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Work Under a Blue Sky

In the last month or so of school, it’s time for Blue Sky. It’s not really about anything to do with the actual sky, except for the fact that with this project, anyone could could reach for it. Blue Sky, essentially, is a time that workers at Apple get to peruse their own interests while…

tPol-End of Year Review of My Work

This blog post is for my TPOL – transitional presentation of learning. We have finally reached the end of grade 8, and the driving question I have to answer in my presentation is “Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade level?” Thinking about this question, I know I am…

The Renaissance: Researching and Remebering

Our humanities classes have moved through time, finally reaching one of my favourite topics; The Renaissance. From the best artists and brilliant minds to the ever growing businesses, this unit promised to be interesting. Beginning right after the past unit, my class jumped right into economics and ended with a visual project. Throughout the whole…

Medieval Myths and Makings

The Middle Ages, a time period from 500 to 1000 AD, was a rather gloomy time in history. In the unit we’ve been working for quite a while (Stitch in Time; Feudalism to Nation States), the lessons went through time with the driving question “How did the Crusades stimulate cultural, social, and political change for…

M-POLs: The Work I’m Proud of So Far

It’s getting to the time in the school year where work is getting harder, more events are happening, and stress levels go up. This is also known as mid-year, so because of M-POLs (mid-year presentation of learning), and my own recollection I decided to make a blog post on the work I’m proud of so…

The Winter Exhibiton: A Star Wars Story

A short time ago in a classroom far, far away….. There was a student named Grace who made a project on Star Wars. That student is me, and the project was based off my inquiry question (something I wanted to research about Star Wars). When my teachers announced that this year’s winter exhibition, where we would…