Does looking at the words ‘Human Trafficking,’ make you uncomfortable? Typically when people find something uncomfortable they avoid it, but that is why I chose this topic. In class when I shared my idea for our new project many people…
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Timothy Snyder once said “Be calm when the unthinkable arrives,” and this could not be more applicable to us than in today’s modern world. An American historian, professor, and author named Timothy Snyder wrote a book that left a lasting…
Leave a CommentAfter tackling the decline of democratic societies and the rise of authoritarianism in our last project, we will now be moving onto how dystopian fiction (or speculative fiction) functions as social criticism. This project is called Welcome to Gilead, referring…
Leave a CommentThank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We…
Leave a CommentFirst Nations Education Steering Committee This poster is hung up in my classroom, it shares the First People’s principles of learning, something my teacher tries to incorporate into our education. An important takeaway from this poster is the concept of…
Leave a CommentWriting has always been my favourite form of expression, it’s an art that transforms imagination into reality. It’s a superpower, allowing me to shape and alter the world around me. My favorite part of writing is constructing scenes, using vivid…
Leave a CommentThank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We…
Leave a CommentGoing into the Winter Exhibition, I expected the usual; parents walking by nodding politely but not really engaging. But one man surprised me. He stopped, listened intently and even asked me questions on how to learn more. It was the…
Leave a Comment~ Individual work ~ Some people can’t stand it, some people thrive in it, personally it is not my favourite, but it’s a necessary component to working well in a community so it doesn’t really matter how you view it…
Leave a CommentIn this project I finally faced myself in the mirror and looked deeply into what I saw. I examined every part of the young woman standing in front of me, how her brain worked, her ambitions, her strengths, her weaknesses,…
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