Perspectives in Education between Chinese and American

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Different people have different perspectives, especially when people don’t understand the other when they are in different places. They could hear rumors, or misunderstood something, and have false understanding among idea(s).

In Individuals and Societies class, I learned and brainstormed about different perspective of how students from two big countries view each other. The given might be true, from perspectives, or rather false opinions. Dividing the two sections into facts and opinions, facts are the big differences we see from attending both educations having experiences, opinions are what students in American that live there and never been to Chinese education anywhere think about the Chinese students just from… anywhere. And the other way around to Chinese students having thoughts about American education too.

Working with Attributions

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Fear Inside Fear
Screamfest by Roberto Rachado Cabello via Pinterest

Mask Under a Mask
The Joker by Stark via Pinterest

Illusion
The Shining by Huffpost via Pinterest

Same things acting in opposite ways is a great illusion to your mind. When scary characters see themselves, looking back on what they’ve done and the way they make others feel, they make themselves feel the same way too. When you take off the mask of someone else, it could be another mask under it, as if The Joker hid himself under a joker mask to make himself untargetted and the most unique. Illusion, one might not make a difference, but two would make a huge impact, as if they are the fear of you, the illusion is.

They say a image is worth a thousand words, what you write for the picture is what you think it is, and it could be infinite ways of doing that. When I cited the images using hyperlink, it is very efficient by putting in 3 parts, the picture URL itself, the author URL, and the company publicating the image. A reflection doesn’t say what you learn but what you did, what you accomplished. The three images I chose really did show great compare in the text I caption them into, in one to five words, can simply describe the thousand words pictures into a million.

Digital Presence & Citizenship

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Digital citizenship refers to using technology online to engage in society, politics, and government, how one chose to use the internet regularly and effectively. Digital footprint means what you leave behind after doing something digitally online when you search something, share something, what you did in the past. Once you put something on the internet, there are still tracks left behind even if you take it back or delete it. After you read this article, you should be able to understand the point that if something will be left forever, why do things that you want to clean up afterward? Cleaning up your digital footprint should be the same meaning as not doing something on the web.

Before posting something, think, is this going to harm anyone? Is this necessary? How are people going to feel? Is this dangerous? To harm anyone means to change another person in the bad. To be necessary means you have to, not wanting to. Keep in mind how others are going to feel after you post something, think in their perspective, and is it dangerous, for yourself, and to the public, because you posted this, and what you posted come from you, and if people can find you, whatever may happen are the consequences.

When people discuss something online, they don’t have to know each other, but once you talk about a certain name, mentioning a person, it changes the fact about sharing opinions because you would be judging that person. This connects to being necessary or not, replying, or not. If it’s not necessary to reply on a post or posting something, don’t. It’ll just create more possibility of trouble and it’ll be harder to handle after then.

When you show presence to the public, dangerous people might target you, hack on you. It’s based on the dangerous people’s opinion, they want you to be in trouble or not. The way to keep you 100% out of trouble is to not take a step, which means not to have any footprint, and you don’t have to erase anything because you didn’t do anything. But when it is necessary to take a step, such as schoolwork, family, friends, work, just refer back to the points for you to think before you post, think ahead for yourself, the consequences?

In fact, college/university applies for checking your digital presence, the way you use media and might change their way of letting you in. They will check your facebook, mail, Instagram, they can find these because you leave digital footprints behind, but if you show digital footprint in a good way that you care about others, you don’t have to be afraid.

Some articles I looked at are:

Online Guidelines for Student Blogging, Commenting, and Personal Safety

 

3 Student Handbooks

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The student handbook is a collection of conduct standards, policies, and procedures that outline so that students are aware of expectations from the school. However, handbooks from different schools can be similar and/or dissimilar in context.

The KAS high school handbook defines each class course possible to take in the entire high school years, credits, and expectations of class courses from school, and for applying for colleges. Basically, it is telling you what we need and the big picture of high school into college because that is the final main point we go to KAS for. Despite KAS, TAS mentioned all the advantages of high school in there, how easy it will be, but not much more after college, so TAS only covers till students graduate from there. MAK stated mostly AP course which is easy for students to know what college they want and what they prefer, it is kind of helping you to get in college but not that much.

Grading systems in different schools would be different, KAS uses MYP nowadays, but TAS and MAK still use averaging, GPA is used in all three schools but the points are given differently for A+ in KAS and MAK, 4.33 and 4 is a difference student can distinguish between in.

Rules are more detailed in the KAS handbook, every rule is given and it is hard to not find one or break one. Consequences are like a cause and effect, what you do wrong deserves a reasonable punishment, TAS uses the same technique as KAS giving chances up to 4 or 5 times and each time the consequences gets higher. MAK clearly uses the bible to cover the rules, but it only covers up the main concepts on being a good human being, not everything of a student.

School handbook keeps students in order, in one, together. It is written text that students in the school follows and apply to all. When a student chooses to follow the policies, it makes it easy and normal in school, when a student decides to break the policies, consequences will apply, these are the main part of keeping students following the handbook.

Unit 6 Intro to Chemistry Reflection

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How much did you know about Chemistry when we started?
What learner profile best describes your approach to this unit?
Considering you will have Chemistry next year in G9–how will you prepare for the class over the summer?
What is one goal you will set for yourself for the Chemistry class next year?

Perspective City Drawing

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Perspective Drawing
Brian Lin

In this summative assessment, we were instructed to design a one-point perspective or two-point perspective city after some practices of perspective letters. Compare and contrasting one-point perspective and two-point perspective would be that both designs are drawn for viewers to see in a perspective that fits real life. Both are designed to start with a horizon line and vanishing point(s), and drawn in eye levels: above, on, below. The difference would be the amount of vanishing point(s), for one-point perspective there is 1 vanishing point, for two-point perspective there are obviously 2 vanishing points. Vanishing point is the point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge, in simple that is something that has been growing smaller or increasingly faint disappears altogether when you examine it. I chose one-point perspective in this summative assessment because it happens more often in my real life I predict what I draw will be more realistic than drawing two-point perspective city.

I started my city obviously by drawing my horizon line and vanishing point, and it kind of goes in a pattern, because mostly everything goes towards the vanishing point other than horizontal and vertical lines which are either parallel to the horizon line or perpendicular as it is a vertical line. My first object in my city is a road, 2 lines, endpoints are on the vanishing point, then finishing off the road with shorter but thicker lines in the middle, that divides the road up into two parts as in real life is. Obviously, the lines has to go towards the vanishing point too. At this point of drawing, I’ve acknowledged one thing: as lines are closer to the vanishing point, it becomes smaller, and lines that are further away, are larger. For example in my sidewalk bricks, the spaces between each brick gets smaller as it goes towards the vanishing point, in real life, it is too! Huge buildings eventually gets smaller as you move further away from it, not actually getting smaller, but from one’s eye level perspective, it does.

I demonstrated different shapes too, in my perspective drawing city to show that I could perform one-point perspective not only just with straight lines, with arcs, circles, even curved prisms too! In fact, my objects all showed quality in space because it matches up real life, the proportions of ratio in different objects doesn’t have much difference, which makes the city more realistic. My artwork doesn’t include any color, but value, value by pencil. In perspective drawing, it is like 3D objects that people see. Object that has faces, I demonstrated and showed different faces by coloring different values for different faces. Emphasising the lines will be more easy for the viewers to know what you are drawing and not get confused. I somehow showed balance in different objects I drew, so it looks realistic. It the drawing in perspective art is not balanced, no matter how accurate you draw, it doesn’t seem realistic.

Overall in this summative assessment, I think perspective art is really cool, it’s like when you see something in real life and drew it out on the paper with the same perspective. Every detail shows unity, creativity, and harmony. Of course, movement is the largest part or perspective art, my artwork demonstrates movement by objects and angles, every single line and details. To conclude my artwork, the objects I drew includes road, mountains, buildings, letters, fence, train, and railway.

Comparing my work to others, in my work I demonstrated less lines than my peers, but more presented in more details, in my peer’s work, he demonstrated a solid knowledge of creating buildings and the concept of lines to vanishing points, more in detail, he understand what line goes under or above another line. Shapes in my artwork is demonstrated in a variety of ways, while my peer’s artwork only demonstrate prism like shapes. I included in curved prisms, rectangular prisms, cylinders; in different sizes. Somehow I think I demonstrated more in space by including 4 roads with 3 different directions. However, my peer did good too by making the road big and clear while it is a two-point perspective. Color didn’t really affect how one looks at my artwork, because the lines are well measured with precision. However, my peer colored in his artwork so it looks more line one. Overall, I demonstrated more in value with my pencil while my peer colored in fully. With just one color; my pencil, I have to demonstrate good value to divide up different sides so it looks 3D.

ePortfolio: Pattern Design Selfie Drawing

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Pattern Design
Brian LIn

In this summative assessment, we were instructed to start with a self portrait, then design patterns with both geometric shapes and organic shapes. For each shape or pattern I created, it includes many lines, rhythm, form, space, and harmony. I started this with a selfie, then covering up the outline of my faces and bodies, and printed the pencil print on another blank piece of paper, I did this by scrubbing and pushing it hard. After I have my outline, I traced it with a black pen, we couldn’t change the pen type throughout the process of drawing and creating patterns because it affects the work by the different ink value (darkness or lightness). I started my patterns in a random blank spot, because I know I will have to fill in all the other blank spaces afterwards, and after it’s completed, the whole self portrait pattern design will be a jungle of patterns.

Patterns are repeated decorative designs that goes in an artwork. I demonstrated form of my patterns in my artwork by expanding it and make it goes in a certain area, mass that is valuable to see in my drawing. One pattern I designed also showed perspectives: many lines in different angles about in the same place, then both endpoints of the line connects to one single point, and the lines that overlaps goes behind and doesn’t show, which is cool for me. I usually fill up the blank spaces with a bunch of small circles because it is very simple and demonstrates the determination to fill in all the spaces.

There has to be a variety of patterns in my drawing, so I brainstormed many simple ones, but comparing to those I researched on the internet about 1 or 2 days through my process of drawing, it is way too simple, so I started finishing up my pattern design with patterns on books and internet. Some patterns from the book is too difficult to draw because it has many lines and details to focus on, every angle and perspective, you’ll have to think a lot, and to finish my artwork in time with all spaces filled, I have to use a variety of patterns to quickly and effectively fill my artwork.

The pattern in the top left corner emphasised itself really well, it has lines that are widely cross hatching and in the middle there is a pattern that feels like about the same of the cross hatching, but it is different in direction, shape, size, and rhythm. And it really stands out! Some parts of my pattern design I filled and colored it with my pen, with hatching. I did not use cross hatching because it mostly colors outside of the box and doesn’t look good as it goes in different directions, it might be better if I could use a pencil.

Overall in this pattern design assessment, I demonstrated unity as I gathered a variety of patterns and shoved it in my artwork, movement is somehow detected as some of my patterns are made illusions. I performed texture with the quality and preciseness of every single pattern. The proportion of pattern are somehow unequal because I made the better ones with more form for emphasis. There are no color in this artwork contrast to other works because we were only allowed to use pen. The artwork here helped me discover what pattern designs can do when they add up together in one.

Poetry: 15 Mins Of Fame

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In this unit’s summative assessment, we were instructed to chose famous inspirational poems from the internet and annotate from KAMI how and what they did to make their poem inspire. Then we wrote TIEAs for each poem, then finally compared and contrasted it. After that, we had to create, design, and write our own inspirational poem and a dream poem. We had to include poetic devices that matter to the readers. We recorded our voice and face reading the Dream poem we wrote ourselfs and presented our Inspirational Poem in front of the class with a self-made background presentation that goes together with my lines in my poem. Overall, I had a fun time doing this unit because poetry can be soft and hard at the same time and not limited to ideas.

Annotation: Invictus

Annotation: Have You Earned Your Tomorrow

Invictus TIEA
In the poem “Invictus,” by William Ernest Henley uses descriptive language and extravagant metaphors to seek will and courage in the face of a severe test. As Henley uses his own experiences enduring the pain and disease that eventually killed him, he reflects this courage to inspire more people.
“In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.” (Stanza 2)
Henley did not lose hope no matter the circumstance, he inspires people to control own fates and decide futures. Henley made lines 1 and 3 Rhyme, alongside with lines 2 and 4 in the stanza, and an alliteration in line 1 by “clutch” and “circumstance.” He was proud of not giving in, proud of what one has achieved despite having suffered great difficulties or losses.

Have You Earned Your Tomorrow TIEA
In the poem “ Have You Earned Your Tomorrow,” Edgar Guest suggest rhyme to a list of questions for people to decide their actions worth each day. The title of the poem isn’t a judgment or warning but a question, just the way it reads.
“Did you waste the day, or lose it, was it well or sorely spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say,
You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?” (Stanza 4)
Guest focused on asking questions, and rhyming two lines at a time, lines 1 and 2, lines 3 and 4. He points out small actions in everyday real life, did you do anything while others appreciated? Making others people’s day would make themselves’ too.

Compare TIEA
In both poems “Invictus” written by William Ernest Henley and “Have You Earned Your Tomorrow” by Edward Guest, both authors present poetic devices especially rhyme to inspire people in life to replace missing characteristics in one’s life or thought. The text of both poems conveys the fact that people are in charge of their own fates and decide whether to build the courage to be proud of the tomorrow one’s earned for such actions.
“Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.” (Invictus, Stanza 3)
“Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?”(Have You Earned Your Tomorrow, Stanza 1)
Stanza 3 of “Invictus” states that the world is full of anger and pain that cannot be comprehended, the horror of death that is all the looms afterlife. Henley’s own experiences contracted and sacrificed one and almost two of his legs, but he didn’t give in to the disease, which inspires people with being brave with courage. Henley rhymes lines 1 with 3, and 2 with 4 in the stanza, metaphors in lines 2, 3, 4 of the stanza, which gives complete inspiration to people. Guest completes a list of actions people can ask themselves with a simple goal: “do my actions today deserve me a tomorrow?” this is not a judgment, but a guideline of how people arrange their own actions during one day with the same amount of time everyone’s given. This also inspires people to build the courage to act in life.

Contrast TIEA
In the poem “Invictus,” William Ernest Henley uses mostly descriptive language and extravagant metaphors while “Have You Earned Your Tomorrow,” written by Edgar Guest suggests somehow a rhyme checklist that fits everyone by asking mostly closed questions. While Henley uses his personal life experience, Guest inspires people by asking for valuable matters of people’s actions.
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.” (Invictus, Stanza 1)
“Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you? (Have You Earned Your Tomorrow, Stanza 1)
Henley’s first lines describe metaphor for the hardships and problems of a worldly existence, then rhymes it with a skipped line, to line 3, in fact, lines 2 and 4 too. Guest simply ask people for their own view of their actions of the day worth it, and rhymes line 1 directly with line 2. Both lines of Guest’s poem is asking questions, it inspires people differently than Henley’s personal experiences while Guest completes a checklist.

Inspirational Poem:
Few years back,
You texted me.
“How you doing?”
Your heart called.

It was a maze,
With no results.
You left for awhile,
Like a bird you flew.

The wind blew against our backs,
The music sound a playback.
You told me again,
Six years past.

I hold you hand,
You hold mine.
Hard work pays,
Six years wait.

Dream Imagery Poem Flipgrid

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Dream Imagery Poem:
My dream feels like marshmallows, fluffy, and sweet.
My dream tasted like sweets and love, wraps around my body.
My dream looks like clouds and sunny days, like in heaven.
My dream smells like tulips, a scent to take you home.
My dream sounds like a rooster, to bring me another day.
My dream is a moment where everything is perfect, and nothing will worry me.