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Unit 4 Dystopian Fiction Reflection

December 17, 2025 /

What Did I Learn About Dystopian Fiction

I learned about the concept of the elements in Dystopian Fiction, there are 5 elements that represent Dystopian Fiction. Control of Nature where they have advanced technology, most things are synthetic and nature is feared or unknown. Dehumanization which means fewer or no human rights and important human experience is forbidden. Constant Surveillance which means you are being watched at all time. NO PRIVACY!! Conformity which means everyone acts the same and different is suspicious. Social Control which means people pressure individual to conform. Last but not least, Totalitarianism which means government controls everything in society.

How Does Dystopian Fiction Invite Me To Think About Real Life

Dystopian fiction is when the government control everything and there is no different but in the real world, government do not control everything, they simply control a bi chunk but not all of the country.

I Enjoyed The Giver

Because Lois Lowry wrote a good book and there are lots of problem and cliff hangers in the story.

How Have I Improved My Ability To Write Academic Paragraph

I improved on writing an academic paragraph by, writing it longer and include more details for example, before this unit, we wrote another academic paragraph but that one did not include many details and it is not as long as this unit.

How Am I Better Now Interacting With Others In Lit. Discussion

I can validate other people in my discussion, and I can paraphrase and challenge other people if necessary .

Comic-licious

December 15, 2025 /

My Comic

Feed back for my comic.

For me, I think safety behaviors like not clicking on random links, not showing any privacy information to strangers and avoid unreliable sources. My five people I can trust is my mom, my dad, my teacher, my uncle and my aunt. I think social media effect teen in a good way and a bad way because teen can connect with each other but in a bad way, they will be addicted to social media. the five ways I can protect myself is wearing a seatbelt, rest my eyes after 20 min, lock our house at night, look before I cross the street, stay aware of unknown link and stand up for myself. The biggest takeaway for me is to stay alert online.

Unit 2 Otzi Unit Portfolio Reflection 

December 1, 2025 /
  1. 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 Expert Witness #8 
  1. What did I learn? Why should we care about the past? 
  1. We should care about the past because we learn how Neolithic woman and men lived, we learned they are very resourceful, they hunt for food, made clothes out of animal skin, they created their own medicine and tools, use nature to create medicine to cure disease’s such as Lyme Disease. They started to grow crops. We also found out that the Neolithic woman and men are very similar to us because they have conflicts and diseases that we are still fighting, and they are very innovative and resourceful.     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  1. What worked well? 
  1. I am proud of the following work Helping the Defense team win the Mock Trail, finishing my final KWL and overcoming the fear of speaking in front of a large crowd. 
  1. I am proud of the work above because I was an expert witness the defense team “invited” to help them win and in the end, the defense team won, and I helped them along with the other 4 expert witnesses they “invited”. Second, I am proud of finishing my final KWL because if I finish it, this means that I learned a lot of stuff in this unit to complete the KWL. Finally, I overcame the fear of speaking in front of the crowd.    
  1. What did not work well? 
  1. I found some of this work challenging, working on researching, preparing the questions the Lawyers gonna ask me and overcoming the fear of speaking in front of people.  
  1. I found the work above challenging because I need to think of what the lawyers are going to ask me, researching because I must use my knowledge to determine which is correct and which is not. Finally, I must speak in front of other people, and it makes me nervous, so I must overcome it.      
  1. Personal Relevance 
  1. Collaboration and communications skills are important in my future because there are many classes in the future that require communications skills and when I am going to application for college, I have to have good communications skills.  
  1. This is a photo of my work about The Mock Trail 
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Math Bake Sell 🍡

November 27, 2025 /

What Did I Do

Day 1: We find the recipe of all the possible bake goods we are going to make. Choose one of the recipe and make it. Write the amount of each ingredients down on a sheet.

Day 2: We find the unit rate of all the ingredients and find how many batch we are going to make and how much it will cost.

Day 3: We find the cost for 1 batch and determines what is the markup how the profits.

What Did I Learn

We learned how to calculate unit rate, rates by using a fun project. 🙂

What Worked

When we first start making the mochi’s the total cost is 327!( So expensive) Our total income in the end is 498! The final profit is 126! This means we successfully completed the project by making 126 as our final profit.

What Did Not Work

The final Mochi’s was melting when the customer came and bought the mochi’s. What we can do next time( if there is another time) is to prepare a small fridge.

Personal Relevant

I think this project is fun because we can study while we play. Because we can. bake goods and pretend we are a company. While we learn how to calculate unit rates and percent.

Egg Car

November 11, 2025 /

What Did I Do

The Criteria of this experiment is to create a safe car that can go down – not roll down the ramp. The egg must be visible, and easy to take out. We can only use a 1 meter ling masking tape, three paper, 2 straw and 4 wheels.

What Did I Learn

Newton’s 1st Law is shown when the egg cart hit the crumple zone, the egg will want to keep flying unless there is a seatbelt or something that can cover part of the egg. Because Newton’s 1st Law stated, A object at rest tends to stay at rest, An object in motion will stay at motion unless there is an unbalanced force acting on it. Newton’s 3rd Law is shown when the egg hit or you can sat push the concrete, a.k.a crumple zone, the crumple zone pushes back at a equal but oppisite force.

What Worked

Overall, we succeded because we did not let the egg crumple and the car met all the constrains.

What Did Not Work

We saw one team that failed, because they did not make a seatbelt on the car and the car roll down by itself. I have a suggestion to give them which is, next time remember to make the seatbelt tighter.

Personal Relevance

I think this assingment is important because it can help us develope criteccal thinking.

The Egg Car We Make

Balloon Car

November 3, 2025 /

What Did I Do

The Balloon car is made of straw, ballon, foam plate and wheels. We used it to learn about Newton’s Laws.

What Did I Learn

Newton’s First Law state : An object in motion stays in motion unless an unbalanced force acts upon it.we saw that when we did not release the ballon, the car didn’t move but when the ballon’s air pushes the car, it moved.

Newton’s Second Law. state: Force is equal to the mass of an object times its acceleration (F=ma). We see that when, the ballon has little air the car moves slow. If there are large amount of air in the balloon, it will move faster.

Newton’s Third Law state: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Action: The air is rapidly pushed out of the balloon through a straw or opening. This forceful expulsion of air is the “action” force. Reaction: Because of this action, an equal and opposite reaction force is created that pushes the car forward.

What Worked

The building of the balloon car worked well because we did everything correct and we made a design that will let the balloon go fast.

What Did Not Work Well

Letting the ballon car go far and fast did not go well because we blow too little air into the ballon causing the balloon car to go short and slowly.

Personal Revelance

I think this project is important because now I know what is Newton’s Law Of Motion.

This is a Ballon car

Creative Writing Reflection

November 3, 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 the story, my message to readers.)

Character Development ( creating believable character with positive & negative trait.)

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 writing about how the main character find out that Suzanne has a stable too. I am proud of the descriptionI added to my story. My favorite part is the part I described the Air-Raid sound as a ghost’s cry.

Areas of growth

My least favorite part of the story is the end because I was rushing and did not add that many description as I did in the middle.

Personal Relevance

I think Creative Writing is important because you know how to describe something.

Table Tennis

October 10, 2025 /

What did you learn?

I learnt that there are different types of serves and different ways to hold the racket. Handshake and Pencil. I think table tennis is very different then swimming and tennis.

What did I improve.

I improved on Table Tennis by, I can beat my mom when we

are playing a game in SRC.

Personal Relevence

After I learnt all those skills, I feel more confident.

Critical Thinking Reflection

October 10, 2025 /

What Did I Do

I played with INDI ROBOT Challenge cards and Gravitrack to strengthen my critical thinking skills.

What Did I Learn

Critical Thinking is using our logic and understanding to make decision that are reasonable, for example, if a friend posted a post about car’s rule what will you do? Will you just belive it and go with it, or would think about it? If you choose the secound one, than you are using you Critical Thinking.

What Worked

I thought critically when my team didn’t know which path should we build to make INDI the way we want it to go the way we want him to do. I tried different ways until INDI was on the “right path” and I was sooo happy!

What Did Not Work Well

What I did not work well is that I was a little too harsh on my team mates, next time, I will be more “friendly”.

Personal Relevance

I think critical thinking is important because I could solve more problems in my life.

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