Category: Grade 9

Year End Reflection

  1. This year, 3 skills that I learned are how to plan an essay using 4 squares, answer the question in my answer without writing down the question and to refer to text in my answers.
  2. My fondest memory of English 9 would be listening to the spoken word performances.
  3. A tip for me to succeeding English next year would be to fully read and understand the text before I do anything that requires me to refer to it.

Math 9 Midterm Review: Surface area of Multiple Shapes

Question #1:

The Hobbs family is planning to paint their entire house. Each can of paint covers 32m2 and costs $35.50. What does it cost to paint the entire house including the roof?

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Question #2:

 

In the figure shown below, the hole in the front surface extends straight through the object. The total surface area of the figure is…

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Videos that helped me:

First People’s Principles of Learning

Interconnectedness: 

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Interconnectedness, the way things are connected to each other. Things can connect to each other in any way. Whether it’s spiritual, physical, emotional, anything! In the picture, it shows the connection between the public, community and people. I interpret it as how people make a community and make up the public. Without people, there would be no communities or public.

Another connection I could make would be to the water cycle. The public will be the clouds, the community will be the bodies of water and the people will be individual drops of water. In order to make up the clouds and bodies of water, it needs water which is the individual drops. It is all interconnected. Each drop of water is needed to make up the clouds and bodies of water, like lakes, the sea, oceans, etc.. Without the water, just like with the community, public and people example, there would be no clouds or any bodies of water.

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In the image, it shows people gardening, a house with a solar panel, a windmill and lots more. The people gardening will make a good impact on the future because it’s natural and instead of using store bought fertilizer, they use animal droppings which do not have a negative impact on the environment because it’s natural. This won’t create any extra pollution. There is no car in the picture, but there is a bike which means that they bike where ever they can. Unlike cars, bikes don’t need to use gas to power it which means that bikes also reduce pollution because it doesn’t create any. The house uses solar power and wind power as its source of energy and they’re both renewable sources, unlike fossil fuels. If they this family or small community were to continue to be environmentally friendly like this, the world would not suffer as much ice melting or high sea level rises from the global warming, nor nearly as much pollution as we see today.

This related to work that we’ve done in our class because in the carbon cycle, it is about how energy is recycled and used. This family plants trees which increases the amount of oxygen that can be created. They don’t burn a lot of fossil fuels which decreases the amount of carbon dioxide in the air because, instead of non-renewable energy sources that create pollution as their main source, they use solar or wind energy. This way, there isn’t too much carbon dioxide in the air and as the plants take in that carbon dioxide to make it oxygen it is more controlled and it would create a sustainable planet for them to live on. However, not everyone lives like this but if everyone did, or the majority of the Earth’s population did, our planted would be able to sustain us for a longer period of time without as many environmental problems as we face today.

 

Mutation Story

Bloom Syndrome

Hello, my name is Bloom, I am a recessive genetic trait which means that I have been with my host since birth. My mutation is caused by an absence of the BLM protein which helps regulate sister chromatid exchanges, however, without this, the exchanges happen about 10 times higher than the average frequency of sister chromatid exchanged. This mutation causes chromosome breakage to happen more often to my host and my host’s cells are less able to repair any damages to the DNA that are caused by ultraviolet light.

My home is in chromosome band 26.1 of chromosome 15. My host has been small and underweight ever since birth, he is an Ashkenazi Jew with ancestors from Ukraine, which elevated his chances of having me since I am more common amongst people with ancestry like that. When my host goes out into the sun, I create a butterfly-shaped rash across their cheeks and nose because the host is now extremely sensitive to sunlight. Sometimes you can see little blood clots that I cause under the cheeks after my host is exposed to sunlight. I also increase my host’s chance of getting cancer by 100 to 300 more times than a regular person without the syndrome. There is no way to get rid of me or to prevent me, my host must live with me forever unless one day a cure or prevention is found.

I also increase my host’s chance of getting cancer by 100 to 300 more times than a regular person without the syndrome. The fat tissues in my host’s body become thinner and the chromosomes are highly unstable. My host, who is a male, can also have sterility. If my host were to be a female, I can cause infertility because I can make menstruation stop early. There is no way to get rid of me or to prevent me, my host must live with me forever unless one day a cure or prevention is found.

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(From left to right) Butterfly-shaped rash after being exposed to sunlight. The location of BLM

What questions did you need to research in order to create your mutation story?

I researched many questions, such as “What is Bloom syndrome?” and “What effects does Bloom syndrome have?” I also searched the question “Are there any positive effects of Bloom syndrome,” in an attempt to try and find something good about the mutation instead of writing about only negative effects, however, I was not able to find any answers to that question.

What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?

I looked at Riverside’s database to try and get some information, Google search, and Google Scholar. Google Scholar was something new for me since I had never tried it before, I had only heard of it.

What was the process you used to investigate this topic? How did you verify and cite the information you found?

I started off with getting to know some basics about the syndrome, such as what a person with the syndrome would look like and major effects it would have on a person who carries the disorder. Then, I would research further and double check information that I find by going onto multiple websites to see if the same information would be there. I cited the sites I got information from below and linked them.

How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?

This challenge was more difficult than I thought it would be. It was slightly difficult to find what caused the mutation at first, but all I had to do was be more careful when I was reading instead of skimming through. I think I could’ve researched even more and add more of a journey-like plot to the story to make it interesting for the reader.

Sources:

(U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2016) (University of Washington, 2016)  (NORD, 2016)