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Grammar Video Project – “Independent and Dependent Clauses”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnQO5C6MDEk&t=21s
The concept:
Independent and dependent clauses are two different types of sentences. One is a full complete thought all on its own, while the other is not. Independent clauses are the complete ones. It is a sentence that makes sense on its own. A dependent clause is the opposite. It is an incomplete sentence that needs more words to make it a complete thought. These dependent clauses become dependent when a marker word (subortinating cunjunction)is added. A few examples of marker words are although, unless, if, when, and many more. Let’s say we have a sentence : She went to the store. This is Independent because you are able to say it alone and it will still make sense, but if we add a marker word like, when : When she went to the store she bought cookies. Do you see that we needed to add more onto the sentence to make it a complete thought? If we just left the sentence like this : When she went to the store. It would not make sense. Another little trick is if you just want to connect two independent clauses without changing them to dependent you can add a coordinating cunjunction. These words include FANBOY. An example of this is : She loves cookies but she wants icecream. This is still completely independent because even if we took the word “but” away, both of the smaller clauses would make sense on their own.
Quiz Questions:
- What is an independent clause?
a) complete thought b) incomplete thought
c) full sentence d) a and c
2. What is a dependent clause?
a) a word made up of more than four letters b) an incomplete sentence
c) a person who broke their leg d) a sentence that has a marker word
3. What is a marker word?
a) a verb b) a noun
c) the word the dependent clauses depend on d) all of the above
4. Is this sentence dependent or independent? : He has a dog but she has a cat.
a) dependent b) independent
Quiz Answers:
- d)
- d)
- c)
- b)
February
24
Community Connections
For my community connection I decided to reach out to one of my cousins peers, Allee Williams. She is a social media influencer, agency owner and she even has her own podcast! I am super interested in anything related to social media and I think its amazing how she made such a successful job out of it. Before this interview I mostly just thought of social media like a hobby or something I just do for entertainment but after I talked to Allee I realized that with the world we live in now it can be a super beneficial and fun full-time job. 
I love photography, positivity and anything to do with working with people who are as interested in whatever we are doing as me. These three things play huge roles in Allee’s day to day life. Not to mention I am basically obsessed with social media.Something I find so interesting is that when she started almost everyone in her life was against her decision. She has completely proved them wrong. I listened to a few of her podcast episodes and they are so inspiring. It is just so cool to me that she started with no connections and no money and now she has her own company and podcast to help out people who are just starting off like she was. Here are Allee’s answers to my questions.
Why are you passionate about your job? –
It allows me to help others raise their voice, be seen, and connect with the best version of themselves through their work + personal lives. I love it because it is much, much bigger than me! Plus finding new trends + solutions is speaks to my nerdy side, while planning shoots + strategy let’s me be creative!!
What obstacles have you faced to get where you are today? –
MANY! Starting your own business is not always easy. My parents both disagreed with my decision and fought against me doing this. I had no money when I started, and lacked money management skills – which made for an issue when I was making money! Plus, I am from a small town, so I needed to move to a city where people wanted to invest in social media strategy because nobody understood my skills in my hometown. Most of all, I struggled to believe in myself a lot the first few years – some moments I still do! BUT it all has taught me so much. I’m grateful for every obstacle.
What advice would I pass on to someone? –
3 things!
1. Be courageous enough to believe in yourself – even when others doubt you. Believe in who you are + where you are – which is always enough. Create from there.
2. Start now. Working as an influencer, podcaster and agency owner, I always thought I would eventually know enough to feel “ready” and go for it. Eventually I realized that isn’t true. You have to learn on the way! Social media is still new. Go out there and learn how to use it. Find your voice while you’re talking. The rest will fall into place!
3. Commit to kindness. People will have opinions about what you are creating and how you are living your life – especially when you are broadcasting it to the world. If someone says something hurtful to you or about you (in real life or on the internet) please know it is not a reflection of you, it is a reflection of THEM. Their opinion has no power over your identity. So be kind.
4. One thing I would never change about my job? –
How I get to connect with others all over the world by simply showing up. It is incredible how much we all can learn from each other! Choosing connection and collaboration is something I want to do forever!
5. Why would I recommend someone going into what I do? –
You get to blaze a trail with/for others, connect with other incredible people, and create for a living – it is an absolute dream! Every single human has something beautiful buried within them that can bless others – working with social media allows for the treasure to be found and shared. It is the best job in the world to simply be yourself.
I learned so much about her job and she also gave a lot of great life advice. Allee said that she is super busy and would rather not have other kids contacting her. Anyways, I am so glad that I reached out to her and I will probably will again soon. Here are a few of the photos that Allee wanted me to show. Thank you so much for everything Allee. 🙂
here are some photos from Allee and I talking on Instagram:
photos taken from : https://www.instagram.com/rightupyourallee/?hl=en
her podcast: (the right up your Allee podcast)
February
19
TYKTW 2019
The Interview: Audrey Hansford
What is your job title?
Audrey has multiple jobs at the moment, these jobs are, a police clerk, a part-time investigative assistant to GUI (General Investigations Unit), member of the Union (Director of civilian and maintenance workers) and finally she is a member of the Health and Safety committee.
What is your job description?
Audrey again has many roles inside and out of her office, here is a list of the super cool she gets to do for her job she handles the input of fare infraction notices, she prepares court documents for disclosure to crown council, she processes criminal fingerprints. and criminal records, works switchboard duties which is equivalent of reception, she deals with complaints being. made at the front counter, she has general clerical duties, as well as on the health and safety committee, she prepares documents in GUI for electronic disclosure to crown council, and finally she is a member of the union executive.
What are the duties and tasks that you preform at. your job?
Basically every task or duty that Audrey has in her hands is everything that I just named in her job description.
What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas?
a) Training
Audrey completed all of her workplace training for becoming certified.
b) Education
Several different courses to further gain knowledge and experience in her field. These also give her the tools to teach other people some of the things that she has learned while working for different police agencies not only in Vancouver, but in Toronto where she grew uppitiest as well.
c) Experience
Audrey began her career in policing at the young age of 19 working in Toronto as a dispatcher. She later moved to Vancouver at the age of 28, and began working at the Vancouver Police Department building known as Ecomm, where she was a dispatcher for the police as well. She later transitioned to Transit Police where she has been working for the last 18 months. All together she has had a career in policing for nearly 28 years.
d) Skills and attributes (personal qualities)
Audrey has many skills, a few of her strongest are…
-being Inquisitive
-being forward thinker
-Having amazing attention to details
Audreys kind heart and drive to protect the people of the lower mainland and other metropolitan cities have been the driving force behind her lengthly career in the world of policing and the vital roles she has played along the along the way.
What are some of the things you like about this job?
Audrey likes many different aspects of her job that she really enjoys, but a few that have been her favourites throughout the years are, her fantastic coworkers, being given the challenge of solving a problem in her community, and learning about new things everyday on the job.She also enjoys that she is given constant opportunities to improve upon herself so she can the best she can in her current position. Finally, partaking in getting and giving justice, and making sure whatever happened won’t happen again.
What are some things that you dislike about this job?
Audrey said that something she would change about her current job is that she is mainly working all weekdays which is something she is not used to since throughout her past positions she has had a four days on and four days off.
February
5
Pouvoir !
Ma réflection:
Le mot pouvoir est quelque chose avec beaucoup de puissance mais l’opinons de la société et mes propres opinions sont deux choses complètement diffèrent. Je pense que nous devrions donner le pouvoir aux personnes qui a mérité. Les personnes intelligent et gentille qui peuvent créer un monde meilleur. Mais ce n’est pas la réalité. Il y a beaucoup des différentes façons de réussir le pouvoir au monde qui ne sont pas de tout avec l’intelligence ou la gentillesse. Il y a plusieurs personnes qui ont reçu parce qu’ils sont l’opposé. Une personne qui a du pouvoir sur moi est Ellen Degeneres. Elle utilise son pouvoir pour les ressources bonnes pour le monde et son propre communité. Je veux être comme elle aux futures. Elle est une personne vraiment extraordinaire et gentille. Je pense que les personnes que j’ai du pouvoir sur sont des petits enfants que je fais du baby-sitting avec. J’ai beaucoup des expériences avec lui quand ils disent qu’ils veulent être comme moi.
February
3
My back pocket keeps me grounded
“I’m sane but I’m overwhelmed. I’m lost but I’m hopeful, baby. What it all comes down to is that everything’s gonna be fine, fine, fine. ‘Cause I’ve got one hand in my pocket and the other one is giving a high five.” Alanis Morissette sings in Hand in My Pocket. This is the song I chose to discuss. This song is very meaningful to me in many ways. This is because there are so many various life lessons woven throughout her lyrics. I could listen to this song several different times in one day, and every time I would take something new out of it.
Something that really stands out to me about this particular song is that even though it was written around twenty-five years ago, I think it can be relevant to any time period or person. When I listen to this song, I hear Alanis talking about how there are so many different types of emotions that we as humans are able to feel. These feelings get so intense that we feel multiple at a time, which is completely normal. These various feelings can be polar opposites of each other and yet we still go through them. As I said I think that it is something that someone of any age is able to relate to. One line that really makes me believe this is “I’m sane but I’m overwhelmed. I’m lost but I’m hopeful”, I feel as if almost everyone has been in this state of mind at least once in their life. I can definitely speak to that. Many times in my life, especially recently, I have felt as if I am in the right place yet somehow lost. Whether it be which “clique” I belong to or my feelings towards how I look. However, these lyrics clearly state that even though sometimes life will throw obstacles at you, which feel never ending, one way or another you will figure it out.
An aspect of Alanis’ music that I personally love is how honest she is. She speaks the truth and only the truth. Her songs are about her personal experiences and what she is going through at that time in her life. The way that I look at this song is that having her hand in her back pocket is a metaphor for something that is keeping her grounded, whatever that may be. When she feels like nothing is going right, she has this method to hold herself together. My favourite line is “What it all comes down to is that everything’s gonna be fine, fine, fine.”. This just reminds me that I need to look at the big picture and that I should not be worrying about the little things. This is something that I need to be reminded of often. I generally worry more about the little things that honestly, do not even make a difference in the long run. The meaning of this metaphor in my case is my family and friends. I need to remember that even if I did not get the test score I wanted or I get in a fight with a friend, I have this method. This method of holding myself together. In my case this method is the ones I love.
I really relate with these lyrics, as well as the song as a whole because its main message is if you have something keeping you together you can be true to yourself and stand strong. No matter what comes your way, when it comes down to it, everything will be okay.
January
17
How cells multiply!
Asexual reproduction:
Asexual reproduction is when a single cell makes clones of itself. There are five different types of asexual reproduction, budding, fragmentation, binary fission, vegetative reproduction, finally spore. Budding is when the original parent makes a whole new copy of itself (that is attached to itself)it does this by just repeating mitosis, then when this new organism is done growing it will sometimes break off into a bud. These buds can repeat this process, budding is common to happens with hydra and sponges. Fragmentation is when the original parent organism undergoes an injury, and the part of that fell off creates a whole new clone of the parent. examples of this are starfish and some types of worms. Binary fission is just when the parent organism splits into identical copies of itself. This is what bacteria uses to make so much of itself. Vegetative reproduction is something that happens in special plant cells that develop and then forms clones of the parent. This is how plants like potatoes and strawberries can spread throughout your garden. finally spore is when a single cell creates a whole new organism, this is common within fungi and some bacterias.
pros of asexual reproduction:
-you only need one parent to reproduce.
-super fast and easy way to increase the population.
-not a lot of time and barely any effort needed to create new organisms.
cons of asexual reproduction:
-the whole population has the same weaknesses since its all just one organism cloned.
-there is no differences between any of the organisms.
Sexual reproduction:
Sexual reproduction is when different organisms come together to form a new organism (this is how anything actually living is created). There are three different stages of this reproduction, first, mating, second, fertilization, and third, development. Mating is basically meiosis, so the DNA from both the dad and the mom crossover to make new DNA unique to that new organism. Fertilization this is when the sperm and egg cells are joining to make the completely new organism. finally development, its in the name. this is just when this organism is forming inside of the egg. this is the process of embryonic development.
pros of sexual reproduction:
-makes a completely new and unique organism.
-not likely to be affected by something hurting others of its kind because it is not a clone of one parent.
-adaptation can happen throughout reproduction. (can help with survival in new or different places.
cons of sexual reproduction:
-not possible to reproduce without a mate.
-takes a lot of time and effort.
Mitosis:
Mitosis is the process of replacing lost of dead cells. It will duplicate the contents of the nucleus and make two new equivalent cells. during mitosis there is prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. Prophase is when the spindle fibres form and they attach themselves to the chromosomes centromeres. during metaphase all of the chromosomes in the cell line themselves up onto the equator of the cell. Anaphase is when the spindle fibres separate the chromosomes into two sister chromatids and pull them to opposite sides of the cell. During telophase all of the spindle fibres disappear and two new nuclear membranes form around the two new separate groups of the chromosomes. Mitosis is the shortest stage within the cell cycle. I really understood this process when we did the lab with. the string and pipe cleaners.
Meiosis:
Meiosis is a really big part of sexual reproduction. It basically goes through the same steps as mitosis but doubles it. There is prophase 1, metaphase 1, anaphase 1, telophase 1, then prophase 2, metaphase 2, anaphase 2, and telophase 2. The only difference between the two is that in prophase 1 of meiosis there is something called crossover which is taking parts from the mom and parts from the dad to make a unique new organism with a mixture of both of the parents DNA. Also is anaphase 1 the chromosomes don’t get separated into sister chromatids they just stay together until anaphase 2.
How do organisms grow?
Organisms grow using either mitosis or meiosis. These two processes, keep happening until they can make up for all of the lost or dead cells they must replace. A really good example of this human skin cells, everyday we shed millions of them but then again everyday we also create millions of them. If mitosis and meiosis didn’t exist we wouldn’t have skin within hours. These operations make sure every living organism can actually be a living organism.
January
13
Connections based learning: final post for Tim
Media:
I would personally say that this picture of Tim trying out our original prototype sums up my whole journey throughout this project. It is so cool that we actually got to, not exactly make something but come up with an idea and make it come to life. I am so glad that we are able to make even a small difference in Tims life.
These two photos explain what we did because you can see how much thinking and simplifying we had to do to make a suitable remote for Tim to use. As you can see he used to be using this very complicated remote with many unnecessary and small buttons, throughout this project my group and I simplified this all the way down to the little box you can see in his hands in the second picture. Though is is still (and may never be) perfect it shows how much work we put into this task.
These two photos are our finished products, on the left is our personal prototype that we created with the help of tinkered, and on the right it the remote we ordered off-line for Tim to use in his everyday life. I think a really cool aspect of these two is that my group and I designed our “remote” before we even saw professional ones, but in the end they looked and worked super similarly.
How we helped:
Our experience began when we had the FaceTime call with Tim and his daughter Nicola, they told us that they think that it would be better and easier for Tim if he had a remote with only a few simple buttons. My group and I automatically thought this would be a great idea for our project. We thought that a remote is for sure a challenge but also super possible. We got straight to work and started to brainstorm ideas on what we wanted our remote to look like. Simple things like how many buttons should it have, the size and any other minor details. We came up with that little coloured box I showed before. This design had the bare minimum for Tim which was exactly what he asked for. We connected with Tim and Nicola again, made some little adjustments, and we also went onto makers making change to get a little inspiration for time to time. In about two weeks our design was printed and ready to go so, Mr. Robinson took it to Tim to show him our prototype and except for some minor changes he really like it! The only problem was that we didn’t know how we were going to get all of the wiring in there and actually make it work so that Tim could connect it to his TV. We went online and bought a simplified remote that looks almost exact to our design. Now we have a working product that will make Tims life a little bit easier.
What I have learned:
This project has taught my group and I many new things that I don’t think we would have been introduced to if we had not participated. A few examples are 3D printing, thorough critical and creative thinking skills, perseverance and unique designing skills. This is the first time that I have really gotten to be in the process of 3D printing. It was so cool to see the precise steps that are taken in order to make a finished product. This is also where we learned some super cool stuff about designing. We spent a lot of time making sure our prototype was the best it could be and the way we did that was we spent hours figuring out how to design and create the object that we were imagining in our heads. This was for sure challenging since we had never used that program before but in the big picture we learned something super cool and useful in this day and age. As for the creative and critical thinking, we definitely used these throughout the whole project. examples of this is when we were designing the remote we needed to use our creative and critical thinking to make sure we fulfilled all of Tims needs. personally I have met every learning goal that I set for myself, they were that I want to learn more about 3D printing, which I definitely did. My second learning goal was that I wanted to figure out a way to actually help Tim with our product, and I think we were very successful at this. I am so excited to see if we made Tims life just a little bit easier.
Debrief of the experience:
My group and I worked very well together, and we stuck by the motto we created the first day we got together. that motto was to bounce off each others ideas and to make everyone feel needed, which I feel we completely accomplished. we all had very strong ideas that we wanted to use and we somehow found ways to make sure everyone was happy. we were a really good and string group who I would work with again. I think a few things we did well as a team were, one we actually brought out something very practical that Tim can use in his everyday life. two, we all made sure the work was split evenly. finally three we stayed on task and made sure our parts were done when they were supposed to be done. at the moment I can’t really think of something that we could work on, I think all of us overall did a super great job! in conclusion I really enjoyed this whole project. I did not think I would when we started but once I realized that we were being given the chance to make an actual change I think I got interested. it is still amazing to me that basically everyone in the class came up with a different idea of how to make a difference in Tims life. I am really happy we got to do this project and I hope to do more like it in the future.