Caroline's Portfolio

March, 2025/ Caroline Gu

Introduction

The purpose of my conference is to

I’d like to share:

• What I’ve done and what I still want to achieve
• Some areas of growth, struggles, and some of my work
• My goals and how I plan to achieve them

My Vision Board

Some of the things included on my vision board are:

• My dream university
• photo experiences of my own that I enjoyed
• Quotes
• My MBTI personality

These are important because: these things I put in describe who I am and what I want to do.

My Goals Are:

1. To read 10 more books annually compared to before and to the year before this year.
2. Expand my vocal range even more.

Here is evidence of how I was able to start to make progress towards my goals.

Transdisciplinary Transfer Goal (TTG)

The TTG I chose to reflect upon throughout the year is…

Critical Thinkers – I know that I am a critical thinker because I consider multiple approaches and perspectives to evaluate decisions.

To achieve this goal, I will try to achieve this goal mostly in core classes where I am able to support arguments with evidence.

This is the “L4 – Natural Resources Product Project (Module 3, Optional Extension)” and this supports my journey in this goal because it shows me taking multiple approaches to support my claim to show Mediheal Tea Tree Toner pads are good for the environment.

Core Subject: Language Arts 📖

I will now share my progress in Language Arts…

The Writer’s Studio Talk show” is where our group of four had a discussion about a situation. We all gave our perspectives.

Core Subject: Social Studies 🌏

I will now share my progress in Social Studies…

I chose this artifact for Social Studies because this was one of my favorite projects this year and because I did very well on the project. I liked this project because we got to choose a topic that we were interested in to research about. I chose the topic of climate change and I decided to talk about the financial risks and opportunities for businesses with the result of climate change regulations. I feel that my final result was a very good poster and I received a 14/15 on this project. One thing I think I should’ve done was to try the L4 option. I felt that I didn’t have enough time to create a whole presentation so I didn’t attempt it. But, I feel like if I attempted it, I would’ve known about my topic even more.

Core Subject: Math 🧮

I will now share my progress in Math…

The math class I take is IM8.

This is the Geometry celebration of learning. I chose this artifact because it demonstrated my exceeding progress in Geometry.

In typical occasions, I usually receive meetings in my math class.

Core Subject: Science 🧪

Evidence of Organization

Above: My organized Table or Contents. It helps me organize my work so I know what page is where.

Above: Comparison of two organized pages in my notebook. As the science lessons get harder, I

My science notebook is a well-organized, carefully created artifact of my learning in science class this school year.

Evidence of Active Learner Habits

I am a consistent active learner. I have only turned an assignment late in once.

Evidence of Understanding of Key Concepts

I could improve my understanding of key concepts. I plan to review concepts at home the day before science class.

Evidence of Growth in Science Skills

• Standard 1: Developing and Using Models
• Standard 2: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
• Standard 3: Engaging in Argument from Evidence
• Standard 4: Asking Questions and Defining Problems
• Standard 5: Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
• Standard 6: Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

EnCore: Spanish🇪🇸

This was a poster that we made about healthy habits. We used commands to talk about healthy habits.

This was a dialogue written by Alexandra and I. We were assigned a picture and had to talk about how someone got injured.

EnCore: Orchestra🎻

I will now share my progress in Orchestra.

The first artifact I have is the first reflection from the chamber music. I chose this artifact because I think I reflected our rehearsal very well while answering all of the question. I received a 4/4 for this assignment.

EnCore: Physical Education

I will now share my progress in Physical Education.

In the swimming unit, my grades for the skills were all 4s.

EnCore: Health

L4: There’s an App for That!

I received a 4 on this project. We were asked to review an app.

Here were the expectations to receive a 4:It is clear you spent 7 days using and getting to know the app and you are familiar with the features. All components of the review are completed thoroughly. Includes clear screen shots showing important features and design. The 3 parts of the review are clearly written and show a strong understanding of the app and its audience. Class notes/ ideas are referenced in the review. Revision and editing is evident.

Strengths and Areas of Growth

Some of the skills I am good at is organizing. Like my SLC page, my work is also very neat. The best artifact to show my organization is my science notebook.

Some things I want to improve on is not being late to school and instead being on time. I often have to run through the halls to get to advisory on time.

Passion Project 4.0:

Emily and I are challenging ourselves as a risk taker in this project. Emily is playing a new instrument (the drums) and I am stretching my vocals while playing some guitar . Our final project will be a live performance on PP day.

Closing

Thank you for listening to my progress towards my goals over the last year. Do you have any questions?

My evidence revealed that unrestricted cell phone use will negatively impact a teen’s social-emotional health. The evidence showed that social media already has a negative impact to a student’s self esteem and has data that there is a significant behavior change for teens since the 1970s. Students started to not socialize and feel lonely.

My opinion is that if we have cell phones during school hours but not during classes it will be fine. I think this because most students in high school still participate in class and extracurriculars fully and still socializes with friends. I think that parents and teacher might also agree with this because they also see that students do participate in sports.

I will make sure that I finish all of my work before I use my phone for un-educational purposes. I will also make sure that I hang out with my friends offline and still participate in my sports.

In this unit, we learned about ratios and rates and we had a project where we build a cardboard race car and try to get the closest ratio to 1:1. We predicted our time by doing time trials and adding our rates together. Our team was 19 seconds off from our predicted time. If we could do this again I think we should have walked slower during the time trial because it would allows us to take our time and walk and not be 19. seconds slower. In the timed trials, we used 30cm per second and they were important because they could help us add up the total ad predict the ratio. For the groups that didn’t include the units, they got confused with the numbers and they didn’t know which one was the rate.