Science 9 Self Reflection

I expected Science 9 to be a lot more difficult than last year because I didn’t do amazing, but after all this, it really wasn’t that bad. This course has taught me quite a bit more about some of the things I had wondered about before. It’s strange how my current Science grade is much better than any of the other grades I’ve got in the previous quarters. I think that this is quite an accomplishment since I’ve never really been that great at science, so I’m proud of myself for that. I’m pretty surprised at how much I know about the Periodic Table now. I never thought that I would have any clue what was going on in the Periodic Table, but now that I figured it out, it turns out that it really isn’t that complicated.

For the future of my Science classes, I hope to have my grades be just as good as it is right now if not better. Since next year will probably not have the quarter system, I should stop procrastinating all the time and actually do my homework instead of leaving it for the last minute before doing it. Even now, I’m still forgetting to do some of my assignments and end up having to rush them and get them in overdue.

I feel that this quarter of my grade 9 school year has been a decently successful one. Although I do not have any electives in this quarter, I think this is one of my more successful ones. Soon enough, I’m going to have to choose which topic of science I have to study so I think I’m going to need to start thinking about that next year. I hope to finish this year strong and to do well next year.

ADL Elemental Infofluency – Plutonium

What questions did you need to research in order to create your sway?
The questions I used to research information for my sway was:
How was Plutonium discovered?
What is Plutonium used for?
Who discovered Plutonium?
What is the melting point/boiling point of Plutonium?
What is the Periodic Table information of Plutonium?

What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?
I used Google for the most part but I did try to use CC search for some images and Gale Power search for some additional information. I did notice that sway had a CC image search feature so I decided to use that as my image source. I had to go search up the images’ source for myself because Sway did not provide me with the source of the image.

What was the process you used to investigate the topic?
I started off by collecting information and writing down notes in a Word document. When I felt like I had enough information gathered about Plutonium, I started up Sway and started on the actual project part. It was my first time using Sway so I had to figure out some things before I started. Soon enough, my project was finished up.

How did you verify and cite the information you found?
The way I verified that my information was true is that I go on multiple different sites to on the same topic to check if the information that I been reading was true.

How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?
I think that the process of completing this project went pretty well for my first time using Sway. I don’t think it looks the best but I think it is pretty solid for a first time project. There was plenty of information on Plutonium so researching it wasn’t too difficult. I think I could’ve used more of the sources that the instructor provided because that may have gotten me some more trustworthy information and plenty more facts about the element. The current format of my Sway looked like it could use some adjustment so I think I should’ve made it look nicer and more visually appealing.

PHE 10 Core Competency

How will your newly acquired Health 9 knowledge benefit you in the future? 

 

I think that this will help me in the future by helping me make good decisions when it comes to stress relief. It would help me create new ways to handle my stress that I may have in the future in a healthy and non-harmful way. I think that I may have helped in knowing when somebody has some mental health issues and also how to cope with, or how to deal with my own mental health issues if I ever have any in the future. One more thing that I believe it taught me would be how to avoid getting into an unhealthy relationship. I think that staying out of one would help me in staying in a good state with my mental health and help me avoid getting too stressed out. 

Duncan Tells Vinny About The Journal

in this video, Vinny talks about how Duncan told him about the journal of a creep whos following and planning on killing people.

My character: Vinny


Today, Duncan, Wayne, and I were at the library. I’m not sure what Wayne was doing on the computer; I think he was looking up some nasty things on there. Me and Duncan were looking at some books when Duncan asks me what I would do if I knew that somebody was going to get killed. He also asked me what I found do if I found that person’s plans and what they were doing, or about to do. Naturally, I would say that I would turn the book into the police, but Duncan said that what if you could not go to the police because they wouldn’t believe him. I’m thinking that Duncan was acting a little weird so I just give up and ask him what he would do. He said that he would try and catch the killer by himself. Now I think he is going a little crazy because I don’t think that trying to catch a killer by yourself is the brightest idea. I’m not sure why he would be asking these questions anyway, maybe it was something in his book he was reading, I don’t know. Soon after I was done answering all of Duncan’s questions about a killer, he shows me some pictures of a dead cat hanging onto a chain. I freaked out a little bit on the inside because I’m not into whatever he’s up to. What’s going on with Duncan? Maybe the pictures are from his book, I think that he may be reading one of those true crime books. Then after he showed me the pictures, he tells me that those pictures were from a journal of an insane person that he found in the lost and found he worked at. So that’s why he has been asking me all of those weird questions earlier. I told him that he should definitely turn in the book to the police, but he said that they wouldn’t believe him. I told him about graphology and how they can figure out how it isn’t you that wrote the book. I definitely think that Duncan is going a little crazy over this diary he found, I’m pretty sure that there is no way that he can actually save those girls from the killer. If he doesn’t turn that book in now, it could be too late to do so. I guess I finally got him to crack and he has finally decided to turn the book into the police.

REFLECTION

I picked the character “Vinny” because I think that he has some pretty interesting features about himself. One of which would be his deformed are. Sure people would make fun of it but it’s an interesting part about him. The scene I chose for my project is when Vinny gets told about the “Roach’s” journal. I chose this scene because I think that this scene seems to be a very important one because Vinny is the first person Duncan decided to tell the journal about, thus, possibly making Vinny have an important role in finding the Roach. I had a little bit of trouble with the Blabberize website with the mouth placement and I think I have just realized how to do it now, but I think it’s a little too late to do so. To make it sound like Vinny is really talking, I adjusted my voice and tone to sound like what he would be like when he is thinking or talking to himself about what just happened.

HCE 9 – English Write

 

 

 

 

This image shows signs of the opposite of inclusivity. It shows this because in the image, the crows on the left side of the wire are protesting against, what it seems to be, a bird from Africa. Those crows look like they are treating the other African bird as not one of their own, thus, not including it. Not including other birds and not sharing your food with them shows that this is the opposite of inclusivity. One of the crows protesting also has a sign that says that the other excluded bird should go back to where it came from. This situation is kind of like what it is in the US because of all the racism to the people of Mexico, or to other people of colour. There are many people in the US that dislike the people from Mexico, including the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, who went as far as to build a giant wall next to the border of Mexico on the US. This sort of relates to the image where one breed of bird dislikes another bird because it does not have the same breeds as themselves. This act of racism can also be classified as being the opposite of inclusivity. The sign that the birds at the back of the group of crows says that migrants are not welcome, which is also sounds very racist. It also says that they do not want new birds moving into their territory, so they do not need to share their food. It looks that the group of crows want to have all of the food to themselves and not even sharing a single worm to the other, new bird that just appeared. From what I have seen from this image, I think that the birds are very greedy, racist, and they have lots of information that say they show the opposite of inclusivity.