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: 2

Course

Academic Accomplishments and Challenges (1-2 per academic subject in sentence format. Can be a bullet list).

Expressions For Trimester 2 the biggest endeavour that we had done was a performance of an adaptation of the 1978 film Grease. Language Arts In English-Language Arts a unit we had was called Survival. This consisted of multiple projects in the form of short stories that took place in natural disasters, Mt. Everest, etc. In this unit a part of the survival unit were survival-based books groups. I was gone sick for the days that were picked out and I got Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage. We were to read, finish and discuss parts of the book by certain dated checkpoints, along with a project that you did surrounding the book, educating people on how to survive in the conditions that the main characters were in. In math we didnt have projects per se, but rather multiple units in Math that covered certain things. There was parabolas which was introduced to us in the 2nd trimester and still working on it in the 3rd, Same as math, we had units in P.E which contained rugby, basketball, volleyball, , and conditioning. The only project that we had done in P.E was a project on the history of Rugby. We made a presentation that covered Rugbys creation, establishment, how its played, etc. Most to all of the projects in Science were group projects. One of which was to make a board game that had to do with survival of some sort. The game that my group worked on was For my Game. Nuclear Energy video In social studies, one project that was Slavery Project

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Social Studies Technology

In technology we had done a unit surrounding creating a cover letter/resume and getting a job by going through an interview and choosing a profession. Another project we had done was called Civic Responsibility. This was a community service project that contained multiple types of projects to choose

LEADING EDGE ACADEMY, NCS TRIMESTER OVERVIEW

which purpose was to make students give back to the community. 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?

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.