Month: February 2023

Hey everyone, welcome back to another blog post, this post is a reflection of a project in my humanities class we had a little while ago. The project was called full steam ahead, we learned about the Industrial Revolution and slam poetry.

The driving question for this project was, “how can slam poetry help us connect issues. Slam poetry has emotion and passion, it can be used to talk about are worlds problems, I see it as a more effective way to connect issues than just talk, when people see slam poetry with passion, frustration and any other emotions they become aware of these issues.

At the of this project we watched videos about the industrial Revolution so we could get a basic understanding. Are main focuses were causes and consequences. We talked about innovations and there consequences, these consequences could be good or bad. Next we had to learn what a slam poem is. What better way to start then listen to this poem by Shane coison. Click here

This poem showed us how to present and be passionate and confident. He got people to care, not by what he said, but by how he said it. The next part of this journey was writing a paragraph on the consequences of the Industrial Revolution, Mine was mainly focused on the impacts it had on the environment.

The next part of the project was focused on more stamp poems. We talked about effective poems and ineffective poems. After this we chooses a poem topic, mine was the environmental impact of the Industrial Revolution.

The next few days were writing my poem and practicing. I don’t have footage of me presenting it but I have the written copy. Here is the final product.

Thank you for reading.

Introduce parent to teachers

Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

This post is my mPOL, it’s stands for mid year presentation of learning. This presentation is about all my growth if made so far, my systems, habits, how I need to improve and much more.

The first subject I’ll be covering is science. Last year scimatics parted, this year we just have science. Science was the first class I had this year and we were greeted with our great new teacher Ms Kadi. Over my time in this course so far I feel that my strengths have Been in group work and creativity. In group work I am able to help out well and do my share of work. It’s also fun to create and build on each others ideas. I had 3 projects in science, at the time of writing this we have just launched our new project called exciting electricity. The project I liked most was essential elements. This project was all about learning about the elements and periodic table. We learned where to find the atomic number, and how to get the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Through this project I learned how to manage my time efficiently, I had to do worksheets on different models for elements, I worked with cam on these, that’s group work.

The next subject I’m talking about is maker. In this course I think I have shown strength in my communication and creativity. I had to communicate during the exhibition during setup and I had to communicate to the person I interviewed. We also had a project called vibrant videos, most of the keystones in this project were group videos I had to communicate and be creative. The main project I enjoyed in maker was called everyone has a story. This was our most recent project and was the project of the exhibition.

The theme of this project was avatar. We had watched avatar in class. We were told we had to make a video interviewing someone about a theme we were given. I was giving colonialism. I interviewed my dad because he had to deal with that in his past years.

Throughout this project managing my time was the most important thing. We had to plan and schedule interviews while brainstorming the rest of the videos. Somethings I have grown at in maker so far are, collaborating, critical thinking, also learning new things about my iPAD. We had to collaborate with people all ages while planning and putting together are room setup. An example of critical thinking is that I couldn’t find a person to interview for maker so i problem solved and choose my dad. I think I could get better at my time management because I struggled with it and it was a big part of the exhibition project.

The last class I’m talking about is humanities. This year the main strengths I’ve shown in humanities are group work, and communication. I worked in a group for are last project storm the barricades. I have also communicated by asking lots of questions through out all classes this year. My favourite project in humanities so far is the power of geography project. This project was all about the geography of the west in Canada. There was a trip to Alberta, I did not go but it sounded fun. During this project we learned about the five themes of geography. Location, place, human environment interaction, movement, and regions. We learned about are history, the CPR, Bison, and much more. After accumulating all this knowledge, we all made eBooks. The ebooks showed are knowledge of history and the five themes. I liked this project because the history of the land I live really interests me. Somethings I can get better at are questioning. Reaching out of my comfort and asking for help and feedback to help me improve my work all around. I think I have grown a lot at questioning but I still have lots to learn.
So far this year I feel like I have excelled at communicating and analyzing. This could be in group work, analyzing criteria, analyzing research, or communicating to my teachers. I still think I could get a lot better at questioning. I think this because if I question more I clarify everything I need to do and also I can ask the teachers for feedback, doing this can help boost my awareness and also make my work better. I put questioning and asking for help in my support section in my learning plan. I see it as an essential tool.

To sharpen my learning plan I can practice good habits and utilize systems. For example I can have systems on my iPad so I do not get distracted, I can also have systems like managing my time. Some habits would be, handing in work on time, asking for help, revising, and many more.

Thank you for listening.