LEADING EDGE ACADEMY, NCS TRIMESTER OVERVIEW

Students- This is a part of your Trimester DEP information that will be looked over by your parents, teachers, and administration in your ePortfolio. This is an opportunity for you to self-reflect on your academic progress and to evaluate how you are being prepared in relation to our academy pillars.

Student Name: Danako Messele

Grade Level: 8th

Trimester: 1

Course

Academic Accomplishments and Challenges (1-2 per academic subject in sentence format. Can be a bullet list). Op Art Cube, Sugar Skull Portrait Dystopian Short Story, DSS Cover Math Textbook Assignments, Summer Math Tenmarks Volleyball techniques, Intro to Rugby Metric System Video Project, Element Project Can People be Trusted?, Rethinking the Constitutional Convention Multigenre Autobiography, Digital Citizenship

Expressions Language Arts Math PE Science Social Studies Technology

Leading Edge Academy Pillars are: Building Partnerships/Shared Leadership, Using Critical Thinking/Innovative Problem Solving, Demonstrating Technological Savvy, Appreciating Cultural Diversity, and Thinking Globally . Please write below how you think your work connected to some or all of these this trimester?

The expressions units we do always have cultural diversity regardless intertwined with each one. With the op art cube, that connected to the culture of optical illusions that was created in the 60s culture, and the skull portrait connecting to Dias de los Muertos, a popular holiday and/or series of days in the Mexican culture that celebrate and honor those whove moved on from this world. That can also be an example of Global Thinking, what with this whole celebration mainly taken through the heart of Mexico and its culture, giving awareness about the individuality of things. The dystopian short story and cover were great examples of a growing genre inside the book world as well as movies and entertainment in general which is the dystopian-esque society. The short story also took ahold to technical savvy, since wed do it to a specific font to meet the standard for a book in which each story would be put together into wrapped by a cover. The cover being the other example, because I had created it. That showing innovative problem

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solving by creating an idea, design, and final copy to use. With math not exactly consisting of projects that you could use, I took a general task that we do daily which are assignments of excerpts of pages from a textbook that teaches the education. The excerpts of the books serving as having show your understanding of the certain topic. In P.E this year, were focusing on the basis of team sports, volleyball being one of them that wed already gone over, I chose this as my example. Volleyball focuses more on technicality rather than tacticality, there being different types of passes (e.g bump pass, set/forearm pass, serves, etc) and certain positions to place yourself within the play field. Volleyball demonstrated building partnerships for how much the teammate mattered in the connection of a play in a game. In science we had numerous group projects within this trimester. All of them straining our technical savvy on an iPad, the tool used for the majority of them as a tool. Not to forget these being group projects, we would have sharing leadership in doing your part to contribute to the final product. In social studies we focused on informational packets and group projects. Having 2-partner projects like the tie-in dystopia trailer using media tools (e.g Animoto) that demonstrates technological savvy and partnerships and amendment worksheets/passages.
GOALS: After looking over your information above, please set two goals for yourself. One must be academic and one should be based on the pillars. Explain how you will try to reach these goals.

Set a standard always-in for assignments so no missing assignments, no late assignments. No tardies (By a few seconds, goes to the bathroom but no tolerance regardless) PRINCIPAL'S LIST