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Let’s Get Riel

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Part 1: Comic Book.

Our first part of this project was to read the Louis Riel comic book by Chester brown. While reading this book we had to create a chapter summery for each chapter. In each summery we had to answer a few questions like who had the power in this chapter and how Louis Riel was portrayed.

Heres my first Summery to give you an exsample of what they where like.

“In part one John a McDonald pans to buy Rupert’s land in December from the Hudson’s bay company. This creates a problem for the red river settlement because half of them are French and might not want to join Canada. So when they send McDougall to govern the fort he is met with opposition because the people want to vote in there leader so they decided to get 400 men to hold the fort from the government. So McDougall make a proclamation with a fake signature saying that the fort is Canada’s. Then riel decided to execute Scott do make his men gain his respect. After that they have to leave because the Canadian government is coming.

In this section of the book Louis Riél was vary stern and a good leader but also sometimes didn’t make the best choices. But the power in the part was to the government because they where able to force them to leave the settlement.”

Part 2: How Dose Power Alter Relationships?

During this part of the project we had to answer the question “How dose power alter relationships?” so I desided to answer this question by giving an exsample of a historical figure and how they altered a relationship. My historical charicter was John A. McDonald and I was going to animate his story.

Topic

At the start we had to pick a person in power and a group of peaple who are effected by that persons power. They also had to be a Canadian. So science no one else’s wanted to do John A mecdoanld I did and I chose the First Nations as the group of peaple he effected.

Research

 

Next I had to do a lot of research on John a McDonald’s life this part wasent that hard but it was pretty time consuming.

Story/Storybord

The last step befor we could start animating was to make a story board so we could have a rough draft of what the video would look like. Once we were done the story bord we could start animating.

Animate

For the animation proses we had to have at least three drafts eac of them being better and longer than the last and for the last one we got a bunch of critique.

Our first draft was only 30 seconds but it dident need to have audio.

Our second  class needed to be at least one minute and have audio.

The final one needed to be over a minute and be a complete animated and audio story.

Part 3: Reflection

Now that my project is done I need to reflect on what I did well and what I could improve on.

I feel that I made a entertaining and engaging story that the class enjoyed. I feel that my use of comedy in the video was used well and apropietly. I also think my video was a good length.

A few thing that I cloud have done better where making the animation more fluid. I also could have added music to the video to fill up empty air.

Comic WWI

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This project about how did WWI impact Canada’s identity was pretty interesting. It started on March 16th and ended on May 17th it was interesting also because during April we went on a trip to the capital and in turn the Canadian war museum.

Our first part of this unit was reading a book over spring break. I chose the book Generals die in bed it was about a Canadian soldier on the frontline of WWI and his tragic story.

 

 

 

 

 

After we finished that book we came back to school we went on a field trip to our capital Ottawa. During this field trip, we learned about the battle of vimmy ridge with vas the Canadian army’s first major wartime victory. We also went to the Canadian war museum and saw a lot of cool artifacts and my favorite part of the war museum was the military vehicles collection in the basement of the museum.

After we came back to Vancouver after the trip we had to make a comic book about a technology or event in WWI and present it to grade 6-7 kids.

My comic book was about artillery in WWI and how it impacted each side of the war.

My first and second page was an overview page and about the history of artiliry.

The third and fourth page are about the impact of artillery and a story about someone who was impacted by artillery during the war.

 

Overall this project was pretty long being over three months but it was one of my favorite projects of this year. I learned a lot about WWI and comic book creation during this unit.

Nation Puzzle

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We recently wrapped up our latest socials project on confederation and Canadian heritage and I have left it feeling pretty confident. We took a look into the forming of Canada as a nation and how it became what it is today. The main part of this project was the Heritage Minutes that we did. These were based off 1 minute videos made by Historica Canada which are used to inform people of great and influential people or events that were a part of Canadian heritage. We watched many of these and Learned how to make one. We made these heritage minutes in groups of 3 or 4. My group was Alivia Daniel marshal and me.

This project was us researching confederation and Canadian history. We interviewed the chief editor from Historica Canada and learned how to make Heritage Minutes. We learned about John A Macdonald and how he and many others brought the British controlled provinces into one nation and we looked at some short story’s involving Canadian history.

Our groups vidoe was about the battle of St.Eustash. The battle of St. Eustache was a small French resistance hiding out in a church fighting against the British. It wasn’t much of a battle. The British desided to set the church on fire. The French where smoked out and shot when thay left the church.

My role on this story was the general who lead the British attack. I also did a lot of green screen editing. Since we dident have an army of actors I desided to green screen two peaple so that we could copy and pasted to make it look like an army.

We filmed the battle at 3 difrent scenes the filed, one of our houses and a old church. The filming took about 2 or 3 days to do but it worked out well in the end.

What I learned from this unit.

i learn about Canadian history

l learned about residential schools, politics, how country’s are formed, how to tell a story through video, how story’s change how we see the world.

mmmmmmmmm…POL

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Wow, it’s already 2018! It seems like only yesterday I was in grade 8 (I still think I am sometimes). Since I walked back through the school doors in September, I have been building, learning, creating, and having fun in PLP. Now that I have done all this amazing learning, you might want to know what I have done so far and what I plan to learn next.

So what have I done so far? I have gone to Calgary, made a monster (Frankenstuffy), learned about hot air, crafted some cards, made some revaluations and “star”-ted some “wars”.

Since the focuse of this post is not to dwell in the past it’s to think ahead and show how I can improve my learning, I won’t go into to much detail –     I have other blog posts for that.

So what now? I’ve learnt a lot but I still have a lot more to learn. I am here to show off what I learned and ask some questions to help improve my learning for the year to come.

Let’s start off with Frankenstuffy. I think this project showed a lot of how I learn and what my strengths and weaknesses are. Let’s start off with my strengths. I felt that during this project I was very invested into it. I was wondering why I felt more excited to do this project than most other ones. I figured it was the amount of creative expression I could have on the project. For example with my Revolution metaphor machine project, it had to be about one pre chosen revolution, so I had less influence on the outcome. With other projects such as D.I where I have full creative expression, I found myself more motivated and happy to undertake a new project.

This leads me into one of my weaknesses: motivation when the goring gets tough. I find that when something goes wrong or the project is not as interesting, it is lot harder to complete it. Some things that I think I could do to improve how well I keep on task and motivated is set aside one hour every day after school for homework and chores just to make sure that evryday I at least get one hour of homework done if I have any.

Another one of my weaknesses is not asking for help. I know that I’m having trouble with something but I don’t ask I think this is becuse I feel  that if someone helps or spell checks it takes away from my contribution to the project. One way that i think would make me feel more inclined to ask other people for help on my project would be to be near peaple who want to help. So then I’m in an inviroment that encourages help not in the basement alone.

 

 

Now that I’ve talke about how I learn I want to ask you for some help. I have a question for you and it’s about my learning and how I can improve for the year to come. The question is, Out of my weaknesses witch one is the most important to overcome.

Thank you for teaching me how to learn.

 

 

 

Russian Revaluation

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So we finished our metaphor mashine unit. You might be thinking “What is a metaphor mashine?”. A metaphor mashine is a Rube Goldberg a shine that has an event of action of meaning represented by the section of the Rube Goldberg mashine. So our metaphor mashine was about revolutions and spasificly we learned about crane Brintons revaluationary revalution theroy. His theory was that you could see revaluations befor thay stoped and so there would be no chaos.

Crane briont wrote a book called the anatomy of a revaluation. This book compared revaluations to desises. He said that revaluations had a few stages one where the revaluation started. This stage was when there was something Rong that needed to be changed. The second was where the revaluation started to happen and the final was where the revaluation ended in ithere peace or war.

 

 

so now that you know the history of this project you might want to hear what we actually did.

We were a asignd the Russian revaluation. The Russian revaluations included the start of WW1 and the rise of the Soviet Union. Another part of this project was that we had to give our mashine a steam punk design for the English portion and it also had to include circuits for the math portion.

Now that you know the history of this assignment here’s the history that we researched.

Now that you’ve seen our video I’ll give a play by play of what happens. The first step of the revolution was Bloody Sunday, so to represent this we had dominos falling down. We chose dominos to show Bloody Sunday, because the dominos are a metaphor for all the people who fell as they died protesting.

The second step in the revolution was World War One. A metaphor for the beginning of World War One, was a book falling. This symbolizes the quick snap that surprised many when World War One started.The book lands on a wire completing a circuit.

This triggers a pulley, which is a metaphor for the soviets rising to power. The pulley also raises a red flag symbolizing the rise of Vladimir Lenin, which is a red flag for the rest of Russia.

When the flag goes up it knocks a ball down a ramp. This is a metaphor for
the provisional government falling down, and how russia is going down hill.

The ball rolls down and hits a cup full of confetti, and knocks it into a fan. This is to represent all the people who died in the Russian civil war. The confetti is people and the fan is well, bad news.

Though the fan does blow open a flag, representing the beginning of the Soviet Union.

So thats the end of my revolution project, I hope you learned something new about the Russian revolution!

Steam Punk Inqury Question?

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How does the style of steam punk effect the function of the machine? That is the question I’m going to answer for you today.

In this post I’m also going to discuss what I learned in my steampunk unit.

lets start with my learnings in stem punk so you can get some background knowledge on this unit so you can understand this question better. So we started this unit by reading the book Leviathan the book was a difrent take on World War One in this book the Us Britain were Darwin’s and Austria and Germany were clankers(use mashines a lot) this book showed a lot of steampunk astetic with its small illustrations littered through out. Well you might be wondering what is steam punk we’ll steam punk is.

Steampunk stared as a writing style about the Victorian area but if everything was powers by stem and if it also had a more gothic look. It also involves a lot of Cary technical things that have a lot of the parts exped and are normally made of copper and silver.

So now that you have a background on what steampunk is I can explain my question a bit better.

So the answer that I found to this question was it really doesn’t change much except make it more dangerous and a bit less efficient.

Its more dangerous becuse all of the exposed gears means you can get appendages and clothing stuck in the mashines a lot easer. It also  is less efferent becuse if gears have grease on them so thay would dry out quicker in the open.

Overall it just makes the mashines a bit more dangerous and a bit less productive.

 

Frankenstein Frankenstuffy*

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So recently I finished one of the biggest projects in PLP other than D.I. This project was called Frankenstuffy. It was about how animals adapt to an environment and about the matter cycles (ex:Water cycle). It was also about one question – who is in control, people or the environment?

 

Our first step in this project was to read the Martian which is a book written in epistolary style like a diary. While we were reading it we had to fill out these sheets about our knowledge of the story. During this book I felt the the people were in control becuse the people survived and beat the environment.

                     

Our second step in this project was to create a a 6 part epistolary story about an animal and how it adapts to a change in the environment. So for example if there is a flood it would grow wings. I chose a moose for my story, my story took place in the Saint Lawrence lowlands. The change in the environment was a flood and my moose grew goose wings to adapt.


 

 

 

 

 

After we finished making the story we had to turn it into a script for a four to five minute video. The script that I made was around 1000 words when my 6 part story was around 3000.

When we finished the script we had to create a storyboard for each seen. The storyboard had to include what audio what camera transitions and what action. We also had to do a drawing for each one.

Finally when the storybord was all done we could start filming our video. For my video I went to the trails near my house and took pictures of all the cool screeners for my background. Then I took pictures of my stuffy and green screened them over my backgrounds. Finaly I did my voice over and editing and my video was done.

During this project I felt my video creating and editing skills inproved a lot just from trial and error. I also felt my brainstorming and story writing skills inproved. Also I felt I know a lot more now about the matter cycles.

 

 

The Second Installment of the SCLs/tPOLs

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The school year is coming to a close, so most people are happy for the summer break to be here and have some more free time to do personal activities. This final blog post for the year will be a reflection on the year’s learning and will be explaining why I’m ready to go into grade nine.

One thing this year that I think that I have improved on the most is my cooperation skills. Over the year my part in group projects has become more prominent by helping others get work done or doing a bit extra if need be. One of the goals that I set in my last SLC was to make sure everyone in the group had an equal role and I feel that I have accomplished that and I am quite happy about that goal.

 

One goal from my last SLC that I did not accomplish, was the enrichment of work documentation. I think I failed this one because I was normally too distracted on the work being done to remember to document it. I think this was because I normally felt a bit rushed, so I focused on the work and not so much on the documentation.  If I had scheduled better I think that I would be able to manage all my activities, and I  could balance work and therefore giving me more time for documentation.  I hope to apply these skills for next year.

One assignment that I had a lot of fun with was my science and light project at the end of the year. I feel I enjoyed the project a lot because of the open-ended nature of it, and how I could pick something related to light and just learn about it. For my learning style I think that was better for me than just doing a work sheet and handing it in.  Having choice dramatically increases the enjoyment and actual learning that I get out of a project.

In conclusion I know that I am ready for grade 9 because of my willingness to improve old skills and develop new ones.  I have had encouraging feedback from my teachers which also makes me believe I am ready for grade 9.

Ads Ads Ads Everywhere

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A few weeks ago we made three advertisements one a Turist ad one a business ad and finally a advacosy ad. We had to do 3 drafts for the 3 ads in 3 weeks. (3 3 3 iluminati confirmed)

The first ad I made was a tourist ad it had to be about a place that wasn’t famous but you found cool or interesting. This is the first draft out of three it is a hedge trimmed to look like a whale I deal that many peaple would want to see it becuse of its detail.

For my third draft I had edited the photo I made the colours brighter I removed some dead/gray leafs and removed so unwanted tape from the fence. I deal that it mad the photo way better I also changed the font to make it easier to read.

My second advertisement I made was a business ad. The business ad had to be about a local business so I picked my dads business. After we picked the business we had to interview them and ask question about what’s you’re motto what to you want the image of you’re business to be etc.

This is my first draft of my business advertisement.

For my second draft I wanted to add to have a more personal conetion to the client so I chose a picture of him working.

My third and final advertisement was about a natural disaster and how you mould prepare for it. I choose earth quakes becuse that is the moast relevant natural disaster in Bc.

Here’s my third draft of my advertisement I tried to make it simple and noticeable that’s why I used allot of red and white also so it resembels the medical red and white first aid cross

I found that this advertisement unit was LIT!!!!