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Narrative Essay
The Path Isn’t Always Clear
“I think I’m going to throw up.”
“I can’t go, Mom!”
“Just tell her I broke my leg or something. Please!”
“Come on, we are going to be late, if you don’t hurry up”,sighed my mom.
As I am tying up my soccer cleats, my nail breaks. This is already a bad sign. I race to the car; my heart is pounding I can’t hear myself think.
We arrived. I put one foot in front of the other and sprint to the field. The coach hands me a deep blue piny with a giant number five on it. I put it on; it hasn’t been washed in a while. The stench of strangers sweat and a hint of mold fills my nose. I start walking towards my friends but the coach blows her obnoxious whistle and all the players come pouring into the middle of the field. She explains how her assessment is going to be, but most of all she wants us to have fun. As if anyone can have fun while being critiqued on their every move. The fun begins. Its blue vs red.
I step onto the pitch. All of the sudden the world starts spinning, my hands are sweating and I’m not sure if I remember how to walk. The herd of parents start chanting.
“Go Alana!”
“Shoot the ball!”
“Who was that pass to?”
The ball comes to me; I know what to do. I see an open number. “Ya Melissa!” I kick the ball with such power its perfect. I got this in the bag, I’m making this team no problem.
Its a rainy Saturday evening. I need this phone call now! “I can’t wait anymore! The suspense is killing me!” My Mom comes down the stairs with the phone is her hands. It’s for me.
I answer. “Hello?”
A sympathetic voice replies, “Hi, is this Hailey?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, hi Hailey. Unfortunately you didn’t make the team. Better luck next year. Bye.”
Tears erupt from my eyes. How did I not make this team? All of my friends made this team. I’m the only one. My Mom explains to me, “There is another team in Port Moody you can try out for.”
“But I don’t want to leave my friends behind!”
I try out just as a practice for next year. I wasn’t even nervous; I didn’t care if I made this team or not.
The coach arrives, she gives us the same boring speech and then we start playing. It’s about ten minutes into the tryout when the best player here goes for a shot and blasts the ball right at my stomach. I fall over but I quickly get back up and keep playing.
Before I knew it the tryout is over. That was actually fun! The girl who kicked the ball at me just so happened to be the coach’s daughter, they both came up to me and apologized for her shot. “Don’t worry about it, It’s fine, I barely even noticed”
“Good job tonight ,Hailey”
“Thank you”
The next day my Mom gets an email.
“HAILEY, you made the team!”
“Awesome…. But what about my friends?”
“You’ll make new friends.”
“Ok, I guess I’ll do it.”
I show up for practice the next week. The whole team is so nice! It’s so easy to make new friends with all of these girls. It feels like a weight has been lifted off of me and I can have fun playing soccer. After a while the coach from the other team calls me, and is desperate to have me on her team. Now it’s my turn to say no. Revenge is sweet!
From this experience, I learnt to never give up. If you are determined and work hard you can always reach your goals and taking risks can mean new friends. Just sometimes the path to the goal has some detours.
I did well on organizing my thoughts and having a strong personal voice.
I need to improve on combining sentences and having less awkward sentences.
Fitness 11
My new fitness goal is to be able to push myself more by adding more weight when bench pressing. I can achieve this goal by increasing the amount of weight on the bar and when I am exercising my arm muscles I can push myself more. I know I am achieving this goal when I am able to lift more and my pull ups are cleaner/smoother.
Fitness 11 Goal
My goal for Fitness 11 is to be able to improve my strength and my balance. I want to be able to improve on this because it can help me to improve with soccer. If I work on my balance and strength it can act as a building block, to help me improve in other things such as being able to run longer or being able to hold a plank longer. I can achieve this goal by trying my best everyday in class.
What’s in my Junk Food?
Oreo Mcflurry’s
I like Mcflurry’s because they can cool you down on a hot summer day. You can scrape off the caramel off the sides after eating the iceream, and there are chunks of Oreo that adds a crunch to every bite.This food is not that healthy because it is high in sugar and calories. Although it is high in calcium.
| MCFLURRY® DESSERT – OREO® – REGULAR SIZE PORTION | ||
|---|---|---|
| Serving Size | 286(g) | |
| Calories | 570(kcal) | |
| Fat | 20(g) | 31(% DV) |
| Saturated Fat | 12(g) | |
| Trans Fat | 0.4(g) | |
| Saturated Fat + Trans Fat | 62(% DV) | |
| Cholesterol | 45(mg) | |
| Sodium | 390(mg) | 16(% DV) |
| Carbohydrate | 89(g) | 30(% DV) |
| Fibre | 1(g) | 4(% DV) |
| Sugar | 64(g) | |
| Protein | 10(g) | |
| Vitamin A | 10(% DV) | |
| Vitamin C | 2(% DV) | |
| Calcium | 30(% DV) | |
| Iron | 15(% DV) | |
% DV = % Daily Value
Ingredients=
Source: http://www.mcdonalds.ca/ca/en/food/nutrition_centre.html#/
Chilli Cook off
Recipe I found: https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/chili/c7df2894-907a-4309-a7f9-6e6f5a6c730d
Conversions for the recipe I found:
Recipe we used: https://www.thespruce.com/simple-chili-with-ground-beef-3057205
Reflection: My group worked together really well. We had just gotten new table groups and this was the first lab we have done together. All of us knew what to do. The process of finding our recipe went well and it didn’t take us long to find one we liked. The next day we gathered the ingredients we needed and a sealed them so we can use it the next day. When cooking time came around it was fun, I enjoyed adding things as we went and made our own recipe. The only problem we had with our chilli was that it was really watery but, we solved that problem by adding 10ml of cornstarch to our chilli. The day of judging was kind of stressful because we didn’t know what the outcome was going to be. Our group won the chilli cook off! The chilli cook of is my favourite things we have done in foods so far. I learned that are lots of ways to make chilli healthy and its not that complicated to make.
Stretch the Kitchen Lab Reflection
Lab Reflection
My group decided to make brownie bowls filled with icing. The recipe we found was easy to follow and we had easy access to all of the ingredients. The outcome of the brownies was not what we had hoped for. They didn’t form a bowl and some of them were not cooked in the middle. The brownie batter tasted good though! When choosing the recipes we decided to add sprinkles and cinnamon into the icing. The cinnamon helped with the taste and if I was to make this recipe again I would include cinnamon in the icing. However the icing’s appearance was not appetizing because it was a liquid grey colour. The problem we had with the icing was we added sprinkles, then added the milk so all of the colour mixed together. In our unit no one was standing around doing nothing if there was a job to be done everyone pitched in. If I would make this recipe again I would use ice cream instead of icing for the brownies. I would also just skip to brownie bowl and just make it a brownie. I enjoyed this lab because I learnt more making up some of my own ingredients and it has taught me more things to remember while cooking.
Core Competencies
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Open in new tab Proportional Reasoning Review: Scale Factor
Unit 8 Review
Question I got wrong:
What I did the first time:
1 : 972.5
x : 4
=0.001 Then I cross multiplied
What I should’ve done was:
1 : 972.5
4 : x
=3890
Then I need to convert the measurement so I divide by 100
=38.9m
Helpful Website:
http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-scale-factor-definition-formula-examples.html
Helpful Video:
Demonstrating proportional reasoning: Question that I got correct
Similar Triangles:
First I redrew the triangles separately so now there are 2 triangles.
Next I take the area from the 2 triangles and write out the ratio
2.4 : 3
x : 8
=6.4
Because it is asking how much farther up the wall will the ladder reach you have to subtract 6.4-2.4=4
Take home lab (Noodles and Rice)
Recipes
Breakfast Fried Rice: Brown rice is cooked with bacon and onions. Then topped off with an egg and avocado.
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-recipes/a8946/orzo-salad-tomatoes-feta-mint-ghk/
Lunch: Pasta salad with grape tomatoes, Feta, and Mint.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/158140/spaghetti-sauce-with-ground-beef/
Dinner Spaghetti: Boil spaghetti noodles and top it of with a tomato sauce. The sauce has ground beef, onions, green pepper, and diced tomatoes.
Cooking
Mise-en-place
Cooking the tomatoes in oil until the skins peel.
Adding the rest of the ingredients together (mint, noodles, lemon, and feta.)
Final Product
A clean kitchen.
Directions How to make it:
Directions
- Heat large covered saucepot of salted water to boiling on high. Add orzo and cook as label directs.
- Meanwhile, in 12-inch skillet, heat oil on medium until hot. Add grape tomatoes; cook 5 to 6 minutes or until skins split, shaking pan occasionally. From lemon, grate 1 teaspoon peel and squeeze 1 tablespoon juice; set aside.
- Remove skillet from heat. Reserve 1/4 cup orzo cooking water; drain orzo. Add orzo and cooking water to tomatoes in skillet; stir in lemon peel and juice, feta, olives, mint, and 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper.