As humans we have a constant question of what will happen to us? What does our future hold? This thought is terrifying because for most as we don’t tend to think of an amazing future where world peace is achieved and we’re striving as a species. What comes to most peoples mind is a future […]
Welcome to Gilead!
During our last project we learned about authoritarian rulers, now were taking a deep dive into dystopia. These projects build off each other very well with similar concepts and will allow us to build on what we have already learned but in new ways and from different perspectives. We launched this project by watching a […]
Democracy is a Verb.
Authoritarian rulings are one of the biggest threats to human kind as we know it. Throughout this project we learned how to navigate and fight dictatorships, using a book called On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder. This book highlighted 21 lessons on how to fight authoritarian rulings, we took these concept to create or own […]
My final Tpol!!
During the beginning of school I wrote my Mission that I wanted to complete by the end of the 2024-2025 school year. This Tpol I will cover how I have grown over the course of the year, the progress I have made on my mission and reasons to which I am ready to move onto […]
Finding my voice🎙️
Arguably one of the most important parts of writing is the voice you put into it. It needs to reflect how you speak and think, it has to have a form of personality. In this project we found our voices through our writing. 6+1 Traits of Writing We leaned about how to incorpore the 6+1 […]
Let’s talk about Pretendians
What is Indian Status? In 1867 Canada created the Indian status card. This card gave benefits to Indigenous people such as tax exemptions, health care and dentistry. They could also use this new status card to travel as a piece of ID. To get this status you have to been at least a 1/4 Indigenous, […]
Mpol: 2025
At the beginning of the year, we created our Vision, Misson Value Statements. My Vision and mission statement are something that I want to keep progressing on but it doesn’t fully represent what I want to achieve in the rest of my high school career. So this Mpol is a revamp of my goals. These […]
Digging Deeper: Using an Anthropological Perspective
How might we use an anthropological perspective to better understand the history of British Columbia? What is Anthropology? Anthropology is the study of Human societies, cultures and developments over time. There are 4 main branches of anthropology archeological, biological, cultural and linguistic. Archeological 🦴 Archeological anthropology is the study of material remains to determine an […]
Legacy of Hiroshima: Remembering the past, Shaping the future
Hiroshima by John Hershey is a book that tells Hiroshima from the perspective of 6 civilians. As we read through the book we took detailed notes and had many detailed class disscusions, dissecting the ideas and main points, finding connections to our lives now and trying to understand the legacy of Hiroshima from a new […]
ReconiliACTION: A call for change
As Canadians we need to learn how to meaningfully engage in Reconciliation, you can take small actions to make reconciliation a part of your life and join in the rebuilding of our relationship with Indigenous culture. Throughout this project we learned how we can meaningfully participate in reconciliation and what reconciliation really means What is […]