Core Competencies: Whiteboard Collaboration

For my communication skills I believe I have not only gotten better at explaining to people who don’t get it but I am a better listener when someone explains a concept to me. I also feel I don’t let everyone else do the heavy lifting and I am not afraid to put my voice out there when I have a disagreement or question about a subject. Another way I have gotten better at communicating is through writing on the white board and carefully organizing the formulas I used to get the answer.

English 11: A Private Experience Mind Map

A Private Experience Mind Map:

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My Understanding of A Private Experience:

A Private Experience by feminist, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The story is about a conflict that started by an Igbo Christian man running over a Koran with his car which ended up in a violent riot between the Hausa Muslims and Igbo Christians. The title of the short story is the crying fit the Hausa woman has during the riot, Chika’s described her crying fit as a private experience that doesn’t involve Chika, “The woman’s crying is private, as though she is carrying out a necessity that involves no one else.” The story is about Chika and the Hausa woman who is forced to be with each other for a long time in the building to hide from the rioters outside of the building. Chika being stuck in there can see the more vulnerable side to the Hausa woman. The mind map shows all of the main ideas from the story. First, there is a rosary ring that Chika wears throughout the story which is a symbol of faith and is related to Christianity. Another example of a symbol is the Hausa woman’s scarf which is a symbol of her Muslim beliefs but can also be seen as a symbol of grace. The crying woman is meant to represent the scene where the Hausa woman has a breakdown after talking about how her baby was all alone at home during the riot. The fourth image is meant to represent one of the overall themes which the faith of both characters has for both of their religions. Faith is also used to show the contrast of how faith can make people do good and can connect people. It can also cause us vs them the relationship between conflicting religious groups such as the riots showed the story. The image of the abandoned gas station represents the physical setting of the story. The images used to represent the riot are the conflict and also the antagonist of this story. The story has two of the overall themes that are represented in the mind map which are faith and the conflict that appears when two conflicting belief systems bud heads.

Looked Over by Rouven

Cloud Project

Date: 2021-10-12

Nimbostratus cloud

The clouds were flat, grey and dull. There was rain dripping from it.

Date: 2021-10-17

Nimbostratus cloud

The clouds were flat, grey and dull.

Date: 2021-10-18

Nimbostratus cloud

Same as all the other days before just a bit brighter

Socials 10 Core Competency

For my growth throughout the unit, the Movie Pitch assignment helped me communicate my thoughts into words. It also helped me with creatively thinking about history. It also helped me think more about what we were learning, which was WW2 at the time. A project we did in SS 10 that helped me with my personal abilities was the PowerPoint we did about Dieppe’s battle in WW1; for the project, we had to make a PowerPoint with two other partners. It helped me communicate with my partners about what I knew about the war and how to make the PowerPoint.

Rube Goldberg Machine

The Three Types of Energy:

  • Electrical Energy
  • Motion Energy
  • Gravitational Energy

The Three Forms of Energy:

  • Electrical Potential Energy 
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Gravitational Potential Energy
  • Mechanical Energy
  • Potential Energy

Three Simple Machines:

  • lever
  • inclined plane
  • screws (used to build the machine)

Steps to use The Light Switcher:

  1. first plug in the fan
  2. than hold up The Light Switcher to light switch
  3. put the ball on top of the ramp
  4. let go of the ball

Self Reflection

Suppose I would give myself a mark out of 100. I would give myself 75-80 because the fan couldn’t push the lever to hit the ball down the ramp. At the time of filming, I didn’t have time to replace the fan with something else. I decided to tie a piece of dental floss around the lever to pull while the fan was on. I did check all of the lists and the machine does do what it is supposed to do, which is to turn on/off the light switch.

What are Biofuels

Biofuels are an alternative to fossil fuels, petroleum, coal, and natural gas. They are also the primary source of power today. Biofuels are created from recently dead or living plant material and animal waste. As biofuels emit less carbon dioxide (CO2) than conventional fuels, they can be blended with existing fuels as an effective way of reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector. 

It differs from fossil fuels, which are derived from long-dead plant and animal matter. Biofuels take up 3% of road transport fuels in use worldwide, and it is also taking up over 10% of the total world energy demand. The different types of biofuels are the most common ones made with crops and are called conventional biofuels. There is also a newer version called second-generation biofuels with waste and garbage. These more advanced biofuels are likely to become the primary form of biofuels in the future as they can improve their sustainability. One of their achievements in recent years is using conventional biofuel technologies; this land use would allow 5% of transport fuel demand to be met. If second-generation biofuel technologies were available, this could rise by 10%. Biofuels of today’s success has mainly happened without plant biotechnology, but the next-generation biofuels will change biotechnology’s future.  The next generation is made of Older versions of biofuels with oils that have affected climate change as in greenhouse gasses and have a purled environment. It will also affect biotechnology’s future by making the government and STDC sign an agreement to manage the $500M NextGen Biofuels Fund. I will facilitate the establishment of first-of-kind, large scale demonstration facilities to produce next-generation biofuels and co-products in Canada. Improve the sustainable development impacts arising from the production and use of biofuels in Canada. Encourage retention and growth of technology expertise and innovation capacity for the production of next-generation biofuels in Canada. 

     Sources:  

  1. https://www.greenfacts.org/en/biofuels/l-2/1-definition.htm
  2. https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-energies/biofuels.html#iframe=L3dlYmFwcHMvMjAxOV9CaW9mdWVsc19pbnRlcmFjdGl2ZV9tYXAv
  3. https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/stem-in-context/biofuels-alternative-energy-source
  4. https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/next-generation-biofuels-fund/3643