This mini-assignment combines our writing and paragraph structure skills we have learned this year, and photo editing skills from grade 8. We all wrote paragraphs for and made an image about 5 of our role models here are mine
Chancelor (Chance the Rapper) Bennet
Chancellor Bennet was born on April 16, 1993 and at the age of 17 he released his first mixtape, 10 Day. It was his least popular mixtape to date, but that doesn’t rule it out of the discussion. The name 10 Day came from the 10 day suspension he received in high school, and during that time he made the mixtape. He has never sold a record or song though, he does not sell his music at all. All of his money comes from his multitude of tours and shows and also his ‘3’ merchandise. This is the main reason why he is my main role model, while almost all rappers nowadays are in it for the money, Chance is in it for the joy of making music for people and also trying to help them by telling his story. Coming up from a small corner in Chicago, he has shaken the world multiple times since his come up. Dropping 2 more mixtape’s: Acidrap in 2013, and his most successful, Coloring Book. Coloring Book was the first streaming exclusive album to break the Billboard Top 10. It did this with 57.3 million streams. All of these achievements though are all outweighed by his family. “Man, my daughter couldn’t have a better mother, man I swear my life is perfect.” A line from the first song on Coloring Book, All We Got, featuring his idol, Kanye West and the Chicago Children’s Choir, showing that even at the peak of stardom he still combines the life of fame with his roots. Something that I plan to do when I become famous.
Danny Ching is a 33 year old professional stand up paddle boarder from Redondo Beach, California. Nicknamed ‘The Quiet Champion’ due to his quiet speech and humbleness, Danny has won multiple SUP world races, and outrigger events as well, touring on the pro circuit for both. What separates him from all the other racers is not his, technique or his mindset, which both stand in a class of their own, but it his take on sponsors. Instead of signing with a bunch of different companies like other racers do, Danny just made his own brands. He has 404, a SUP board brand an outrigger company. His second main company is Hippostick, a paddle company that makes paddles for SUPs and outriggers. Both companies in all departments are popular worldwide. This is what I idolize about him, at 33, he is taking the kids of the new age to school still, and at the same time balancing his family, a multi sport, multi brand business platform, yet, he manages to stay humble and understated. Just because he is humble does not mean he is influential, I personally try and model my paddling style, stroke and attitude off him. Meeting him in person confirmed all of these things, he was happy to meet some kids from some corner of Canada, who were just starting this sport. He is one of the best ever in both sports, but at the same time one of the most humble people I’ve ever met.
Evan Gerbrecht (My Brother)
While my brother Evan may not be a internationally recognized hero to all, he for sure is one of mine. When I was a kid all I wanted to be when I was older was, bigger, taller, stronger, faster than Evan. Those goals were reinforced once I started stand up paddle boarding, he in the SUP community on the west coast and starting to spread across the world of SUP, he is one of the most promising racers, and right now I’m living in his shadow. I’m just ‘Evan’s brother,’ but that has worked wonders for me. It has provided me with constant motivation and competition. I will never be quite as fast as him though, which is a huge reason why he is a role model of mine. He is so humble. He never brings up that he is the #1 ranked junior in Canada and the #3 ranked man. (I’m the #3 ranked junior and the #6 or #7 ranked man). And the fact that he is planning to go to Denmark for the ISA SUP World Championships this November makes me idolize him even more. And this whole time he remains unsponsored but is completely ok, because he would rather paddle with his team, as oppose to a brands team. He is my oldest role model, I’ve wanted to be like him as long as I can remember, and now that feeling is stronger than ever, the feeling and need to want to be as good as him, or possibly even better.
Marchawn and (Beast Mode/Skittles) Lynch
When I first started getting into football the first player that really caught my attention was Marchawn Lynch. Not just because of his explosive speed, and surprising power, but also him as a person. He co-founded Family 1st, a charity dedicated to helping underprivileged youth get the help and supplies that they need to grow as people in society. What’s even cooler is that he doesn’t just give money but he will go up to the kids in the camps that he runs and give them shoes, he asks their size, they tell him and he hands them a box of brand new Jordan’s. Aside from the charitable side of him, I relate and aspire to have a personality like him too, at the peak of his career he still managed to have so much fun, still boasting the fact of eating skittles before a big game, and many more hilarious character habits and antics. My personal favorite was in college when he drove a golf cart around the field. He isn’t just fun though, he has a Super Bowl win under his belt and a 5x Pro Bowl player, and he’s an extremely scary intimidating person as well. Other than ‘Skittles’ his next nickname is almost the complete opposite, ‘Beast Mode’ He is called this due to his amazing ability to bowl over giant lineman like they are little boys. And also while doing this he might throw in his infamous stiff arm just to embarrass you a little more. I want to be like him because even at the peak of professional sports he still manages to save time for families, whether that’s his or a strangers, he gives all people respect and help. He also is a sports influence, called a failure in his young years, he made the big leauges in a big way.
Donald (Childish Gambino)Glover
My final role model is Donald Glover, the writer, actor, director, producer, singer, rapper and songwriter has had an illustrious career for someone who is only 33. He was born in California, but raised most of his life in Atlanta, Georgia. He got his first start when he was hired at the age of 23 to be a writer for the show 30 Rock, but he left 3 years later to pursue his career in the music industry. Interestingly enough he mentioned leaving the show in his song We Ain’t Them. Leaving the show was not the end of his television career though, because in September of 2016 Glover released his own show that he stars in and created. Those few sentences are a short reason why I idolize Donald, he has used his broad spectrum of talents throughout his whole life, even if that means leaving a good job. But when he returned to TV he won a Golden Globe for Best Music or Comedy TV series. Around this time he released his 3rd album, Awaken, My Love! And also recently he has started venturing into the land of movies as well, playing Rich Purnell in 2015s The Martian, and more recently being cast as a young Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Star Wars. He is so serious about the role he delayed recording the album just to prepare. That’s another thing I like about him, he is so driven to complete a task and to do an amazing job doing it.
The final part was making a total visual.
This was a difficult process as I had to cut out each persons head, perfectly space it with the podiums, and add all the little text. The har
This assignment is a little different than most PLP assignments. This one is a contest put on by the government called Here’s My Canada, a contest put on by the Government of Canada to celebrate 150 years of Canada. There are prizes involved and the contest goes on for another 150ish days.
For my idea of ‘What Canada is to Me’ was a community. As an example I used my trip to Quebec for the international hockey tournament there in 2015. It was amazing to see how that whole city and surrounding area came together to host, accomadate and watch all these 12 year olds. Right after Carnival ends as well. I remember every single detail of every game and day. I am very proud of this video and am hoping to win some prizes.
For my race team, called D.A.R.T, or Deepcove Advanced Race Team, it is a tradition to spend at least a weekend in Tofino during march break. We take a break from racing and we surf during this time. This year was the first year that the whole team couldn’t go at one time, so this year we went in two waves. I went with Mike, my coach, his wife Karly and their two kids, Kanami who is 2 and Kane, who is 5 months old.
Here are some of the best photos taken by my family and Mike.
This last weekend my team lost in final four, and we are not going to provincials, thus, ending our season. It was a good season though, we had some big wins and some amazing team experiences with all of my old friends from hockey, that I’ve known since I was 6.
Our year started with a Port Moody Remembrance Day tournament, which we won. The final score of the final game was 4-3 against the Vancouver Spirit, a team that we would get to know well later in the year.
The next big part of our season was K.I.B.I.H.T (Kamloops International Ice Hockey Tournament). We were placed pretty well coming into this tournament, funny enough we finished higher than we were ranked, out of roughly 20-30 teams we were ranked 8th but wound up finishing 4th. We lost in the semi-finals to POE 3-1 after being up 1-0 after the first period. The collest part of the whole trip though was playing hockey outside at our coaches cabin in Sun Peaks.
After that we continued into playoffs. We met again with our friends from the Port Moody tournament, the Vancouver Spirit. Hockey playoffs work in a 4 point series, 1 point each for a tie 2 for a win and obviously 0 for a loss, first to 4 wins.In the first game their goalie played amazing and we both came away with a point in a tie. The second game we went to their rink and won 4-2. The final game we had 3 20 minute periods with an ice clean between the 2nd and 3rd. Going into that ice clean we were down 4-1. We wound up winning that game 5-4 scoring 3 goals in 10 minutes, winning the series 4-1.
If you win your 4 point series you continue on to final 4, with the top 2 qualifying for provincials. Even though we beat our club rival for 50+ years, the Burnaby Winter Club 6-3 we did not make it.
This student led conference is to show my teachers and parents 3 examples of my work. One that I am most proud of, one that shows a growth mindset and one that is an example of learning.
I want to start with my example of learning as it is the most recent, and in my opinion the strongest example of a growth I’ve seen from me in a while. This year in Destination Imagination, my group of Lucas, Michael, Spencer and Sam took on the engineering challenge.
For the work that I am most proud of I want to go back to December, when there we did Harry Potter blue skies. I came into this project with very little Harry Potter experience but the product that I came out with was something that I am very proud of.
Lastly is the work that shows a growth mindset. I chose my personal positivity and mindset as it is something that was called to mine and my parents attention about a month ago due to its abysmal state at the time.
The final part of my SLC are my 3 goals I have set for the rest of this year. The first one is to continue to improve my mindset and continue to stay positive. The next is to work even harder to improve my science marks, they are not what I want them to be. The final goal is to take advantage of all my resources and abilities.
This year in the Frankenstuffy unit the science and math side has been incorporated into it. We have made a villain, and it will disturb or destroy an ecosystem, which is the science part. We also have calculated the surface area and volume of our monsters. Mine is made of Lego. The odd and seemingly random colours represent the fact that this monster does not have a skin or hide that has adapted to its surroundings because all it does it destroys homes, it does not have one to adapt to.
The surface area of this monstrosity is 314.61cm squared and the volume is 180.49cm cubed.
I think that using these as the villains for the classic fankenstuffy project is going to be challenging but rewarding.
We have recently come to the end of our fantasy untit, and a big part of said unit was an in class essay about fantasy. We researched, were lectured on and learned about essay structure, technique and the genre of fantasy. Not just fantasy though, we read and watched Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland. For this essay we were presented with 2 prompts to choose from one more focused on the book and the second just more broadly around fantasy. I chose the fantasy one.
We were given a mere 30 minutes in class to write the essay. I wound up with this…
It was quite rushed, so we were given a time to revise with a peer revision. I was with Michael.
Using that criticism I revised and made a second and final draft.
This year in PLP 9, our extended field school was traveling to Florida for 9 days. We were there to answer the question What Draws us To Imaginary Worlds? To answer that we spent 4 days at Disney; one day for each park. And also we spent a day at N.A.S.A and Universal Studios.
The first day we went to the most popular park in Disney, The Magic Kingdom, in that park was the ride that I was using to make my video, the Tomorrowland Speedway. For me the highlight of that day was walking though the gates and seeing that iconic castle. Another highlight was probably just spending so much time with my friends.
The next day though was my favorite day off all. Unfortunately my phone at this time was slowly killing itself so I I don’t have any photos, but that day was the most fun in as long as I can remember. I only have one photo from Universal and it’s a good one.
I’m not going to cover every day, so I’m skipping to the day we spent at N.A.S.A, for me it was a day I will remember my entire life. And the most defining moment was when we were sitting in a small, oddly shaped room, and then the wall in front of us rose up and in front of us was the Atlantis Shuttle.
The day continued to be awesome with more amazing tours of rockets, launch pads, and more. Unfortunately I couldn’t take many photos but here’s what I got.
I’m going to skip ahead to Thursday the 8th when we made our return to Disney, but more specifically to EPCOT. For me my highlight of that day was the Test Track, the whole experience of learning about the future of cars, and also how difficult and complicated designing a car really is.
The next day was the day that we went to the animal kingdom, which is interesting because it is Disney park meets nature reserve. For me the nature tour was easily a highlight, where we say alligators to elephants.
The final day I’m going to talk about is the day we visited Hollywood Studios, a park with everything based around the movie side of Disney. The best part of my day was seeing all my childhood wonders of Star Wars in front of me.
So that was my Florida trip. For me the highlight was spending time in an amazing place with amazing people, a great example is the namesake for this post. In my van was Tatum, Kate, Alex, Ryan L, and Ethan, and the whole trip we jammed out to one direction
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So like last year, this year in PLP we did Destination Imagination. I’m short D.I is a multi age program challenging students in multiple ways to call upon their skills, imaginations, and most importantly each other
This year my group of Spencer, Lucas, Sam and Michael took on the engineering challenge; In It Together. The rules and detailed are described in the video below.
Our idea to solve that was to make 2 structures that represented a rocket and launch pad, the rocket was destined for the new earth, Gargantuan. Canada and USA come together to send men and a station to this planet in an attempt to save our dying world. For us the hardest part was trying to get everything to fit in a way we liked.
The presentation went about the same as we thought it would, we looked slightly out of place, due to the fact we all weren’t dressed in suits and/or matching custom t-shirts. Also for some reason I felt really tall. Anyway, turns out our Machine was too heavy but we improvised and fixed it, only for it to break. In short we have a lot to work on for provincials.
Last class in science we did a lab, the goal was to create copper by taking Copper Chloride and by adding Aluminum we separated the Copper from the Chlorine by adding the aluminum to the Chlorine.
So we were left with Aluminum Chloride and Copper. When we put the copper in a flame it turned green and got increasingly brighter.
