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PHE 9 core competency reflection

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Here is my artifact/evidence:

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Here is my Core Competency Reflection:

I chose to reflect on “My Personal Health and Wellness Plan” because I feel that I took the most time to deeply think and reflect about my life and what new things I could do to benefit my life in the future. That’s why I’ve chosen my categories as, personal awareness and critical thinking. I feel that they suit my “My Personal Health and Wellness Plan” the best. While ding the reflection I took a lot of time to plan out my paragraphs before actually writing it so that I could find the best way to make my life better and reflect on some ways that I’ve used those strategies in my past. I also got quite personal in my paragraphs by talking about my home-life, and past experiences. I’m still using the ways I found in my plan to help me with my mental health and how to deal with stress etc. I’m very happy with how it overall turned out and it still helps me to this day and I’m sure will continue to do so.

Gold (Sceince COL project

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  • What questions did you need to research in order to create your sway?

I needed to research interesting facts about gold, and where gold was discovered but I never truly was able to find the answer of “where gold was first discovered and the name of who discovered it or the exact location because even though I looked alot, I couldn’t find the information.

  • What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?

A new-ish digital tool I used was a website called Pexels which I used for the second time during the making of this project and it helped me lots throughout it because every photo on the site is free to use and share so I don’t have to site all the work and instead can choose (but am not forced to) credit the website instead which I did.

  • What was the process you used to investigate the topic?

I made a word document and got all the information as well as all the links to the sites I found the information from, then organized all the text on my Sway, then finally added photos.

  • How did you verify and cite the information you found?

I made sure to check all the information that I found was available on at least 2 websites that I deemed trustworthy so that there’s a very small chance of it being false.

  • How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?

It wen’t fairly well, I wish I could have added videos to my Sway but unfortunately my computer could not handle that so I had to just stick to images.

 

New Book Cover – “Sold”

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This book cover is from the 2006 edition of “Sold” by Patricia McCormick

I read “Sold”, by Patricia McCormick and the genre of the book is realistic fiction. I personally enjoyed the book because it did not sugar coat the horrific acts of abuse and just plain evil that happens is when a child gets forced into the sex industry or “sold”. The original cover shows a young girl wearing what looks to be a hijab looking at us. I remember very clearly one part in the book where one of the characters named Monica showed the main character (Lakshmi) how to “attract” the men and how to get them to choose you over the other girls. One of the ways Monica taught her, was to look almost through your scarf at the men. The young girl who I would assume is Lakshmi on the cover is doing that. So it relates to the book greatly but unless you have already read the book it means nothing. The cover also works well with the actual contents of the book because it gives a hint to where the setting of the novel is. It shows a young girl with darker skin and a hijab with some Indian patterns behind her. (It could still be in somewhere like America but it’s less likely.)

 

The new cover that I made I think suits the novel a bit better because it tells you a bit more about the book than the other one did. (Without spoiling it of course). The new cover tells us that there’s not just one character and that there are at least two, but it also makes the character standing at the door look scary and the person raising their hand look smaller, like the hand of a child. And if you have read the book you would be able to guess that the person at the doorway represents a man coming to rape Lakshmi (the main character) and the hand-raising belongs to Lakshmi who is trying to get the man to choose her over the other girls so that she can pay off her debt. I also like my version of the cover a bit more, because I know that if I were to see these two covers in a library, I would have definitely chosen to take my version because it looks more interesting than just a yellow cover with a young girl in it. I’m quite happy with my cover and I also like the animation of the video, because I managed to make it so that the hand pops up near the end so it looks like someone is truly raising their hand.