After being on the Oregon coast for a week, doing another exhibition, I am heading into summer break.

The end of the year is near, which means lots of reflection and looking back at the whole year. The driving question for this project is. “How can language inspire adventure.” So in this post, I will answer the driving question for this project.

 

The driving question

the driving question for this project is, “how can launguage inspire adventure.” An idol can help inspire adventure because first of all, if a certain peoples idol is in a ad, they might get inspired because its their idol, if they really suck up to them that hard, they will most likely go. For example, if Taylor swift has some sort of concert in the Swiss alps and it is hard to get there, people will probably adventure up that mountain and see the concert. Secondly, advertisements that really get to people’s hearts will be more sucessful selling a product or an experience. Another type of ad that will inspire adventure is ads with a certain wow factor that blows people’s socks off. How it could happen is very professional videography and the overall beauty of the place. Lastly, emotion and experience inspires adventure. The companies that offer the trips don’t sell the tickets, they sell experience and emotion going on those trips. In conclusion, that is my answer to the driving question

 

Learning and comtepcies

One of the first things we did when we started this project was a hike to quarry rock. We hiked to quarry rock and took picture and interviewed some random people to ask the why they went there. We made ads with the photos from quarry rock. We learned some advertising techniques and design before the the main event, the Oregon coast. In Oregon, we visited places on the coast and we filled out a book with questions of the place we went to. The competencies were communication, how we used to communicate in this project was our ads and our book

 

Spring exibition

So as part of this project, we had to do another exibition, the spring exibition. It was very similar to the winter exhibition, but we were outside. I got in a group with Evelyn, Finnley, Danny, Gemma, and Chloe. We worked on our Oregon ads and revised quite a lot, but we got our ads In on time. I was in charge of food in this project and hospitality. When the exhibition actually happened, it went smoothly, but we did not have too many customers to our stand the whole time. So overall, I think we did good but I think personally, we could have tried harder on our stand and prepared more. So overall, I think we did good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After 10 months of being in PLP, creating, envisioning, and learning, we are approaching the end of the year.

Mom and dad, this is ms kadi.

Thank 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 will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner

The main event

We all are approaching the end of the school year this year and for PLP, it’s a time of reflection, looking back on how they did on all their classes this year. So the main 3 focuses are resilence, engagement and focus.

Resilence

To tell my learning story this year for agency this year is resilience, resilience was not something that I experienced during the school year, it was only once or twice that I practiced resilience. It was during DI. One time for DI we had to do a dress rehearsals for our first tournament. Only me and Eloise showed up to the dress rehersal and we pushed through the rehearsal and it was hard not having 2/3 of our group not there. So overall, I think this was a great example showing resilience.

 

Engagement

Engagement was also another competency I did not practice that often, like I only did it when we did DI and starting new project and doing group work. I think one of the best examples of me practicing contributing and enthuestic was on the Oregon trip when we were doing the ROV challenge at the Hatfield marine centre, I was doing the most work in the group, I was directing people on building the robot and this was one of the only times I was enthusiastic  while learning, so overall, I think this is a great example of me demonstrating those competency’s.

Focus and work/life Balence

So I think for self regulation, most of the time I am focusing in class, but sometimes disengage with the class and think to myself and do other things on my iPad. About work life balance, I think I can change that to, like most of the time I go on my iPad back at home and do that for hours. So those are the things I can inprove in those competencies.

Science Reflection

So science class started in semester 2, which was 5 months ago. I think this class was fun and an interesting class as well, like we did some hands on stuff, which I did not do at my old school. We mostly did lots of writing and not much experimenting. In my science class this year, I had more fun doing experiments, like when we swabbed the school and found out which surfaces had the most bacteria. That was a fun experiment to do. Also, I thought this class quite easy and did not really push me out of my comfort zone. The only thing that really pushed me out of my comfort zone was when we were making the video game on scratch. It was fun but it was hard, I had a diffulct time getting the code to work and the game did not turn how i wanted it to. So overall, I think this class was fun, but mostly too easy because I knew 50% of the things that were being taught to me. So in conclusion, that is how I did in science class this semester!

 

Maker reflection

For maker, this was way back in semester 1, so this was an older me which was not as experienced now. First of all, I think it was a fun class at one point, an example of this was when we were playing around with superimpose X. I personally had a lot of fun playing around with all of the tools, making goofy photos that were photoshopped. Also, during the Blogging challenge, this was one project that pushed me out of my comfort zone. It pushed me out of my comfort zone because WordPress was a finicky website and I wanted to make my website look good, but it was very hard to do. So in conclusion, that project pushed me out of my comfort zone in maker this year. In the becoming a PLP learned project, I was exploring the apps on my iPad, such as keynote, so for this project, we used keynote to make a presentation, we did not presen in front of the class, we made a video of my presentation we me talking abot each slide. After this project, my keynote skills we good, I learned animating the letters, using the animation to make fidget spinners and stuff. A big project in maker that continued into the second semester was DI. DI was a competition to see who can make the most creative ideas come to life with a lot of rules. I chose the engineering group because that is my passion and my dad does a lot of engineering work with me. So I was put in a group with Eloise, Siena, Sven,Cole and Sawyer. We worked well as a team, winning first in the lower mainland tournament and second in the provincials. We worked well as a team together and we made lots of memories together. So in conclusion, that is how my maker class went this year

 

Humanities reflection

So humanities was as all year class because it was a mix of socials and English, I think personally, humanities was my least favourite class this year. I was bored in humanities class a lot because it was not that I knew everything, but non of the topics really interested me enough to like this class as much as the others. But also, I did have some fun in humanities, like when we had pirate packs in class for lunch, it was fun racing to build the boat and tryharding in the kahoot tournament, I didn’t become the kahoot champion but I did get a chocolate egg for winning the first round. We recently did a project called the wilderness must be explored where we went to Oregon for a week. At first I did not want to go, but then I thought about the things I will miss out on, So I went and it was so fun. The most fun part was when we went zip lining. This trip changed me as a person because I have not been away from my family for that long, I missed them on the trip but I still had fun, we ate so much good food that I felt like an American after the trip. This was one of the only times I had fun in humanties class and it was good. So in conclusion. That is how humanties went this year.

 

Goals

So from the last POL I had a couple of goals til I get to the TPOL. One of the goals I had as procrastinating less. I think overall, I have been procrastinating less than the last POL. I did this by reminding myself and just doing and getting over the work I have to get done. Another goal I had was staying consistent in grades in all of my PLP classes, the report cards have not come out yet but I think I achieved that goal. Now let’s talk about goals for next year in grade 9. My first goal that I want to accomplish is contribute more to group work in class and just do more in general. My second goal is be consistent in not procrastinating. I will do this by thinking that I will just push through it and reminders. Those are my goals for next year in grade 9.

 

Thank you for listing to my TPOL!

 

 

 

 

After learning about the organelles, cells, observing bacteria, researching vaccines, and making ads, I am done

So I started this project called small but mighty started back in April, right after spring break. Which was a very sad day for me. Now the driving questing for this project is. “How does our knoledge of cell biology contribute to public health.

What we have been doing

One of the first things we did was research the organelles, which are the inner guts of a cell. Then we had to make a presentation on a select organelle. I did the cell membrane and cytoplasm with Gemma. We had present our knoledge on those organelles in front of the class. Now I think this was the coolest thing and the most disgusting thing we did was swabbing surfaces of bacteria. The results are pretty disgusting.

My Immune system cards

We also had to draw the immune cells as charicters. Like I did them as people in a police force. I dont think it was too creative, but my brain was not braining that day. I kinda enjoyed doing this activity in class and I think the drawings turned out decent but I am not the best drawer.

 

 

My ad campaigns

For my ad campaigns,we had to choose a topic that we are going against. I chose going against the conspiracy theory that the Covid vaccines had microchips in them. We had to research our topic and use our knoledge to reason and make our claim. We also had to learn about opinion a nd bias. Bias is an opinion on something is either good or bad. The thing could be terrible. But you still have a positive bias towards it.

 

 

 

Reflection

So I think for this project I did pretty well, like the last project about mind over matter. I knew quite a lot about of the stuff that was being taught to me. I think I did observing my bacteria petri disheds. I made detailed observations for each and every one of them. Now I think I did good on the charicter cards, like the police theme I did on all of them. Now however, If I had gone back in time. I would have chosen something more creative. So overall, I think I did well on this project.

 

After writing notes, discussing with my group and making a keynote, I have presented infront of grade 11s

So we came back from spring break(Very sad day) which means new humanities project. So this new humanities project was basically a part 2 of Bon Voyage. It did focus on the consequences, but this project focused more on the indigenous peoples of Canada.

 

What we did over the last few weeks

So one of the first things we did was learn about craft and for this project, we mainly made notes on our readings on craft. Craft is an app on our iPads which can be used as a documents app, a notetaking app, and a scheduling and more. So what we mainly learned about were a few treaties like the Indian act. We also learned about the extinction of the beaothuk people.

the final product

The final product of this project was a keynote presentation that we had to present to BCFP grade 11s and it was in a group. I was in a group with Milaina and Aiden. We basically did our own research on topics we were interested in, like I chose politics and Aiden chose health.

 

My individual presentation reflection and my answer to the driving question

So in addition to making and presenting a group presentation, we had to make a individual presentation which is your answer to the driving question, the criteria for the presentation was very weird because we only had to put in 3 words per slide. So my answer to the driving question was intergenerational trauma, intergenerational trauma can be a very hard thing to define, it can be passed down in literal DNA or through traumatic events, like residential schools, the students there experienced abuse and how it can be passed down is the victim’s behaviour or actions. So that is my answer to the driving question

 

 

 

Intro

Thank 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 will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.”

Now I will be telling my PLP story📖

 

 

What I did in humanities💻

So I will be mentioning only the major project I did in humanities. The first project I did was the outsiders which was about worldview and we had to read a book called, well you guessed it, the outsiders, so the final product was a Music video with a bunch of pictures,

 

 

What I did in maker🛠️

So a major project for maker was the blogging challenge where we had to make a blog website where we share what we did in projects in all classes. And the final product for the project was this blog website where I am writing on

 

What I did so far in science 🔬

So what I did in science was leaning about atoms and the kinetic molecular therory, but I already knew most of the stuff that happened in class. The final product for this project is a game representing my knowledge of atoms

 

DI

DI was probably the biggest project I did all year. We worked for 3 months to get ready for two tournaments which are lower mainland and provincial which I just did on Saturday, I learned lots from DI and made lots of memories with my team. We won first place at the lower mainland tournament and second at the provincial tournament.

 

What I learned🧑‍🏫

So since I joined PLP I learned many skills on the iPad

Making keynotes and animating

Using pages

photoshopping in superimpose X

Using notability

using my Apple Pencil to draw

drawing skills

blogging skills

Note taking skill

Working well in a group

Listening  to ideas and include them

collaboration

Building skills

 

 

Things I did well with in plp💻

so what I think I did well in PLP was I was being productive in class most of the time and I was also going along with the lesson well most of the time, I was good at understanding the task at hand and the subject I was learning at the time. I also displayed my understanding of the subject really well in the science project because I already knew most of the stuff in the subject. I think I did well in applying my skills in projects that I learned in previous project or prior knowledge about my iPad.

 

What I think I can improve🤔

I personally think that the main thing I need to improve is procrastination, I do too much of my work last minute and stressing myself out too much. I also think I can improve my focus in my class sometimes, like for example I sometimes do stuff on my iPad that is not related to the lesson at hand. Like I might play a game or something. I also sometimes get distracted while doing homework at home and I dont get much done. Like for example I might hop on a game after writing a paragraph about the crusades or something

Goals📈

For this next segment and the last, I will talk about the goals I have accomplished and the goals I have until the end of the year. And I will be using my learning guide as a reference to my goals

 

 

 

After two months of leaning about sailors finding new lands, Persevering through buggy  ARmaker, I have completed my first humanities project for the second semseter

 

So it was a new semester for everybody which means there is a new project in humanities. Which I was not too excited because who likes school. So anyway this project was about how the Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the americas. And the driving questions for this project is. How can we use storytelling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact?

What we did over the the 1.5 months

Ok so basically what we did was several investigations on the Europeans crossing the oceans. Like for example we learned about the Columbia’s exchange and we had to write notes about it. So basically we did a bunch of investigations before making our final product, which you will see in a bit.  In addition, we learned the many motavations of exploration  like the 3Gs Gold Glory and God. Also, we did play around with ARmaker. A app on our iPad where we can put stuff from the digital world into the real world. But the app was very buggy and if you turned off your device, all of the object you put in is all over the place

 

The final product

so the final product was like I said earlier was a video in AR maker. But I told a story of a sailor made history by making the first colony in the Americas. So I had to do it at night because I did not have enough time during the day, so enjoy my story!

 

 

What I leaned

So what I learned about the Columbian exchange and what the Europeans did when they crossed the oceans to conquer new lands, like the americas. I also learned about the Trade between the indigenous and the Europeans for beaver pelts. Also I learned more on how to make a good story to tell.

After a month of being back at school and being tiered every night, I have completed a new project.

So for this last month, I have been writing poetry for my humanities class, so I just came back from winter break and I am all sad and stuff. And when we came back, we had to do a new project, writing poetry. At first I was not happy writing poetry, but I had to do it anyway

My answer to the driving question

So the driving question for this project is how might I write poetry that I enjoy and shows who I am. So my answer for the driving question is yes and no, so first of all for yes is I did enjoy writing the haikus and they kinda showed who I am as a person. For the no answer, I did not really enjoy writing most of the poems because I had to work at night to write them and they had to be about my worldview. If I enjoyed writing poetry, I would have liked it where I can write about anything I want. So yes, I did answer the driving question

the final product

So the final product for this project is a ebook with all of my poems inside that I worked on the past month or so. So I used book creator for the book and I hope you enjoy reading it

 

 

 

 

After a month of working and building props and stressing and staying 12 hours after school in pain, I have completed my first winter exhibition.

 

This is my first blog post in 2024 and I am not excited and at the time of writing. This is the first day back to school for me.

What I did over like a month

so what I did over the month is learning about the renasansse and the inventions made during the time period. So we were learning about inventions made during the renassance like the WordPress, the most famed out of all the Renaissance inventions and also the Teloscope . And also, the Renaissance was also a cultural movement because of Martin Luther and his 95 theses and the chatholic church had another schism.

 

My Renaissance art

So just like the last project I did, I had to create art using Super Impose X. But with a twist, it had to represent Renaissance times and stuff and also, I had to make a paragraph to explain the art

The grand tableaux

So the final thing we had to build for this project and kinda for the medieval project, is a group tableaux that we have to present at the winter exhibition. So we started building the props like 2 weeks before the exhibition. The girls on my team did most of the work and they worked one time 4 hours building props, we offered help, but they said ther’re fine. So at the winter exhibition, we had to stay 6 more hours after school and at the end of it, I was so tired and my legs hurt badly.

The aftermath and what I learned

so there are a few things I have learned from this experience, first of all, I need to get more fit so I can stand for 4 hours and not have my legs hurt. The second thing I learned was the Renaissance times and the inventions. The third thing I learned from this experience is probably contribute more in my group as well to build props and stuff