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Biotechnology Solution Fluency
Video: What Will Humans Look Like In 100 Years?
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Debrief
I think my group and I did well on this project, we all collaborated and added effort into it. Some areas that we could improve on is adding a a bit more detail into our dilemma as well as adding a few more sources. Other than that, the process of this project was good, we used our class time wisely, and I learnt a lot out of this project.
Element Sway- Science9/COL
- Questions I needed to research:
- Who/when/how was platinum discovered?
- What are interesting facts about platinum?
- What is the melting point and boiling point of platinum?
- What is platinum used for?
- What is platinum’s periodic table information?
- Digital tools I used:
- Citation Machine
- Gale Engage
- Pexels
- The process and how I verified and cited my information:
I researched questions and went on websites to find information about my element. I then put all the information I collected into my own words and made sure to keep track of all the websites I used so then I could cite them. I found pictures off Sway using the image search and Pexels, but for pictures that I found online, I made sure to cite all my sources.
- The process of completing this project and what I could have done better:
After doing this project I have learned a new way to finding reliable websites and images using the gale engage. I also learned that it is important to cite all images and sources that are used and knowing that I can get pictures that are free to use on Pexels, I will definitely be using it again for future schoolwork. Something that I could improve on is adding a bit more details into my content.
HCE 9 – English Write
Birds on a wire
When I look at this image the first thing I notice is the two different coloured birds. While the grey birds are tall and have many in numbers a small green bird is by itself looking back at the other birds. The tall grey birds are holding up signs that have the words “Migrants not welcome’, “go back to Africa”, and “keep off our worms”, which is clearly racism. The gesture of the grey birds is also giving off dominance because they look bigger and taller than the green bird. Looking at this image, I feel a bit of empathy for the little green bird because it looks isolated and pushed away. Furthermore, the size and colour of the grey birds also gives me a feeling that they are the “dominant” species and are more powerful. Knowing that the birds are two different species from their colours and that the one “different” bird is getting hated on, it shows a resemblance to humans. Like humans, there is a lot of discrimination against people of different ethnicities. Surveying this image, you can also see a faint line dividing the grey birds and the green bird. This might be showing how the one species of birds is not welcome by the others. Along with the fact that the birds are different species we also know that some birds migrate during different seasons of the year for various reasons. Almost like humans needing to immigrate to different countries. Due to the fact of the content on the signs being held, I feel that in this picture the green bird resembles a person from Africa and is not accepted into a different country. Seeing the signs, colours, and sizes of the birds in the picture, it’s telling me that the intended message is respect. After observing this picture, I have concluded that the author is trying to tell us about the racism and discrimination issues of today’s world through an image of birds on a wire.
Grammar Video Project – “Subjects and Predicates (Simple and Complete)”
Our grammar rules are subjects and predicates. In every complete sentence, it includes simple and complete subjects and predicates. Starting off with a simple subject, it is the main word or phrase that a sentence is about. In the sentence “Bobby was eating cotton candy”, the simple subject in this sentence is Bobby because that is the main word that the sentence is about. In addition to a simple subject, there is also a complete subject. A complete subject is the simple subject and words that describe it, it is like the describing word. In the sentence “Joe, the astronaut went on the moon”, the complete subject is “Joe, the astronaut” because that is describing what Joe is. We also have simple predicates. Simple predicates are the verbs that tell what the subject does/is. Simple predicates tell the reader what the subject is doing. An example of a simple predicate is “The tree swayed and fell during the hurricane”. In this sentence, the simple predicate is “swayed” because that is the verb that tells us what the tree is doing. Furthermore, this leads us to our last one, complete predicates. Complete predicates are the verbs and words that describe it. Meaning they are the words that modify and complete the meaning of the sentence. In the sentence “He ran a long way”, the complete predicate is “Ran a long way” because it is the word that describes the verb. In conclusion, it is important to recognize the small parts of a sentence and remember the rules of subjects and predicates.
Test Questions:
1) Steve sang loudly at the karaoke bar. What is the simple predicate in this sentence?
- A) Steve
- B) Loudly
- C) Sang
- D) Karaoke bar
2) The rock flew and squashed the banana. The rock is the subject. Squashed the banana is the complete predicate.
-False
– True
3) The boy ate the apple. The simple subject is the boy.
- True
- False
4) Sarah, the artist, is painting a picture. What is the complete subject in this sentence?
- A) Sarah
- B)The artist
- C) Painting
- D) Painting a picture
5) Joe failed his math test. The simple subject is Joe.
-True
-False
Answer Key:
- Sang
- True
- True
- The artist
- True
Indigenous Exploration – Kamloops Residential School
Indigenous Exploration Project Reflection:
- My experience creating this project was fun and enjoyable. I learned a few new things about the Kamloops residential school as well as the first nations territory it is on. It was fun to make the podcast because we could be a bit creative with it.
- My group and I chose two topics which we wanted to research about and then we came together to join all the information. I also used the websites the librarian gave us to help research.
- While recording, we went through a bit of obstacles. It was a bit difficult to get a perfect recording the first time because we all had giggles. We had to record about 4 times until we got the perfect one. While recording the podcast, I learned how to connect a microphone to my laptop, using an app.
- Critical Thinking:
Some of the information about the Kamloops residential school I already knew about, but there were many new things I learned. From doing this project, I learned about the first nations territory that the Kamloops Residential school sits on, as well as the languages they speak. After finding all these facts and information, the story from Evelyn Camille who went to the residential school, has affected my thinking. What she said about the school was heartbreaking and now that I have heard from someone who went to the school it expands my idea of residential schools.
Figurative Language
A Mountain Journey Questions
A Mountain Journey
1. Dave Conroy was in the mountains to deliver fur for the Market. He was going to stop at Hoodoo cabin on Hoodoo Creek to stay for the night, which was 5 miles away. “Hoodoo cabin on Hoodoo Creek, where he could pass the night, was still five miles away.” (pg. 91)
2. We knew the protagonist was in serious trouble when the moon was out, and his fingers and feet started getting numb. Also, when he decided to keep going to his destination without resting at an area and he soon regretted that later in the story. “He should stop, make a fire, dry his hands and feet, change his socks and mittens. But it was late. It would mean siwashing for another night underneath a tree.” (pg. 94)
3. The three mistakes Conroy made were travelling alone in the mountains and snowy conditions , not resting to make a fire and change his clothes after falling into the water, and not taking a break under the tree when he had a chance to. To prevent himself from freezing he should have made a fire right after he fell into the water.
4. Exposition: Dave Conroy, a hunter, is in the mountains to bring fur to the market.
Complicating Incident: When Conroy fell into the river and got soaked.
3 crisis:
– After Conroy fell into the water, he didn’t make a fire to get warm and instead he kept going.
– When he wanted to rest and make a fire, but he couldn’t because his hands were frozen.
– When he was climbing up the mountain and decided to take a break and sleep in the snow, he ended up waking in the morning and slid further down the hill.
Denouement: Conroy couldn’t make it to MacMoran’s cabin, and he slowly dies.
5. Setting: Snowy Mountain, day/night time, around the 1600’s, cold weather.
The setting affects the plot because the place that the character is in affects them a lot. There are obstacles and challenges that the character must face because of the setting. “He had fallen into an air hole.” (pg. 93)
Theme: It’s okay to take a break when you need it and be patient, go slow, you don’t have to always be in a rush.
6. Concrete place: Cabin
Abstract: warmth and comfort
The meaning is that when he thinks about the cabin, he thinks about the warmth and comfort that the cabin will bring. The cabin has beds and is nice and warm.
7. Metaphor: “The cold was an old ma’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes.”
Simile: “He was beginning to feel like a ghost on an abandoned planet.”
Personification: ““That tree, like a strong and lonely woman, called to his wary body to stop.”
Simile: “They were cold and white and unresponsive as a dead man’s.”
Vocabulary:
- Eternal– lasting or existing forever
- Immobility– the state of not moving
- Opaque– not able to see through (nontransparent, cloudy)
- Reverberation– the echo of a sound
- Momentum– motion of a moving body
- Cadaverous– looking corpselike, very pale, bony, or thin
- Congregated– gathering into a mass or crowd
- Inundation– a flooding
- Beggared– ? to reduce
- Filched– to take something in a furtive manner
The Friday Everything Changed Questions
Comprehension
- The boys are upset at the idea of the girls carrying the water bucket because that job has always been “theirs” and they don’t want their opportunity to skip school to be taken away from them. I think it’s also because the boys want the job to be theirs only and because of the girls gender they don’t want a girl to be carrying the water bucket.
- Some strategies the boys use to pressure the girls into giving in are bullying them and not letting the girls play softball. The girls don’t enjoy the fact that all the boys are picking on them, but they stick together and stand up for each other. Some girls get mad at Alma for bringing up the idea of girls carrying the water bucket in front of the class. “Oh Alma”, mourned Minnie Halliday, “why couldn’t you just have kept your mouth shut?” (pg. 8)
Elements of Fiction
- A student is telling the story in first person view. She likes Miss Ralston and thinks she’s a good teacher. “Now our teacher that year was named Miss Ralston and even though she came from River Hibbert we all liked her quite a lot.” (pg.5) She agrees with the idea of girls carrying the water bucket because they might get a chance to skip school and do something real and fun too. “We, too, might get to skip school for half an hour at a time, that we, too, might get to sneak into Roswell’s store on the way back and, most dizzying thought of all, that we too might get to do something real.” (pg. 6)
- The conflict is person vs person because the conflict is between the girls and the boys. The boys have always been the ones carrying the water bucket but one day a girl asks the teacher why girls couldn’t carry it. They knew that the girls might get a chance to do their job, so they start to pick on them. The setting of the story is at a rural village and school around the 1950’s where physical punishments in school were allowed. They have to get water from a well located at a railway station so that’s how we know the school is somewhere isolated.
- I think the protagonist is the girls because they are the main characters who are trying to make a change. While the boys are the antagonists because they are trying to stop the girls from carrying the water bucket. The boys pick on the girls and bully them in the hope of getting them to stop the idea of girls going for the water.
6. Everything changed on that Friday because for the first time ever in the school, girls were going to be carrying the water bucket. In the last paragraph Miss Ralston says, “next week Alma Niles and Joyce Shipley will go for the water.” I think the theme of the story/message that the author is saying is that girls should be allowed to do what boys do. Their opportunities to do things shouldn’t be limited just because of their gender.
Vocabulary
- galvanized: Iron or steel, coated with a layer of zinc.
- remotest: A chance or possibility unlikely to occur.
- intoxicated: Emotionally excited, exhilarated, or elated for something.
- ominous: Showing the impression that something unpleasant is going to happen.
- supplementary: Enhancing or completing something.
- forlornly: Alone and unhappy.
- earnestly: With sincere and intense conviction.
- gloating: Dwelling on one’s own success or another’s misfortune with self-satisfaction or malignant pleasure.
- transfixed: To become motionless with astonishment, surprise, or fear.
- pirouettings: A full turn of the body on the point of the toe or the ball of the foot.
Gender Equality Issues Article
This article talks about how financial opportunities for women around the world are being limited by government laws, and how the UN is taking steps into fixing this equality issue. Women are less likely to have access to money and digital tools. Statics show that 12% of women and girls are less likely to own a phone than men, 35% less likely to have access to the internet, and 32% less likely to have access to energy. Nandini Harihareswara, a senior advisor at the UNCDF’s focal point is to ensure that more women are able to take advantage of digital finance. I chose this article because it raises awareness about the financial inequality for women and how it affects women around the world. Not only did the article talk about the equality issue, it also states the many ways they are helping this problem. I like how this article included pictures and three different sections talking about different things related to this issue it helped to find information easily. This article relates to the story “The Friday Everything Changed” because in both the story and the article it has an equality issue where women/girls are less privileged than men/boys. In the story the girls weren’t allowed to get the water from the well, and in the article it talks about how women don’t have the financial freedom like men do. I feel like this issue has been going on for a long time, fortunately people are starting to talk about it more and there are many media platforms that spread awareness about this equality issue.
Article: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1086162