Final Assesment Of English 12

My semester in English 12 is coming to an end and I have gained lots of information for my essay writing, public speaking, literary analysis and incorporating lots of new sophisticated vocabulary. Upon reflecting on my goals, I believe they were relevant goals because they needed to be worked on and improved. Moreover, they were some of my weak points in English as I needed to refine and retouch them. Of my three goals, I believe that I have improved my vocabulary through learning lots of new sophisticated vocabulary which I have tried my best to incorporate in my writing. Furthermore, I have also successfully managed to improve my literary analysis by writing at a higher level by incorporating new vocab. The only goal I still need to work towards is to improve my essay writing by doing lots of practice essays and recieving feedback. Overall, I think these goals that I set out in the starting of the semester were pretty accurate in terms of my English skills. As the provincial exam is approaching pretty quick, I have improved in a lot of areas since the semester started.

Inquiry Reflection (Step #7 of Inquiry Process)

Inquiry question - How can ads and commercials be misleading?

As I gathered my research for my inquiry, I learned lots of things that were certainly not expected. For example, I learned some new techniques of false advertising that I never knew before. In addition, some other things I learned were: how ads tend to be misleading, in what ways they can be misleading and why they are designed this way. Most of the information on this topic was fairly new to me as I have never really been exposed to this particular topic. During the inquiry process, the only big challenge I faced was how to put all this information together and present it. After all, I finally figured out what information to present and in what way I will present it. Though it was really hard to figure out, I finally got an idea to work. Next time, I would start by deciding on what way I will present all the information rather than figuring that out last. I would also try to use a different platform to present my information next time. I can connect my inquiry to my life because I watch TV like everyday and now I will be careful about the ads that are being advertised and I would interpret them more closely. Furthermore, I would like to continue to explore how ads are made and how much money it takes to advertise them in the TV, radio, and on the media. There isn't really anything I found confusing about my inquiry. Lastly, some new questions that I developed were: how do the owners of the ads make the ads misleading and what their main purpose of doing so.

Dystopian Novel: Connections to Themes & Issues

Censorship – Censorship is censoring, suppressing, and limiting information to the public. This picture shows how fast food and many other advertisements can be misleading. It shows what is being advertised in the ads and compared to what we get in reality. It shows how good, yummy and tasty the food looks like in the ads but doesn’t show how bad it is really in terms of carbohydrates, sugar and calories.   

Surveillance – Surveillance is supervising, being watched over, or being closely observed. This article shows how the NSA (National Security Agency) spys on Americans. In other words, they are closely observing the phone calls, internet communication, documents and may other things of Americans. The article represents the theme of surveillance as the NSA is closely observing the Americans.

NSA Surveillance Article

Propaganda – Propaganda is information designed to publicize, promote or persuade people. These videos of the iPhone 6 are made so perfectly not only to promote their product but to persuade people. They show different aspects of the phone to buy the customers attention quickly. Each angle of the video is taken to show the quality of the phone and how the customer should buy it.  

  











Power/Control - Power is the ability to do something and control is the power to direct people or take control of something. This article shows how much control the U.S government has over their citizens. The rules and regulations that the citizens have to follow can sometimes be suffocating which are set out by the controlling government. the government wants to run its citizens the way that they would like and not care about anyone else's opinions.

Power/Control Article