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Transdisciplinary Transfer Goals (TTGs)

January 15, 2026 /

TTG to improve on: skillful communicator

Chinese: I will aim to achieve fluency when reading texts both verbally and independently. To do this I will focus on learning words and reading the assignments while timing them. Learning words makes everyday common words applicable in text. Timing reading assignments helps measure growth, even if just for myself. I can see where I’m at and which words I’ll need to focus on. In the end, I want to complete at least one paragraph with full fluency and no pauses.

Math Unit 3: Proportionality and Percentages

January 6, 2026 /

U: Some things I understood from this unit was how to calculate the percentages from proportions. I also understood how to calculate change, interest, tax, and tip. Some things I feel confident about is how to show my work on a number line or tape diagram.

N: Majority of the things I learned in this unit were new. At the beginning I had a pretty basic understanding of proportions and percentages. I would be able to calculate simple transitions between proportions and percentages through my knowledge of multiplication factors but I wouldn’t be able to solve more complicated questions.

I: Something I found interesting in this unit would be calculating tip and tax as I found it to be the most fun thing to calculate.

T: Something that I found tricky was that at the beginning of the unit I struggled to remember the equation to convert proportions to percentages.

Social Studies Unit 2: Visual Presentation

January 6, 2026 /

In this project, we were tasked with creating a visual presentation on a communication or transportation technology in a certain society. I chose the automobile in European society. In this project, we also had to decide what type of visual presentation we would make, I chose a short form video. To create my video, I used an editing platform called Capcut. I had to source videos, photos and backgrounds in order to put everything together. I also had to time my media with my voiceover. Finally, I needed to add transportation in order for everything to flow smoothly and also to increase audience retention. One thing I did well in this video was my use of transitions and also the timing of my media. One thing I could improve on would be to better my voice over as it contained stutters and also wasn’t the best said.

Social Studies Unit 2: Essay

January 6, 2026 /

In this project, we were tasked with writing an essay on a form of transportation or communication. I chose the automobile as my topic, in this essay, we wrote an intro, the positive and negative impacts, solutions to the negative impacts, and a conclusion. To write this essay, first we had to choose a society to base our research on. Then we found evidence for our topics and found relevant and reliable sources to use. I chose European society. Sources I used were first and secondary sources from the EU parliament and National Geographics. This helped me broaden my knowledge on my topic and also allowed me to find statistics to use in my essay. One thing I think I did well on my essay was the opening hook that could captivate reader’s attention. One thing that I can improve on could be lengthening and strengthening the Positive Impacts paragraph as it is significantly weaker than the Negative Impacts paragraph. I could have found more sources or added more reasoning as to why the automobile brought growth into European society.

U2 Summative Assessments

December 17, 2025 /

Summative and Formative Comparison

One formative that we did was on dystopian characteristics on the story Harrison Bergeron. In this formative, we identified multiple traits that Harrison Bergeron includes that makes it a dystopian story. In this formative, I scored a 2 because I wrote way too much and constantly strayed from the claim and topic while including too many ideas. In this summative, I significantly shortened my writing and made sure I stayed close to the claim. I also made sure to pick out good pieces of evidence and checked my writing with the rubric.

What I’m Proud Of

Something that I’m proud of in my summative is sticking to the claim and also having good/decent reasoning. I also perfectly used conventions and internal citations.

Challenges I Faced

One challenge that I faced was making sure my reasoning consistently connected both to the evidence and the claim. This was a challenge as I had to keep everything in track in my mind and also constantly go back to things directly from the claim.

How I Used My Feedback

I used my feedback from teacher’s to achieve a Meeting + in this assessment. For example, I listened to the feedback of shortening my CERER and also connecting my reasoning to my evidence and claim. Other feedback I used was to not do too much and focus on one central idea.

Assessment Redo

If I could redo my assessment I would focus on how to make the best possible claim and implement that into my own writing. I would also spend more time on finding the best evidence.

Advice

Some advice I would give myself for unit 3 would be to study more before summative assessments and formatives. This would help me achieve better grades and also make me be more prepared.

Goals

One goal for future work would be to study more and home.

Unit 3: Healthy Decisions Reflection

December 12, 2025 /

The DECIDE Model stands for,

D: Define the problem

E: Explore your options

C: Consider the consequences

I: Identify your values

D: Decide what to do

E: Evaluate your decisions

Using this model, when encountered with a situation that can harm our or people around us’s safety, we can make healthy and safe decisions. During our teenage years, many are met with peer pressure and some fold under the pressure. However, by following closely with the DECIDE model, you are able to stand up for yourself and make the right decision. For example, if your friend offered you with alcohol, the problem would be the alcohol being offered to you. Your options would be accepting it, telling a trusted adult, politely refusing, etc. The consequences of alcohol would be both immediate and long term. Immediately, you could experience drunkenness, dizziness, throwing up, not thinking before you act, etc. And long term affects could be addiction, homelessness, jail, losing money. Our values as a student are to stay safe, protected and stay close with our friends. The final decision will be to kindly refuse and if they push it further tell a trusted adult. This is because we don’t want to be entangled in this situation so kindly refusing sets your boundaries, and consequences are dealt if our friend doesn’t respect our boundaries.

Some important things we learned during this unit on drug and alcohol use were extensive. Firstly, any of these substances are extremely addictive through the release of chemicals such as nicotine to trigger receptors and make you feel good. These substances also cause you to feel very sick. Once addicted and trying to recover, withdrawal may occur and cause you to feel even more sick. These substances worsen ones life exponentially and drugs are never the way to cope with problems.

Math Unit 2 Reflection

December 1, 2025 /

In this unit we learned about scale factors and scale copies. The main concept of this unit was how figures could have a scale at a larger, same or smaller size. However, all the lengths are still proportional to its scale. We also were able to find the scale factor through similar lengths. For example, if the original triangle shape had a side length of 2. And the copy triangular shape had a proportional side length of 4. To find the scale copy, it is the original length multiplied by x to reach the scale copy length. 2×2=4, the scale copy is 2. Through this unit, I developed a much better grasp of scaling and a much better grasp of factors.

P.E Unit (Artistic Swimming)

November 24, 2025 /

In this unit we were tasked with creating a show from different moves in the swimming pool. We learned techniques such as the clam or lifts. After learning some techniques, we refined them to make them more robust. After creating a team, we practiced lifts, mid air spinning and also synchronization. This unit helped us practice coordination and balance.

P.E Unit (Outdoor Invasion Games: Football)

November 24, 2025 /

In this unit we learned topics such as dribbling, passing, and positioning. As I have already had classes on football in the past, I was slightly more advanced than others. This allowed me to grasp skills faster and apply them in games. We used positioning to make space and shoot from a further distances. I was also able to dribble past multiple players at once and that created space too. In this unit, I was able to practice much more and develop better juggling and positioning skills.

ELA Unit 2 Formative (CERER-Dystopian Characteristics)

November 24, 2025 /

What are you proud of?

One thing I’m proud of from this formative is finding the pieces of evidence I used in my writing. I was able to find relevant pieces of evidence by looking though the article and analyzing how they could be used to support my claim.

What are some challenges for you?

Some challenges I faced was sticking to the claim and also using in text citations correctly and properly. Firstly, in my reasoning, I kind of lost track of how the evidence connected to the claim. Secondly, I was not here for the class on in text citations so I had no idea how to do them.

If I could redo the assessment, what changes would I make?

If I was able to redo the assessment, I would make my whole formative much more concise and focused on the main claim. I would also use in text citations properly.

What will I do in between now and the summative to ensure I meet the standards?

I will focus on writing less and always remembering the main claim. By remembering to keep the claim concise the reasoning will also be concise in turn. I will also try learning the in text citations using the flint chat bot.

What advice would I give myself moving forward?

One piece of advice I would give myself is to always keep things concise, more is not always better.

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