Category: Grade 9
“Assimilation vs. Inclusivity” is an image created by an unknown artist. It consists of many visual techniques, used to create different emotions. The image consists visually of many, many people. They line up into rows, as if they are in a school wide photograph. The angle is used from a high height, looking over the faces of the young. This is technique used for power, to make the people look vulnerable. It’s as if we are sitting on the higher step, and they are a thousand miles down. It’s as if the numbers are used to represent the percentage of survivors, and losses. The ones that remain with colour made it through, and the ones in black and white are the ones that passed. The representation of residential schools and their effects is used through the colour washing of the picture. As your eyes travel across the page, from right to left, you watch the culture and spirit wash out of their faces. This effect represents and shows us how the residential school affected the First Nations communities. It’s as if they are disappearing and turning into ghosts. The once braided and intricate hair designs fall to the ground as its chopped off. The once festive and cultured clothes are ripped off as they change into the plain grey ensembles. The once joyous faces turn somber and silent. What once was a lifetime, had turned into only a dream. What once was a fear, had turned into a nightmare. As the years pass by, the faces drain, by the end, you have nothing left but memories.
This image is a metaphor, to represent the culture being taken away. As their hair is cut, and clothes are torn off, the culture remains. It’s held on for as long as they can, it’s the only thing left that they have. Therefor the children’s faces disappear last. Right to left, one by one, each one becomes more sorrow until the last ones done. It was easy to strip them down, however harder to steal their crown. But as the cruel stand above them, they’re in power and that’s what they did.
The piece of art left me feeling sad and disappointed. The thought that people would dare to do that to others is beyond disappointing. The thought that it was only in 1996 that the last residential school in British Columbia closed is very sad. The past cannot be undone; however the future is not yet tightly tied. This artist created a visually realistic image, and an emotionally felt piece of art. It creates an accurate picture that faces us to the world that Indigenous lived. The stripping of clothes, the drain of emotion, the stolen childhood, are all correctly represented I feel as this art piece is an important part of education as there is unlimited depth. The closer you look, the more detail you, and the more you learn about the image
This is my electric house project created in Science 9 2022. It is a functional electric house, created with 7 distinct rooms. This house includes series circuits, parallel circuits, and combined circuits. We used our creativity to create a fun and colourful house… and we hope you enjoy it.
Question #1: You have three light bulbs that all have the same intensity when lit. Explain how you can prove to a classmate that they are are connected in a series by unscrewing one light bulb. Support you answer…
If you were to do a series circuit, they are all connected in one loop. A series circuit will only function if they are all in one loop, if something disconnects, the source will be unable to function. A light bulb is also known as a source, so if you were to un-screw the light bulb in a series circuit, we wouldn’t have a complete loop and the other lights would then turn off.
Question #2: You have three light bulbs that all have the same intensity when lit. Explain how you can prove to a classmate that they are connected in parallel by unscrewing one of the light bulbs. Support your answer.
If you were to do a parallel circuit, each source has its own separate path of flow. This means that you can have two or more paths, where each one can have a different light. In a parallel circuit, you can edit specific details about each path. One of these examples could be turning off one of the source (the light bulb). You would do this by unscrewing the light. If you were to show this to someone, only one of the lights would turn off, and the others would remain on. This is unlike the series circuit because when you unscrew one they all turn off.
Question #3: You have three light bulbs Two are connected in parallel. This parallel combination is connected in series with the third light bulb. Describe the relative intensity of each bulb. Support your answer.
The intensity of the lightbulb all depends on what circuit they are in. The series and parallel are technically in different paths even though they are in the same circuit. So, the intensity of the light bulbs will vary. The series will shine brighter with less bulbs, and lower with more bulbs. The parallel, will remain consistent or change depending on the path, as they both have their very own paths, the intensity can change quite often, specializing on what you want it to be.
Question #4: In question number three, describe the relative intensities of the two remaining lit bulbs if one of the bulbs in parallel was unscrewed. Support your answer.
The intensity of the lightbulbs would rise, as there are less sources for the battery and electrons to flow through. When we add more bulbs, there are more sources to fill up, meaning that the intensity of the bulb lowers and lowers the more you add to your circuit.
Solution Fluency
- DEFINE: Explain the problem you are hoping to address in your own words.
The electric house that we created is created by using wires, sources, switches, and batteries. When we assemble all of our circuits and arrange them into our house, it becomes a bit complicated. The wires are confusing, the circuits are being mixed up, but what we realized the problem was, is that we had no battery holder.
- DREAM: Generate ideas (Creative Thinking) and share possible solutions to the problem. Put a list of your solutions in your post.
Because our house is a generally high height, I would love to have something that makes it so we don’t have to hold up our battery in order to work the circuits. Some of the ideas that could solve this, is a battery holder. Something that could attach to the back of the house, and hold the battery. This would make everything a lot simpler, because we could re-arrange the wires to sit in the battery holder, where it would connect to the battery.
- DELIVER: Propose one answer to the problem on which you choose to focus. Share as much detail you can about your idea. Include diagrams, pictures, video.
The final printed solution that I have chose to create, is a battery holder. This battery holder will essentially be a rectangle that is held by walls. You could then insert the battery into the rectangle, that is then hot glued to the backside of the electric house. For additional help, we will create holes on one of the rectangle walls, that you could insert the wires into. This will help with the organization progress of the house, to insure that presentation day goes the best as possible.
- DEBRIEF: Reflect on the process and tell me what you did well and what you could improve on.
The overall process of creating the 3D printed item went pretty well, however we did have our strengths and our difficulties…
Strengths – The rectangle. When we were creating the rectangle to hold the battery, we were able to measure precisely so that the battery fit into the rectangle. We then inserted the measurements into the 3D printing app, and where able to 3D print the item. Because this worked so well, we decided to print 5 of these battery holder, which had one for each of the electric circuits.
Difficulties – The wire holes. When we were creating the wire holes for the battery holder, we thought we correctly measured the sizing of the wires. So we then inserted that into the 3D print design. However when we then printed the item, we found that the holes were much smaller than expected. When we found this out, the wires were not able to fit into the holes. However, we were able to problem solve, and link the wires into the holes, and tape it down. So when we presented our project, we were still really organized. If we were to recreate the 3D printed item, I would choose to remeasure the size of the wires, and create them larger then measures, to ensure we can fit the wires into the holes.
This is my Bento Box from the Little Brother. It is created using a platform called genial.ly. Feel free to interact with the image with any points, which you will then be able to read more information:
Citations:
- Novel – “Little Brother”
- Images: Google Images
Here is my blackout poem on the Veldt. I used a page from The Chrysalids (page 1), and blacked out words to create a poem, on traditional paper.
My poem explores the themes that Ray Bradbury uses in his story The Veldt. The theme that it explores is how our technology has become more and more utilized to the point where we don’t notice it anymore. We’ve become separated, and no longer put in the effort. We spend our days watching TV rather than going to explore the world, before its gone. The feeling of time is put on our hands, of how the world is starting to disappear and turn into a technology based universe. The imagery I am trying to create with the lines “I did not mention it to anyone. Indeed, I almost forgot.” is showing how easily we lose track of how much technology lives around us, that sometimes we look right past it. and then again with “We simply had the habit of taking the ways of the world for granted” trying to represent that all this beauty exists right outside our door, yet we never take the ability to go pay a visit to it. I used personification to represent the river, sky and hills running away and leaving. As well as onomatopoeia as “Tok tik” to represent all the elements of time lost, and that we are losing. The children and that parents in the Veldt have become so forgetful that when they turn off the machines in their house, they will fight and kill for it. I hope my poem hits deep for those realizing how our technology is replacing our earth, and how we need to take a minute to breath, and slow down.
Experiences creating this assignment: My experiences creating this assignment were overall very positive. Me and my partner were able to collaborate very well with each other and we used our communication skills to develop lots of ideas. We talked to each other about changes we would make before editing the video or script. We split up the writing and editing portions, and made worked hard to make sure everything was done on time. The group aspect of the project was overall very positive however the research part was of course saddening. It’s always hard to learn about these things, but it’s important that everyone does so we can move forward in society, as everyone needs their chance to share their story.
path in researching this topic: Me and Meha decided to use the resources that were given to us from the Riverside “search it” library page, in order to find some reliable resources. I provided half of the information, as she provided the other half, then we casually added on along the way. When we first started creating the script, we decided write it more as information blocks. Then later on we added transitions to make the podcast a lot more conversational. We had to also do a bit of research on Audacity, because we had never used the program previously, but the result turned out pretty good, in my opinion.
Obstacles or stuff we learned while researching this topic: We had a couple problems with length during our podcast, as we were talking too fast towards the microphone, and in result were mispronouncing our words. So the second time recording through the podcast, we spoke slowly and clearly making it also easier for people to follow along. We also had to research how to say some of the names of the First Nations tribes, as in they were a bit hard to pronounce. And the very last difficulty was finding music that would fit our podcast well. They were either al too depressing, symphony like, or fantasy like. But after listening to lots and lots of songs for a very long time, we decided to settle on one and it actually fit quite well with our podcast.
Critical thinking;
How does your artifact tie in with what you have learned before?
I knew quite a bit about First Nations living conditions before this assignement as we had learned about it in previous years (elementary and middle school). It was part of the curriculum to learn all of it, however we tended to show it through juvenile drawings instead of research projects. With that being said, we never showed it through too much detail. So, I did not quite know about all of their living conditions still to this day, I thought it was all in the past, and honestly made me still extremely sad, for why they are still like this. Its horrible to also think that residential schools just closed a short while ago.
How has your thinking changed?
I don’t think my thinking has changed that much, because I was already very aware of what had been going on, but I think the research that we had done for this project had deepened my insight and understanding of the living conditions the First Nations still experience.
What made it change?
Listening to others stories, and the tone of their voice going through it played a huge role, because you could see the pain they had been going through, or that they still could be going through. By the end of the video, you could feel them reflecting on the past, as you could almost feel their emotions.
Citations:
UNITED NATIONS
- https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/mandated-areas1/education.html
STATISTICS CANADA
- https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/indigenous_peoples
CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/first-nations
THE HEALTH OF CANADAS CHILDREN AND YOUTH
- https://cichprofile.ca/module/7/section/4/page/first-nations-housing-on-reserve/
This my one pager pathways to a theme. It is based on the children’s book “Sidewalk Flowers”:
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