Category: Grade 11
Chemistry 11 Online Work Self Assessment
The transition from working in a classroom enviornment to an at home online learning environment has gone pretty smoothly for me. I feel as though I worked more effeicnelty at home and on my own than in school as there are no distractions for me when at home. The part that I found the most beneficial for me personally, was the fact that I could go back and watch the lesson video when I am studying for the tests. I am able to pause and take notes and not be rushed when processing information. I could take breaks in between and be in a more generally relaxing environment. I also liked having classes only 3 times a week as it gave me time for other classes and time to do my chemistry homework/study. The part that was most difficult for me was probably doing the labs as it is quite diffrent not doing them physically in a classroom. It was diffucult for me to go through the lab steps and follow the instructions as it wasn’t a physical acitivity but more just words and calculations on paper. Something that I would’ve changed was maybe going through the labs deeper and with more explanation. Even more of a general overview of the lab. All in all, the online expririence for me was very beneficial, not just for Chemistry 11 but for most of my other online classes as well.
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Open in new tab “My Anxiety” – Katya Chernous Spoken Word
Hi everyone,
This is my spoken word I did for English 11 honours. I hope you enjoy 🙂
heres the link: https://youtu.be/hBDC7p8ZYog
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Poetry Project – Katya Chernous
Hi Everyone,
For this project, the English 11 Honours students were assigned the task of finding a way to uplift our community through poems and poetry. I began brainstorming different ideas and types of poems to uplift the community, knowing from the beginning that I wanted to write something and create something for my neighbours and everyone in the general area of where I live. After figuring out who I want my core audience to be, I had to figure out a clever and creative way to share my work with them. I decided that I wanted to put my poems somewhere on paper where people would be able to clearly see them and stop to read them while walking by. In order to achieve that goal, I made sure to make both of the poems extremely fun and colourful so that the audience would stop to read them and it will catch their attention. Also, since one of the main points of this project is to uplift the community I thought it was a good idea to use happy colours and images (flowers, butterflies etc.) I then had to decide what my poems were going to be about and what would be the core theme between the two of them, as we had to choose a topic. I started brainstorming what something was that the community can all agree on and something that all of us share. This community is a really big family neighbourhood, with a lot of parks and schools so I thought that it would be great to talk about importance of family and close ones within my poems. I think it’s extremely important to value this time for family as a lot of the times, we are living our own lives and don’t tend to spend as much time together as we probably should. I know a lot of kids and parents who have more time now at home and grown a stronger connection with each other because of quarantine. We should be using this bad situation and make the most of it. I wrote the poem “I Will Forever Love You” about the love for my family and the relationship with my family while reflecting how closer I grew to them during quarantine. I wrote about the thought of losing them and the regret that I would then have after thinking about how even during quarantine I chose to stay in my room instead of communicating and doing an activity with them. Quarantine opened my eye to ways of my family and I spending time together and has taught me ways of doing activities together even when quarantine ends and we all go back to our busy and usual lives. Both of my parents currently work from home so I am with them 24/7 and even though my sister moved out, we are on FaceTime together as a family almost all day as well considering she is home as well. I also decided to share the poem “Family” by Ryan Guerrero because when reading it, I really related to it and I thought it would be perfect to share with the community. I tried to pick a poem that was shorter (considering mine was pretty long and I was worried that people walking by wouldn’t want to read two very long poems) and I also tried to pick a poem that was easier to read and understand knowing that a lot of readers would be children. I also thought the poem was great for the situation that we are going through currently and I loved how Guerrero talked about taking that chance we were given with our family and not missing it and later regretting it. His poem really spoke to me so that’s why I decided to share it as well. I next had to find a spot to place the poems. I was thinking trees, walls, and even fences but I couldn’t find any places that I liked. I then came upon the mailbox which I thought was a great idea because everyone walks there and past there. I decided to choose a location a little bit further away from my house (5 minute walk) instead of the mailbox directly in front of my house because I knew that a lot of people walk by there due to the nearby boardwalk, river, bike trail, and stores there. So I took the location of my poems into huge consideration. After writing my poems and designing their looks, I knew that something was missing. The goal of this project was to uplift the community in our current situation and I thought to myself if just these two poems were really going to uplift a person. I came to the thought that no. They will probably forget about it the next day and it will have a slight to no affect on them. I wanted to find a way to make this more interactive. I came up with the idea to leave a personal note, with the reason as to why I made this in the first place and to personally wish them positive energy. I also wanted this project to go both ways and for them to share their thoughts and pieces as well. I did this by leaving a blank space for them to go and write what they wished. Wether it was feedback on the poems, a personl message, or quotes and poems of their own. The way that I tried making the audience agree with me is to make it a very emotional and relatable piece work. I wanted something that the audience would enjoy reading and I thought that it was the best strategy to use for them to agree with me and take action in their personal lives and at their current home situation. Something that I also took into consideration is that this is a very interactive community and neighbourhood. Everyone here knows each other and everyone is extremely friendly to one another. Every week we gather together and spend time as a community. You can really feel that missing here currently due to social distancing and I thought that this was a great way to get everybody together to talk about the importance of being there for one another.Â
What are some of the things that we can do to help those that have been impacted by a current or previous conflict?
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people all over the world are feeling the mental and physical drain of self-isolation. Something that the pandemic took away from us is communication with the outside world. I think that talking to others and even strangers is something that we all dearly and truly miss. That’s why I believe that we need to rely on communicating to those in our home while also growing a stronger connection with one another. I think that a way to fill this lonely feeling that a lot of of have been having is through the power of words. Positivity and looking at the brighter side is a great way of changing someones well being. It’s a great thing to show other that everyone is experiencing the same situation right now and letting others know that they are not alone is a great first step. This is why this project was so important to me because I got to help others that are feeling the same loneliness right now as I do. With this project, I got the opportunity to uplift other people and Im glad that I chose to present my poems to the general public as I got to express my thoughts and feelings to a very large group and large variety of people :). Â
Below are my two poems and the message/blank area I left for the community.
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Please keep in mind that this was a very windy day and I could not get the papers to stop moving no matter how much tape I used. I later came out the next day and fixed it so it now looks much cleaner. I also moved the paper on which you can write on, on top so that it is easier for people to write on it without kneeling down. (I also got very lucky that it did not rain and that the weather was beautiful) 
Cloud Project – Earth Science 11
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Short Story Talks- (Foreshadowing)
What is foreshadowing?
Foreshadowing is an indication of a future event. Foreshadowing occurs in literary text when the author provides information hinted to the readers that a specific situation will occur. It can be applied in writing, in many different ways but is most commonly shown in dialogue or plot changes. Foreshadowing offers suspense to the story to keep readers hooked and curious about what will happen next.
Three examples:
• At times a future event is mentioned earlier in the story, like a comment in a meeting between characters. The reader already knows that that there are issues that will occur.
• A character’s thoughts can also foreshadow. For example: “I knew that this is going to happen, why didn’t I believe her?”.
Symbolism is also used in foreshadowing. For example: The stones were greatly mentioned in the introduction of the short “The Lottery”.
Writing on the Wall – Infographic
This is the link to my infographic I created with Mikaelah Unso on the short story “Writing on the Wall” by Celia Rees: https://create.piktochart.com/output/43974782-writing-on-the-wall-infographic
Geography 12 – Fish Farming
1) Choose a species of fish and explain which ones you should consume and which ones you should avoid.
The species of fish that I chose was Salmon. Specifically Atlantic Salmon. Through the research I did, I learned that the Atlantic Salmon we should avoid is the Atlantic Salmon that are farmed in open net pens in British Columbia. The open nature of the net pens that are used in the production system provides no barrier to infection from environmental pathogens. There is a serious concern in the potential spread of antibiotic resistance in humans, as over 80% of the antibiotics used in BC salmon farms have been classified by the World Health Organization as being highly important to human health. I found out that the Atlantic Salmon that humans should be consuming is Farmed (Recirculating aquaculture system/RAS) Atlantic Salmon worldwide. The contained nature of RAS allows for close control and prevention of potential disease or parasite outbreaks. Risk of escapes is low as the systems are not in direct contact with natural water bodies. RAS consequently require low use of chemicals. When chemicals are used, they cannot flow into the environment directly, and have the opportunity to be treated and sterilized before discharge.
2) Advantages and disadvantages of fish and salmon farming:
Advantages:
Limits overfishing- As a result of growing world population, the demand for salmon increases day by day. Salmon farming sets to meet this demand hence preventing overfishing of wild salmon from the oceans and lakes.
Easy to maintain-Â Salmon farming is easy to maintain and has low running costs. Salmon farms can be set up almost anywhere with clean water supply and a large water body.
Prevents extinction- Aquaculture helps to revive the populations of some fish species
High Yields- Salmon farming methods shield edible fish from marine predators such as large fish, bears and fish-eating birds. This stabilizes the salmon population hence resulting in high fish yields. In addition, farmed salmon are constantly monitored for parasites, sickness and other factors that might hinder their development.
Disadvantages:Â
Expensive to set up- The initial setup costs for salmon farming may be expensive due to the need to install fish cages, hatcheries and provision of processed fish food. In addition, as opposed to salmon farming in large water bodies, salmon farming in ponds requires costly excavations and channeling of river water into and out of the fish ponds.
Infections- Dead fish encourage the growth of bacteria and other infections, which may threaten the entire fish population in the water source. Also, due to fish congestion, infections spread easily among the fish population since they are often in close contact.
Water pollution and infections- Farmed salmon are often treated with antibiotics, disinfectants and pesticides. These chemicals combined with the fish wastes may find their way into surrounding fresh water hence resulting in water pollution.
Asses how sustainable aquaculture is:
Aquaculture in its current form can be harmful to the environment and wild fish stocks. As everything in life, it has its pros and cons but in my opinion I would probably say it’s not sustainable. Traditional shrimp farming, for example, has a long history of habitat destruction by converting environmentally valuable and sensitive mangrove areas to ponds.
Bio 11: What Darwin Never Knew (Katya Chernous)
What Darwin Never KnewÂ
How did the discovery of DNA prove that Darwin’s theory of evolution was correct?
Charles Darwin is a naturalist, geologist, and biologist and is famously known for his theory of evolution. Darwin’s belief and theory was that “all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual’s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce”. Although back then in 1859, this theory could not be proven because DNA has not yet been discovered. In 1859 Darwin published The Origin of Species. In this book, he had provided all of his research supported with all his facts and observations. Darwin stated that in his theory, species changed due to variation (Natural Selection). Darwin’s theory of evolution has been proven correct time and time again. Through the study of DNA, humans can see how similar the DNA in some species are. When a mutation occurs, it changes the DNA sequence which then changes the physical appearance of a species. If no mutations were to ever occur, every organism would stay the same. “Mutations generate variation.” In the video it shows light mice that inhabit on dark rocks have evolved darker fur. However, the mice who stayed on the light rocks, still remain to have light fur. It has been proven that the genes of both the mice, light and dark, are identical except for in one gene. This means that animals can change through evolution due to the environment that they 
are inhabiting at and DNA plays a huge part in it.Â
How does it change the way we view evolution today and into the future?
Knowledge of evolution can improve the quality of human life. The DNA show us that every creature on earth is in a constant development and improvement, so that they can survive in their environment. If these creatures are able to adapt to the conditions of the environment, they can have more chances of surviving and reproducing.The knowledge also allows us to understand where we came from, how we got here and why we got here. As far as the future, we can predict how some species with look and act in the coming years, even humans. We also know that the extreme need for adaptation to the environment will force the species either to adapt very quickly or become extinct. All the knowledge of evolution we have will also help us plan for what is it come in the future.Â
6 Kingdoms Assignment/Bio 11
1. Kingdom Archaebacteria Â
- Desulfurococcus kamchatkensisÂ
Desulfurococcus kamchatkensis is isolated from a terrestrial hot spring of Uzon Caldera (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia). It is able to grow at temperatures between 65 and 87 degrees Celsius. A reason as to why Desulfurococcus kamchatkensis is part of kingdom Archaebacteria is because it lives in a harsh environment. (Thermoacidophies) to be exact. Which means a hot place. In this case, hot springs.Â
2. Hyperthermus butylicus Â
Hyperthermus butylicus was isolated from the sea floor of a solfataric habitat with temperatures of up to 112 degrees C on the coast of the island of SĂŁo Miguel, Azores. The organism grows at up to 108 degrees C. A reason as to why Hyperthermus butylicus is part of kingdom Archaebacteria is because it also lives in a harsh environment. (Halophiles) because it is from the sea.
2. Kingdom Eubacteria
- StreptococciÂ
Streptococci cause many disorders, including pharyngitis, pneumonia, wound and skin infections, sepsis, and endocarditis. “Streptococcus” derives from a Greek term meaning “twisted berry” and refers to the way the bacterium is grouped in chains that resemble a string of beads. A reason as to why Streptococci is part of kingdom Eubacteria is because it causes diseases.Â
2. Cyanobacteria Â
Cyanobacteria, also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis. They are the only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen. Some species of cyanobacteria produce toxins that affect animals and humans. Cyanobacteria can be found in almost every terrestrial and aquatic habitat, oceans, fresh water, damp soil, temporarily moistened rocks in deserts, bare rock and soil, and even Antarctic rocks. A reason as to why Cyanobacteria belongs to kingdom Eubacteria is because it causes diseases and because it lives almost everywhere.
3. Kingdom Prostita
- Paramecium aureliaÂ
Paramecium aurelia are unicellular organisms. They are covered in cilia which help in movement and feeding. Paramecium can reproduce sexually and asexually. Paramecium aurelia can also make humans sick. A reason as to why Paramecium aurelia would be part of Kingdom Prostita is because it causes sickness and because it is unicellular.Â
2. Amoeba proteus
Amoeba port proteus has an ever changing shape and is approximately 500-1000µnm long. It can almost be seen with the naked eye. Also infectious with humans. It occupies freshwater environments and feeds on other protozoans, algae, rotifers, and even other smaller amoebae. Also unicellular. A reason as to why Amoeba proteus is part of Kingdom Prostita is because it is infectious and unicellular as well.
4. Kingdom Fungi
1. Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota are filamentous fungi composed of hyphae and reproduce sexually. A reason as to why Basidiomycota is part of Kingdom Fungi is because it contains chitin (carb) in the cell walls and composed of hyphae (thin filament.)
2. Zygomycota
Approximately 1050 species are known. They are mostly terrestrial in habitat, living in soil or on decaying plant or animal material. Zygomycota are able to reproduce both sexually and asexually. A reason as to why Zygomycota is part of Kingdom Fungi is because it contains Mycelium. (Thick mass of hyphae.)
5. Kingdom PlantaeÂ
- Astragalus amphioxys
Astragalus amphioxys is a plant that is found in the American southwest. Astragalus is taken by mouth for the common cold, upper respiratory infections, seasonal allergies, swine flu, fibromyalgia, anemia, HIV/AIDS, and to strengthen and regulate the immune system. It is also used for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), kidney disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. A reason as to why Astragalus amphioxys is part of Kingdom Plantae is because it needs sunlight, gas exchange, water/minerals, and movement of water and nutrients in order to survive
2. Glaucophyte
The glaucophytes, also known as glaucocystophytes or glaucocystids, are a small group of freshwater
unicellular algae. Green algae is often classified as part of the Kingdom Plantae. One reason being that they go through photosynthesis.
6. Kingdom Animalia
- Echinoidea (Sea urchin)
About 950 species live on the seabed, inhabiting all oceans and depth zones. Sea urchins can be found all over the world in all oceans, warm or cold water. They live in a variety of environments in many different parts of the world. Some common places they live are in rock pools and mud, on wave-exposed rocks, on coral reefs in kelp forests and in sea grass beds.Reasons as to why they are part of Kingdom Animalia are that a) no cell walls b) reproduce sexually c) are multicellular. There are of course many more reason as to why sea urchins belong in this kingdom.Â
2. Glaucus atlanticus (Blue glaucus)
Glaucus atlanticus is a species of small, blue sea slug. They float upside down by using the surface tension of the water to stay up, where they are carried along by the winds and ocean currents. It lives throughout the world’s oceans, mostly in temperate and tropical waters. They belong to Kingdom Animalia because they have no cell walls, are multicellular, are motile and many other reasons.Â