En Cultures Comparées, on a appris beaucoup de cultures diverses. On avait huit unités : la Grèce, l’Italie, l’Allemagne, la France, la Russie, l’Inde, la Chine et le Japon. Après avoir terminé ces unités, on avait la tâche de créer notre propre culture en groupe. Mon groupe a créé l’Ultimae.
Le Projet Final
Les Compétences Essentielles
Compétence de Communication : Est-ce que l’information, les expériences et les idées explorés dans ce cours a enrichi ton vocabulaire français ?
Les expériences et les idées explorées dans ce cours ont enrichi mon vocabulaire. Je les ai utilisés pendant que je parlais avec ma jumelle de l’école. C’était très informatif d’apprendre ce qu’elle avait déjà appris et ceci à m’aider de mieux comprendre ce que j’avais appris en partageant les expériences et les idées que j’avais apprises pendant la journée. De plus, j’en parle souvent avec mon amie qui va à une autre école. Je lui parle souvent de ce que j’apprends à l’école pour comparer ce qu’elle avait appris. Elle était surprise que je puisse lui enseigner ce que j’avais appris en utilisant le vocabulaire nécessaire.
Compétence de Pensée Critique : Est-ce que ce cours vous a aidé à mieux comprendre le concept « culture » ?
Ce cours m’avait aidée à mieux comprendre le concept de culture. De l’avance, je ne savais pas qu’il y avait plusieurs aspects. Je croyais qu’il y avait les célébrations qui sont différentes et l’architecture différent. Cependant, il y a plusieurs aspects. Maintenant, je comprends qu’une culture est faite de plusieurs aspects différents qui travaillent ensemble pour sculpter la vie de leur peuple. C’est plus que les fêtes et les arts. C’est le gouvernement et les lois, le développement historique, les sciences et technologies, la religion et la philosophie ! Toutes ces choses ont un effet sur le peuple et la culture.
Compétence de Pensée Créative : Est-ce que ce cours a stimulé vos passions ou votre curiosité ? Lesquelles ? Comment ?
De l’avance, je ne croyais pas que j’aime cette classe. Il y avait beaucoup de notes qu’on avait besoin de prendre et beaucoup d’information à suivre. Cependant, quand j’ai arrêté de concentrer sur les notes et commencer à penser plus de ce que Dr. Ursu nous disait la classe est devenue mieux. Je me rends compte que j’aime bien apprendre des cultures différentes et les comparées. Le cours a stimulé mes curiosités. Particulier, le profil sociologique m’a fait beaucoup penser. J’intéressais à trouver ce que je pouvais en utilisant la méthode de déduction. C’était choquant de voir ce que je puisse comprendre en utilisant cette méthode.
Compétence Personnelle et Sociale : Est-ce que ce cours a contribué (ou pas) à l’amélioration de votre tolérance culturelle ?
Ce cours a contribué à l’amélioration de mon tolérance culturelle. Avant de prendre ce cours, je ne pensais pas trop des perspectives des autres et comment ils étaient affectés par les aspects culturelles. Après d’apprendre des sept aspects de cultures, j’ai compris qu’il y a plusieurs choses qui peuvent changer les opinions et les perspectives. J’ai appris que les gens d’une culture prend leurs valeurs et les formes de ce qu’ils ont autour d’eux.
Comment ce cours t’a aidé à clarifier ta propre identité, à mieux te comprendre ?
Je pense que ce cours m’a aidé à clarifier ma propre identité et à mieux me comprendre. Pendant ce cours, j’ai appris les différents aspects des cultures. Ceci m’a inspiré de faire de la recherche sur ma culture. J’ai appris plusieurs choses qui m’avaient aidé à comprendre qui je suis et comment je pouvais avoir un lien plus fort à ma culture. Par exemple, j’ai appris qu’il y a plusieurs célébrations dans les Philippines que ma famille fait aujourd’hui au Canada. J’ai aussi appris que la religion la plus pratiquée là est la même que ma famille pratique ici (à cause du fait que c’est ce que ma grand-mère croit depuis qu’elle vivait à Manila) : le Christianisme catholique romain.
In Mme Lo’s French class, we were asked to write Core Competency reflections. This course let us work on our speaking, writing and reading skills in French. This is my reflection on how I think I improved and what I think I still need to work on.
In Interpersonal and Family Relationships 11, we took a look at some careers that involve helping people and the community. After our lessons, we got a chance to research one in dept: I chose to research Social Work. During my research, I reached out to a Social Work and conducted an informational interview.
After two units in Precalculus 11, we reflect back on mistakes we made on tests or on our assignments. The two units we’ve completed now are Factoring and Trigonometry. I chose to reflect on a question that I had previously gotten wrong on my Trigonometry test.
In Literary Studies, we had the option to read The Help or To Kill a Mockingbird. After reading our novels, we started an inquiry-based project and researched our questions. Our research consisted of several different types of documents: art, poems, connections with our novel, videos, current events and articles from websites.
During Physics Class, we did a lab to investigate how launch angles have an effect on flight time and distance travelled. We did this by shooting a Nerf gun at various angles and comparing our results.
The Artifact
*Currently on paper, I will add pictures eventually*
In Literary Studies and Composition 10, we read a short story called Sam the Athlete. The story recounts the tail of Sam, a brand-new student at a middle school, who loves sports. He joins a field hockey team and ends up wearing a skirt to pretend to be a girl. Even after Sam letting everyone know he was a guy; he decides to continue to wear the skirt. After reading this, we wrote persuasive paragraphs responding to the question: Should Sam continue to wear the skirt?
This self assessment is for my Socials 9 project. We made videos, websites or presentations for a fake election. We chose our sides, either Oliver Cromwell or Charles I. Enjoy!
This is a silent short film that I created in English class. I worked with some other people to make this video. We worked really hard to create something we would all be proud of. We tried to make a video that represented an emotion. To assure that our emotion was conveyed to the best of our ability, our film is rather dramatic. The film is titled Sisterly Love. I hope you enjoy it !
This project is all about genetics and mental illness. We went through the science behind mental illness. Alyssa, Aurora and I, also known as A cubed, decided on this question after having watched a TED talk called “The Ethical Dilemma of Designer Babies”. This video made us think and want to know more on this topic. There were loads of questions that popped up during our brainstorms and discussion. We took it upon ourselves to find something that covered everything or at least most of, what we wanted to learn. Enjoy this project, brought to you by A Cubed.
DEFINE: Outline the specifics of the problem.
As I stated in my brief introduction, we came upon our question after watching a TED talk. This TED talk spoke about the ethics involved with genetically modifying children. After reflecting more on this we found that all of us were fairly interested in the mental illness side of things. Through the process of trial and error, we attempted to come up with a question that would really make us think. We went through this process for a little while and started to edit our question which were deemed too simple. We ended up with a question that made us have to reflect and in some ways read between the line; How are genetically modified children at risk of mental illness? DISCOVER: Question and Investigate the issue. What are the underlying issues? Who is affected? What stances have certain countries taken on the issue? What other questions need to be researched to get the information needed to take a stand?
Our issue was how genetically modified children are at the risk of mental illness. During our brainstorms, we found that there were many underlying issues. These underlying issues were about the process and the margins for error. This issue affects everyone. The possibility of genetically modified children in nothing but increasing. With new scientific discoveries happening every day, this is not going to just go away. People need to wake up and do something about this issue.
Believe it or not, not all countries have rules and/or bans regarding the genetic modification of humans. Many countries have passed legislation banning human reproductive cloning, including Australia, Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Kingdom. Approximately 46 countries have formally banned human cloning. While encouraging, this represents less than a quarter of all countries.
To allow people to confidently take a stand, we need to ask a lot more questions. Here a few that come to mind: What rules, regulations or bans should countries imply? How are we going to make sure the genetic modification of humans will be used for good? Why should we or should we not allow it? Why would this be a good or bad idea? There are probably so many more questions that need to be answered before this issue can be resolved or at least contained.
DELIVER: Share your opinion though an infographic. Use a format that is as effective as possible. Include media that gets your ideas across
At the end of the process, I feel that this infographic meets the criteria. I strongly feel this way because our infographic has a lot of relevant information. This information was researched and checked profusely for any errors. The images are not just anything. Aurora is an amazing artist and it was a privileged to work with her (and Alyssa). Aurora drew everything for us. The images were as relevant as could be because we had someone draw them rather than looking for what we wanted. As a whole, this project is so aesthetically pleasing.
DEBRIEF: Reflect on quality of the product and the process you went through.
The quality of this product is great in my opinion. I’m very proud of my work and the work of my group. Through the way we were collaborating, we were able to make a project that we all were proud of. Through collaborative investigation and by using quality resources, we profusely researched and came up with the information we needed. As for the images we used and putting everything together, Aurora was our creative visionary. As stated above, all images were drawn by Aurora. While she was drawing, Alyssa and I were in charge of finding which bits of information we wanted in the project. We went through everyone’s research to find the best information that would be the most effective for communicating our ideas. There is something that stopped this project from being phenomenal; we couldn’t find an amazing answer to our question. Though, we answered it the best we could, I feel that we could have done better, given more time and more resources.
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