Reflection #2 of HL Essay

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Paper 1:

At first, I chose two texts for my HL Essay. The first one was Always #LikeAGirl advertisement and the second one was The best a man can be. After writing four paragraphs, I realize that I had a weak thesis statement and felt like it wasn’t connecting well and very repetitive.

My first thesis strands were about gender perspectives and taking the initiative to change it. However, it seemed like it really only applied to one text type. So, I tried to change my thesis statement by rewriting the paragraphs again but it still felt like I was still lacking. After leaving it for a while and came back to read it again, I realized that I was writing too many contexts and giving descriptions instead of analyzing.

After the meeting with Ms. Wiseman and reviewing my HL Essay outline, I then added Baby Vinicius to have a middle ground for the two previous extreme gender perspective adverts and solidify my thesis strands. Although the first plan was to write all three texts for each thesis strand, I proceeded to change it into writing each advertisement for each thesis strands with bits of other advertisements.

 

HS Student Alumni & Foundation Council Reflection 1#

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Hearing about the activity made me excited and look forward to it every week since it is such an amazing thing to do for the previous UWC students. Since I love the community here so much, it was a wonderful chance for me to express and participate in this activity.

Through my friend, I was able to find out about this activity, and before the October break, we mainly did two things. We first got introduced to the activity in more depth, what the activity does in general, and organizing events for Alumni. We then brainstormed all the significant or meaningful events that took place in 2019-2020. We chose three main events we all agree on and divided ourselves to take responsibility for writing the topic.

 

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What strengths have I discovered through CAS?

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During CAS, I’ve discovered that I determination in attending and practicing. Especially in Badminton last year, I would go to practice as well as for games to compete against other schools. During practice, I would show up without fail with a dedication in mind. The same applies to Arts and Crafts with PPIS Child Care Centre. I love engaging with people and I was having fun while attending the service. There, I discovered that I have strength in communicating and engaging with people. The same goes for Initiative For Peace. The ability to collaborate with others and interact with them are one of the strengths I’d discovered.

Arts Club Reflection – First day of the Activity

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This week Tuesday, we started the activity on Arts Club where we make any type of art we like in the class. I used this opportunity to work on my Art on Comparative Study. It was a chill class and all of us were either painting, drawings sketching. Majority of them were drawing digitally. Maybe next week, I’ll try to use the digital device as well.

Reflection #1 of HL Essay

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Paper 1:

1. How might you unpack the text more effectively in order to derive insight or connect to ideas/ themes?

Having a theme or a concept would have been better for my paper 1. Since there was a time limit, I was rushing to include the evidences I have found instead of coming up with a theme based on the evidences. When analysing, rather than explaining the meaning, maybe digging it to a deeper level and connecting it with the global issue might have improved my writing. Instead of stating what the obvious is, giving more analysis backing up with evidence might have been better.

2. How might you create more realistic arguments and discussions?

One of the weakness of the essay was the lack of terminology. The usage of terminology can improve my explanation and arguments more and give the reader a sense of understanding from me when analysing the text. Another way to create a more realistic argument is to have a theme, as stated above. By then, I could connect the evidences I find with the theme giving a more insightful argument and discussion.

 

How has your planning changed?

When planning the HL Essay, I added another text from P&G – Baby Vinicius. At first there were only two texts and both of them lies on the extreme spectrum of gender roles or stereotypes. But after the discussions with my teacher, I added another advert which is a middle ground of both of them.

I was also focusing on mixing the context and analysis so much that the theme became vague and became unclear. Thus, I also need to reduce using a lot of frames as evidence and focus on unpacking one frame from each text.

 

 

What’s next?

This made me realise that I should have a theme when writing the HL essay. This will improve the focus and the points of my essay allowing me to provide evidence clearer. Based on paper 1 exam, I was lacking in terms of using terminologies so I will use more terminologies and improve my arguments.

Have you made progress? What’s next?

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During the first couple of months until January was my learning months. The line was slowly going up on the graph.

I’ve been learning a lot from my CAS (IFP, Arts and Crafts with PPIS Childcare Center, Badminton). I’ve been learning life skills, social skills, thought-provoking skills, and critical thinking skills. As much as I enjoy learning the skills, shortly after April break, the line on the graph started to decline down due to COVID-19 outbreak.

Although we could not do any social activities, we continued the activity virtually. We had meetings every Tuesday after school and we would discuss what to do next if the school were to open again. We were planning ahead to what comes next. I would say that the line was slowly but gradually starting to go up again.

Even though we couldn’t get to do any of the activities we have planned, I was fortunate enough to have learnt a lot of skills from my services.

Updates on my Arts and Crafts with PPIS Child Care Center

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Update

Due to the COVID-19 situation, unfortunately the school has decided to shut down after April break and we haven’t gone back to school since then. This means that we also could not continue meeting with our service partners and have to put a halt to our services. It is unfortunate but we tried to find ways to still communicate with them. However, since they are 4 – 5 years olds, it is very hard for them to communicate with us as well.

What’s new?

We are hoping to find something we could do for the children and recently, we thought of an idea where we make a short 30 seconds video for the kids and combine them. We told them to take care of themselves and stay safe! I think this will make the children happy and hopefully, they haven’t forgotten about us.

Future

Even though we are not certain whether the school is going to be open or not, if it opens, we will prepare plans and activities for the kids beforehand so that we won’t be rushing on things.

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