English semester reflection

This semester in English 11, I improved a lot my writing skills and my grammar. I really like the class because we did lot of stuff that I wasnt use to do in my home country. I learn about stereotypes, that was something I didnt care about, but now I have a different perception. I would like to change the time we start this class, because 7:40 am is deadly. I came late many times because it’s a really bad time to wake up, but I know is something about the schedule so we couldnt do nothing.

It was a really good time in your class, thanks so much Mrs Thomasen

Corrections Synthesis

This essay was one of the toughest because it was a little longer than the others, and for me, is harder to work in class, because it takes me a while to start writing.

I think I did a good introduction, it was clear long with good details and the thesis statement meet the expectations.

I also think I did a good research, they make sense with the essay and support the arguments.

I’d like to improve my  writing because it wasnt as fluent as I did and I would like to correct my grammar mistakes because sometimes my wording did not make sense

 

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Design Thinking

Our process consisted in share all our ideas we have in the sketch sheet and try to join them, and I think it resulted in a good solution to our problem and meets the expectations. While designing we didnt have any idea  just took a paper box and wrap it with aluminum paper, then we placed the letters in order to describe the characteristics of our object.

This process wasnt that hard, because since we knew which problem we wanted to solve, we had a clear idea of what kind of object could be used to solve it. The only difficulty we had, was that we didnt know how to start, we knew we wanted to create a phone for help elders to learn how to use the new tech, but we didnt know what kind of objects we could use for develop our product.

We overcame this process by picking random stuff and trying to give them sense for build up our telephone. For example, I picked a a box and my partners picked the letters box and the aluminum paper so we could build the phone.

 

Redskin controversy

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I think I did a good job since last paragraph, I have a more fluent writing and better vocabulary, I rarely repeat the same words and I think is a piece of evidence that I’m improving my writing.

I consider a good point to include my personal experience of my soccer team, because it helps to support my opinion.

I guess I have to improve my presentation, because some parts have different fountains and makes hard to read it

I need to make better the way to include sources, I had some mistakes with the capital letters ors with the format that have to be changed.

Politics of identity

“Indigenous Ancestry Questioned”

Point of interest

Quote:

“Mr. Boyden, 50, won the Giller Prize in 2008 for Through Black Spruce, part of a trilogy that began with Three Day Road, about two Cree soldiers in the First World War.”

Explanation:

This book was priced so it means there’s a good research for write the novel, supporting the idea that even not being a native American, he can write about the identity , of aboriginal people because has good and objective information.

Point of Value

Quote:

“I once said that, ‘A small part of me is Indigenous, but it is a huge part of who I am,'”

 

 

Explanation: I really have a strong link with this sentence based on my personal experience, it’s quite different but I feel identify with it. My mum is from a beautiful city of Spain, Salamanca; and I always say I feel part of that city even because I have never lived there: because of their traditions, foods or people… which identify my self with them. But my mum always said I could not say I was from that city, even I have family from there. It is quite different to this issue, but still I feel identify with it.

 

Point of Question

Quote:

There’s a robust social phenomenon in our society at the moment whereby white Canadians with 200-and-300+-year-old Indigenous ancestry are claiming to be Indigenous,”

 

Explanation: I question which relation they have with the culture they are claiming for. I wonder if they have an education in those values and traditions. I also wonder what they know about the history of that nation or identity. They don’t give any other reason of why they identify as indigenous.

 

 

The final question:

Do you think Joseph Boyden should write stories about the Indigenous people of Canada? Why or why not? Post this final question on your blog.

 

I think he can write stories about native people because even not sharing  identity with them, he shows a good research with objective information with no stereotypes. I think both parts receive good feedback of his work, he learn more about his “past” and society has a clear vision of the history of this people.

 

 

A new member came

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In my opinion, it is a really strong topic, with a very important emotional fact, of one of the most important days in my life which is the day my brother was born.

I think it has a really organized  chronological structure which helps to follow the story.

I consider that the vocabulary must be improved, for make it more emotive and fluent.

Also the use of colons and semicolons, which makes easier to follow the narrative.

The consequences of censorship in society

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For this essay I did a good research resulting in good sources which provide information that support my evidences. In my opinion the best resource is the 3rd one from “the Washington Post” which reflects the importance of ignorance in society, and how it can be a crucial factor at the time of making decisions.  The example that they use, is the roll of ignorance, in the election of Donald Trump as president supporting that one of the main reasons why Trump is president is due to a high amount of ignorant voters.

I consider that my thesis statement is a very strong point of my work, because it contains the main basic arguments which support my point of view. In few words, communicates the very basic ideas of my essay.

I need to improve my formal writing, because the way I wrote my essay is very similar to the common speaking, what supposes less authority for my arguments, making harder to convince people about my perspective.

Fluent writing must be improved, because in some points of the essay it become tough to keep reading, what reduces the engagement making ineffective my message. I need a more dynamic writing that makes reader to be interested in what I share.

 

Are artists and writers are as important as scientists and engineers? ?

In my opinion artists and writers should be considered as important as engineers and scientists because they also modify the society but in a different way. The have a different function on how they change our society. I think writers can change people’s way of thinking  by books such as Bible or The Communist Manifesto. Newspapers are another powerful elements of writers for influence in the society. They changed the world because they allowed people to have a global perspective, before newspapers, people just care what happened at their home city. Also newspapers have opinion article that can influence on how people thinks and understand what is happening around them.

Writers can also be part of people’s life. We cant forget that singers are also writers and there are so many people listening to their music and they influence them in everything. Also many movies are inspired on books like Harry Potter, so I think writers can be part of people social life too

In conclusion, writers have a more personal influence on people’s lives and scientists satisfy more physical needs

Iron chef by Angel Perez

Our final lab arrived as a cooking competition called Iron Chef. I dont really watch TV shows about cooking competition, honestly I dont watch any TV show, just because I feel they are very similar between them so, I use to get bored. There are many TV shows like iron chef in Spain, but i didnt consume them. I used to think they were boring, but after this experience it changed my perception about them, now I dont really think I would going to follow iron  chef but i would like to be part of another cooking competition because, honestly I really like how it feels, my favorite part I think was when we discussed about which recipe we would like to prepare, because I discovered so many new recipes with cinnamon and orange, that I didnt expect that could work, such us orange cake we cooked at the warm up series, it tasted delicious.

Our decisions were chosen by all of us, or may be by the person who was working in a specific activity, and after that, asking everyone who integrated the group if they agree or not, for example when Alhanz decided to add cream to our deconstructed apple pie she asked everyone before. I think our decisions where picked by everyone and this was what made us work in a solid way.

All of use made a research for choosing the recipe we want. At first I didnt think that the orange cake could be a good idea but after trying I was surprised how good it tasted, it was awesome, I can be sure it was one of the best cakes I ever ate. I am not lying, it can be verified easily, I ate half of it. Deconstructed apple pie was very nice, but it was a bit disappointing because I expected to be as good as the one before.

Deconstructed apple pie was good and quite original, but we chose it just for make the difference with the other groups, we all wanted to cook a type of cinnamon glazed donut which seemed delicious, but we thought other groups would choose that recipe. Anyway, I think our dish was fantastic and quite different of we saw in the other groups.

The ingredients given by Mr Breet were not a problem, I think we faced up really good, making very good decisions in both cases, the problem was timing which affect in our development of the deconstructed apple pie, because we couldnt cook as much as was necessary our apples, but they werent as bad as we thought at first. But our dish had lot of water what in my opinion made it very heavy and hard to eat, because of the huge quantity it supposed.

In conclusion I think we did a good job and i enjoyed it. It was very nice time at foods and nutritions, and it grew my cooking skills.

Super foods dishes

I chose this lab because I wasn’t very used to eat a diet including this superfood and it was something that can help me in a future at the time of cooking and choosing recepies. When I come back to spain I will probably choose one of this receipe for my family because I will be ask for cooking something and I find something different to what I saw in spain and it would be good for my family.

I am not very fan of eating this kind of dishes but this was ok. At first I thought that it would be hard to me to eat to this kind of different vegetables but it was not too much disgusting, but the only thing I didn’t like was the avocado, it tasted really weird and was very hard to eat, I didn’t like it at all. It was funny cooking this kind of foods, and it was also very challenging because we needed to cook three dishes very quickly and also making a little presentation and I like challenging things.  Everything was nice, my favourite was our chicken, it was supposed to be salmon, but it is too expensive. It was good really good cooked and tasted delicious. I cooked potatoes, but we didn’t understand properly the instructions. It was supposed to be cooked like fries but I cut it in small pieces but it wasn’t a problem and the dish was delicious. So in my opinion everything was better than what I expected even our frozen dessert that it wasn’t frozen, it was like a fruit cold soup, tasted fantastic. At first I thought that mixing this ingredients could be a problem for how they taste but finally I was surprise how good they were combine and the quality of the menu was really high and that was something very good because we worked a lot and having a good result is very satisfactory

We worked really good with a division of duties so everyone knew exactly what they needed to do. My part was like a very simple one but I helped in the preparation of the dessert and everything went really good.

If I need to do it again I would probably choose some chocolate cake we saw at the web because the seem delicious but ye finally chose the fruit ice cream because it was like very different what we saw before.