Month: June 2017

Final Assignment of the Year, Eh

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It has been a long year, but we are finally onto the last assignment. There have been many assignments but it now comes down to the final  one. This final involves the whole unit that we have been doing in humanities. Our unit has been on the greatest moments of history in Canada. Their are a lot of great moments that have happened in Canadas history. One of the most famous is the CPR, because it is still around today, but I have chosen a different moment to be the greatest moment in Canadas history. I have chosen the battle which took place on the Plains of Abraham.

The battle of the plains of Abraham was the deciding factor of whether Canada was going to be mainly British or mainly French, unless you have been living under a rock you should know that British won, of course that meant Canada would become mainly Quebec being the only French Canadian part of Canada. Great Britain were more able to send resources becuase France were already focusing on The West Indies, and most importantly Great Britain got more money along with the resources.

Another thing that happened from the battle was, Britain took control of the St. Lawrence seaway. That made it so they took control of the Shipping industry, and controlled most of the fur trade. They also basically controlled the gateway to canada. That allowed people to immigrate to Canada from Britain, they would basically end up farming land wherever they wanted it. That ended up pushing people west towards less explored parts of Canada which had more space. With more people moving west that into BC the gold rush ended up starting.

The British then noticed the invasions of the Americans which then forced The War of 1812. The British gave more troops to North America than France would because France was focused on The West Indies, which I have already mentioned. They then burnt down the whitehouse, and said don’t do it again. For some reason the Americans think they won that war, which in my opinion is insane. Anyways, that meant that Canada was not taken over by the Americans even though Canada wasn’t Canada yet. They were also able to take control of western Canada, which if they didn’t they would not have things like the gold rush because the US would have that. Last but not least that made it so  they could confederate all the way over to Vancouver Island, and have the country we know today as Canada. I also did an assignment on life after the Seven Years War, which my group wrote a letter that was from the Seigneurs in North America, so this is the letter we wrote.

I also made a mind map that summarizes all of this and how The Battle of the Plains of Abraham made such a big difference in Canadas history.

Oh and heres a funny song I found on the war of 1812 from Canadas perspective. (If you are from USA and are offended easily I don’t recommend watching this eh)

 

SLC’s, But Now Their Called TPOL’s, Eh

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If you have seen other blogposts of mine you should have seen the posts about SLC’s. Here’s a quick rundown of what they are, it’s called a Student Led Conference. It’s like a Parent Teacher Interview but the student is doing all of the talking. Now my teachers have decided to call it a TPOL, which stands for Transitional Presentation of Learning. They changed it because it is the end of the year and we are transitioning to the next grade. If you want to see an SLC blog post here it is

 

SLC’s , Eh

For the TPOL you have to prepare quite a bit, so I will tell you how I did that. We had to thin of a few things to talk about. I chose to talk about the goals that I have for myself next year, Did my work meet my standards this year? And now last but not least what I have learned about myself this year. I have mainly focused this presentation on talking about how I need to better myself for next year. For the TPOL I would have to talk about each of those things.

I would start with, did my work meet my standards? The first thing I would say is no. It is as simple as that. I know that this year I could have done better, the work they did this year was not my best. My full capability was not shown in my work this year. I mainly believe that when I think of my video creating using explain everything and iMovie. I thought that the main thing wrong with that is that my voice audio was not good enough. In general though my work just lacked it’s full potential. Here is a post with a video in it.

Frankenstuffies, Eh

Now onto the next thing I would talk about, which is, what have I learned about myself this year? I have learned that I can’t take my foot off the pedal for a moment. I did that at the beginning of this year and my marks dropped. I know that I am able to handle it and stay a float, but I don’t want to just stay afloat, I want to do great things with my work and have it look like I am having no problem whatsoever and not look like I am struggling.

Now finally last but not least my goals for next year. I chose my goals to be at the end because it envolves the last two topics. My first main goal is to be more organized. This year I have not especially when it comes to physical things like paper. My binder was very messy and definitely needs improvement, next year I am going to put more effort into keeping my binder neat and tidy. I was also not very organized with what major events were coming up, and I wasn’t quite sure what dates were which and that didn’t turn out well for me so I have decided to make an effort in that category for next year as well. My next relates to my first paragraph on, am I satisfied with the work I have done this year. You now that I am not, so I would like to improve for next year and make sure that I am proud of all my work as much as possible, whether its projects or just plain assignments. Now my final goal for next year, I also told you about what I have learned about myself this year, this goal relates directly to that. I would like to not take my foot off of the gas pedal next year because it showed in my grades this year on how much damage it can do. I was not impressed with it nor was anyone else who knew my potential.

That would be everything that I would talk about, so I would wrap it up and give a brief summary and then ask if there were any questions. That is basically everything that happens in a TPOL because after I say everything I need to it basically turns into a conversation about my grade, my expectations for next year and anything else that somebody wants to bring up that relates to this. Oh I forgot to tell you one of the main details about TPOL’s/SLC’s, they are very very very very very, stressful eh.

The Things I Carry, Eh

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In school we had a mint project in Health and Career. We had to create a keynote presentation that explained 10 things that we carry everyday to make ourselves succesful, mental and physical. Keynote is basically a version of PowerPoint, but it was made specifically for Apple. It was originally used just by the people form Apple but they decided to put it on to apple products such as iPads and iPhones. Our class had not used keynote before, so this assignment mainly focused on recognizing what we carry every day and our keynote skills. At the beginning it was all a mad scramble to find out how to use keynote. After just playing with it for a little bit you get the hang of it and it becomes a lot easier than you thought it would be. I was very overwhelmed, but I ended up doing a pretty decent job for my first time.

Personally I have never been comfortable with public speaking I have always gotten really stressed out and wanted to just not show up to school so I wouldn’t have to do it. In the end though I just figure out a way to get through it and just finish it. The funny thing about presentations is that when you think you’re done your not… you still have to deal with questions. To be completley hones that is the hardest part if people have lots of questions because you can’t prepare for that as well as the actuall presentation. Presentations are kind of onnoying because until you finish them they are always hanging over you head, but they don’t happen very often which is nice. When they do happen though I just say to myself, “What can you do when you live in a shoe.” FYI I don’t actually live in a shoe its a figure of speech.

This is how I feel in class sometimes, but then I realize I acutally havt to do the assignment or presentation, and that face turns into a stressed face.

Once I am finally done I feel so much better and I can finally relax, but wait I have more assignments to do, eh.

My Fairytale, Eh

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Now here is another assignment that we did in class. It was in Health and Career, and our teacher decided to have us make a video. The topic for the video is a fariytale story of my life. Too start off the video you had to give a small amount of background to yourself. Then you had to add stuff that you wish or dream to do in the your life. For the rest of the assignment we had to do these quizzes from work BC, to see what it predicted I should do for a job. Personally I don’t think I should have gotten these types of jobs but that’s just me.

I am not interested really in those jobs at all. The job that I would like to have when I have would be Chemical Engineer. I chose that because I would like to pursue something that envolves math and science, another reason is that it pays well😉, and we all know that thats a plus. Before I could get that job I would like to go to a good University, Cal Tech would be cool but that there acceptance rate isn’t exactly high, its hovering somewhere around 8%. My more realistic University that I would like to go to that isn’t nearly as expensive is McGill, yes it is one 5 Canadian Ivy League schools, but my plan is shoot for the moon land amongst the stars. It also is a little bit easier to get into with an acceptance rate of 46% which my opinion should make things a lot easier, but then again it’s still gonna be tough.  Another part of the assignment is to create a timeline of 10 things in your past, but I added in my future as well.

That was most of the assignment but the main par was the video which was the summary of the whole topic that we were focusing on. Here is my video.

That was my Fairytale, Eh what’s yours Eh.