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Robyne Hayes is a photographer and researcher. Her recent priority within her work is with women, girls and child marriages.

The main driver for child marriages is poverty and lack of education. Women and girls who are forced into child marriages usually drop out of school and have no childhood. Most women and girls are looked upon as being nothing more than a potential mother.

130million girls are not in school and should be. Pregnancy is the leading cause of death for young girls and they usually end up in domestic violence.

What I learnt…

That the issue of child marriages is an increasing number and it is in need of help.

we take opportunities for granted and we need to give the girls a voice, by doing that we need to not only talk to the girls but talk to the mothers and community to give them space to explore and to spread their voice.

Giving the girls a voice can let them become something more than they were meant to be within that culture. However, we actually don’t ask what they want, since they have never experienced anything other than early marriages and poverty. That’s why we need to give them that experience and that opportunity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a writer and the author of Purple Hibiscus.

Chimamanda talked about her early life and how she got into reading and writing at a young age. Her passion got her writing about the stories she had previously read, which were all British and American. She would write about their stories. However, finally, she found books that told stories which she recognized and then starting writing about them.

Single stories are a fixed mindset which you recognize a certain place or race. For her, poverty was her single story of poor families. She then gives examples of her experiences when people show these single stories. How a great number of people see Africa with a single story. They are seen to be starving, in poverty and not having a developed lifestyle. People also have a single story of immigrants and Mexicans. that they are dangerous and are seen as less than American citizens. Single stories are formed once a story is told over and over again and soon becomes a stereotype, they are incomplete.

What I learnt…

labelling someone with short stories can have many consequences. It robs people of their dignity and their individuality.

When you realise that there is no single story about any place, any person.

When you reject that single story, you create a kind of paradise.

 

Chetan Bhagat is an authorpreneur and a best selling author (however, not the best author)

Chetan Bhagat’s goal is to connect with people through entertainment and to change and influence people for the better. His strategy to achieve this is to reinvent by changing the game. to change and adapt to the game. He believes that winners are people who can change the game and people who can adapt to the game.

What is success? Success is different things to different people. Is it happiness? feeling accomplished? reaching goals? to achieve success you need to achieve short effort as well as long effort.

success tips:

• under promise and over deliver
• reinvent
• passion internet shows
• patience
• partnerships
• humility

How has Chetan Bhagat impacted me?

• That success is different to everybody. It isn’t just about your future and career. That to become ‘successful’, instead of being the best, you can change the game, make it your own. That short effort and long effort goals and accomplishes are both important to your future.

I used to think… now I think…

• I used to think that success is basically about money and having a place to go and a bed to sleep in. Now I think that success is about happiness and feeling accomplished and yes that can be about money and career, but it’s about reaching goals and being where you want to be and that can be anything.

Achieving big things.

• settings goals
• reasons behind that goal
• finding the group
• a detailed action plan
• a set-back detailed mechanism
• faith

“Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others”

 

Steve Dawson started in the sports industry and also as a news reporter.

interview tips.

1. ask open-ended questions. (provide a challenge)
2. set the answer free. (no unnecessary parameters)
3. don’t interrupt. (listen)
4. be a single shooter. (no double-barreled questions)
5. listen to the answer. (all the time)
6. be respectful (be professional)
7. whats your angle?

How he impacted me.

• He told me how to properly interview someone and the importance of listening and how you shoot your questions. He also showed me that the questions aren’ t everything that matters. While interviewing it is key to listen and to add to questions when necessary. He also showed me that your career in mind is achievable, no matter the place you are in now.

I used to think…

• I used to think that interviews were all about the questions and how you present them and after asking the question you move onto the next.
• I now think that the more you listen the more information you will get out.

lesson 1:

1 word describing your dominant emotion in the lesson.

interested. I was interested because of all the new information on what I researched throughout the lesson.

1 photo that might summarise something you learned in the lesson

1 thing that this learning point might relate to anything in your future life. (doesn’t have to be science)

this information I learned can influence how I think about the way things around me work and move.

 

Lesson 2:

Cell photo (onion) 

a practical skill I found difficult. 

Getting the microscope in focus and for us to get the cells in the best photo.

New knowledge 

I found out that an onion skin is a good way to find and explore the cells of a substance.

One question that was not answered. 

Why is it just the onion skin, not the rest of the onion?

 

Lesson 3:

Cell photo (plant)

Cell photo (cheek)

To figure the length of one cell, divide the number of cells that cross the diameter of the field of view into the diameter of the field of view. For example, if the diameter of the field is 5 mm and you estimate that 50 cells laid end to end would cross the diameter, then 5 mm/50 cells = 0.1mm/cell.

 

Lesson 4:

one thing I already knew.

That both plants and animals have cells which contain a nucleus.

Mesophyll cell. 

one thing that might be difficult with the content of this lesson. 

Remembering all the different organelles of each human and plant cells and knowing how to label the cells.

How can I work on this?

I can regularly revise and practice this task so this knowledge sticks with me.

 

Lesson 5: 

Diffusion

two keywords.

• diffusion
• semi-permeable membrane

• diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide occurs in the lungs
• diffusion of water, salts and also waste products occurs in the kidneys.

 

Lesson 6:

Osmosis.

List of tasks.

• video
• read (booklet)
• play games
• test

I thought the videos and the test were most useful to me because the video explained the lesson well and gave me the information and the test gave me a feel of what type of questions I need to work on.

Ratings. (out of five)

a. focus = 4

b. learning = 4

c. timekeeping = 4

 

Lesson 7: plasmolysis 

Plants gain water through their roots through the process of osmosis.

since the soil has a high concentration of water, the water travels into the roots until they both have the same amount of concentration of water. however, the plant brings the water up, which was transferred into the roots and into the plant, therefore the plant keeps receiving water, due to the constant low concentration of water in the roots.

Something to remember:

Hypotonic solution

• high concentration of water
• low concentration of solutes

Hypertonic solution

• high concentration of solutes
• low concentration of water

Lesson 8: revision 

The picture shown on the slide is a skin cell.

I know this because of:

• the young to old scale
• the dead skin cells that are shown.

During the first week of grade 9, I meet new people and I learnt new things about the current stage of grade 9 and the more things I will learn and the new experiences I will have in the future. For Monday and Friday of the first week, we were off schedule, so we could bond and learn more about our mentor class. On Monday, we would meet our new mentor class and our teacher. We also had assemblies to welcome and congratulate us into high school. Through Tuesday to Thursday, we would have our normal subjects. This introduced us to the different people in those classes and also those new teachers. On Friday, we had an assembly talking about what future trips we could choose to go on. We then went to the sports hall to participate in team building activities and challenges with our mentor class. I felt like these activities really let us get to know each other. We finally went back to our mentor classroom to start on this portfolio. For the future trips that we will be able to choose, I am excited to see what new friends I will make and what new experiences I will have. Currently, I am deciding between the diving expedition in Sulawesi or the Himalayan white water rafting trip. I would like to go on these trips because they would both give me very good and new experiences, I’ve never been diving or rafting so both of these trips would teach me new skills.

I am very curious, yet excited about the year to come. I hope I learn new things that would help me in the future and I will meet new friends and other people that will be important in my future journey.

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