For my first time in PLP, it’s time to reflect on my learning in the mid-year presentation of learning. Throughout the first term I have been evolving in the way I think, learn and work.

My current driving Question for 2019 is: Through the first term, has my way expressing my learning improved? How so?

I have a long term goal of becoming better at time management and handing in everything on time. I will get better by: time blocking (which I have started doing), staying on tasking by using the screen time feature on my iPad and being honest with myself about my work ethic.

Hopes and Expectations 

I have goals and expectations to have a milestone hit by early March before spring break, specifically: to have straight A’s.

I have a lot of dreams so I put them on a personal dream board. I have a dream of being a film maker, but I know that if I should achieve something I should start small. It would be a dream to at least start by making a short film.

A learning journey 

In my first project, I was very creative and trying my hardest. I am referring to my advertising  project (which you can see here,). Next we had a novel study where we read “The Highest Tide” ,  it was very interesting and I worked hard on it as well. Then we had our trip to Oregon and I slowly was getting worse, I was slowly miss more work and my work was getting more sloppy. I overall wasn’t doing very well in all of my subjects.

until…

The winter exhibition

At this point I was getting really bad at my work. My parents and teachers were getting very worried, and I was getting anxious. Then we started project work on our winter exhibition project, and took the opportunity and seized it! I worked on all my projects and completed 2018 in a great state.

 

For our final project of term 1 in PLP 8 was a poster where we presented our learning through a brief and interesting paragraph and explained the concepts and beliefs.

It’s started mid-October, when we intially joined PLP we knew there was 2 exhibitions were we showcased our learning alongside the grade 9 to 11’s. We were all assigned a religion and a group, I was assigned Sihkism with Alexandra, Kaden and Rian.

Our first draft wasn’t very good, it was a rip-off of the example poster  we looked at, we also used lotuses even though lotuses are more of Buddhism’s flower.

The first draft (left) the example poster (right)

Our 2nd draft was completely revamped and looked very nice, it was formatted great and aesthetically interesting. It still needed some changes but it was looking great.

Our third draft had a lot of improvements such as paragraphs, the Sikh  logo and a cleaner image of Sihk food, but we still need to improve our drawings and better paragraphs.

The fourth draft refined a lot of smaller details such as : making the image for the food above more fitting, making the image for the Gurdwara very appropriate as its the Harmandir Sahib : the main Sihk temple. Although we were struggling to make brief and interesting paragraphs for the categories.

By time the forth draft was made it was only a few more weeks until exhibition so we started the other parts of our presentation: The food and Drinks and activity.

After brainstorming, we decided to make the Punjabi drink Lassi a milk and yogurt, and sugar cookies with Sihk logos. I designed the activity, Sihk Jeapordy: normal Jeapordy with all Sihk categories.

This was our final draft and our best draft, the paragraphs were brief and interesting, it was great to look at and overall amazing.

Through the project I learned more about my driving question: how does religion affect worldview? Through the project , I learned more about my worldview.