TPOL 2023

Welcome to my grade 10 TPOL!

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.

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🌟Parts of my learning and projects I was proud of:

My collaboration skills🤝

Profile 5: I can facilitate group processes and encourage collective responsibility for our progress.

I excel in teamwork using my different skills and perspectives. Through effective communication and creative contributions in a team I can create impactful campaigns together.

my creative thinking 💭

Profile 5: I can think “outside the box” to get innovative ideas and persevere to develop them.

⬇️ next year

Profile 6: I can develop a body of creative work over time in an area of interest or passion.

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🙋‍♀️Habits I want to work on next year from this year:

My personal awareness and responsibility 🫨

Profile 3: I can make choices that help me meet my wants and needs and increase my feelings of well-being. I take responsibility for my actions.

⬇️ next year

Profile 4: I can recognize my strengths and take responsibility for using strategies to focus, manage stress, and accomplish my goals.

I aim for a mindset that helps my challenges and fosters personal growth. Before I’ve had problems with excessive attention to minor details that stops my progress. Moving forward I will prioritize overcoming obstacles and completing tasks by adopting a bigger perspective. I will utilize getting feed back from teachers on unfinished projects or when I’m struggling.

Improving my ability to reflect is an area I want to focus on. I recognize that I don’t always engage in purposeful reflection that can effectively guide me towards future growth. I struggle with writing my blog post and reflecting.

Thank you for listening to my presentation of learning!

The Un-4-gettables!

Hello! And welcome to another blog post of mine. In this one I’m gonna be telling you about my second destination imagination project!!! 

Now this one was a lot different from last years because we perform in person this year, which was a more nerve racking but I had I lot of fun doing it so let me tell you about it. From our choices of projects this year I choose to do Festival Frenzy and for this project the performance we had to do was going to be completely improvised which means that we had to Practice a lot on our improve skills before.

How our project went was that on the day of the performance we would be given a random festival (from a selection of ones that we had researched before hand), an objective for us to accomplish in our skit and we would have ten box’s to use as props. Half way through our skit we would have an intermission where we would be given a fork in the road which means we would be given a choice of two ways our story could go, we would pick the one that goes best with what we had come up with so far and add it into the last part of our show. Our skit had to have a beginning, middle and ending. 

Now the only way we could prepare for this was to research the different festivals from around the world that were given to us like the Cheese Rolling festival and the Chinese lantern festival and play different improv games like freeze. Working with my group was for the most part fun. The times when we really worked well  together and listen to each others ideas were really great.

 

Doing it in person this year was scarier then last year but once we were doing our skit it was really fun and I think we did pretty good which was I nice feeling after being really worried about performing hours before. This years DI was really fun for me and I wonder what next years DI challenge will hold. 

See you next time.

 

Check out my groups blog!:

http://www.blog44.ca/coled/

http://www.blog44.ca/xanderg/

 

Last blogging challenge post.

For about the past ten blog post I have been doing a Student blogging challenge, which is basically a challenge to blog about given topics a couple times a week for a while to help keep up your blogging skills! Throughout all of the challenges a think my favourite had to be my emoji story I did. It was just really fun to be creative with how I could perceive the pictures how I wanted to and make them into a story. Near the end of the blogging challenges, blogging had become easier for me, even though I still need to work on some things, this has help my blogging.

Here is my certificate of achievement for finishing the blogging challenges!

See you next time.

Memories of not COVID-19 spring breaks.

Spring break is coming up and theres so many things I want to do but i can’t, so, I’m going to put it in this post it here instead. Spring break for me usually means that I can go visit my grandparents in Powell River and Texada. Sense I don’t think a lot of people know about it, Texada is a little island near Powell River which is hardly populated. When I was a kid and I went there, there was this parade that happened and usually everyone participated and helped make floats with themes like ocean or their culture and then there was a cash prize for whoever won. I remember entering in to the parade once but i didn’t win. Something else that I would probably do is go on a little trip with my best friend Samantha. Our last trip was when we went on a camping trip to cultus lake to go to the water park and the amusement park, and it was the best, I really miss that we can’t really go anywhere anymore but we are planning on going back to cultus when we are allowed again!
Sense I don’t want to be bored during spring break I’m going to make a list of things to do:

-do a photography walk
-paint abstractly from an inspiration
-learn a new recipe
-finish a book
-reorganized my room

I know it doesn’t seem like a lot but its just some stuff I want to do, so ill do another post at the end of spring break and we’ll see is I’ve done all of them (or any of them)!

See you next time.

Holidays!

Holiday’s are my favourite, especially Christmas and Easter. Christmas is one of my favourite holidays because I love cold weather mostly bc it snows, and I like to give my family gifts! Something me my mom and my sister like to do near Christmas is secret Santa. Usually a while before Christmas we, pick names out of a hat and who ever we got we make them a little present to give to them on Christmas Eve, but if you only have three people for secret Santa you can easily guess who has who, so we added our cats in secret Santa, and sense the cats can’t make a present for whoever they get we all add a little present to a bag for them so they wont be left out.
Moving on to Easter, Easter is a really nice holiday for me. The Easter bunny would split my back yard in two for me and my sister so we wouldn’t fight for the chocolate. After we found all the easy chocolate my mom would play hot and cold with us from the porch because then she could see the ones hidden in the trees!

Here’s three year old me on Easter Day looking for eggs!

See you next time.

My how it started/how its going reflection.

You have probably heard about a how it’s started/ how it’s going to be meme. And if you have it here’s what it is.

The meme usually shows before something and after something, like in this photo there’s a picture of a nurse before COVID-19 and after COVID-19 when she has to wear more protective gear which results in marks on her face.
For this project we made a how it started/how its going meme on how the the worldview in the renaissance or medieval times has or hasn’t changed.
How I made my meme was I picked a picture from the renaissance and sense I was in the values group I had to find an art piece that shows a part of the values back then, and I chose lady with an ermin by Leonardo de Vinci:

I chose this painting because I pick Humans are superior to all species and I think this shows how this was true back in the renaissance because she is using the ermin for the painting and sense she as a human is stronger and smarter that the ermin she can make the animal do that.
For my how its going art I used the original painting and put it in to supperimposex to add to the painting to show how that hasn’t changed.
I would like to warn the reader that it looks extremely weird.

As you can see I change parts of the paintings to add more modern items to the painting to show how humans being the superior species has not changed.
To this painting I added my face to where her face used to be and I added my cat to wear the ermin used to be to show how we still keep animals and how that is a form of superiority because we take care of them and they are our property. I added a fur scarf and a 100% wool tag to show how we also use animals for in clothing and fashion, and I also added treats because treats are mostly used to help train your animal and motivate it to earn commands more quickly.
After we were done the meme we started to make a virtual museum for people to go through and see our art. the museums split into 8 different rooms. The first room is an introduction room that all the groups made a picture for that shows a part of their groups world view and then every group got their own room to decorate and add their art to. Within the worldview groups there was directly responsible individual(or D.R.I), writers, techies, art, designer, and flex, and room designer which was what I was, which means that I decorated and planed the values room for the museum. I picked the wall colours and objects like plants and seating to help show values. When we finish the museum (which is really cool, if you want to see the museum click here! search up Artsteps and type PLP in the search bar!) it was really cool to go through And see all our art and the recorded statements. There are a lot of great art pieces so go check it out!

See you next time.

My groups blogs.
http://www.blog44.ca/davidp/

http://www.blog44.ca/fraserw/

http://www.blog44.ca/Gabriellab/

http://www.blog44.ca/Hannahs/

http://www.blog44.ca/Jocelyno/

http://www.blog44.ca/kwosenb/

http://www.blog44.ca/maxr/
Check them out!

Music!

Today I’m going to be talking about my favourite music!
Starting off my favourite genre of music has changed pretty drastically over some time but right know i like jazz,smooth jazz, disco(sometimes) and pop. One of the band that i like to listen to is Heatwave. Heatwave originated in 1975 but the bands mainstream came only one year after in 1976. The founding member, Johnnie wilder, was in the US army as a serviceman in west Germany where he began performing until he’s was discharged and started to sign in night clubs and taverns with other bands while still enlisted. After a while he moved to the uk and the band started to form when linked up with keyboardist Rod Temperton after seeing his add in the paper. Over time the band grew with Johnnie wilder brother, Keith wilder. After signing their first contract with GTO Records in 1976. The band was paired with guitarist Barry blues and rhythm guitarist Jesse whitten. Jesse whitten was replaced with rhythm guitarist Roy carter after a stabbing incident. The band went on to creating there first album Too Hot To Handle in the fall of 1976. Their third single Boogie nights in 1977 was No.2 on the British popular music charts in January and in America in November. Continuing to use Barry Blue’s production skills, Heatwave released their second album Central Heating in April 1978. Since there was a lot of history for this band i am not going to write about it all but you can read the Heat Wave Wikipedia page here!

Moving on to another topic about a central instrument in jazz, the saxophone. The saxophone originated in Belgium and was invented by Adolphe sax on 28th June 1846.
Here is a video about all the different types of saxophones and the music and solos the instrument had and was in!

See you next time.

Emoji story.

Ah emojis. Tiny picture we use to revamp🎉 and upgrade⬆️ our words to help with understanding🤔, emphasis🤯 or just for fun🐷. But, can they tell a story📜?
I created a story based off of these emojis, which I am pretty proud of🤗. As you can see I put the emojis throughout the story to show you where I used the story emojis.
Without further ado Here is my story!

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Once upon a time there was a chick. He was a very small chick and he didn’t like to be small. No one made fun of him, he just thought it was scary when the other big chickens are running around and they might squish him.
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One day he got sick and tired of being small so he decided to try something. He herd about how Material can absorb moisture and he thought ”hey, Im kinda fluffy, i can absorb moisture and grow!” So he took a shower and sat in the water for a long time till he felt like he’s been in there long enough so he gets out and dry himself off and look in the mirror but when he looks he sees no changes in his height.
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In his sadness he go’s to the top of his chicken coop with his guitar and starts to pluck a sad song. He doesn’t Sing to his music because he can’t sing so he keeps sadly plating the guitar.
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the farmer that keeps the crops (and just has the chickens as pets) comes over and asks him “hey, why are you so sad?” And he says “I’m to small so i might get squished and i don’t want to get squished, i feel that that’s a very bad way to die.” “Your not going to get squished to death” she says “you don’t know that, I’m so small i could.” he says with a small amount of anger “ok, fine, you are small but its ok, your going to grow up and then you wont be scared of being squished. You just need to have patience.” She says while petting his head “ok” he says with a sigh.
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a dramatic gasp comes from the farmer “*GASP*, i have they best idea i can sing to your guitar playing too all the chickens about not running around you so you wont get squished!” “Yes, that’s a perfect idea!”
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After that they got all the chickens rounded up and they played they played a song that they latter called “Please Don’t Squish Me With Your Big Feet”.
THE END.

See you next time.

Fun with photos.

Something that has impacted my worldview the most is my values. My values are my family my friends my cat (of course), my home and security and where I live. Where I live is a big part of my values because in Vancouver and deep cove I live with free health care, I get to go to school  , I live in a place a can feel safe, and I also value the nature like the forest and the sea I live near. This is a drawing of a picture that I made of a view from deep cove that I think represents the nature and the more densely populated places in Vancouver That you can see in the background.

These are the steps I took to make this picture:
1. I picked a picture of internet or you could pick one you already have.
2. I put the picture in to sketch’s pro.
3. I matched a central colour in a key Characteristic of the photo outline it then I colour it in.
4. After that’s all done you can details like how I did the shadows on the water from the dock.
5. And your done!

See you next time.