on Howdy! 🤠 In this project we learned about the many ways Canada has mistreated Indigenous People throughout history to the present. Our driving question for this project was: How can art and text reflect both the history and our current place in time? The collage I created for the final product does a wonderful job… Continue Reading 🪶 Collaging from Past to Present (not about the history of collage)
on Why should we hire you? – Every hiring manager ever In this post I’ll be reflecting on the work we did in our PGP (Personal Growth Plan) class (essentially careers class but PLP). Specifically I’ll be focusing on the work we did to market ourselves to… Continue Reading 🪪 Marketing ME
on “The waters of the English Channel and the winds of the Normandy coast have erased the footprints these men left on Juno Beach. But not even the great tides of time can wash away the deep impressions they have made in our national memory, and the chronicle of the free world.” – Prime Minister Paul… Continue Reading 🪖 Footprints in the Sand | WWII
on Welcome! In this project we created a video essay about tourism. While most of PLP 10 went on a field study to Disney World in Florida, some of us stayed behind, myself included. Our driving question was: How do tourist attractions shape and influence the cultural, economic, psychological, and social experiences of visitors? Our final… Continue Reading 🏙️ Vancouver: A super natural place to go? | Vancouver Tourism
on Two posts in less than 24 hours and another coming soon! We just wrapped up another project, this one for PGP (Personal Growth Plan), which is the PLP Careers course. In this project we read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear and did daily positive brain training. We also connected to the ideas from… Continue Reading ⚖️ Creating Opportunities from Balance
on Welcome to the first post of the second semester of Grade 10! This project was a little… unusual. As you can read in the title we essentially made TikToks… for school⁉️ These “Trend Videos” were a part of our first project for Maker this year. In this project, we learned how to make a personal productivity… Continue Reading 📱 Making TikToks… for school?!
on Welcome! It’s mPOL time of year again. In this post I will be writing about my growth as a learner so far this year. I will then be presenting this post to my parents and a teacher in what we in PLP call an mPOL – Midyear Presentation of Learning – while I talk about… Continue Reading 🎙️mPOL 2023
on In fair Seycove Secondary, where we lay our scene… We just finished a project on William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” In this project we created a theme book to analyze the play and worked in small groups to film a modern day adaptation of the play. I got the pleasure of working with Makenna, Alicia… Continue Reading 💘 In the Fair Halls of Seycove, Where We Lay Our Scene…
on We just finished a project on past wrongs in Canadian history. I focused on the Komagata Maru incident for this project. Our driving question was: How can we keep apologies for past wrongs alive so they are remembered and not repeated today? There are many ways that we can remember past wrongs, one of them… Continue Reading 🚢 The Komagata Maru & PLP Winter Exhibition 2022
on Welcome! PLP 10 returned to Loon Lake (a beautiful retreat centre in Maple Ridge) this year for a 3 day leadership course. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun, which I’ll be reflecting on in this post. Keep reading for a slideshow at the end with a bunch of photography I did… Continue Reading 🧗🏻 Loon Lake Leadership Retreat