Author: Danya

Hunting by Stars Expository Paragraph

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Hunting by Stars Expository Paragraph

The book “Hunting by stars” by Cherie Dimaline takes place in a dystopian world where recruiters hunt indigenous people for their bone marrow. This story is set in Canada, year 2050. The environment the story takes place in, has been heavily affected by pollution. “Trash in the oceans was beached in tall waves, leaving shadows and holes.” (Pg.4). Themain theme of this book is colonialism and showcases the impact of the residential schools on the indigenous lives. The colonizers treat the indigenous in an inhumane way the few indigenous people like animals rather than equals. “They saw us know for what we were: dreamers, providers, fuel.” (Pg.5). This connects to how indigenous people were treated within residential schools. Colonizers believed that they were doing them a favour. They believe that their way was the correct way and that they had to “help” the indigenous by any means necessary. The main character within this novel is Frenchie. He is a brave and selfless character, who constantly thinks of his family before himself. This quote represents him best; “Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you’re not the one who’ll be alive to live it.” The characters in “Hunting by Stars” face many challenges within the novel. French is first captured by the recruiters and taken to the residential school, an institution where they harvest indigenous peoples bone marrow and given to dreamless peoples. There they are treated like animals. “We’re the supply” (pg.72) was what French said when we realized what the people at the institution truly viewed them as. Rose decides to look for French, accompanied by Derrick. The rest of the family begin searching as well. They are met with many difficulties on the way such as recruiters, the blood cult, and the land itself. French joins the institution. Mitch and French are sent out on a mission to capture some more people. They use the chance to escape, but French ends up killing Mitch for he risked the safety of his family. The family end up escaping, unfortunately, a few died. I connected this book to things many things I learned about residential schools within our world and found many similarities which shocked me. This novel helped me realize that colonizers didn’t even view indigenous as humans.

 

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Week 12 – Pre Calculus 11 – Adding and Subtracting Rationals

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This week in pre-calculus 11 we learned about adding unsubtracting rational expressions. I’m going to go over some basics before we get into some more complicated examples.

When adding and subtracting fractions or denominator must be the same. So in this example..

The denominator is x on one and the other is 5. To get a common denominator we must multiply. Whatever you do to the top you do to the bottom.

Now they have a common denominator so we can simplify it. In this example are two numerators cannot be simplified any further because one has a variable and the other doesn’t.

last thing you need to do is find the non- permissible values.  Non permissible  values are a value for the variable and the denominator that would cause the denominator to equal zero. So in this example if we substituted X to be zero that would cause the denominator to be 5(0) = 0. So we would write…

Now that we have a basics covered we can move onto a more complicated example.

Repeat the same steps:

1- get a common denominator

2- simplify (divide)

3- Final answer

4-Non-permissible values

 

Week 11 – Pre Calculus 11 – Maximum and Minimum

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This week in pre-calculus 11 we went over maximum and minimum within a parabola. Today I will show you how to find them and where to find them on a graph.

What is max and min? 

The maximum and minimum are the highest or lowest point of the graph which is also known as the vertex.

How do you know if it is a max or a min? 

If the parabola is pointing upwards then the vertex is the lowest point which is the minimum.

If the parabola is pointing downwards than the vertex is at the highest point meaning it is the maximum.

Finding the min and max is very important because this will help you graph the rest of the parabola. The line of symmetry crosses through the vertex (max/min) meaning that you can graph both sides because you know the LOS.

Week 10 – Precalculus 11 – Graphing parabola/ finding vertex and intercepts

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And this week in Precalculus 11 we  went over vertex and finding X and Y intercepts .  I learned how to find the vertex and X and Y intercept when given a vertex form quadratic equation.

Vertex:  The vertex is either at the highest or lowest (max/min)  there’s also the point where the middle of the parabola  is.

For first example I’m going to give you a graph and we will find the All 3 of the things I listed. Will start with the graphed equation.

we can see in this parabola contacts is (-3,4).

The X intercepts are when the parabola crosses over our X axis. (-5,0) (-1,0)

Y intercept is when the parabola crosses over the Y axis. (0, -5)

Now we will graph an equation (if you are slightly confused go to my week 9 blog post, it explains what each part does)

review week 9:

graph:

As from our week 9 lesson we know that the parabola will move 4 to the left and 1 down. The stretch remains the same as there is no coefficient.


Week 9 – Pre calculus 11 – parts of vertex form

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Week 9 of pre-calculus 11 we went over the vertex form also known as standard form. This form is a type of quadratic and it gives us the vertex. Different parts of the vertex form tell you different things which is what I will be going over today.

This is how vertex form looks like:

Now that you know how it looks I will show you what each part does to the  parabola.

REFLECTION (open up/down)– if there is a negative in front of the coefficient that means the parabola open downwards, if it is positive the parabola will open upwards

STRETCH (slim/wide) – if there is a coefficient this tells us if our parabola will be wider or skinnier (congruent in is something you get from this as well)

HORIZONTAL TRANSLATION (left/right) –  if the number inside the bracket it’s negative it goes to the right, if you if the number in the bracket is positive then it goes to the left (opposites)

VERTICAL TRANSLATION (up/down) – The number is positive at the end it goes up, if the  Number at the end is negative it goes down.

In this example we know that our parabola will be opening down and it will be slimmer. The parabola will move three to the right and seven up. So we know that the vertex will be (3,7)!

Questions: 

– Why is it slimmer if there’s a number?

First need to know how our parent function looks like. A parent function is the original  parabola before we start to change things. 

Now in the example we did before it had a coefficient of three which means the partent function is multiplied by three.