Histoire et Moi
categories: Socials 11
How it feels to be First Nation
categories: English 11, Uncategorized
I am proud of my synthesis essay because I struggled with ideas in the beginning but put in effort to bring everything together and spent time working on it to make each paragraph the best that I could do. For grade 12, my goals to improve are with quote formatting and developing my ideas so that they are more in depth.
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categories: Français 11
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Français 11 – Journal 2
categories: Français 11
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“Totem” Short Story
categories: English 11
In your opinion, based on the theme of this story, how has Canadian history and attitudes shaped the First People of Canada’s identity?
The effect on First Nations due to the treatment by settlers and government has been extreme. In my opinion, forcing them onto reserves and into residential schools has affected their identity because although they were in Canada first, the settlers forced them to move, attempted to silence them and treated them as if they were inferior. Each of these can have an impact on how they view themselves and their culture. Their identity as First Nations has not always been accepted and that may shape them to have a negative view on their identity and culture.
Humans are Born Good
categories: English 11
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Overall, I am happy with my essay because I did the best that I believe I could have.
One thing I will watch out for the next time I am writing an essay with quotes will be to correctly put them into the text. Next time I will be sure that I completely understand how.
Secondly, to improve in the future I would go back and read the rubric and edit my essay more before handing it in because I think re-reading a few things could help save my mark in the end by providing more thorough and thoughtful writing.
Lastly, one thing that I am proud of with this persuasive essay was my organization and arguments which overall I put the most effort into from the beginning.
Français 11 – Journal 1
categories: Français 11
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Fear Photo
categories: English 11
This photo represents my fear of being out alone. I chose this bus stop specifically because I have had multiple scary experiences at this location but my fear is not limited to here. Overall, the fear that I have is mostly of people that I have encountered that talk to me/make comments and have even harassed me at times. This does not control my decisions because taking the bus is my main transportation and I don’t chose to stay home to keep myself safe. This fear does control me because in a sense, the people I have encountered control me by making me nervous to be alone. I have always known I’m scared to be alone but this excercise has opened my eyes to the fact that I really don’t do anything to prevent the fear.
How does your environment affect your mood?
categories: English 11, Uncategorized
How does your environment affect your mood?
In the book, The Promise, written by Nicola Davies, a girl lives in a city of poverty. She describes everyone around her as hard and mean and the streets were all dark and dull. She believed she had become hard and mean as well. Because of the living conditions in the city, people resulted to theft and allowed the poverty they lived in to determine their mood and overall quality of life. One day, the girl had stolen a bag from an old woman, in a dark alley. The woman made her promise to plant what was in the bag. Not understanding, the girl agreed, she soon found the bag was full of acorns and as promised, she planted them. With time, many trees and plants of different colours grew throughout the whole city. She planted them in many other cities and believed it was a blessing. This did not change anybody’s financial situation but instantly brought colour and changed the atmosphere of the city. Humans are easily influenced by their surroundings and we need to help make the differences we want to see in our environment. This book shows how even a small change in the environment can affect our mood positively, despite other struggles in our life.
Rube Goldberg Project – Muncherz 4 your Pupperz
categories: Science 10
Above is a diagram of the machine that we created. It is called the Muncherz 4 your Pupperz and the goal is to get the treats and water into a bowl for a puppy. Here are the steps:
1. We release the car from point A and it falls to point B
2. This teeter-totter like contraption throws the tin foil ball to point C1
3. Meanwhile, the car from step 1 keeps rolling at hits over the cup of water (C2), spilling the water into the bowl (D2)
4. When the tin foil ball reaches point C1 it hits the other car sitting on the triangle releasing it into the red cup, making it heavier and weighing it down.
5. This piling tugs the cup on the other end of the string letting the candies fall out. (E)
6. The candies fall off the ledge into a funnel and through the zig zag contraption.
7. Finally the candies will land into the bowl, next to the water.
Energy Transfers:
In part A to B and the effect of this step (tin foil ball flying up) are both transfers from potentional to kinetic energetic. Firstly, the car is still and has the potentional to move. The process of the car moving from point A to B is the transition between potential to kinetic. (Still car to moving/falling car.)
In part C2 to D2 it is kinetic energy to potential and then to mechanical. This process includes the car rolling, the hitting the cup of water (which is still) then tipping it over to release the water from the still cup into the bowl.
In part D1 to before E the other car starts as potential energy, it is still and ready to fall the gets the push from the tin foil ball and falls into the cup. The still cups moves and and creates movement in the cup on the other side of the string. The starting energy is potential and the ending is mechanical.
Lastly there is process E to F/G where the candies tip out of the cup and into the funnel and zig zag contraption. These steps begin as potential then to mechanical and then kinetic.
Here is a successful video of our Rube Goldberg Project :
Muncherz 4 your Pupperz :