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Français Langue – Core Competencies Reflection – Debate Project

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What was the most challenging element of the debate project for you personally? Did you overcome that challenge and if so, how did you do so?

The most challenging element from the debate project for me was finding a topic that had two unbiased sides, and that was written in French. To start, we had to find a good argument, write a introduction, then present it to our partner in order to decide on our topic. While finding a topic wasn’t too difficult, writing a good draft of an introduction was tricky because I didn’t really know which topics would be best to dive into to create a well written argument to present to the class. After, neither my partner nor my ideas were good enough for a topic, so we went back to searching. While Le Monde or Radio Canada are great sources, sadly my partner and I couldn’t find anything on either sites to help us with our argument. After lots of research, we finally found a good article to use, even though it was a bit too long for our liking. Another challenging aspect was creating a convincing argument for our audience and writing it formally. Once we had our official topic, it was to find good evidence and to write it formally. Our last step was to fine-tune our original argument with all of our evidence, but there was a lot of rewriting that needed to be done. For instance, when we were mentioning one topic, a different piece of evidence was used, yet it had no relevance to the subject. After doing our final edits, I believe we didn’t have any other conflicts with the project.

How did this project (as presenter or listener) change your perspectives?

This project changed my perspectives in many ways as both a listener and a presenter. For instance as a listener, I was convinced by the presenters and their arguments, as appose to the opposite argument that the audience was supporting. While the audience knew very little on the subject (other than the article that was read at the start of the debate), the opposing side always seemed more convincing as they did the research to understand their subject best. However as a presenter, my partner and I understood both sides to the argument and wrote down key facts for both of them. This was done to help build our original argument. For example, we turned those key point about the apposing side and turned them into questions to help build our argument even more. If someone in the audience asked a question, we had the answer to it, which demonstrated where we stood with our argument.

What were you most proud of in your project?

In my project, I was most proud of the research that was accomplished as well as the presentation done towards the class. My partner and I both did lots of research to build our argument with facts, research experiments, statistics, graphs, etc. We both found a fair amount of evidence, but it was important to use the pieces that were concise for our argument to help make our point clear. It was a lot of hard work and research that was done during and outside of school as well. In the end, our presentation to the class went well: we provided answers to key words and tried our best to explain the ones we didn’t have written down, we spoke clearly to the class when presenting our discussion, and we tried to answer the questions as best as we could. Overall, the project went well, it could have been better but I am confident that our argument was strong regardless.

Core Competency Reflection – Français Langue 11

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Here are my Core Competency reflections that show my strength and growth with Français Langue 11.

A Core Competency that shows Strength:

I showed strength with the communication competency by always contributing my ideas to any discussions or conversations with the class, by synthesizing, deepening, and developing my thoughts, and by acquiring, analyzing, and integrating my ideas together with the big ideas of the course. For example, with our group discussions about our class novel study “Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran”, I always made sure I contributed to our group discussions about what we had read, and the big themes of the book. When it was time to work on our homework for the novel, I always made sure that my ideas and thoughts made sense, then expanded further on those topics and ideas.

 

A Core Competency that shows Growth:

I feel I could grow more with the critical and reflective thinking competency with examining various perspectives and analyzing interpretations of complex issues. For myself, I believe I need to work on taking time to fully understand a concept if I don’t understand it, and then discover what it is I need to work on in order to achieve better results, such as with French grammar and verbs.

Core Competencies Reflection – Automotive 11

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Here is my Core Competency reflection for Automotive 11. I’ve reflected on the communication competency for this reflection, as I find it very useful for working in the automotive shop. I also reflect on my strengths, goals, and what I am planning to do in order to accomplish these goals.

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Foods 10 – Core Competencies Self Reflection –

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This is my reflection based on my Foods 10 class and my scones lab with my group, where I write about my experiences with my class, group, and presentation skills.

Science 9 – Artifacts of Learning

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This semester in Science 9, I learned many new things about the Periodic Table, circuits and electricity, cells and the reproduction cycles, and climate change.

Safety

                

During the start of Science 9, we learned about the health and warning symbols on daily and household products that we should be aware of, such as the corrosive sign, the health hazard sign, the compressed gas symbol, and the flammable symbol. Each symbol or sign has its own meaning of what it means and what it does so you can protect yourself and others around you.

For example, the compressed gas sign means that whatever is being compressed is a gas and can exploded out the material if not cautious with the product.

Chemistry

During our chemistry unit this year, we learned about the periodic table and their groups, families, and features. I also got to familiarise myself with the table and how it was arranged, some other compounds that weren’t on the periodic table, polyatomic ions, element features, and their chemical reactions to other substances.

For our final chemistry project, we had to choose an element and do some research on it as well. For example, the element that I chose to research was platinum which is made to make records with.

Physics

                                                                                         

Throughout our physics unit, we learned about Ohms Law along with voltage, current, and resistance. We also learned how to read resistors with their different coloured bands, how to read a voltmeter and an ammeter with one, five, and ten volts for a voltmeter or amps for an ammeter.

                                                                                         

For our lab, we did the Currents of the Kitchen Lab where we had to make a circuit with fruits from our home.

My group and I used half a lemon, half a potato and a whole banana. We then had to try and make an LED light turn on with only using the food that we had. We made series and parallel circuits and we learned how electricity moves through different objects.

Biology

Our Biology unit was full of new things that needed to be learned, such as mitosis, meiosis, the cell cycle, cell division, and reproduction. We learned all of this with the help of our may learning experiences along labs, worksheets, and group projects.

                         

Here are some pictures of the projects we did during our biology unit of Science 9 with Mr. Robinson.

Climate Change

                           

With climate change, we’ve learned about the carbon in our air, the four spheres to our Earth, biotic and abiotic factors, and what we can do to help make a change.

                           

We also made our own innovation to help solve climate change called the Carbon Compressor and Collector in Minecraft with the help of Elandi and Emily.

Skype With Catherine

   

With Catherine, we learned how most girls can’t go to school because of pregnancies or because of the commute to the school itself.

That can be hard on them, especially without water or it being so far away to reach. Climate change is even a bigger factor in Uganda because of it’s rising heat temperatures nowadays.

Here is a picture of all the questions we asked Catherine:

My Core Competencies Reflection: 

Core Competencies Self-Assessment for Science 9

Français Langue 9 – Core Competencies Reflection

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Here is the link to the document: 

Riverside CC’s Self Assessment Document – Reflection

Here is our add for our project that my group and I made together: 

Here is my reflection: 

Communication

Collaboration

I think that my group and I did a fantastic job on our collaboration part of the project. We all worked great together on the project and distributed our tasks evenly, even if one of us weren’t present in class. For example, whenever someone had a dance competition, or had an important appointment to attended to, or was even not feeling well, we all still did our part of the project along with the rest of our group members.

Whenever one of us had a new or interesting idea to share with the rest of the group, we all listened together and shared any other ideas that we came up with. When one of our ideas wasn’t quite clear, we would build upon the original idea as a base and have an even better idea then we did before.

Whenever there was a problem that we came across as a group, we all resolved it together. When we needed to create a box for the board game itself or we needed to review some of the cards and their spelling, we all did that together as a group.

I think we all did an incredible job on our collaboration part of the project.

Communicating

For our communication part of the project, I think we could have improved on a few things together as a group. For focusing on the intent and the purpose of the project, we all understood that this was a group project and that we had to create an engaging and interactive board game, but at some points we focused on the little details too much and less on the bigger picture. We would focus on the small point of view in front of us, but we didn’t really take a step back to look and to see the bigger picture.

Along with that, we presented our information well to everyone, but some spots still could have been a bit more clear as well. Other than that, I feel that we all did an outstanding job on our project together.

Refection Sur Le Projet de Groupe

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Socials Group Project – The French Revolution

Communication 

When our group started working on this project, we first talked about how we were going to divide up the work so that everyone was equal. We talked about what we were going to work on and discus, such as “La Prise de la Bastille” and when King Louis the XVI and his family tried to escape France.

After that, we discussed and planned how we wanted to present our information to our teacher and to our peers. Every day we went through each step to make sure that we didn’t miss anything and to make sure that we all knew what we were still doing and working on.

Critical Thinking

Whenever we started a new task or one of us in the group had a new idea, we always questioned if it was a good idea for our subject. For example, if one of us had the idea of adding a funny clip into our video to add some humor, we always made sure that it made sense to us and for our audience. We developed our ideas along the way together and we always worked together.

For designing the video, I was the one doing it because I have an app on my phone to help create videos. I worked hard on creating the video and I think that the end result was very good; it was amusing, engaging, and it showed our understanding of the French revolution and what happened during that period in time in  history.

Personal Awareness

I know that I worked hard every time that we were given time to work on the project, I always put my best foot forward in making my own decisions and in making my own choices. If I ever had to ask my fellow group members for their help or their advice on the video or with anything else, I would ask for their opinion.

I was always ready to work inside or outside of the class with our group and I was determined to accomplish our daily goals along with our overall goal: to work hard and do well on this group assignement.