Grade 11 Academics

Highlight #1

One academic achievement that I'm very proud of this year is the Microeconomics research paper on "social business". Social business is a new way of doing business, which focus on solving social issues rather than making profit. Because this new concept had brought up a lot of debate and argument, Ms. Karcz wanted us to do some research and decide whether it's an utopia or a future way of doing business. Because it was my first time writing a research paper, I had some problem with the in-text citation. I got a 90% on the project, which made me very happy.

Highlight #2

This Spanish project is to write a storybook for kids in Spanish, with illustrations. My story is about a street artist who painted a purple dragon on a wall, but didn’t paint the eyes of the dragon. One day, another painter painted the eyes on the dragon, the wall then cracked and a real dragon crawled out of the ruin.

Reflection

Grade 11 is a very intensive year for me. Deciding to take AP European History was not a good idea for me, because history is my weakest subject. I spent a lot of time on this course, but still didn't manage to get an A. I was going to take AP Calculus AB, but it couldn't fit into my schedule, so I ended up doing the course on my own. 

My favorite class this year is AP Economics, which I found interesting and easier than other AP courses. Another class that I like is Law 12. Although Mr. McDonald gives ten-page-long quizzes, his classes are very fun.

I also liked Chemistry and Physics this year. We did some interesting labs in both courses.  I'm going to take AP Chemistry and AP Physics next year.

I also showed some improvement in English this year. Most of the essays I wrote got A’s, and my speech this year was so much better than last year. Mr. Streit is a very nice teacher, and he gave me a lot of help.