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Varsity Basketball Friendly Game End November CAS (2)

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We played two games in the final two weeks of November, the first game is against TaiZu, a Division 1 Middle School team, it was a really close game, the final score was 51-55, what I learned from this experience is that I need to communicate more with my teammates, and put extra effort on defense. The team was really quiet in our first game, so we need to encourage everyone to communicate with each other more and make the team start functioning again.

In our second game against HsinChuang D2 Highschool, the varsity team only played first half, , then Junior Varsity will also join this friendly game. I still find myself too quiet in this game, sometimes I’m afraid to take control of the ball, I must overcome this fear, I always fear being embarrassed by the opposing team in front of the crowd, I believe as I play more games, I will have better mental toughness.

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Charity Art Club Winter Sale CAS End November Reflection

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For the last two weeks, I have been preparing for our CAC’s Winter Sale on 11/28, this time I applied a lot of things I learned from last time, for example, I distributed the jobs very clearly to all the executives, with exact things they needed to do, and I also gave exact job descriptions to all the helpers during that day. The event went really well and it was a major improvement compared to the tote bags event, all the executives worked really hard and we all had the same goal together, it was a really good experience working with them because every one of them spent a lot of time on this despite having a lot of homework.

All the hardwork and preparations was worth it, we made 11480 NTD in 4 hours sale, our pins and stickers received a lot of good feedback, because this time we decided to use the best quality customizing company on both pins and stickers, we still have 200-300 stickers and some pins, they will be put on our upcoming CAC’s website which is still under construction, and we will select 100 stickers to give it to Orphanage Club, one of CAC’s collaboration partner, for the rest, we will put them in our next sale, which will happen outside of school.

We will donate 50% of our profit to HonDao Senior Citizen Welfare Foundation.

 

Relationship & Identity Everyone Deserves Love

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In this unit, we learned about relationship & identity, we learned about what makes a healthy relationship and what makes an unhealthy relationship, we learned how to establish a healthy relationship and how does a relationship affect us. I chose to create a graphic novel to demonstrate what I learned throughout this unit, my graphic novel demonstrates both the healthy relationship and unhealthy relationship and it shows how the main character overcomes those obstacles.

We also did TIEA for this unit, we used TIEA to explain the relationship between the main character and other people and how it affects the main character. for the first TIEA, I explained how Jin’s relationship with Wei-Chen affects his acts, thoughts, and personality. In the second TIEA, which is Graphic Novel Illustrator TIEA, I explained how does the image contribute to the novel itself, how it allows the readers to prepare for the rest, and how it adds meanings to the novel.

Jin’s relationship with Wei-Chen Sun

In American Born Chinese, the author Gene Luen Yang transforms a stereotypical Chinese boy who lost his self-confidence to a mature teenager who has built up his self-confidence. Wei-Chen’s arrival once made Jin wants to beat him up before knowing his personalities and make connection with him. However, Wei-Chen’s arrival actually built up Jin’s self-confidence by the connection between their personal backgrounds and always supporting Jin, that caused Jin to reflect on his previous behavior and start treating Wei like a brother.  “You’re in America, Speak English.” “Something made me want to beat him up.” (36-38) “Over the next few months, Wei-Chen became my best friend.” ( 40) “My first day in school here I meet Jin from then I know everything’s okay, he treat me like a little brother.” (102) can see how Jin’s behavior on Wei-Chen changed due to the connection between them,, Wei-Chen told Amelia that Jin treated him like a little brother and always being supportive friend, at first, from both textual evidence and visual evidence, it shows that Jin didn’t want to associate with Wei-Chen because of his race, he knew people would not associate with Asians in this school. Jin Wang forced Wei to speak English, trying to embarrass him intentionally, but since Wei had his robot toy out, it led Jin consider his personal background, he had similar favours, similar personal background, similar situation as Wei, all these similarities connected both people and eventually established a healthy relationship. After the connection, they became best friends, Jin’s behavior has changed a lot throughout this time, he was being more supportive and he also felt stronger spiritually because he had Wei has one of the best friends.

MLA Citation: Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese.New York: First Seconds Books, 2006.

 

In American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang inspired the audience to find their true identity by letting monk witnessing an attack which inspired the monkey to find his own identity. As the monk got stabbed by the demons, the monkey king described his identity as “the supper of two demons.” However, as the demons start burning the monk, it allows the monkey king to connect his personal background with the monk which inspired him to find his own true identity. The monk gets stabbed by the two demons and gets burned afterward, it reminds the monkey king about his own identity. The monkey king breaks out from the mountain and saves his master (Page, 149, 150) The monkey king could have broken out from the mountain. However, he couldn’t find his true identity until he met the monk, who the monkey called him the master afterward because the monk was the person who redefined his true identity. The monk was stabbed by the two demons which stimulated the monkey by reminding his own personal background to break out from the mountain, because the monk encountered the similar situation as the monkey king, his identity was defined by the demons, since the monkey king’s identity was also defined by Tze-Yo-Tzuh, the person who trapped him under the stone, it reminded the monkey king about his current situation which made him want to break out, the true identity of the monkey king is not an actual king, his true identity, is a guardian of the Master. This part impacted the audience to find our true identities, to meet the “master” who brings the true identity back to our life.

MLA Citation: Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese.New York: First Seconds Books, 2006.

We have done 4 discussions in total, we did three discussions in order to prepare for the final discussion, throughout the discussion, we mainly focused on How do other people affect the main character and how does the main character affect other characters, even though we didn’t read the same books, we still connected each other by discussing more general topics instead of too specific topics, we also found similarities in our book which made the discussion went well. I’d made three preparations for my discussion, the first one and the second one have the same questions. However, questions in the last preparation are more likely to be a guide for us to conclude about the story.

Second Discussion Preparation

Last Dicussion Preparation

STEM Spaghetti Marshmallow Tower Reflection

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What building techniques make the tower stronger?
Making the base of the tower stronger by building the base in a triangle like base because I personally think that it is efficient materials which means we can use fewer materials to build a strong base.
Does the placing of the marshmallow affect the strength of the tower?
Yes, it would make the tower titled or become unbalanced, we could have made another spaghetti tower to hold the titled tower spaghetti tower.
Could you build a stronger tower with more of the same materials? What alternative materials would be better?
Does the size of the base alter the strength of the tower?
Yes, so that we have more resources to stronger the base and strengthen the body tower.
I think things with harder materials would be better alternative materials, such as chopsticks.
Yes, the size of the base alters the strength of the tower, because if the base is more steady, it can hold a heavier tower.
How do you think you worked as a group? Did you assume different roles? Did all groups work in the same way?
No, we didn’t assume roles, everyone worked for the parts that were missing, if I build a part of the base, the other two people would build up the other two bases for the tower.

Uprising Sketch-noting

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 Uprising is a work of historical story by Margaret Peterson Haddix.The author Margaret Peterson Haddix portrays example and quotes of injustice towards female workers. three helpless, powerless young women change the U.S by their determination. they won respect and fairness for females workers.

three young women immigrated to New York illegally, Bella met her cousin Pietro, she loved Pietro, but then, Pietro left New York without notifying, Bella waited there for a long time. However, she met Yetta and Rahel, two stubborn strikers, they believe women have rights, as time passes, Bella felt she was being treated unfairly, she felt the injustice, she barely got paid due to many excuses from the bosses, and the Luciano family clamied that they didn’t send money to Bella’s faimly in Italy, instead, they used the money to heal their babies, her anger led her to a union, in the union, she met Yetta and Rahel, they also met a wealthy girl called Jane, she is completely different than general society women, Jane wanted her freedom, together, they produced resonate, Jane supported the union with economical support, unfortunately, as time passes, Rahel quitted the union, she didn’t belive that women can be treated fairly, she married her English teacher, but Yetta didn’t quit, she still belive in equality, her determination was more than ever,they earned a little respects through strikes. However, it wasn’t enough, women were still being treated unfairly, unfortunately, on March, 25th in 1911, at Triangle factory, a fire killed Jane and Yetta, and another 144 workers. As the first chapter mentioned, Mrs.Linvingston is Bella, fortunately, she got married, and had 2 babies, and they are named Yetta, and Jane, their spirits were passed down to her children, and her family would keep their passions forever.