Mmmm Yes Colonization

Aaand we’re back at the blog. With the end of this school quarter, comes the end of our latest project, which always leads to a blog post. So here goes!

What Did European Settlement Mean For All People Involved?

That was the Driving Question for our latest project, The More Things Change. This project, as you may have guessed, was cantered around European settlement. It’s sort of an extension of our previous project, Argh Matey, which was centred around European Exploration. 

You’re probably thinking “just answer the question already!” So here goes. “European Settlement resulted in the beginning of trade alliances with First Nation groups. Although there have been changes such as which materials are being traded, European trading posts and businesses have remained constant over time.” 

That statement was taken directly from our end product, our infographic on European Settlement in New France. The infographic, pictured below, was our final product and shows our learning throughout the project.

This project was three weeks of learning things at an alarming rate about French, English and First Nations. I swear I took in so much information I could go up to a random person and educate them on the ways of colonization. Some notable milestones in this project that made me smart are Milestones, 1 4 and 5. 

Milestone 1 was a quite a spiritual experience. Our teachers kicked us out of the classroom after educating us on the history of Deep Cove. We were sent outside and told to write a stream of consciousness about how we think Deep Cove was like back then after the lecture about it. 

Milestone 4 was our infographics. The infographic was a partner project. My partner was Hannah, who provided to be very sufficient. We’re like besties now.

The goal of the infographic was to answer our driving question, which I did above. The main parts of the infographic were the thesis statement, a fact about the French, British and First Nations, continuities and change, sources and the QR code. The QR code leads to a video that Hannah and I created where basically it turns the infographic into a guided video and reads it aloud. 

We learned a bunch about making infographics in this project, it was almost like a throwback to making this aesthetically pleasing in our advertising unit. Every Tuesday and Thursday morning we learned about making infographics, things like text, graphics, layout and much more. Here is a great video that I learned a lot about infographics from. 

Milestone 5 was the final one, curation and presentation. Milestone 5 was printing out the infographics and putting them up around the school. We then took photos with our partners and the infographics. Here’s mine!

I think I started a little bit clueless. I was making conclusions from photos without actually taking evidence from the photos into account. During the project, I learned to analyze photos and other media for evidence to make a conclusion.

The second competency was: Identifying Continuity and Change: How are lives and conditions alike over time and how have they changed?

I think right from the start of the project, I understood this concept. Milestone 1, Deep Cove history was a good way of identifying continuity and change. 

However devastating it is, all blog posts must come to an end. I hope you enjoyed seeing my final humanities project this year. I hope you enjoyed reading my post for today, see you in scimatics!