So what is Confederation? Who was part of it? Why did it happen? Well this project we learnt just about that. And those questions we answered in our most recent project, Confederation Commercial. This project involved Canadian history of course, team work, and coolest of all we got to use green screens! As of every PLP project we were put into groups. My group was Owen , Liam , Ciara, and Ben. Together we created a commercial proposing the six demands of New Brunswick they needed to be met if we were going to join confederation. The most important question being asked was of course the driving question: How and why did Canada develop into a nation? As we answered this question, I learned two competencies during this.

Evidence: 

How do we evaluate evidence to decide if it is adequate to support a historical conclusion?

Create: 

What literacy skills am I using to write, speak, and represent in the texts I create?

How did these colonies come together and why? Working in a group that represented a colonies beliefs and needs really helped me figure this out. New Brunswick for example which was the colony my group was given, New Brunswick wanted to join confederation because the colonies would be much stronger all together, instead of being alone, especially New Brunswick because we are just in the US border and since we are such a small colony it makes it hard for us to defend ourselves.

The colonies united together in the end because they were better together. But of course to that point was not easy. It took many conferences and a lot of negotiations to get there. We got to have our own little conference in our class to pitch all the colony’s our six proposals. This project was just one of the times I used the create competency by sharing demands using literacy skills and showing that in the commercial we made. To be able to really show the colony of New Brunswick we had to do a fair amount of research. All the research relates to the evidence competency. Another example of evidence is that when I was watching the other colonies commercials, you have to think about if they facts are indeed true and if they would come handy for your own colony.

At the end of this project I had learned how Canada became a nation through many conferences and demands and all the people who were involved and made all it happen. My class also did similar conferences and demands in this project that helped me gain an understanding of the two main competencies for this project. And I can’t forget that we also created a whole commercial explaining our proposals using a green screen. Using a green screen was something I have never learned to do. But it was much easier then I thought and was really fun. All of these things helped me make an awesome final project that I am overall pretty proud of. This project was a fun little experience that I really enjoyed.

– Emily✌️