TPOL (Transitional Presentation Of Lols)
This is an LPP about why I feel ready to go into grade 9.
Welcome back to Tamoos Blog: Filled With Stuff. And today we are talking about…
WHY IM READY TO GO INTO GRADE 9 (PLP) ———>
Term All-Of-Them (Humanities, Maker, Scimatics)-
There was that first day of high school that lasts like an hour where you get your photo taken and get your timetable then you go home. That was the most educational day of the year: Don’t get dressed up for those photos you look dumb.
Humanities:
I have no idea what to write here because, I’m presenting this in person…
Field studies were fun. That’s a good start I guess.
Oregon. The trip everyone remembers. Because we learnt a lot. And because it was field studies, we learnt more then just the educational (school) things. We learnt all kinds of things like;
Water can be really really cold
Shrimp can be slurped from the ground in tubes
Crabs are creepy
Packaged water isn’t as bad as it sounds (its not great but…)
The best way to make new friends is to send grade 8’s on a six day trip to the US and make them learn together
People waste money on things they don’t need (but I DO use that huge red fuzzy blanket from Fred Myers)
What happens in Oregon stays in Oregon (Latoya Jones)
Buffets with chocolate fountains are great
Wear a rain coat kids
If your freezing your butt off, don’t go into the Fort Stevens fort. It’s colder in there, and the roof drips dirty water.
Photos are good memories
Cabellas has awesome stuffed animals
Do a good job on your booklet while your there so that your work gets recognized as good while everyone else has to redo there’s (that was NOT me this year)
Parents don’t like it when you wear the same really comfy sweater for five days.
It rains a lot in Oregon
Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach is the third biggest monolith rock in the world
Fort Stevens was torpedoed by a Japanese Submarine in June 1942
Every Costco has the same layout everywhere, so you can never get lost.
Cannon Beach is beautiful
Now I know that’s a big useless list with some stupid things on it, but quite a few of those things I actually didn’t know before (I knew water could be really cold, just so you know).
There was quite a bit of Socials related information and education we got during our lovely trip to Oregon.
In Class:
So there’s a lot here. A LOT. Because in the past school year we have done a lot. Including:
Our Advertising unity
Our religion unit
The “Going Costal” unit for Oregon
Shakespeare unit (Julius Caesar)
Destination Imagination
The Poetry unit (one of my favourites)
My Canada
This Changes Everything
Exploration stuff
Colonization…
(Not necessarily in that order)
Where to begin? The start of the list. No I’m not going to talk about ALL of them.
Advertising:
Learning how to convince people to do things and make them want things is a useful skill. #SlavesForDays! Not actually for that reason, but because this way, I get to have fun critiquing the ads I see around. Like on billboards when driving around or the ones that pop up in apps (App creators… no. The ads are annoying and will cause people to delete your app).
Pathos- an appeal to emotion
Ethos- an appeal to reason
Logos- an appeal to logic
These took for ever for me to understand (I still need to look up the meanings sometimes). But Pathos, Ethos and Logos are useful for all kinds of things in everyday life. They help to get people to understand what your trying to say, when your trying to convince them to do something they are on the edge about and you can use it to help to motivate people.
I use this stuff in everyday life all the time. It’s great. And now, I do it without thinking about it.
Going Costal:
Oregon! My favourite place in US (other then Disney Land, Disney World and other fun places like that)! Truthfully, I don’t use my knowledge of Fort Stevens and Haystack rock very often. Not usually in everyday life, but I use my other information I got from Oregon all the time. Field studies are pushing us into real life, so we got some real life experiences. And those I use every day. Not into detail (what happens in Oregon stays in Oregon), but in Oregon I got a deeper understanding of the meaning of Trust, Friendship and good food. Going to Oregon, we learnt about all kinds of things; history, science, math all that stuff, but we also learnt the kinds of things you learn when your put out to learn with real experiences.
Poetry:
I love poetry
Yes it’s true I really do
Yes you like it too?
(The greatest Haiku you’ll find right there)
Ok I use stuff from this unit ALL the time. When we were learning about all the poems, I found that writing poetry was a good way to express myself through the rhymes and words. I still use poetry as a guide to what I write today. And writing is just something I do often enough that now I use it as an outlet for my anger about how much homework we’ve gotten this month. The poems we wrote are (of course) on the LPP I wrote about the poetry unit. Let’s just say writing and poetry are one thing I consider a strength of mine.
This changes everything:
MAMA MIA? ITSA PIZZA? ITSA PASTA? Oh-no, its just Leonardo DiVinci and the other revolutionaries of history.
Not a surprise to me, but maybe to others, I really enjoyed this unit. I love learning about history (not dinosaurs history but, human history). And this unit was like a history unit, with a different name. Because we learnt all about history. Anything about old people, art and Italian food, I like. And we learnt all about it. I really enjoyed it, and even if this information isn’t useful in everyday stuff, it did when we were learning about it. And now I can spurt out facts about how Leonardo DiVinci was what we would call now days “a looser” and so much more and surprise people with how I actually know stuff.
Also, Ms. Maxwells Italian accent was super funny.
Old People Explored:
Not a surprise really. We wouldn’t be here if they didn’t. Just ask those dead people from history. This was pretty fun to learn about, because I really like trying to pronounce the names and places from what we were learning about (I mean there was a dude in New France called Jean-Bapstiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier). Learning about all the explorations were interesting, and listening to you guys (the teachers) try to say all the names correct was just as fun as me trying to pronounce them. It was quite a fun thing to learn about, even if it isn’t going to be needed information when I’m doing my taxes and bills in years to come.
Maker:
Photo angles
Mindset
Coding
Winter Exhibition
DI
Blue Sky
Mindset:
Use this all the time. When I feel like I cant do something I think “what would Mr. Featherstone say?”. Not actually. But I think about how I can do it, i just need to think I can.
“I think I can, I think I can, I think I can” -the little red engine that could
If I feel like I cant, I just think “yeah, you can” and keep going until I cant anymore. And that hasn’t happened much. And it usually happens when I’m up at 10:00pm and I don’t think Ill be able to finish by 11:00 and I’m going to fail life if I don’t get it done (thats not going to happen… right?). I try to keep a positive mindset. Here are three things I have a good mindset about:
Writing
Music
I-can-finish-this-LPP-by-11:00
And three things I have a fixed mindset about:
I’m going to get a bad mark in at least one of my classes
I cant dance
Sleep is not a possibility in June after grade 7
Destination Imagination:
Well there’s a lot to say about DI. It was a mix of fun, challenging and annoying.
The fun part was getting to;
Present
Create
Write the script
Be in a group
Work with others
The challenging part:
Getting everything done and ready
Being coordinated
Working as a team/together
When the structures broke at provincials
The annoying part:
When the structured broke at provincials
When my team wouldn’t work
Our un-coordination
That it was on a Saturday
I have to say, even thought there were some challenges and some obstacles, we worked through and eventually (regionals eventually) we didn’t suck. At our presentation, the structures didn’t break and we presented ok. I use some of the skills I learnt by doing DI quite often. Problem solving, building certain sized and wight balsa wood structures, team work and making model jokes about Luca OG. And of course, learning what to expect and make sure I don’t do next year.
Blue Sky:
Where do I begin? This was really fun. “Here, choose a problem you wanna fix. Ok, now fix it”.
The things we learnt from this are huge;
don’t leave work to the last minute (just don’t)
There are a lot of problems in the world
You can’t fix everything with one idea. Come up with many, text them, get them critiqued, then use the one your left with
Stay on track of your work
Solve problems, and make sure you do it right.
Blue Sky is definitely a good way to teach us how to solve problems, build things, and get mad at how we should have started working sooner.
Scimatics:
I’m pretty sure I’m not going to become a mathematician or a scientist. At least, you wouldn’t want me to be the one categorizing what’s parts of a cell are what.
I don’t hate, or even dislike either of these subjects, they just aren’t my biggest strengths. And I know that, but I still try. Because maybe one day I might get randomly quizzed about what’s inside an animal cell or get asked to cut a pizza by using fractions. Who knows. And I’ll have the answers (please don’t quiz me though).
This year:
My door is a bore no more
The Lemme Lama
Geometry
Fractions
Linear equations
Normal equations (shudder)
Algebra
Earthquake and volcano stuffs
Minecraft Project
Cells
Boiling Oil as a Lab
Light stuff
The stuff that people are presenting as we speak
Fractions:
I was so sure I would suck at fractions, because last year my nincompoop teacher made us do a heap of textbook fraction work that I did not understand and was horrible at. Which is one of the reasons that I did go to catch up for so long. Because I thought that I was really bad at it. In the end, never underestimate the power of fractions and your memory. They weren’t too hard to do. And anything I understand, I can do. And fractions are helpful in life. So that was a relief because otherwise how could I ever get my pizza right?
Linear Equations:
I had a bit of trouble understanding this. But in the end wait was all ok. O had Linear equations explained to me more then once, but i think by the third time, I understood them pretty good. And it kind of surprised me. Because when it comes to math if I don’t understand it, it takes quite a while for me to get it (ask Algebra. He’s upstairs). But I got this pretty quick for me. And I ended up not hating doing them. And I’m sure somewhere in the near future (like Math class) Ill be needing the info about linear equations.
Algebra:
So you know how I said it usually takes me forever to understand something in math? Yeah, this took me MONTHS to understand properly.
Eventually I got it, with some help of my good old friends “failure and repeat”. I did pretty bad at Algebra, but now, I can do Ok at it. When it comes to math, I’m not going to give up, because I know I’m going to need it. Especially Algebra. Because weather Im looking for her X and Y he left her, or if I’m just trying not to fall behind, I’m going to keep working on Algebra until I can do it in my head pretty good(*looks at times tables sheet sceptically*).
Boiling Oil as a Lab:
YAY BURNING LIQUID!!! We failed.
It was actually funny though. We accidentally turned the heat nobbie thingy too high, and were really confused why the oil kept boiling to a higher and higher heat. It was almost funny, watching us panic about boiling oil. But then, we probably could have blown up the classroom. This is why I’m not trusted with heat things. Also, I’m terrified of anything that can burn me. Ive learnt a true life lesson with this Lab “Don’t let me boil oil ever”.
The stuff people are presenting as we speak:
The renaissance! Paints! Art! Fun stuff! And guesss who got to make it????? Me. That’s who. And Melanie, Alivia and Raina. We got to make paint. By crushing up the most disgusting sniffing “soft yet satisfying” salmon eggs and spitting into them and mixing them (GAG). I learnt from this that
1.) “soft yet satisfying” is horrible way to describe salmon eggs.
2.) this was fun but really gross
3.) eggs yolks are actually in a sac
4.) old peoples paint is fun to make
5.) A large amount of information about how people mades paints back in the renaissance and before.
6.) I MEAN “soft yet satisfying” ?! WHAT THE HECK!!!
My favourite project this year:
There’s so many to choose from:
Blue Sky
All of our three comic ones
The mini Exhibition
Our Oregon Booklet
The Sales Pitch/Notebook
The Minecraft Project
The Lemme Lama
My Door is a Bore no more
The list goes on…
My favourite project was most likely our Oregon Book. And I know its not one of the main “Big” project we have done this year, but it is one of my favourites.
See, not only was this the project we did while learning real stuff in real life, it was also something that I could do where I could make it really my own (with the help of Book Creator default stuff). Oregon was really fun, and the book was a really good way of putting our adventure into a memorable virtual book thingy.