So far this year has been very busy for me, trying to balance school and my highly competitive basketball. My goal is always to be as successful as possible in all of my classes and meet the expectations I have set out for myself. However at points I feel overwhelmed with the amount of work I have and always struggle…
Author: sofiab
Taking it Back All The Way To The 1950s!
Since grade 8, our PLP 11 class has done 3 winter exhibitions and 3 end of the year Blue Sky exhibitions. So going into my 7th overall exhibition you would think it would be pretty easy as I’ve done it so many times before. However, this exhibition was a little different than what we typically do. Instead of creating individual…
What Bird? I See No Bird?
“ABIGAIL: Why—? She gulps. Why do you come, yellow bird? PROCTOR: Where’s a bird? I see no bird!” As you probably already know we have been reading the crucible in our class for the past couple weeks. Throughout this time we have been creating blog posts based on questions we were given. If you want to get a better idea…
My Concepts of Heaven
The If you were asked to describe your concepts of heaven and hell would you be able to do it easily? At first when choosing this question to write about for my second Crucible blog post I thought this would be a pretty simple task. However the more I thought about it, the more I asked myself what actually are…
How to Spot a Tourist (in Iceland)
Recently in PLP we’ve been reading a play called the Crucible written by Arthur Miller. Based off life in the late 1600s (1692-1693 to be exact) this play shows the different aspects of living during this time period and how it relates to the 1950s when it was written. A big theme of this book is the idea of witchcraft, which…
Wait Where’s Handford?
Do you know where Hanford is in Washington? I didn’t before learning about it’s important role in American history and going there for a school field study with my class. The Hanford site was the plutonium production site for the atomic bombs during WWII all the way through the Cold War. Our studies were based around the question “how did…
The “Manhattan Project” Project
Recently in class we finished our first unit project making this my first official blog post of the school year. As you can probably already tell by the title of this blog post the focus of the unit was the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan project was the code name for the secret government project where the United States developed the first…
Blue Sky 2018
This is my last blog post of the school year and I’m kind of sad that this year is over, it went by so fast. You probably already know from the title of this post that I’m going to be talking about, 2018 Blue Sky! If you would like to know what previous Blue Sky projects have been like in…
The Great Debate
This grade 10 year has gone by so fast. We have done so many interesting and fun projects that have taught me so much especially in Humanities. The blog posts that I’ve written for Humanities so far this year have included: WWI soldier podcast Namesake video Sins of the City Treasure Island Seycove Disruption Disruption Essay and Podcast All The…
Astronomy
So far this year we’ve learned about lab safety, DNA and genetics, chemical processes, and energy transformation and conservation. For our final science unit of the school year, we focused on astronomy. I hadn’t learned about astronomy since elementary school so throughout this short unit there was quite a bit I learned that I didn’t know about before. Throughout this…