Argh, Matey!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog post! Today, we will be talking about one of the more recent projects, Argh, Matey!!

As always, here is our driving question: What Was The Impact Of Global Exploration?

Well, if you continue to read my blog post, I’m sure you’ll figure out!

first off, we watched a movie entitled ‘Captain Phillips’ while I wasn’t here to watch it in class, I watched it at home with my mother! Another beginning thing we  learned about was cause and consequence. (And were told to answer a question sheet about thr movie concerning cause and consequence)The movie ‘Captain Phillips’ was about a captain named Phillip, delivering cargo to Africa with his crew. While he was on his cargo-ship in Somalian waters, his boat was attacked by pirates.

After that, things started getting interesting! For our first milestone, we had to create a story using cause and consequence using this interesting app called AR makr! (My story was about some fish and a shark)

After learning all about cause an consequence, we spent the second half of the day learning about pirates and European exploration. A day later we learned a little more before making a ‘Sketch and Tell’ document.

The day after that we spent learning all about European exploration and (possibly my favourite part of this project) learning how to take Cornell notes!

After that, we headed  into milestone three where we were to choose an event in history and create a story using the Story Spine to explain said story. As well as a rough sketch, and later a script.

after that it was off to AR makr where we took our rough sketches and made them moveable pieces of art! Once we were finished filming that, we got to do a voice recording using the script we created earlier on!

Now onto the most fun part, we got pirate packs!! Yep, our whole 8th grade PLP class sat outside and ate fries and chicken strips, it was great.

Thank you for reading my blog post!

 

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