CAS March

I’ve continued with playing hockey, it has been really fun learning to juggle the puck and also improving my shot, similar to back in October. I’ve tried juggling the roller hockey ball vs the puck. I found that the ball is easier because it is way lighter and easier to control as a sphere. Whereas,…

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Colin Kaepernick Debate Reflection

My thoughts about the Nike advertisement: Explain whether you are in support of it or not. Make connections to yourself as a viewer, to the ad, to Colin Kaepernick, and to the context. I see the ad and Kaepernick separately. I support Kaepernick and his beliefs, but I don’t support that Nike made an advertisement…

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Portfolio Post #3 : Antigone

During this unit, we read the play Antigone by Sophocles. It was written in Greece in 441BC. It demonstrated an individual going against the laws set by the ruler of the land. It showed how one could stick with the beliefs and nothing would stop them from doing what they need to do once they…

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February CAS 2 (Investigation)

I’ve researched what I should be consuming, about the amount of food per day, how much water humans should drink or how much sugar is too much. I’ve been restricting myself from any pops or sugary drinks. My main goal is to gain mass because I haven’t been able to grow in mass despite working…

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CAS Feburary

For this month’s CAS I wanted to revisit the hockey practices I’ve done. I’ve been playing recently and practicing with a partner. I wanted to take this opportunity to improve my stick handling and not lose the puck or roller hockey ball. This means I have to practice stickhandling the puck with my head up….

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January CAS Reflection

Our family usually travels during winter break as it is our only time of the year to spend time together. Everyone in the family is busy, even though we usually live together, but as we grow up everyone has their own lives to live. However, this winter break, we couldn’t go anywhere because of certain…

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End of Semester CAS Reflection

My most recent CAS experience was that I began exploring ways to improve my cooking ability. I think this one would not end like the other CAS experiences. There’s no measuring point of where I’d be complete, but I think there’d be stages to see my improvement. I think cooking is very fun, I cook…

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End of November CAS Evidence

I’ve been exploring more ingredients and the recipes that are more complex. Also, it’s been interesting to try to figure out what I could make with the leftover ingredients. For example, with the extra beef and broccoli that I bought, I made a sauteed beef and broccoli dish with the addition of garlic, mushrooms, onions…

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Political Cartoons: The Use of Humour

 Final Paper TEDTalk Analysis #2 Here are the analyses I did. Before doing the Final Papers, I wrote an analysis of Liza Donnelly’s TEDTalk. I analyzed the humour and stylistic techniques that she utilizes to make her cartoon. She wanted to gave her take on the social issue of gender inequality. She portrays the…

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Mid-November CAS Evidence

This website has 12 easy recipes for beginners that want to step their game up in cooking. Here is a recipe I found in from the website above, pasta is one of the dishes that I could cook quite well. My best so far is the simple pasta Aglio e olio. It’s a simple pasta…

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