Feature Article

    Over the past few weeks in RLA we have been working on our feature articles for health class. Our feature articles are about topics/issues that teens teens struggle with, and what can be the solution for that. We were given different topics to talk about: body image, risky behavior, sleep, and self harm. I chose to write my feature article about the topic body image because these days body image is one of the most important things for teens and adults. We get so influenced by images and so many people now get eating disorders or do unhealthy things to have the body in the images. These images can also lead to depression. I felt really strong about the topic of body image, so once I went with that topic, I had to make a slant of what I wanted to focus on. A slant is basically a claim that is followed through the writing piece, but isn't stated. I wanted to make my slant about how images on social media influence people of the perfect body. So, I made my slant: Social media images are causing people to feel shameful towards their bodies to strive for an unattainable body image.

Once I had my slant I had to start my research of facts, background information, solutions, and what I was going to talk about. Before researching I did some thinking of what I should talk about, and I remembered about an article I read a while back of a challenge craze that was going on in China that shows if you have the "ideal body". It was called the A4 waist challenge, which brought me to the idea that I should write my article about body/beauty challenges people do all around the world to attain the "ideal body" on social media. I remembered back to a bunch of old challenges people did on social media for the "ideal body" or to be "beautiful". For example, the Kylie Jenner lip challenge, waist trainers, iphone 6 knee challenge, etc. I also looked up at other Chinese "ideal body" challenges and found many other articles I could use in my article. But, then came the part of writing and formatting my article. I first started my writing with background information of body image, then talked about what the challengers were and then analyzed them. I ended off my piece of solutions to maintain/get a positive body image and what I really think of all the challenges on social media. Then it came to the formatting part of the article which is pretty complicated. I learned about all the text features used in articles and how to put them in your article. For example, some text features I used were lists, caption/fact box, and subheadings. I also learned about nut grafs. Nut grafs are the sentence that is usually next to the title that gives a bit of information on what the article is talking about, or a question to hook you in and give you an idea on the article.

Have a great weekend!

BAND: May Concert Reflection

What is one positive comment that you have for the Grade 6 Band? Please be specific. 
All the sixth graders performed really well. They have grown as musicians and sounded really good.

What is one positive comment that you have for the Grade 7 Band? Please be specific.
We all worked together listening to the other instruments play making our musicality better. Also, we had a really good tone.
What is one positive comment that you have for the Grade 8 Band? Please be specific.
All of the eighth graders sounded amazing. The all flowed together as the played and were good audience members.
What are 3 things you are proud of from your performance in the concert?
I am proud how we played and worked really well in 1812 with the eighth grade, considering we didn't play with them much. Secondly, we had a really good tone and didn't play too loud. Lastly, we were good audience members.
What are 3 things you have learned this year in band?
This year in band I have learned not to forget the dynamics in a piece, they are very important. Secondly, I have learned how to listen to the other band members and instruments while playing a piece to fix our volume, tone, musicality, etc. Lastly, I have learned to be a good audience member
What has been your favorite thing about being a member of our band?
My favourite thing about being a band member is being a part of a family where we all work well and enjoy playing together.

Cooking Reflection

Over this semester in cooking I have learned about basic safety, such as electric stoves, knives, hot pans, etc. I have also learned how to follow recipes and cook different types of meals. For example, when we were in our breakfast unit I have never really cooked breakfast food before, except for eggs. So, I learned how to create breakfast foods off of following the recipe and directions. I have learned many other things throughout our cooking unit, but these were the most important things.

Designing a Spinner

BAND: 1812

BAND: Pioneer Songs

RLA Blurb

“Should I keep fighting, or end it all here?”

Ellie is a cancer patient who has had leukemia for several years and is having a struggle to keep fighting and to feel normal. No matter how sick and tired Ellie is of feeling dead and weak, she climbs mountain to try to find herself and how she feels. This story makes the readers understand you can't control how your life goes, but it doesn't stop you to control how your feelings take upon your life.

Making Inferences from Random Samples- Lesson #3

1. How alike or different are the data values from each other?
Each of the data values are alike because the numbers are all in the same range between 7-8

2. Which data values occur more frequently or less frequently?
The values between 6.5 to 10 occur more frequently, whereas the values 4-6 and 10-13 don't occur as frequently.

3. How spread out or close together are the data values in relation to each other?
All the data values our pretty close together within the same range on the line plot.

4.  How spread out or close together are the data values in relation to a measure of center?
The data values are pretty close together in relation to the measure of center

5.What do you infer about the shoe sizes of 7th graders?
All of the 7th grade have different shoe sizes, but the most common are between a sizes 7-10.

Globalization Unit Reflection

1. What aspect of globalization your cartoon is criticising? (Highlight one)

cultural/social             technological/environmental            political/economic

2. Which visual techniques or literary devices (from the list above) did you use in your cartoon? Explain why you used it and why you think it is effective.
1. We use captioning and labels to help the reader know what the setting is and what is happening to the rainforest to create palm oil to send to other countries. We think that it is effective because this way the readers won’t be confused with what is happening in the four different pictures.
2. By using exaggeration, we are magnifying the problem of destroying the animals who live in the forest and their home. Another problem is that from the burning of the trees we are making our air quality really bad and that can be bad for human’s health. This is effective because we can magnify the problem that is being caused by globalization. Palm oil has to be sent to other countries because it is made in every packaged food, we are destroying the homes of animals who live in the forest and we are making the air quality really unhealthy for the humans.

3. Explain the message regarding globalization.  
1. Use evidence from the cartoon.
2. Make connections to the globalization unit, current events, or your life to back up your assertions.

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People are burning down animals habitats and forests to create into palm tree plantations so they can burn down the palm trees to get oil. When the people burn down the palm trees, they take the trees into a factory to produce basically all lotions, foods, body care products, etc. to ship out and get money. So when they burn down the trees they are affecting people's health from the haze, they take away animals homes just to produce world wide known products for money.

Globalization has transformed our world. Cultural/social globalization effects us because we get to experience new things, foods, styles of clothing, etc. But, without globalization most of the things we eat, wear, and use on a daily basis we wouldn't have, since cotton comes from around the world to make clothes, spices and meats aren't created in Singapore, etc. Secondly, technological/environmental globalization has affected our world because people are cutting and burning down our forests to build factories, international hotels, plantations,etc. to create produce to spread worldwide. Lastly, political/economic globalization has affected our world because now our countries have so many nationalities, cultures, and languages that brings us together to develop our nations and learn to create new things off of each other.

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Math Video Facts

1. Identify Random Sample - Learnzillion Video
Fact: Statistical questions are used to gather data about a population

2. Generate a Representative Sample - Learnzillion Video
Fact: You have to use a sampling method to pick a sample. You cannot randomly select a sample.

3. Understand Sample Bias - Learnzillion Video
Fact: An unbiased sample leads to a representative sample. Which then leads to a valid sample.

Day 2:

4. Identify a Representative Sample - Learnzillion Video
Fact: Not all samples will lead to a good prediction about an entire population.

5.Make Estimates About a Population using means - Learnzillion Video
Fact: If you have a sample value and put it into a proportion you can make an estimate about the population.

6.Use Proportions to Make Estimates about a population - Learnzillion Video
Fact: Inferences made from random samples are predictions or estimates, they aren't the exact.

Band: March Concert Reflection

1. What are you most proud of from your performance at the concert?
This concert performance I felt proud of being able to hold the high notes because in some pieces there are many high notes in a row that can be hard to reach after a while, and I was able to hold them.
2. What do you need to work on to improve for the next performance?
Next performance one thing I need to work on is looking up more during the pieces to see if I was at the right tempo, because during the concert at times I went a bit too fast. So, I should look up more to check if I am at the right tempo. 3. What does our band, as a whole, need to work on to improve for the next concert?
As our whole band, next concert we need to work on listening to each other, because at times we were just stuck in our music and lost each other at different tempos and different parts of the piece. 4. What did you learn from performing in the concert?
What I learnt from performing this concert is to not stop when you make a mistake, just look at where you group is at and follow the conductor until you know when to start playing again. 5. What did you learn by watching others perform?
What I learnt by watching the other groups perform is how moving yourself to the music and as a group can make you play better in unison and it makes the music flow better.

Lab Post

Band: Quiet Rain

Seed Post

Band: Pirates

Treehugger Post

In 2024 and idea of next Tokyo is about developing Tokyo's population upwards instead of outwards. Sky Mile Tower will be occupying the bay and will have public amenities, shops, restaurants, libraries, clinics, gyms, hotels, etc. It will be able to house 55,000 people. There is disagreement with people who don't think it is green and sustainable, but that is Sky Mile Tower's point. They are saving horizontal spaces for food production, nature and recreation. Sky Mile Tower will be surrounded by open water and growing food. It will be a hexagonal shape from up to sixty to ninety stories. Since there will be need of a lot of elevator use, Sky Mile Tower will be the first tower to be able to have multiple elevator cabs. Each cab has their own linear induction motors that can move sideways and move to the next leg. The elevator cabs can also run like mass transit system on its side.

Lesson 7 Graph

Banana Oatmeal Energy Bites

INGREDIENTS:

• 3/4 cup quick oats
• 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana
• 1 tablespoon peanut  butter
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 tablespoon melted coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 3 tablespoons chopped almonds

1. Was my snack healthy? Justify why you say yes or no. Think about what we’ve talked about sugar and fats.
                Yes, because I didn't use actual sugars, instead I used honey as substitute so there would be less refined sugar. As well as, the goodness that comes from the oats, chia seeds, coconut oil, banana, etc., all of these help with energy and they are good for you.

2. When you choose a snack do you think about how healthy/unhealthy it is? Why or why not.

              Most of the time, because if you have more of a healthy snack you won't crave anything else after and it best for you, but sometimes if I crave something a bit more sweet I will have a bit more of an unhealthy snack.

3. Do you think food is meant to be eaten with other people? What are some effects of eating and socializing at the same time?

             At times, because sharing new food recipes and hanging out with friends while eating is a fun way to socialize and have fun.

4. Did you enjoy preparing your food? Do you think preparing your own food affects how much you enjoy eating it? Explain

                   I did enjoy preparing my own food, but I don't think that preparing my own food makes me enjoy it even more. I honestly preferred a bunch of other peoples food than mine. Preparing food is just fun and great to share with others.

Planet Graph

Poverty Unit Reflection

In this unit, I learned about the issue of poverty in our world. I learned about the poverty cycle and why it is so difficult to escape this cycle. It is clear to me that more needs to be done, and we looked at some solutions and ways at which we can help through the Change for Change drive, and by supporting NGO’s such as Kiva loans.

One of the activities that changed my thinking was learning about Microfinance and KIVA loans. This unit I learnt what Micro- financing is which is: It helps people who are in need of money, usually get a small loan to start a business. Also, I learnt more about KIVA which is a website where people need a loan to maybe help out a family member in hospital, to build a well, get education, etc.  so you give them a loan, and in the end they pay you exact loan amount back. It is important because you can help people in poverty that need to borrow a loan to fix an issue or help their community.I’m inspired to use KIVA more often because I will be able to help those in need and at the same time it’s not like you're losing money because either way you are gonna get your money back and be able to loan to another person.

Another one of the activities I really enjoyed was the “Spent” Simulation game.In the Spent Simulation game I learnt how to be able to manage my money with a family and money losing occasions that would occur if I was in poverty. This is important because it shows what sacrifices you have to make if you end up in poverty. I had to sell my dog, yell at my boss, etc. Also, it shows the daily things people have to go through everyday in poverty. I’m now inspired to help men get better paid job so the women don’t have to work and have a hard time trying to solve family issues and payment issues.

It is hard to break the poverty cycle because no matter how hard you work to earn money or to get a better education you won’t always be able to break, it takes a really long time and a lot of effort. It also depends on what type of poverty you are in and how harder it is for you to escape. The poverty cycle can be broken though if you have strong will and do you best, work the hardest to earn enough money, get good education, and be able to travel and get a better paid job somewhere else in the world.