a stronger and larger one to carry all of you, therefore this relates to Newton’s second law.

    Portfolio submission for Art Class

    October 30, 2025 /

    One art work I am proud of in all of my art work would be the plaster work I did as my final project. I feel proud of this work because it took a lot of time for me to shape and color it, and I made two of them, so it was a real challenge for me. This project was a Basketball shoe, I made one blue and one red, and I had to stack many layers of plaster of top of the newspaper, and it took me about one and a half classes to finish both of that. About coloring, I struggled a bit to mix the actual colors I want, but at least I found my way out in the end

    Creative Writing Reflection

    October 30, 2025 /

    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 enjoyed planning and writing my plot twist, since there are two twists in the story and I feel like it’s really fun for the reader to read. I’m proud of my setting too because I created a very chaotic scene at the start, then I foreshadowed. I got the idea of the story from birthdays, since you close the lights and the candle lights up the place, so I basically just added some suspense and imaginary things in the story. My favorite sentence in the story is “There was a single flame that was surrounded by darkness” because it doesn’t just mean a candle, in my story it symbolizes hope, which relates to the story in the end.

    Area for growth:

    It was kind of challenging to write about my characters, because I wanted to make the dad an evil character at first, then he reveals his actual purpose, but I struggled a bit to transition between those two parts since I didn’t know how I could describe the character. I made more suspense for the dad at first, then I just directly made the mom reveal parts of the dad’s purpose, at last the dad told Kate himself. I didn’t really like the part where Kate was investigating, because the process was kind of lame.

    Personal relevance:

    Creative writing could help me in real life by further developing my imagination, so that if I ever need to write creative writing pieces, it would be easier to generate ideas in my mind. I enjoyed creative writing, I think I might continue creative writing with my imaginations.

    Science critical thinking

    October 9, 2025 /

    What did I do?

    I played with the Indi robot cars and built Gravitrax to improve my critical thinking skills

    What did I learn?

    Critical thinking is like active learning marks, you work with your best effort throughout the activity and think of ways you can improve your work if it doesn’t work in the best way.

    What worked?

    I thought critically when the Gravitrax did really go at the pace we wanted it to, therefore we lowered the tower of the starting point so it could go slower and steadier.

    What didn’t work?

    I kind of struggled when the Indi car was going in wrong directions and we couldn’t place the colors correctly, so I overcome this challenge by changing the miss written key and improved the path.

    Personal relevance

    Today’s learning will help me think more carefully of what to do and also focus on the things I can strengthen my future activities.

    This is a picture of me and my partners working on our Gravitrax

    Fiction Reading – Character Analysis

    September 23, 2025 /

    What are we doing:

    Reading This Book is Not Good for you and determining important character traits

    What are we learning:

    How to analyze character traits based on evidence(Character’s actions, words thoughts and other character’s reactions).

    What’s working:

    In this unit, I learnt how to use strong evidence to support my character’s trait. The evidence in the book makes me determine that Cassandra is mostly careful, even to her friends since she might reveal a secret she need to keep. I decided that character trait by identifying the frequent action of being careful, therefore this is why I chose cautious as a character trait.

    Area for growth:

    I think I can improve on paraphrasing my sentences better since I was describing too much about the things that happened after the evidence occurs, so I could take some details out to make the story easier to understand. Also, I can identify more harder traits for me to write about since cautiousness isn’t really challenging for me to write about.

    Personal relevance:

    In reality, I think I can link my cautious with Cassandra because I relatively act careful in public too. However, I am different than Cassandra since I trust my friends more than her. Understanding Cassandra makes me think that there may be bad guys lurking in public any time. I think the trait cautious can make me grow more careful so that I don’t easily trust strangers.

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