Category: Grade 9

HCE 9 – English Write

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Here is the photo I chose to analyze:

This is what i think about this image that i have selected:

In this image I see a turtle representing humans disrespecting the oceans by being careless with their garbage and letting it fill the ocean. Since human’s are careless with their actions there are major impacts to the animals living in that habitat. This image also shows the turtles eating garbage thinking its food. I see the colour salmon pink with baby blue and both dark and light blue with a little bit of black or very dark blue on the legs. These colors give off a very tropical ocean feeling makes me feel like the deep waters of Hawaii. It also makes me feel sad for the sea animals because the humans treat their habitat with no respect. The artist chose to create the turtle looking confused and very not happy with how his habitat isn’t how it was before. It as well makes me feel sad how its represented as a trash bin with the garbage inside the turtle’s body. I feel bad for these poor turtles, and they can’t do anything about it to try to clean up their home. These turtles die only because how us people treat our planet.

TYKTWD alternate assignment

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Career Selected:
Senior managers: financial, communications and other business service
Write a brief job description:
Senior financial managers are primarily focused on the financial areas of a company while senior communications managers oversee elements such as marketing, public relations, social media and the company’s brand reputation. Senior managers in other business services may be involved with human resources, company culture and employee morale.
Where did you get this information?
What education or training is required for this career or job?:
An education Degree
Where can you get this education or training? Identify at least two places:
You can get a degree from going to school at a university and a college
What are the entrance requirements to one of the educational institutions that you identified?
Was not able to find this information.
What is an option if you cannot meet the entrance requirements or are not interested in attending university?
Was not able to find this information.
Identify the average salary or wage for the career or job (indicate if the information is not available).:
~$130,000
What are the opportunities or future prospects for the career or job (indicate if the information is not available)?
Was not able to find this information.
Identify three other related careers or jobs in the same area:
Business(owning a business, managing a company, realestate.
Does this career appeal to you? Explain why or why not:
It could because im interested in a type of business and  managing something but probably not this job in specific.
Explain what you have learned as a result of the career or job search process.
While i was searching for jobs that have anything to do with business or managing like 80% of the jobs make over $100,000 and that is an ideal salary.

Movie Poster OpenAI Project

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In this project we used AI to make a movie poster, we also had to create a synopsis on the story we wrote individually. My inspiration on the story was my 2022-2023 hockey season and how overconfident this other team was and thought they could win it all just because we were the PoCo Pirates.

Below is my movie poster creation as well as 3 other images created by AI:

Both my synopsis and reflection are on this document below:

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Unit 2 Summary Assignment

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Damon Douglas

Math 9

This Unit I have learned to Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Dividing Fractions. Once you get the formula and understand how the formula works it gets easier.

I will explain how to Divide a simple fraction question and also a more difficult fraction question.

  1.  The first step that you need to follow is when you have a division question is you have to find the reciprocal of the fraction you are dividing the fraction by, like so:
  2. The second step after you have the product shown above then you must change the symbol to a multiplication. It should look like this:   
  3. The third step is you cross reduce your fractions since they are now in multiplication form. Cross reducing is when you are able to reduce the numbers diagonally across from each other like so:                                                                    
  4. The fourth step is resolving the question. Since it is now a multiplication question you just multiply the numerator by the second numerator and the denominator by the second denominator like so:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   This will be the more difficult equation:                                                                                             You have to use the same steps but with this equation you must cross reduce 2 times instead of 1:

Indigenous Exploration- Juvenile Indigenous Incarceration

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Juvenile Indigenous Incarceration 

Damon Douglas, Alex Horvath, Nic Darwin 

Reflection

My experiences creating this assignment: 

My experience creating this assignment was good and connected with my group partners Alex and Nic. I learned a lot about our topic being Indigenous incarceration and just indigenous peoples in general. We were able to use new ways to find our information. We used the websites from the riverside library that the school provides. I learned that I should have used my time in class more efficiently so I don’t have to do as much at home because I lose focus at home then I lose focus at school. People in Canada don’t see that there was and still is injustice in our country.

My groups path in researching the topic:

Me and group used some of the websites provided by our school but most of our research came from websites of of google. For example we would search something that we are wondering about our topic and we went through the list of the websites and articles that google is displaying. We started by writing down information we got from a bunch of websites and putting the link to the websites underneath then after we thought we had enough information we started to write stuff in our own words something like a script then after that we added things that made it sound like a conversation then add the names on who is saying what. Then, we recorded and the recording part was probably the easiest and took the least of time. Overall I thought we did a pretty good job.

Obstacles or items I learned in recording:

A massive obstacle for our group was recording because Alex wasn’t here for most of the last week  not that it was his fault there was nothing he could do about it, so we weren’t able to record until the last day Friday therefore it made it that much harder for everything because it delayed everything. I learned how to use audacity more then II already did.

Self Assessment

Riverside CC’s Self Assessment english indeginous exploration

Research and script:

Indigenous exploration .docx

Climate of canada-Territories

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Climate of Canada

Territories (picture at the bottom of text)

 

Causes of climate change in the territories:

Since there isn’t commercial/ industrial factories and buildings. This climate change is mainly caused by human activities. Like quadding, dirt biking vehicle activities throughout the year. A large cause of this in the territories of Canada are greenhouse gasses.

 

Effects of climate change in the territories:

Effects of climate change in the territories of Canada are ice becoming thinner therefore the sea levels are raising. Animals that live there have had to find new places to live. Loss of food for these animals so the species wont be able to reproduce. Basically the food chain wont circle as it should since these animals aren’t getting their nutrients, since they have to migrate to other places to sustain the species.

 

Modeling Mitosis lab

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Interphase:

During the Interphase the cell is replicating its DNA and getting ready to start the mitosis phases.

Prophase:

Prophase of mitosis is the first stage of mitosis. The prophase happens when the centrioles are formed and the chromatin is still stored in the nucleus.

Metaphase:

The nucleus dissolves and the chromatid turns too chromosomes and the centrioles pull certain chromosomes to create a vertical line in the middle of the cell called a mitotic spindle.

Anaphase:

During anaphase the sister chromatids are separated (the chromosomes are separated once again) and they are pulled by the centrioles to opposite sides of the cell.

Telophase:

During the telophase the a nuclear membrane is formed and the cells are starting to separate into 2 identical cells.

Cytokinesis:

Cytokinesis is the final step of mitosis this is when the cells finally separate into 2 identical cells. The cell pinches together along the middle (the equator) to separate.

Edible DNA

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What is DNA?

DNA is short for a long word I cannot pronounce which is Deoxyribonucleic acid. Your DNA carries your genetic information based of your parents genes. Your DNA resembles a twisted ladder like what we made in our lab below is a photo.

The marshmallows on the tooth picks represent adenine, thymine, cytosine and finally guanine. The twizzlers represent the phosphate backbone that connect to the adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine.

Building Blocks of the Genetic Code - ASHG

What does DNA do?

All species need DNA to reproduce to keep that species alive and healthy. DNA can create mutations by miss matching the nucleotides.

Word! DNA (for Kids) - Nemours KidsHealth

How does DNA copy itself?

The DNA develops into looking like a twisted ladder. The DNA strands are separated kind of like it unzipping, like the photo below.

DNA Replication - SBI4U RESOURCE WEBSITE

Then the piece of RNA is pretty much a new starting point for a new strand of DNA then it copies the first strand of DNA.

 

 

Solution post

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Science 9

Solution Post

DEFINE:

To start off with this project we talked to someone who lives in Tanzania and his name is Saul Mwame. We are talking to Saul Mwame because we are trying to gather information to create some sort of device or object to help his companies grow or in whatever way that group decides on an idea. I felt that Saul is a very outgoing person and really has a passion for what he does and wont give up on his dreams. I liked learning about how other countries create businesses and run them differently. My groups plan to try to create a device for Saul Mwame is to create a device that creates sound loudly and either alerts the beekeepers or scares the animals away with this loud annoying sound and it goes off when the microbit senses movement by it being shaken or be moved.

DISCOVER:

Our group looked at our resources available to see what we could to with them and access what we could build and create. We didn’t research much actually but when we did it came in handy. While we were looking at our resources available we accessed what we knew and what we could do with our knowledge. All three of us knew a bit about at least one item. So, we just put our knowledge together and came up with this idea with the loud annoying sound with microbits and we were all familiar with them so it worked out great. The materials we would need to create and build this would be one microbit, multiple alligator clips, microbit attachment speaker to spread the volume  and make it loud, and finally you would need a 3D printer available. Our starting steps are to attach the microbit with the speaker then create the code on the microbit, then design what we are 3D printing.

DREAM:

Our main idea is to help try to keep the predators in Tanzania away from the bee hives so the hives can continue to grow and keep producing honey for the beekeepers to sell and end u making their income. If a predator gets at the hives it can takeaway from the beekeepers income and we want them to get as much income as possible. Saul Mwame helped us with our idea in the second conversation with Saul Mwame he made it clear that they are trying to find ways to keep their hives safe and possible for income.

DEBRIEF:

So far we are till working on our device project to try to help Saul Mwame we should be finished this week and so far our solution to our problem is coming along and its working as of right now and hopefully will get the best outcome possible. I think we could definitely improve on being more on task and I wasn’t there for a couple classes when we were working on these and we needed to catch up to the other group’s speed and continue at that working speed.

MEDIA:

I thought the zoom meetings went great and the questions we asked each time were great questions and he gave a great explanation to us and that shows how passionate he is for what he does.