Category Archives: Grade 11

=DesignThinking=

In the photo, you see an assembly with a ‘good’ leader to the side to show that we want a balanced and represented assembly for regulations and rules in order for the youths to take more control of their future and for the millennials and baby bloomers to release some power unto us.

Because I am a control freak and fast with creative ideas, the process was ultimately going with my idea since we didn’t have anything else for such a complex solution. Raghad and I were by ourselves so we had to balance ideas between us which made me less overwhelmed since I trusted her and we both had the same sort of concept. We obviously couldn’t design a whole court setting we minimalized it to a small assembly of diverse people and a fair, impartial leader.  

=HowPastProblemsCauseFutureFueds=

(Hasan Minhja from Homecoming King) This was my final synthesis essay for grade 11 English. I loved my quote integration and use of transition words, I think they flowed well and things weren’t so out of place. I wish I would have paid a little more attention to editing in order to catch small mistakes and added my details from the sources into my evidence.  

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-English11Reflections-

English 11 was fun for me, nothing too easy or hard in my opinion. I had enough challenges to take things seriously but not enough to overwork myself. For others maybe it would have been hard but I loved it.

I enjoyed the Dead Poet Society and Fahrenheit 451, though I do agree that we might have gone a little too much into poetry analysing for me to still enjoy it. The little discussions we had about the psychology and thoughts behind characters were also fun for me because I would use these ‘perspective-shifting’ skills into my real life.

I loved learning about essay and writing techniques that I will definitely implement into my personal writing projects. Overall, loved the course 

=DoYouThinkJosephBoydenShouldWriteStoriesAboutIndigenousPeopleOfCanada?=

Do you think Joseph Boyden should write stories about the Indigenous people of Canada? Why or why not?

I think he should continue as long as it’s respectful to the Indigenous but he shouldn’t profit off them. It’s understandable to write about people you have no relation to as long as it isn’t derogatory.

Alex Strangelove is an LGBT movie written by a straight writer but he handled it with respect which you should do if you are writing from someone else’s point of view. Granted it was a movie thus gaining profit but that wasn’t his intention with this movie, it was to raise awareness and representation

To conclude, Joseph Boyden can continue to write about Indigenous people as long as it’s respectful and not fully for profit.

=To Live For Justice Or To Tolerate Injustice=

Welcome to my English persuasive essay. 

(The photo used is of Immanuel Kant, I used some of his evidence in this essay and he’s one of my favourite philosophers)

I liked my quote and evidence integration in the essay as well as my formal wording, although I wish I proofread longer in order to catch small mistakes and use more of a variety of sentence types.

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-Beatty’sLecture-

“What reasons does Beatty give for the current state of the society for books being destroyed?”

Beatty is a character who believes that destroying books and limiting the knowledge each holds, is necessary to keep those in order in a society where individuality and learning are punishable. In Fahrenheit 451, a novel by Ray Bradbury, Beatty is a fire chief who strongly believes that burning books is extremely important and explained why to the protagonist, Guy Montag. Beatty understands how books can make readers intelligent which, to him, would lead to being driven insane and it’s a threat, Beatty expresses that if you “cram them [people] full of noncombustible data… then they’ll feel like they thinking… Any man who can take a TV wall apart nowadays is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe” (pg.61). He is saying that people reading won’t make them happy and is a waste. Beatty works for the government and we know the government fears any threat of propaganda in order to keep people happy, he says “You must understand that our civilization is no vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred… People want to be happy, isn’t that right?… And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these” (pg.59). Beatty explains that the government’s goal is to prevent minorities rebellion and they do this by making them happy. Books, to Beatty, causes unhappiness and reckless thinking which is why he sees no real purpose in letting people have them. Beatty wants to keep order in society and books are the trees he’s willing to constantly cut down, even if it means starving people of the nourishment of books.

-“Are Writers and Artists as important to society as scientists and engineers?”

As the world has progressed, humans have witnessed the need of both the artists and the scientists for society. Both the creative and intellective parts of the mind are essential to further progress with ideas and learn from mistakes as humanity develops. While the artists lack the knowledge and comprehension the scientists have, they have the creativity and curious side of the perspective that in turn would help drive the scientists forward with multiple possibilities. Without the creative part of life, yes society will still progress but it will be a dull existence. Artists and writers are responsible for storytelling, entertainment, paintings, songs, books and so on. Majority of our society today is entertainment based and we have the artists to thank. Scientists will always be vital, we need tenacious intelligent minds to put together new things and explore the world but that doesn’t mean the world they explore should be a dull one.  As you know, our own brains require the creative and intellectual side of us in order to be human. To conclude, artists and scientists are both equally as important to society.